do scientology sites have tracking systems?

The Great Gazoo actually did a fair job of answering this question in regards to the technical details of cookies.

Also based on my personal knowledge of the Church of Scientology; it is the most ethical group on this planet by far. I am sure that statement will be downrated, but it's my opinion and I have the right to it.

Anyways, you should ask your friend where he gets his information. My bet is that he made that up, possibly based on an inaccurate idea of the church that he has pieced together from various rumormongers. You should ask.

But if your project is on Scientology, you'd be best off finding out about our beliefs. You can email me, but first take a look at the official website:

http://www.scientology.org/

This will give you a better idea than anything I could say here.

Good luck with your project! I hope you do a good, accurate representation and also get an A+ :)

--M

All website owners have the ability to see IP addresses and which pages the visitors view.

An IP address will not, however, give your name, your address, your phone number, or your email address.

When you come to yahoo.com, they can see your IP address. When you go to disney.com, they can see your IP address. EVERY site can do this.

It sounds like you're frightened of a church, and I want to point out to you that there are MILLIONS of visitors to the Scientology websites. There are millions of members, and millions upon millions of visitors to these sites. The Church of Scientology would not be interested in tracking you down, or anything like that.

There are enough people interested in Scientology that the church staff are having a hard enough time keeping up with the interest level at any rate.

What really concerns me, as a Scientologist, is that you must have been reading some really nasty rumors - lies - about my religion to bring you to the point that you are worried about visiting a church website!

I urge you to really look at that type of prejudice.

My father's cousins were killed by Nazis. I know how bad prejudice can get. I hope you don't fall into that type of hateful, fearful thinking.

We don't eat small children, we don't have horns, we don't kidnap or brainwash people.

:)

If you are interested in asking other Scientologists about Scientology, there is a group here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aboutscientology

All websites track IP addresses (which shows your city, internet provider, etc). I've been a webmaster for a few years and all of my hosts have allowed me to view the IPs of my visitors. I highly doubt Scientology websites have any special programming in "tracking" its visitors than standard IP logging.

All websites can see about where you live. It isn't going to give you an exact address or anything, but you can see the IP addresses and that will give you the ISP and even the city.

MOST websites that really track a lot (like Yahoo) give you a persistent cookie. That is what keeps you logged in, but it also enables them to track how you use their site.

For instance, start researching a medical condition, you will notice ads for medicine for that condition.

You mean like cookies they put on your hard drive? Every website does, Yahoo puts scads of them on there! I'm sure that scientology websites do the same, to see if you re-visit their site.

Unless you use an anonymizing proxy, every site has your IP address; it can't really be converted to a physical address without the help of your ISP.

You could always use http://www.archive.org/

What some of them have is a filter program that stops anything anti-scientology being seen or accessed.

I doubt it. That's not paticularly legal, at all.

Unless they record your IP address, which could eventually be used to find out private info, but they have to tell you if they do.

They might be creepy, but I don't think they're going to track you down or anything, especially just from visiting a website.

What's a scientologist wait I gta look it up on wikipedia....ok got it yeah they do

More than likely they do.