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TRUSTe Fact Sheet

Organization

Founded: 1997
Founders: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Commerce.Net
Seal Revenue: $4,400,000*
Sponsors: AOL, Intuit, MAXAMINE, and Microsoft
CEO: Fran Maier
Management

Sealholders

Participating Web Sites: 2,241
Web Privacy Seal Web sites: 1,876
Children's Seal Web sites: 34
EU Safe Harbor Seal Web sites: 365
Email Privacy Seal Web sites: 57

Countries Displaying Seals: 56
Fortune 500 Participants: 31

Compliance

Number of Watchdogs: 3,035
Number of Licensee Investigations: 1,429
Types of Complaints Breakdown:

Unable to unsubscribe: 298
Shared personal information: 279
Unable to close account: 256
Unwanted email: 10
Received email spam: 1
Email sent w/out permission: 301
Unable to contact licensee: 78
Unauthorized profile with my information: 206

Number of Companies Terminated: 3
Number of Trademark Violations Investigated: 3,071

For more information on the Watchdog process, please visit the Watchdog page.

*All statistics FY 2007 unless otherwise noted.
Seal Revenue is FY 2006
 
Sponsor: Intuit
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