Tuesday, October 14, 2014

HOW DOES YOUR SITE MAKE MONEY? plus privacy issues?

When browsing through TBPO, I realised that the only way they make money is through cookies, advertisements and subscriptions. Cookies are also known as as an HTTP cookieweb cookie, or browser cookie, is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while the user is browsing that website. Every time the user loads the website, the browser sends the cookie back to the server to notify the website of the user's previous activity. 

Though TBPO earns money through cookies, we can disable cookies via "resetting your browser so as to refuse any cookie or to alert you to when a cookie is being sent." 


Besides that, TBPO also makes money through google advertisements. 


TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON TBPO

When going through the terms and conditions on the site, I found it rather straight forward and not misleading like the other websites that my classmates chose. They segregated the terms and conditions into a few points; what personal information do we collect? Cookies? How do we use your personal data? To whom might we disclose your personal data? Direct marketing? Links? Security and Contacts. 

The only thing that I found questionable was the fact that TBPO uses their visitors personal data to monitor the use of the website to record traffic flows and to carry out research about our visitors’ and customers’ demographics, interests and behaviour. 

They then did point out that visitors to the site may withdraw their consent to their use of these data at any time by emailing the administrator of TBPO. 

TBPO also added that "We may also provide your personal data to businesses (which may or may not be companies in our group) which may be located outside Malaysia and who may use the data to send you information about other products or services. However, you may opt out of your personal data being used in this way when we collect your personal data." 

All in all, TBPO had straight forward terms and conditions and didn't try to hide anything from their visitors. 





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