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At my company we used to only ask for email address. No names, no phone numbers, no mailing addresses. Because we understood that technical people don't like sp

At my company we used to only ask for email address. No names, no phone numbers, no mailing addresses. Because we understood that technical people don't like spam and don't like to give out their data. So we don't ask for them. We also didn't send any reminders for them to check whether their email address was up to date. No account update reminders. To prevent annoying people with spam. So other than sending emails and hoping that they read it, there was nothing else we could do.

zuppy 3y ago
> So other than sending emails and hoping that they read it, there was nothing else we could do. but there are other ways. you can put a big red popup that can only be dismissed by typing "i agree" when the customer logins, you can put the service into read only mode, even with email you can send daily reminders for the last 30 days with a subject like "your data will be deleted in 21 days", etc there are so many things that could have been done.
- FooBarWidget 3y ago
  What we sold was software that customers deploy locally. We don't have any of their data. But the software would stop working if their license is no longer valid, resulting in downtime. That already made people angry enough. Now we have changed it so that the software never turns off even if license has expired (though it will continue to nag an email address). Updates also cannot be installed.