With the release of Internet Explorer 6 a note about privacy may be necessary. If you are using IE6 you may get a message that www.jsware.net is not a safe website, privacy-wise.

   IE6 incorporates P3P, a privacy standard. When IE6 loads the pages of a website, if the P3P function is enabled it will check for a P3P privacy policy file, a specially-formatted file that can be read by IE6. This enables IE6 to interpret the privacy policy of the website and compare what it finds to your privacy settings. If the website privacy policy is not in accord with your settings, or if there is no P3P privacy file, IE6 will block cookies from that website and may present a notice to you that the site does not meet with your privacy requirements.

   The JSWare website does not take part in P3P because it provides a false sense of security. The IE6 function applies only to cookies and will allow any cookies from websites that have a suitable privacy policy. Online marketing research companies survive by intruding upon your privacy. Naturally they will come up with suitable privacy policies and IE6 will mainly end up blocking cookies from websites that are not designed in accordance with the standards of IE6.

   (A better choice for privacy, in regard to cookies, would be to click the "Advanced" button in the IE6 cookie settings, bypass P3P, and disable 3rd-party cookies. 3rd-party cookies are an invasion of privacy by definition, regardless of what it might say in the associated P3P file.)

The JSWare website does not use:

   • cookies
   • javascript
   • ActiveX controls
   • Java applets
   • plug-ins such as Flash Player
   • P3P privacy files
   • 3rd-party web bugs
    ...or any form of "active content" programming code.

   The one exception to the above is script used to deal with Internet Explorer problems. Specifically, script is used to deal with the misleading download warnings in Windows XP SP2 and also script is used to provide an Internet Explorer version of the main menu because IE support for CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is outdated and the menu will not work in IE without reliance on script.

  The use of newer technologies such as style sheets and XML have also been kept to a minimum, in the interest of accessibility. This site should be easily viewable with most browsers and regardless of security settings. (However, the main menu may not work properly in some older browsers or in Internet Explorer with script disabled. If you use Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Konqueror, or Safari, and you have trouble using the main menu, then you may need to update your browser.)

    NOTE: If while viewing this website you see ads, popup windows, "popunders", specially highilghted links, or other intrusions, they do not originate from this website. You may see such things if you are using a proxy browsing service or if you have allowed some kind of sleazeware to be installed on your computer.

What do you reveal to the JSWare website?

   All websites can know your IP address and the pages that you view. (If your browser does not ask for the pages and tell where to send them you cannot see the website.)

If you do not block referrer headers in the browser then at least the following information will also be sent:

   • The make and version of the browser you're using.
   • The make and version of the operating system you're using.
   • Where you just came from if you clicked a link to arrive at the present website.

   The information sent in the referrer header is generally harmless. It is used to customize webpages for different browsers and to provide web masters with information such as how many people visit their website and where those visitors might have linked from. The referrer header can be misused, however.

   JSWare does not have a privacy policy as such. No private information disclosure is required to browse or download from this website. While the intention behind privacy policies may be honorable, they have also been misused. Most online privacy policies include a disclaimer that the policy may be changed at any time without notification. No one would consider accepting a product warranty or legal contract that contained such a disclaimer and cases have already been reported in the press of companies that simply changed their policy in order to sell personal information. To put it bluntly, such privacy policies are utterly meaningless and serve only as public relations devices.