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I've now had the email three times. The first time it said I was already subscribed. The second time everything looked OK, the third time it again said everything was OK.
 
Diddums said:
Once thing I've certainly noticed with this GDPR nonsense is how many companies actually have my email address. Companies I'd forgotten about over a decade ago are all suddenly going "hey, remember us?".

I should really think twice about spreading my personal rubbish all over the internet.
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I'm finding it great for unsubscribing from the dozens of places I don't remember signing up to!
 
I didn’t think you were allowed to offer prize draws for opting in any more?

I was under the impression that consent needed to be:
  • Freely given, without coercion, undue incentives or a penalty for refusal. Where consent is a condition of a subscription, consent must be demonstrable.
We’ve been advising clients not to link the re-opt-in request to any competition/discount/freebies.
 
Yep had the email on the 18th and again repeated today, im hoping the amount of marketing emails will somewhat reduce shortly, a search for GDPR in my inbox brings back so many emails from so many companies, GDPR in itself should be classed as spam :)
 
I keep getting these emails about updating terms and conditions over the past month.

There must be over 50 of these emails - eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Nectar card, The Pi Hut, Etsy, Just-Eat, Argos, Music Magpie, Orange / EE, Scottish Power, Virgin (Virgin Rail / Virgin Red / Virgin Media), Steam, EA Origin, Skiddle, MBNA, Santander, Spotify, deviantART, Yahoo / Flickr, Sound Click, blah de blah de blah...

What the hell am I supposed to do with these? I'm not going to check the settings on 50+ accounts. I've just been deleting the emails.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
I keep getting these emails about updating terms and conditions over the past month.

There must be over 50 of these emails - eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Nectar card, The Pi Hut, Etsy, Just-Eat, Argos, Music Magpie, Orange / EE, Scottish Power, Virgin (Virgin Rail / Virgin Red / Virgin Media), Steam, EA Origin, Skiddle, MBNA, Santander, Spotify, deviantART, Yahoo / Flickr, Sound Click, blah de blah de blah...

What the hell am I supposed to do with these? I'm not going to check the settings on 50+ accounts. I've just been deleting the emails.
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I have filtered out the headers anything with the word GDPR gets deleted automatically as of tonight. ha! I'm not going to read all of the emails I have received about it. Sod off.
 
Moses said:
You probably don’t want to say, but how many people are on the mailing list right now and how many currently have to be removed because if GDPR? Or what proportion if you don’t want to reveal the size of the list?
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I read an article on this the other day, it reckoned businesses across the board were seeing about a 10% return rate of customers responding and allowing companies to retain their details. It’s quite a game changer and blow for companies that relied upon it.
 
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mrbell1984 said:
Do you know how many GDPR emails I have received in the last 2 months? lol

I'm not so sure that asking again is required... I mean who's going to know you didn't say yes in the first place about receiving the marketing emails unless you argue that you didn't then maybe someone else signed you up.... lol
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It's not about that, it's about them having registered consent. If in your example I get an email and I don't remember signing up to a mailing list your company and I raised a complaint they would ask you for the record of the time I gave consent, to which they would go a) yeah sure, here Antijoke signed up on the 22/05/2018 and agreed to this wording at this time stamp which relates to our privacy policy version number 1 here so it's all good or b) oh we don't seem to be able to get that information, OK, do you know about the fines involved here Mr. Company?
 
Are you sending any more requests before this comes into force? I've had three over the course of about a week. Spamming us over and over to sign up isn't really making me want to sign back up, and dangling the carrot on a stick of the opportunity to win a chair each time is a scummy way of trying to get our consent.
 
^Must admit I thought I had completed the OCUK request the other day until I received another email a day later.......
Not talking about OCUK but I've had more emails now from all the companies I've ever dealt with in the last x weeks to do their GDPR stuff than I probably would have received in spam in over year. Most of them I've simply ignored, but then the reminders come through :D
 
antijoke said:
It's not about that, it's about them having registered consent.
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Spot on. What's more, until recently, simply being a customer was enough for companies to send you email marketing, as buying a product or service was considered "implied consent". Now you need evidence of "active" or "positive" opt-in, even for existing customers — something which many businesses won't be able to provide — hence all of these re-opt-in requests.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
I keep getting these emails about updating terms and conditions over the past month.

There must be over 50 of these emails - eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Nectar card, The Pi Hut, Etsy, Just-Eat, Argos, Music Magpie, Orange / EE, Scottish Power, Virgin (Virgin Rail / Virgin Red / Virgin Media), Steam, EA Origin, Skiddle, MBNA, Santander, Spotify, deviantART, Yahoo / Flickr, Sound Click, blah de blah de blah...

What the hell am I supposed to do with these? I'm not going to check the settings on 50+ accounts. I've just been deleting the emails.
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I guess in theory you should read the new terms and conditions, but then did you read them when you first signed up? :)
 
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