CartManager International (CartManager) is a company that provides online shopping cart software and related services to e-merchants. The Federal Trade Commission leveled charges against CartManager for 'renting' personal information about the e-merchants' customers when CartManager knew that such activity was prohibited by the e-merchants' respective privacy policies. The terms of the agreement include: (a) barring CartManager from disclosing previously collected personal information; (b) mandating that CartManager's future information sharing practices are consistent with those of the e-merchants the company is servicing, unless otherwise clearly and conspicuously disclosed and (c) requiring CartManager to forfeit its profit from the sale of the personal information. For more information, the FTC's press release is available at: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/03/cartmanager.html

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