jueves, 8 de julio de 2010
Interesting clause 4 of the Norton License Agreement
Norton License Agreement
Important, they collect your data for purposes of "evaluation" only but,
they may disclose any information if asked to do so by a law enforcement official as required or permitted by law or in response to a subpoena or other legal process.
In order to promote awareness, detection and prevention of Internet security risks, Symantec may share certain information with research organizations and other security software vendors.
Symantec may also use statistics derived from the information to track and publish reports on security risk trends. By using the Software, You acknowledge and agree that Symantec may collect, transmit, store, disclose and analyze such information for these purposes.
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4. Privacy; Data Protection:
From time to time, the Software may collect certain information from the computer on which it is installed, which may include:
Information on potential security risks as well as URLs of websites visited that the Software deems potentially fraudulent. The URLs could contain personally identifiable information that a potentially fraudulent website is attempting to obtain without Your permission. This information is collected by Symantec for the purpose of evaluating and improving the ability of Symantec's products to detect malicious behavior, potentially fraudulent websites and other Internet security risks. This information will not be correlated with any personally identifiable information.
Portable executable files that are identified as potential malware, including information on the actions taken by such files at the time of installation. These files are submitted to Symantec using the Software's automatic submission function. The collected files could contain personally identifiable information that has been obtained by the malware without Your permission. Files of this type are being collected by Symantec only for the purpose of improving the ability of Symantec's products to detect malicious behavior. Symantec will not correlate these files with any personally identifiable information. Such automatic submission function may be deactivated after installation by following the instructions in the Documentation for applicable products.
The name given during initial setup to the computer on which the Software is being installed. If collected, the name will be used by Symantec as an account name for such computer under which You may elect to receive additional services and/or under which You may use certain features of the Software. You may change the account name at any time after installation of the Software (recommended).
Status information regarding installation and operation of the Software. This information indicates to Symantec whether installation of the Software was successfully completed as well as whether the Software has encountered an error. The status information could contain personally identifiable information only if such information is included in the name of the file or folder encountered by the Software at the time of installation or error. The status information is collected by Symantec for the purpose of evaluating and improving Symantec's product performance and
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installation success rate. This information will not be correlated with any personally identifiable information.
Information contained in email messages that you send through the Software to Symantec to report as spam or as incorrectly identified as spam. These email messages may contain personally identifiable information and will be sent to Symantec only with your permission, and will not be sent automatically. If you send such messages to Symantec, Symantec will use them only for the purpose of improving the detection ability of Symantec's antispam technology. Symantec will not correlate these files with any other personally identifiable information.
The IP address of the computer on which the Software is installed, as well as other general, statistical information used for license administration, product analysis and for improving product functionality. This information will not be correlated with any personally identifiable information.
The collected information as set out above is necessary for the purpose of optimizing the functionality of Symantec's products and may be transferred to the Symantec group in the United States or other countries that may have less protective data protection laws than the region in which You are situated (including the European Union), but Symantec has taken steps so that the collected information, if transferred, receives an adequate level of protection.
Symantec may disclose the collected information if asked to do so by a law enforcement official as required or permitted by law or in response to a subpoena or other legal process. In order to promote awareness, detection and prevention of Internet security risks, Symantec may share certain information with research organizations and other security software vendors. Symantec may also use statistics derived from the information to track and publish reports on security risk trends. By using the Software, You acknowledge and agree that Symantec may collect, transmit, store, disclose and analyze such information for these purposes.
http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/about/media/eulas/nss_partners/nss_eula_en.pdf
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