Hyperlinkomatic Privacy
We have great respect for users' privacy. Consequently we've chosen to make the following bold statements:
HLOM's guarantee to users
We don't need to know who is using HLOM; feel free to use any
name you like as a username. It's just a way for you to identify yourself
to the server and the server really isn't going to get upset if it one day discovers
that user Mickey_Mouse doesn't actually have big ears and a tail.
Any email address you give us will only be used for sending out
notifications from, or about, HLOM.
We will not, under any circumstances, give away, sell, pass on or otherwise
make email addresses available to anyone outside of the HLOM development team.
We will not re-publish any of the data you enter into HLOM.
We will not publish your personal information or make your username
or email address accessible to the public.
In the future we may wish to perform disturbing and unusual experiments on the
mass of URLs that HLOM accumulates. If we do, be assured that we will only
be analysing the URLs; we will ensure that there is no way to identify which user
entered any given URL.
All HLOM users retain all copyright for anything they enter, with the exception
of URLs themselves. As far as we know you can't claim copyright over a URL, and if you
can it's certainly not the kind of behaviour that should be encouraged.
If you use HLOM to publish any material that infringes someone elses copyright
we may be forced to remove your published links page. If you publish it, it's your
responsibility.
In the future we will probably have to include an 'acceptable use' policy for HLOM's
publishing feature; if we do, all users will be notified by email.
From time to time HLOM's developers may need to look at the contents of the databases.
Please keep this in mind when you're entering information into HLOM.
In the future we plan to add user-controlled encryption to some information, making it
unreadable, even to the developers (or indeed users who forget their private keys).
If we do have to read any of the database we promise that we will:
a) try not to laugh
b) be very careful not to copy, repeat or alter any of your data.