Anti-Spam Policy for MommyDaddysavers.com
ANTI-SPAM POLICY for MOMMYDADDYSAVERS.COM (MDSers)
-- IMPORTANT -- PLEASE READ
(Last
updated May 1, 2009) MDSers is committed to permission-based
email marketing practices, and as a
result has established this no-tolerance Anti-Spam Policy.
MDSers
will occasionally update this Anti-Spam Policy. When it does,
MDSers will also revise the “last update” date at the top of this
Anti-Spam Policy. For changes to this policy, MDSers 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 MDSers 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 MDSers products or services to send unsolicited email or bulk
email, whether or not for commercial purposes. MDSers
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 MDSers Helps You to Avoid Spamming |
MDSers 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 the MDSers products and services state how and for
what purposes you can collect your site visitor addresses, and that you
will follow the MDSers Privacy Policy and Anti-Spam Policy.
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| (b) |
Unsubscription
– Each email created using MDSers 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 MDSers web
site. Customers of MDSers 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 MDSers will have
the right to terminate their account.
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| (c) |
Purchased
Mailing Lists - Mass mailings to purchased email lists are not
allowed. MDSers 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 MDSers 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,
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| (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,
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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 MDSers 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:
| (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?
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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? |
| (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 MDSers customer support service
at support@myemailmanager.com.
| 6. |
Measures to Enforce the Anti-Spam Policy |
Any MDSers customer found to be using MDSers
products or services for
spamming purposes may, at MDSers’s discretion, be immediately cut
off from use of all MDSers products and services and/or fined US$
1,000 per occurrence, with no refund of fees that have been paid.
MDSers warns all of its customers when
signing up that if they participate in
spamming activities they will be subject to the loss of MDSers
services, fines and possible legal action.
MDSers has the right to actively
review its customers’ subscriber lists and
email for suspiciously large broadcasts. If MDSers finds any
customers to be spamming, it will issue a warning, and if the
activities are serious enough, MDSers will take action
immediately.
If MDSers has any reason to believe that the customer, despite
warning being given, threatens to or is continuing to send spam, then
MDSers may take action immediately, including disabling the
customer’s account and/or reporting the customer and the incident to
the proper authorities.
MDSers 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 MDSers, and will not be tolerated.
If
you believe that you have received spam from or through MDSers’s
facilities, please send a complaint from your email account along with
the unsolicited email, with completed header, to
support@internetcashmachines.com. Please provide any other information
that you believe may help us in our investigation. MDSers does not
investigate or take any action based on “anonymous” spam complaints.
MDSers 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 MDSers, and then falsely or
maliciously files a spam complaint against MDSers or its customers,
MDSers 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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