Re: Whats with the tracking cookies?
Mark,
We are trying to catch you entering in your SS# or bank account numbers or at least find something in your surfing behavior that would allow us to blackmail you. How else do you think iboats survives?
People can jump to the conclusion that iboats is trying to do something nefarious with the use of a couple of cookies.... OR...maybe there are a couple of benign helpful reasons. How about these:
1. iboats USES Omniture for our own internal tracking. Wow! Who could have thought?!?!? You mean to say iboats isn't using Omniture to then sell the data to ebay or Amazon? You have misunderstood what Omniture is and does. iboats PAYS Omniture $$ six figures per year to help us track our own traffic. Why? To help us to see what is happening on our site and then try to improve. We are talking site analytics here. Omniture has no right to share this data with anyone else and I can promise you that iboats doesn't sell or share any of this data.
2. My guess is that the other cookie is for our ecommerce area. It helps keep your shopping cart full of stuff if you leave our store without checking out. I hope that isn't too offensive.
I was a little sarcastic in this post, but come on; do you really think iboats would be engaged in trying to exploit our valued members? We deeply appreciate the long-term members and our repeat customers. We would have neither if we abused you more than our sometimes-slow servers already do.
