Anti Spam Policy

The Limestone Coast Home Based Business Network (HBB) is committed to permission-based email distribution practices, and as a result has established this no-tolerance Anti-Spam Policy.  HBB will occasionally update this Anti-Spam Policy. 

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.

Preventing Spam
Members of the HBB network are required to comply with this Anti-Spam Policy.  Specifically, each Member agrees not to use the HBB website services to collect email addresses and send unsolicited email or bulk email, whether or not for commercial purposes.  HBB 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.

How HBB Helps You to Avoid Spamming
HBB has developed this website to incorporate a strict permission-based philosophy.  This anti-spam philosophy is implemented through the following:

a) HBB Membership – By subscribing to the HBB Membership you have agreed to as part of registering for the HBB services that you will follow the HBB Privacy Policy and Anti-Spam Policy.

b) Unsubscription – Each Member on the HBB permission-based email subscriber list has the option of removing their email address through an Unsubscribe option.

c) HBB Website Email Addresses – Mass mailings to Member email addresses that are listed on the HBB website are not allowed.  HBB only allows permission-based mailing lists.  Mass unsolicited emails sent to HBB Members are by definition not permission-based.  Similarly, you are not permitted to copy an email address list relating to particular subject matter that has been emailed to you by HBB, and then use that mailing list for an unrelated topic.  

Laws Restricting Spam
Spam laws vary from state to state, and from country to country.  This HBB 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 the 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 services of HBB for any of these previously mentioned activities. 

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.au or sales@domain.com.au

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 HBB mailing list of any type?

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

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

g) 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 HBB either via the website or by email to lschbb@gmail.com

Measures to Enforce the Anti-Spam Policy
Any HBB Member found to be using HBB services for spamming purposes may, at HBB’s discretion, be immediately cut off from use of all HBB services with no refund of membership fees that have been paid.
HBB warns all of its Members that if they participate in spamming activities they will be subject to the loss of HBB services, fines and possible legal action.
HBB has the right to actively review its Membership subscriber lists and email for suspiciously large email broadcasts.  If HBB finds any Members to be spamming, it will issue a warning, and if the activities are serious enough, HBB will take action immediately.  If HBB has any reason to believe that the Member, despite warning being given, threatens to or is continuing to send spam, then HBB may take action immediately, including cancelling the membership account and/or reporting the Member and the incident to the proper authorities.
HBB does not attempt to censor any content, nor to curtail the business of its Members.  However, spam activities do not fall within uses authorised by HBB, and will not be tolerated.

Reporting Spam
If you believe that you have received spam from or through HBB’s facilities (including from non-Members), please send a complaint from your email account along with the unsolicited email, with completed header, to lschbb@gmail.com.  Please provide any other information that you believe may help us in our investigation.  HBB will not investigate or take any action based on “anonymous” spam complaints.

False Spam Complaints
HBB supports the efforts of various organizations working to responsibly eliminate spam activities.  However, if an individual has permitted to receive email from a Member of HBB, and then falsely or maliciously files a spam complaint against HBB or its Members, HBB will cooperate fully with the appropriate authorities to ban the complainant from use of anti-spam software and the Internet community.