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What is University.co.uk?

University.co.uk is offers a suite of free tools and services to facilitate students with access to and tools to ensure they are able to make full use of the internet. Based on the premise that students already have enough financial worries to contend with we provide free internet access, email and web hosting.

How do I know you will stay in business?

University.co.uk offered webspace as early as 1998 and continue to do so. Our email services are powered by @pobox.co.uk which has operated email services longer than Hotmail.com

There are never any guarantee's in life. However we have been established longer than most and our business plan is sound and ensures we will remain in business.

Who owns University.co.uk?

The services is owned operated and maintained by Our Holdings Ltd. Our full contact details are available in the "About Us" section of the website.
 

I have a partnership/investment proposal, who do I contact?

In the "About Us" section of the website we have a 'Partners and Investors' area. Further details can be found there.

I have an abuse complaint who do I contact?

We have a Zero Tolerance policy in regards to these matters. We request that anyone who believes that there is a violation of our AUP direct the information to our Abuse Department at: abuse@pobox.co.uk
If available, please provide the following information:

- The IP address used to commit the alleged violation
- The date and time of the alleged violation, including the time zone or offset from GMT
- Evidence of the alleged violation
Email with full header information provides all of the above, as do syslog files. Other situations will require different methods of providing the above information.

We may take any one or more of the following actions in response to complaints:

issue warnings: written or verbal
suspend the Member's newsgroup posting privileges
suspend the Member's account
terminate the Member's account
bill the Member for administrative costs and/or reactivation charges
bring legal action to enjoin violations and/or to collect damages, if any, caused by violations.

What is/where can I find your Privacy Policy?

We take issue's relating to your privacy extremely seriously, please take a look at the following URL for full details:

http://cheapuni.cheapnet.co.uk/about-privacy.htm

What are the rules relating to use of the service?

A full copy of our acceptable usage policy is available here:
http://cheapuni.cheapnet.co.uk/about-aup.htm

My question has not been answered, where can I go for further information?

Please use the "Contact Us" form if you have a query we have not dealt with. Simply use the "Contact" button at the top of any of our pages.

Someone has spammed me from your domain who do I contact?

Please contact abuse@pobox.co.uk and remember to attach the original email message so that it includes the FULL headers, simply forwarding an email will not prove it came from our domain.

We may take any one or more of the following actions in response to complaints:

issue warnings: written or verbal
suspend the Member's newsgroup posting privileges
suspend the Member's account
terminate the Member's account
bill the Member for administrative costs and/or reactivation charges
bring legal action to enjoin violations and/or to collect damages, if any, caused by violations.

A university.co.uk URL was included in a spam email I received, who do I contact?

Please forward the email with full headers to abuse@pobox.co.uk. If the complaint is reasonable we are likely to suspend or delete the users webspace.

I am new to the internet is there a good guide to using Internet Explorer?

Yes. The LSE has put together a good tutorial.
 

Click here to visit the LSE tutorial

I am a lecturer can I use your services?

If you work in any capacity at a UK University or further education institution you are free to use our services.
 

Can you recommend a good search engine?

Yes, the following are excellent: Google , Turbo10

How do I sign up and register?

You can sign up by clicking on the 'Buy Now' buttons in the products associated area.

Why should I sign up to your service?

We offer a whole breadth of benefits. Our email solution alone offers enough reason to join the service.

You can collect all your email in one place and securely. You can access your email from anywhere using any internet connection, there are no limitations on the space you can use for email these are just some of the other benefits.

In addition your personalised email address is easy to remember and makes sense -
yourname@university.co.uk

The service itself is extremely easy to use ensuring you can access the full capabilities of email at any point in time. Sending and receiving attachments, search, sort , etc.

 

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