Spam Policy
At CasinoShare, we are completely dedicated to customer service excellence, which
extends all the way through to our e-mail practices.
We respect your choice and are committed to permission-based e-mail marketing practices.
As a result, we have established and are committed to a zero-tolerance Anti-Spam
Policy , and we provide opt outs for each of our subscribed services.
Considerable time and effort has been invested to ensure we adhere to guidelines
expressed in the FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSIONS CANSpam Act and we expressly prohibit
promotion and marketing to our clients by anyone, including our affiliate advertising
program, by the transmission, distribution or delivery of any unsolicited bulk or
unsolicited commercial email ("Spam").
We will ALWAYS ensure:
- Your email address appear in the e-mail message
- We use properly formatted "From" fields.
- Our details are accurate and have valid contact information.
- We use a clear, honest and non-misleading subject line
- Our "Reply" address is ready to receive your e-mails
- We use an automated option for the recipient to unsubscribe from receiving future
messages from the sender;
- Our unsubscribe requests are always honored within 5 days
- We will respond promptly to people concerned about receiving improper or illegal
messages and investigate all complaints in a timely manner.
- There is an unsubscribe link in every e-mail
- Our mailing lists are clean and databases updated regularly;
- We delete permanent delivery failures (hard bounces) from lists on a regular basis;
- We publish a privacy policy
- To have a valid POSTMASTER and ABUSE address
- The email does not contain objectionable content.
- That email addresses are collected via online forms, our emails fully disclose the
terms and conditions of email address usage and respondents are given the opportunity
to opt out.
We will NEVER condone:
- Invalid e-mail headers
- The utilization of non-existent domain names
- The use of techniques intended to hide or confuse any information used to identify
the delivery path of the message
- Unauthorized use of a 3rd party internet property, relays or equipment
We feel so strongly about this spam policy that we enforce it into our advertising
partner agreements. If we find any partner guilty of sending unsolicited bulk e-mail,
we may, without notice, take whatever action we deem fitting, up to an including
a severance of the relationship.
At any point, should you wish to report an incidence of Spam, please contact us
at spamabuse@casinoshare.com
DEFINITION OF SPAM:
The difficulty in addressing the problem of SPAM begins at the definitional stage.
Internet users and marketers differ widely in how they define SPAM and other forms
of objectionable email. Some people consider all advertisements or even unwanted
messages to be SPAM, while others try to define it in terms of existing acceptable
use policies or network etiquette rules. The two most common definitions of SPAM
are Unsolicited Commercial Email (“UCE”) and Unsolicited Bulk Email ("UBE"), although
both are not mutually exclusive. A third alternative is to define Spam as Unsolicited
Bulk Commercial Email (“UBCE”), although this may be functionally equivalent to
UCE.
They key aspect of nearly all definitions of SPAM (including legal definitions in
various laws worldwide) is that the e-mail message must be “unsolicited”. In general,
a communication is considered to be unsolicited if there is no prior relationship
between parties, and the recipient has not granted express and verifiable permission
for the message to be sent. It can also mean that the recipient has previously sought
to terminate the relationship, usually by instructing the other party not to send
any more messages in the future.
Some definitions of SPAM include only messages that are of a “commercial” nature.
“Commercial” is generally defined in terms of message content rather than the sender’s
actual or presumed motivation for sending the message. A typical definition includes
any message that promotes the sale of goods or services. There are many non-commercial
varieties of SPAM, including, opinion surveys, religious messages, virus hoaxes
and the like.
Bulk means that the message is sent as part of a larger collection of messages all
of which have substantively identical content. Here the problem lies in the volume
of e-mail, not their content. The main issue lies in how many copies of a message
must be sent and within what time period for them to qualify as a bulk transmission.
There is currently no agreed upon threshold.
To summarize: to be Spam, a message must be an “unsolicited commercial communication”.
This means that it must be (i) unsolicited and (ii) commercial in nature. The DMA
also requires that e-mail messages must not be Bulk – i.e. emails of similar content
and nature must not be indiscriminately sent to multiple addresses via automated
means. This applies to both a single unsolicited message sent to a large number
of recipients as well as separate, but identical copies of an unsolicited message
sent to a large number of recipients (the only difference between the two being
the stage at which the message is copied)... Members must also obtain the express
and verifiable permission. This requires that the sender retain sufficient proof
of permission and be able to produce that proof on demand to be able to demonstrate
that initial consent was given.
At any point, should you wish to report an incidence of Spam, please contact us
at spamabuse@casinoshare.com