Personal Email Definition: An email sent by an employee within an employer's server but which serve no business purpose. In Johnson, Justice Zinn of the Federal Court of Canada had before him the text of a federal statute, and a corporate policy (Bell Canada) which referred to, but did not define, personal email. He found:"The area of Mr. Johnson’s concern, and the focus of this application, are the e-mails he alleges were sent to and from Bell Canada employees concerning him and which, from the perspective of Bell Canada, serve no business purpose."I shall refer to e-mail messages of this type as personal e-mails; whereas e-mail messages concerning Mr. Johnson that Bell Canada views as having a business purpose, I shall refer to as business e-mails." REFERENCES: Duhaime, Lloyd, Duhaime's Legal Dictionary Duhaime, Lloyd, Duhaime's Legal Citations & Abbreviations Guide To Legal CitationsJohnson v Bell Canada, 2008 FC 1086Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, S.C. 2000, c. 5 Categories & Topics: Intellectual Property and Internet Law Dictionary Find you are constantly looking up definitions? Try our search provider (works in most modern browsers) If you find an error or omission in Duhaime's Legal Dictionary, or if you have legal term suggestion, we'd love to hear from you!