DCS Posted June 8, 2004 Share Posted June 8, 2004 Alexa offers a free toolbar for Internet Explorer browsers that provides Search, Traffic Rankings, Related Links, and other helpful surfing features. Site URL: http://www.alexa.com TotalChoiceHosting.com Traffic Rank: 36,188 -- click here for details! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaJill Posted June 8, 2004 Share Posted June 8, 2004 Information about why Alexa may not be what you expect. Just a heads up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCS Posted June 8, 2004 Author Share Posted June 8, 2004 Information about why Alexa may not be what you expect. Just a heads up. Thanks for the info, Lisa. I wasn't aware of that before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Dick Posted June 8, 2004 Share Posted June 8, 2004 (edited) A few selections from the Alexa Internet Privacy Policy ALEXA'S TOOLBAR SERVICE COLLECTS AND STORES INFORMATION ABOUT THE WEB PAGES YOU VIEW, THE DATA YOU ENTER IN ONLINE FORMS AND SEARCH FIELDS, AND, WITH VERSIONS 5.0 AND HIGHER, THE PRODUCTS YOU PURCHASE ONLINE WHILE USING THE TOOLBAR SERVICE. ALTHOUGH ALEXA DOES NOT ATTEMPT TO ANALYZE WEB USAGE DATA TO DETERMINE THE IDENTITY OF ANY ALEXA USER, SOME INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THE TOOLBAR SERVICE IS PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE. ALEXA AGGREGATES AND ANALYZES THE INFORMATION IT COLLECTS TO IMPROVE ITS SERVICE AND TO PREPARE REPORTS ABOUT AGGREGATE WEB USAGE AND SHOPPING HABITS. If you use the E-mail This Site feature, we collect your message, the recipient e-mail address(es), and your e-mail address for the purpose of sending the e-mail. We do not send other e-mail to these address(es). If you choose, we can save your e-mail address in a cookie on your computer to make this feature easier to use. If you use version 5.0 or higher of the Toolbar Servicesoftware, as part of the shopping feature of the Toolbar Service, we collect information about the products you view or search for on the World Wide Web. This allows us to provide more detailed product and comparative shopping information. The information we collect includes product codes (such as ISBN numbers for books), product names, and other identifiers that appear in both the text and the URLs of Web pages that you view. The product information that Alexa gathers is logged together with your IP address, Alexa cookie number, the names of Alexa's business partners that might have additional information about the particular product, and the date and time, in a single data string for each Web page you visit. These strings, which we call "shopping paths," may also contain personally identifiable information. Alexa transmits the product descriptions (without your Alexa cookie number or IP address) to its business partners, who return relevant product information and/or comparison shopping information to the Toolbar Service for your use. Edited June 8, 2004 by TCH-Dick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deverill Posted June 8, 2004 Share Posted June 8, 2004 Now that's scary stuff, Dick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCS Posted June 8, 2004 Author Share Posted June 8, 2004 Yes it is, thank you all for the heads up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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