Subscription with a Credit Card privacy update

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On 6-01-07 Ed says
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If you subscribe to the SDMB using a credit card, your card number and related information is retained in a secure database at our office. Access to this database is restricted to authorized Reader personnel. SDMB moderators and administrators do not have access to the database.*

Still true?

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I don’t know for sure, but what makes you think this would change?

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The Admins have repeatedly stated that they have no access to this information. The change of ownership of the Reader doesn’t seem to have affected this in any way.

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[QUOTE=jimmmy]
On 6-01-07 Ed says
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If you subscribe to the SDMB using a credit card, your card number and related information is retained in a secure database at our office. Access to this database is restricted to authorized Reader personnel. SDMB moderators and administrators do not have access to the database.*

Still true?
[/QUOTE]
Nothing has changed. We have no access to your credit card information whatsoever.

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[QUOTE=TubaDiva]
Nothing has changed. We have no access to your credit card information whatsoever.
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Are you sure? Because someone tried to use mine in Las Vegas last month, and it wouldn’t surprise me if a couple of you moderators were trying to live it up on my account. Something about an “escort.”

If you’d just admit it, I’d understand.

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We got our own hookers and blow. :smiley:

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Thank you for a reasonable, factual answer Tuba.

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[QUOTE=guizot]
Are you sure? Because someone tried to use mine in Las Vegas last month, and it wouldn’t surprise me if a couple of you moderators were trying to live it up on my account. Something about an “escort.”

If you’d just admit it, I’d understand.
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So you’re the one who was over his limit when we went to that…

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I’m a currently subscribed member and my credit card information just changed. I can’t find anywhere in the user_cp to notify the Straight Dope of this.

Where can I change my credit card information for my Straight Dope subscription?

Thanks,
J.

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I do not believe the SDMB keeps CC info anywhere. Subscriptions work through Paypal (either through a Paypal account or through the Paypal portal).

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Yeah, we don’t keep that information – and there’s no auto-renewal function. When you renew, payment goes through PayPal.