EFF Privacy Policy

DATED 2007-02-26 · VERSION 20080612_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20080316_rev01 · ARCHIVE SNAPSHOT

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+## About EFF's Search Function
+EFF uses Google for search functionality on [www.eff.org](http://www.eff.org/). To protect your privacy, EFF proxies search requests to Google with a special CGI script on our server, thus hiding your IP address and your Google cookie (if any) from Google's servers.
 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our website, as well as our members and activists. EFF has established this Privacy Policy to explain what information we collect through this website and how it is used.
 In this policy, "EFF" refers to EFF staff, board members, cooperating attorneys, interns, volunteers, and consultants, all of whom are bound by law or contract to keep information they receive as part of their assistance to EFF confidential.
 EFF does not sell or rent donor information under any circumstances, and we do not share information without prior consent except as compelled by law. (See discussion below.)
 If you provide information for publication, such as suggesting a link for the Deep Links weblog, we may use your name to provide you with credit.
 We may run surveys, contests, or similar activities through this site. Such information will be used for the purposes for which it was collected.
 We look at technical information to diagnose problems with our server and to administer the eff.org site.
+## About EFF's Search Function
+EFF uses Google for search functionality on [www.eff.org](http://www.eff.org/). To protect your privacy, EFF proxies search requests to Google with a special CGI script on our server, thus hiding your IP address and your Google cookie (if any) from Google's servers.
 ## Third-Party Service Providers
 Portions of the eff.org site (shop.eff.org, secure.eff.org, and action.eff.org) are operated by a third-party grassroots campaign service provider ("Provider"), which is currently Convio. Provider may place cookies on your computer in order to store information, such as items placed in your shopping cart in the EFF Shop, or storing your account login when using the Action Center. Provider logs standard technical information, such as the numerical Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using; the browser software you use and your operating system; the date and time you access our site; and the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site.
 Our Provider also stores and organizes the personal information collected through this site on our behalf. The information remains under our control, and our agreement with Provider requires the information to be kept confidential and disclosed only to Provider's employees who require such access in the course of their assigned duties. Provider has also agreed to cooperate with EFF in seeking a protective order, if necessary, to protect this information from legal process. EFF may change the provider from time to time, and will transfer stored information to the new provider subject to similar restrictions.