{"id":1744,"date":"2024-03-29T00:46:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T00:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/questions-raised-over-temu-cash-giveaway-offer\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T00:46:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T00:46:21","slug":"questions-raised-over-temu-cash-giveaway-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/questions-raised-over-temu-cash-giveaway-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions raised over Temu cash ‘giveaway’ offer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Questions raised over Temu cash ‘giveaway’ offer<\/p>\n

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Legal and consumer experts have expressed concerns about a cash giveaway by e-retailer, Temu.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Participants in the promotion – which has gone viral on social media – receive up to \u00a350, but have to agree to permanently hand over considerable amounts of personal data. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Experts say that is potentially “problematic”. The data regulator says it is considering such concerns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But Temu insists what it is doing is standard industry practice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What is Temu’s campaign?<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Temu’s giveaway gives new users 24 hours to sign up other people using a shareable link in order for them to each receive a cash reward of between \u00a340 and \u00a350 – paid to their PayPal accounts – or in Temu store credit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Existing Temu account holders can also participate, but appear to have to reach a higher threshold for such rewards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Thousands of users eager to cash in on the promotion have been seen posting links across social media sites.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But it has also been the subject of memes and posts scrutinising the rules.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The section receiving the most scrutiny states that “except to the extent prohibited by applicable law”, participants give the company consent to use and publish their “photo, name, likeness, voice, opinions, statements, biographical information, and\/or hometown and state” for advertising or promotional purposes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It adds this can take place in any media worldwide and “in perpetuity” – meaning with no fixed end date.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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One such post on X (formerly Twitter) with screengrabs of the campaign’s usage and publicity rules has been viewed more than two million times, according to the platform’s metrics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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