Email campaign services
SMBworks relies on leading email campaign service providers to execute email campaigns. The relationship with these providers is more than a matter of convenience. Opt-in and opt-out list management is critical to campaign effectiveness, as is the offer or information contained in a message for a given campaign. The service providers maintain their own respective policies on spam, as noted in their terms of use, which are typically (perhaps necessarily) harsh toward violators. Our own policy is to require “double opt-in” confirmation for all new list subscribers. While double opt-in adds a step to mailing list sign-up, it gives the list owner record that
- the email address is valid and
- the owner of the email address indeed has consented to being contacted via email.
Questions about this Policy
If you have questions or concerns about our spam policy, please call or use our Contact form to share them with us. Your note may help us edit and improve our assertions in this policy. If you suspect that you have received spam from SMBworks, please give us the benefit of the doubt. Use our Contact form to report the alleged spam so we may investigate. Any time you contact us about suspected spam, please give a valid email address or telephone number so we may contact you for follow-up and resolution.
More information
Finally, here are some simple do-it-yourself steps you can take to reduce the amount of spam you receive:
- Take care where and how you display your email address in public.
- Never respond to a spam message. This includes attempting to opt out of unsolicited messages. Any party engaged in sending spam is unlikely to honor an opt-out request.
- Review the privacy policy of any company that requests your email address. If you have a question about their policy, ask.
- Use an email or spam filter. Mark any message that passes through the filter as spam to train your system to recognize similar messages as spam in the future.
To learn more about identifying and preventing spam, as well as general online safety, visit the Federal Trade Commission’s “OnGuard Online” consumer education website at the following address:
www.onguardonline.gov