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MERCHANT SERVICE CENTER ANTI-SPAM POLICY
Last Updated: September 2007
Merchant Service Center prohibits the use of the MSC Services in any manner associated with the transmission, distribution or delivery of any unsolicited bulk or unsolicited commercial e-mail ("Spam"). You may not use any MSNC services to send Spam. You also may not deliver Spam or cause Spam to be delivered to any of Merchant Service Center Services or MSC customers.
In addition, e-mail sent, or caused to be sent, to or through the MSC Services may not:
Use or contain invalid or forged headers;
Use or contain invalid or non-existent domain names;
Employ any technique to otherwise misrepresent, hide or obscure any information in identifying the point of origin or the transmission path;
Use other means of deceptive addressing;
Use a third party's internet domain name, or be relayed from or through a third party's equipment, without permission of the third party;
Contain false or misleading information in the subject line or otherwise contain false or misleading content;
Merchant Service Center does not authorize the harvesting, mining or collection of e-mail addresses or other information from or through the MSC Services. Merchant Service Center does not permit or authorize others to use the MSC Services to collect, compile or obtain any information about its customers or subscribers, including but not limited to subscriber e-mail addresses, which are Merchant Service Center's confidential and proprietary information. Use of the MSC Services is also subject to the MSC Privacy Statement and the MSC Website Terms of Use and Notices.
Merchant Service Center does not permit or authorize any attempt to use the MSC Services in a manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair any aspect of any of the MSC Services, or that could interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of any MSC Service.
If Merchant Service Center believes that unauthorized or improper use is being made of any MSC Service, it may, without notice, take such action as it, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate, including blocking messages from a particular internet domain, mail server or IP address. Merchant Service Center may immediately terminate any account on any MSC Service which it determines, in its sole discretion, is transmitting or is otherwise connected with any e-mail that violates this policy.
Nothing in this policy is intended to grant any right to transmit or send e-mail to, or through, the MSC Services. Failure to enforce this policy in every instance does not amount to a waiver of Merchant Service Center's rights.
Merchant Service Center maintains computer equipment in Ohio and Nebraska, and unauthorized use of the MSC Services will lead to use of equipment in these states. Unauthorized use of the MSC Services in connection with the transmission of unsolicited e-mail, including the transmission of e-mail in violation of this policy, may result in civil and criminal penalties against the sender and those assisting the sender, including those provided by the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. §1030, et seq.); the Washington Unsolicited Electronic Mail Act (R.C.W. 19.190.010, et seq.); and California Business & Professions Code §17538.45 and other state and federal laws.
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