Privacy=Do you collect personally identifiable information on people who simply visit your sites while web-surfing?%0D0ANo. We only collect personally-identifiable information when people voluntarily provide such information, such as when they sign up for a service or promotional event. For web-surfers who simply visit our sites, or click onto banner ads, we collect anonymous Click Stream Data that permits us to provide better, targeted advertising messages.%0D%0A%0D%0AWhat is Click Stream Data?%0D%0AClick Stream Data is anonymous information on a web surfer, such as a web surfer's IP address, web pages which have been viewed by a surfer, date and time, domain type, and responses to advertisements.
Description=I wonÆt call a saved IP in combination with a log of visited web pages anonymous!
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Description=They say they donÆt do tracking no more.
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Description=Their cookie itself is a tracking cookie.
Privacy=What We Collect and How We Use It%0D%0AFrom our Web site visitors:%0D%0AUnless you elect to Opt-out of Tracking, Coremetrics collects non-personally identifiable information about you when you visit this site including information such as your IP address, the type of browser you are using and when you visited the site. We will also collect your personally identifiable information (PII) that you volunteer in emails or on any of our forms, such as name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, company information and resume information. Coremetrics may use this information so that you receive the content and information you request and/or would require, for our own marketing purposes or to consider your application for a position with Coremetrics.[...]
Description=Relatively harmless until you enter your data into their forms.
Privacy=No personal information is used by DoubleClick to deliver Internet ads.%0D%0ADoubleClick does not use your name, address, email address, or phone number to deliver Internet ads. DoubleClick does use information about your browser and web surfing to determine which ads to show your browser.
Description=Use information about your web surfingà that could include any information, like accounts and passwords.
Privacy=What anonymous information is collected on this site?%0D%0AAnonymous clickstream information is collected for every visitor to this site. This includes pages viewed, date and time, and browser type. [à]%0D%0A%0D%0AHow does this site use cookies?%0D%0AEngage uses cookies to identify your browser as you visit pages on the Engage site or sites in the Engage media network. Cookies allow Engage to gather anonymous clickstream information. Cookies also allow Engage to provide more relevant, targeted advertising as you travel through sites in the Engage media network.
Description=Targeted advertisemnt. Fair enough, they state the donÆt keep the recorded IP. But they donÆt need to if they save an unique ID in their cookie.
Privacy=Cookies%0D%0AA cookie is a small text file that a Web site can store on a user's PC on a temporary or a permanent basis. The cookie set by Enliven when an advertisement is served to your computer contains only an anonymous, randomly generated unique identification number. Cookies by themselves (and especially those containing only anonymous ID numbers) cannot be used to find out the identity of any user.%0D%0AAt the point of getting a request for an ad from the Web page a user visits, Enliven collects the following data related to the current advertising transaction: IP address, Enliven cookie number, the Web page from which the ad is requested, Search Terms (if in a search context), Browser type, and Operating System type. [à] We will update this privacy policy if our data collection and usage practices ever change.
Description=A unique number and the IP would be enough for me to call it tracking; but to also save search terms is even worse.
Privacy=We may use cookies to:%0D%0AKeep count of your return visits to our site or our clients' sites %0D%0AAccumulate and report anonymous, aggregate, statistical information on Web site usage %0D%0ADeliver content specific to your interests
Description=How do they want to deliver specific content, if not by watching my surfing behaviour?
Privacy=Cookies assist Commission Junction in tracking Internet Users' activities beginning from a Publisher's web site or subscription e-mail through an Advertiser's web site that the Internet User links to from the Publisher's site or e-mail.%0D%0ACommission Junction uses anonymous user data to create and report the browsing, purchasing and/or lead form completion activities of anonymous users.
