[CTS] Re: Network Magic
- From: "Eric Vogel" <ecvogel@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 17:54:17 -0500
Collecting personally identifiable information
Our products, including Network Magic, collect certain personally
identifiable information about the status of Network Magic and your home
network, and automatically transmit this data back to us on a regular basis.
This information is necessary so that we can determine how users are
interacting with our products in order to determine ways that our products
may be improved and to help us develop new products that will be of help to
you. We may share this information in an anonymous aggregated form with
select third parties. You may opt out of the collection of this information
at any time by uninstalling Network Magic from your computer.
By setting up the Network Magic feature, Network Reports, you are giving
Network Magic and Pure Networks not only the permission to collect such
information, you are also acknowledging that such information may
potentially be linked back to your email address, thus making the
information personally identifiable. This is necessary in order for the
feature to fully-function and thus relay the information back to you via
email. This is an opt-in feature only that you must proactively choose to
enable. For more information, please refer to the Network Magic End User
License Agreement (EULA). You can unsubscribe from this feature at any time
by clicking the "stop receiving" link from within any Network Report email.
The Network Magic feature, Network Magic Advisor, also can potentially
associate information about your home network to the user's email address.
If you would prefer to keep your information anonymous you can opt-out of
the customization aspect of this feature by turning it off using the choices
at the bottom of any Network Advisor screen. By opting out, Pure Networks
will no longer be able to associate information about your home network with
personally identifiable information.
Network Magic Advisor also contains links to other websites not owned or
operated by Pure Networks. We are not responsible for the privacy practices
and policies or the content for these sites. Purchases made through any
Network Magic Advisor links to Amazon.com are governed by the privacy policy
of Amazon.com, not by this Pure Networks privacy policy. Pure Networks works
in association with Amazon, so that you can purchase items directly from
Amazon.com.
When you browse the Pure Networks or Network Magic site, you are able to do
so anonymously. As happens with other websites your browser communicates on
an anonymous basis, the type of computer, operating system, and Web browser
you are using.
http://www.networkmagic.com/privacy.php
Thank you,
Eric Vogel ~Windows Live! MVP~
www.msmvps.com/shelluser
-----Original Message-----
From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles R.
Buchanan
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 4:34 PM
To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [CTS] Re: Network Magic
No doubt, with something that like that, where security is concerned, I
still don't get why it has to phone home so often, especially after
asking for the router username and password. Shouldn't need that info in
the first place on a local network.
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:23:01 -0800, cuffy10@xxxxxxxxxxx took time to say the
following:
> What can I say Chas.?
> I've been using it for two days, moving files and folders, some over
> 4GB, without a hiccup. Neatest little tool I've found in a long time.
>
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> On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:12:16 -0800, "Charles R. Buchanan"
> <daphatbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > Downloaded it, and installed it.
> >
> > First red flag for me is, as soon as you launch the installer, it wants
> > to "phone home". Why?
> >
> > Second, after I installed it, it asks for your router username and
> > password.
> >
> > Third, it continuously wants to "phone home"!
> >
> > Fourth, I un-installed it!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:18:56 -0800, cuffy10@xxxxxxxxxxx took time to say
> > the following:
> >
> > > http://tinyurl.com/2n7vbu
> > >
> > > This came in yesterday in an RSS feed.
> > > It sounded interesting and advertised as a freebie so I downloaded the
> > > freeware app.
> > > (There is also a trial app.)
> > > It surprised the hell out of me. It takes the grunt work out of
setting
> > > up a home network.
> > >
> > > If you have a phone line with a broadband connection and a router you
> > > can have two or more machines networked and sharing files in about 10
> > > minutes. To add another machine you have to install the Network Magic
> > > freeware app on the new machine and tell it what you want to do.
> > > No more setting up IP numbers, MAC's, etc.
> > > It does it all and very nicely I might add. The premium version starts
> > > at about $30 I think but I didn't mess with that........... the
freebie
> > > is working fine.
> > >
> > > YMMV
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