CREDIT CARD HYPOCRISY: "We value your privacy"

Dear Chase Credit Card:

I'm confused.

I received this nice letter from Deb Walden, your Executive Vice president, Customer Experience saying "Customer privacy has never been more important. . . Your privacy concerns are important to us." I was so relieved.

Until I read the Chase privacy Policy which says: you may "share information about me within our family and with outside companies that work for us, including firms that assist in marketing our products, retailers, auto dealers, auto makers, direct marketers, membership clubs and publishers, credit bureaus, law authorities and sever others." Maybe it would be shorter for you to tell me whom you do not share my information with. I began to worry.

But then I read that I had choices limiting "sharing and use" of my private, personal information. I was so relieved.

The Chase Privacy Policy went on to say I could tell you not to share information about me with "non-financial companies outside and within our family of companies." Yet another wave of relief swept over me.

Until I read "Even if you do tell us not to share we may do so as permitted by law," without explaining what the law permits.

I'm confused. Is you is, or is you ain't gonna share my information if I tell you not to?

Am I being paranoid, or is Chase really saying you will share my private, personal information with virtually anyone who will pay for the information, even if I tell you not to, and that I have no privacy at all?

Please explain again how "Customer privacy has never been more important" and how "Your privacy concerns are important to us."

Sincerely,

David L. Smith