Our Email Spam Policy
WHAT IS SPAM?
PREVENTING SPAM
HOW LUKEHAYES.COM.AU HELPS YOU TO AVOID SPAMMING
- Communication and Agreement – The Terms of Use that you have agreed to as part of registering for the LukeHayes.com.au products and services state how and for what purposes you can collect your site visitor addresses, and that you will follow the LukeHayes.com.au Privacy Policy and Anti-Spam Policy.
- Unsubscription – Each Email created using LukeHayes.com.au products contains an “unsubscribe link”. If your web site visitors use the link to request that they be unsubscribed, your subscriber lists will automatically be adjusted to eliminate the prospect of sending unwanted Email to such persons. Additionally, each person on your subscriber list has the option of unsubscribing through a web-based method provided on the LukeHayes.com.au web site. Customers of LukeHayes.com.au who try to remove the unsubscribe link will be warned that they are doing so, and if they persist in having the link removed or deactivated in any way, then LukeHayes.com.au will have the right to terminate their account.
LAWS RESTRICTING SPAM
- 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,
- 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,
- Use of any false or misleading information in the subject line of the Email, and
- Assisting any person in using the products or services of LukeHayes.com.au for any of these previously mentioned activities.
QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF
- Are you sending Email to anyone who has not given you permission?
- Have you deliberately falsified your transmission path information or originating address?
- Are you sending Email to mailing lists or distribution lists, which then send indirectly to various other Email addresses?
- Have you imported for use a purchased list of any type?
- Are you continuing to mail to anyone who has asked to be deleted from your mailing list?
- Does your Email not provide a fully functioning link to unsubscribe?
- Does you Email subject line contain false or misleading information?
- 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.
MEASURES TO ENFORCE THE ANTI-SPAM POLICY
LukeHayes.com.au warns all of its customers when signing up that if they participate in spamming activities they will be subject to the loss of LukeHayes.com.au services and possible legal action.
LukeHayes.com.au has the right to actively review its customers’ subscriber lists and Email for suspiciously large broadcasts. If LukeHayes.com.au finds any customers to be spamming, it will issue a warning, and if the activities are serious enough, LukeHayes.com.au will take action immediately. If LukeHayes.com.au has any reason to believe that the customer, despite warning being given, threatens to or is continuing to send spam, then Luke Hayes.com.au may take action immediately, including disabling the customer’s account and/or reporting the customer and the incident to the proper authorities.
LukeHayes.com.au does not attempt to censor any content, nor to curtail the business of its customers. However, spam activities do not fall within uses authorized by LukeHayes.com.au, and will not be tolerated.