Terms and Conditions

Introduction to GroupIN Email Marketing Terms of Use

Important - Read Carefully: These "Terms of Use" (sometimes referred to as this "Agreement") constitutes a legal agreement between you and dba, (" GroupIN Email Marketing ," "we," or "us"). You are a customer ("Member") (or will become a Member if you agree to our Terms of Use by clicking below). The "Term" is the time during which you are entitled to use our website to create and send out electronic newsletters and other digital content. If an individual purports, and has the legal authority, to sign these Terms of Use electronically on behalf of an employer or client, "you" refers to the employer or client. If not, "you" refers to the individual signing hereon. You are responsible for assuring that all the terms and conditions of this Agreement are complied with. By clicking the button to join GroupIN Email Marketing, you will be agreeing to the terms of this Agreement. Furthermore, by clicking that button, after typing in your username, or other indication of your identity, you do confirm to us that typing in such indication of identity constitutes your "signing" of this Agreement for all purposes under applicable law. Any individual clicking the button on behalf of another individual or entity, listed as the Member above, does hereby represent and warrant that such agreement is being made with full authority.

GroupIN Email Marketing Terms of Use

Warnings of Serious Legal Consequences

Warning: If you engage in certain conduct, such as violating laws that regulate sending out and the content of bulk email, try to take advantage of us in violation of our Terms of Use by taking such actions as using our servers to host images for your website, instead of just emails you send using GroupIN Email Marketing , sending out emails created using GroupIN Email Marketing through another service or failing to pay an amount you owe us, we will be entitled to collect from you the higher of a pre-set amount or a multiple of your charges for one year on an annualized basis (which is a reasonable pre-estimate of the actual damages we would likely suffer from such conduct) plus attorney fees. We offer very powerful tools at a very low price. In exchange we expect our customers to act with integrity and follow our rules in order to help us maintain our reputation as having customers who only send bulk email to people who have consented to receiving them or with whom they have had a relationship from earlier selling or licensing (or negotiating to sell or license) a product or service and to not otherwise abuse our system.

Part 1

(Applies to All Members of GroupIN Email Marketing)

