glf,
be very careful. I know of individuals in the ME who have been given the oneway Business Class ticket home and as part of the 'clearing the desk' process their desktop / laptop has been 'siezed' immediately by IT and a copy of the hard disk made before they have been given leave to depart on that big silver bird! The copy is held or used as evidence whilst the desktop / laptop is scrubbed clean and recycled onto some new employee, probably the one that gets the vacant position!
If you use a company desktop or laptop anything on it can be claimed by the company as can any emails sent or recieved using their server and your company issued email address. I think you'll find the same rules are applied in most countries.
Blade.