Best
Practices and CAN-SPAM Compliance Procedures For
Millard Group's Commercial E-mail
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In order to help e-mail
advertisers and list owners ensure that their commercial e-mails meet
the highest standards of compliance and customer satisfaction, all Millard
Group e-mail orders must meet the following requirements:
Advertisers physical street address must be
included in the body of every e-mail.
The subject line must clearly reflect the content of the e-mail message.
The "From" line must clearly identify one of the senders (either
the advertiser or the list owner). Ideally, this should be the brand
name that the recipient will most easily recognize and/or associate
with the advertising message.
For any file that is not 100% opt-in, the word advertisement
must appear in the e-mail, or be
otherwise clearly identified as an advertisement to the recipient. (For
opt-in files, it is still a best practice to do so.)
Every e-mail message must contain a working opt-out link that will allow
recipients to opt-out of receiving future e-mail messages from the advertiser.
This mechanism must remain viable for 30 days. The advertiser must honor
all opt-out requests within 10 days of receipt.
Every e-mail message must also contain a working opt-out link that will
allow recipients to opt-out of receiving future third-party e-mail messages
from the list owner. The link must remain active for 30 days, and requests
must be honored within 10 days of receipt.
For every e-mail order, the advertiser must forward their current
and up-to-date "Do Not E-mail" file to the list owner for
use as a suppress file. The list owner must suppress all matches from
the e-mail push, and agree not to use the file for any other purpose,
nor retain the file after the e-mail has pushed.
In addition, for all
brokerage and management orders in which Millard Group is acting as an
agent, the list owner must agree to the following:
Guarantee that the e-mail addresses on the list have not been collected
via harvesting or dictionary attacks.
Be able and willing to provide a sample of the means used to collect
names as well as the means used to opt-out.
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