Anti-Spam Policy

(Last updated January 15, 2008)

Your I.M. Blueprint is committed to permission-based email marketing practices, and as a result has established this no-tolerance Anti-Spam Policy.  Your I.M. Blueprint will occasionally update this Anti-Spam Policy.  When it does, Your I.M. Blueprint will also revise the “last update” date at the top of this Anti-Spam Policy.  For changes to this policy, Your I.M. Blueprint will notify you (the customer) by placing a notice on its web site home page.

1. What is Spam?

Spam is commercial email or unsolicited bulk email, including “junk mail”, which has not been requested by the recipient.  It is intrusive and often irrelevant or offensive, and it wastes valuable resources.  Spam messages are the opposite of permission-based email, which are normally anticipated, personal, relevant and/or associated with a pre-existing business or personal relationship.  Inappropriate newsgroup activities, consisting of excessive posting of the same materials to several newsgroups, are also deemed to be spam.

2. Preventing Spam

Customers of Your I.M. Blueprint products and services have agreed during their registration process, upon accepting the Terms of Use, to comply with this Anti-Spam Policy.  Specifically, each customer agrees not to use the Your I.M. Blueprint products or services to send unsolicited email or bulk email, whether or not for commercial purposes.  Your I.M. Blueprint reserves the right to determine in its sole discretion what constitutes actionable spam, as well as what measures are necessary in response to such spam activities.

3. How Your I.M. Blueprint Helps You to Avoid Spamming

Your I.M. Blueprint has developed its Internet marketing tools to incorporate a strict permission-based philosophy.  This anti-spam philosophy is implemented through the following:

(a) Communication and Agreement – The Terms of Use that you have agreed to as part of registering for the Your I.M. Blueprint products and services state how and for what purposes you can collect your site visitor addresses, and that you will follow the Your I.M. Blueprint Privacy Policy and Anti-Spam Policy.

(b) Unsubscribe – Each email created using Your I.M. Blueprint products contains an “unsubscribe link”.  If your web site visitors use the link to request that they be unsubscribed, your subscriber lists will automatically be adjusted to eliminate the prospect of sending unwanted email to such persons.  Additionally, each person on your subscriber list has the option of unsubscribing through a web-based method provided on the Your I.M. Blueprint web site.  Customers of Your I.M. Blueprint who try to remove the unsubscribe link will be warned that they are doing so, and if they persist in having the link removed or deactivated in any way, then Your I.M. Blueprint will have the right to terminate their account.

(c) Purchased Mailing Lists - Mass mailings to purchased email lists are not allowed.  Your I.M. Blueprint only allows opt-in mailing lists.  Purchased or inherited lists are by definition not opt-in.  Similarly, you cannot use an email list relating to particular subject matter, and then use it for an unrelated topic.

4. Laws Restricting Spam

Spam laws vary from state to state, and from country to country.  This Your I.M. Blueprint Anti-Spam Policy has been developed to conform to the highest commercially reasonable standards.  As a result, and without limiting the general prohibitions against all spam activities, the following are expressly prohibited:

(a) Use of false headers, or other false information, to identify the point of origin or the transmission path of the email, or to hide the true origin of the email sender,

(b) Unauthorized use of a third party's internet domain name without the permission of such third party, to make it appear that the third party was the point of origin of the email,

(c) Use of any false or misleading information in the subject line of the email, and

(d) Assisting any person in using the products or services of Your I.M. Blueprint for any of these previously mentioned activities.

5. Questions to Ask Yourself

To help in establishing whether you are participating in activities constituting spam, ask yourself the following questions:

(a) Are you sending email to non-specific addresses, such as info@domain.com or sales@domain.com?

(b) Have you deliberately falsified your transmission path information or originating address?

(c) Are you sending email to mailing lists or distribution lists, which then send indirectly to various other email addresses?

(d) Have you imported for use a purchased list of any type?

(e) Are you continuing to mail to anyone who has asked to be deleted from your mailing list?

(f) Does your email not provide a fully functioning link to unsubscribe?

(g) Does you email subject line contain false or misleading information?

(h) Have you used a third party's email address or domain name without the party's consent?

If you answer yes to any of these questions, you are likely involved in spam activities, and should contact Your I.M. Blueprint customer support service at donna@yourimblueprint.com.

6. Measures to Enforce the Anti-Spam Policy

Any Your I.M. Blueprint customer found to be using Your I.M. Blueprint products or services for spamming purposes may, at Your I.M. Blueprint's discretion, be immediately cut off from use of all Your I.M. Blueprint products and services and/or fined US$ 1,000 per occurrence, with no refund of fees that have been paid.

Your I.M. Blueprint warns all of its customers when signing up that if they participate in spamming activities they will be subject to the loss of Your I.M. Blueprint services, fines and possible legal action.

Your I.M. Blueprint has the right to actively review its customers' subscriber lists and email for suspiciously large broadcasts.  If Your I.M. Blueprint finds any customers to be spamming, it will issue a warning, and if the activities are serious enough, Your I.M. Blueprint will take action immediately.  If Your I.M. Blueprint has any reason to believe that the customer, despite warning being given, threatens to or is continuing to send spam, then Your I.M. Blueprint may take action immediately, including disabling the customer's account and/or reporting the customer and the incident to the proper authorities.

Your I.M. Blueprint does not attempt to censor any content, nor to curtail the business of its customers.  However, spam activities do not fall within uses authorized by Your I.M. Blueprint, and will not be tolerated.

