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Originally Posted by TenFour
The problem is that even if a service claims they don't do that you have no way of knowing, or even worse someone could be reading your emails at the company! What do you think about going to the business versions of the biggies: G Suite and Office 365? They claim there is no scanning for advertising purposes, have more robust security, have real customer service, and provide many other great services. For about the same price as many small providers Microsoft's Business Essentials ($50 per year) provides a 50GB inbox, 1TB of OneDrive storage, online versions of the office programs, and lots of other perks. You can use one or more domains with it.
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A very good point and an excellent idea.
1. The price for the service would have to be within your budget. These services tend to be pricey even for a small business configuration.
2. You would have to read the user agreement before and every time they update it to make sure that they are not slipping in some fine print that negates all of the bold face type about not snooping.
Everyone will state that they must respond to valid legal process. Sometimes that can be an unintended wrecking ball.
Years ago, one of the athletic shoe companies was involved in some class action suit initiated by some greedy selfish people. In these things the principles and the attorney get the lions' share and everyone else gets a gift certificate. But since this was a Federal Civil suit, the dimwits published a list of all of the potential awardees (whether they responded or not) in the court documents which were published in a Federal publication which went out everywhere including to prisons with sex offenders. Some of these folks reading in the prison law library decided in their twisted minds that women who wear sneakers must all be young, pretty, shapely, and just eager to meet convicts. Some of the inmates started sending unsollicited letters to the women in the Federal publication which contained their addresses. Isn't this just what the folks who originated the idea of "Public Record" wanted? Uh, no! But this is one of the many bad consequences of public record which is a part of the legal process which may be part of a civil disclosure that you want no part of.
Something to consider.