# Subscription with a Credit Card privacy update **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 7, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-with-a-credit-card-privacy-update/448493 "2008-05-07T23:05:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-with-a-credit-card-privacy-update/448493/1 "2008-05-07T23:05:11Z")
On 6-01-07 [Ed says](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=423183&highlight=privacy) \* 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? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-with-a-credit-card-privacy-update/448493/2 "2008-05-08T11:38:26Z")
I don’t know for sure, but what makes you think this would change? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-with-a-credit-card-privacy-update/448493/3 "2008-05-08T13:22:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-with-a-credit-card-privacy-update/448493/4 "2008-05-08T14:09:16Z")
[QUOTE=jimmmy] On 6-01-07 [Ed says](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=423183&highlight=privacy) \* 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. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-with-a-credit-card-privacy-update/448493/5 "2008-05-08T14:49:51Z")
[QUOTE=TubaDiva] Nothing has changed. We have no access to your credit card information whatsoever. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-with-a-credit-card-privacy-update/448493/6 "2008-05-08T20:45:00Z")
We got our own hookers and blow. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-with-a-credit-card-privacy-update/448493/7 "2008-05-08T22:48:10Z")
Thank you for a reasonable, factual answer Tuba. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-with-a-credit-card-privacy-update/448493/8 "2008-05-09T00:43:52Z")
[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. [/QUOTE] So _you’re_ the one who was over his limit when we went to that… ---
**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-with-a-credit-card-privacy-update/448493/9 "2013-08-24T20:10:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-with-a-credit-card-privacy-update/448493/10 "2013-08-24T20:27:08Z")
> [@jharvey963](#): > > 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. I do not believe the SDMB keeps CC info anywhere. Subscriptions work through Paypal (either through a Paypal account or through the Paypal portal). ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-with-a-credit-card-privacy-update/448493/11 "2013-08-24T21:41:03Z")
Yeah, we don’t keep that information – and there’s no auto-renewal function. When you renew, payment goes through PayPal.