[Random-bits] Cavebear Privacy Policy

[James Love]

Karl Auerbach is an interesting person, who may be a candidate for an at
larage seat for ICANN.  He also has a pretty cool "Privacy Policy" on
his web page.  This is it.  

http://www.cavebear.com/privacypolicy.html

       The CaveBear Privacy Policy

We participate in no so-called "private" privacy initiatives.  Indeed we
feel that leaving the protection of privacy to anything less than well
enforced laws would be a farce.

The CaveBear site takes no active steps to protect your privacy.  We
collect the standard logs of access to our systems.

We never have used the access logs for anything but our own
administrative uses - primarily monitoring our sites to see whether
someone has tried (or succeeded) to penetrate our security.  And we have
never opened those logs to anyone other than our own administrative
staff, who, it may be said, tend to find the contents not merely
uninteresting but downright boring.

At the current time the CaveBear site has no interest in using our logs
for any other purpose.

At the present time we do not believe that we have any web pages that
either put "cookies" on your computers or read such cookies that may
have been put there by ourselves or by others.

So, if you are concerned about your privacy, you luck out - our
practices are consistent with your interest in protecting your privacy. 
However we do not guarantee that our practices will not someday change
or that we will not accidentally disclose something.

It is our recommendation to you that you take such self protections as
you feel appropriate.  And we further suggest that you do not look to
protection of your privacy to come from the private sector - that
sector's interests are not aligned with yours.

The CaveBear site strongly urges that you support national legislation
and international treaties that define and protect your privacy.

Updated December 27, 1999