No-Spam - No Unsolicited Faxes
Please Review These Policies Carefully!
We Are Just Like You ... We Hate Unsolicited E-mails!!!
We hate to spend part of our day deleting Unsolicited E-mails. If you have been Spammed by one of our The Secret Pays members, send us a copy of the message and we will deal with the Spammer in accordance with our No-Spam & No-Faxing Policies.
Spammed@TheSecretPays.com
Violation of the The Secret Pays, Inc. No-Spam and No-Faxing policies is a violation of your Independent Representative Agreement and will result in termination.
No-Spam Policy
The Secret Pays, Inc. has a strict no-spam policy and will pursue whatever legal steps are required to enforce it.
Independent Representative shall not engage in spamming in order to promote their business. "Spam," or "Spamming," includes Unsolicited Commercial E-mail or Unsolicited Bulk E-mail sent to people not known personally.
Unsolicited Commercial E-mail is defined as the sending of any email message to anyone not personally known by you unless the recipients have expressly asked to receive from you. This definition is independent of how and by whom the Email is actually sent.
Unsolicited Bulk E-mail is defined as the broadcasting of large quantities (20 or more recipients) of unsolicited Email or postings to news groups through any large quantity delivery system. This definition is independent of how and by whom the Email is actually sent.
Our No-Spam policy is for the protection of all of our Representatives and the company. There are many ways to promote web pages without spamming. Spamming will only ultimately result in all of our web sites being taken down by our Internet Service Provider.
After a complaint and an investigation, if you are found to have spammed, then we will terminate your Independent Representative position and you will forfeit any earned commissions and no refund will be issued.
The Secret Pays, Inc. has the responsibility to determine what violates this policy. If you have any doubts concerning acceptable practices, then it is ESSENTIAL that you contact The Secret Pays, Inc. before you act. The last thing we would ever want to do is to terminate one of our own Representatives. On the other hand, the Internet is a very important part our business and we absolutely must protect it for the sake of our Representatives & Customers.
The Attorneys General for each state are concerned about the well being of their citizens. Good corporate citizenship within each state is essential for any network marketing company. Spam and Faxing are upsetting more and more people within each state and they are complaining to their own Attorneys General.
Our No-Spam and No-Faxing policies are about being a good corporate citizen in all states. This eliminates the need for discussions about what is, or is not legal, because it is based on treating our prospective customers and representatives the same way we would want to be treated.
Please Make Sure You Understand The Following:
1) Ignorance of the contents of this policy WILL NOT be an acceptable excuse.
2) There are NO acceptable disclaimers that can be added to an unsolicited message that will make the message acceptable. This includes but is not limited to remove instructions, remove links, legislative compliance statements, or general statements as to possible interest in a business opportunity.
3) We do NOT recommend the use of any purchased lists of email addresses. Use of any purchased list of email addresses puts your membership at risk if there are any complaints due to problems with the list being out of date, poor quality, improperly gathered, etc.
4) Use of any marketing company that sends your advertisement to their list (opt-in or otherwise) puts your membership at risk if there are any complaints due to problems with the list being out of date, poor quality, improperly gathered, etc.
5) It is NOT acceptable to send someone a message about The Secret Pays, Inc. just because you received an unsolicited message from them.
6) It is NOT acceptable to post any advertising messages to any news groups. Just because you see such messages posted does NOT give you permission to do the same.
If you believe you have been spammed by a The Secret Pays, Inc. Representative, we sincerely apologize. Please send your complaint, along with a copy of the original message to No-Spam@TheSecretPays.com. We do not tolerate spamming and we WILL deal strictly with any of our Representatives who participate in such practice.
On the other hand, we also are intolerant of individuals who try to take matters into their own hands and harass or abuse, either our Representatives or the company. That hurts innocent people who feel just as strongly about Spam, and is just as much of a violation of proper Internet practice as Unsolicited Commercial E-mail or Unsolicited Bulk E-mail. If we get harassed or abused then we will have no choice but to enforce our rights to the fullest extent of the law in our own defense.
Please allow us to sternly and fairly correct the uninformed and to strictly punish the willful violator, as we aggressively enforce our policy.
Unsolicited Ads By Fax
The Secret Pays, Inc. has a strict no-faxing policy and will pursue whatever legal steps are required to enforce it. Representatives shall not send unsolicited advertisements for The Secret Pays, Inc. by fax in violation of the Federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. 227(b)(1)(C) or any similar national, federal, state or provincial law or regulation.
Please beware of all laws...local, state and federal on sending unsolicited faxes, conducting fax broadcasting, or hiring 3rd party broadcasting companies. Following is what the law has to say about unsolicited fax advertising...
Under US Code Title 47, §227(b)(1)(C):
"It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States to use any telephone facsimile machine, computer, or other device to send an unsolicited advertisement to a telephone facsimile machine"
A "telephone facsimile machine" is defined in §227(a)(2)(B) as: "equipment which has the capacity to transcribe text or images (or both) from an electronic signal received over a regular telephone line onto paper."
Under this definition, an e-mail account, modem, computer and printer together constitute a fax machine.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that a disclaimer or a tag like "please call such and such a number to be removed from our fax list" will protect you. And don't think that if you send your faxes through a fax broadcasting company you're protected either. In both cases, you can still be liable for fax "spamming". Getting caught could cost you fines of $500 or more per incident.
Violation of the No-Spam and No-Faxing policies is a violation of your Independent Representative Agreement and will result in termination. |
