Many websites ask for your email address
when you shop online, download a free software etc. But do you know
that this has a chance of affecting your email privacy through Spam
emails?
Though most websites don’t use spamming
as an email marketing strategy, there are a few that use junk emails
that don’t care about anti-Spam laws. Here are some tips to maintain
your email privacy from such threats.
Before submitting your email address you
need to check the reputation of the company. Reputed websites would
normally follow the right email practices to ensure your email privacy.
Such companies will never want to loose their hard earned reputation by
getting blammed for spamming.
See whether the websites provides email
privacy statements. You need to go through these statement in detail,
and know about the kind of emails that will be sent to you, how often
etc. Based on this you can decide on whether you need such emails. You
don’t want to give your email address to some fraud company that is
thinking about handing over your email address to hundreds of other
websites.
Finally, check whether the website
really respects your privacy. Often you will find some text like “I
agree to receive email” that comes with a check box. You can agree to
receive emails by checking the check box. If the check box is already
checked, it is just a good indication that the website doesn’t respect
your privacy. So watch out!
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