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Acceptable
Use Policy (AUP)
Dundee Internet
Services, Inc – Lyris ListManager™ Hosting Acceptable Use Policy
(revised 08-27-08)
Dundee Internet
Services, Inc is a permission-based email service provider with
the goal to assist all size businesses and organizations to communicate
with their customer's and members.
Our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is as follows:
Short version:
We do not accept contracts from known spammers and do not tolerate
this use of our systems for the sending of unsolicited commercial
email (UCE). Accounts found to intentionally violate this AUP are
subject to immediate termination. If you intend to use our system
to send UCE, go away now…we do not want your business.
Long version:
Each Dundee Internet Services Lyris ListManager™ Hosting customer
is required to sign our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) as part of the
Dundee Internet Services Lyris ListManager™ Hosting Contract. Willful
and intentional violations of the Acceptable Use Policy are cause
for immediate account termination.
Additionally
each customer must follow what is considered good mailing practices
for email lists:
- Customer
must ensure that all lists hosted only accept new subscriber listings
where the subscribers have been added to the mailing list via
either:
- A confirmed-opt-in
(sometimes referred to as 'double-opt-in') process; or
- A paid
subscription; or
- A private
subscription consisting only of organizational members
- Customer
must ensure that all lists hosted have, use, and publicize in
all mailings a clear and easy-to-use unsubscribe instructions.
- Do not use
an “opt-out” subscription process, i.e., subscriptions
that automatically subscribe a user unless they uncheck a box
(opt-out) on your web site forms.
- Do not rent
or buy address lists unless you perform due diligence on the address
vendor (get references, written guarantees, etc) and use an introductory
paragraph that explains how you procured the addresses and why
you are mailing to them.
- Customers
are obliged to comply with all relevant Federal, State or Other
anti-spam laws and Statutes. This includes, but is not limited
to:
- Don't
"harvest" email addresses from the Internet or generate
them via a "dictionary" process for commercial mailing
purposes.
- Don't
send commercial email via a computer that you don't have proper
authorization to use.
- Don't
falsify or obscure the header information in your commercial
email messages; always use a valid From: address and an accurate,
non-misleading Subject: line.
- Include
a valid postal mailing address and a functioning opt-out mechanism
in every commercial email message you send.
- Don't
continue to send email to a recipient who has opted-out of
your list.
- If you
send adult content (i.e., sexually explicit material), use
a warning label of that fact in your subject line.
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