Privacy

Facebook:
Site activity information. We keep track of the actions you take on Facebook, such as adding a friend, becoming a fan of a Facebook Page, joining a group or an event, creating a photo album, sending a gift, poking another user, indicating you “like” a post, attending an event, or authorizing an application. In some cases you are also taking an action when you provide information or content to us. For example, if you share a video, in addition to storing the actual content you uploaded, we might log the fact you shared it.

Access Device and Browser Information. When you access Facebook from a computer, mobile phone, or other device, we may collect information from that device about your browser type, location, and IP address, as well as the pages you visit.

Cookie Information. We use "cookies" (small pieces of data we store for an extended period of time on your computer, mobile phone, or other device) to make Facebook easier to use, to make our advertising better, and to protect both you and Facebook. For example, we use them to store your login ID (but never your password) to make it easier for you to login whenever you come back to Facebook. We also use them to confirm that you are logged into Facebook, and to know when you are interacting with Facebook Platform applications and websites, our widgets and Share buttons, and our advertisements. You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but in some cases that may impact your ability to use Facebook.

Information we receive from third parties:

Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect. We do not own or operate the applications that you use through Facebook Platform (such as games and utilities) or the websites that you interact with through Facebook Connect. We refer to them as “Facebook-enhanced” applications and websites because they use our Platform to provide you with social features. Whenever you authorize a Facebook-enhanced application or website, we will receive information from them, including information about actions you take. In some cases, in order to personalize the process of connecting, we may receive a limited amount of information even before you authorize the application or website.

Information from other websites. We may institute programs with advertising partners and other websites in which they share information with us:

- We may ask advertisers to tell us how our users responded to the ads we showed them (and for comparison purposes, how other users who didn’t see the ads acted on their site). This data sharing, commonly known as “conversion tracking,” helps us measure our advertising effectiveness and improve the quality of the advertisements you see.

- We may receive information about whether or not you’ve seen or interacted with certain ads on other sites in order to measure the effectiveness of those ads.

If in any of these cases we receive data that we do not already have, we will “anonymize” it within 180 days, meaning we will stop associating the information with any particular user. If we institute these programs, we will only use the information in the ways we explain in the “How We Use Your Information” section below.

Information from other users. We may collect information about you from other Facebook users, such as when a friend tags you in a photo or video, provides friend details, or indicates a relationship with you. You can limit who can see that you have been tagged in a photo or video – which we refer to as photos or videos “of me” – in your privacy settings.

3. Information You Share With Third Parties

We take steps to ensure that others use information that you share on Facebook in a manner consistent with your privacy settings, but we cannot guarantee that they will follow our rules. Read the following section to learn more about how you can protect yourself when you share information with third parties.

Sharing information on Facebook. We designed our privacy settings to enable you to control how you share your information on Facebook. You should review the default privacy settings to make sure they reflect your preferences. Here are some specific things to remember:

- You can control the visibility of most of the information you share on Facebook through the privacy settings you select.

- Certain categories of information such as your name, profile photo, list of friends and pages you are a fan of, gender, and networks you belong to are considered publicly available, and therefore do not have privacy settings. (We will soon stop using regional networks, but your geographic region will still be considered publicly available). You can limit the ability of others to find this information on third party search engines through your search privacy settings.

- Some of the content you share and the actions you take will show up on your friends’ home pages and other pages they visit.

- Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your account, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent it has been shared with others, it was otherwise distributed pursuant to your privacy settings, or it was copied or stored by other users.

- You understand that information might be re-shared or copied by other users.

- Certain types of communications that you send to other users cannot be removed, such as messages.

- When you post information on another user’s profile or comment on another user’s post, that information will be subject to the other user’s privacy settings.

- If you use an external source to publish information to Facebook (such as a mobile application or a Connect site), you should check the privacy setting for that post, as it is set by that external source.

I am using a custom setting for private settings. I have set my profile so that only Texas A&M students can see it and have not allowed for a public search.

