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P.O.T.T. Tattoo and Piercing (Pricks of the Trade) Anti-Spam Policy
(Last updated June 20,2007)

Pricks of the Trade is committed to permission-based email marketing practices, and as a result has established this no-tolerance Anti-Spam Policy.  Pricks of the Trade will occasionally update this Anti-Spam Policy.  When it does, Pricks of the Trade will also revise the “last update” date at the top of this Anti-Spam Policy.  For changes to this policy, Pricks of the Trade 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 Pricks of the Trade 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 or registrant agrees to allow Pricks of the Trade permission to send occasional email or bulk email, for commercial purposes.  Pricks of the Trade 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 Pricks of the Trade Helps You to Avoid Spamming

Pricks of the Trade uses Internet marketing tools developed by FusionSEO.com 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 Pricks of the Trade products and services state how and for what purposes we can collect your site visitor addresses, and that we will follow the Pricks of the Trade Privacy Policy and Anti-Spam Policy.

(b)
Unsubscription – Each email created using Pricks of the Trade newsletters contains an “unsubscribe link”.  If our web site visitors use the link to request that they be unsubscribed, our subscriber lists will automatically be adjusted to eliminate the prospect of sending unwanted email to such persons.  Additionally, each person on our subscriber list has the option of unsubscribing through a web-based method provided on the Pricks of the Trade web site. 

(c)
Purchased Mailing Lists - Mass mailings to purchased email lists are not allowed.  Pricks of the Trade only contacts opt-in mailing recipients.  Purchased or inherited lists are by definition not opt-in.  Similarly, Pricks of the Trade will not 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 Pricks of the Trade 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 IMC for any of these previously mentioned activities. 

 

7. Reporting Spam

If you believe that you have received spam from or through Pricks of the Trade’s facilities, please send a complaint from your email account along with the unsolicited email, with completed header, to abuse@pricksofthetrade.com.  Please provide any other information that you believe may help us in our investigation.  Pricks of the Trade does not investigate or take any action based on “anonymous” spam complaints.

8. False Spam Complaints

Pricks of the Trade 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 Pricks of the Trade, and then falsely or maliciously files a spam complaint against Pricks of the Trade or its agents, Pricks of the Trade will cooperate fully with the appropriate agencies to ban the complainant from use of anti-spam software and the Internet community.