Spam Policy
The Tattoo-Blast.com. (“Tattoo-Blast”) Anti-Spam Policy
(Last updated December 24, 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.
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3.
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How Tattoo-Blast Helps You to
Avoid Spamming
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Tattoo-Blast 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 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.
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(b)
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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)
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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:
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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 Tattoo-Blast 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 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 Tattoo-Blast customer support service at spam@tattoo-blast.com.
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6.
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Measures to Enforce the Anti-Spam
Policy
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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@tattoo-blast.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.
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