[TYPO3-ect] partner management extension

[bernd wilke]

on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:37:26 +0200, Dr. Ronald P. Steiner wrote:

> Hi Malte,
> 
> thanks for your comment. It is quite clear that newsletters are only
> sent to people who want to receive it, and it is also clear that data of
> a person is not shared with anyone else or publicized on the web without
> permission. But if someone fills in a form on my web page am I allowed
> to store this information for my use or not?

you are allowed to use the information as far as they are needed to 
fullfill the duty, they are given for. 
you are not allowed to use information of an order to send newsletters 
without explicit allowence.
if you merge data from orders and data from newsletters (identifying the 
same email-adress) you misuse data from the order (e.g. for personalyzing 
the newsletter).
one prove for right data-handling might be the strict seoparation of 
these two data-sets.

and you have to inform your customers and visitors (google-analytics!) at 
every data-gathering about the recording of these personalized data.
And every further usage has to be confirmed by the user.

just a few people realise the power they give to others by publishing 
their data.
nowadays it is easy to gather data, to personalize data, to merge data 
for a 'better' (=more personalized) advertisement. But mostly this is 
misuse and nearly nobody controls this.

think about YOUR data. who gets what information about you? 
do you think they really need all that information to fullfill their job?
do you really need all that information about your customer and visitors?

bernd
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