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The Problem
In the past
several years, the Internet has exploded with commercial
activity. The breaking down of barriers between businesses
and consumers has been facilitated by the rapid development
of new technology, removal of 'middlemen', and tax rates
favorable to online entrepreneurship.
We at
bulkemailkiosks.Com are proud to support responsible commerce
on the Internet - this is represented in our service
offerings and unparalleled support. However, it has become
apparent that the same environment that has helped this
trend take off has also contributed to numerous cases of
fraud and abuse of network resources.
In
particular, "spam" has proven to be a major problem for many
of our customers and the Internet at large. Spam is a common
slang term referring to the sending of unsolicited email,
instant messaging, or other communication to a large group
of people at once. Variations on this practice include off
topic (and usually promotional) messages on bulletin boards,
guest books, Usenet newsgroups, or chat rooms.
Spam is
strictly against our Terms and Conditions, and will result
in legal action to be taken by a number of third parties,
including ISP services, User's, and Other involved parties.
The
following policy dictates in specific terms what is
considered acceptable use of bulk email, messaging by
bulkemailkiosks.Com :
Subscriptions
Mailing list subscribers must specifically opt-in to the
list they are subscribed to. This applies to both new
subscriptions and the bulk addition of addresses already
subscribed via other means. Confirmation is handled using a
single confirmation message sent to the subscriber's email
address. This mailing must contain a URL to the site's
privacy policy, a brief description of the mailing list, and
a URL that the user must follow to confirm the subscription.
The
nature of email address use must be fully disclosed, either
on the page the subscription is made from or with a
prominent link to the site's Privacy Policy. It must be made
reasonably clear how a user's email address will be used and
in what circumstances it will be shared.
Lists
cannot be procured from outside parties unless the email
sender has procured a list from an organization that sells
or otherwise shares email distribution lists, and all of the
following conditions are met:
The selling organization maintains a publicly viewable
privacy policy disclosing that such sales may occur.
The privacy policy is
prominently linked to from the page the subscriber signed up
from.
The privacy policy has
not changed substantially since the user signed up.
Records
are kept of the date, time, IP address, and form location
where the subscribing user signed up from.
Lists
procured from outside parties must have been consistently
handled in a manner comparable to bulkemailkiosks.Com
policies.
Users
cannot populate lists with addresses obtained for a
substantially different purpose than was originally
disclosed to the user.
All
subscriptions must be re-confirmed in the manner described
in Subscriptions (Section 1) before being sent bulk email
messages.
Spamware
It is strictly prohibited in conjunction with your
bulkemailkiosks.Com account to sell software designed
specifically to facilitate the practice of spamming.
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