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carloroosen / campaign-monitor-dual-registration

When users register on WP, they are also added to the CM list
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Legality? #1

Open martinbean opened 8 years ago

martinbean commented 8 years ago

Under UK law, users need to deliberately opt in to an email marketing list, I imagine similar laws will exist in most other countries too. This plugin will fall foul of these laws if it is just cross-adding any registrants’ email addresses to a Campaign Monitor list also.

carloroosen commented 8 years ago

Good question. You are right, you should not be adding registrants from a public registration form on your website to Campaign Monitor and then blindly send unsolicited email from that list.

If you have a public registration form on your WordPress website you should add an opt-in checkbox to the form. The checkbox data should be stored in a custom user field, then you can use a filter in Campaign Monitor. Creating such a checkbox is not part of this plugin, it does not hook into the registration process itself.

I believe the person who sends marketing email is responsible for taking care of the anti-spam laws. I don't think it will be easy to blame the plugin, but I am not a lawyer.