We all get spam, and I'm sure we all hate it.

Here at Survey-hunter, we take " spamming " very seriously.

There is quite a lot of confusion about what "spam" is. 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.

Message to Survey-hunter site visitors:
We care a great deal about the privacy of our members and prospective members. The only time you should recieve an e-mail directly from Survey-hunter is if you are already a member of our website. We deal with third parties such as affiliates who promote our site for their own material benefit. We do our best to screen all affiliates and third party marketers who do business with us. We also make sure they agree to our privacy policy, terms of service, and anti-spam policy before they can even do business with us. However, ultimately we have no control over what any third party does of their own free will. Therefore, Survey-hunter assumes no responsibility or liability for any third party actions. If you believe you received any unsolicited e-mail or mail you think may be spam, please e-mail us at info@survey-hunter.com. Please include a copy of the offending transmission so we can determine the source and take appropriate action.

Message to our affiliates:
Spam is not defined by it's content, nor it's recipients. Spam is defined by its solicitation. This means that unless a person asked to be emailed then sending them anything would likely be a violation of your hosts spam policy, and possibly a violation of the law. It does not matter if that email went to 1 person or 1 million. It doesn't matter if that message advertises Viagra, teddy bears or the hottest new e-book.

All it takes is one person to complain to your host and they will likely shut your site down. Don't think people won't complain either, some people take pleasure in shutting down blatant spammers. There are also services that automatic the investigation and reporting processes.

So does that mean you can't send anyone an email?

No, plenty of people solicit emails, you just need to be able to recognize it.

For instance if someone puts a link on their website that says "Contact us with suggestions and feedback" then they are soliciting emails. You could email them business proposals or anything else without worry of reprisal. If the link was worded "Contact us with suggestions and feedback about this site" and you sent them an email explaining how Viagra would help their personal life then that would be spam since they only solicited comments on their website.

So if you want to email someone make sure they solicit contact somewhere, if not then don't email them. If you just blindly email a proposal to webmaster@domain.com it can cause you far more trouble than it is worth.

At Survey-hunter.com we have a strict "no spam" policy.

We take spam complaints seriously.

Any affiliate determined to have spammed will be subject to termination of their affiliate status and forfeiture of any and all commissions they may have earned.

To report spam click here. Please include a copy of the offending transmission so we can determine the source and take appropriate action