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What Can Ezine Publishers Do?

Understand the Issue

  • Read these pages to learn how some ezine publishers track information, and how they might disclose that information even though their privacy policy says they won't.
     
  • Recognize that subscribers care about privacy.

Learn Which Ezine Services Violate Ezine Privacy

  • Check the site list of Ezine Privacy Violators.
     
  • Check the privacy pages of Ezine services.
     
  • Check the feature pages of Ezine services.
     
  • If the ezine promotes the ability to track individual subscribers, understand the privacy implications of that offering.

If You Decide to Track Subscribers, Disclose It, and Offer Alternatives

  • Have a privacy policy on your website that truly discloses how you track your subscribers. If your grandmother can't understand that you track subscribers, rewrite the policy.
     
  • Offer a text version of your ezine for users who want to protect their privacy.

If You Decide Not to Track Subscribers, Tell People

  • Get and post the Ezine Privacy Button to tell your subscribers that you do not track them.
     
  • Disclose your respect for ezine privacy in your privacy policy. Tell your subscribers you do not track them.
     
  • Remember that your ezines are forwarded. Put a notice in your ezine. Tell your subscribers that you do not track them (and consider using the Ezine Privacy Button or linking to our site.
 
 

Last updated:
16:58, Wed, 11.Oct.2006

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