Keeping E-mail Addresses Private
You can see on our contact page that we don't publish our e-mail address on this website. Instead, we provide a form where you can type your message, and our website will then create an e-mail from it and send it along to us. But why do we do this?
You are probably familiar with "spam" or junk email. Companies that send spam also have "spider" programs that "crawl" the entire internet looking for email addresses listed on websites. Just like having an unlisted phone number, having an unpublished e-mail address cuts down on the amount of junk communications that you will receive.
The e-mail address is not completely secret -- as soon as we send a reply, the original sender has the address. But that process allows us to determine who we'd like to reply to; any real human being sending a real message will get a reply, but any spam message will not.
Every website created by Bitmark, Inc. will have a contact page of its own, so you can protect your e-mail address too. We believe that if everyone treated email addresses more like phone numbers and postal addresses -- that is, if they kept them private and didn't give out their friends' e-mail addresses -- the Internet would be a better place.