A disclaimer notice at bottom of each email can provide some reassurance to recipient and state very clearly purposes and representation of communication and any warranties implied. In case of submission of ideas and proposals etc; subject line should read "commercial in confidence ATT: RECIPIENTS NAME". As for any legal protection, this is still yet to be tested in many countries. An email disclaimer example: Disclaimer - This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and contain privileged or copyright information. You must not present this message to another party without gaining permission from sender. If you are not intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or use this email or information contained in it for any purpose other than to notify us.

If you have received this message in error, please notify sender immediately, and delete this email from your system. We do not guarantee that this material is free from viruses or any other defects although due care has been taken to minimise risk.

Any views expressed in this message are those of individual sender, except where sender specifically states them to be views of YOUR COMPANY NAME. A suggested size for this email disclaimer notice is 8 point and it should be placed immediately after signature line.

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Because of great variance in Internet laws from country to country, I strongly advise that you consult legal counsel in regards to drafting your own disclaimers and site policies. This article is for informational purposes only and should not be regarded as professional counsel.. there you go.. I've just used a disclaimer for this article - ;0)

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The remedy is an additional P3P code, "DSA". Any web administrator using DSA in her P3P privacy policy indicates she disavows legal liability for her P3P policy and renders it meaningless.

Using DSA code, organizations can publish fictitious P3P codes to enable cookies, while nullifying their legal affect. "The P3P language is simply inadequate for writing legal privacy policies, and corporations are foolish to use it for that purpose," said Mr. Wright. "The DSA code allows them to exploit P3P coding for technical purpose of deploying cookies, while disclaiming that codes have any substantive or legal effect."

To provide background and detail, Mr. Wright has written a monograph titled "Disavowing P3P Liability" and made it available for sale at http://www.disavowp3p.com. On request, he will e-mail it free to any journalist.

"P3P is a very complex subject that will catch corporations by surprise," said Doug Peckover, CEO of Demand Engine, Inc., a strategic privacy consulting firm. "Few are even aware of P3P's full implications. They need to read analysis of a world-class e-commerce lawyer like Ben Wright."

P3P is Platform for Privacy Preferences, developed under sponsorship of a non-profit organization named World Wide Web Consortium (also called W3C) http://www.w3.org/p3p, a coalition of industry and non-profit groups.