Friday, May 25. 2007

Why Not To Use The Dominos Website

Ok so I'm sat at home hungary and can't be bothered cooking so we order a pizza from Dominos using their website. I sign up and place my order. My adblock flashes to indicate it's blocked something so I look at the code. On the 'Thank you' page they have, at present, six tracking images/links. All of them contain how much you just spent and one even includes your email address. Here is the code (price made up as 99.99)


<!--img src="http://www.awin1.com/sale.php?sale=amount&extra=orderref&type=s&mid=292&testonly=1"-->
<img src="https://www.awin1.com/sale.php?sale=99.9900&extra=3334533&type=s&mid=292">

<!-- Start of DoubleClick Spotlight Tag: Please do not remove-->
<IFRAME SRC="https://fls.doubleclick.net/activityi;src=684815;type=domsales;cat=oc;u1=3334533;qty=1;cost=99.9900;ord=3334533?" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1 FRAMEBORDER=0></IFRAME>
<!-- End of DoubleClick Spotlight Tag: Please do not remove-->

<!-- Start of Trade doubler tag-->
<img src="https://tracker.tradedoubler.com/report?organization=296418&event=12646&orderNumber=3334533&orderValue=99.99&currency=GBP&checksum=v04be1688a35d9d4cb94dc307d5b51d501b&reportInfo=" HEIGHT="1" WIDTH="1">

<!-- End of Trade doubler tag-->
<!-- Start of Simpsons Campaign Tracking -->
<img src="https://servedby.advertising.com/action/type=924480615/bins=1/rich=0/mnum=1516/site=703223/logs=0/ejob=0/xssale=99.9900/xsordnm=3334533/betr=A2112=ty" height=1 width=1 border=0>
<img src="http://dominos.ecircle-ag.com/ev/quantum?eventid=5384&itemcnt=0&amount=99.9900&[email protected]" width="1" height="1" />
<img src="https://www.emjcd.com/u?AMOUNT=99.9900&CID=1501388&OID=3334533&TYPE=305545&CURRENCY=GBP&METHOD=IMG" height="1" width="20" />

<!-- End of Simpsons Campaign Tracking -->


Their privacy statement says

All data gathered as a result of your visit will be treated as confidential and will not be divulged to a third party without your consent.

but then they say

By submitting personal information you consent to the use of that information as set out below:

By choosing the 'opt in' when you register on the Domino's website you agree that we may use the contact and personal data gathered at your registration to help us improve our products and services or to send marketing related messages from us and/or our approved partners


So they wont give out your information without your consent but by giving them your information you are consenting to them giving it out. Yeah great bit of legalese hidden away there.

My advice is to add the relevant sites to your host file to stop your computer from even connecting to them.
Posted by Stewart at 22:27