Another 1 gig e-mail provider - Walla mail... [Archive]

CanadaBoy

Jan 7th, 2006, 04:13 PM

Don't like their privacy policy... I'm stickin' with GMail. :cheesygri ... Or friends unlimited well 20gb of hddspace left for my mail. :cheesygri

Here is their Privacy Policy:

Walla!Mail Privacy Policy

Walla!Mail is a free e-mail account offered by Walla! Communications (the "Service").
Walla! takes your privacy seriously. We gather certain types of information about you, and we would like you to understand the terms related to the collection and use of that information. This privacy policy details the types of information we gather, how we use it, and what choices you have regarding the collection of such information.

Walla! may amend this policy from time to time. A notification of any such amendment will be posted on www.Walla.com

If you are under the age of 13, you are not eligible to use the Service, and we ask you not to submit any personal information to us.

Collecting your Personal Information

Account information: When you sign up for Walla!Mail, Walla! shall collect, upon registration, limited personal information. This information includes your first and last name, a user name, a password, your birthday, gender, country of origin and time zone, a specific question and secret answer, and an optional list of your interests, all which will be used to create and maintain your account.

To enable an upgrade to a 1 gigabyte account, Walla! may require additional information from individuals who already subscribe to a Walla! account.

You may update your account information, settings and preferences at any time, by entering the "Settings" section in your mailbox.

E-mail Contents

In order to provide you with Walla!Mail's e-mail service, Walla! stores and maintains contents of your account on its protected servers. This information is processed for various purposes, including formatting and displaying the information, backing up your account, adding hyperlinks to selected words, and protecting it from unsolicited bulk e-mail (spam). Walla! employees do not access this information, including the content of your emails, unless specifically requested by you or if otherwise necessary, as further described below. .

You may terminate your account for any reason, at any time in accordance with the "Terms of Use". However, Walla! archives your e-mail content and data for the purposes of recovery from errors or system failure. Thus, residual copies of such information may remain on our systems for some time, even after you have deleted messages from your mailbox or terminated your account.

To continuously improve Walla!Mail and meet all storage requirements, Walla! may analyze some of the data collected, such as registration information, e-mail usage patterns, the amount of storage you are using, and how frequently you use the Service.

Use of your Personal Information

Walla! is committed to protecting your privacy. All personal information, including account information and content of your account is stored and maintained on our secure servers.

We devote our time and efforts to assure that your account and personal information will not be misused. Only a limited number of Walla! employees may be required to access data to provide and monitor the Service. Additionally, Walla! uses a variety of security technologies and procedures to prevent third party access to or modification of personal information on our servers.

Walla! will not sell or allow access to any of your personal information, including your account address or e-mail content, to any third party for marketing purposes without your permission, Walla! may only access or disclose your personal information to third parties, if such action is required by law, or is necessary to comply with applicable regulation, legal process or governmental request; to protect and defend the rights, property and safety of Walla! or users of the Service or to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, including spam prevention.

Use of Cookies and Log information

Walla! may also use "cookie" technology to gather information about user's web usage pattern and to personalize the Service.

To save you time, a cookie allows Walla! to automatically display the site according to your personal preferences while maintaining the security of your account. Walla! may share cookie information between its services, and use the cookies to collect aggregated information about your use of the Service, in order to provide a better user experience and improve our Service. .

Walla! believes the use of cookies improves the quality of our Service. However, you have the ability to accept or decline cookies.. If you choose to decline all cookies, you may not be able to use some of Walla!'s services, including the Service.

Walla! collects certain information when you use your account. This information is contained in your request to access the Service, and usually includes your browser version, your IP address, and the date and time of day. In addition, we log the unique ID provided by our cookie. This information is required by Walla! in order to provide you with the Service (for example, your identity must be validated when you log on), and is used by Walla! for various internal business purposes such as evaluating our Service, and improving its security, quality, and performance.

Advertising

As part of the Service, Walla! will provide you, at its discretion, with promotions, ads and other related commercial information.

When you log on to your account, ads are displayed that are based only on the demographic and geographic information you provided when opening a Walla!Mail account. Walla!Mail does not use or analyze the actual text in an e-mail message to select which ads to distribute to users, nor does any human read your email to target ads or related information to you without your consent. In addition, our automatic link creator highlights predetermined keywords within an e-mail. These words are not personalized and you have the option, at your discretion, to follow these links to paid content.

Third parties and advertisers may receive aggregate reports summarizing the number of impressions and clicks for each ad. They do not receive any personal information about the individual who viewed the ad.

In addition to serving targeted commercial information, Walla! reserves the right to send you information regarding your account or other services or promotions. Should you choose to use the Service, you will not be given the opportunity to opt-out of receiving such information.

Transfer of Information

Walla! includes your email address and user name in mail sent from your account.

Walla!Mail is a truly global service that is accessible from any computer anywhere in the world. To maintain it as such, personal information collected by Walla! may be transferred outside of your country, and stored and processed in Israel, the United States or any other country in which Walla! or its agents maintain facilities. .

In the event of a transfer of ownership of Walla!, such as acquisition by or merger with another company, Walla! reserves the right to transfer your personal information. However, in such an event, Walla! shall notify you, by posting a notice of such change on www.Walla.com before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Walla! constantly seeks to innovate and improve our service to provide the best possible user experience, this Privacy Policy, despite our efforts, may not always specifically deal with all arising privacy issues. In light of the above and because of the complex and constantly changing nature of the web, technology and business, Walla! does not guarantee error-free performance under this Privacy Policy. Walla! welcomes user feedback on any privacy concerns you may have, and on how to improve our services. Please address such feedbacks to:

This Privacy Policy is subject to the specific Terms and Conditions of the Service (link).