Group Properties Help

This panel is used to set properties for a data group.

Recipient

Indicate who will receive the data that is collected. To comply with the P3P specifications, check all options that apply.

For each option that you select, you can also indicate if the information is required to use the services of the Web site (default setting) or if users can opt-in or opt-out of having their data used.

For example, if a user is providing a shipping address, opt-in requires that the user check an additional box to permit this information to be provided to Delivery services. If the form already has the box checked, then the user must uncheck it to opt-out.

If opt-in or opt-out is selected, you must provide the Opt-in/opt-out URL which includes clear instructions to allow users the option of changing their minds.

Ourselves and/or our agents
An agent in this instance is defined as a third party that processes data only on behalf of the service provider for the completion of the stated purposes. The agent also includes your own organization if you are acting as the agent processing data on behalf of a service provider. For example, a service provider and its printing bureau which prints address labels and does nothing further with the information. If the agent makes use of the information beyond its relationship with your organization, then it is no longer considered simply an agent; one of the additional recipients listed below must be given as well.
Delivery services
Organizations performing delivery services that may use data for purposes other than completion of the stated purpose. This should also be used for delivery services whose data practices are unknown.
Other organizations following our practices
Legal entities who use the data on their own behalf under equable practices. For example, consider a service provider that grants the user access to collected personal information, and also provides it to a partner who uses it once but discards it. Since the recipient, who has otherwise similar practices, cannot grant the user access to information that it discarded, they are considered to have equable practices.
Other organizations following different practices
Legal entities that are constrained by and accountable to the original service provider, but may use the data in a way not specified in the service provider's practices. For example, a service provider collects data that is shared with a partner who may use it for other purposes. In this example, however, it is in the service provider's interest to ensure that the data is not used in a way that would be considered abusive to the users' and its own interests.
Unrelated third parties
Organizations whose data usage practices are not known by the original service provider.
General public
The data will be made publicly available. Examples include bulletin boards, public directories, or commercial CD-ROM directories.