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Are you aware when visiting a car dealership and providing your name, you are discussed in sales meetings by name?

 

Are you aware when you give your data to a car dealership that they can discuss you in other towns with other dealers in their network?

 

Do you know that a record is kept and a file on you on every call and email you send in to the dealer? Are you aware this is kept and logged in a file on you?

 

I support that dealers should allow you to OPT out from this and also make you aware when calling, emailing or making enquiries that you are informed on how your data, information and comments are used.

 

What do you think?

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I agree with coniff all major suppliers be it for cars or other 'capital' purchases will keep such records.

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I think we are missing the point here :)

 

I have yet to purchase a vehicle, I am simply deciding if the vehicle is right for me.

 

Marketing is not using data you have gathered for purposes that you are not aware of. Marketing however might be what gets me there in the first place.

 

Following up a sales lead is fine. Taking data and using it for business and research purposes is unfair unless you are aware of it.

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its called data sharing which is FRAUD under data protection act 1998

 

How is it fraud?

Data sharing can involve fraud but doesn't have to.

Fraud could involve data sharing but doesn't have to.

 

It may be a breach of the data protection act, but it is quite some leap to allege fraud, and you haven't explained how you've made that leap.

 

Also : Why have you re-opened a year old thread?

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How is it fraud?

Data sharing can involve fraud but doesn't have to.

Fraud could involve data sharing but doesn't have to.

 

It may be a breach of the data protection act, but it is quite some leap to allege fraud, and you haven't explained how you've made that leap.

 

Also : Why have you re-opened a year old thread?

 

 

 

 

 

From past actions it seems being-DUN is jumping in on threads just for the sake of clocking up posts!

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How is it fraud?

Data sharing can involve fraud but doesn't have to.

Fraud could involve data sharing but doesn't have to.

 

It may be a breach of the data protection act, but it is quite some leap to allege fraud, and you haven't explained how you've made that leap.

 

Also : Why have you re-opened a year old thread?

It was error on my part as i thought it was June of this year.

I was responding to stormbitch tread and my though!Have a look at ICO web site and you will understand my remark,but call it breach

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Why would Being Dun - want to bump a post - and why is that an issue if the content is of value to a reader? I'm glad it has been raised again actually because this type of data use should be made clear.

 

Whilst using data for lead or funnel processing the notion of being discussed and treated as a lead is really quite low.

 

John Lewis might collect your data but they dont all have a staff meeting and say "Ok so Mrs Johnson, why has she not bought more curtains this year? Dave? You were handling Mrs Johnson"

 

Asda? "Ok so Mr Bantock has spent £8236 with us in groceries this year... hm this is quite low" "Yes well when he came to the till, he said he wasn't keen on the price of Marmite" "Hm, yes good feedback, when he comes in again, can we all be sure to bear this in mind when talking to him, frankly unless he spends £8450 this year, he might be a lost leader, ok next Ruth Johnson.. hm, shes not spent much on nappies this month"

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