The following is a draft of the new MemeStreams Privacy Policy.

We will leave this up for public review until Tuesday. We would very much like to hear your feedback before making it official. If you don't have any objections, we would still like to hear a "looks good to me comment".. We want to make sure that we have full community involvement in crafting any site policy.

There is little change in substance and spirit between this version and the current privacy policy. This rewrite is mostly to clarify things, be easier to read, and have the necessary statements in place to satisfy requirements for working with advertising partners.

MemeStreams is designed to enable you to share information with other Internet users about web sites you find interesting. All of the information collected by the system is intended to be published, except where specifically noted.

If you are concerned about the information you publish, we recommend that you publish your weblog under a pseudonym, and do not recommend web sites you do not want other people to know you are reading. Any information that you publish on your weblog or in your profile is available to others.

The people who run this site are concerned about privacy rights, and will make every endeavor to protect information that ought to be private. We will attempt to protect you, and inform you about how you can better protect yourself.

Your email address is private: MemeStreams makes you verify your email address when you create an account in order to be able to post. We must verify your email address because MemeStreams can be used to generate outbound emails. We will never sell your email address to spammers or share it with third parties. However, if you choose to publish your email address in your profile or in posts, others can obtain it.

Your click-through data is private: MemeStreams collects information about the websites you've visited from other user's weblogs. This information is used by our reputation system and search engine to improve results. We will not intentionally provide this information to any third party.

This website uses cookies: All users of this website are issued cookies. These cookies are used to associate transactions with user's accounts, as well as to gather statistical data on our visitors. This statistical data is used to gauge the size and nature of our readership, as well as target advertisements on the website. Third parties, such as our advertising partners, may also set cookies.

This website uses Javascript: MemeStreams uses Javascript to provide a more powerful end user experience, as well as to deliver advertisements and collect statistics. This website will not work properly unless Javascript is enabled in your web browser.

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Your click-through data is private: MemeStreams collects information about the websites you've visited from other user's weblogs. This information is used by our reputation system and search engine to improve results. We will not intentionally provide this information to any third party.

To me, it seems worthwhile to remind people that recommendations are public-to-the-world, not just to registered Memestreams users, and to remind them about the nature of the "sources" and "audience" filters, and about the "social network" graphs. Some users may look at the graphs, think "pretty pictures -- I have no idea what that means", not realizing the interpersonal relationship data they contain, and the sources of that data (namely, a coarse version of the agent input).

To me, it seems worthwhile to remind people that recommendations are public-to-the-world, not just to registered Memestreams users, and to remind them about the nature of the "sources" and "audience" filters, and about the "social network" graphs. Some users may look at the graphs, think "pretty pictures -- I have no idea what that means", not realizing the interpersonal relationship data they contain, and the sources of that data (namely, a coarse version of the agent input).

That is valid.

I felt I covered the issues about recommendations being public. Although it is not implicitly stated that the source of the recommendation can be determined if that source was publicly posted on the site.

Any suggestions about wording?

I'm in love with the fact that this is in plain language, and simply lays out the use and care taken to protect our privacy.

Cudo's to the staff of Industrial Memetics.

It's never easy to write these things... I know how much they sux.

Rattle wrote:
The following is a draft of the new MemeStreams Privacy Policy.

We will leave this up for public review until Tuesday. We would very much like to hear your feedback before making it official. If you don't have any objections, we would still like to hear a "looks good to me comment".. We want to make sure that we have full community involvement in crafting any site policy.

There is little change in substance and spirit between this version and the current privacy policy. This rewrite is mostly to clarify things, be easier to read, and have the necessary statements in place to satisfy requirements for working with advertising partners.

Looks good to me. It's not spychotic at all.

fine

Rattle wrote:
There is little change in substance and spirit between this version and the current privacy policy. This rewrite is mostly to clarify things, be easier to read, and have the necessary statements in place to satisfy requirements for working with advertising partners.

...in other news, Nick and Tom will be cutting their long hair and selling their dreams to advertising scum. I for one welcome our new alien overlords!

Just kidding, I'm very impressed with all the work going into Memestreams of late.

Run from the Big Blue light Tom! Run as fast as you can ... (please run to SPI)

...in other news, Nick and Tom will be cutting their long hair and selling their dreams to advertising scum. I for one welcome our new alien overlords!

This is on record, but not on MemeStreams... So let me clear this up..

I stopped cutting my hair when I reenrolled in k0lledge, with the plan that the next time I cut it, I would be graduating. Idealy, I would chop it off with my switchblade after walking...

Looks good. Thanks for your efforts both in running the site and to keep users in the loop.