MrDelivery selling customer information

[francoisvj]

I use the old trick to assign every supplier an email address starting with their own name eg. [email protected] [email protected] etc.
Note that I take proper care of my email address and hardly get any spam.
So to my surprise, I got spam from Superbalist, using [email protected] I never did any business with Superbalist. So clearly there is some action between MrDelivery and Superbalist.
What wasn't a surprise is the that-is-your-problem I got from both of MrDelivery and Superbalist when asking questions about this.

I thought that according to the POPI act company may not exchange client information anymore?

 

[CrypticZA]

Both companies are owned by Takealot so you submitted your information to one of them and most companies in their T&C's say by signing up you give them permission to distribute your information within their company and since they both owned by Takealot legally they can based on this loophole they use.

*Disclaimer i am not an expert in this field and have not studied or anything but am stating my opinion and understanding of the matter at hand.

 

[MrGray]

There is small print in their T&Cs that other companies in the Takealot Group, e.g. Superbalist, can send you direct marketing communications.

 

[CrypticZA]

There is small print in their T&Cs that other companies in the Takealot Group, e.g. Superbalist, can send you direct marketing communications.

I see someone else has read some T&C's before too

 

[internaut]

Infact look at all the companies that Naspers owns so that you are not surprised by the SPAM.

 

[backstreetboy]

Just use Gmail with proper spam handling. No need to muck about with a zillion different email addresses.

 

[bwana]

So clearly there is some action between MrDelivery and Superbalist.

At least you learnt something new today

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Yeah thats fine, they owned by the same company as stated above.