Privacy Options that don’t protect my privacy

I was signing up for a Microsoft Regional Business Building Event and part of the sign up form included…

Privacy:    Please tick this box if you do not wish Microsoft to use the details you have provided above to contact you regarding important security, product, and event information    Trusted Microsoft Partners may use the details I have provided above to contact me regarding important security, product, and event information.   A response for this question is required.

I do want Microsoft to contact me because we are a partner so I can’t tick that button.

I do not want Microsoft Partners to contact me because I am that trusted partner and won’t want SPAM from my competitors.

I am not concerned about the mail because I have a delete key, but I also don’t want to give explicit permission to these other companies to send me offers. I guess creating an Outlook rule for “Competitive Intelligence” is my only option.

Just saying