We at PrivacyHarbor.com are pleased to announce that we have just released the first edition of our quarterly newsletter.  In it, you will find the latest information about privacy, our PrivacyHarbor.com service and PrivacyHarbor, Inc.

We would love to hear what you think. Please let us know what you like, do not like, and what you would want to see us add next time. We read all comments, and our newsletter, like our service, is built upon your feedback.  If you wish to subscribe, please visit us at PrivacyHarbor.com and then enter your email in the newsletter subscription area of our homepage.

We also invite everyone to visit us at www.PrivacyHarbor.com today, and see how easy it is to send and receive private email. We are your advocate in protecting your Internet communications, and we encourage everyone to take back your privacy with PrivacyHarbor.com.

Over the past six months or so there has been a lot of positive buzz surrounding PrivacyHarbor.com and our private email platform. We are thrilled that tens of thousands of people have subscribed to our service over that short period of time and the feedback has been very positive. With this initial success comes a lot of responsibility, and we are busier than ever listening to your comments and suggestions in order to continually enhance our service.

Our company is all about providing private Internet communications for everyone. By saying “everyone,” we are indeed saying that consumers and small businesses finally have a viable solution for private and secure email. We, and our subscribers, believe that we have created a solution for private email that is easy to use and inexpensive. In fact, we even offer a free, private email account.

So the question remains, why did we build a product for consumers and small businesses where so many others focus on the large Fortune 500 companies? The answer is simple; we believe that privacy is a right, even on the Internet. Most people already expect privacy in all other forms of communications, but may not think it is possible on the Internet. Advertisers, hackers and identity thieves have used this popular assumption to their benefit over the years and, as a result, there are now major problems such as spam, identity theft and unwanted target advertising.

All the major corporations on the Internet, including Google, Yahoo and Facebook make the vast majority of their money through advertising.  Privacy simply gets in the way of their business model, which is based on exploiting user information in order to provide targeted advertisements. At PrivacyHarbor, we have a different business model. We make money the old fashion way, by respecting our subscribers and the people they are communicating with, and by providing a great service. We are in the privacy business – not the advertising business.

We encourage everyone to visit us on www.PrivacyHarbor.com today, try private email and let us know what you think. Our services are being built on your feedback. You now have an advocate to protect your Internet communications and we encourage everyone to take back their privacy with PrivacyHarbor.com.

As you shop for your friends and family this holiday season, consider giving the gift of privacy or treat yourself to a private email account and you will help a child in need. When you register a paid PrivacyHarbor yearly or lifetime account through the month of December, we will donate 5% of your purchase to the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation.

Sending private and secure email messages through PrivacyHarbor.com ensures that your emails and personal information are kept private and safe. The PrivacyHarbor Personal Account includes Basic Account features, as well as additional compelling features, including:

• 5 GB of storage
• Send attachments up to 100 MB
• Delay sending a message
• Retract a sent message
• Read message status
• Customizable eBusiness cards
• Prevent forwarding and downloading of attachments

During this busy holiday season, it’s important to remember to stay safe online. Take precaution when posting information on public profiles and forums, and never share credit card or sensitive information using common email.

By purchasing a private email account you can help keep the private information of you and your family safe this holiday season while also giving back to kids in need.

Have a wonderful holiday and let us know if you have any questions about private, secure email solutions.

We are kicking off two special contest events this month that will offer Twitter and Facebook users a chance to win 12 free months of a private and secure, Executive email account.

Starting Tuesday, November 3, we will launch PrivacyHarbor’s Retweet Tuesdays on Twitter! Every Tuesday through December 11, check the PrivacyHarbor Twitter page at noon Pacific Time and retweet the specified message by Friday, 11:59 PM Pacific Time of that week for a chance to win one free year of a PrivacyHarbor Executive account!

