custom electronics catalog

Don't bother ordering their cataog online. They want your personal info including phone number so they can call if they can't the catalog to you.

I filled in the request. I got an email back telling me they don't have any catalogs to send and that I should go online to see their caps.

The following is from the Custom catalog request page.

Request a Catalog (from Custom site)

"Please fill in the form below, to have your free catalog mailed to you. ..................Please complete the entire form so we know where to send your catalog, and what information should accompany it."

"How will the information you submit to us be used? Only for the catalog. We are asking for your e-mail address and telephone number in case there is a problem with your address. Please read our Privacy Policy for more information."

---------note the words "only for the catalog"

Privacy policy extracts:

"Once you choose to provide us personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified), you can be assured that it will only be used to support your customer relationship with Custom Electronics, Inc."

-------"customer relationship" is a vague and open ended term, much different from "catalog"

"Custom Electronics, Inc. will not sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to others. Unless we have your permission or are required by law, we will only share the personal data you provide online with other Custom Electronics, Inc. entities and/or business partners who are acting on our behalf to complete the activities described above. Such Custom Electronics, Inc. entities and/or business partners, including those located in other countries, are governed by our privacy policies with respect to the use of this data."

---------this means they can give information away to anyone in the world, including trading for other's mailing lists. It only says "sell, rent, or lease". The phrase "business partners who are acting on our behalf to complete the activities described above." coupled with "to support your customer relationship with Custom Electronics, Inc." doesn't mean that your personal info is safely locked away. It means that your info can be distributed to anyone so long as Custom can derive some applicable meaning from the phrase "customer relationship."

"Custom Electronics, Inc. will not use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without first letting you know and offering you a choice. As previously stated, we will also provide you the opportunity to let us know if you do not wish to receive unsolicited direct marketing materials from us and we will do everything we can to honor such requests."

---------- legaleeeese for we hope you are dumb enough to trust us. Mark

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truegridtz
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Nice rant. Which "Custom Electronics" are you refering to? Google gives 52 thousand hits.

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