heyas; i, too, went and read the tos on the front page on... sunday, i think. it looked exactly the same as it did one year ago, including the replies from 1999. yesterday, i checked again, and it has changed slightly, and the old replies were deleted. this paragraph, in particular has changed: Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (like their name and email address) and demographic information (like their zip code, age, or income level). We use customer contact information from the registration form to send the user information about our company and promotional material from some of our partners. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary and shared with other companies who may want to contact our visitors. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Demographic and profile data is collected at our site. We use this data for other purposes. We use this data to tailor the visitor's experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences. This information is shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis. ...particularly the last sentance, i believe. while this site has almost always been ad-supported, the users' personal information was not shared with other parties.