Brett Lorenzen wrote: > > You sure do . . . for all of the .5 seconds it would take to change them > :P > > If the company is worth buying out, there's fine print in their policies > somewhere that reserves the right to change poilcies at will, and without > notice to the consumer. > Sure, but I doubt they can't make it retrospective. I'd suggest that when they accepted your information on the registration form their was an implied contract in force. Of course, as I pointed out before, that depends on the individual jurisdiction and unfortunately the United States falls way behind in the matter of privacy legislation. The European Community are the leaders in this area. For example, if you want to contact somebody who has responded to one of your ads - whatever the medium - in most European countries, you have to ask their specific permission at the point of contact. So whether it's a web site, or a coupon in a newspaper ad, you have to ask for their permission to add their name to your database and to contact them again. This is the model which is being studied by the Australian and New Zealand governments and I think will probably come in here. Note that it isn't explicit to the web but relates directly to the information that can be gathered in databases and the uses that it can be put to. -- _________Frank Lee, Information Architect_________ Member: Aust DM Assoc., Market Research Soc. of Aust., Web Consultants Assoc., HTML Writers Guild, Internet Professionals Association. Assoc. Aust. Marketing Inst. Interactive Strategist,IBM Australia Ltd & Managing Director, Wired World Consulting. http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/franko/ ____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be done directly from our website for all our lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