Twitter:
Log Data: Our servers automatically record information ("Log Data") created by your use of the Services. Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type, the referring domain, pages visited, and search terms. Other actions, such as interactions with advertisements, may also be included in Log Data.
Cookies: Like many websites, we use "cookie" technology to collect additional website usage data and to improve our Services, but we do not require cookies for many parts of our Services such as searching and looking at public user profiles or lists. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your computer's hard disk. Twitter may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our Services, to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on our Services, and to improve our Services. Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies. You can instruct your browser, by editing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit.
Third Party Services: Twitter uses Google Analytics to help understand use of our Services. Through Google, Analytics collects the information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, including cookies and your IP address. Google also receives this information and their use of it is governed by their Privacy Policy.
Your Consent: We may share or disclose your information with your consent, such as when you use a third party web client to access your Twitter account.

Service Providers: We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us. We may share your personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these functions and provide such services, and only pursuant to obligations mirroring the protections of this privacy policy.

Law and Harm: We may disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect Twitter's rights or property.

Business Transfers: In the event that Twitter is involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. The promises in this privacy policy will apply to your information as transferred to the new entity.

Non-Private or Non-Personal Information: We may share or disclose your non-private, aggregated or otherwise non-personal information, such as your public Tweets or the number of users who clicked on a particular link (even if only one did).

I have customized my twitter account as well by not allowing “geotagging” and have deleted all my location data.

eLearning.tamu.edu:

Except for education records governed by FERPA, all information collected from this website, including the summary server log information, emails sent to the website, and information collected from web-based forms, may be subject to the Texas Public Information Act. This means that while TAMU does not actively share information, in some cases may be compelled by law to release information gathered from its web servers.

I do not have the default setting, as I have removed my UIN from being public along with my e-mail address.

Lulu’s.com

Privacy & Security

Thank you for shopping at lulus.com. In order to tell you about our latest products, specials, and other news we ask for your e-mail address. To fulfill your order, we need your address, phone and credit card info. Please remember that we've done our best to ensure the privacy and security of your transactions. Your credit card number and other personal data will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality. We will not share your personal information with any third party without your consent.

Secure Shopping

Orders placed on our site are encrypted using SSL technology, the industry-standard authentication and encryption technology, to ensure your transactions are protected. With SSL implemented on both the client and server, information transmitted over the internet will remain unaltered and secure. In order for SSL security to work, you must use an SSL enabled browser. Most Netscape and Explorer browsers, version 3.x and later, support SSL. If you have any concerns about placing your order online, please order by phone.

Please note that email is not encrypted, and therefore NOT a secure means of transmitting credit card information. Lulus will NEVER request sensitive information over e-mail.

I have my settings on default. I could opt-out of receiving newsletters if I liked but I enjoy them.

Chase Online:

Q. Is information about me shared within your family of companies?
A. Yes. We may share information about you within our family as required or permitted by law. This helps us to offer you financial products and services, such as loans, deposits, investments, credit cards and insurance.

Q. Is information about me shared with service providers and financial companies outside your family of companies?
A. Yes, as permitted by law. We may share information about you with outside companies that work for us. These may include firms that assist in marketing our products. We may also share information about you with outside financial companies that have joint marketing agreements with us. These arrangements give you the opportunity to receive additional products or services.

Q. Is information about me shared with non-financial companies outside your family of companies?
A. Yes. We may share information about you with companies outside of our family as permitted by law, including retailers, auto dealers, auto makers, direct marketers, membership clubs and publishers.

Q. Is information about me shared in any other ways?
A. Yes. We may also share information about you in other ways, as required or permitted by law.Sending E-mail to Chase

E-mail sent within the Chase.com website and Chase Online is secure. However, e-mail sent to us through other means may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures will be in place prior to your transmitting the information. Therefore, we ask that you do not send confidential information such as social security or account numbers to us via an unsecured e-mail. Such communications should be sent to us via postal mail or you may call 1-800-CHASE24 or visit one of our branches.

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This Policy explains what Chase does to keep information about you private and secure. We want you to know how we manage that information to serve you and that you have choices about how it is shared. This Policy covers our family of companies, a partial list of which is contained at the end of this Policy. Please read this Policy carefully.

Q. What information do you have about me?
A. To provide services and to help meet your needs, we collect information about you from various sources.

* We get information from your requests for our products or services. One example is income on loan applications.
* We get information about your transactions with us and with others. For example, we have your account balance information.
* We get information, such as your credit history, from credit bureaus.

Q. How do you safeguard information about me?
A. We take a number of steps to protect the privacy of information about you. Here are some examples:

* We keep information under physical, electronic or procedural controls that comply with or exceed governmental standards.
* We authorize our employees, agents and contractors to get information about you only when they need it to do their work for us.
* We require companies working for us to protect information. They agree to use it only to provide the services we ask them to perform for us.

