Sunday, March 29, 2009

Privacy

How are customers suppose to get my music earmuffs? Well, I don't have time to run a store where people can go to so I'd definitely have my own website where people can order the product online. I mean, I'd get so many more customers if I just had a Web site where they could go to to find this amazing product :) So, with my Web site I'd definitely have to adhere to some privacy standards, especially if I'll be dealing with people's personal information. I would have to follow the Fair Information Practices, which include "notice, choice, access and security."

Once people come to my Web site and decide they need to have these music earmuffs, they'll have to enter their billing information and order into my Web site for me to send them their product. On the site, I'd have to tell them what information I'm collecting, how I'm collecting it, how it's going to be used and whether the information is shared with third parties. This all has to do with the "notice" part of the Fair Information Practices. So, with my site, I'd collect people's names, addresses, billing information and product orders by having them fill in this information on my site and I'd use this to send them their earmuffs.
Going along with the privacy standards, my customers would have a choice to reveal any personal information, but certain info would be necessary for me to get in order to send them their earmuffs (like their address and billing info). All customers would have reasonable access to the information I collected on them, and finally I would take reasonable steps to ensure security of my customers' personal information on my Web site.

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