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MHLandSDZ
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#1 Posted : Friday, May 25, 2018 4:09:29 PM(UTC)

I'm a US member and so do I need to be concerned at all about the email I received today which says in part "We have sent an email to everyone impacted by this [EU] rule change, so please watch out for it and update your preferences or you may lose your EYB data including your Bookshelf"?

debkellie
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#2 Posted : Friday, May 25, 2018 6:42:40 PM(UTC)

sounds like a classic scam spam mail to me .. I'd just delete it! 

Cati
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#3 Posted : Friday, May 25, 2018 7:48:24 PM(UTC)
It is mentioned in the latest EYB newsletter. Says if you are affected you have to update your preferences.
MHLandSDZ
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#4 Posted : Friday, May 25, 2018 7:49:14 PM(UTC)

Thanks, but I'm sure it's ligit.

MHLandSDZ
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#5 Posted : Friday, May 25, 2018 7:52:50 PM(UTC)

"It is mentioned in the latest EYB newsletter. Says if you are affected you have to update your preferences."


 


What "preferences"?

Deborah
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#6 Posted : Friday, May 25, 2018 8:20:22 PM(UTC)

MHLandSDZ, if you're in the US, the new privacy rules under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) don't affect you. The GDPR only impacts EYB members in the European Union.

MHLandSDZ
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#7 Posted : Friday, May 25, 2018 8:22:36 PM(UTC)

Thanks.

Yildiz100
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#8 Posted : Monday, May 28, 2018 9:59:50 AM(UTC)
What do we have to update? I am in the EU and I saw the newsletter saying there would be an email to everyone affected by the change, but I haven't received the email telling me what needs to be done. (This is probably because up until just now my profile said I was in the U.S. I never updated it when I moved.)
Jane
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#9 Posted : Thursday, May 31, 2018 9:56:04 PM(UTC)

Yildiz100 - we did have you listed as being in the USA, which was why you did not get our initial GDPR email. I have now listed you as being in the EU so you will get our second GDPR blast email which we will send out next week. When you get it you need to confirm that you want to receive our emails (or not) and that we can store your data on our server.

wester
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#12 Posted : Friday, June 1, 2018 3:31:38 AM(UTC)

I didn't get any e-mail about the GDPR either, although I am listed as being in the Netherlands. What is going on here?

Yildiz100
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#10 Posted : Friday, June 1, 2018 1:47:28 PM(UTC)
Originally Posted by: Jane Go to Quoted Post
<p><span>Yildiz100 - we did have you listed as being in the USA, which was why you did not get our initial GDPR email. I have now listed you as being in the EU so you will get our second GDPR blast email which we will send out next week. When you get it you need to confirm that you want to receive our emails (or not) and that we can store your data on our server.</span></p>


Thanks Jane!
Jane
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#13 Posted : Tuesday, June 5, 2018 10:39:32 PM(UTC)

wester - the problem we have is that you Unsubscribed from our emails so we are not allowed to email you in a bulk email, under the Terms of Use of MailChimp, our email service provider. I'm trying to work out how we get around that one.

Yildiz100
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#11 Posted : Saturday, June 16, 2018 3:29:26 AM(UTC)
Originally Posted by: Jane Go to Quoted Post
<p><span>Yildiz100 - we did have you listed as being in the USA, which was why you did not get our initial GDPR email. I have now listed you as being in the EU so you will get our second GDPR blast email which we will send out next week. When you get it you need to confirm that you want to receive our emails (or not) and that we can store your data on our server.</span></p>


Hi Jane, has this second blast gone out? I have been watching for it but haven't seen it. Thanks!
Jane
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#14 Posted : Sunday, June 17, 2018 2:51:45 PM(UTC)

Yildiz100 - No sorry, it hasn't gone yet. But will be this week. I found we had a lot of members listed on our mailing list with no country so I am having to update those in case any of them are in the EU.

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