Q. Is information about me shared within your family of companies?
A. Yes. We may share information about you within our family as required or permitted by law. This helps us to offer you financial products and services, such as loans, deposits, investments, credit cards and insurance.

Q. Is information about me shared with service providers and financial companies outside your family of companies?
A. Yes, as permitted by law. We may share information about you with outside companies that work for us. These may include firms that assist in marketing our products. We may also share information about you with outside financial companies that have joint marketing agreements with us. These arrangements give you the opportunity to receive additional products or services.

Q. Is information about me shared with non-financial companies outside your family of companies?
A. Yes. We may share information about you with companies outside of our family as permitted by law, including retailers, auto dealers, auto makers, direct marketers, membership clubs and publishers.

Q. Is information about me shared in any other ways?
A. Yes. We may also share information about you in other ways, as required or permitted by law. Here are some examples of ways that we share information.

* To protect against fraud.
* To respond to a subpoena.
* To service your account.
* To report to a credit bureau.
* With your consent.

Q. What choices do I have about information sharing and use?
A. We offer you the following three choices about sharing information that identifies you:

Choice #1. Third party sharing: You may tell us not to share information about you with non-financial companies outside of our family of companies. Even if you do tell us not to share, we may do so as required or permitted by law. Also if you have authorized us to share information in connection with a particular product or service, we will continue to share information about you in connection with that product or service. For example, you might have a credit card with one of our airline, retail or university partners that offers rewards programs.

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Choice #2. Affiliate sharing: You may tell us not to share the following information about you within our family of companies:

* Information from your applications to be used to determine your eligibility, such as your income.
* Information from consumer credit reports, such as your credit history.
* Information from sources used to verify information you provide us, such as outstanding loans or employment history.

Even if you do tell us not to share, we may share other types of information within our family. For example, we may share name and address, information about transactions or balances with us, as well as survey results.

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Choice #3. Affiliate marketing. You may tell us to limit our family of companies, such as our credit card, and securities affiliates, from marketing their products and services to you if you do not have an account or business relationship with them. These marketing offers are based on your personal information that our affiliate receives from another Chase company; this information includes your income, your account history with us and your credit history with us. Your choice to limit these marketing offers will apply for five years from when you tell us your choice. After five years, you will receive a renewal notice from us that will allow you to continue to limit our affiliate marketing.

Links to Third Party Websites

Chase is not responsible for the information practices employed by sites linked to or from our website. In most cases, links to non-Chase websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of the Chase website. Third party websites may have different privacy policies and/or security standards governing their sites.

I have not changed my settings except that I am now a complete “online customer” meaning I do not receive bills in the mail, but rather online. If I wanted to change my privacy settings, I’d have to call, send a letter or submit them online.

Lab 16

Group Findings

Chemistry Building
Did it work? Yes
Signal Strength? 4 to 5 out of 5 bars

Blocker
Did it work? Yes
Signal Strength? 4 out of 5

Rec Center
Did it work? Yes
Signal Strength? 5 out of 5

Reed McDonald Building
Did it work? Yes
Signal Strength? 3 to 4 out of 5

Koldus
Did it work? Yes
Signal Strength? (3-4, medium strength. It went in and out and was slow if a lot of people were online.)

Evans
Did it work? Yes
Signal Strength? 5 (No problems, easy access to internet.)

Annex
Did it work? Yes
Signal Strength? 4 (Was a little bit slower in the study room I was in, but overall still went quickly and maintained signal strength.)

Anthropology Building
Did it work? Yes
Signal Strength? (3-4, went in and out when I was in my professor's office)

Commons Lobby
Did it work? Yes
Signal Strength? 5

Studio 12
Did it work? Yes
Signal Strength? 3-4

The Quad
Did it work? No
Signal Strength? 0

Heldenfelds
Did it work? Yes
Signal Strength? 4-5

Zachary
Did it work? Yes
Signal Strength? 4-5

Bolton
Did it work? Yes
Signal Strength? 4

Academic Plaza
Did it work? Yes
Signal Strength? 3

Trigon
Did it work? No
Signal Strength? 0

H20 Fountain
Did it work? Yes
Signal Strength? 4

Herrington
Did it work? Yes
Signal Strength? 4

West Campus Tennis Center
Did it work? Yes
Signal Strength? 3

Rudder
Did it work? Yes
Signal Strength? 4

Lab 15

Expanding a business from a physical location to the web isn’t an easy process but the result will be worth it. Your store will be “open” continuously and your customers will be able to buy products at any time of the day. Your work will also become more flexible and you can reach out to a broader range of customers. I have researched different e-commerce software and have made a few recommendations for you.

