Best Practice

Protecting Your Privacy as a Best Practice On HouseSpin involves using free email accounts, instant messaging, VOIP or other free phone services to prevent spam, unsolicited commercial email or sales calls on the phone.

  You want everyone to contact as needed but you want to protect your privacy. So it is important to create alternative channels of communication that you can use for the next several months while you either sell or search to buy a house. Below are some methods that you can use toprotect your privacy. Once you are done with the real estate transaction you can discard or request that these accounts from the respective providers be deleted and you simply never use them again. You won't need to  worry about exposing your self to spam or unsolictated phone calls late at night. Please keep in mind that HouseSpin gives you both a  private profile and a  public profile that YOU control, you determine what information is exposed to the general public. Although, you can never completely eliminate spam or annoying sales calls there are ways to minimize the impact on your normal life.

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     Email Address
     Phone Number
     Instant Messenger
     Other
     

EMAIL ADDRESS
 Avoid using your current personal email accounts.
 Signup and use FREE email accounts but remember to check them twice a day, once in the morning and again at night.

 Use your house street number or street name as part of a new email address.
 For example, house5708@hotmail.com or 5708CrowSt@hotmail.com

   Get A Free Email Account From
       GoogleMail   Hotmail   Yahoo  

 Protecting Your Privacy With A Public Profile

PHONE NUMBER
 Avoid using your current personal phone numbers.
 Signup for a paid Voice Over Internet Protcol (VOIP) service, it lets you make and receive calls over the Internet. 
 VOIP providers dedicate a local phone number that you can use in your ads.

    Get a local phone number through Skype
* Caution 911 emergency service is not offered on VOIP numbers.  

 Protecting Your Privacy With A Public Profile

INSTANT MESSENGER
 Just signup for another IM client address separate from current personal.

    Get A Free IM Client From
       MSN   Yahoo   ICQ   AIM   Trillian

 Protecting Your Privacy With A Public Profile

OTHER
Signup for FREE services that allow you place a chat window link.
Enter Your Meebo Account Number Into Your HouseSpin profile.

    Get A Free Chat Widget From
       Meebo 

 Protecting Your Privacy With A Public Profile

Protecting Your Privacy is a critical aspect online and HouseSpin gives you the tools and methodologies so you can protect your privacy, your very own privacy while interacting with other members and the general public.