Dropmyemail values your privacy

Oct. 29, 2013 - PRLog -- In light of recent revelations about NSA’s incessant and indiscriminate screening of everybody’s emails – we at Dropmyemail would like to reassure you of the safety and complete privacy of your emails.
You can read the fine print here at Dropmyemail Privacy Policy (https://www.dropmyemail.com/privacy)

We will summarize the details in 3 points:

1. We follow the best practices and industry standards when it comes to storing your information

In truth, there is nothing different from what Dropmyemail does and when Amazon stores credit card information along with the CSC. Amazon’s patented one click shopping is the pinnacle of storing personal information and it is what most people in the tech world aspire to achieve – convenience and ease for the consumer.

In addition, Dropmyemail’s privacy policy is standard like all e-commerce websites that require personal information to complete transactions or services. Do read the excerpt from Zalora (http://www.zalora.sg/terms-of-use/#protection):

13.1 We shall not be liable to you for any breach, hindrance or delay in the performance of a Contract attributable to any cause beyond our reasonable control, including without limitation any natural disaster and unavoidable incident, actions of third parties (including without limitation hackers, suppliers, governments, quasi-governmental, supra-national or local authorities), insurrection, riot, civil commotion, war, hostilities, warlike operations, national emergencies, terrorism, piracy, arrests, restraints or detainments of any competent authority, strikes or combinations or lock-out of workmen, epidemic, fire, explosion, storm, flood, drought, weather conditions, earthquake, natural disaster, accident, mechanical breakdown, third party software, failure or problems with public utility supplies (including electrical, telecoms or Internet failure), shortage of or inability to obtain supplies, materials, equipment or transportation (“Event of Force Majeure”), regardless of whether the circumstances in question could have been foreseen.

2) Dropmyemail encrypts the passwords used to backup your emails

Dropmyemail partners with Amazon Web Services to back emails on their servers. Amazon S3 Server Side Encryption employs strong multi-factor encryption. Amazon S3 encrypts each object with a unique key. As an additional Dropmyemail Security (https://www.dropmyemail.com/security) safeguard, it encrypts the key itself with a master key that it regularly rotates. Amazon S3 Server Side Encryption uses one of the strongest block ciphers available, 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256), to encrypt all data.

When given the opportunity to not store email passwords, we take full advantage of it like in the case of Gmail which we use the OAuth authorization process (no password stored). However this is not always the case and at times when we have to store the password, we store it securely and in a proprietary manner.

3) Dropmyemail provides a better solution than just auto-forwarding your emails

The main purpose of Dropmyemail’s email backup service is not just keeping a copy somewhere else in the cloud.

First, autoforwarding emails to another email provider does not prevent hacking (According to CommTouch’s State of Hacked Accounts (http://www.commtouch.com/state-of-hacked-accounts), 1 in 5 emails and 540 million accounts yearly are hacked while 62% of those are unaware).

Second, autoforwarding emails also do not prevent email outages where many email inboxes were not only unavailable, some were even emptied (In April ’12, an estimated 33.2 million Gmail users suffered email outage (http://www.pcworld.com/article/254021/tuesdays_gmail_outage_broader_than_originally_reported.html)).

Third, Dropmyemail even protects emails from accidental deletes and backsups the drafts/sent folders as well.

Fourth, If our users suffer any setback to their emails, with one click we can restore their email inboxes.

Fifth, Dropmyemail also allows users to migrate their emails between their accounts with one click.

These are just basic functions (besides our File & Attachment manager/Automated Virus Scan) that we provide that greatly improve users’ email experience than autoforwarding emails. Dropmyemail may be a startup, just like all those working hard in BLK71, but we maintain ethical practices no different from the big companies.

Just because startups are smaller companies, does not mean we do not strive towards and succeed in keeping our users’ personal information safe.

In extreme situations, even trustworthy and established multi-national corporations like Microsoft/Google are susceptible to mistakes. Some times major leaks in confidential information are due to their own fault/s and other times they fall prey to malicious attacks. The usual remedy after their faux pas is often an apology and a renewed promise to do better but there is no fool-proof way to keep all information safe, all the time. Here are high profile examples of these companies losing personal information:

Microsoft store hacked in India (http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/12/microsoft-store-hacked-in-india-leaked-passwords-stored-in-plai/)
Yahoo! hacked, 450,000 passwords posted online (http://articles.cnn.com/2012-07-12/tech/tech_web_yahoo-users-hacked_1_passwords-yahoo-accounts-hack)
Over 100,000 Gmail accounts also exposed in Yahoo hack (http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/12/gmail-yahoo-hack/)


Everything we store, its held under lockdown.

As always, if you have any queries, please contact us here (https://www.dropmyemail.com/user_messages/new) and we will strive to answer you as soon as possible.

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