Contactify is a small British service which has been launched just recently. The purpose of it is quite simple: it provides a link to a contact form which you can post on any website, forum, and chat. So people can contact you without knowing your email address. Sounds good?
Well, I am not quite sure. While it is easy to set up - email, password, confirmation email, done - I really miss a privacy statement. The Terms of Service consist of just six points which don’t disclose how data is stored on their servers, if they track email addresses of people who try to contact users,… Not convincing at all, especially as it is supposed to protect users from spam.
Also it makes me wonder if a simple contact form is a business model at all; e.g. there are free plugins for WordPress, so why use another service for my blog? There are already too many companies offering web services which are basically just features, not products which will help them to survive as a company. But maybe that’s not even the intention. I haven’t got a clue.
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