MeetYourMessenger – Bad News!

This post was written by admin on July 24, 2007
Posted Under: PC Security

Although it seems innocent enough at first glance, when you go into more detail and read ‘About’, ‘Privacy’ and ‘Terms’ you will learn a great deal more.

The following is just a few extracts that can be found on their site but it is my belief that this is BAD news and I wouldn’t touch it.

I would also advise everyone else to steer well away from it if you value your privacy and certainly keep children away from this ‘Big Brother’.

It’s a very insidious site that wants to harness as much information about you and your surfing habits as well as personal information.

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‘We connect you to anyone who is connected to MeetYourMessenger and you will be able to track back how you know these people in real life. MeetYourMessenger makes it possible for you to seek and find other Messenger users in your country, in your area or even in your city. You can see their picture, see who they are, see who their friends are, ask them what they work with, what their education is and much more.
MeetYourMessenger also collects other profile data including but not limited to: personal interests, gender, age, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other.

Log File Information:

When you use the MeetYourMessenger Sites, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.

Use of information:

We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of MeetYourMessenger and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing user preferences and trends. The information may also be used to personalize your profile and the information that you are given, while using MeetYourMessenger.

Disclosing Information:

We provide personally identifiable information and non-personally-identifiable information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, or other businesses or persons for the purpose of processing such information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information in compliance with our privacy statement, and we use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information and to use other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. MeetYourMessenger may transfer information to other corporate entities, that are wholly owned by MeetYourMessenger or a part of the MeetYourMessenger concern.

MeetYourMessenger also reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that MeetYourMessenger believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend itself against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our website, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of MeetYourMessenger, our Users or others.

User rights.

You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the MeetYourMessenger websites, in which case MeetYourMessenger may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your “My profile” page. Please note that Questions and Answers, Articles and Messenger connections uploaded by Users to the MeetYourMessenger websites cannot be removed and remain subject to our Terms.

Where is the information kept?

The MeetYourMessenger sites are hosted in Denmark and the information collected on the MeetYourMessenger websites are kept on the MeetYourMessenger servers, which are placed in Copenhagen, Denmark. Users of the MeetYourMessenger websites accept that the collected information is stored on these servers, thereby transferred across any boarders between their residing country and Denmark. Please be advised that through your continued use of MeetYourMessenger, which are governed by Danish law, this Privacy Statement and our Terms, you are transferring your personal information to Denmark and you consent to that transfer.’

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