Privacy

[jodijodi]

I have a question regarding the privacy and use of our personal information in the workout manager (and in other parts of the forum as well.) Is there (or will there soon be) a privacy policy to cover this?

I understand that we can keep other forum members from seeing our personal information, but what about SNM and the forum administrators? Will they see our info? And what happens to this information? Will SNM be able to use this information for marketing purposes? For example, if you all know which DVDs we own, would you use this information to market certain products to us? Will you be able to use our statistics for your own purposes, either in the aggregate or individually? Another example: keeping track of how much weight forum members have lost, or marketing cardio DVDs to those whose goals include weight loss, etc. Or could info from the 1RM calculator be used in the aggregate for creating future workouts?

I don't want to come across as paranoid, but before I enter personal info into an online location I would want to know how it will be used and who will be able to see it.

 

[bitmover]

I think you've got to assume that if they're giving us all of this functionality for free, and they're collecting some info, they're probably going to use it to their advantage (which ultimately is also to our advantage) and that's the trade off. This new website looks like it was a huge undertaking, and I cannot imagine how much it cost, but just as one data point I think they did say they had seven programmers working on it at one point. Think about all of those salaries to pay. Personally, I was afraid the new site might be littered with ads to help pay for it. I'm happy to help them out with marketing data if that helps offset costs in some way.

-Beth

 

[jodijodi]

Oh, I agree...I'm not saying I have a problem with collecting personal data. I just want to know what they will be collecting and what they will be doing with it before I get started.

Heck, I worked in marketing for years...I would have given my eye teeth to get this kind of data on my customers, LOL!