• Who We Are: "GroupIN Email Marketing" is a trade name and registered service mark of GroupIN Email Marketing, that owns and operates the website with the URL: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/ (the "Website").
• Purpose:The purpose of these Terms of Use (this "Agreement") is to set forth the terms and conditions under which you are permitted to use our email/electronic newsletter creation, distribution and management system (the "Services"). Any email, including but not limited to any email newsletters, sent out using the Services, are referred to herein as an "Email."
• Changes: We reserve the right to change any of the terms of this Agreement by posting the revised Terms of Use on our Website and/or by sending an email to the last email address you have given to us. Unless the Term is terminated within ten (10) days, this new Agreement will be effective immediately with respect to any continued or new use of the Services.
• Eligibility: We require that any Member be at least eighteen (18) years of age. By using the Services, you represent and warrant that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age and that your use of the Services does not violate any applicable law or regulation. Your uploads may be deleted and your subscription may be terminated without warning, if we have reason to believe you are under eighteen (18) years of age.
• Refunds: We are required to provide a refund only if we terminate our Services to you without cause before the end of a month for which you have paid. There is no other circumstance in which you will be entitled to a refund from us. We may, at our sole discretion, offer refunds in other situations subject to any Member seeking such refund applying for the refund in accordance with the requirements we post on the website, which may be changed from time to time.
• Term, Termination and Removal: Either party may terminate the Term of this Agreement at any time for any reason by providing Notice to the other party. We may suspend our Services to you at any time with or without cause. We will refund a pro rata portion of your monthly prepayment or reimburse you for unused Email Credits if we terminate you without cause. We will not refund and/or reimburse you in such manner, if there is cause, such as your using our system to send bulk Emails to people with whom your relationship does not meet the requirements of 11(b) below. Once terminated, we may remove any of your electronic newsletters or other emails and related data and files from our Website and any other storage. Additionally, if you do not log in to your account for 12 or more months, we may deem your account "inactive" and permanently delete your account and all data associated with it.
• Account and Password: You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any account name and password provided to you. You are solely responsible for uses of any account provided to you, whether or not authorized by you. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of any account of yours.
• Proprietary Rights Owned by Us: You acknowledge that we, or our suppliers, own all proprietary rights in the Website and the software used to provide the Services, including, but not limited to, any patents, trademarks, service marks and copyrights.
• Proprietary Rights Owned by You: You represent and warrant to us that you will not add or upload any content to the Website to create an electronic newsletter, or for any other purpose unless you are the owner of all proprietary rights in that content (or have been given a valid license from the owner of the proprietary rights in such content) and have obtained releases for all related privacy and publicity rights.
• General Rules: You agree to the following:
  • You will not incorporate into your Email any text, photos, graphics or other content that is not created by you, not provided by us for you to incorporate into your Email or you are not otherwise permitted to use.
  • You will not post on the Website, including in any Emails created or sent using our Services, any misleading or incorrect name, address, email address, subject line or any other misleading or incorrect information.
  • You will not publish any material that contains sexually related text, photographs or other content, or content that is defamatory, obscene, indecent, threatening, abusive or hateful.
  • You will not share your password.
  • You will not attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way used or downloaded from the Website.
  • You will not include in any Emails any material, including, but not limited to, text and graphics, the inclusion of which is in violation of any other party's rights, including, but not limited to, copyrights and privacy and publicity rights.
  • You will not set up multiple accounts for any individual, organization or entity or in order to send substantially similar content unless you are part of a franchise.
  • You will not import or incorporate into any lists, emails or uploads to our servers any of the following information: Social Security Numbers, passwords, security credentials, or sensitive personal information of any kind.
  • You will not send transactional messages through GroupIN Email Marketing
  • You will not send email messages through GroupIN Email Marketing that will be delivered to recipients as text, sms, or mms messages.
• Anti-Spam and Abuse Related Rules: You agree to the following:
  • Definition of SPAM: We have adopted the definition of Spam set forth on the Spamhaus website at http://www.spamhaus.org/definition.html The first line of the Spamhaus definition reads:
    The word "Spam" as applied to Email means Unsolicited Bulk Email ("UBE"). It is a concern to us if you use GroupIN Email Marketing to send any unsolicited email to anyone with whom you have no relationship. It is much more of a concern, and more likely to cause our system to be blocked by various ISPs, for you to send an unsolicited email to an entire list of people you don't know.
  • Permission Lists Only: You may use GroupIN Email Marketing only to send Emails to individuals and entities that either:

    Possibility 1 - Consent Obtained

    A. gave or give you written (including electronic) permission to send Emails to them, without subsequently withdrawing such permission and either:

    - Consent Given Recently gave you the permission within the prior 12 months; or

    - Consent Given More Than One Year Earlier you sent them a promotional email, which was not objected to, within the prior 12 months; or

    Possibility 2 - Sold or Negotiated to Sell Product or Service

    B. gave or give you their name and email address in connection with their purchase, or negotiations to purchase, a product or service from you, have not opted out from receiving your emails and either:

    - Recent Sale or Negotiation such sale or negotiations occurred within the previous 12 months; or

    - Sale or Negotiation Occurred More than One Year Earlier you sent them a promotional email, which was not objected to, within the prior 12 months. If you send Emails to a list, and you get an unusual amount of SPAM complaints (more than 1 out of 1,000), ISPs will begin blocking future emails from your company. They will also request (that's putting it mildly) that GroupIN Email Marketing shut down your account. So, if you don't have proof that each recipient on your list has opted-in to receive your emails, or otherwise meets the above requirements, don't import them into GroupIN Email Marketing.

  • Requirements: You agree that you will use:

    1. No purchased lists (no matter how expensive).

    2. No rented lists (even if they "opted in").

    3. No 3rd party lists whatsoever.

    4. No outside unsubscribe processes.