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Anti-Spam
Policy for The Power of Positive Action, LLC
(Last
updated January 21, 2010)
The Power
of Positive Action, LLC is committed to permission-based
email marketing practices, and as a result, has established this no-tolerance
Anti-Spam Policy. The Power of Positive Action, LLC will occasionally
update this Anti-Spam Policy. When it does, The Power of Positive
Action, LLC will also revise the “last update” date at the top of this
Anti-Spam Policy. For changes to this policy, The Power of Positive
Action, LLC 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 The Power of Positive Action, LLC 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 Power of Positive Action, LLC products or services to send unsolicited
email or bulk email, whether or not for commercial purposes. The Power
of Positive Action, LLC 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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3.
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How The
Power of Positive Action, LLC Helps You to Avoid Spamming
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The Power
of Positive Action, LLC 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 Power of Positive Action, LLC products and services
state how and for what purposes you can collect your site visitor addresses,
and that you will follow The Power of Positive Action, LLC
Privacy Policy and Anti-Spam Policy.
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(b)
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Unsubscription
– Each email created using The Power of Positive Action, LLC 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 Power of Positive Action, LLC web site. Customers of The Power of
Positive Action, LLC 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 The Power of Positive Action, LLC 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. The Power of Positive Action, LLC 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. The Power of
Positive Action, LLC 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 The Power of Positive
Action, LLC for any of these previously mentioned activities.
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5.
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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 your
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 The Power of Positive Action, LLC customer
support service at admin@PersonalFreedomforWomen.com
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6.
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Measures
to Enforce the Anti-Spam Policy
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Any The
Power of Positive Action, LLC customer found to be using The Power of
Positive Action, LLC products or services for spamming purposes may, at The
Power of Positive Action, LLC’s discretion, be immediately cut off from use
of all The Power of Positive Action, LLC products and services and/or fined
US$ 1,000 per occurrence, with no refund of fees that have been paid.
The Power
of Positive Action, LLC warns all of its customers when signing up that if
they participate in spamming activities they will be subject to the loss of The
Power of Positive Action, LLC services, fines and possible legal action.
The Power
of Positive Action, LLC has the right to actively review its customers’
subscriber lists and email for suspiciously large broadcasts. If The
Power of Positive Action, LLC finds any customers to be spamming, it will
issue a warning, and if the activities are serious enough, The Power of
Positive Action, LLC will take action immediately. If The Power of
Positive Action, LLC has any reason to believe that the customer, despite
warning being given, threatens to or is continuing to send spam, then The
Power of Positive Action, LLC may take action immediately, including
disabling the customer’s account and/or reporting the customer and the
incident to the proper authorities.
The Power
of Positive Action, LLC 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 The Power of
Positive Action, LLC, and will not be tolerated.
If you
believe that you have received spam from or through The Power of Positive
Action, LLC’s facilities, please send a complaint from your email account
along with the unsolicited email, with completed header, to admin@PersonalFreedomforWomen.com
Please provide any other information that you believe may help us in our
investigation. The Power of Positive Action, LLC does not investigate or
take any action based on “anonymous” spam complaints.
The Power
of Positive Action, LLC 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 The Power of Positive Action,
LLC, and then falsely or maliciously files a spam complaint against The Power
of Positive Action, LLC or its customers, The Power of Positive Action, LLC
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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