Patent ID: 7899706

Claim:
A dynamic privacy management method that comprises executing, on at least one processor, the steps of: collecting customer information, wherein the collected customer information includes monitored customer usage of goods or services; storing the collected customer information in a customer information database wherein the customer information database comprises customer information of customers who have neither granted nor denied permission to receive offers from a specific permission category; determining an occurrence of an event wherein the event consists of at least one of receiving an offer correlated to the specific permission category from a vendor to provide to customers in exchange for particular customer information from the customer information database, creation of the specific permission category, and expiration of a customer's preference for the specific permission category; identifying, responsive to the event, customers in the customer information database who have neither granted nor denied permission to receive offers from the specific permission category; notifying the identified customers who have neither granted nor denied permission to receive offers from the specific permission category; providing the notified customers a means to grant or deny permission to receive offers from the specific permission category; providing a request to accept an offer correlated to the specific permission category from the vendor in exchange for particular customer information to the customers that have granted permission to receive the offers from the specific permission category through the means to grant or deny permission; restricting the vendor from providing a request to accept offers correlated to the specific permission category to the customers that have denied permission to receive the offers from the specific permission category through the means to grant or deny permission; and restricting the vendor from access to the customer information of the customers that have denied permission to receive the offers from the specific permission category through the means to grant or deny permission, wherein a dynamic privacy management server has knowledge of the customer information stored in the customer information database and a portal through which instant communications are exchanged between the provider and each customer.