Ewemark - document protection services
We have found a valuable service that everyone who has documents that must be protected. It's called Ewemark.
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Q: When Was Ewemark Started?
A:Ewemark was a new service launched in 2005 by Executive Bancorp, who has been providing data protection for almost a decade.
Q: Who started it?
A: Executive Bancorp
Q: Did something specific happen to prompt its existence?
A: Three things. 1) The laws concerning OSHA that required all employers to keep the medical records of their employees; 2) Many screenwriter friends worried that their ideas would be stolen before they were ready to register their works with the Library of Congress; 3) Writer’s Alcove members afraid that their works posted online may be plagiarized without some kind of protection. All these combined pointed toward a need for effective, easy, and cost-efficient document protection and time-stamping.
Q: What do people register the most?
A: We do not know specifically what kind of documents that are registered because we do not look at the documents. They are uploaded to our servers immediately upon registration. The types of documents that could be registered are any unpublished works where you want to retain the idea prior to publication, financial documents, living wills—basically any type of document you would store in a safety deposit box.
Q: Why are zipped files not accepted?
A: Zip files are not standard document files. We may not be able to retrieve the registered document with the software that is available ten years from now.
Q: Do I understand correctly that when a person registers on your site, they have a choice for access level of either “No Access or Password Protected?”
A: Yes. With “No Access,” a registrant cannot access or retrieve their registered work without submitting a notarized letter. With the “Password Protected” level, the registrant sets up their user ID and password to access or retrieve their registered work online at any time. With either level of security, the document registration number is required.
Q: Why do you recommend that the files not be encrypted or password protected?
A: People forget their passwords and their encryption. We cannot break their encryption to prove that it belongs to them. Our goal is to protect your documents for you—you don’t need to add extra protection.
Q: Your FAQ’s say that all registrations are final upon submission and cannot be changed, substituted, or voided. Please tell us why?
A: The goal of our service is to supply a link to a point in time. In order to provide a legal time stamp for a specific registered document, that link must remain static or the audit trail will be lost. You can add revisions of that registered document as necessary; we’ll accept and store the last five revisions.
Q: How will this service help someone in a plagiarism lawsuit?
A: Our service provides an independent third party certification as to the time the document was uploaded to our servers.
Q: What is your connection with Executive Bancorp?
A: Ewemark is a division of Executive Bancorp, our parent company.
Q: Is Las Vegas Ewemark’s only location?
A: We have locations in Houston and Austin in Texas, Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.
More information available @ http://www.northwestwriters.com
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Interview by M.M. MooreM.M. Moore has written for both national and international magazines, local papers, and on the Internet. Moore is the author of Hunting For Mr. Good Bargain and founder of NorthWestWriters.comhttp://www.northwestwriters.com
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Q: When Was Ewemark Started?
A:Ewemark was a new service launched in 2005 by Executive Bancorp, who has been providing data protection for almost a decade.
Q: Who started it?
A: Executive Bancorp
Q: Did something specific happen to prompt its existence?
A: Three things. 1) The laws concerning OSHA that required all employers to keep the medical records of their employees; 2) Many screenwriter friends worried that their ideas would be stolen before they were ready to register their works with the Library of Congress; 3) Writer’s Alcove members afraid that their works posted online may be plagiarized without some kind of protection. All these combined pointed toward a need for effective, easy, and cost-efficient document protection and time-stamping.
Q: What do people register the most?
A: We do not know specifically what kind of documents that are registered because we do not look at the documents. They are uploaded to our servers immediately upon registration. The types of documents that could be registered are any unpublished works where you want to retain the idea prior to publication, financial documents, living wills—basically any type of document you would store in a safety deposit box.
Q: Why are zipped files not accepted?
A: Zip files are not standard document files. We may not be able to retrieve the registered document with the software that is available ten years from now.
Q: Do I understand correctly that when a person registers on your site, they have a choice for access level of either “No Access or Password Protected?”
A: Yes. With “No Access,” a registrant cannot access or retrieve their registered work without submitting a notarized letter. With the “Password Protected” level, the registrant sets up their user ID and password to access or retrieve their registered work online at any time. With either level of security, the document registration number is required.
Q: Why do you recommend that the files not be encrypted or password protected?
A: People forget their passwords and their encryption. We cannot break their encryption to prove that it belongs to them. Our goal is to protect your documents for you—you don’t need to add extra protection.
Q: Your FAQ’s say that all registrations are final upon submission and cannot be changed, substituted, or voided. Please tell us why?
A: The goal of our service is to supply a link to a point in time. In order to provide a legal time stamp for a specific registered document, that link must remain static or the audit trail will be lost. You can add revisions of that registered document as necessary; we’ll accept and store the last five revisions.
Q: How will this service help someone in a plagiarism lawsuit?
A: Our service provides an independent third party certification as to the time the document was uploaded to our servers.
Q: What is your connection with Executive Bancorp?
A: Ewemark is a division of Executive Bancorp, our parent company.
Q: Is Las Vegas Ewemark’s only location?
A: We have locations in Houston and Austin in Texas, Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.
More information available @ http://www.northwestwriters.com
*********************************************************************
Free Newsletter for Writers – E-Mail newsletter@northwestwriters.com
Interview by M.M. MooreM.M. Moore has written for both national and international magazines, local papers, and on the Internet. Moore is the author of Hunting For Mr. Good Bargain and founder of NorthWestWriters.comhttp://www.northwestwriters.com
MSN Group: http://spaces.msn.com/members/NorthWestAuthors/PersonalSpace/AOL Blog: http://journals.aol.com/northwestauthors/NorthWestAuthors
TypePad Blog: http://northwestauthors.typepad.com/northwestauthors/
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