Off Topic » Personal privacy information

Over the past 5 years I have spent a fair amount of money buying stuff from Revzilla (a large US motorcycle internet accessory store), mostly motorcycle tires. Yesterday I received an email from Revzilla informing me that they were updating their their terms of service and personal privacy agreement. If you buy anything from them after March 1, you will have automatically agreed to their new terms. When I read the terms, I was not happy. It looks to me like they can and will sell everything that they know about you to businesses everywhere, without restrictions or limits. And it looked to me like those businesses didn't even have to be motorcycle related. So I am giving serious consideration to no longer doing business with Revzilla after March 1. Their new privacy terms are just too creepy for me.

Now I know that my personal internet trolling habits are captured and likely sold by most internet businesses, but I do think there ought to be some limits. Right now, almost every internet forum that I visit, except for YouTube and this forum, hits me with large and annoying Revzilla ads at the top or side of the screen. What I don't need are more ads for things that I really don't want to hear about - such as senior diaper and political ads. Anyway, sometimes you have to put your foot down and say enough is enough. If the personal privacy usage agreement becomes too much to stomach then I quit doing business with that company. Especially, as Revzilla keeps my credit card information in their computer files - something that I never agreed to (as far as I know).

I might add that a few years ago, I used to do a lot of business with Motorcycle Super Store and then I received the same sort of message and also told them to stuff it. A few months later the entire business was part of its large parent's company bankruptcy. Its assets were sold off to various businesses, including all of the personal information that they had collected, during the bankruptcy process. So when I see a company going out of their way to make sure that I agree to their new information policy, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and I run for the hills.

Its shocking, according to Google 20,000 people have viewed my photographs i have on my computer, how did that happen?

Don't remember agreeing to them having access to my personal photo's !

If a site i visit says ' you must agree to these cookies' or ' read our 20 pages of data protection' with a 'you can't come into this site if you don't click the agree box', so i don't, its their and their advertisers loss.


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