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Facebook.com

Privacy Policies
1. Facebook.com keeps track of the actions you take on Facebook, such as adding a friend, becoming a fan of a Facebook Page, joining a group or an event, creating a photo album, sending a gift, poking another user, indicating you “like” a post, attending an event, or authorizing an application. In some cases you are also taking an action when you provide information or content to us. For example, if you share a video, in addition to storing the actual content you uploaded, Facebook.com might log the fact you shared it.

2. Certain categories of information such as your name, profile photo, list of friends and pages you are a fan of, gender, geographic region, and networks you belong to are considered publicly available, and do not have privacy settings. You can limit the ability of others to find this information on third party search engines through your search privacy settings.

3. - Some of the content you share and the actions you take will show up on your friends’ home pages and other pages they visit.

Personalized settings

1. My Birth date and birth year I made available to friends, and friends of friends instead of everyone.

2. My education and work status I left available for everyone to see, which was a default setting.

3. I made it so only friends can comment on my wall posts instead of everyone which is the default setting.

Amazon.com

Privacy Policies
1. Amazon.com might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information.

2. Amazon.com uses the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future shopping for you, improving our stores, and communicating with you.

3. Amazon.com stores any information you enter on their Web site or give them in any other way.

Personalized settings

1. I use the default setting used for browsing, and let Amazon keep track of my browsing history.

2. I also use the default advertising settings, which lets Amazon come up with personalized ads for me.

3. I however don’t let Amazon e-mail me about special offers, which is my own custom setting.

AOL.com

Privacy Policies

1. Your AOL Member information may be used to conduct research about your use of the AOL Service.

2. AOL may share AOL Member information in order to present you offers with or on behalf of their business partners, but AOL does not allow these partners to use your AOL Member information for any other purpose.

3. Your AOL Member information, including the contents of your private online communications, may be accessed and disclosed in response to legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant or subpoena).

Personalized settings

1. I use the default setting to display new mail automatically.

2. I have my setting customized so that when I read my e-mail it does not pop up in a new window.

3. I use the default setting for AOL.com to play a sound when I receive new e-mail.

Skype

Privacy Policies

1. Skype uses information about your usage of and interaction with the Skype software, Skype’s products and websites including computer and connection information, device capability, bandwidth, statistics on page views, and traffic to and from their websites.

2. Skype gathers Identification data (ex. name, address, telephone number, mobile number, email address).

3. Skype does not sell, rent, trade or otherwise transfer any personal and/or traffic data or communications content to any third party without your explicit permission, unless it is obliged to do so under applicable laws or by order of the competent authorities.

Personalized settings

1. I customized my Skype account by adding a picture on my account for my friends to see.

2. I also customized my Skype profile by adding information in the “about me” section that my friends can see.

3. I customized my profile to let other people search for my by name Skype name and location, instead of just Skype name.


iTunes

Privacy Policies

1. Your personal information helps iTunes keep you posted on the latest product announcements, software updates, special offers, and events that you might like to hear about.

2. Apple does not sell or rent your contact information to other marketers.

3. Apple also collects information for market research purposes — such as your occupation and where you use your computer — to gain a better understanding of our customers and thus provide a more valuable service.

Personalized settings

1. I created a nick name on iTunes to rate songs and write reviews, which is not a default setting.

2. I allow iTunes to run a default service called Genius, which suggests music and movies that I would like.

3. I have also customized my iTunes account so that they don’t send me e-mail alerts.