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The Triple A Credit Anti-Spam
Policy
(Last updated January 15,
2008)
Triple A Credit is committed to permission-based email
marketing practices, and as a result has established this
no-tolerance Anti-Spam Policy. Triple A Credit will
occasionally update this Anti-Spam Policy. When it does, Triple
A Credit will also revise the “last update” date at the top of
this Anti-Spam Policy. For changes to this policy, Triple A
Credit will notify you (the customer) by placing a notice on
its web site home page. 1.What is
Spam?
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. 2.Preventing Spam
Customers of Triple A Credit 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 Triple A
Credit products or services to send unsolicited email or bulk
email, whether or not for commercial purposes. Triple A Credit
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 Triple A Credit
Helps You to Avoid Spamming
Triple A Credit 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 Triple A Credit
products and services state how and for what purposes you can
collect your site visitor addresses, and that you will follow
the Triple A Credit Privacy Policy and Anti-Spam Policy.
(b) Unsubscription – Each email created using Triple A
Credit 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 Triple A Credit web site. Customers of Triple A
Credit 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 Triple A Credit will
have the right to terminate their account.
(c) Purchased Mailing Lists - Mass mailings to purchased
email lists are not allowed. Triple A Credit 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.
4.Laws Restricting Spam
Spam laws vary from state to state, and from country to
country. This Triple A Credit 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 Triple A Credit for any of these previously mentioned
activities.
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 Triple A Credit
customer support service at support@triple-a-credit.com.
6.Measures to Enforce the Anti-Spam Policy
Any Triple A Credit customer found to be using Triple A
Credit products or services for spamming purposes may, at
Triple A Credit’s discretion, be immediately cut off from use
of all Triple A Credit products and services and/or fined US$
1,000 per occurrence, with no refund of fees that have been
paid.
Triple A Credit warns all of its customers when signing up
that if they participate in spamming activities they will be
subject to the loss of Triple A Credit services, fines and
possible legal action.
Triple A Credit has the right to actively review its
customers’ subscriber lists and email for suspiciously large
broadcasts. If Triple A Credit finds any customers to be
spamming, it will issue a warning, and if the activities are
serious enough, Triple A Credit will take action immediately.
If Triple A Credit has any reason to believe that the customer,
despite warning being given, threatens to or is continuing to
send spam, then Triple A Credit may take action immediately,
including disabling the customer’s account and/or reporting the
customer and the incident to the proper authorities.
Triple A Credit 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 Triple A
Credit, and will not be tolerated. 7.Reporting Spam
If you believe that you have received spam from or through
Triple A Credit’s facilities, please send a complaint from your
email account along with the unsolicited email, with completed
header, to support@triple-a-credit.com abuse
department. Please provide any other information that you
believe may help us in our investigation. Triple A Credit does
not investigate or take any action based on “anonymous” spam
complaints. 8.False Spam
Complaints
Triple A Credit 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 Triple A Credit, and then falsely or maliciously
files a spam complaint against Triple A Credit or its
customers, Triple A Credit 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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