FastCheck

[Checker]

There seems to be no Privacy Policy, nor any About, nor any Contact Us, all of which go together, in my opinion.

What good is a privacy policy if no one's name is behind it, or you cannot find them? The single place which privacy is referenced says:
"We respect your privacy and will never send your passwords, account details, email address... or any other information to anybody else than FastMail." That is great, but the ellipses suggests that stuff is gathered. What stuff?

It seems to me that FastCheck ought to satisfy the following Privacy Policy NEEDS for its customers.

There should be disclosure of complete details, not obfuscation with ellipses, about what data is gathered about site visitors, registered users, customers, customers' correspondents, and user activities. What data is maintained? Why? For how long? And, to what use is it put?

The recent no-advance-notice sale of FM makes it plaint that there should be posted policy/promise to give users a minimum of 30 days advance notice of changes in privacy policies or practices, or of change in company ownership by 1) sending to the registered email address, and 2) posting on the site with conspicuous alerts, flashing visually and offering audio advisories as well, drawing user attention to the posted notice and the effective date for impending changes, and 3) Provide users with the NAME and email address of a person with discretionary authority to manage privacy issues and change policy if promulgated policies prove inadequate or ineffective.

The recent no-advance-notice sale of FM makes it plaint that there should be posted policy/promise to give users a meaningful opportunity to close their accounts in an orderly fashion and thereafter to request complete deletion of all customer data to be effectuated in an orderly, managed manner.

The recent no-advance-notice sale of FM makes it plaint that there should be posted policy/promise to delete user data from backups as well as from primary databses in the event of a company sale, along with a promise/committment to negotiate for removal of such user data prior to transfer of databases to a buyer, and/or promise/committment to bind the buyer to complete deletion of user account data from backups post-sale, upon request.

[sarad]

FastCheck isn't developed or owned by Fastmail, so talking about the sale of Fastmail in relation to FastCheck isn't really appropriate. With FastCheck, there is no account to close in a timely fashion and no data to be lost if (God forbid) FastCheck should no longer be supported or updated in the future.

FastCheck is shareware - just a free little application that its developer (Eric Thiebaut-George) has chosen to share with the world instead of keeping it for his personal use, as is reflected by the statement on the FastCheck download page: