Joking aside, this is a data protection issue. Someone's name and address and personal details are protected data and the club holds them for the purpose for which they were obtained, i.e. watching football with a season ticket. Sending that data out to someone else because you've ***ed up the mailout is an offence and if anyone affected complains, the club could be fined. Just because people are often casual about their personal data doesn't mean anyone who holds that data can be. This is the sort of thing that councils/govt departments sometimes do and get fined for.
Again, being serious. Question:
If I accidentally [I've always posted on here honestly and openly, & I have been told I I'm to honest & open] let slip my address/mobile/landline number on here, are the moderators/owners of this site Liable if someone else uses the information to use that for their own purposes ? As I say, serious question. Who is to blame If someone/computer/whatever cocks-up ?
Hi Mog, if you posted something up accidentally, it's down to you. If you asked the mods to remove it and they didn't, it's down to them I think. The core of all this Data Protection stuff is that organisations are allowed to hold data, but can only use it in certain ways. You give them that permission when you give them your data, which is why there are tick boxes at the end of forms these days as to whether they can hand it on to third parties. Cock-ups happen all the time. Some are more serious than others and I've known people lose their jobs over losing data, and organisations get fined. Other times nothing has happened because it hasn't been so serious.
What made me chuckle was the sentence in the first paragraph of the letter that came with the form: The changes we are making are solely to prepare the club for a Premier League return
Yep, stop paniking everyone, uncle Roland will lead us to the promised land.
The only part that summed it up for me was the two words are solely. I couldn't have put it better myself Ben......................
What made me chuckle was the sentence in the first paragraph of the letter that came with the form: The changes we are making are solely to prepare the club for a Premier League return
Yep, stop paniking everyone, uncle Roland will lead us to the promised land.
The only part that summed it up for me was the two words are solely. I couldn't have put it better myself Ben......................
Well I got it mate, even if no one else did. Very good :-)
I can see a bizarre set of public announcements tonight: " Will the real Ivor Bailey please make himself known to the nearest steward....." " will the owner of a beaten up red card number CON1234567 please report to the commercial centre..." "could we ask all season ticket holders not to move house for the next six months till we find out where you really are" etc. I hope they have the gonads to make an apology at half time. We're having a laugh here but I'll bet there are some folks genuinely and rightly pissed about having their details compromised.
Has the club made any comment about these problems yet, and any thoughts as to why they have the note on the bottom about allocating a seat as close to the one requested, never been a issue before requesting the same seat.
Has the club made any comment about these problems yet, and any thoughts as to why they have the note on the bottom about allocating a seat as close to the one requested, never been a issue before requesting the same seat.
I think that note is for those who are requesting a seat change. As at the top it says tick this box to renew your existing seat.
I've got one addressed to SLL, Sparrows Lane, New Eltham.
If that is the address, then it is Post Office fault not the clubs that it has gone to your address !!!
Whoooosh!
Not a whoosh at all - I had already made the SparrowsLaneLion quip two pages previously. I was referring to the 'it was addressed to..' as obviously everyone who has received these have had their correct address on it, it is the details within that are incorrect. Hence if you had received one with the Sparrows Lane address on it, when you dont live there, then that would be post office error not the clubs !!!
Has the club made any comment about these problems yet, and any thoughts as to why they have the note on the bottom about allocating a seat as close to the one requested, never been a issue before requesting the same seat.
I think that note is for those who are requesting a seat change. As at the top it says tick this box to renew your existing seat.
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I have your details for a season ticket re-newal.
Name, date of birth, telephone number and e-mail address..... I'm hunting you down and coming for you son!
I'm ringing the club and letting them know.
Cock-ups happen all the time. Some are more serious than others and I've known people lose their jobs over losing data, and organisations get fined. Other times nothing has happened because it hasn't been so serious.
Yep, stop paniking everyone, uncle Roland will lead us to the promised land.
The only part that summed it up for me was the two words are solely. I couldn't have put it better myself Ben......................
Well I got it mate, even if no one else did. Very good :-)
I was referring to the 'it was addressed to..' as obviously everyone who has received these have had their correct address on it, it is the details within that are incorrect.
Hence if you had received one with the Sparrows Lane address on it, when you dont live there, then that would be post office error not the clubs !!!
So Hsooohw - whooosh back at ya ;-)