Tuesday, 11 March 2008

Confused by new Adsense TOS?

Well to be honest, I was kind of keeping my head down about this one, one of those things where you don't have to do it now, so it doesn't get done. Sometimes it's better to give things a shorter deadline if you want to see a difference...
Anyhow, I bit the bullet to day and went to see what it was all about - seems the main crux is that if you want to use Adsense, you will need a publicly viewable privacy policy. Well, I do use Adsense, only a tiny bit on this blog, however I don't want to jeopardise my Adsense earnings elsewhere so I'm, going to place my brand new privacy policy courtesy of Jensense right here:

Privacy Policy for munny4hunny.com

The privacy of our visitors to munny4hunny.com is important to us.

At munny4hunny.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use visit munny4hunny.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on munny4hunny.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

May I encourage you to do the same, and don't forget to provide a link so that the Google bots can easily find it...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I didn't know this was required of adsense users - thanks for the info.

jay said...

You should have noticed a 'splash page' type notification when logging into Adsense recently - this requires you to sign up to the new TOS...