What's On This Website
The Website
British Expat is an online magazine which includes lifestyle articles (eg Mike Clark's gardening series) as well as a great deal of information about travel and expatriate living. There's also sport, food, UK gossip, films, advice on satellite TV, etc, etc, etc. We must have over a thousand pages of content by now. We offer several facilities within the website.
The Fora
The BE fora are a rapidly growing part of the BE website. They basically
serve two functions. They provide a place for expats to have a "natter"
online about their lives or pretty much anything they fancy discussing,
by leaving messages for others to reply to later. They're also a useful resource
for those planning to become expats to find information - whether on specific countries
in the country forum, or on themes of more general applicability on the community forum.
Join in our friendly discussion fora (free):
General Community Forum
| In-Country Experts Forum
The Newsletter
Every week or so we send out an email newsletter to those who have opted-in* to receive it. The newsletter covers something topical, as well as including "virtual snacks" and a bit of humour. If you'd like to see an example, you can look in our archives, or better still sign up to receive it. Simply add your email address and click "Do it now" on the sign-up page. (You can unsubscribe in the same simple way.)
Join our opt-in email list (free)
* We have always used an opt-in system, ie one in which the recipient has actively requested to receive it, as we believe this follows best practice. However, it is also a legal requirement for all sites in the EU. Article 13 of EU Directive 2002/58/EC [PDF file: 162KB] makes it quite clear that unsolicited direct marketing emails are illegal, and that electronic contact details may only be used for self-promotion activities where the address holder is given the opportunity to object, "free of charge and in an easy manner", at the time the details are collected.
Opt-out lists are breaking the law! Opt-out is where the list owner has gathered your email address by some means - perhaps you have contacted them about some other matter - and then added you to their list on the basis that you can unsubscribe if that's what you want to do. Not only are opt-out lists illegal, they are also misleading - particularly for advertisers. It's all very well making claims such as "Our newsletter is received by over 20,000 members every month", but just how many of them are actually read, or how many go straight in the trash because the recipient can't be bothered to unsubscribe?
BE Webmail
We also offer free webmail. Why be just a number at Yahoo! or Hotmail,
when you can have your own name with us (probably)? It's a pretty good
system - and it doesn't have adverts. Give it a try. The sign-up procedure
is very quick and easy. Here's a direct link (new registrations are below
the log-in section):
Sign up for our free webmail service
We have lots more on offer and plenty of other things which are planned, but these are the main ones for now. Enjoy!
Meet the team - please click here
Our policies - these links appear at the bottom of every page, but just to help you, here they are again:
Advertising - want to see our stats? This is where to look.
British Expat Ltd is a private limited company registered in England & Wales. Registration number 4165796.
Registered address: 95 High Street, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, United Kingdom CF62 7DY
(Please do not write to us at this address, which is maintained solely to meet the requirements of English company law.)
Managing Director: Kay McMahon
Non-executive Director: David McMahon.
