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auction-design-for-free.com Anti-Spam
Policy
(Last updated January 15, 2006)
IMC is committed to permission-based email
marketing practices, and as a result has established this no-tolerance
Anti-Spam Policy. auction-design-for-free.com will occasionally
update this Anti-Spam Policy. When it does,
auction-design-for-free.com will also revise the “last update” date at
the top of this Anti-Spam Policy. For changes to this policy,
auction-design-for-free.com will notify you (the customer) by placing a
notice on its web site home page.
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.
Customers of auction-design-for-free.com
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 the
auction-design-for-free.com products or services to send unsolicited
email or bulk email, whether or not for commercial purposes.
auction-design-for-free.com 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.
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How
auction-design-for-free.com Helps You to Avoid Spamming |
auction-design-for-free.com has developed
its products to incorporate a strict permission-based philosophy.
This anti-spam philosophy is implemented through the following:
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Communication
and Agreement – The Terms of Use that you have agreed to as part of
registering for the auction-design-for-free.com products and services
state how and for what purposes you can collect your site visitor
addresses, and that you will follow the auction-design-for-free.com
Privacy Policy and Anti-Spam Policy.
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Unsubscription
– Each email created using auction-design-for-free.com 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 the auction-design-for-free.com web site.
Customers of auction-design-for-free.com 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
auction-design-for-free.com will have the right to terminate their
account.
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Purchased
Mailing Lists - Mass mailings to purchased email lists are not
allowed. auction-design-for-free.com 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.
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Spam laws vary from state to state, and
from country to country. This auction-design-for-free.com
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:
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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,
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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,
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| (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
auction-design-for-free.com for any of these previously mentioned
activities.
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| 5. |
Questions
to Ask Yourself |
To help in establishing whether you are
participating in activities constituting spam, ask yourself the
following questions:
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Are you sending email to non-specific
addresses, such as info@domain.com or sales@domain.com? |
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Have you deliberately falsified your
transmission path information or originating address? |
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Are
you sending email to mailing lists or distribution lists, which then
send indirectly to various other email addresses?
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| (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? |
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Does your email not provide a fully
functioning link to unsubscribe? |
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Does you email subject line contain false
or misleading information? |
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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
auction-design-for-free.com customer support service at
support@myemailmanager.com.
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Measures
to Enforce the Anti-Spam Policy |
Any auction-design-for-free.com customer
found to be using auction-design-for-free.com products or services for
spamming purposes may, at auction-design-for-free.com’s discretion, be
immediately cut off from use of all auction-design-for-free.com
products and services and/or fined US$ 1,000 per occurrence, with no
refund of fees that have been paid.
auction-design-for-free.com warns all of
its customers when signing up that if they participate in spamming
activities they will be subject to the loss of
auction-design-for-free.com services, fines and possible legal action.
auction-design-for-free.com has the right
to actively review its customers’ subscriber lists and email for
suspiciously large broadcasts. If auction-design-for-free.com
finds any customers to be spamming, it will issue a warning, and if the
activities are serious enough, auction-design-for-free.com will take
action immediately. If auction-design-for-free.com has any reason
to believe that the customer, despite warning being given, threatens to
or is continuing to send spam, then auction-design-for-free.com may
take action immediately, including disabling the customer’s account
and/or reporting the customer and the incident to the proper
authorities.
auction-design-for-free.com 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 auction-design-for-free.com, and will not be tolerated.
If you believe that you have received spam
from or through auction-design-for-free.com’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. auction-design-for-free.com does not investigate
or take any action based on “anonymous” spam complaints.
auction-design-for-free.com 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 auction-design-for-free.com, and then falsely
or maliciously files a spam complaint against
auction-design-for-free.com or its customers,
auction-design-for-free.com will cooperate fully with the appropriate
agencies to ban the complainant from use of anti-spam software and the
Internet community.
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