Horse... Stable... Hey! Who left that door open?

"Remember, read the small print + tick the box NOT to have your info passed to third parties. If they pass it on they are breaking DPA."

DPA is a joke. It barely covered the situation when it was introduced and remember that when they do break it (which many household-name organisations seem to regularly and apparently quite casually in my experience), you'll pretty much have to go about 'enforcing' it yourself.