[Reader-list] Please help me update my address book on Ringo

[Pankaj kaushal]

Hello Sagnik,
SAGNIK CHAKRAVARTTY wrote:
> Hi
> I'm updating my address book.  Please click on the link below and enter your contact info for me:
> http://ringo.com/i?uid=hcFhEQavQD9zvtgL&
> I'm using a new, free service where I put in my contact info for you, you put in your contact info for me, and everyone stays up to date automatically.  It's surprisingly easy and useful.
> Thanks for your help.

You might have read about this excellent and easy to use service but let
me quote from their own privacy policy.

"Ringo may develop special sites in cooperation with other companies. If
you register at these "co-branded" sites, we share your registration
information (such as name and email address) with that company.

"This policy may change from time to time. If we make any material
changes to the policy in the future with regard to how we use your
information, we will notify you on our homepage and in a change of
service email."

"While Ringo will endeavor to require the successor company to maintain
this privacy policy, we cannot guarantee that our policy will remain
unchanged if Ringo is sold or merges with another company. We will use
our best efforts to notify you by email if such a merger or acquisition
occurs."

"Someday, we may have ads on Ringo, and if so, we also may use
third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our site. These
companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel
gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any
information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags
is completely anonymous."

Let me go into a little detail about action tags, action tag's are one
pixel transparent gif's. So, you cant see them, but they are there
none-the-less, it lets the application collect information about *you*
what adv. *you* clicked and till what page of the advertisement/
subscription page *you* read. If you didn't register, on which page
*you* changed your mind? What *you* might be interested in future ...
So, that the new adv can be better targeted at *you*. I wont call it
anonymous.

PS: I used to work for Monster.com the owner of ringo. I wont trust them
with my email address.

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