Re:Happy holidays from Gmail: Free snailmail gift cards
by aw3c2 on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @03:57PM
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Probably to get address data (nicely linked in social relationships).
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Re:Happy holidays from Gmail: Free snailmail gift cards
by rms on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @04:05PM
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>information supplied here will not be retained or used for any purposes outside of delivering your card.
This might actually be purely benevolent, or at least not bad, just your every day cheap marketing project. Some designer's 20% time project that had no reason to not be approved.
Re:Happy holidays from Gmail: Free snailmail gift cards
by daydream on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @04:06PM
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That's what I thought too, but on the page they state:
"Cards containing inappropriate content will not be mailed, and information supplied here will not be retained or used for any purposes outside of delivering your card."
Re:Happy holidays from Gmail: Free snailmail gift cards
by jack7890 on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @03:59PM
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Wouldn't they disclose that? Also, if that were the aim, why limit everyone to a single card?
Re:Happy holidays from Gmail: Free snailmail gift cards
by Frazzydee on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @05:28PM
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Do companies usually disclose that they're collecting information when they're already, well, collecting it?
But if they weren't going to use it, they would disclose that, and they do: "information supplied here will not be retained or used for any purposes outside of delivering your card"