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Well this makes me feel a little better... from http://optimal.com/privacy-policy/ http://optimal.com/privacy-policy/ WHAT WE COLLECT We get information about
by Flammy 10y ago
Well this makes me feel a little better... from http://optimal.com/privacy-policy/ http://optimal.com/privacy-policy/
WHAT WE COLLECT
We get information about you in a range of ways.
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DNS service. If you utilize our DNS-based service, we may receive information about your IP address and URLs requested by that address. DNS requests utilize the UDP protocol which means we do not typically get information on the full URL you are attempting to visit (We receive far less information than a company providing a VPN service to you, for example, and that is one of the reasons we prefer this approach as it gives us far less information about user browsing). We do, however, have an IP address associated with each request and so could produce a list of sites visited by each IP address using our DNS servers. We do not know who you are when you use our DNS service, however. IP addresses may also be shared between users, and are not universally regarded as personally identifiable. We only use the IP addresses as follows: (a) the count of unique IPs we use as a benchmark for the adoption of our DNS service, and (b) we may check IP addresses against a free database of countries or cities provided by MaxMind and hosted on our servers, to limit the ability for users outside of certain areas to use our DNS service. We will not use the IP addresses we gather for any other purpose, and we will not correlate or combine them with any other personal information provided by you or other DNS service users, and we will never sell or share any of this information with any outside companies in any way. We may use aggregate request counts to help compensate publishers based on overall site traffic, across all users of our DNS service.
- boxfire 10y agoinstead of letting the browser grab the dns abstractly all the way down through the os, use your ISP's standard DNS for the exact address in the address bar and/or a white list, and their DNS for implicit requests. Still leaks a picture of you, but a far muddier one.
- 0xmohit 10y agoAdditionally, it says: - We may share personal information with your consent. For example, you may let us share personal information with others for their own marketing uses. Those uses will be subject to their privacy policies. - We may share personal information when we do a business deal, or negotiate a business deal, involving the sale or transfer of all or a part of our business or assets. These deals can include any merger, financing, acquisition, or bankruptcy transaction or proceeding. - We may share personal information for legal, protection, and safety purposes. - We may share information to comply with laws. - We may share information to respond to lawful requests and legal processes. - We may share information to protect the rights and property of Optimal.com Corp., our agents, customers, and others. This includes enforcing our agreements, policies, and terms of use. - We may share information in an emergency. This includes protecting the safety of our employees and agents, our customers, or any person. - We may share information with those who need it to do work for us. - We may also share aggregated non-personal data with others for their own uses. Essentially, there are so many reasons for us to share your personal information that we can't help it. Amusingly, the website: - Uses Google Analytics - Runs over HTTP (not HTTPS)