Ask.com (askeraser)

"Ask.com is a leading search engine on the Web. Millions of people turn to Ask.com to get what they are looking for online everyday. Founded as Ask Jeeves in 1996 and renamed Ask.com in February 2005, Ask.com is recognized for innovation in search technology and search interface design. Ask.com sites include Ask.com U.S. (www.Ask.com), Ask.com Deutschland, Ask.com Espana, Ask.com France, Ask.com Italia, Ask.com Japan, Ask.com Nederland and Ask.com UK. Ask.com brands also include Ask.com Mobile, Ask for Kids (www.askforkids.com) and Bloglines (www.bloglines.com.)."

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Privacy Policy Highlights

http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/privacy.shtml

Anonymity

"We do not associate your search queries or selected search results in any manner with your name, email address, or account or registration information, unless required to do so by legal process or unless specifically instructed to do so by you (for example, if you ask us to save your search queries in your MyStuff account, then your search query data will be linked to your MyStuff account registration data)."

Sharing

"Some elements or features of the Sites, such as news content, our Smart Answers, or the sponsored results advertising on our search-results pages, are supplied to us by third parties under contract. We may supply some of the information we collect from you to those third parties so that they can provide those elements or features for display on the Sites. We may share the following information with third parties: (a) your Internet Protocol (IP) address; (b) the address of the last URL you visited before clicking through to the Site; (c) your browser and platform type (e.g., a Netscape browser on a Macintosh platform); (d) your browser language; (e) the data in any undeleted cookies that your browser previously accepted from us; and (f) the search queries you submit. For example, when you submit a query, we transmit it (and some of the related information described above) to our paid-listing providers in order to generate relevant advertising to display in response to your query and to optimize the number and quality of sponsored results that will be provided to you on the Sites. We may merge information about you into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated basis with our advertisers. If you provide us with answers to voluntary survey questions, we may furnish this information to our advertisers and partners in the form of group statistics compiled from our users' answers to such questions.

These third-party companies have their own recordkeeping and data-retention policies. Use of AskEraser does not apply to these companies, and they will delete the data we share with them only in accordance with their own policies."

Sensitivity

Privacy statement does not provide additional limitations on the handling of information in sensitive categories.

Deletion

"Beginning with search queries received on or before December 10, 2007, we disassociate your query text data from your IP address and your unique cookie ID (see "How are cookies used on the Sites?" below) after a period of 18 months, except in limited circumstances, such as requests to retain the information by law enforcement. When AskEraser is activated, all information described above is removed from Ask.com servers within hours (except in rare circumstances described in the AskEraser FAQ)."

"Our cookies expire after two years, and all information from expired cookies is automatically deleted from our servers."

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