Need to vent.
Valar sold my email today, and yours too if you had a registration with them.
I gave Valar my email address to get a login which would let me preview their product, since only registered users could download their previews. I should have known better. On the registration page (http://valarproject.com/user.php?op=register&module=NS-NewUser), the following blurb:
Tonight, I get an email from a third party mailing list service, containing a Valar newsletter. I look at the third-party mailing list company's privacy page (http://www.constantcontact.com/privacy_guarantee.jsp), and find that they're so, so against spam, except for this:
So this company absolutely, positively won't sell your email until they feel like changing their policy, which they are free to do at any time, and don't have to notify users of the change.
Valar got a free mailing list service at the price of the emails of the recipients. How is this not sharing my personal info? How is this anything but what they said they wouldn't do?
Anyone? Splash a little cold water on me, if you have it, or if I'm missing something completely obvious.
-Clint
Valar sold my email today, and yours too if you had a registration with them.
I gave Valar my email address to get a login which would let me preview their product, since only registered users could download their previews. I should have known better. On the registration page (http://valarproject.com/user.php?op=register&module=NS-NewUser), the following blurb:
Register now! It's free!
We won't sell/give others your personal info.
Tonight, I get an email from a third party mailing list service, containing a Valar newsletter. I look at the third-party mailing list company's privacy page (http://www.constantcontact.com/privacy_guarantee.jsp), and find that they're so, so against spam, except for this:
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on www.roving.com so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
So this company absolutely, positively won't sell your email until they feel like changing their policy, which they are free to do at any time, and don't have to notify users of the change.
Valar got a free mailing list service at the price of the emails of the recipients. How is this not sharing my personal info? How is this anything but what they said they wouldn't do?
Anyone? Splash a little cold water on me, if you have it, or if I'm missing something completely obvious.

-Clint