[DD.]

Anyone actually read their terms & conditions, in particular relating to passing on your data to third parties and depositing a tracking cookie on your PC?

http://www.britainonshow.co.uk/privacy-policy/

[andy135]

I didn't register with them or order anything and they still placed four cookies on my 'puter.

[DD.]

Wooden Horse of Troy springs to mind!

[Jamie Butterworth]

Im confused, have they put something on my computer that i should be worried about?

[DD.]

I strongly suggest yopu read their T & C's one extract is:

We may collect data from you via data capture devices using cookies and studying which pages you have visited most frequently.

[DD.]

and this:

From time to time we may provide your information to our customer service agencies for research and analysis purposes so that we can monitor and improve the services we provide. We or our agents and sub-contractors may contact you by post, e-mail or telephone to ask you for your feedback and comments on our services.

By agreeing, you given permission for junk mail, spam & unwanted tele-sales.

[joyfull]

cookies are blocked on my putor and get removed  

If you refuse to accept cookies from our site this will not affect your use of our Site. We do not use details relating to a particular computer's Internet Protocol address in order to administer the Site or to otherwise track the movement of users through the Site.

We record certain information regarding use of our Site. This information is used solely to enable us to administer our Site, to rectify errors and to hold details of a user who has added to or amended information in a particular archive.


however you can also contact them on this email to remove yourself from their emailing details:-

We may also wish to provide you with information about special features of our Site or any other service or products we think may be of interest to you.  If you would rather not receive this information, please send an e-mail message confirming that you do not wish to be sent such information to info@explorenorthamptonshire.co.uk.
We may provide your information to carefully selected third parties whose products and services we believe may be of interest to you.  If you do not wish to be contacted in this way please send an e-mail message confirming this to info@explorenorthamptonshire.co.uk.most of the details are to do with anybody providing payment details which you don't have to do with the free seeds offer.
Last year I got their free seeds and have received no problems.

[DD.]

Problem is a lot of folk don't read the T & C's and just tick the box.

[joyfull]

as with all things the small print matters 

[chrisnchris]

Thanks for that....mine ordered

Chris

[arugula]

Mine arrived today.

[joyfull]

forgot to say mine have arrived too - Garden Perle, which are rated quite highly in the tomatoe poll. No proper sowing instructions or details about the tomatoes i.e type - bushy etc. Still owt for nowt 

[DD.]

Good for hanging baskets.

[arugula]

Of course, I still didn't know what kind they were as I hadn't opened the outer envelope, kind of expecting it to tell on there...... Good thinking Joy!