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From the legal point of view, Copyright in Web is often considered as the grey area. But in the English law everything created privately is copyrighted “automatically”. Explicit copyright is not necessary. The default you should assume for other people’s works is that they are copyrighted and may not be copied unless you know otherwise. In English law, permissions to use copyright works (also known as licences) do NOT need to be in writing. For instance, when you make a website available to the world, you grant an implied licence to internet users to copy that website for the purpose of viewing it on a web browser. Therefore we recommend using the website cloner and logo's only from your own corporate site.

Is impersonating an email even allowed?

If you are hired to test another company you should have the proper writen contract in place. When testing your own company mail spoofing is allowed in most countries. Spoofing (mail or SMS) is only illegal in cases where it’s used to commit fraud or otherwise perpetrate a crime.

There are entirely legitimate reasons to spoof text messages, as well as less legitimate ones and the legality of this practice varies worldwide. Some nations have banned it due to concerns about the potential for fraud and abuse, while others may allow it. Individual carriers may also restrict SMS spoofing even if it is legal in a given nation. It is illegal to send anonymous SMS messages in Australia

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