Or you may be given no choices at all for how your information is used. Some Web sites you visit may wish to contact you via email to send you information. You should be asked if you want these communications and should have ability not to receive them if you wish. Privacy policies also should tell you how you can find out what information has been collected about you and how you can correct inaccurate information. There are software tools to help you determine whether a Web site's privacy policies satisfy your concerns for how you want your information to be handled.
Some Web sites display symbols showing that they belong to privacy self-regulation programs.
To find out how the program works and what it requires participants to do, click on the symbol or name of the program and go to its Web site. There also may be information on the site about how to complain if you believe that a member has violated the requirements. Keep in mind that if you don't see any statement about privacy on a Web site, you can't tell whether it will collect information about you or how that information will be used.