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Internet Privacy
Privacy
Practices of Web Businesses
Amazon.com
Amazon's privacy policy states that the company is committed to protecting its customers' privacy and does not sell, trade, or rent
personal customer information to third parties. The Web site offers to use a secure server;
in this way, all the information sent by customers is encrypted and all customer data are protected against
unauthorized access. However, the company reserves the right to change its privacy policy in the future by sharing customer information with third parties.
Ebay
The Ebay Web site is TRUSTe-certified and its online privacy practices are in compliance with TRUSTe’s requirements. The company guarantees that it will not send any personal information received from
customers to any third party. Its privacy statement includes a special note about
children and an explanation of how Ebay uses personal customer
information. It also provides customers with the opportunity to edit the information
once it is sent to the company. Moreover, customers can request
that credit card data be deleted from the company database.
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