In Germany we have such a cooling off period too, its 14 days.
Unfortunately, such schemes are very common, I don't know whether its a german thing only. There are lots of websites which offer some ridiculous service (like, calculate your body mass index or your family tree or whatever) and in the smallprint they join you up for a subscription.
This usually does not hold up in german courts; however, these companies use fear and bully the customers with lots of lawyer mail. It works on the broad masses which are uneducated in these things (only those people would disclose personal information to get a family tree from an unknown website).
There must be enough gullible people here in Germany to keep this industry flourishing.
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In Germany we have such a cooling off period too, its 14 days.
Unfortunately, such schemes are very common, I don't know whether its a german thing only. There are lots of websites which offer some ridiculous service (like, calculate your body mass index or your family tree or whatever) and in the smallprint they join you up for a subscription.
This usually does not hold up in german courts; however, these companies use fear and bully the customers with lots of lawyer mail. It works on the broad masses which are uneducated in these things (only those people would disclose personal information to get a family tree from an unknown website).
There must be enough gullible people here in Germany to keep this industry flourishing.