In today’s digital age, staying connected with extended family has never been easier. However, with convenience comes challenges like privacy concerns, spam, and the difficulty of managing communication among large groups. Beyond family communication, every family member is constantly asked for email addresses—by stores, schools, service providers, and countless websites—creating exposure to data breaches, spam, and identity theft. EMail Parrot™ offers a unique solution tailored to help families stay in touch and protect their privacy both within the family and with the outside world. Here’s how this innovative tool can transform the way your family communicates and protects their digital identity.
Risks to Family Communications Online
Families often face several hurdles when trying to stay connected online:
- Privacy Risks: Sharing personal email addresses within a large group exposes everyone to risks like spam, phishing, and unwanted solicitations.
- External Privacy Exposure: Every family member gives their email to dozens of stores, websites, and services. When these get breached (and they do—70% of people’s emails are in breach databases), your family’s contact information becomes public. Once leaked, you can’t take it back.
- Group Management: Organizing communication among dozens of family members can be chaotic, especially when people live in different time zones and have varying levels of tech-savviness.
- Lost Contacts: The larger a group grows and the more people change their email addresses, the harder it is to keep everyone’s address book up to date.
- Security Concerns: Using unsecured platforms can expose sensitive family information to cyber threats.
EMail Parrot™ addresses these issues head-on, providing a safe, streamlined way for families to communicate. One address to email family without exposing personal information.
🔒 Two Layers of Family Privacy Protection
Closed Groups (Internal): Family members communicate with each other anonymously. No one sees personal email addresses. Perfect for family coordination, event planning, and staying connected.
VPE (External): Family members create unlimited protected aliases for dealing with the outside world. Real email addresses stay hidden from stores, websites, and services. Delete aliases when they get spammed.
Together: Complete privacy protection—both inside and outside the family.
Extended Families
By having a central repository for the email addresses for all of an extended family staying in contact becomes a breeze. Adding sublists for the different branches of the family allows more focused discussions to happen. The ability to have as many sublists as you like and for any individual to be in as many sublists as desired, creates infinite flexibility in organizing your communications.
With EMail Parrot™ DM (Direct Message) emails no one has to remember each member’s email address and keep it up to date. The system automatically creates an email alias for each member based on their name so any member can be directly emailed through EMail Parrot™. The list admin(s) is the only person that needs to keep email addresses up to date - everyone else doesn’t need to know. Any member can request the list “addressbook” at any time in case they forget.
So why is EMail Parrot™ better than other email services? It’s because of the security and privacy protections. No member of a list, other than the admin(s) knows the real email addresses of the other members. This isn’t because any family member can be a hacker, it’s because any family member can get hacked. With common email systems your extended family knows your email address and has a history of email exchanges, and if their email account is compromised the hackers have everyone else’s email address, name, and topics of discussion. They can then use this information to hack, phish, and spam everyone else. Ugh.
With EMail Parrot™ no one’s email exchange will contain real email addresses or names. A closed EMail Parrot™ list won’t allow any non-member send emails through the system. Any hacked email address can be “moderated” until they gain controld of their account. Plus EMail Parrot™ has stringent virus, spoofing, phishing, and content controls - an email firewall.
Family VPE Example:
Your family creates a list at a custom domain - family@yourdomain.com and
you enable
VPE and create additional VPE lists for external purposes:
family-shopping@yourdomain.com- All retail and e-commercefamily-medical@yourdomain.com- Healthcare providersfamily-utilities@yourdomain.com- Bills and servicesfamily-kids@yourdomain.com- School and activities
Now when Target asks for an email at checkout, you give:
target.family-shopping@yourdomain.com
If Target’s database gets breached (as they have been), the leaked email doesn’t lead to your real inbox. Delete the alias, and the breach can’t reach you. Your real family email addresses stay completely private.
This is particularly valuable for elderly family members who are frequent targets of email scams. Set them up with VPE aliases, help configure their email to only accept from EMail Parrot and safe parties, and monitor for phishing attempts—they’re protected without needing to become tech experts.
Protecting Your Family’s Privacy Beyond the Family
While EMail Parrot’s closed groups protect privacy within your family, many families also need to protect their email addresses when dealing with the outside world—stores, schools, service providers, and websites that constantly ask for email addresses.
Virtual Private Email (VPE) for Families:
VPE extends EMail Parrot’s privacy protection to external communications. Instead of giving your real email to every store, website, or service, you can create unlimited protected aliases that route to your real email.
Real Family Scenarios:
🛒 Shopping & Services:
- Kids signing up for school activities? Give
+kidactivities+family@yourdomain.com - Store asking for email at checkout? Use
+storename+family@yourdomain.com - If they spam you or sell your address, delete the alias—your real email stays safe
🏥 Healthcare & Appointments:
- Each family member gets their own alias:
+mom-medical+family@yourdomain.com - Doctor’s offices can’t spam your main inbox
- You can track which provider leaked/sold your address
🎓 School Communications:
- Create aliases for each child’s school:
+johnny-school+family@yourdomain.com - Organize school emails automatically
- When Johnny graduates, archive that alias
👴 Elderly Parent Protection:
- Set up VPE for elderly parents who are targets for scams
- You monitor their external email for phishing attempts
- They can still email normally, but VPE filters everything first
- Virus scanning and dangerous link detection protect them
🏠 Household Services:
- Separate aliases for utilities, subscriptions, deliveries
- If one gets compromised, others stay safe
- Easy to track who leaked your information
How It Works:
- Enable VPE on your family list
- Create sublists for different purposes (shopping, medical, school)
- Give out VPE addresses:
+storename+sublist@yourdomain.com - All emails pass through EMail Parrot’s security filters before reaching you
- Delete compromised aliases instantly
VPE vs. Simple Email Forwarding:
- ✅ Full virus and malware scanning
- ✅ Tracking pixel removal
- ✅ Spoofing detection
- ✅ Can delete aliases when spammed
- ✅ Professional appearance with your domain
Reducing Social Media Exposure
There’s no doubt the social media has changed the world, but not always for the better. Staying connected with family and friends is great but having your private information sold to data brokers is not. And as they say - internet information lasts forever!
If you want to keep your family’s private information private then EMail Parrot is right for you. We don’t keep your emails and we don’t scrape them for information about you. You can stay connected and not feed internet’s personal information database with EMail Parrot™. Plus we don’t push ads on you.
Conclusion
Families thrive on connection, and EMail Parrot™ makes staying connected easier and safer than ever—both within the family and with the outside world. Whether you’re coordinating a family event, sharing important updates, or protecting your family from the countless email requests they face daily, EMail Parrot™ provides the tools you need.
For Internal Communication: Closed groups keep everyone’s personal email private. No walk-away contacts, no exposure from one member’s breach.
For External Protection: VPE gives every family member unlimited protected aliases for stores, schools, services, and websites. When an alias gets spammed or breached, delete it—your real email stays safe. Configure the email accounts of minors and seniors needing heightened protection to only accept emails from EMail Parrot and trusted organizations such as doctors and bankers.
In a world where online safety is paramount, EMail Parrot™ ensures that your family’s communication remains secure, organized, and stress-free— both inside and outside the family circle. It’s time to bring your family closer together while protecting their digital privacy with the power of EMail Parrot™.
One list. Complete protection. $5/month (or $10/month with your own domain).