Privacy Statement

Your eCommerce web site must have a privacy statement.  Ideally this
statement should be available as a link from your home page, generally
linked to the word Privacy, which appears toward the bottom of your
home page.

The privacy statement should explain your corporate policy on data
collection and privacy.  Do you sell your customer information to
direct marketers?  Might you do so in the future?  What information do
you retain, and how exactly do you plan to use it?  Are you willing to
make any guarantees to your customers?

In preparation for writing your own privacy statement, find at least
five other web sites that have privacy statements, or sites that talk
about privacy statements.  Be prepared to show them in class.

Read through at least three of the statements and be prepared to
comment on their strengths and weaknesses, from your perspective as a
business person as well as from your perspective as a customer.  Were
there any parts that you found interesting or strange?

In class you will be asked to show your privacy statement, reaching it
from your site's home page.  You will be asked to explain it, telling
why you included each part of it.  You will also be asked to identify
the five sites you found and the three that you read.  You will be
asked to tell about them.