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Originally Posted by joglynne
 Not sure if this is taking the thread off topic and sorry if that is the case but this thread has made me think about the email accounts being used on my VM BB.
I am the person listed as the customer of VM. Both my husband and I have separate email accounts. Mine are with VM and Google, and my husband has Hotmail and Google accounts.
As I was the person who signed up to VMs T &C (very many moons ago) would VM hold me responsible for any emails made by my husband on my connection?
Luckily my husband would be as likely to send such an email as he would be to go and start shouting profanities on a street corner. In order to check that his emails are not offensive however, do VM expect me to invade John's privacy by reading his mail, or am I misunderstanding something obvious? |
You are responsible yes, the terms and conditions, or more explicitly the user policy for Internet says so. However, I would hope that you could reasonably explain it was a family member responsible, and that VM would accept your explanation as long as you could bring that family member in control.
Whether you are allowed to read your husbands email in order to ascertain some sort of compliance within a user policy is a whole other matter.
Keep in mind though that VM act on complaints sent to them, they don't, or shouldn't go reading your emails themselves (no phorm comments please). THAT would be a serious breach of privacy and there are regualtions in place that strictly forbid such interception.
I wouldn't worry too much here, the original poster had his services shut down because it appears he failed to follow a reasonable request and apologise to a VM employee for an offensive comment.
From this I would think that a family of PC users should become familiar with what their ISP does not find acceptable, and work within those guidelines.
Hope that helps.
