The following are privacy policies and the personal account settings for five online services.
Facebook:
- Facebook has the following custom settings.The settings you choose control which people and applications can see your information. The custom settings can withhold data you wish not to share with certain people. You can control who sees your posts. You can also block people from interacting with you or seeing your information on Facebook. There is also a section that controls what information is shared with websites and applications, including search engines. You can remove any applications you do not wish to use. Facebook also has many default settings. Facebook keeps track of your posts and statuses and uses the content users post online for advertisements.
- Custom settings include customizing and controlling who can see you are online, who knows your birthday, who can view your profile, who can share your photos and how to block specific users and users by age. MySpace Members can change their Registration PII and Profile Information at any time and can control how Visitors, other Members and MySpace communicate with them by controlling their account settings, available within the “Edit Profile” portion of their MySpace profile.Default settings include third party advertisements displayed on MySpace Services may also contain cookies set by Internet advertising companies or advertisers (known as “third party cookies”). MySpace does not control these third party cookies and Users of the MySpace Services should check the privacy policy of the Internet advertising company or advertiser to see whether and how it uses cookies.
- Custom settings include controlling who sees the videos you post. Sometimes you may not want everyone to have access to certain videos, and would prefer only a certain group of people be allowed to view your videos. If you would like to limit exposure you can set it to "private video." If it is set to private, only you and up to 25 other users who you invite to view the video will be able to see it. The video will not appear on your channel, in groups, search results, etc.
- Custom settings include having the option to limit personal financial information shared with affiliates and control how you wish Wells Fargo to contact you (telephone, email). Wells Fargo's default settings include requesting information for log in such as email address and account number. In these cases, Well's Fargo collects only the information necessary to interact with you. They also gather data to track website usage, such as number of hits, pages visited, and the length of user sessions in order to evaluate the usefulness of the Wells Fargo sites. As far as default settings, Wells Fargo does not sell customer information to third parties and does not share customer information with outside parties who may wish to market their products to you. Wells fargo safeguards your customer information carefully.
- Custom settings include the option of changing your Gmail account settings through the Gmail "settings" section. You may organize or delete your messages through your Gmail account or terminate your account through the Google Account section of Gmail settings. Such deletions or terminations will take immediate effect in your account view. You may choose to use additional Gmail features, such as chat, which connects to the Google Talk network, or Google Buzz. Residual copies of deleted messages and accounts may take up to 60 days to be deleted from the active servers and may remain in the offline backup systems. The fact that deleted messages take at least 60 days to be deleted from the server is a default setting that some people may find as a violation of privacy. Other default settings include the fact that Google records information such as account activity (including storage usage, number of log-ins), data displayed or clicked on (including UI elements, ads, links); (including browser type, IP-address, date and time of access, cookie ID, and referrer URL).
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