 DogHouse Privacy Statement
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Internet user
privacy is of paramount importance to the Doghouse
and to our sponsors and to those affiliated to us. Below is information about our
commitment to protecting your privacy and ensuring the integrity of the medium. We are not
responsible for the lack of privacy in internet or webmail email systems, or the
intrusions your Government take into your private matters.
We do not edit or judge the content that is provided, we hold dear the tenants of
Freedom of Speech and Expression - something that we do not feel should be granted to the
few or to one section of a community, unless the content is in violation of our
pragmatic "Hostility" policy.
Hostility: (Where freedom of speech would result in pages being
withdrawn)
Data that a member provides on joining about interests, locale etc is included in the
database on profiling typical members allowing us to better serve your needs. Typically
adjusting site content, clustering adverts into relevant groups etc. This information is
not passed onto a third party, however anyone could crawl through the site and
painstakingly gather the same information.
The Doghouse honors the right not to be included in our index
The Doghouse respects the right to privacy of members to not be included in the adverts
when they join. The do however take on full responsibility of choosing if level of detail
to be displayed. From name and contact details, through to just email or not listed at
all. Remember the very nature of the web allows exposure to all kinds of people, for your
ideal Master through to your parents - just a balance of probability of who is likely to
see it.
Any of our advertising Partners do not have the name, email address, phone number, or
home address of anybody who visits The Doghouse.
All users who receive an ad targeted by The Dog House remain completely anonymous. Since
we do not have any information concerning names or addresses of visitors, we do not sell
or rent any such information to third parties - likewise members information is also
guarded, the list is never sold or leaves the confines of The Doghouse.
In some places your access to the internet is 'spied' upon.
This typically occurs where your access to the internet is provided 'by the state'
(Russia/Saudi), or if you access the net from work, where your Network support
department has a list of which sites are accessed (like you should be working not using up
bandwidth by catching up on sport results).
You might get error codes like 403/405 "profanity error", they might block your
access using a Proxy Server or something like Cyber Patrol.
A recent report in the media shows that your email/internet use at work
is not private...
"One in four online workers have their Internet use continuously
watched by their employers according to a new report. A Privacy Foundation
survey found employee surveillance software, such as MIMEsweeper and
websense, is used to scan e-mail and internet use of 27million workers
around the world. The technology boom has provided bosses with fresh
opportunities to spy on their employees, according to Cyber-Rights and
Cyber-Liberties director Yaman Akdeniz. But Privacy Foundation researchers
Andrew Schulman said that, while companies should be able to monitor to
prevent hacking and breaches of confidence, recent developments have gone
to far."
The Doghouse Users can Opt-Out of "Cookies"
Cookies are small text files a Web site can use (thousands of sites are
currently using them) to recognize a repeat visitor to its site. Cookies are not programs
that come onto a user's system and damage files. Utilization of cookies that contain no
information about you - only a unique number that has no meaning whatsoever outside of
The Doghouse Network. The Doghouse may use this number to track ad exposure
to assure a user is not bombarded with the same ad over and over again. It attempts to
limit the hassle that you get from other sites, and irritation off switch.
While we believe that cookies enhance the Web experience for the user by limiting the
repetitiveness of advertising, they are not essential. If you do not want the frequency of
ad exposure controlled, there is a simple procedure that allows the user to deny or accept
this feature.
What other information do you request?
We may also request your e-mail address or mailing
address for the purposes of conducting a survey or to provide additional
services (for example, subscriptions to e-mail newsletters, announcement
lists or information about seminars, workshops and other events). Whenever
we request the identity of a visitor, we will clearly indicate the purpose
of the inquiry before the information is requested. I hate Spam just as
much as you do, therefore we maintain a strict "No-Spam" policy
that means that we do not intend to sell, rent, or otherwise give your
e-mail address to a third-party, without your consent.
In addition, TheDoghouse.org will not send you
email that you have not agreed to receive. We may from time to time send
e-mail announcing new TheDoghouse.org products and services. If you
choose to supply your postal address in an online form, you may receive
mailings from other reputable, third party companies - This is an
Opt-in process.
When you join up for TheDoghouse.org, your name or
alias is recorded solely for purposes of maintaining your own account
within the adverts, and other online services that the doghouse from time
to time will provide.
When you enter a contest or other promotion, we
may ask for your name, address, and e-mail address so we can administer
the contest and notify winners.
Cyber Suppression
In a number of countries are attempting to suppress the internet. In other countries
such as the USA and the UK the authorities monitor email, they monitor who searches for
what. A recent case in the UK when an ISP traced who it was that was doing an online
search for some who was found dead, the ability is there. What reasonable precautions are
you going to take ?
- Burma
The Burmese authorities announce a ban on
using the internet to disseminate political information. It forbade emails or other
information published on the internet it deemed "detrimental to the government".
This of course covers anything they might find uncomfortable, such has civil right
violation or corruption for example. Likewise the 1996 Computer Law decrees only those
with official authorization can have access to the internet, and so it follows free
speech.
Indonesia
Internet newsgroups and websites used to
support the east timor's battle for independence both inside and outside of
Indonesia. An Irish based ISP was forced to shut down after it was bombarded by
"cyber terrorism" from the Indonesian government.
Jordan
The Jordanian government maintains there
is no blocking or censorship by the government over content. However they arrested two
students for trying to launch a web site about the normalization of relations with Israel.
