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Adventure Qualifications Network cc is committed to
permission-based email marketing practices, and as a result has established this
no-tolerance Anti-Spam Policy. Adventure Qualifications Network cc will
occasionally update this Anti-Spam Policy.
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 Adventure Qualifications Network cc have agreed in their contract
to comply with this Anti-Spam Policy. Specifically, each customer agrees not to
use the Adventure Qualifications Network cc services to send unsolicited email
or bulk email, whether or not for commercial purposes. Adventure Qualifications
Network cc 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 Adventure Qualifications Network cc Helps to Avoid Spamming
Adventure Qualifications Network cc operates on a strict permission-based
philosophy. This anti-spam philosophy is implemented through the following:
(a) Communication and Agreement – Adventure Qualifications Network cc indicates
for what purpose site visitors’ addresses are collected and that Adventure
Qualifications Network cc will follow the Adventure Qualifications Network cc
Privacy Policy and Anti-Spam Policy.
(b) Un-subscription – Each email communication marketing Adventure
Qualifications Network cc services contains an “unsubscribe link”. If Adventure
Qualifications Network cc’s web site visitors use the link to request that they
be unsubscribed, its subscriber lists will automatically be adjusted to
eliminate the prospect of sending unwanted email to such persons. Additionally,
each person on its subscriber list has the option of unsubscribing through a
web-based method provided on the Adventure Qualifications Network cc web site.
(c) Purchased Mailing Lists – Adventure Qualifications Network cc does not
purchase email lists for mass mailings. Adventure Qualifications Network cc only
allows opt-in mailing lists. Purchased or inherited lists are by definition not
opt-in. Similarly, email lists relating to particular subject matter and then
used for an unrelated topic will not be used.
4. Laws Restricting Spam
Spam laws vary from country to country. This Adventure Qualifications Network cc
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.
(d) Assisting any person in using the services of Adventure Qualifications
Network cc 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 that are not
part of your own network 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
6. Reporting Spam
If you believe that you have received spam from or through Adventure
Qualifications Network cc’s facilities, please send a complaint from your email
account along with the unsolicited email, with completed header, to Adventure
Qualifications Network cc so that we might investigate the cause. Please provide
any other information that you believe may help in the investigation
7. False Spam Complaints
Adventure Qualifications Network cc supports the efforts of various
organizations working to responsibly eliminate spam activities. However, if an
individual has opted-in to receive email from Adventure Qualifications Network
cc and then falsely or maliciously files a spam complaint against Adventure
Qualifications Network cc, Adventure Qualifications Network cc 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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Anti Spam Policy
