Credit Union sends an email after I browsed on their site - what mechanism is this?
Today I went to the website of my credit union and looked at the rates on a certain type of account. Then I logged into my account to check my balances. Immediately upon logging out, I received an email from the credit union suggesting that I open an account of the type I had just checked the rates on.
I'm just wondering what mechanism would trigger this. It seems their system is logging IP/fingerprint info of everyone who looks up rates on their site? And then if that matches someone who logs into their account, they send an email? If so, I wonder how long they are storing that info of someone who browses their site?
I might understand it better if I had looked at the rates WHILE I was logged into my account. But being tracked while not even logged in is a bit bothersome, even though not completely surprising.