Sedo will be sharing your info, with your permission.
Sedo sent out this email that updates the terms and conditions related to using their PPC services:
We’ve recently made some changes to our Privacy Policy and wanted to take this chance to alert you to the updates that will take effect July 24th 2013.
Under the section titled Our Disclosure of Your Information, in the paragraph labeled Affiliates for Our Operations, a new line has been added to the end of that paragraph that reads as follows:
It may be necessary to disclose your stored information, such as first and last name, company name, address, email and/or phone number, to relevant domain monetization advertising partners for the purpose of providing you such services.
If you have any questions about these changes or wish to cease your use of Sedo’s domain parking services affected by these changes, please email us at contact@sedo.com.
Best regards,
Your Sedo Teamwww.sedo.com :: support.sedo.com
This type of disclosure will most definitely affect those domain portfolio holders located in Europe, where strict privacy laws explicitly forbid the disclosure of such information, as part of providing a service. In the US, they might get away with it – unless you complain.
If you’re concerned about how your personal data will be used, you need to tell Sedo exactly that.
This post is 100% true!
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It’s a spoof email!
See my post on namepros:
http://www.namepros.com/industry-news/796778-major-change-in-sedos-privacy-policy.html#post4511293
I asked the mods to move the thread to the correct section. I was nearly taken in by this spoof–it’s really well-written.
Beware!
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oh crap… i forgot to put in my sedo account that i’m handsome. i really want them to disclose that to potential purchasers as handsome fellers can charge up to 30% more.
Ms Domainer – Unfortunately (or fortunately), it’s not a spoof.
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The real sender is
nr18@sedo.mydkim.de
A German registrant. Gmail gives you the opportunity to check the original details of emails.
Unless mydkim.de (Sayn, Joerg) is acting on behalf of Sedo (and I saw no evidence to that effect), then it’s a spoof email. If you like, I can send you the email code via email.
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Ms Domainer – Correct. Sedo is using a third party service to mass-email its customers. Not the best method, arguably, but it’s not an uncommon practice for various reasons.
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Thanks, Lucius.
Yes, this is all too true.
I emailed support, and they verified this change.
Yikes!
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Ms Domainer – We can now say “fortunately, it wasn’t a spoof” (as many people clicked on the link!) and also, “unfortunately, it wasn’t a spoof” (as many now will ask Sedo to end their parking account.)
Hi,
This email was in reference to an update to our Privacy Policy. The update was necessary because of new requirements from our primary advertising provider. These new requirements affect a number of domain parking services, not only Sedo’s.
If you have any questions about the updates, feel free to contact our Customer Care team.
Thanks,
Daniel @ Sedo
This was required by Google was it not as part of DRID ? Internet Traffic made you verify some things a few months back.
I think Google is saying you are in a business relationship with us and we have the right to know who you are ? They do know all this info if you sign up for Adsense.
Sedo Sucks!
Daniel – There is nothing “private” about this policy. How exactly does it apply to your customers in Europe?
Raymond – Since the PRISM scandal broke out, the general suspicion that Google shares information with government agencies appears to be more than well-founded. AdSense payments now require a bank account to be disclosed in the US and Canada, but not in Europe. Parking companies with US presence are thus prone to sharing more than just basic information with Google and there is no reason for that. One must be in control of their personal information and not surrender it at the whim of corporate minions.
YounGANGster seems to be right … again.
I am in complete agreement with everything you said, but will Google stop doing business with these parking companies if they do not comply ?
So if Europe’s privacy laws are that much more strict, how does a company based in Germany disclose the information?
Such a horrible low PPC German parking company, why would anyone still be utilizing their services when there’s many other high paying PPC solutions out there? This latest news should be the last straw that breaks the camels back for the die-hard fans of this companies products along with their 20% commission fee.