Privacy Policy Changes
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Changes made on December 18, 2008
We've also made a minor adjustment to our privacy policy to clarify when and for what purpose we can send you emails. This change also includes an explicit statement that we will not sell your email address to 3rd parties.
Changes made on June 13th, 2008
We added self-help instructions on how to delete your account (previously you had to contact support), and how to uninstall the Foxmarks client. We also made it clear that information associated with your account is automatically deleted when you delete your account.
Changes made on October 24th, 2006
We're starting to move away from foxcloud.com in favor of using foxmarks.com. Accordingly, we changed contact addresses and website addreses.
Changes made on July 7th, 2006
The table below summarizes changes made between the May 22nd, 2006 and July 7th, 2006 versions of the privacy policy. If you have questions about the policy, please contact us at mailto:privacy@foxcloud.com.
| How it was... (May 22, 2006) | How it is now... (July 7, 2006) | Why we changed it... |
|---|---|---|
| We may change this policy at any time; when we do change it, we will post a new version on our website. | We may change this policy at any time to correct technical or typographical errors, to increase your rights and protections or to comply with laws. If we change this policy in a way that reduces your rights or protections or adds new types of disclosures, we will provide notification before such changes would apply to information collected from or about you. | We don't want to have bother you each time we make a minor change to the policy, but we also don't want you to think that we've pulled a "bait and switch." |
| We may also associate your personally identifying information with information we collect about your preferences and activities at the site, such as the particular pages you request at the site or other transactions you effect through the site. We may vary the content you receive in future visits to the site based on your preferences and activities. | We may also associate your personally identifying information with information we collect about your preferences and activities at the site, such as the particular pages you request at the site or other transactions you effect through the site in order to vary the content you receive in future visits to the site. | Edited for clarity. |
| We may combine your personally identifying information, and information about your preferences and activities, with those of all or a particular group of our users to prepare collective profiles of our users and their activities. For example, we may track the number of our users who view certain pages, bookmark certain sites, or use certain features in a particular geographic region. Such information, and other information we derive from individual users’ information, allows us to continue to grow and provide you with quality fellow users through more accurate marketing and advertising of our Web site. | Deleted | We've scratched direct marketing off the list of things that we might like to do. |
| We may analyze in aggregate the bookmarks of all users in order to deliver services of interest to other users. For instance, if we notice that many users are suddenly bookmarking a new site, we may display that site in a list of “hot sites.” | We may analyze in aggregate the bookmarks of all users in order to deliver services of interest to other users. Such aggregate analysis will always exclude any personally identifying information. For instance, if we notice that many users are suddenly bookmarking a new site, we may display that site in a list of “hot sites.” | We wanted to clarify that your identity is protected, even when we do our aggregate analysis of bookmarks. |
| We may also provide other companies with collective profiles of our user groups and their activities and preferences. Such collective profiles may also be disclosed in describing our site and services to prospective partners, advertisers and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes. | Deleted | We don't plan to provide any information to other companies, collective profile or otherwise. |
| You may choose to restrict our use of your information to maintaining your account on the site, or prohibit our disclosure of your information to others, by contacting us and directing us to impose such limits. If you wish us to restrict the use or disclosure of your information, please send us an e-mail at privacy@foxmarks.com. | You may choose at any time to have your account deleted by contacting us at support@foxcloud.com. We will make our best effort to delete your account and remove its associated information from our system as quickly as possible. | There are no longer different levels of disclosure. If you're not comfortable with the Privacy Policy, you can ask us to delete your account, and we will -- no questions asked. |
| In addition, we will not send unsolicited messages to users of our site who indicate that they do not wish to receive such messages. If you do not wish to receive unsolicited email messages from us, please contact us at privacy@foxmarks.com. | Deleted | We're not going to send you unsolicited messages (unless we have to for the purposes of maintaining your account), so there's no need to opt-out. |
| At any time after you have created an account on our site, you may contact us at privacy@foxmarks.com to request access to information we have collected regarding you or to notify us of changes to such information. If you request any such changes, we will contact you by email or fax to confirm those changes. Once confirmed, any new item of information will replace the corresponding information previously provided. | At any time after you have created an account on our site, you may log in to your account at http://sync.foxcloud.com/ to view information about your account and make changes to such information. Once those changes are confirmed, any new item of information will replace the corresponding information previously provided. | By Fax? Our lawyers need to get with the times. If you want to examine or change your account, use the facilities available online. |
