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Anti-Spam Policy
(Last updated May 2005)
CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM is committed to permission-based email
marketing practices, and as a result has established this no-tolerance Anti-Spam
Policy. CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM will occasionally update this
Anti-Spam Policy. When it does, CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM will also
revise the "last update" date at the top of this Anti-Spam
Policy. For changes to this policy, CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM 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 CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM have agreed in their contract to
comply with this Anti-Spam Policy. Specifically, each customer agrees not
to use the CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM services to send unsolicited email or
bulk email, whether or not for commercial purposes.
CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM 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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How CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM Helps to Avoid Spamming |
CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM operates on a strict permission-based
philosophy. This anti-spam philosophy is implemented through the
following:
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(a) |
Communication and Agreement – CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM indicates
for what purpose site visitors’ addresses are collected and that
CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM will follow the
CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM Privacy Policy and Anti-Spam Policy |
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Unsubscription – Each email communication marketing
CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM services contains an "unsubscribe
link". If CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM’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 CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM web site |
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(c) |
Purchased Mailing Lists – CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM does not
purchase email lists for mass mailings.
CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM 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 |
Spam laws vary from country to country. This
CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM 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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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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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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Use of any false or misleading information in the subject line of the
email |
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Assisting any person in using the services of
CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM for any of these previously mentioned
activities |
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Questions to Ask Yourself |
To help in establishing whether you are participating in activities
constituting spam, ask yourself the following questions:
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(a) |
Are you sending email to non-specific addresses, such as
info@domain.com or sales@domain.com? |
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Have you deliberately falsified your transmission path information or
originating address? |
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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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Have you imported for use a purchased list of any type? |
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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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Does your email not provide a fully functioning link to unsubscribe? |
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Does you email subject line contain false or misleading information? |
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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
If you believe that you have received spam from or through THREE PEAKS
MANAGEMENT’s facilities, please send a complaint from your email account along
with the unsolicited email, with completed header, to your ISP. Please
provide any other information that you believe may help in the
investigation
CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM supports the efforts of various organizations
working to responsibly eliminate spam activities. However, if an
individual has opted-in to receive email from CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM and
then falsely or maliciously files a spam complaint against THREE PEAKS
MANAGEMENT, CATERING-EQUIPMENT-SUPPLY.COM 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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