Why a Business Reseller's Catalog Still Carries Personal Risk A catalog delivered to a company's mailroom still lands on one named desk — a specific employee, a direct phone extension, sometimes a title printed next to the company name on the label. That personal detail is exactly what makes a follow-up call sound …

A Privacy Promise With a Built-In Exception: What Bland Farms Actually Shares An older shopper who recently placed an order with Bland Farms answers a call that already contains details only a legitimate seller should have — the order number, the ship date, the name on the account — followed by a request to "verify" a …

Why a Supplement Catalog Deserves a Privacy Check In 2023, victims aged 60 and older reported $3.4 billion in losses to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, across 101,068 complaints, with an average loss of $33,915, up roughly 11% on 2022 (FBI IC3 2023 Elder Fraud Report). Nothing in that report points at any …

Your Right to Say No, and What Seroogy's Shares Without Asking Depending on the state you live in, the law gives you the right to stop a company "selling" or "sharing" your personal information for targeted advertising. Seroogy's, the De Pere, Wisconsin chocolatier, spells out why that right matters for its customers. …

What Delphi Glass Does With Your Address, in Its Own Words When you order stained-glass or fusing supplies from Delphi Glass, you hand over exactly what a catalog mailing needs. The company's privacy policy lists the information it collects: your name, shipping address, billing address, telephone numbers, email address …

Why a Greeting Card Catalog Is Worth a Privacy Check The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center logged 101,068 fraud complaints from adults aged 60 and older in 2023, totaling $3.4 billion in losses — an average of $33,915 per victim, up roughly 11% from 2022. A loss that size rarely starts cold. It starts with a …

When a Catalog Mailing List Outlives the Catalog Picture an older adult who ordered once, years ago, from a mail-order sleep-and-bedding catalog — then gets a call from someone who already knows their name, their address, and that past purchase. That prior-purchase detail is what makes the pitch sound legitimate, and …

The Privacy Risk Behind a RadioShack Order Picture a retiree who orders a replacement radio battery or a set of hearing-aid batteries from a familiar electronics brand — a name, a shipping address, and a phone number entered once at checkout. Months later, mail starts arriving from companies that retiree never …

The Privacy Risk Behind an Everlane Account Someone who opens an Everlane account to order a single pair of jeans rarely thinks about where that name and address end up once the package arrives — but the moment an account exists, so does a customer-file record the company controls across its stores, its website, and …

The Privacy Risk Behind a Mosaic Records Order Picture a retiree filling out a mail-in order form for a limited-edition jazz box set — a name, a shipping address, sometimes a phone number, written by hand and mailed off to a company they've never dealt with online. Weeks later, catalogs start arriving from other …