I'd be fine with either option. It's certainly simple enough to add the
privacy clause. We can do that for now even if we decide to remove
Analytics entirely later on. I personally haven't been checking the
Google Analytics very often but perhaps others have been making more use
of it?
Joe
Kevan Miller wrote:
All,
In reviewing the Terms of Service for Google Analytics
(http://www.google.com/analytics/tos.html), I noticed that the Privacy
Section (Term 7) contains:
"You must post a privacy policy and that policy must provide notice of
your use of a cookie that collects anonymous traffic data."
On ethical grounds and in order to conform with these terms of service,
we need to change our web site. I see two options:
1) Add a privacy clause to our web site
2) Remove Google Analytics from our web site
Thoughts? I'd like to see a quick change to bring us into conformance. I
have some concerns about the data being gathered by Google and have my
doubts about whether or not we should be gathering the data. In the
near-term, I'd be satisfied with the addition of an appropriate privacy
clause to our web site.
--kevan
