To comply with the new US Federal Law and California State Law, CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and SB186 (recommended reading for all webmasters) we have updated our spam policy as follows:

All affiliates, including You, are required to inform themselves of the provisions of the federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (also known as the "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003) and must, as a condition of participation in this program, abide by all of the provisions of that Act. Any form of unsolicited advertising through email, newsgroups, IRC posts, and/or instant messaging clients considered as SPAM. