We reserve the right to write to our own users. We also reserve the right to provide aggregate site and user information to third parties: how many users, how many users from specific Internet service providers (ISPs), time of use, etc. (See the chart below for details of the specific aggregate data that we may share).

We place your FunMail message in a private location on our servers and send an announcement to the recipient. Each FunMail message and the associated records of email addresses are stored separately.

Limitations
Though we take steps to protect your privacy, you should be aware that any use of the Internet or of email creates the possibility that someone could access the data transmitted. This is no more likely with FunMail messages originating from our site than it is from any email you may send using other services.

We will not release the information that is stored on our servers without a valid court order to do so.

We log browser requests and part of the email record for statistical evaluations only. We assemble these statistics so that we can establish user profile data. This is very important information that allows us to improve FunMail and better meet the needs of FunMail users.

Disclosing Information
We will NOT disclose any personally identifiable information to any third party except as required by law.

In order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers and other third parties we may disclose aggregate user information*. This information is based on information we may ask you to provide us at some time in the future. If you provide us with demographic data in the form of replies to user surveys, the information may be passed on in aggregate form to our partners and others. The aggregate data will never contain any personal identifying information or IP addresses or email addresses.

Our partner web sites may provide a version of the FunMail service that is remotely hosted on our servers. If you created your FunMail message at one of our partner web sites, they have access to all the data provided to them. Please be sure to check out their privacy policy as it may be different from ours.

"Cookies"
A cookie is computer code that a web site can save to your browser's cookie file. The Web site that stored the cookie (and no one else) can retrieve this information at a subsequent visit. Cookies are used by commercial web sites to store information that you provide, such as settings, requests and purchases. They are also often used for saving user IDs and passwords of web sites with limited access. This is how some sites remember your login name, etc.

We use cookies to distinguish unique and repeat visits, your name, email address, etc. We sometimes ask for additional information from first time visitors. If your browser allows us to store the cookie we can read it at any subsequent visit and determine what browser was used to access our site. We may also use a cookie to make sure that some advertising banners won't show up in your browser more than once per session.

You can configure your web browser to not accept or store cookies. This will, however, disable FunMail and a host of other commercial sites.

Data Protection
We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to provide a high level of data security on our web and data servers. We take precautions to protect your email data from loss, misuse or alteration and to safeguard and secure the data you provide online. While we strive to protect your data after it has arrived at our servers, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that is being transmitted over the Internet. To further protect the security of the information contained in your email from hackers who may find ways to infiltrate our services, all messages are encrypted, making the reading of the message impossible.

Email Record
We cannot send your FunMail message unless you provide a valid email address for sender and recipient. This is the only information you need to provide to send a FunMail. FunMail does not support anonymous emails. All other personally identifiable information in your email is optional and won't be logged. As we do not store FunMail for an extended time, if you have questions about a FunMail that you have sent, please contact us immediately quoting the unique ID URL that we sent you in the confirmation email, at support@funmail.com. It should be understood that FunMail cannot be stopped after you have sent it. This process takes places automatically and almost immediately.

Contact
If you have any questions about our privacy policy please send us an email at privacy@funmail.com

A SPECIAL NOTE FOR PARENTS CONCERNING PRIVACY
Although FunMail is not specifically designed for children, we realize that they will use the service, and we encourage them to do so. We believe that parents should supervise their children's online activities and also consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers that help provide a child-friendly online environment. These tools can sometimes prevent children from disclosing online their name, address, and other personal information without parental permission. We want children to enjoy FunMail as much as adults do, but responsible computing is first and foremost a family matter. We adhere to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and the guidelines of the Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc. Parents can help by spending time online with their children and monitoring their online use. Please help us protect your child's privacy by instructing them never to provide personal information on this site or any other without your permission.

IF YOU ARE UNDER 18, PLEASE BE SURE TO READ THIS POLICY WITH YOUR PARENTS AND ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT THINGS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. CHILDREN UNDER 13 SHOULD GET THEIR PARENT'S PERMISSION BEFORE GIVING OUT THEIR E-MAIL ADDRESS OR ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION TO FUNMAIL OR TO ANYONE ELSE ON THE INTERNET.

LINKED SITES
FunMail, whether or not affiliated with sites that may be linked to this site, is not responsible for their content ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are for your convenience only and you access them at your own risk.

Information we collect and the reason:



Sender's email address Needed for delivery Never disclosed
Recipient's email address Needed for notification Never disclosed
Email ID # For tracking purposes Never disclosed
Email date and time For tracking purposes Aggregate data shared*
Record of keywords requested To better supply you with what you are looking for and further refine our service For internal use only
Record of elements selected To better supply you with what you are looking for and further refine our service For internal use only
Number of characters in message To improve the service, by knowing how it is used For internal use only
Browser used To improve the service, by knowing how it is used Aggregate data shared*
IP address For tracking data on connectivity and usage For internal use only
Operating system To improve the service, by knowing how it is used Aggregate data shared*
Day and time of visit Required to send email and to help us manage our servers better Aggregate data shared*
Type of email sent To better supply you with what you are looking for For internal use only
Type of response from particular kinds of email To better supply you with what you are looking for For internal use only
URL of the Web page that guided you to FunMail Enables us to determine where best to promote our services Aggregate data shared*
The ISP of the sender To improve the service, by knowing how it is used and by which means it is accessed Aggregate data shared*

* Aggregate data may be shared with partners and the public. This means that we may provide them with data that describes a group of users. We never provide specific data about any individual user.