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Thank you for reaching out.
We’d like to clarify that unsubscribing from the PledgeBox newsletter will not affect emails related to your survey. If you choose not to subscribe to the PledgeBox newsletter, you will still receive survey-related emails, including survey emails and shipping notification emails.
You can also choose whether or not to tick these options based on your preferences.
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![Hello PledgeBox team,While completing the survey for the KodeDot, I noticed the wording of the two communication checkboxes shown in the attached screenshot: [screenshot from previous post]
The first asks me to subscribe to the PledgeBox newsletter for both reward-tracking updates and campaign recommendations. This appears to suggest that I need to subscribe to marketing to receive tracking updates, even though I can unsubscribe afterwards. The reassurance that survey updates will continue does not clearly explain whether reward and shipping updates are also independent of the newsletter subscription.
The second asks for a single agreement to the creator using my email address and phone number for “marketing and notifications.” This leaves me unsure how to decline creator marketing without also appearing to decline necessary notifications about my pledge.
My concern is therefore about the apparent bundling of marketing consent with fulfilment communications, rather than simply whether an unsubscribe option is available later. My understanding is that GDPR requires consent to be freely given, specific and informed, and that making necessary fulfilment communications conditional on accepting unrelated marketing would not meet those requirements (particularly Article 7(4) and Recital 43).
I appreciate that this may not be the intended meaning of the checkboxes, but the current wording leaves me unsure whether I can decline marketing without also declining important updates about my pledge.
Could you please confirm that I can leave both boxes unticked from the outset, complete the survey, and still receive the ordinary pledge, fulfilment, shipping and tracking notifications that would otherwise be sent?
If those notifications are already independent of the marketing choices, could you please make that explicit alongside the checkboxes? It would also help to separate optional marketing opt-ins from the explanation of how necessary service notifications are delivered.
I appreciate that this may be a wording issue rather than how the system actually operates. Thank you for checking it and passing it to your privacy/data-protection contact where appropriate.
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