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TRUSTe and FreeiPods.com Agree to Work Together to Ensure Customer Privacy

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ABOUT TRUSTe
TRUSTe is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to enabling
individuals and organizations to establish trusting relationships based on
respect for personal identity and information in the evolving networked world.

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The new study entitled "Mutual Funds, Proxy Voting, and Fiduciary
Responsibility: How Do Funds Rate on Voting Their Proxies and Disclosure
Practices?" concludes: "Socially responsible investing (SRI) funds as a
category support more shareholder-proposed corporate governance resolutions
and 'vote no' campaigns than their conventional peers by a 2-to-1 margin.ca.

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Study: Socially Responsible Mutual Funds Are Far Tougher on Traditional Corporate Governance Resolutions Than 'Conventional' Mutual Funds

Sustainable Business Examined at Rotman MBA Business + Society Conference

The day long conference
features presentations and discussions by senior business leaders and
researchers on how to develop and implement business strategies that integrate
corporate citizenship and recognizes both social and financial returns.

Speakers and topics include:

* "Investors' Growing Interest in Environmental, Social and Corporate
Governance Issues" -- Jane Ambachtsheer , Global Head, Socially
Responsible Investing, Mercer Investment Consulting;

* "A Disclosure Index for the Environmental Performance of Companies" --
Gordon Richardson, KPMG Professor of Accounting, Rotman School of
Management;

* "Good Health is Good for Business: How Sustainability is Part of
Purolator's Strategy" -- Stephen Gould, Senior Vice President -- Human
Resources, Purolator Canada;

* "Embedding Sustainability in the Business -- Experience and Outcomes To-
Date at Alcan" -- Ronald Neilsen, Director -- Sustainability and
Strategic Partnerships, Alcan;

* "Building Sustainability into Corporate Strategy " -- William Murphy,
National Partner, Advisory Services, and advisor to the Global
Sustainability Service Group, KPMG Consulting; and,

* "Ericsson's Corporate Citizenship Strategy -- Global and Local" -- Mark
Henderson, President, Ericsson Canada. Today, both companies agreed to work together to protect
the privacy of customers of FreeiPods.com, and FreeFlatScreens .

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today announced
with TRUSTe, the leading online privacy non-profit organization, that the two
organizations would work together for the benefit of consumers to ensure
Gratis websites are in compliance with the TRUSTe program requirements.

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The
conference is sponsored by Monitor Group and the AIC Institute for Corporate
Citizenship at the Rotman School. For more information and to find out why
the Financial Times and BusinessWeek rank Rotman among the leading business
schools internationally, visit http: //www. For more information on TRUSTe please visit
http://www.

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Member of the media should contact Ken McGuffin for further details at:
mcguffin@rotman. Located in North
America's 3rd largest financial centre, the Rotman School is taking an
innovative approach to management education, built around Integrative
Thinking(TM) and Business Design(TM). Gratis Internet to Comply with All TRUSTe Privacy Program Requirements

WASHINGTON, Gratis Internet, Inc.

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to increase trust on the Internet , consumers will benefit from our third party
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TORONTO, Turning good business practices into
profitable and sustainable futures is at the heart of the fourth annual Rotman
MBA Business and Society Conference to be held on March 24 at the Rotman
School of Management at the University of Toronto.

com.com and the Gratis Internet family of websites want to reaffirm
our commitment to protecting the privacy of our customers," said Rob Jewell,
co-founder of Gratis Internet.
Founded in 1997, TRUSTe runs an award-winning global privacy certification and
seal program.

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mutual
fund voting patterns that are now discernible as a result of the first 12
months of mandatory proxy disclosure, a requirement that was strenuously
opposed by most of the mutual fund industry.org. Its seal programs are considered Safe Harbors for the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the EU Safe Harbor Framework. TRUSTe's mission extends standards, certification and
oversight into email with Bonded Sender and wireless with the Wireless
Advisory Committee.org .

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SRI funds are also more consistent in their support of popular
'plain vanilla' governance issues we examined (poison pills, expensing stock
options, golden parachutes , and declassifying the board) -- totaling 90
percent support for these four issues, opposed to 72 percent support by
'conventional' funds. As previously
noted by TRUSTe, Gratis had made substantial efforts to comply with the
program requirements, and correct the violations in their privacy practices
and statement.

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Rotman School of Management has set
out to become one of the world's top tier business schools.

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The full Social Investment Forum Foundation study is available online at
http: //www.socialinvest.

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Complete conference details, including registration, are available online
at: http://www. Gratis will finalize the required changes, participate in
organizational privacy training, and recommit to becoming re-certified under
the TRUSTe program.

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com, FreeDesktopPC. "We will continue to work with TRUSTe to
provide the highest level of protection to our customers.

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They also tend to support more controversial governance resolutions, like
separating the CEO and chair positions, or limiting nonaudit services by
auditors.

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"We are pleased that Gratis has agreed to finalize its compliance with the
program requirements and to participate in our training program," said Fran
Maier, executive director and president of TRUSTe.

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On February 9th, TRUSTe previously notified the Internet community that it
had suspended Gratis Internet's status as a TRUSTe sealholder.com,
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TRUSTe maintains the largest privacy seal program with more than 1,400 Web
sites certified throughout the world including AOL, Microsoft, IBM, Nationwide
and The New York Times.

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Conventional Mutual Funds Lag SRI Funds by
Surprisingly Large 2-to-1 Margin;
As Expected: SRI Mutual Funds Also Stronger on
Social/Environmental Proxy Issues

WASHINGTON, Socially responsible mutual funds are
considerably stronger proponents of corporate governance shareholder
resolutions -- such as focusing on poison pills, expensing stock options,
golden parachutes, declassifying boards, and "vote no" director campaigns --
than are "conventional" mutual funds, according to the surprising conclusion
of an extensive new study by the nonprofit Social Investment Forum Foundation
(SIFF), http://www. Integrative Thinking
and Business Design are registered trademarks of the Rotman School of
Management.

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