All consumers...beware!
Do not give out your vital statistics to every company that says they require them for their programs.
They all say it is just to make certain that no one under age is playing thei games for cash or prizes or in this case just an online account to keep tract of Reward Bonus Points!
Read on....and see that these companies not only retain our information and yours that we give them...they say that they do not sell our information or trade mailing lists...
BEWARE & WARNED!!
There is always some kind of fine print no one pays attention to, some companies do not even put in fine print at all.
Once a certain date period which can vary from company to company...they consider that promise not to share your information null and void.
Hence why my 7 year old address & the old phone number of that address is starting to pop up in places....such as Walgreens.
I did give this pharmacist a new PO BOX mailing address which is in my automatic signature here explaining we are about to move still again.
He did update our information as requested.
Folks be careful giving out your birth date and or Social Security Number.
There are very few things which we must give such information to such as to doctors, hospitals where we are treated, and certainly to drugstore that fills medical prescriptions.
But not for online points when you make purchases.
Protect yourself by acting responsibly and safely.
Write companies which you would like to do business with but refuse to be at risk..
If they do not correct what you request...Please add your smile or sillohette under FOLLOWERS please using Friend Connect.
Then start using the comment section to share your consumer complaints and what you have done about them.
When only one consumer complains they are seen as whiners they do not need as customers.
But when we all band together....they will listen.....eventually some companies will be forced to comply by the courts through class action suits.
I invite your comments and support...Prayers and contributions to help this cause can be sent to:
Mr & Mrs William Gustavson
PO BOX 1175
Madisonville, LA 70447
USA
Forwarded conversation
Subject:
Case# 90..... - Balance rewards
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From: <ContactUs@mail.walgreens.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 8:01 PM
To: estherstephanadacan@gmail.com
Dear Mrs William Gustavson,
I have received your case in which you do not find it fair to have to give your birthdate for online registration with the balance rewards program. This feature is for your security, and to ensure the points you earn go to the correct customer, it is also for Walgreens protection to ensure the customer is not under the age of thirteen. There is no work around for this, and I am afraid the birthdate is required. I apologize for my delayed response, and the trouble that it may have caused.
If you have any further questions or need additional assistance regarding this case please reply to this e-mail, or call me at the toll free number below, and reference case #: 907841.
I would also like to invite you to rate your service experience with me by taking a brief 4 question survey. Please know 9's mean outstanding!
If the above survey link does not work please copy this URL into your browser's address bar to view the survey:
https://walgreens.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_e54QLgWheP0Npn7&Location=WCCCMSL2&agentID=agwyat6h&Case=907841
We at Walgreens.com look forward to serving all of your prescription, photo and drugstore needs. Be well.
Sincerely,
Alexander W.
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From: Mrs Stephanie Carroll Gustavson <estherstephanadacan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 7:31 AM
To: ContactUs@mail.walgreens.com
Actually Alexander W.
Other companies such as Office Maxx and a few others have obliged and given us our Max Perks online account without birth dates.
This is actually material for class action suits against many such companies requiring personal information for online accounts.
When I filled a prescription on November 16, 2013 at a local Walgreens for my husband...and our Pre-Hurricane Katrina Address was typed onto his medicine bottle automatically....Pharmacist nor his clerk asked for an updated address even though this was the first time this particular Walgreens had ever filled a prescription for either of us.
We had gone in there to discuss possibly having my husband's oral chemo filled there.
We have gone in spoken with pharmacist, Ryan, and received god counsel for over counter medical needs in the past.
But this was the first prescription filled.
A pre-operative pain killer for my husband.
But since our old address that we had permanently moved from on February 1, 2007 was printed on his bottle, I know that you retain all personal Identifying information for excessively long periods of time.
And you know that we do have a long history of spending money at Walgreens.
Sad that you too...no different than other large companies who are having to close many locations...due to customer dis-satisfaction,
Walgreens will likely be the next to be added to such list...no different than Winn-Dixie closing their Bogalusa, LA store by January 1, 2014.
I keep busy in between taking care of my suffering Vietnam Veteran husband blogging, Facebooking and Tweeting about companies who either have rude employees seated in high places, or whose policies...such as yours requiring public to place vital statistics in email and websites which put them at risk for fraud regardless what your internet security is because it is the poor who use Balance Rewards and similar programs.
Most folks in the same financial class as us...struggling are not educated as we are and therefore do not understand the risk of giving their vital information on the internet...
For chances are most poor people either do not have Internet Security on their own computer or they have sub-standard low cost security that is not as effective and so....
You are taking advantage of the poor who do not even have the understanding that you are abusing them.
I will be eventually placing these letters...yours and this reply of mine back to you.....all over the blogs, Facebook etc...
Sincerely,
Mrs William Gustavson
