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Addressing JillTxt’s Privacy Concerns

Jill pointed out an area (or three) where our privacy disclosure could improve. The most critical to me is making sure that the MyBlogLog Privacy policy is in the best shape it can be. We're planning to make the following two updates to the policy. Please let us know if you think there's a better way to go about it. I can't guarantee that we'll always blog changes if they're minor, but we'll do our best.

First, the second paragraph under Cookies will become:

You are always free to decline cookies, but by doing so you may not be able to use certain features on the websites or take full advantage of all the website offerings. Among these features is the Recent Readers widget. The widget as displayed on MyBlogLog's company blog is pictured here. It places your profile picture on the faces of certain of the sites you read. Site-by-site control of where your profile picture appears will be provided, but is not available yet. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, erase cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. (Each browser is different, so check the ''Help'' menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.)

Second, we'll add an additional bullet point under Information Sharing and Disclosure:

When you visit a site that is using MyBlogLog's Recent Readers widget, our system will add your profile picture to the widget, where it will be displayed for a period of time. The only way that the site knows that you have visited is to view the widget as you can. No person-specific information is provided to the site in any other way. Site-by-site control of where your profile picture appears will be provided, but is not available yet. Similarly, the site publisher will be able to ban the appearance of specific profile pictures from the widget and will no longer know when those individual MyBlogLog users visit their site. That feature is also not yet available.