On 27/11/13 11:17, Matthew Walker wrote:
Randy,
Thanks for the concern -- if I understand your email correct the issue is
not that you cannot resolve
donate.wikimedia.org; but it's that one of our
subdomains resolves to something that's not a WMF server?
If so; the behavior you're seeing, that
links.email.donate.wikimedia.org goes
to ?.mkt41.net is correct. What we're doing is year is using an external
bulk mailer to try and ensure deliverability of fundraising mail (it turns
out that we get about $1 per email so getting good deliverability is pretty
important.) The bulk mailer, Silverpop, does link rewriting in the body of
the email for use statistical things (we A/B test our emails and use their
dashboards to do so).
For what its worth our donor rights policy [1] applies to this type of data.
[1]
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donor_policy
According to the Silverpop privacy policy, they use tracking data
gathered from "pixel tags" in dispatched emails for their own
purposes, for example to "optimize delivery of future messages to
specific recipients", rather than simply providing the gathered data
to clients.
<http://www.silverpop.com/About/Trust--Privacy/Privacy-Policy-Legal/Privacy-Policy/>
That is not covered by the donor privacy policy, as far as I can see.
It's not something I think should be added to the policy.
-- Tim Starling