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= Overview =

Launchpad is a social website: it's all about collaboration. That's why your profile page includes details of how to contact you, along with an option to contact you using a web form.

== Protecting you from email address harvesters ==

When your email address appears in Launchpad, it is only visible to people who are logged into Launchpad. Anonymous users - including spam bots, search engine spiders, etc - do not see your email address.

= Contacting individuals via their profile page =

If you'd prefer that other Launchpad users don't know your email address, you can [[https://launchpad.net/people/+me/+editemails|choose to hide it]].

However, that makes it harder for you to make the most of Launchpad. For example: if you apply to join a team, sometimes the team administrator might want to contact you before approving your application.

As a compromise, [[https://launchpad.net/people/+me|your Launchpad profile page]] has a ''Contact this user'' option. That lets other logged-in Launchpad users send you an email without knowing your email address.

When someone contacts you in this way they can:

 * send no more than three emails that way each day, whether they're to the same or three different recipients
 * choose which of their confirmed email addresses the message comes from.

'''Note:''' if you reply, you'll reveal your email address as it then becomes a normal email conversation.

= Contacting teams via their overview page =

You can also send a message to a team's contact address or all the team members if the team has no contact address.  Just look on the team's overview page for a ''Contact this team'' link.


= Filtering email from the contact form =

All email sent using Launchpad's contact form has the following header:

{{{
X-Launchpad-Message-Rationale: ContactViaWeb
}}}

= Next step =

Launchpad teams help you find other people with similar interests. Let's look at [[Teams/Joining|joining a team]]

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