New Site New Terms

E-consultancy.com Limited has completed their site migration to a new domain, a new platform and a new country.

In September I posted a message about moving web hosting offshore in response to the impending E-consultancy site migration.

Well the move has happened and the new domain is econsultancy.com —the "www" sub-domain and previous hyphenated "e-consultancy.com" domain redirect to the new site. I may have missed something, but as a member and contributor who agreed to the previous terms & conditions, I was expecting hear something before the move occurred.

Some users are required to agree to the new longer terms and conditions before proceeding, yet this seemed to be bypassable in some cases. I didn't have time to investigate the mechanism but noticed I wasn't asked with some browsers/computers and was on others.

There's no mention of data protection or privacy issues in the chief executive officer's blog posting about the new Econsultancy site despite all the previous discussion. I'm a little but disappointed to be honest since the web site is such a good resource for ecommerce (or e-commerce) and digital marketing professionals. The CEO does however tell us some of the technologies used—an un-necessary security information leak.

There has clearly been a lot of effort put in, and that's to be congratulated. But the privacy statement has these few words about security:

It looks like a mixture of boilerplate text and some additions. But the description and explanation why some security controls were omitted doesn't reflect good practice and is entirely insufficient for a £300,000 revamp of an ecommerce-enabled web site. Let's hope they have some sort of firewall in there somewhere!

I'm left with the feeling that perhaps security wasn't considered much during the re-development process. A missed opportunity.