Title: Plugin collects data without consent
Last modified: August 19, 2025

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# Plugin collects data without consent

 *  [Jos Klever](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josklever/)
 * (@josklever)
 * [9 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-collects-data-without-consent/)
 * This plugin was installed by a client, who removed it a few hours later. I received
   an email asking why I removed it, although I had nothing to do with it. So my
   email address was used without consent. That’s a privacy issue and has been reported
   to the WP Plugins team.

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 *  Plugin Author [ProveSource LTD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/provesource/)
 * (@provesource)
 * [9 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-collects-data-without-consent/#post-18605573)
 * Thanks for bringing this to our attention, we have fixed the email collection
   in the plugin prior to signing up and creating an account in our platform.
 * The uninstall email is only sent to users who have an account in our system. 
   
   Your client created an account on our platform and thus agreed to our product’s
   ToS. Since your email was listed as the wordpress website admin email, you received
   the uninstall email as well.
 *  Thread Starter [Jos Klever](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josklever/)
 * (@josklever)
 * [9 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-collects-data-without-consent/#post-18605662)
 * You removed the collection of the admin_email, but the email was sent to that
   address and not (only) to my client’s address who signed up to your platform.
   So don’t try to make it less bad.
 *  Plugin Author [ProveSource LTD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/provesource/)
 * (@provesource)
 * [9 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-collects-data-without-consent/#post-18605768)
 * The email was sent to all email addresses associated with the account, one of
   which is the wordpress admin email, regardless of the change we’ve made you would
   still get the email as you are listed as admin.
 * It is true we collected data about the wordpress website regardless of account
   registration but the data was unused.
   This has been fixed now, so again, thanks
   for pointing this out and helping us improve.
 *  Thread Starter [Jos Klever](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josklever/)
 * (@josklever)
 * [9 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-collects-data-without-consent/#post-18605843)
 * There’s no right to use my email address, because I’ve never given you permission.
   Even if another admin on the website agrees to a ToS it doesn’t give you any 
   right to use 3rd party’s data. So don’t make it look like that. Because by these
   replies you are only making it worse.

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 * Last activity: [9 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-collects-data-without-consent/#post-18605843)