In my opinion, Magento is the program of choice. It includes feature-rich with marketing, search engine optimization and catalog-management tools. It is also the most aesthetically pleasing on the front-end and is very well organized and clean within the administrative sections. It is also the best program for adding layouts and add-ons. Mangeto offers more than 50 payment gateways so that you can choose the best option for you and your customers. The problems with Magento include slower page loads and response time. However, the benefits of using this software outweigh the problems.

My second choice would be VirtureMart used with Joomla! for a content management system that provides an easy-to-use front end. It is widely used by web users for a low to medium traffic level sites. VirtureMart offers many features and is highly customizable using plug-ins, components, templates and modules. The set-up process is very fast with Joomla. The program allows multiple functions for products and offers multiple payment gateways. Some problems with VirtueMart include that Joomla is required for it to run, so the administrator must know the Joomla program.

The third option is osCommerce, which is easy to set up and offers many out-of-the box features. osCommerce is very popular and boasts a large fan-base. It also provides a large number of plug-ins. Difficult to understand at first, after spending some time with it, it is very stable and provides many options. Some of the problems include that the code layouts are not very clean and it is difficult to use at first.

As for business analytics software, Google Analytics is the best out there. It is easy to access, easy to use and completely free. The features are remarkable allowing the user to measure the success of advertising, visual data with the use of charts and mapping, receive reports, and share data across the business. It also allows the use of other tools, including AdWords, AdSense, Website Optimizer, Webmaster Tools among others. It is widely used and very user-friendly. It’s a great way to see how the online portion of your business is doing.

I look forward to working with you and hope that my advise is helpful. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,

Bre Cleary

Lab 14 -Sorry it's late, but we did it!

Functions of Skype
•On Phone: You can chat but can’t do video chat, you can call people, you can view the call history, you can view your contacts, and you can see if people are online.
•On desktop PC: You can chat and can do video chat unlike on a cell phone, you can call people, you can view the call history, you can view your contacts, and you can see if people are online. There are also options for free video calls, sending instant messages and files unlike on the phone where you can’t send files.
•On Laptop PC: You can chat and can do video chat unlike on a cell phone, you can call people, you can view the call history, you can view your contacts, and you can see if people are online. There are also options for free video calls, sending instant messages and files unlike on the phone where you can’t send files. On the lap top, there is more access for portability than with a desktop PC.

Functions Compared to Other Technologies
•Skype is free to other Skype services, but when you use a cell phone there are often limitations or excess charges. Other technologies may charge you to use their services.
•Gmail chat allows you to chat, but you have to be online (Mozilla browser, or other browser up), whereas with Skype, you can just have Skype up.
•On your phone, you have to open and run the Skype application in order to receive Skype messages and phone calls.
•On Mac books you can use Ichat which only has video and not the chat function, unlike Skype which has both.
•Skype seems to be more convenient and more accessible, it stream-lines everything in relation to other technologies.
oSkype allows you to send text messages directly from Skype.
oSkype allows you to forward a call to your mobile.
oSkype allows you to set up an online number.
oSkype allows you to set up a Skype credit or subscription for your convenience.
The rates start at $.021 a min, or you can do $18 for 3 months, or $60 for 12 months with an online number.
If you are offline and want calls forwarded to your phone, then that costs $.021 per min.
There are also Unlimited or Pay-as-you-Go plans for phones and mobiles
•An innovative technology that has come out in recent years and is utilized by Skype and a few other technology companies is the ability to make free video calls and video chats.
•Skype allows you to send and receive instant messages and files.
•You can make free calls Skype to Skype.
oHowever, it seems much easier to just pick up a cell phone and call someone than to access Skype to make a phone call.
oAlthough, it can be cheaper to use Skype instead of a cell phone, especially if you are communicating oversees where the rates become more expensive.
•Some difficulties in using video chat are the different qualities of cameras that are used.
•In certain areas, you might lose reception and have a call dropped because of your connection to the internet.