The
Tattoo Blast.com. (“Tattoo Blast”) Anti-Spam Policy
(Last updated April 2, 2006)
Tattoo Blast
is committed to permission-based email marketing practices, and as a result
has established this no-tolerance Anti-Spam Policy. Tattoo Blast will occasionally
update this Anti-Spam Policy. When it does, Tattoo Blast will also revise the
“last update” date at the top of this Anti-Spam Policy. For changes to
this policy, Tattoo Blast 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 Tattoo Blast 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 Tattoo Blast products or services
to send unsolicited email or bulk email, whether or not for commercial
purposes. Tattoo Blast 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 Tattoo Blast Helps You to Avoid Spamming |
Tattoo Blast
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 Tattoo Blast products and services state how and
for what purposes you can collect your site visitor addresses,
and that you will follow the Tattoo Blast Privacy Policy and Anti-Spam
Policy. |
| (b) |
Unsubscription
– Each email created using Tattoo Blast 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 Tattoo Blast web site. Customers of Tattoo Blast 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 Tattoo Blast 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. Tattoo Blast 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 Tattoo Blast
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 Tattoo Blast 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? |
| (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 Tattoo Blast customer support service at spam@tattooblast.com.
| 6. |
Measures to Enforce the Anti-Spam Policy |
Any
Tattoo Blast customer found to be using Tattoo Blast products or services for spamming purposes
may, at Tattoo Blast’s discretion, be immediately cut off from use of all Tattoo Blast products
and services and/or fined US$ 1,000 per occurrence, with no refund of
fees that have been paid.
Tattoo Blast
warns all of its customers when signing up that if they participate in
spamming activities they will be subject to the loss of Tattoo Blast services,
fines and possible legal action.
Tattoo Blast
has the right to actively review its customers’ subscriber lists and email
for suspiciously large broadcasts. If Tattoo Blast finds any customers to be spamming,
it will issue a warning, and if the activities are serious enough, Tattoo Blast
will take action immediately. If Tattoo Blast has any reason to believe that the
customer, despite warning being given, threatens to or is continuing to
send spam, then Tattoo Blast may take action immediately, including disabling the
customer’s account and/or reporting the customer and the incident to the
proper authorities.
Tattoo Blast
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 Tattoo Blast, and will not be tolerated.
If
you believe that you have received spam from or through Tattoo Blast’s facilities,
please send a complaint from your email account along with the unsolicited
email, with completed header, to spam@tattooblast.com. Please provide
any other information that you believe may help us in our investigation.
Tattoo Blast does not investigate or take any action based on “anonymous” spam
complaints.
Tattoo Blast
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 Tattoo Blast, and then falsely or maliciously files a spam complaint
against Tattoo Blast or its customers, Tattoo Blast will cooperate fully with the appropriate
agencies to ban the complainant from use of anti-spam software and the
Internet community. |
