A Yuletide Apocalypse

EDIT (pre-publishing… but I already wrote so much I might as well publish it all…): OKAYYYY so I was wrong… Here is their Privacy Statement… same old deal.

I saw in Qumana’s toolbar a button that says "Insert Ad", so I clicked it… and it turns out their hooked into a service called Q-Ads, which is sorta like Google Adsense but more customizable and stuff… (or something).

But being the shrewd netizen that I am, I perused their privacy policy… (since they, unlike many hip webservices nowadays, don’t have a plain language TOS…

Aaaanyways, I saw this among the legal speak and said "Hmmmmmmmmm…." (emphasis added):

17. Information Rights. Q-Ads may retain and use for its own purposes all information Client provides, including but not limited to Site demographics and contact and billing information. Client agrees that Q-Ads may transfer and disclose to third parties personally identifiable information about Client for the purpose of approving and enabling Client’s participation in the Program,including to third parties that reside in jurisdictions with less restrictive data laws. Q-Ads disclaims all responsibility, and will not be liable to for any disclosure of that information by any such third party. Q-Ads may share aggregate (i.e., not personally identifiable) information about Client with advertisers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties. In addition, Client grants Q-Ads the right to access, index and cache the Site(s), or any portion thereof, including by automated means including Web spiders or crawlers.

Is this sketchy? Or is this typical? No sign-up from me, for now at least… (though I should go re-read the AdSense TOS before I make too much noise…)

So yeah, in light of their privacy statement, this is normal legalese (still scary though).

[p.s. MAN is this editor nice! Even gives MarsEdit a run for its money (haven't tried it on OSX yet though)]

So yeah, I’m signing up… Seems like a neat service. Maybe I’ll try it here instead of Google? Or can I use both? (Probably will make one/both angry…?)

I’ll write more later re: how it goes

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