P.S.:
"Furl
collects personal information, gives this personal information to
online partners for commercial purpose, including your e-mail address.
Thus I don't want to use furl and probably neither do you.
In short: Furl Sucks."
Sadly, most privacy policies are equally obtuse and one-sided.
Companies are usually quite frank in these documents, but the news is
seldom good. I'd imagine that a broader analysis of different privacy
and data usage statements would yield similar insights.
I haven't checked into what Tucows privacy statement
looks like in a long time - we probably have several policies by now
given the different lines of business that we're in. I'm also sure that
even we have similar stuff buried in our legalese. The funny thing is
that I can guarantee you that we don't do the kinds of things that our
privacy statements likely allow for - most of this stuff is just
adopted from other privacy statements or stuck in by well-intentioned
people trying to make sure that these documents are comprehensive and
inclusive (i.e. aren't so specific that they are obsolete the second
they are published).
I'll have to poke around at what kind of things our privacy statements allow for when I get a chance at some point...
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