How Did A Website Get My Email Address Without Entering It

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How Did That Website Get Your Email Address

September 1, 2018

How Did A Website Get My Email Address Without Entering It

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1 How Did A Website Get My Email Address Without Entering It

2 Shared Cookies

3 Possible Coincidence

4 Who Can Access Your Personal Information From A Website?

Did a website you visited send you an email at your own email address after you visited the website, yet you never entered your email address?

Shared Cookies

Some websites share cookies, so if you visited a website a week ago and entered your email address on it and then a week later went to a website that is also controlled by the same group, people, or company; the cookie recognizes you are on their partner website and may use the email you entered on their other site to automatically in the background send you an email, even though you never entered it on the partner website.

The cookie is stored on your computer in your browser, and it remembers you.

For example: If you log into Google Gmail, and then go to Youtube – Google transported your username and password from one website to another in the background and automatically logged you in to Youtube, since Youtube is a partner/controlled by Google also.

Look at their privacy policy and see if they do have a network of sites, along with a network of partners, that all share contact data entered on forms. you may notice that the privacy policy pretty much allows them to store and keep your email address on their sites, their partner sites, and even third-party non-partner websites.

Possible Coincidence

It is possible the company or entity that is sending you emails at your email address snagged your email from the internet and is coincidentally sending you marketing emails around the same time you are browsing their website.

Who Can Access Your Personal Information From A Website?

The only person who can legally access personally identifiable information from a webpage without your permission is law enforcement under a warrant for the search.

Thomas J. Kane

At 16 years old in 1997 I built my first client website for a car dealership. At 17 I was one of the first few people in Kansas to be Cisco Networking Certified and I helped co-build the first computer network for a high school, two elementary schools, a hospital, and a 911 station. By the age of 40 now I have over 25,000 hours in content writing mastery and Google Advertising/SEO and have worked with over 480 different industries, amazing mentors, SEO & PPC corporate team leader at Godaddy.com, trained other SEO company's staff, managed over $37M dollars in advertising spend since 2007 for multiple companies and spent over $1M in A/B testing, created landing pages, sales funnels and massive PPC campaigns for the USA's #1 automotive leads provider, helped expand a global e-commerce business from 5 English sites to 122 sites in 30 countries in 7 languages, owned two #1 top-ranked SEO companies, in both Arizona & Kansas. Won all-expense-paid trip awards from Google for PPC performance, and been to the headquarters in Boston and California, and worked with 3 dedicated senior Google PPC teams at 3 major companies. I run an online advertising service for Montana, Kansas, Arizona & Florida businesses, as well as manage large campaigns for online national stores and services. Into renewable energy, solar, wind energy, crypto currency, Tesla, Nikola, natural health and healing, traveling, psychology, human behavior analysis, lie detection, forward progress, inspirational and educational writing, research, and analysis. Fascinated with AI (https://thomasj.ai/) and how it relates to the future of search and information.