You have chosen to forward your CAE or College of Engineering email to a non-University of Wisconsin-Madison email system. This has potential ramifications.

CAE can not guarantee that your email will be delivered to non-UW email systems.

1. CAE does not control the destination email server. Your destination may choose to implement SPAM filtering which CAE can not control.
2. Legitimate messages may be mis-classified, refused, or silently deleted (no notification to any server). CAE does everything we can to prevent this from happening, but can not control the choices and actions of other service providers. Keeping your email on a UW email system will help ensure that you will receive all of your email.

Your forwarded email will be filtered and suspected SPAM will not be forwarded.

1. To prevent CAE systems from being classified a SPAM source, we filter all outbound email to addresses not ending in “.wisc.edu” and attempt to eliminate SPAM before we forward your mail to the outside address. Be aware that SPAM filtering is not 100% accurate in labeling spam.
2. There is a method to access the filtered email. Instructions will be emailed to you when the first SPAM message is caught. If we do not filter, the CAE email servers will continue to appear on blocking lists around the Internet. This will block all email from the CAE mail servers, including locally-generated email. This will have an impact upon everyone in the College of Engineering.

Disclosure of private data in your email is not the responsibility of CAE or the UW.

1. If you forward email to a non-UW email provider CAE can not take responsibility for the privacy of your email or for any disclosure of sensitive or private data by your email provider. FERPA-restricted information is commonly transmitted via email. Under FERPA, you have a responsibility to ensure that the private student data with which you are entrusted is handled appropriately. Having your email with an outside provider may mean that you have no way to show you are fulfilling that responsibility. Keep in mind that providers like Yahoo and Gmail routinely scan your email for search indexes and content for directed advertising. There is no expectation of privacy with many of these providers, so you may have trouble with FERPA.
2. Some excerpts from the terms of use, which are agreed to when you open a non-UW email account, are:
1. Google: “Google disclaims all responsibility and liability for the availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Service.”
2. Hotmail: “The Microsoft Parties give no express warranties, guarantees or conditions.”
3. Yahoo (includes ATT): “You acknowledge, consent and agree that Yahoo! may access, preserve and disclose your account information and Content if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the TOS; (c) respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third parties; (d) respond to your requests for customer service; or (e) protect the rights, property or personal safety of Yahoo!, its users and the public.”
4. AOL: “We provide AOL.COM “as is”, “with all faults” and “as available.””
5. Charter: “Charter and its affiliates, suppliers, and agents have the right to monitor these transmissions and postings from time to time and to disclose, block, or remove them…”