Let me be more specific, then.

1) Do your linked images set cookies or track cookies set by the server when someone hits them? (i.e.: do they recognize when they’re being viewed by a zooomr user?)

2) Do you keep logs of the IP address of the user with the photos they’ve viewed and the referer information (the pages on which those photos were included)?

For example, Flickr reserves the right to do both of these things, and that’s why I don’t include Flickr images on my blog anymore.

If you’ll put in your policy that you’re not retaining this data, I’ll feel much better about it. (And I think that this is something that we should all increasingly care more about.)

No tracking of individual users is being done. No correlation between what blogs people visit is being done or data kept.

In terms of what data is retained I’d have to talk to Kris about that as I’m not sure as to what other info our server logs might have. Irrespective, we are very mindful of protecting our users privacy and would never provide any public info regarding where individual users went.

A blogged photo though is a public thing and we think that there is nothing wrong with letting users know that their photo has been visited by an anonymous individual through a blog link.

If I include an image on my blog, Zooomr can track when people visit my blog (and correlate that to other blogs that that person has visited).

Is that data being retained, and if so, what is being done with it?

I managed to get it working, I think the issue was the way I was adding the image to the page. This time I added the static link in the normal manner but edited the link (when clicked) to point at my zooomr page, then applied and got the upgrade (it must be scanning for the url of the page rather than the url of the image.

http://thomashawk.com/2006/07/more-free-25-gb-pro-accounts-for_20.html