Visits
to the CPAC website are logged, and such information may be shared
with third-parties, including with law enforcement. Anonymity
on the Internet is not something anyone should take for granted.
Many Internet Service Providers (ISPs), including the CPAC's,
record and make available - for possible monitoring by an account
holder - visitor or site statistics.
There are also a number of other
ISPs that make the statistics openly accessible to anyone interested
in reading visitor stats via web browsers. In addition, services
that are interactive on the Net may open and function from off-site
servers; those services, as well, may record visitor information.
The CPAC - and many other agencies
and self-help groups have - purchased services that enhance interactivity
among Net users, along with the ability to monitor and screen.
There are also countless sites relying on web-tracking systems
- in the form of counters, banner stats, banner advertising,
audit services, et cetera. While some service options
may be better than others, they pretty much serve the same purpose:
Monitoring or assessing visits.
The CPAC has not invoked a novel
approach in making use of services available. Anonymity on the
Net is not assured; others have written, for instance, inaccurate
and misleading information relating to various E-mail services.
The CPAC doesn't sell information logged respective of its visitors;
the stats are maintained for security reasons and ethical uses
- to screen the unscrupulous. If that doesn't apply to you, great!
But if it does describe you, then you may give some serious consideration
to how you address people on the Net.
Information about CPAC site visitors
may be relayed to law enforcement; the only data relating to
individuals participating in ring linking programs that is made
available is the information entered by individuals who have
chosen to participate in WebRing(s), and it is the information
they have decided to share that is made public, i.e.,
URL, page title, site description, et cetera; and, the
type of instances in which information in respect to a child
may be shared with third-parties are those in which a child is
seeking to report abuse (Online and/or in Real-Time) or an adult
has presented reason - via the transmittal of text - to
believe that a child is at risk for abuse or has been abused/exploited.
The CPAC periodically reviews its
access logs: to assess bandwidth usage and/or unauthorized use
of bandwidth; to confirm the veracity of claims held out by others
in statements presented as seemingly "factual"; and,
to help determine how to present the domain-hosted pages, e.g.,
efficiently.
Please read the text on stalkers,
safety,
and abusers
to possibly understand better the sources inspiring the CPAC
to review its own access logs since May 1997. Information respective
of Net users' privacy had been posted repeatedly by the CPAC
and its site visitors Spring 1997 to Spring 1998; in early March
1998, this page was launched; on October 18, 1998, the text of
this page updated; and, on August 10, 1999, the appearance of
this page was re-designed. |
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