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by mixdup 3 days ago
I think the "marketing/offers" means discounts? To be eligible for the discounts or special offers, you have to be a member of the club, and if you are a member of the club you have to be willing to receive the email messages, and somehow under EU law you're entitled to all discounts I guess?
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That's pretty disingenuous thing to say.

The company was also processing, transferring and selling private data without doing as much as informing their customers.

It's perfectly possible to offer discounts to customers without egregious violations of law and privacy.

Even if you opt out of marketing emails, they can still collect information about you, which is useful