It's important to help keep your students safe online and protect the privacy of their communications. Here's how Live@edu helps keep your students safe online:
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Email Safety
- Message Tracking by the administrator or student (Exchange Labs only)
- Content filtering to block emails with objectionable content defined by the school (Exchange Labs only)
- Personal “safelist” and “blocklist” to manage email from individuals
- Anti-phishing technologies
- SSL-encrypted authentication
- SMIME, digital signature and message encryption supported
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Privacy Policies
- Not required to provide any personal information to use a Hotmail or Exchange Labs inbox.
- Email content protection under the Electronic Communications Act and Privacy Act, which considers it confidential information owned by the account holder
- Protection of personal information by Microsoft's Privacy Policy
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Marketing Policies
- No sharing or sales of users' personal information with third parties, nor internally within Microsoft unless student explicitly opts in
- No scanning of e-mail content for ads
- No behavioral targeting of ads
- No commercial tagline attached to the bottom of emails
- Family-safe banner ads in alumni Hotmail UI Advertising guidelines.
- No banner ads in Exchange Labs webmail UI (may be added in future versions of Exchange Labs)
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