Anti-Spam Policy
(Last updated January 15, 2003)
This activity is committed to permission-based email marketing practices, and as
a result has established this no-tolerance Anti-Spam Policy. This activity will
occasionally update this Anti-Spam Policy. When it does, This activity will also
revise the “last update” date at the top of this Anti-Spam Policy. For changes
to this policy, This activity will notify you (the customer) by placing a notice
on its web site home page.
1. What is Spam?
Spam is commercial email or unsolicited bulk email, including “junk mail”, which
has not been requested by the recipient. It is intrusive and often irrelevant or
offensive, and it wastes valuable resources. Spam messages are the opposite of
permission-based email, which are normally anticipated, personal, relevant
and/or associated with a pre-existing business or personal relationship.
Inappropriate newsgroup activities, consisting of excessive posting of the same
materials to several newsgroups, are also deemed to be spam.
2. Preventing Spam
Customers of This activity products and services have agreed during their
registration process, upon accepting the Terms of Use, to comply with this
Anti-Spam Policy. Specifically, each customer agrees not to use this activity
products or services to send unsolicited email or bulk email, whether or not for
commercial purposes. This activity reserves the right to determine in its sole
discretion what constitutes actionable spam, as well as what measures are
necessary in response to such spam activities.
3. How This activity Helps You to Avoid Spamming
This activity has developed its Internet marketing tools to incorporate a strict
permission-based philosophy. This anti-spam philosophy is implemented through
the following:
(a) Communication and Agreement – The Terms of Use that you have agreed to as
part of registering for this activity products and services state how and for
what purposes you can collect your site visitor addresses, and that you will
follow this activity Privacy Policy and Anti-Spam Policy.
(b) Unsubscription – Each email created using This activity products contains an
“unsubscribe link”. If your web site visitors use the link to request that they
be unsubscribed, your subscriber lists will automatically be adjusted to
eliminate the prospect of sending unwanted email to such persons. Additionally,
each person on your subscriber list has the option of unsubscribing through a
web-based method provided on this activity web site. Customers of This activity
who try to remove the unsubscribe link will be warned that they are doing so,
and if they persist in having the link removed or deactivated in any way, then
This activity will have the right to terminate their account.
(c) Purchased Mailing Lists - Mass mailings to purchased email lists are not
allowed. This activity only allows opt-in mailing lists. Purchased or inherited
lists are by definition not opt-in. Similarly, you cannot use an email list
relating to particular subject matter, and then use it for an unrelated topic.
4. Laws Restricting Spam
Spam laws vary from state to state, and from country to country. This This
activity Anti-Spam Policy has been developed to conform to the highest
commercially reasonable standards. As a result, and without limiting the general
prohibitions against all spam activities, the following are expressly
prohibited:
(a) Use of false headers, or other false information, to identify the point of
origin or the transmission path of the email, or to hide the true origin of the
email sender,
(b) Unauthorized use of a third party’s internet domain name without the
permission of such third party, to make it appear that the third party was the
point of origin of the email,
(c) Use of any false or misleading information in the subject line of the email,
and
(d) Assisting any person in using the products or services of This activity for
any of these previously mentioned activities.
5. Questions to Ask Yourself
To help in establishing whether you are participating in activities constituting
spam, ask yourself the following questions:
(a) Are you sending email to non-specific addresses, such as info@domain.com or
sales@domain.com?
(b) Have you deliberately falsified your transmission path information or
originating address?
(c) Are you sending email to mailing lists or distribution lists, which then
send indirectly to various other email addresses?
(d) Have you imported for use a purchased list of any type?
(e) Are you continuing to mail to anyone who has asked to be deleted from your
mailing list?
(f) Does your email not provide a fully functioning link to unsubscribe?
(g) Does you email subject line contain false or misleading information?
(h) Have you used a third party’s email address or domain name without the
party’s consent?
If you answer yes to any of these questions, you are likely involved in spam
activities, and should contact This activity customer support service at
support@myemailmanager.com.
6. Measures to Enforce the Anti-Spam Policy
Any This activity customer found to be using This activity products or services
for spamming purposes may, at This activity’s discretion, be immediately cut off
from use of all This activity products and services and/or fined US$ 1,000 per
occurrence, with no refund of fees that have been paid.
This activity warns all of its customers when signing up that if they
participate in spamming activities they will be subject to the loss of This
activity services, fines and possible legal action.
This activity has the right to actively review its customers’ subscriber lists
and email for suspiciously large broadcasts. If This activity finds any
customers to be spamming, it will issue a warning, and if the activities are
serious enough, This activity will take action immediately. If This activity has
any reason to believe that the customer, despite warning being given, threatens
to or is continuing to send spam, then This activity may take action
immediately, including disabling the customer’s account and/or reporting the
customer and the incident to the proper authorities.
This activity does not attempt to censor any content, nor to curtail the
business of its customers. However, spam activities do not fall within uses
authorized by This activity, and will not be tolerated.
7. Reporting Spam
If you believe that you have received spam from or through This activity’s
facilities, please send a complaint from your email account along with the
unsolicited email, with completed header, to abuse@myemailmanager.com. Please
provide any other information that you believe may help us in our investigation.
This activity does not investigate or take any action based on “anonymous” spam
complaints.
8. False Spam Complaints
This activity supports the efforts of various organizations working to
responsibly eliminate spam activities. However, if an individual has opted-in to
receive email from a customer of This activity, and then falsely or maliciously
files a spam complaint against This activity or its customers, This activity
will cooperate fully with the appropriate agencies to ban the complainant from
use of anti-spam software and the Internet community.