E: 26/09 Win a Acer Aspire One Netbook (Twitter)

james_db

Win a Acer Aspire One Netbook using Twitter and Competwition.

http://competwition.com/acer-ibamuk

weeowens

Cheers for the comp.The cynic in me asks what is the purpose of the site.High value prizes & no obvious sponsors.I appreciate the PR staff replied here but I'm going to drive by.Thanks for the effort

slbhill

You have to allow "Competwitions" to access your twitter account.

This application will be able to:

• Read Tweets from your timeline.
• See who you follow, and follow new people.
• Update your profile.
• Post Tweets for you

weeowens

So is it a marketing/data collection exercise slbhill

slbhill

weeowens wrote: »

So is it a marketing/data collection exercise slbhill

Not really sure to be honest. I've had a look at their privacy policy, and a case study from one of their clients. It seems to be that they co-ordinate prize draws for brands who want to increase their publicity. I can't find anything dodgy but I just don't like the look of it - particularly the way their site works. Maybe it's no worse than others, it just gives me a bad feeling.

The privacy policy does have this:
We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by email or telephone.