Welcome to the forum. I hope you enjoy your Touch and the people on the Touch forum as much as I do.
You should know that if you use the store or visit the Kobo website Google analytics is part of the backend. Chances are you know this already, but GA tracks behaviour like how you navvigate through the site, what pages you visit on and for how long. I say "you" but the info gathered is combined with everyone else's and no one sees your data on its own. Most websites use GA.
For more info about GA and privacy see:
http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/ana...yoverview.html
There is also an opt-out for GA in
browsers. It is in beta.
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB