We have been made aware that there has been a claim made on this and another website stating the funkypool staff can and do access private and offline messages.

There is no truth in this, staff have no such access, never have and never will, and nor is there any automated task which scans the messages.

I'm not particularly happy that such a rumour has been started.

Please contact us if you have any questions.

Edited at 19:06 Sat 09/10/10 (BST)