CONSUMER AND BRAND OWNER DATA MANAGEMENT TOOLS AND CONSUMER PRIVACY TOOLS

The disclosed tools include enhanced and flexible login and profile management tools as well as brand owner communication tools that provide more flexibility in regards to information sharing that benefit both users and brand owners and ease the integration of user information into brand owner databases. Also disclosed are tools for an end user to control both how and who uses her personal data. Specifically, these tools permit her to authorize which pieces of personal data may be used by particular actors to perform particular tasks. In addition, these tools allow the tasks to be performed while simultaneously limiting the number of actor(s)/servers/devices in possession of her personal data.