ATT: ANYONE WHO JOINED My SHC Community Panel (Kmart Sears)

[proudestmommy]

Hey everyone. I went to the Kmart website today to browse around a little bit and a popup asked me if I would like to join the Sears Holding Corporation panel. Here is the link. I hope it works.
It says you can try new products first, take advantage of special offers, and if you sign up, after the first month, you can get a $10.00 Kmart gift card. I signed up and thought I would pass it along so hope it works for all of you!
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[ang625]

:) thanks for posting :)

[Cheri17]

thanks

[caitlinn]

:gdthankyou:

[Mommy2Four]

:)

[jeanni]

Hi everybody. This is the first time I've tried this so if I'm doing it wrong somebody please correct me. I've been visiting this forum for several weeks now - I was so happy to find someplace that was about surveys. I've been doing them awhile now and always had something I wanted to share or ask about. Question today is - has anybody been invited to join My SHC Community? Invitation comes from K-Mart but is supposed to be for Sears and K-Mart. This is not a Communispace; it looks like a semi copy of one. If anyone has I sure would like your opinion. (I'd be happy to share the invitation if someone would tell me how. I'm REALLY new at this.)

[Mommy2Four]

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It looks like this has been mentioned before in this link. http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=73072&highlight=shc I haven't heard anything from them as of yet.

If you are looking for info on a certain company first do a search (box is in the upper right hand corner), as you can tell a lot of places have been mentioned before. Glad to have you here!!

[DramaQueenLucy]

Welcome
Please jump in and ask questions.

[judithra]

Welcome jeanni:gdbouquet1: ..

[lennon2004]

Won't let me sign up with Opera..sigh.

[1club.fm_angel]

I just went to sears.com and the pop up came up, not sure if it's a new link, but I guess they are looking for more people (since the pop-up didn't come up for me before). They still do promise a $10 gift card if you sign up and install the software that tracks your on-line usage and have it installed for atleast for a month.

http://www.myshccommunity.com/Home.aspx

To become a member of My SHC Community, we simply ask you to complete the registration process which includes providing us with your contact information as well as answering a series of profile questions that will help us get to know you better. You'll also be asked to take a few minutes to download software that is powered by (VoiceFive). This research software will confidentially track your online browsing. This will help us better understand you and your needs, enabling us to create more relevant future offerings for you, other community members, and eventually all shoppers. You can uninstall the software at any time through the Add/Remove program utility on your computer. During the registration process, you'll learn more about this application software and you'll always have the opportunity to ask any and every question you may have.

Once you're a member of My SHC Community, you'll regularly interact with My SHC Community members as well as employees of Sears Holdings Corporation through special online engagements, surveys, chats and other fun and informative online techniques. We'll ask you to journal your shopping and purchasing behavior. Again, this will be when you want and how you want to record it - always on your terms and always by your choice. We'll also collect information on your internet usage. Community engagements are always fun and always voluntary! In exchange for becoming a member of My SHC Community:



You'll gain entry into the My SHC Community Registration Sweepstakes1, with sweepstake drawings worth $5,000, $2,500, and $1,000! Prizes are distributed every two months so there are lots of opportunities to win!
$10 sent to you after one month of active membership, just for joining this online community and installing the software application 2.
Be among the first to try new products and take advantage of special offers.
You may receive information directly from Sears Holdings Corporation. You'll have the chance to share your thoughts and feelings about products, services and offers. And you'll always have the opportunity to ask any and every question you have.
You'll partner directly with employees of Sears Holdings Corporation. The more you engage in and interact with the community, the more opportunity you'll have to shape the future of retail experiences - in-store, on-line, and services!

[arress]

Signed up tonight thanks!!

[Mommax2in2006]

thanks!

[jarerice]

thanks i signed up

[shamrockmom]

can see signup page, but then goes to blank page :(

[dmm2702]

I just got my first survey from them :)

[DramaQueenLucy]

Consumers were outraged when a settlement first reported on WalletPop in June was reached between Sears Holdings over an accusation by the Federal Trade Commission that the owner of Sears and Kmart was spying on the web use and online shopping habits of its customers. They won't be a lot happier with the ending.

The feds just officially resolved the case after commissioners accepted the proposed settlement and the penalty for Sears' alleged overzealous, privacy invading behavior wasn't even a slap on the wrist. It was a gentle touch. The harshest part of whole situation was the FTC actually letting people know the situation even happened.

The penalty: if Sears offers such a software program again it should be more honest about the implications. Sears has to destroy all the data -- which was already done. And, Sears needs to help those who want to uninstall the software.

Ouch. That should discourage other companies from doing this sort of thing.

Between April 2007 and January 2008, visitors to the Kmart and Sears web sites were invited to join an "online community" for which they would be paid $10 with the idea they would be helping the company learn more about their customers. It turned out they learned a lot more than participants realized or that the feds thought was reasonable.

To join the "My SHC Community," users downloaded software that ended up grabbing some members' prescription information, emails, bank account data and purchases on other sites. Sears called the group that participated "small" and said the data captured by the program was at all times secure and was then destroyed.

The FTC filed a complaint against Sears, accusing the retailer of deceiving those who signed up for the service and downloaded the software.

"(Sears) failed to disclose adequately that the software application, when installed, would: monitor nearly all of the Internet behavior that occurs on consumers' computers, including information exchanged between consumers and websites other than those owned, operated, or affiliated with respondent, information provided in secure sessions when interacting with third-party websites, shopping carts, and online accounts, and headers of web-based email; track certain non-Internet related activities taking place on those computers; and transmit nearly all of the monitored information (excluding selected categories of filtered information) to respondent's remote computer servers," the FTC concluded.

Link http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/09/14/sears-gets-a-gentle-touch-to-the-wrist-for-allegedly-spying-on-i/?icid=main|hp-laptop|dl2|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.walletpop.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F09%2F14%2Fsears-gets-a-gentle-touch-to-the-wrist-for-allegedly-spying-on-i%2F