ANTI SPAM POLICY
The Cosplay Ozanimart Pty. Ltd (Ozanimart) Anti-Spam Policy
(Last updated August 28, 2006)
OZANIMART is committed to permission-based email marketing practices, and
as a result has established this no-tolerance Anti-Spam Policy. OZANIMART
will occasionally update this Anti-Spam Policy. When it does, OZANIMART will
also revise the “last update” date at the top of this Anti-Spam
Policy. For changes to this policy, OZANIMART will notify you (the customer)
by placing a notice on its web site home page.
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 OZANIMART products and services have agreed during their registration
process, upon accepting the Terms of Use, to comply with this Anti-Spam Policy.
Specifically, each customer agrees not to use the OZANIMART products or services
to send unsolicited email or bulk email, whether or not for commercial purposes.
OZANIMART 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 OZANIMART Helps You to Avoid Spamming
OZANIMART has developed its Internet marketing tools to incorporate a strict
permission-based philosophy. This anti-spam philosophy is implemented through
the following:
(a) Communication and Agreement The Terms of Use that you have agreed to as part of registering for the OZANIMART products and services state how and for what purposes you can collect your site visitor addresses, and that you will follow the OZANIMART Privacy Policy and Anti-Spam Policy.
(b) Unsubscription Each email created using OZANIMART 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 OZANIMART web site. Customers of OZANIMART 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 OZANIMART will have the right to terminate their account.
(c) Purchased Mailing Lists - Mass mailings to purchased email lists are not allowed. OZANIMART only allows opt-in mailing lists. Purchased or inherited lists are by definition not opt-in. Similarly, you cannot use an email list relating to particular subject matter, and then use it for an unrelated topic.
4. Laws Restricting Spam
Spam laws vary from state to state, and from country to country. This OZANIMART
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, and
(d) Assisting any person in using the products or services of OZANIMART 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, 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, and should contact OZANIMART customer support service at support@myemailmanager.com.
6. Measures to Enforce the Anti-Spam Policy
Any OZANIMART customer found to be using OZANIMART products or services for
spamming purposes may, at OZANIMART's discretion, be immediately cut off from
use of all OZANIMART products and services and/or fined US$ 1,000 per occurrence,
with no refund of fees that have been paid.
OZANIMART warns all of its customers when signing up that if they participate
in spamming activities they will be subject to the loss of OZANIMART services,
fines and possible legal action.
OZANIMART has the right to actively review its customers’ subscriber lists
and email for suspiciously large broadcasts. If OZANIMART finds any customers
to be spamming, it will issue a warning, and if the activities are serious enough,
OZANIMART will take action immediately. If OZANIMART has any reason to believe
that the customer, despite warning being given, threatens to or is continuing
to send spam, then OZANIMART may take action immediately, including disabling
the customer's account and/or reporting the customer and the incident to the
proper authorities.
OZANIMART 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 OZANIMART, and will not be tolerated.
7. Reporting Spam
If you believe that you have received spam from or through OZANIMART's facilities,
please send a complaint from your email account along with the unsolicited email,
with completed header, to info@ozanimart.com. Please provide any other information
that you believe may help us in our investigation. OZANIMART does not investigate
or take any action based on anonymous spam complaints.
8. False Spam Complaints
OZANIMART supports the efforts of various organizations working to responsibly
eliminate spam activities. However, if an individual has opted-in to receive
email from a customer of OZANIMART, and then falsely or maliciously files a
spam complaint against OZANIMART or its customers, OZANIMART will cooperate
fully with the appropriate agencies to ban the complainant from use of anti-spam
software and the Internet community.