online shopping and emails

[PrincessFiona]

I visited CJ Banks online yesterday and within 12 hours, I got an email from them about points on my account. This is the 2nd time this has happened. Is this just a bizarre coincidence? Anyone else experience this with a retailer?

[BonBon]

Yes, and I hate it. Pottery Barn/PBTeen/PBkids all do this, even when I'm not signed in. I would get an email saying come back, and check out ....whatever it was that I was looking at. Grr. I DID notice that when I visit, I get more coupons. (I turned off the email notifications, btw. Not sure how many stores offer that option.)

[PrincessFiona]

I wasn't signed in either. Just browsing. The lack of privacy is so annoying!

[diggitydot]

online shopping and emails

Check your phone settings. The store likely has a geofence set up and you can change your phone settings to not enable them to detect you.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo-fence

Go into your iPhone settings, click on "General". In the "Genernal" menu, select "Background App Refresh" and disable it. This will stop your phone from triggering the geofence. I think you can turn off geofences in "Location Services", too, but I think that requires you completely shut off "Location Services".

[diggitydot]

online shopping and emails

Whoops! Disregard. I thought you meant you visited a physical store. Never mind. That will teach me to not read the thread title.

If you're shopping online, even not logged in, they can track you using cookies. If you don't want to constantly clear your cache and delete cookies, you can use a "private" browser that doesn't allow tracking or you can download add-ons to your browser that will block this tracking.

[BonBon]

I hadn't heard of geofences, but that's got me icked out too. Considering I never go into a physical store except target or wegmans, that's probably why.