They can’t send you email if they don’t have your email address.įor example, you don’t need to provide your email address to view what’s on Ask Leo!.
When you visit a website - any website - the site gets a certain amount of information about you, but not your email address. It implies nothing about your online behavior. Everyone eventually gets spam, regardless of what sites they visit, and it’s extremely common for some of that spam to be pornographic in nature. If you explicitly give a website your email address for any reason, then of course they can email you. Visiting a website does not give them the ability to send you email, spam or otherwise.
Websites and email are completely unrelated.
