Method and system for monitoring online behavior at a remote site and creating online behavior profiles

A method for collecting transaction data generated by users accessing a network through an internet service provider without associating personally identifiable information with the transaction data, comprising:

• obtaining an identifier from an internet service provider representing one or more users of a computer network;
• creating an anonymized identifier using the obtained identifier at the internet service provider;
• collecting data being transmitted across the computer network from the internet service provider;
• collecting transaction data associated with a merchant system on the network which is separate from the internet service provider, for transactions conducted between the merchant and one or more users of the computer network;
• creating one or more transaction codes using the collected transaction data;
• associating the anonymized identifier with the collected data and the one or more transaction codes;
• creating a transaction record including one or more transaction codes and an anonymized identifier;
• and
• storing the transaction record.