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May 7th, 2009 - CROSSFEEDR is now fully released! As of this morning we have opened the server-side of CROSSFEEDR allowing any website owner to create their own CROSSFEEDR Metafeed, and obtain the HTML codes to put CROSSFEEDR on their site. This opens the door for website owners to leverage the power of CROSSFEEDR to increase communications with their subscribers.

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PRIVACY POLICY

From our lawyer:

Everyone has to have a privacy policy these days. Now me, I wouldn't care. I am not a private person at all. But, my wife is seriously private. Someday, she may even give me her address so I can go see her. Yes I know, we have all of the HIPAA stuff now with a whole new set of litigation possibilities. But Crossfeedr.com isn't even a health care provider and doesn't know a stethoscope from an endoscope. Yes, I know, I shouldn't complain. All these privacy policies require someone to write them and that someone just happens to be me. Fortunately, Crossfeedr.com's President doesn't mind paying for this stuff, so here we go.

Privacy Commitment

Crossfeedr.com is committed to privacy. We love privacy the way ducks love water; the way flowers love the spring; the way Romeo loves Juliet; the way dark energy loves to repulse galaxies; well, you get the idea. We are not going to share any of your information that you don't absolutely positively want us to share. We don't do spam and by extension we don't sell, rent, lease or share email lists. So rest assured, your information is safe with us.

Having said that, we are a community building website. It may be possible to build a community without revealing information; but we don't know how to do that. However, we will not be revealing information anyway. The members of the community in the process of discussions will be revealing information about themselves and others. We are not going to try to stop them. If during the course of some of these discussions things are revealed which really should not be, then let us know. If you are correct we will get it off the site. Also when you fill out a profile, it is our assumption (call us crazy) that you want other people to know that stuff. So, we will let other people look at your profile. We will not, of course, reveal any financial information. That would be stupid and we are not stupid; insensitive, boorish and nerdy maybe - but not stupid.

Cookies

Everyone loves cookies. I, personally, am addicted to tollhouse cookies. When I was a kid, I had a cat. One thanksgiving, we started feeding turkey to the cat. That cat ate so much turkey that his stomach was bulging out. He actually got to the point where he couldn't walk. Being kids and therefore unnecessarily cruel, we placed pieces of turkey a few feet apart. The cat would drag himself to each piece of turkey and make strange meowing sounds as he ate it. That is how much I love tollhouse cookies. Well, we aren't talking about those kinds of cookies. We are talking about the kind of cookies that web site operators can store in your browser. These cookies act like little markers that tell us stuff about you. Sometimes that is a good thing. Sometime it is not. However, we are honest, lovable, brave, kind and thrifty. We may place a cookie in your browser. But, we will never misuse that privilege. So, please trust us.

Activity Monitoring

I know what you are thinking. I realize that "Activity Monitoring" sounds pretty Big Brotherish or even United States Governmentish (Don't get me started). While you meander your way around Crossfeedr.com, chat with others, share information and just in general have a great time, we will probably keep track of what you are doing. We will also collect some techo-wienie type stuff like IP and email address. Lest you think we are stalking you, we are really just trying to improve our service. We want to know what you like, what you don't like and what you kinda like. In that way we can accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative and improve the mediocre. See, that's not evil. In case you want to just come out and tell us what you like, that's OK too. Even if we didn't want to hear from you, we would probably have to say we did, just to seem friendly. But, in this case we really do want to hear from you, so feel free to fire away. We are really very nice.

Use Of Information

We may also use your information for sending you stuff. We promise to keep it to a minimum since we know how annoying unsolicited emails can be. But, we want your opinion and your happy participation, so we will probably want to send some stuff to you so we can serve you better. It is the essence of Adam Smith's invisible hand. (If that seemed too snooty then check out "The Wealth of Nations. And, no there is no mini-series). We get big bags of money from advertisements and such, and you have a more fun and informative experience. Don't you love it when a plan comes together?

It is possible that we will aggregate information from your account with other accounts on the site just to see to what kind of demographic we are appealing. There is some possibility that we would provide that aggregated or summarized information to a third party. Lest all of those 10 penny words scare you, no one is going to get any information that could be identified with a certain person. Instead your information will become merely a disembodied statistical blip on the great oscilloscope of internet information -lost, bereft of kith and kin, benighted and unknown. Wow, that is kind of depressing.

The bad news is that, while we really really don't like the government sticking its bloated nose into private information, they have the guns and the laws required for them to do so. So, if Feds or Stas (Sta is short for state official and yes I just made that up) come around with guns and papers demanding information, there is next to nothing we can do except hand it over.

Changes To This Policy

There is something about me that my wife really hates; I change my mind all the time. She is the kind of person who wants to know what is going to happen without deviations. She plans her work and works her plan. I make elaborate plans and then change them at the drop of a hat. Strange, I know. But, I figure if you get a better idea why be chained to your original, if something superior comes along. (That doesn't apply to wives by the way). That means that we might change this policy without notice. It is unlikely to be a big deal - just a little tweaking here and there. But for those of you who have some knowledge of law, you know that some court somewhere or some legislature will come up with some weird law or other and we will have to adapt or be looking down the barrel of a lawsuit. We also figure that so few people care about our privacy policy, that we could probably delete the whole thing or rewrite it in Swahili, without anyone knowing or caring.