Quick takeaway:
I hate spam and I won't share your email address with anyone.
Have a little more time? Then read this
The eatout version:
On a scale of things that I hate, spam ranks right up there with Sauron and the Sith. The only thing that has kept me sane in this spam pandemic that never seems to die out has been a strict adherence to one policy.
Namely, I am only a little more relaxed with my email address than the Allies were with their plans to invade Festung Europa in 1944. I give it out to only those sites who I trust won't sell it to some shifty eyed cyber criminal. And yet I do get spam, a reminder of my careless days when I was young and innocent on the Internet.
Oh,how I regret those days.
So when you subscribe to my site for email updates, sign up for newsletters or other resources, leave your email address with me while asking a query you can do so with the firm assurance that I will treat your email ID more securely than I treat mine. I don't want to be indirectly responsible for ads for fake watches flooding your inbox. I also don't want your computer to be overrun with Trojans and worms.
Which means,in case I get wind of two spots opening at this super exclusive party where admittance can be had by giving out one's email address I would not give out yours.
Even though I am your best buddy.
Even though this party is graced by a super reclusive albeit hot (looks and beats) trance DJ who comes out once every year to be photographed with his biggest fans.
And even though I know you once told me that if you met this dude and get an autograph you would live happily ever after.
What a jerk!
Don't remember if your email address was written sizzler or s!zz1er? Tough luck. You ain't going to get it from me, so move along. Peep inside your bank locker, hunt up your phone bills or ask that friend who keeps talking about memory drugs. Maybe he can help.
Bottom line: no email address will be given out,rented,shared or sold to anyone in any form whatsoever.Period.
Bhaskar
PS If all policies, licenses and EULAs were written like this wanna bet how many black coats will be out of their jobs?
Credit: This privacy policy's tone and one paragraph was inspired by the one at Colleen Wainwright's communicatrix. From her I learned that privacy policies needn't be cloaked in vaguely threatening and obscure legalese. Thanks Colleen.
