FTC Issues CAN-SPAM Act Guidanace
"If you send e-mail messages to customers and prospective customers, you should take note of the new Federal Trade Commission guidelines implementing the federal CAN-SPAM law which became effective on January 1, 2004. These guidelines attempt to clarify what is commercial e-mail, and therefore subject to the Act’s requirements, by defining when the "primary purpose" of an email is commercial. The regulations took effect on March 28, 2005...
CAN-SPAM (the "Act") regulates commercial electronic mail messages ("Commercial e-Mail") which the Act defines to mean any e-mail message whose "primary purpose" is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service. For e-mails falling within this category, the Act requires, among other things, that e-mail recipients be provided a clear and conspicuous notice of the opportunity to opt-out by return e-mail (or other Internet mechanism) of receiving further communications from the sender, and the sender must comply with this request within ten business days of receipt."
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