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Invasion of privacy

di11on · 2008-01-31 15:47:01

If someone posted an honest opinion of a service provided by a company in response to a request for such opinions by another boardsie and that person was subsequently telephoned by the company concerned in response to that post, asking for it to be removed - would this be considered an invasion of privacy?

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#92 01-02-2008 1:29pm
Morlar

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I am going to be in the market for a permanent hosting solution within the next month or so - I dont know if I would have stumbled across them otherwise but after reading this thread there is no way in hell I am dealing with them. This is like the skanger concept of customer service 'bleedin slaggin are ya'.

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#93 01-02-2008 1:50pm
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From their T&Cs

Abuse:
Any attempts to undermine, slander, libel, threaten, or cause harm to a Lets Host server, customer, employee, or the company directly is strictly prohibited and is grounds for immediate termination without refund. In addition, we will pursue all attempts to the fullest extent of the law.

Still, seems like real bully tactics. I know if I was using them, I'd be moving elsewhere tomorrow.

Certainly not a company I'd want to deal with. I did look at a .ie domain, but never got around to getting it.

Very interesting thread.

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#94 01-02-2008 2:11pm
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When was the T&Cs last updated?

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#95 01-02-2008 2:37pm
Morlar

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If they had a molecule of business sense they would come on here and turn this around by apologising to the op in this thread and give them free hosting for the next 5 years.

While they are at it they could make it clear that its not their policy to track down and ring at home (then cut off hosting service of) any customers of theirs who post a negative thought about them on the internet.

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#96 01-02-2008 5:29pm
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Are we sure this wasn't just an unfortunate coincidence?

1. OP makes his post
2. Letshost contact him to get it removed (note: Hosting365 did this to me once too - so it's not just letshost who ring customers asking them to remove negative posts.)
3. Site goes offline.

Maybe 3 was a **** up? It's unlikely, but it's possible...

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#97 01-02-2008 5:41pm
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Well from what I've read the site had a "site suspended" or similar notice on it for a while, and the DNS record for the site was changed to an invalid IP address 1.1.1.1

I also believe the OP received an email letting them know the suspension was for breaching the T&C's, no **** up there that was deliberate.

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#98 01-02-2008 5:45pm
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Correct and right.
The email is posted at http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=55023314&postcount=1

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#99 01-02-2008 5:45pm
mneylon

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dublindude wrote: »

Are we sure this wasn't just an unfortunate coincidence?

1. OP makes his post
2. Letshost contact him to get it removed (note: Hosting365 did this to me once too - so it's not just letshost who ring customers asking them to remove negative posts.)
3. Site goes offline.

Maybe 3 was a **** up? It's unlikely, but it's possible...

see this thread:

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055228547

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#100 01-02-2008 5:59pm
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This really isnt feedback for Boards. The phone number wasnt supplied by us (we dont hold phone numbers on profiles in general, and if we did we certainly wouldnt give it out).

this whole things sounds bananas but, well.... we don't have a Web Hosting forum here for good reasons...

Glad you are back up and running...

DeV.

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