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Entered a comp and now a company that never emailed me before is emailing me...

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HecateWhoopass · 16/01/2013 06:29

Yet there's no mention of you giving them my email address in the T&C.

It seems a bit odd that I never ever get an email from hushhush and then as soon as I enter the hushhush comp - I start getting them.

Do you share our email addresses with companies when we enter competitions?

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HelenMumsnet · 16/01/2013 10:35

Morning all.

Right, first off, we NEVER pass on your contact details to third parties without your prior permission. We are very very very careful about this, as we don't want to breach our own privacy policy (let alone the Data Protection laws).

The way our competitions work is like this: when you enter your details in the little boxes, you agree (as it says in the Ts & Cs) for your details to be passed on to the prize provider IF (and only if) you win. Your details go into a double-blind 'bucket' (ie no one can see them, including us). When the closing date for the comp has passed, the 'bucket' tosses out a winner (or winners) and your details are passed on to the prize provider. Everyone else's details are vaporised.

So, we are quite sure your mails from hushhush, Hecate, are coincidence, not conspiracy. The hushhush comp hasn't even closed yet, so no one can see anybody's details anyway.

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HelenMumsnet · 16/01/2013 11:18

@HecateWhoopass

Thanks, Helen.

At least it's not as bad as the time my pc suddenly started offering to find me lovely ladies from Russia.

I probably blamed you for that too

Oh, that probably was us.

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