Why I won’t be buying from Koodos
Earlier in the year I signed up with koodos, an online shop. They were going to have a sale on iPods and I wanted to be notified when this sale began. I’m very protective of my email address, I never give out my personal address to any old company. I use the format of company name at my domain that way when I receive spam I have a fairly good idea where its come from.
Gradually I started to get spam sent to the address I’d given to koodos. I logged back in to their site to see if I’d missed anything, according to my details I was set to receive email from koodos. I then checked their privacy policy which states:
We will never pass on your email address on to a 3rd party for marketing purposes unless you have chosen ‘3rd party opt-in’ as one of your communication preferences within My Account. We will, however send your details to merchants for whom you have indicated interest by purchasing products offered by them on koodos.
I emailed them and was told that they currently did not pass on any details to third parties, it seems that bit is in their privacy statement possibly for future use. Today, as of 16:35 I have received 20 spam to that address. I’m not sure what’s more worrying; that they possibly play to sell their customers details to whatever company when you buy one of the products listed on koodos or that they are insisting that they have not sold my details yet clearly an email address that has been used once at one site is now being bombarded with spam. It has certainly put me off the idea of using their website and trusting them with any more personal information.