*warning: Sainsbury Car Insurance*

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Just done a car insurance quote check via moneysupermarket. Results are about as expected from an aggregator: good, bad, downright bonkers.

One seemingly attractive result was a quote by Sainsburys for its motor insurance. We then followed the link to the site to re-check the details. . .

And discovered that unlike just about every other such site we've visited, there's no check-box option:

If you ask for an insurance quote, Sainsburys automatically shares your personal info with whoever it likes for the purposes of bombarding you with whatever it and those third parties feel like.

Go to Sainsburys 'personal data' policy page and it's helpfully explained that if you do want to "opt out" of being targeted, then you must write a letter to Sainsburys at its data centre in Chester.

However, you should think carefully about writing such a letter because you'll then be disqualified from receiving news of all kinds of special offers and great-deals-promotions from God knows who or where.

Yeah. Right. Go to all that trouble instead of ticking, or unticking, a single Data Protection box on a web page?

Sainsburys needs a good kicking up the !!!!!.

Its practice in this regard is as sleazy as it gets and it knows it: in the intervening period between you innocently accepting a car insurance quote and eventually realising you really will have to write to that nice Mr Sainsbury and say sod off with your spam, your personal information will already have been circulating for quite a while.

Sainsburys doesn't deserve the custom of any MSEr who thinks protecting their privacy is at least as important as protecting their No Claims bonus.