Anti-Spam Policy

In particular, "spam" has proven to be a major problem for many of our customers and the Internet at large. Spam is a common slang term referring to the sending of unsolicited email, instant messaging, or other communication to a large group of people at once. Variations on this practice include off topic (and usually promotional) messages on bulletin boards, guestbooks, Usenet newsgroups, or chat rooms.

Spam is strictly against our Web Hosting Terms and Conditions, and will result in the immediate disablement without refund of any customers who are found to have used spam in conjunction with their account.

The following policy dictates in specific terms what is considered acceptable use of bulk email/messaging by Azure:

Mailing Practices

  1. Users must not modify the headers of any message in such a way that purposefully obfuscates the origin of the message.
  2. Undeliverable addresses must be removed from all future mailings after no more than 5 bounces.
  3. Users are responsible for the practices of any affiliate program members they solicit the help of, as if they were hiring an outside advertising agency.
  4. Users using either outside advertising companies or 3rd party mailing programs must abide by the same policies and practices as those using Azure’s own bulk mailing list tools.
  5. All mailings must provide clear and simple to follow instructions for opting-out of future mailings, and all reasonable attempts must be made to facilitate the removal of a mailing list subscriber at their request.

Spamware

  1. It is strictly prohibited in conjunction with your Azure account to sell software designed specifically to facilitate the practice of spamming.

Disablement

  1. Azure reserves the right to disable any account at any time should it feel there is a reasonable suspicion that it is being used in conjunction with the practice of spamming.
  2. Customers must substantially address all spam related inquiries by Azure personnel within 72 hours. Failure to respond within a reasonable period of time may result in the disablement of the user’s account.