Discount Program and Privacy

[SteveColes]

Please read this thoroughly and if you don't understand what I trying to say please ask in this thread.

Before, we had a single vendor, Klingspor, who was willing to provide a discount to those members who North Carolina Woodworker said were Discount Qualified and were willing to give Klingspor their name and mailing address and optionally their email address. At the time, we decided that you would have to supply name and mailing address just to be DQ. That was fine since we were only sending it to Klingspor and it simplified the process(coding).

But now things are different,.

• We have now have another vendor, "The Woodworking Source" that wants to do the same thing as Klingspor.
• NCWWI wants the same info becuase it is legally necessary if you wish to become a corporate member, which we want as many of our users to become
• The staff also would like to have the same info, becuase if we had the info and the right to use it, we could resolve certain type of issues more easily and more quickly.
• We are formalizing our privacy policy.

So the bottom line, is that we now have the ability store more of your personel info and we have 4 different potential places that info might go. Our privacy policy will say that we can't share or use any of that info without you explicitly "OPTING IN" for each purpose.

So why am i saying the same thing again just slightly differently this time?

Because, I am just finishing all the new code that will share the info with Klingspor and/or The Woodworking Source. As I tested it, I found out that if generated the those lists today, Many, many people who used to be on the Klingspor list, will be deleted because they didn't opt in.

The List for The Woodworking Source would consist of myself and 4 or 5 others

I will be sending these lists on the 29th, Thursday. Once they have been sent, they will not be sent again until the end of February
So how do you check and set those options, well the simplest way is to click on the "Your Profile" link over your avatar on the right side of the page and selecting the North Carolina Woodworker Info tab. Every place you see a pencil, you can click on it and change the info right there.

Or you can go here and you will see all the options

[DaveO]

Originally Posted by jeff...

I choose NOT to opt in for any four 4 different potential places my Personally Identifiable Information (PII) might go.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona...le_information

Thanks

Originally Posted by Ozzie-x

Call me overly-cautious, but I'm with Jeff..., or at least until the finalized formal site privacy policy is in place.

The information that is being asked for is nothing that can't be found with a quick internet search by someone who is interested in finding that information. I do it all the time in screening prospective clients.
This information is being gathered to provide you with a benefit, no problem if you don't want the benefits.
To each their own


Dave

Originally Posted by DaveO

The information that is being asked for is nothing that can't be found with a quick internet search by someone who is interested in finding that information. I do it all the time in screening prospective clients.
This information is being gathered to provide you with a benefit, no problem if you don't want the benefits.
To each their own


Dave

Thanks Dave

[MrAudio815]

Thanks Steve,

Updated my info, I think I it right!

[TexasTimbers]

Originally Posted by DaveO

The information that is being asked for is nothing that can't be found with a quick internet search by someone who is interested in finding that information. I do it all the time in screening prospective clients.

I do the exact same thing. Especially when I get an "anonymous" email which is more probing than the normal line of questioning. People have no idea how easy it is to find out who and where they are, even when they use a proxy and a gmail account.

There really is no such thing as privacy when the need-to-know is high enough.

[cskipper]

Thanks.

[TracyP]

[Bryan S]

I think this was asked before but checking name/address only is opting in, is this correct?

[SteveColes]

Originally Posted by woodlaker2

Got it and did it.

Steve, your note says info. will now go to foour (4) places. North Carolina Woodworker' Klingspor, The WW Source....and WHERE?

Thanks.

If you become a corporate member, the information must be available to to both the state of NC and the IRS. We doon't send it autmatically, but if they ever requestit we must comply.

the other optin doesn't really go anywhere. it just gives the staff the right to use the information to contact you.

[SteveColes]

Originally Posted by Bryan S

I think this was asked before but checking name/address only is opting in, is this correct?

yes. email is not required. The staff usage is slight different since we alsways have the right to contact you by email.

[Glennbear]

Thanks Steve, info updated

[figucp0]

ok sounds good to me

[rcflyer23]

I think I am good now!

[lottathought]

I just went to the link that was provided.
It appears that we just fill in some blanks and click on one of 3 options.
They are -no, -name and address ...or -name, address and email.
We do this for each site (Klingspor and WWsource)

I should be signed up for both now.

[Travis Porter]

Do I have to view this thread every time there is a new post or every time I come to the site???? For some reason, it is making do it over and over again.

[SteveColes]

Originally Posted by Travis Porter

Do I have to view this thread every time there is a new post or every time I come to the site???? For some reason, it is making do it over and over again.

Sorry Everyone that's my fault. When i fixed the bug, I had to reset who had viewed the thread. Now, once you have read it, you shouldn't have to read it again.