Should we consider email disclaimers
We just finished a meeting where we were recommended to have an email disclaimer at the bottom of every email we send. We don't have a problem with adding additional bits of wording at the end of our email, right off the signature part, but should we really need to incorporate these "email disclaimer" in every emails we send?
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It depends on the country and business case (level).
As a German native: There is a letter type called Geschäftsbrief. It must contain the correct company id, tax no# etc. The corresponding e-mail type must have this information also.
Anything else is not relevant.
In some cases a disclaimer was seen as a kind of LOI (letter of intent). But I'm not aware, that this is the legal consensus.
Technically speaking:
1) Disclaimers about confidentiality or receiving an e-mail in error is nonsense. Cause over 90% of e-mails are transmitted without encryption.
2) Disclaimers about not printing an e-mail for environmental reasons is also nonsense, cause the average disclaimer increases the message size by the factor 5 up to 10. This means it requires more energy to send, store and process e-mails just for the sake of disclaimers.
So disclaimers are imho an classic fail.
As a German native: There is a letter type called Geschäftsbrief. It must contain the correct company id, tax no# etc. The corresponding e-mail type must have this information also.
Anything else is not relevant.
In some cases a disclaimer was seen as a kind of LOI (letter of intent). But I'm not aware, that this is the legal consensus.
Technically speaking:
1) Disclaimers about confidentiality or receiving an e-mail in error is nonsense. Cause over 90% of e-mails are transmitted without encryption.
2) Disclaimers about not printing an e-mail for environmental reasons is also nonsense, cause the average disclaimer increases the message size by the factor 5 up to 10. This means it requires more energy to send, store and process e-mails just for the sake of disclaimers.
So disclaimers are imho an classic fail.
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