E-mail Security - Thanks for your credit card information!

Sending e-mail is like sending a postcard to someone. Anyone who sees the postcard lying around can read the contents. There are a lot of tech savvy people wanting to steal your identity by simply waiting for your e-mail to pass by. Sending private and confidential information via email is NOT secure and is a violation of Calvin's policy on Responsible use of Technology.

That means you shouldn't send confidential information via e-mail AND you shouldn't request someone else send this information to you. That includes:

• social security numbers
• bank account numbers
• credit card numbers
• any information that you want to keep confidential

An exception:

• GroupWise e-mail sent within the Calvin GroupWise system is secure. However, sending e-mail to Calvin students is NOT secure.