I bought two tickets for the Suisse Caravan Salon in Bern and during checkout the webshop dropped this lovely nugget on me: they want to pass all my details to their “respective sales partners in my home country” so those partners can send me “suitable offers and services.”
The catch: the only checkbox on the page is “I have read and agree to the Privacy Policy.” No separate consent toggle, no opt-out, nothing. Agree or don’t buy the tickets.

Is this legal? Can an event/webshop force you to consent to marketing/data-sharing with third-party sales partners as a condition of purchase under Swiss/EU data rules? Or is this unlawful bundling of consent? If anyone here is a data privacy lawyer, DPO, or just painfully familiar with privacy regs, can you tell me:
If it’s not lawful, what’s the best next step, email the organiser, file a complaint with the authorities (which?), threaten a chargeback, or something else?

I only wanted to see new camper vans, not become a lifetime lead for marketers.

by jmmv2005

4 comments

  2. It ain’t a valid consent as it wasn’t freely given (you had no other choice if you wanted to buy the tickets). In practice probably the easiest way is to contact them, inform them about this and request your personal data to be deleted. Pm me if you have any additional questions regarding this.

  3. You are trying to buy a ticket to a private event from a private company, they can refuse you access to the event for any reason.

    Send them a email, at best it’s a programming error and they will quickly fix it.

  4. Isn’t that to validate the can share your data with the event organizer? 

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