April 2013 Swagbucks Challenge

paulshorse

milo72 wrote: »

Well FG.....apparently I'm told that the person switched on a laptop not used since before the SB refurb (remember the c0cked up party night ?) and when he tried to log in SBs he got that message popped up.
So it is a bit scary to me that NEVER EVER EVER have I seen that declaration of just how intrusive SBs is ...not on my computer or my SB account.
At least the Neilson offer was upfront about that kind of intrusion & we got paid for it legitimately. SBs gets all our info for free. $h1ts.:(

This is from Swagbuck's privacy policy:-

Anonymous User Information

The Company collects or may collect some information each time you visit Swagbucks.com Sites so we can improve the overall quality of your online experience. We collect or may collect your IP address, referral data, and browser and platform type. You do not have to register on the Swagbucks.com Sites or provide any Personal Information to us before we can collect this anonymous information. The Company assigns an anonymous ID number to your requests and links the following additional data to that anonymous ID number: the date and time you visited, your search terms, and the links you choose to click. Like most standard Web site servers, we use log files to collect and store this anonymous user information. The Company analyzes the information to determine trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Such aggregated anonymous information is used in our market research surveys, to record statistics behind special offers, our "shop & earn" promotions, electronic recycling and our polls.

Katzen

milo72 wrote: »

Well FG.....apparently I'm told that the person switched on a laptop not used since before the SB refurb (remember the c0cked up party night ?) and when he tried to log in SBs he got that message popped up.
So it is a bit scary to me that NEVER EVER EVER have I seen that declaration of just how intrusive SBs is ...not on my computer or my SB account.
At least the Neilson offer was upfront about that kind of intrusion & we got paid for it legitimately. SBs gets all our info for free. $h1ts.:(

I did think there was something a little dodgy about the toolbar but figured they could't be taking my info without my permission. Think I might uninstall- it's just not worth it for one SB per day! :eek: thanks for the heads up.

In other news, I tried the Audible offer again with different login details and it credited almost straight away :j

miwa

paulshorse wrote: »

This is from Swagbuck's privacy policy:-

Anonymous User Information

The Company collects or may collect some information each time you visit Swagbucks.com Sites so we can improve the overall quality of your online experience. We collect or may collect your IP address, referral data, and browser and platform type. You do not have to register on the Swagbucks.com Sites or provide any Personal Information to us before we can collect this anonymous information. The Company assigns an anonymous ID number to your requests and links the following additional data to that anonymous ID number: the date and time you visited, your search terms, and the links you choose to click. Like most standard Web site servers, we use log files to collect and store this anonymous user information. The Company analyzes the information to determine trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Such aggregated anonymous information is used in our market research surveys, to record statistics behind special offers, our "shop & earn" promotions, electronic recycling and our polls.

!!!! me no

paulshorse

Here's the link to the entire privacy policy:-

http://www.swagbucks.com/g/privacy

Makes interesting reading

milo72

paulshorse wrote: »

This is from Swagbuck's privacy policy:-

Anonymous User Information

The Company collects or may collect some information each time you visit Swagbucks.com Sites so we can improve the overall quality of your online experience. We collect or may collect your IP address, referral data, and browser and platform type. You do not have to register on the Swagbucks.com Sites or provide any Personal Information to us before we can collect this anonymous information. The Company assigns an anonymous ID number to your requests and links the following additional data to that anonymous ID number: the date and time you visited, your search terms, and the links you choose to click. Like most standard Web site servers, we use log files to collect and store this anonymous user information. The Company analyzes the information to determine trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Such aggregated anonymous information is used in our market research surveys, to record statistics behind special offers, our "shop & earn" promotions, electronic recycling and our polls.

Well I doubt anyone on here has bothered to read that (but feel free to contradict me.) or even would know where to access it,so I find that incredibly dishonest of them.:(

paulshorse

and the Conduit privacy policy - Conduit are the makers of the toolbar:-

http://mybrand.ourtoolbar.com/privacy/

milo72

Katzen wrote: »

I did think there was something a little dodgy about the toolbar but figured they could't be taking my info without my permission. Think I might uninstall- it's just not worth it for one SB per day! :eek: thanks for the heads up.

In other news, I tried the Audible offer again with different login details and it credited almost straight away :j

I've done that with about three offers over the year I've been on. Doesn't always work,but can do sometimes & worth a try.
Just use a different email addy as well & that helps. But good for you.
Ner ner ner-ner ner SBs.....:p

paulshorse

milo72 wrote: »

Well I doubt anyone on here has bothered to read that (but feel free to contradict me.) or even would know where to access it,so I find that incredibly dishonest of them.:(

The link to their privacy policy is right at the bottom of the homepage, but how many people even think to read it - I haven't

dolphin19

I uninstalled the toolbar after my laptop got a virus. I didn't know if it was caused by the toolbar but I got rid of it anyway. Luckily the computer guy in work fixed the laptop for nothing when he was doing a job for work but I would have been annoyed if it had cost me money. (probably more than I make in swagbucks!)

paulshorse

dolphin19 wrote: »

I uninstalled the toolbar after my laptop got a virus. I didn't know if it was caused by the toolbar but I got rid of it anyway. Luckily the computer guy in work fixed the laptop for nothing when he was doing a job for work but I would have been annoyed if it had cost me money. (probably more than I make in swagbucks!)

I installed the toolbar on Chrome and it made the browser useless - it took so long to load a page. I wonder now if it's because the toolbar collects so much data - I really don't know. I have it installed on FireFox and there's no slowdown at all, so it must be something to do with the toolbar and chrome