It's kind of hard to figure out where it comes from sometimes.
We've been getting a magazine subscription for Cookie, some parent/kid magazine, and it's being sent to my husband PreZ. I went to their site to end the subscription, and for some reason, they also had his email address on file. Where that comes from, I have no idea.
At least that catalogchoice.org page will help with unsubscribing from the catalogs and cutting down on that junk mail.
You say HomeDepot was selling your info, did you have a credit card with them, or was it just the information they gather from you when you pay there with a credit card?
I've long since stopped giving people telephone numbers at store checkouts, because that's an obvious way for them to gather your mailing info.
Now I'll have to go and double check privacy agreements with the online retailers I deal with...
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Date: 2007-11-26 03:08 am (UTC)We've been getting a magazine subscription for Cookie, some parent/kid magazine, and it's being sent to my husband PreZ. I went to their site to end the subscription, and for some reason, they also had his email address on file. Where that comes from, I have no idea.
At least that catalogchoice.org page will help with unsubscribing from the catalogs and cutting down on that junk mail.
You say HomeDepot was selling your info, did you have a credit card with them, or was it just the information they gather from you when you pay there with a credit card?
I've long since stopped giving people telephone numbers at store checkouts, because that's an obvious way for them to gather your mailing info.
Now I'll have to go and double check privacy agreements with the online retailers I deal with...