[X-Newbies] Re: Macintosh Poll - OT: privacy policies

[Rodney A.Hoiseth]

Hi there, fellow newbies,

Since I'm in "legal mode" these days (currently in the middle of "The 
Legal Environment of e-Business" in my MBA course) I can't resist a 
critical comment: I searched the Tropical Software site for a Privacy 
Statement but couldn't find one--even on the order page. Nor could I 
find one on the site of the CHNM Poll Builder ( 
http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/polls/ ) that created the poll.

I'm sure Tropical Software and CHNM are both excellent and reputable 
organizations, and privacy is not even an issue, but publishing a 
privacy policy is de rigueur for even the smallest e-commerce sites 
recently. Although such statements may not be required by law, they 
certainly can be reassuring to a pedantic anti-SPAM paranoid such as 
myself. If I were part of these two organizations I would propose 
adding a readily accessible, simple, even one- or two-paragraph privacy 
policy to the site.

Rodney
(in Hayama, Japan)

On Nov 3, 2005, at 06:23, x-newbies wrote:
>
> Tropical Software is conducting a poll about Macintosh use, just for 
> fun.
>