Did you win 100,000 Avios with Bink?

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• Tony says:

  16 Dec16 December 06:22

  Congrats Robert, enjoy your trip!

  • Rob Nelson says:

    16 Dec16 December 17:17

    Thanks very much Tony and many thanks to Rob and Anika for organising such a great competition (plus HFP in general)! I’m very surprised and pleased to win considering there were so many entries!

• Sh83 says:

  16 Dec16 December 06:26

  If the curve card is linked to bink and any payment card is used in background. Does that mean one can potentially double dip on Bink Rewards and upcoming Curve Rewards earnings?

  • Rob says:

    16 Dec16 December 06:34

    We don’t know yet. It is certainly possible.

• Nick says:

  16 Dec16 December 06:43

  The Bink app gives the company behind Bink access to sensitive information on your spending habits and enables Bink to share and sell this information. I was very concerned that as a result of signing up to Bink I would start to receive large amounts of Spam Marketing information from third party companies. It is well worth reading the Bink Privacy Policy http://www.bink.com/privacy-policy/ which seems highly onerous. Under that policy, you will see that you can contact Bink at helpme@bink.com and request that you Account and Personal Information are deleted. I signed up to the app due to the HFP competition but after doing so read the Privacy Policy. I have now deleted the account having read the Privacy Policy. Other readers may choose to do the same.

  • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

    16 Dec16 December 07:17

    That seems unfair – as I read it, they require those permissions to provide the service as described. I haven’t signed up with the app, but reading the privacy policy suggests that consent for third party marketing is on an explicit opt-in basis.

    • Nick says:

      16 Dec16 December 07:33

      Andrew, It does indeed say that but it also says “Please note that by registering for the Service you have consented to our sharing your information”. Does this not mean that by using the app you are deemed to have explicitly opted in?

      • TC says:

        16 Dec16 December 08:26

        Thanks Nick, I did the same but as the app didn’t actually recognise my visit to Pizza Express and after constant emails to Bink with no reply I’m going to do the same. For me it’s just not worth the hassle. I’ve already removed my card but how quickly did they get back to you to confirm?

      • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

        16 Dec16 December 08:50

        The way I read the policy led me to believe there were two different elements: sharing your information with third parties to provide the service (e.g. Avios, Pizza Express) that happens when you sign up, and sharing your information for marketing purposes that requires ‘your express permission’ which I would not expect to be an automatic ‘soft opt-in’. Hopefully someone from Bink is reading and can clarify.

        • Andrew says:

          16 Dec16 December 10:28

          That is also how I read it…

          I am, however, becoming increasingly suspicious of firm’s data-sharing practices – although I am a relentless complainer when it comes to targetted marketing without my consent.

          NewDay and Capital One Bank both have a staggering disregard for marketing preferences. Capital One recently made a unilateral decision to credit-score me – even though I have never had, nor would ever consider having an account with a sub-prime lender… They refuse to disclose why, although have agreed to delete the enquiry.

          Dixons-CarphoneWarehouse are in my sights at the moment with a complaint to the ICO. DCW are refusing to investigate my complaint regarding the sharing of marketing data unless I pay them a fee!

• BigDave says:

  16 Dec16 December 08:04

  no i didnt win because it was UK only and I couldn’t be bothered to faff about with VPNs and location changers

  • bryan says:

    16 Dec16 December 09:28

    Are you saying if you it wasn’t UK only you would have won?

    • Rob says:

      16 Dec16 December 09:31

      If you use Chrome, sign up for Tunnelbear which can be added as a Chrome extension.

      Turning on a VPN is then as simply as clicking the tiny bear icon which sits in the Chrome toolbar.

• Anon says:

  16 Dec16 December 08:29

  Didn’t bother with this one due to privacy concerns as mentioned above

  • xcalx says:

    16 Dec16 December 08:46

    +1

• Anon says:

  16 Dec16 December 08:31

  O/T Where’s the IHG Iggy?

  Middle, down a bit.

  98500 points
  DENBY 199040950 HALO 16 PCE DINNER SET
  DB-106

  • aliks says:

    16 Dec16 December 08:39

    Thanks!

    • Kirill says:

      16 Dec16 December 09:12

      Cheers!

      • Rash says:

        16 Dec16 December 09:55

        Thanks!

• James says:

  16 Dec16 December 10:04

  Congratulations Robert.

• danksy says:

  16 Dec16 December 11:24

  Congrats Robert – Enjoy !

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