Malaysia
Email and newsgroups are monitored, and a
number of students were arrested for spreading ''rumors" about the riots in Kuala
Lumpur.
However a new Minister has announced there that the internet soon will become free from
censorship and freely accessible.
Sir Lanka
Email is intercepted, an example is where
one from the oppositions party to a British Advertising agency intercepted and sent to the
state run media. This is said to be typical of the governments shopping of politicians,
journalist and private businessmen.
China
Secret checkers are used to monitor
online activity. They are now banned from publishing "State Secretes" on the
internet. As usual an insecure government deems everything to be a state secret - so that
is left up to the paranoia to define. (http://www.internet-directory.com/china/)
Zimbabwe
New powers allow the president to read anyone's
email and for
interception at will.
Singapore
Encryption is legal only if you get permission and send it
over special lines once the keys have been given to the government. This might help the
agencies to know where to look.
Germany
Actively encouraging Encryption Its up to the security service
to be able to break the code, and to develop their agency skills.
UK
Encryption is legal.
Proposals are in place to force all keys to be help by Government departments for
all encryptions.
http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,153479,00.html
Britain is in danger of having one of the least enabling regimes in the world as Home
Office attempts at "balanced" legislation too often favour the needs of
plod/spook over those of citizens and business. Ireland, France, Germany, even Singapore
and other countries to which many UK e-businesses
could easily migrate, appear to be taking a much more liberal line. Where current
estimations are for 1 interception in 500 customers.
http://www.stand.org.uk/ + http://www.fipr.org/rip/index.html
USA
In the USA Providers mush be able to demostraight their
ability to conduct
simultaneous interceptions of email and other internet traffic.
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You are also advised to protect yourself, as many right wing government
such as the one in power in the UK will enjoy raiding your home in the search for 'porn'
(porn is in the eye of the beholder, and can mean whatever they want it to mean), during
which time your home and personal life has been violated. If there pics are clothed there
is little problem, in theory they are interested in obvious hard-on, but then when has
that every stopped anyone.
They do not need an excuse, any can be fabricated, your life can be destroyed from
malicious behaviour and yet there was no further action taken.
It is also not advisable to take your PC into somewhere like PC world (as with
Gary Glitter) and get them to repair the PC as they are dying to snoop around your PC, god
help you if you are famous.
You have to weight up the risk, take a chance and trash the disk or Protect and
Survive. |
MSIE
Netscape
Temp Files
IRC
Legal
Encryption
Stealth
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To minimize such problems ensure that in:
- MSIE
that you regularly Delete all "Temporary Internet Files" via Tools->
Internet Options -> General. Usually the files are stored under your windows
directory for example in c:/win95/Temporary Internet Files/ or c:/winnt/Temporary
Internet Files/ or within the User Profile area.
- Netscape
you will need to edit properties, and go
into the Cache then delete the files.
- Temp clear
out the files that you may find in possibly your C:/TEMP or C:/Win95/TEMP directory, do a
Fine file (Start-> Find) on files such as *.tmp and in those directories you may see
files such as *.jpg, *.gif or *.htm that you perhaps do not recognize. These should all be
checked, many of them can be checked using one of the above browsers or you may use paint
shop pro ( http://www.jasc.com/ ) to
quickly view the pictures.
- IRC clear out
the files that you may have down loaded. If you keep a log of your chats, they may use
email addresses of people you have spoken you for further raids, and could use the text to
fabricate charges of intent.
- Legal
Advice It would not hurt to ensure that you have the name of a support
service that offered legal advice, such as NCLR
or GLAD
- You may also way to consider Encryption
such as that offered by pgp (http://www.pgpi.org/)
from which you can down load the international edition of the PGP
program
For example:
- PGPdisk is a program that lets you create
encrypted disk partitions. This is suitable for your save area, for
example Temporary Internet Files.
- PGPfone (Pretty Good Privacy Phone) is a
software package that turns your desktop or notebook computer into a secure
telephone.
- PGP for secure eMail. Both the US and international versions of
PGP use full-strength, unencumbered 128-bit encryption and are completely
interoperable with one another.
- Do not write the key down so that anyone
could find it.
- Do not write the password to your PC down
so that it could be easily accessed. They may take the Hard disk out and put it into
another PC to look at it (dropping it as they return it to your PC).
- Use free Stealth Technology
(such as visual
secrets) to have invisible applications, folders and drives on your PC so that if the Boss/Parent
walks by your privacy can be maintained.
Hay Stacks is another feature of successful protection is to ensure
that the needle is hidden in the haystack where that one file is hidden amongst all the
other files.
For example put your pics into a ZIP file with password protection, then rename it to
'.bin' or '.vxd' or ".dll" something that there is loads of on your PC, also
change the name porn.dll is not the best choice - also choose whatever is bland/mundane to
your life, for example wedding pictures on a gay persons PC might be a bit odd (unless its
your Sisters).
- PC
failure
It well it might not be the State/Police that came for your PC, Windows and Intel do not
offer the most robust of systems, so make back-ups.
Ensure that there backup are secure (in all senses of the word), consider what if they
were stolen, or your mother started looking at them!
Do not make assumptions, consider risks and weight up their likelihood of happening, what
is the worst that could happen, and take steps to protect yourself.
Plan through with "What Ifs".
You might want to invest in a CD Writer.
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