Klarinet Archive - Posting 000370.txt from 2004/02

From: "James O'Briant" <jobriant@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: (kl) Need Computer Help-Please!
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 12:24:01 -0500

Audrey Travis wrote, in part:

> ... I rarely used to get spam and I think I opened
> myself up by making some purchases on the internet
> (for the first time ever)= - and the last).

The problem isn't shopping on the Internet. It's shopping with Internet
sellers whose privacy policy states that your personal information may
be sold to others.

I recommend that you choose your merchant carefully, read the merchant's
privacy policy, and purchase only if their policy is that they share
e-mail addresses and other personal information only when required by
law to do so. This is what I do at Bayside Music Press. I've never
sold, given away or otherwise revealed the e-mail addresses or anything
else about any customer, and I won't unless a court order requires it.
Nobody gets spammed as a result of buying from me, and you are safe with
other reputable retailers as well. But READ their privacy policy!

Jim O'Briant
Bayside Music Press
Gilroy, CA 95020

http://www.baysidemusicpress.com

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