The_Hat - 9:09 pm on May 11, 2009 (gmt 0)

SO we have this advertiser who we have had difficulty pleasing in the past and so when we approached them lately to advertise on our site they asked if it would be possible to put together a page with a form on it for their ad to click to.. I said sure not a problem.. envisioning the two or three field email form that is pretty much a click-drag away and shot the ad rep a low buck price for the ad on form to their advertisement contract..

The ad rep dropped by here a bit ago with THREE pages of hand drawn form fields for me to program up.. So a little past what I had related to the advertising account rep.. BUT WAIT.. that isn't all!.. The form is for a loan application and contains.. names, home addresses, and (gasp) social security numbers amongst the fields they are wanting to have sent to an email box.

So if it was only because of the scope creep I would want to renegotiate.. but add in the potential disaster that level of information being sent through an unprotected email can cause.. and I better chat with them.. or have them sign something..

Anybody.. what should I tell them?.. I know there are ways to better do a secure email transmission but not within their already over extended scope.. Should I draft a liability waiver and have them sign it?