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Living Room / Re: "We do not receive your credit card or personal information when you donate"
« on: September 25, 2007, 11:12 PM »
Thanks for the extra info, and the responsiveness.
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We don't receive any credit card information but paypal tells us your *paypal* registered name and email address.Though you actually don't need to have a PayPal account in order to use PayPal with a credit card, and indeed I don't have one. (The PayPal page to which DC links includes a PayPal login box for any existing account, and after you complete a non-account transaction they encourage you to 'instantly' create an account using the data you've just input, but both are entirely optional).
Sometimes in fact this can cause some issues because quite a few people haven't used their paypal account in so long that their email address is no longer valid.-mouser (September 25, 2007, 10:02 PM)
For people who truly want to be anonymous, the amazon.com alternate method of donating (see here) is completely anonymous, which makes things strange since I then need you to contact me to tell me you donated and the transaction id, etc so i can send you a license key and forum membership.Which is fine (albeit at greater deduction of fees from you), if people already know that they need to use that for an anonymous alternative. As your privacy disclaimer presently stands, the credit-card-via-PayPal method is less private than it appears to be. So I still think it could do with some clarification, so that potential donors are better informed about their options, beforehand.
You can use the forum upgrade/activation code you get when you donate to upgrade any account on the forum to full supporter status -- it doesn't have to be in any way related to the paypal account, and you can give it to a friend as a gift, etc. Then once the account is upgraded on the forum and recognized as a supporting member, that person can go to the license key page on the forum (https://www.donation...r.com/Keys/index.php) and a new key will be created specifically for that forum account (with the forum account name and email address).Perfect!
There may also be cases where you may want a specific name/email on your license key about box and don't want it to say your forum information. In this case, see item #4 in the original email you get when you donate, it says "4)Should you wish a different name for your license, just email us."How is anyone supposed to see that, if you put it right there under their noses?
ps. due to popular request, there is also a way to get special license keys if you are a time traveler: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1413.0
"All donations are processed securely by trusted financial services. We do not receive your credit card or personal information when you donate, and we will not share your email with anyone."