7. Reporting Spam

If you believe that you have received spam from or through Your I.M. Blueprint's facilities, please send a complaint from your email account along with the unsolicited email, with completed header, to donna@yourimblueprint.com.  Please provide any other information that you believe may help us in our investigation.  Your I.M. Blueprint does not investigate or take any action based on “anonymous” spam complaints.

8. False Spam Complaints

Your I.M. Blueprint supports the efforts of various organizations working to responsibly eliminate spam activities.  However, if an individual has opted-in to receive email from a customer of Your I.M. Blueprint, and then falsely or maliciously files a spam complaint against Your I.M. Blueprint or its customers, Your I.M. Blueprint will cooperate fully with the appropriate agencies to ban the complainant from use of anti-spam software and the Internet community.

Acceptable Use Policy & Privacy Statement

1.0 Acceptable Use Policy:

Your I.M. Blueprint is solely focused on providing entrepreneurs with the high quality, ethical tools and information they need to market their businesses on the Internet.  None of the information or tools provided on Your I.M. Blueprint web site are intended for unethical or illegal marketing practices, including but not limited to:

1.1 Spam:

Your I.M. Blueprint does not participate in spamming and maintains a zero tolerance spam policy. Those who enter into business relationships with Your I.M. Blueprint (including, but not limited to, affiliates and joint venture partners) and choose to promote Your I.M. Blueprint, Your I.M. Blueprint products or services, or Your I.M. Blueprint affiliated products or services using spam will have their relationship with Your I.M. Blueprint immediately terminated.

1.2 Harvesting E-mail Address:

Tools and resources provided by Your I.M. Blueprint are neither intended nor permitted to be used for the harvesting of e-mail addresses. Those who have found ways to abuse any of these tools and resources and use them for mass harvesting or spamming will have their relationship with Your I.M. Blueprint immediately terminated.

1.3 Unauthorized Opt-In:

In order to protect our opt-in e-mail list, we are currently in the process of implementing a system by which we will record the IP addresses of all subscriptions, sales, and affiliates. If an e-mail address is subscribed to our system without the owner's permission, the host of the IP will be contacted and pursued to terminate the user.

1.4  Fraud:

Your I.M. Blueprint will pursue and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law any individual(s) who attempt to use our systems, software, or services for the purpose of fraudulent transactions.

Your I.M. Blueprint maintains ethical practices and will not tolerate any misuse of our tools and resources by any third party. If misuse occurs, we will do everything in our power to immediately terminate the relationship and prevent any further misuse.

2.0 Privacy Statement:

Your I.M. Blueprint supports the right of personal privacy and corporate security on the Internet. Your I.M. Blueprint will never sell or market names, e-mail addresses, or any other privileged information about our clients or subscribers.

3.0 Unsubscribe Policy :

Your I.M. Blueprint respects the request of any individual asking to have his/her e-mail address opted-out of our database. As well, every e-mail sent by Your I.M. Blueprint provides an automated unsubscribe option at the bottom of each e-mail. All other unsubscribe requests can easily be processed by sending an e-mail, including the e-mail address you wish to remove, to donna@yourimblueprint.com.

4.0 Why is this information collected?

Information may be used by the web site to complete the activity for which it was provided, whether the activity is a one-time event, such as returning the results from a web search, forwarding an e-mail message or placing an order; or a recurring event, such as providing a subscription service or allowing access to an online address book or electronic wallet.

Information may be used for the technical support of the web site and its computer system. For example, to process computer account information, to secure and maintain the site, or to verify web site activity by the site or its agents.

Information may be used to enhance, evaluate, or otherwise review the web site, service, product, or market.

5.0 Who has access to this information?

This web site, entities for whom it is acting as an agent, and/or entities acting as its agent have access to this information. An agent in this instance is defined as a third party that processes data only for the completion of the stated purpose, such as a shipping firm.

6.0 What kind of information does this web site collect?

Unique identifiers issued by a web site or service for the purpose of identifying an individual over time.

Mechanisms, such as HTTP cookies, for maintaining an active connection with an individual or for automatically identifying an individual who has visited a particular site or previously accessed particular content.

7.0 Contact Information :

We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy. You may contact us by mail at the following address:

4046 Mt. Seymour Parkway
Vancouver, BC
V7G 1C4
Canada

You may contact us by e-mail at donna@yourimblueprint.com.

Earnings & Income Disclaimer

We make every effort to ensure that we accurately represent these products and services and their potential for income. Earning and Income statements made by our company and its customers are estimates of what we think you can possibly earn. There is no guarantee that you will make these levels of income and you accept the risk that the earnings and income statements differ by individual.

As with any business, your results may vary, and will be based on your individual capacity, business experience, expertise, and level of desire. There are no guarantees concerning the level of success you may experience. The testimonials and examples used are exceptional results, which do not apply to the average purchaser, and are not intended to represent or guarantee that anyone will achieve the same or similar results. Each individual's success depends on his or her background, dedication, desire and motivation.

There is no assurance that examples of past earnings can be duplicated in the future. We cannot guarantee your future results and/or success. There are some unknown risks in business and on the internet that we cannot foresee which can reduce results. We are not responsible for your actions.

The use of our information, products and services should be based on your own due diligence and you agree that our company is not liable for any success or failure of your business that is directly or indirectly related to the purchase and use of our information, products and services.