Important Online Commerce Notice

Buy.com and Orbitz, among many other commerce websites, partner with a company called WebLoyalty in which WebLoyalty has the right to do what they want with the data you give to the commerce sites.

From what I understand, let's say you are on the buy.com website, you have decided ton purchase something and are checking out. During the checkout phase, a pop-up asks if you want a coupon or some special deal and you need to put in your email address. You will not be able to continue until you put in an email address. This is where they get you. If you put in an email address, you have agreed to the fine print and will be charged something like $12.00 a month from WebLoyalty.

Wow, you don't have anything to do with WebLoyalty, so how do they have the right to take your money. From what I understand, when you sign up with companies partnered with WebLoyalty, you agree to the fine print that they have the right to do anything they want with the data you give them, even if that means credit card information. WebLoyalty pays it's clients for that data, then turn around and charge you.

So what do you get for your $12.00? WebLoyalty will let you know about great coupon offers and other deals they think you might be interested in.

Let me see if I understand... WebLoyalty steals my money and repays me with SPAM?!?!?!


Thomas Johnsen
MCSE+Security, MCDST, CCNA, A+, Net+, Sec+
Lead Engineer
Networthy Systems
Beaumont Texas
thomasjohnsen.smbittips@networthysystems.com
www.networthysystems.com
(409) 861-4450