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Empire Group LTD is aware of our
responsibilities as a good Internet citizen and are
dedicated to protecting the privacy rights of other
Internet citizens. We vigorously oppose the sending of
unsolicited e-mail (spam) and have made every effort
within our power to discourage and prohibit the sending
of spam.
Empire Group LTD does not allow anyone to use our
products or services for the purpose of sending spam. We
have and will continue to refuse business from known
spammers. If a current Empire Group LTD customer uses
our products or services for the purposes of spamming
anyone, their product license and/or service contract
will be voided without refund.
We are highly sensitive to
the privacy of each of the subscribers on the lists that
we host and will not make their name, address, or any
other information that they have provided us available
to anyone without the subscriber's express permission.
We require that each message sent out includes an easy
way for the subscriber to remove themselves via an
unsubscribe link. If a recipient calls our offices and
requests to be manually removed from a customer's list,
we will manually unsubscribe the recipient from your
account.
Empire Group LTD may
determine at its sole discretion whether a customer is
spamming. There are a number of factors Empire Group LTD
uses to determine whether a customer is spamming,
including, but not limited to: complaints sent to abuse
report addresses, spamming reports, complaints sent to
any of Empire Group LTD 's upstream providers, and
evaluating a customer's mass e-mail statistics and
recipient addresses.
Definition of Spam
Spam is unsolicited email
sent in bulk. Any promotion, information or solicitation
that is sent to a person via e-mail without their prior
consent, where there is no pre-existing relationship
between the sender and the recipient, is spam.
Examples of Spam
Any e-mail message that
is sent to a recipient who had previously signed up to
receive newsletters, product information or any other
type of bulk email but later opted-out by indicating
to the sender that they did not want to receive
additional email, then that email is spam.
Any e-mail message that
is sent to recipients that have had no prior
association with the organization or did not agree to
be e-mailed by the organization is spam.
Any e-mail message that
is sent to a recipient without a way for a person to
opt-out or request that future mailings not be sent to
them, is spam.
Any email message that
does not have a valid email address in the reply-to
line is spam.
Any email message that
contains any false or misleading information is spam.
Any email that says you
can earn $1000s each week from home is spam.
Any email message that
promotes an adult web site is spam, unless the
recipient has specifically requested information from
that web site.
Any message that contains
"ADV:", "ADV ADLT:", or "ADV ADULT" in the subject is
spam.
Any message that is sent
to e-mail addresses that have been harvested off of
web sites, newsgroups, or other areas of the Internet
is spam.
What is not Spam
An e-mail message is NOT
spam if the recipient in anyway requested email be
sent to them from the sender or the sender's
organization.
Anytime an organization
sends a bulk email message to one of its customers it
is NOT spam provided that the organization offers a
way for the customer to opt-out of future mailings and
that the customer did not previously opt-out.
An e-mail message is NOT
spam when sent to recipients who agreed to receive
information or promotions from a partner organization
(as long as there is a clear opt-out option)
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