Privacy
A well-known aviation magazine has the following internet privacy policy:
"We make use of cookies to gather valuable information about how users move around this website. This enables us to understand how the site is used and to help us make improvements. Please visit the website of our third party supplier *** for more information on their use of cookies to track user activity on this site.
The information we gather by use of cookies can include personally identifying information, were (sic) this is the case encryption is used to mask the data. You have the option to refuse these cookies. If you choose to refuse our cookies you will only be able to use the free content areas of this web site and we will not be able to tailor the content to your preferences.
The third party companies who sell and provide advertisements to the site and host our contacts database make use of cookies for the purpose of serving and targeting advertisements more effectively. For more information about these cookies, how you can opt out of receiving them and how this will affect your use of this website, please visit the websites of our third party suppliers ****."
Personally, my reaction to such a policy is to avoid this website altogther. The covert gathering of user activity by these snoopers is something whixch should be 'opt in', not 'opt out'....