saxon opened this issue on Nov 13, 2002 ยท 43 posts
CyberStretch posted Wed, 13 November 2002 at 2:25 PM
While looking through the Privacy Policy, something did strike me as being "odd":
"Direct Marketing: As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. However, you agree that we may ourselves use your information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, is targeted to your interests and relevant to your use of the site. By accepting the User Agreement and Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information."
"In all cases, you must give users an opportunity to remove themselves from your database and a chance to review what information you have collected about them. In addition, under no circumstances, except as defined in this Section, can you disclose personally identifiable information about another user to any third party without our consent and the consent of such other user after adequate disclosure. Content Paradise and our users do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to add a Content Paradise user, even a user who has purchased an item from you, to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express consent after adequate disclosure.
I would hope that this applies to CL/CP as well.
I equally detest "junk mail" and "spam" alike. I think an Opt-In/Opt-Out system should be available for users to request not to receive unsolicited commercial mail (e-mail, snail mail, or otherwise) from any source; be it CL/CP, their partners, the merchants, other third-parties, etc.
It just seems to me that it is setting a precedence of "double-standards". Perhaps I am just too picky. ;0)