Change to our privacy policy
Posted by Shane Keats on September 18, 2007 01:18 PM
In early September 2007, concurrent with SiteAdvisor build 2.5, we changed the privacy policy for SiteAdvisor participants in our optional Product Improvement Program (PIP). As you may know, the PIP allows us to keep anonymous statistics on how our software is performing so we are better able to improve it.
Here's what's changed: Under the new privacy policy, we can now share these anonymous statistics with partners. Examples of these statistics would be the number of active SiteAdvisor users in a day, or the number of times users 'mouse over' SiteAdvisor's safe search ratings.
Here's what hasn't changed: We do not collect any personally identifiable information from SiteAdvisor users, whether the user is in the PIP or not. The PIP remains purely optional and by default, SiteAdvisor users do not participate. Users who opt-in to the PIP can still leave at any time by clicking on the settings menu found on the McAfee SiteAdvisor logo.
Comments
Is this site protected by mcafee users
Posted by: kristy | September 26, 2007 03:24 PM
Not strictly relevant to the post but are siteadvisor going to do any form of moderation to get rid of the idiot reviewers (this is Microsoft so it's bad kind of thing)?
Also an edit review button would be nice.
Posted by: GoddersUK | October 3, 2007 04:48 PM
It is nice that the option is to "opt-in" to the PIP as opposed to the typical "opt-out" options of so many other sites.
Posted by: ~Brandy~ pccatastrophe | October 5, 2007 11:30 AM