I've currently got:
"Safe & Secure. We respect your privacy."
Is that vague enough to be able to later sell on the emails I capture to a 3rd party?
Be interested to hear what other people do.
Ed
Sell em on.
Do a search for people who have used your domain as part of theirs and bin them.
Bestmanspeeches@theirdomain.com
Been doing this for years now. Assuming you're using a form to collect, I suggest putting a big ADVISORY!! link immediately beside their email address text box. On the advisory page, tell them you're going to dice their children up for breakfast meat -whatever. I tell them that "if you don't want to receive email then don't list the address on the form." I also tell them that, really, we've been good stewards and have negligible complaints. Out of tens of thousands of forms submitted I've had maybe 8-10 complaints. When I ask them if they read the Advisory boldly linked right beside the form field they get quiet pretty quickly.
I should add that though the form has remain unchanged for over a decade, the complaints were all within the first few years. I guess people have become resigned to the fact that their personal information is indeed the currency of the internet.
Interesting stuff, thanks.
Thought my privacy policy on the website might also cover me as it says:
"Finally, we may use your data, or allow carefully selected third parties to use your data, so that you can be provided with information about unrelated goods and services which we consider are likely to be of interest to you. We or they may contact you about these goods and services by any of the methods that you consented to at the time your information was collected."
What sort of numbers of email addresses do you need for companies to become interested? 10,000? Are there middle-man firms out there who can match your mail addresses with companies?
As you can, I know next to nothing about this topic. Just starting out in it.
Cheers,
Ed
>on the site
Here in the US I've noticed a few court cases where the judge trashes site user agreements.
>numbers
I have only sold my lists directly to small companies so my experience is limited. I have been generally disappointed in their marketing efforts and the perceived value they place on highly qualified leads.
>middle-man
Yes, there are list brokers such as http://www.usdatacorporation.com/