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Anti-Spam Policy
MediaPartners Worldwide ("MPW") Anti-Spam Policy
MPW has a no tolerance spam policy.
MPW is committed to
permission-based email marketing practices, and as a result has
established this policy. MPW will occasionally update this policy.
MPW will notify you (the customer) by placing a notice on its
web site home page, for changes to this policy.
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 MPW 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 MPW products or services to send unsolicited email or
bulk email, whether or not for commercial purposes. MPW 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 MPW Helps You to Avoid Spamming
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MPW has developed its Internet marketing tools to incorporate a
strict permission-based philosophy. This anti-spam philosophy is
implemented through the following:
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(a)
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Communication and Agreement - The Terms of Use that you have
agreed to as part of registering for the MPW products and
services state how and for what purposes you can collect
your site visitor addresses, and that you will follow the
MPW Privacy Policy and Anti-Spam Policy.
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(b)
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Unsubscription - Each email created using MPW 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 MPW web site. Customers of MPW 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 MPW will have the right to terminate their
account.
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(c)
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Purchased Mailing Lists - Mass mailings to purchased email
lists are not allowed. MPW 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 MPW 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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(a)
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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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(b)
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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)
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Use of any false or misleading information in the subject
line of the email, and
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(d)
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Assisting any person in using the products or services of
MPW for any of these previously mentioned activities.
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Questions to Ask Yourself
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To help in establishing whether you are participating in activities
constituting spam, ask yourself the following questions:
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(a)
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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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(b)
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Have you deliberately falsified your transmission path
information or originating address?
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(c)
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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)
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Have you imported for use a purchased list of any type?
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(e)
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Are you continuing to mail to anyone who has asked to be
deleted from your mailing list?
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(f)
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Does your email not provide a fully functioning link to
unsubscribe?
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(g)
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Does you email subject line contain false or misleading
information?
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(h)
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Have you used a third party's email address or domain name
without the party's consent?
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If you answer yes to any of these questions, you are likely involved
in spam activities, and should contact MPW customer support service
at support@myemailmanager.com.
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Measures to Enforce the Anti-Spam Policy
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Any MPW customer found to be using MPW products or services for
spamming purposes may, at MPW's discretion, be immediately cut off
from use of all MPW products and services and/or fined US$ 1,000 per
occurrence, with no refund of fees that have been paid.
MPW warns all of its customers when signing up that if they
participate in spamming activities they will be subject to the loss
of MPW services, fines and possible legal action.
MPW has the right to actively review its customers' subscriber lists
and email for suspiciously large broadcasts. If MPW finds any
customers to be spamming, it will issue a warning, and if the
activities are serious enough, MPW will take action immediately. If
MPW has any reason to believe that the customer, despite warning
being given, threatens to or is continuing to send spam, then MPW
may take action immediately, including disabling the customer's
account and/or reporting the customer and the incident to the proper
authorities.
MPW 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 MPW, and will not be tolerated.
If you believe that you have received spam from or through MPW's
facilities, please send a complaint from your email account along
with the unsolicited email, with completed header, to
it@mediapartnersworldwide.com.com. Please provide any other information
that you believe may help us in our investigation. MPW does not
investigate or take any action based on "anonymous" spam complaints.
MPW 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 MPW, and then falsely
or maliciously files a spam complaint against MPW or its customers,
MPW 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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