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(Last updated January 12 2006)

1st Freedom Direct is committed to permission-based email marketing practices, and as a result has established this no-tolerance Anti-Spam Policy. 1st Freedom Direct will occasionally update this Anti-Spam Policy. When it does, 1st Freedom Direct will also revise the “last update” date at the top of this Anti-Spam Policy. We Reserve the right to changes without notice.

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 1st Freedom Direct 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 1st Freedom Direct products or services to send unsolicited email or bulk email, whether or not for commercial purposes. 1st Freedom Direct 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 1st Freedom Direct Helps You to Avoid Spamming

1st Freedom Direct 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 1st Freedom Direct products and services state how and for what purposes you can collect your site visitor addresses, and that you will follow the MHM Privacy Policy and Anti-Spam Policy.

(b)

Unsubscription – Each email created using 1st Freedom Direct 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 1st Freedom Direct web site. Customers of 1st Freedom Direct 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 1st Freedom Direct will have the right to terminate their account.

(c)

Purchased Mailing Lists - Mass mailings to purchased email lists are not allowed. 1st Freedom Direct 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 1st Freedom Direct 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 1st Freedom Direct 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 1st Freedom Direct customer support service at support AT 1stFreedomDirect.com

6.	Measures to Enforce the Anti-Spam Policy

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

1st Freedom Direct warns all of its customers when signing up that if they participate in spamming activities they will be subject to the loss of 1st Freedom Direct services, fines and possible legal action.

1st Freedom Direct has the right to actively review its customers’ subscriber lists and email for suspiciously large broadcasts. If 1st Freedom Direct finds any customers to be spamming, it will issue a warning, and if the activities are serious enough, 1st Freedom Direct will take action immediately. If 1st Freedom Direct has any reason to believe that the customer, despite warning being given, threatens to or is continuing to send spam, then 1st Freedom Direct may take action immediately, including disabling the customer’s account and/or reporting the customer and the incident to the proper authorities.

1st Freedom Direct 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 1st Freedom Direct , and will not be tolerated.

7.	Reporting Spam

If you believe that you have received spam from or through 1st Freedom Direct's facilities, please send a complaint from your email account along with the unsolicited email, with completed header, to abuse AT 1stFreedomDirect.com. Please provide any other information that you believe may help us in our investigation. 1st Freedom Direct does not investigate or take any action based on “anonymous” spam complaints.

8.	False Spam Complaints

1st Freedom Direct 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 1st Freedom Direct , and then falsely or maliciously files a spam complaint against 1st Freedom Direct or its customers, 1st Freedom Direct will cooperate fully with the appropriate agencies to ban the complainant from use of anti-spam software and the Internet community.