Is it just me?
My son is a Freshman in HS.
He's taking Tennis.
Two days ago I got an email from the coach. Mind you this is only the 2nd full week of school.
Conner is supposed to bring in a list of 20 family / friends email addresses that will be turned over to a third party fundraising organization who will take it from there.
Uhm, you want me to give you family and friends info so you can spam them? Sorry but nope.
Before I even consider that I want to know who this 3rd party is, I want to see their privacy policy, I want to know if those addresses will be used just this once then deleted or will this be on going, I want to know if this 3rd party will share, rent, or sell my friends and families info.
One of my neighbors kids, a couple years older, was in Tennis and she told me they've been doing this 3 years now.
I've looked up the company (
https://snap-raise.com/) and no where on their site is a Privacy Policy, EULA, TOC.
I spoke to one of the coaches earlier and expressed my concern and asked for whatever literature they had which is not surprisingly none.
It's all done through the company rep who comes on site to get the data.
I asked to get the reps contact info, he replied he'd have to ask to see if it was OK to pass that along.
Am I crazy or blowing this out of proportion? A company that I've never heard of wants email addresses from friends and family yet they don't publish any information on how they retain or otherwise use that info.
And we are expected to just hand it over?
The entire email I received two days ago.
We will be kicking off our annual fundraiser on Wednesday morning. We need all players to be at the tennis courts by 8:00 with a list of 20 emails of friends and family. The beauty of this fundraiser is that it keeps our kids from having to go door to door. Once the kids submit their emails, it's done! The company we work with takes care of the rest.
Thank you for your support.
Coach B.