Horus_Kol

hmm... tricky...

I would say that you have to at least be clear that you are using a third party to collect and store address details of your subscribers - this kind of sharing of information would be exactly what various countries' data protection laws cover.

I find it rather troublesome that I can't read any kind of privacy policy on the aardvarkmailinglist site (at least, not without signing in), and so I would be concerned at using them for a service. What guarantees are there that they do not share your users' information with anyone else?

As far as your own privacy policy - I don't know if you need one, but it is typically one of the things I would look for in a site asking for contact or other details.

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Ask youeself those question first,
- Any obvious security flaws?
- How resilient are forms to special characters?
- Are private directories password protected via .htaccess?
- Are public non-document directories (cgi-bin, images, etc) indexable or are blank index.html pages or appropriate permission settings in place to block access?
- Is customer data stored online? If so, is this database appropriately safeguarded against external access?

so you could see how important it is to make a privacy policy. So, dude, do it!