Value in beekeeping email

[polomadh]

I can’t recall registering with “value in beekeeping” but they have sent me an email today offering queens for sale.
Whilst I can unsubscribe I am curious as to where they got my email address from, and if this constitutes a breach of GDPR somewhere.

Anyone else got the email and feel equally miffed?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Whilst I can unsubscribe I am curious as to where they got my email address from, and if this constitutes a breach of GDPR somewhere.

it is a breach of GDPR

 

[pargyle]

I can’t recall registering with “value in beekeeping” but they have sent me an email today offering queens for sale.
Whilst I can unsubscribe I am curious as to where they got my email address from, and if this constitutes a breach of GDPR somewhere.

Anyone else got the email and feel equally miffed?

Have you had any dealing with any of Patricks other ventures ? It's strictly against GDPR to share information outside of what it was collected and intended to be used for ... indeed, there are strict rules about what information is stored and how it is stored, let alone how it is used. If these rules are infringed the Information Commissioner can impose some very serious fines. I would send them a Subject Access Request and ask them what information they hold on you and where the information was obtained. That will put a cat amongst the pigeons !

 

[polomadh]

I honestly don’t recall doing so.
That’s why I am curious to know if anyone else has the email. I am seriously tempted to enquire.

 

[JamezF]

I suspect the answer will be something along the lines that they bought (access to) a list of addresses for people who were interested in beekeeping and hadn't opted out of receiving emails from "trusted partners" (yeah, right) when they'd made a purchase elsewhere at some point.

I've not received this email, but the entire way it all works pisses me off. There's probably little one can do about it however without spending far more time and effort than it's worth. Where possible, a contented life is probably best served by telling your email client that emails from the originating domain are spam and that you don't want to see them.

(Saying that, I am quite tempted to go down the SAR route for emails to an address that is delivered to me where all the emails start by addressing my wife. I'm not actually sure that my wife even knows that specific email address exists and if she does there's absolutely only one place she'll ever have used it -- a company for whom it would be astonishingly embarrassing to have leaked personal details.)

James

 

[Malcolm B.]

I am curious as to where they got my email address from

Quite likely via a tracker or cookie linked to a social media account.

The internet is alive with a myriad of bots and trackers, many of them linked to each other.

Whilst the UK has strict rules on data protection, a bot originating from another country is outside the jurisdiction.

Have a look at the "Guests online" on this forum. There are a great many bots and trackers scraping every web page in the world for information.
Below are just three of probably over a hundred visiting at presentTHIS site. :-

Robot: Petal Search​

• Viewing thread Staying at home (Covid-19)
• 6 minutes ago

Robot: Majestic-12​

• Viewing thread Bubble wrap for insulation??
• 6 minutes ago

Robot: Trendiction​

• Viewing thread Garden set-up
• 6 minutes ago

Robot: Ahrefs​

• Viewing thread Two-way Porter bee escape
• 6 minutes ago

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I use a total of ten different Anti-tracking, anti-bot etc. applications, plus I also use a VPN but I still don't consider my self completely safe from the intrusive and relentless sniffing of many thousands of remote applications autonomously roaming the internet and recording information!

Malcolm B.

 

[Erichalfbee]

I can’t recall registering with “value in beekeeping” but they have sent me an email today offering queens for sale.
Whilst I can unsubscribe I am curious as to where they got my email address from, and if this constitutes a breach of GDPR somewhere.

Anyone else got the email and feel equally miffed?

Have you ever bought kit from them or their allied companies?

 

[pargyle]

Have you ever bought kit from them or their allied companies?

Or did you respond to the free tickets he was offering for beetradex ?

 

[polomadh]

Nope certainly did not do that,

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I honestly don’t recall doing so.
That’s why I am curious to know if anyone else has the email. I am seriously tempted to enquire.

I'm getting them and I've never even considered subscribing to them so they have a choice - they're either breaking GDPR rules or committing VAT fraud

 

[Darryl]

I suspect the answer will be something along the lines that they bought (access to) a list of addresses for people who were interested in beekeeping and hadn't opted out of receiving emails from "trusted partners" (yeah, right) when they'd made a purchase elsewhere at some point.

I've not received this email, but the entire way it all works pisses me off. There's probably little one can do about it however without spending far more time and effort than it's worth. Where possible, a contented life is probably best served by telling your email client that emails from the originating domain are spam and that you don't want to see them.

(Saying that, I am quite tempted to go down the SAR route for emails to an address that is delivered to me where all the emails start by addressing my wife. I'm not actually sure that my wife even knows that specific email address exists and if she does there's absolutely only one place she'll ever have used it -- a company for whom it would be astonishingly embarrassing to have leaked personal details.)

James

While people have "opt out" of the trusted partners game, rather than to "opt in" this GDPR breach will go on. I am always suspicious of companies who operate this way and I tend to avoid trading with them. Try forwarding these junk mails to other junk mail senders just for fun.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Try forwarding these junk mails to other junk mail senders just for fun.

Why waste your time. No human being will ever read them
What can be fun sometimes is to engage cold callers...though I don't have a landline any more so don't get any
This is fun though

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

What can be fun sometimes is to engage cold callers

Yes, I was given a row by SWMBO for doing that a few years ago, they were trying to get me to upgrade my broadband, afterr stringing them along for a while he finally called me a pervert and slammed the phone down on me when I told him the reason I wanted better speed was for downloading porn.
I was at my huntsman's house one day (ex miner) when he got (yet another) call from an ambulance chasing company trying to convince him to find some excuse to claim compensation for something or other. I could actually hear both sides of the conversation.
"were you ever employed in heavy industry Mr Fish" (yes, that is his surname)
"Oh yes, man and boy"
"For how many years?"
"all my working life until early retirement, although I still keep my hand in occasionally"
"and what exactly was your job"
"Gynaecologist"

 

[JamezF]

This is one of my favourites:



James

 

[Erichalfbee]

This is one of my favourites:



James

Hilarious. Thank you James