It is prohibited to mail spam via our service!
Rules for the dispatch of emails are very simple. If your subscribers belong to the category "YES - sending an email is permitted", then you can send them an email via our service. If your data corresponds to the category "NO - sending an email is not permitted", then you may under no circumstances send these subscribers emails.
NO - sending an email is not permitted
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Purchased Email Addresses
The email addresses have been bought from another company. These recipients may NOT be contacted by mail, since they have not granted YOU the permission to send an email. Even if the address vendor has issued a certificate or a purchase document, is it forbidden for you to use this data.
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Recipient data never been contacted for longer than 2 years
Recipient data that have been in your possession for longer than 2 years and have never been contacted by email during this time may not be used.
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Single Opt-In
Subscribers have registered by means of a form, have not received any email confirmation with a confirmation link and were entered into the email mailing list immediately. A Double-Opt-In (DOI) procedure was not used.
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Verbal Permission
Email addresses collected through phone calls are not verifiable and therefore prohibited.
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Addresses copied from the Internet
Email addresses indicated on Internet web pages as contact options have been copied.
YES - sending an email is permitted
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Double-Opt-In over own web page
All subscribers have registered on my web page by the Double-Opt procedure by means of a form. A registration date is available to prove the registration.
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Purchase of goods or service
The subscribers have acquired a product or service and their attention was drawn to the following sentence before collecting data: "The use of your data for own advertising purposes for similar goods and services is not excluded. You can contradict this use at any time, without other costs than the transmission costs accruing according to the basic rates." A reference into your General Terms and Conditions is NOT permissible.
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Contact by business card
Subscribers, who for instance have given you a business card and request forwarding of emails. In this case, you require the business card and a written permission as proof.
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Registration with offline form
The subscribers have filled out a form off-line. The email contact request must have been confirmed explicitly by selecting a checkbox. You need the form as proof here too.
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Co-registration
Subscribers who registered in the context of a competition. You were identified clearly and precisely at registration together with your address as sponsor of this competition and the participant was notified of the mailings.