We are also offering a chance to win one free year of an Executive account to new and existing fans of PrivacyHarbor on Facebook! Go to the PrivacyHarbor Facebook page, log on to Facebook and click “Become a fan” by Friday, December 11. Already a PrivacyHarbor Facebook fan? Current fans can win too if they refer a friend to become a fan of PrivacyHarbor’s Facebook page! A winner will be selected randomly on Friday, December 11.

Note: PrivacyHarbor employees, family members and vendors are not eligible to win the Retweet Tuesdays or Facebook Fans contests.

Best of luck to everyone and remember, the only way to win is to play!

August 2009 was a big month for us here at PrivacyHarbor.com and one that will not be forgotten anytime soon. Why you ask? Well, to start, we officially launched both our new website www.PrivacyHarbor.com and our new look and feel of our private email service. The response has been fantastic, and the number of new customers in search of true email privacy has been astounding. As a team, we’re thrilled to be able to help our customers achieve private email dialogue. That being said, it is important to us that PrivacyHarbor.com meets your email needs. We ask you to tell us what you want in a private email service by completing our new survey!

The survey will take approximately four to six minutes to complete (really, we timed it!). We want to provide you with an ideal user experience, and would appreciate your important feedback. To thank you for taking our survey, you’ll  receive three free months service to our Personal or Executive Account memberships.

All existing customers will get the survey as a link in an email that you will receive over the next couple of days. Part of the survey asks questions about how you would improve PrivacyHarbor.com email. As a result, if you are not currently a customer, you would need to register for and account and then the survey will immediately be emailed to you.  Please note that the survey is designed for all types of respondents, regardless of your user level. Of course, the survey is anonymous, private and secure.

As always, please contact us with any questions or to learn more about PrivacyHarbor.

Today, the PrivacyHarbor team released our new Beacon Desktop Email Notifier, now available for download. This new feature will alert users via a small pop-up window on their desktop when they receive a new e-mail message, regardless of whether they are logged into their PrivacyHarbor email account.

The new Beacon Desktop Notifier is free for all accounts and includes the following features:

• Beacon Icon Status – Unique icons in your system tray will show you when you are online and have new messages, or are offline and have no new messages.

• Inbox Beacon Message Preview – When the Beacon is active, you will receive a notice informing you when new messages have arrived in your inbox.

• SnapGuard Beacon Message Preview – You will also be notified of new messages in SnapGuard. By default, you will be notified twice a day about messages from unknown recipients that go into SnapGuard.

• Compatible with Windows 2000, XP, and Vista (Please note that Mac OS X is currently unsupported).

To learn more about PrivacyHarbor or to sign-up for PrivacyHarbor email account, simply follow the links or contact us at support@privacyharbor.com.

As always, we love to hear from our customers! Feel free to let us know what you think of the new Beacon Desktop Notifier.

We are excited to implement all the great suggestions from customers and visitors that we have received over the past year.  Some of the major differences that you will notice are the slide show and videos, a news scroll and of course our blog that you are reading now.

I’d like to take just a moment to describe a few of these new features. The first one is the slide show. Many people have asked us to tell them a little more about who we are and what the difference is between private email and common email. The slide show will explain that and much more.

Contained in the same area as our slide show is our video section. We will have weekly In The Know videos telling you about what is happening at PrivacyHarbor.com, as well as other topical videos that you see listed.  We will be updating these videos often, so check back and see what we’ve added. If you’ve created a video that you would like us to know about, just send a link to info@privacyharbor.com with your contact information and we’ll contact you if we add it to our video section.

Finally, we have this blog. We’ll share information about PrivacyHarbor.com, as well as privacy news that is most pertinent to private communications over the Internet. This section is built to be informative and interactive, that’s why we have it on our homepage. Please write to our blog to chat, ask about PrivacyHarbor.com or any privacy news that you come across. We look forward to hearing from you.

We are passionate about privacy and believe that your email communications should be private. Sign up for an account and tell your friends about us, so they too can take back their privacy with PrivacyHarbor.com.

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