I would like to inform users and perhaps people who are registered with
www.faceparty.com that this site breaches privacy and upon registering then signing in they are in actual fact acting out a scan of users Temporary Internet Folders for information such as email addresses and other information that may be lying in your cookies and selling them to 3rd partys.
My sister registered at this website then one day i received an email from faceparty.com saying that my sister had invited me to join the site? I confronted my sister about this and she said she never sent any invite, then it turns out that all of her contacts had also received the invite even though she never sent anything, so I asked her if she downloaded anything from the site and again she said no, by now I am very curious as to how they have done this so I now sign up with faceparty and then go through the whole site looking for anything I could download that would do this and I couldn't find anything... then 1 week later all my contacts (over 50) received an email from faceparty saying I had invited them???
This of course was rubbish and i had to send out an email to all my contacts apologizing, I then went through the Terms and Conditions and there wasn't anything there about this but there was a link to a 'Privacy Statement' which said ...
Automated Collection of Other Information
“Some non-personal information may be collected automatically, such as the computer operating system and the type of browser software you are using, along with special codes that tell us which pages you have visited. Some information is stored in the form of a 'cookie', a small file which remains on your computer but which acts as a reminder about any preferences you have selected when visiting our sites. We only use 'cookies' to improve our service to you. We may occasionally allow this non-personal data to be used by third party content suppliers, to help us serve you with more relevant content.”
What they don't say is they “will retrieve email address's from Hotmail or Messenger cookies”
and they say that “they wont use this information without your full permission to do so” but without permission they go ahead and scan your Temporary Folders on windows for email addresses then email each and every one of your contacts with invites to the site...???? who's to say then they aren't in fact selling the tens of thousands of email addresses they must be getting from peoples computers who are then prone to SPAM from the companies they sell them too? The reason for this suspicion is the fact they cover themselves legally to do this and just about anything else in their privacy statement!
When my sister and me signed up (and I'm certain i can speak for most of the other members of faceparty) we weren't told about this and certainly don't want anybody snooping in our computers for email addresses to Spam our contacts?
This has to be a breach of privacy and has similarities to having Spyware on your PC, it seems the site is a type of interactive site which seems to have some sort of power to scan the Internet Folder Without having to download and install an Active-X control when you sign into faceparty.com, Ive emailed faceparty.com about this but they fail to reply...I'm not surprised..
I would like to know that the email addresses they have gathered from my machine will be deleted and not 'Sold' onto 3rd party's and why they do this without asking permission?
Regards
Paul Bartley
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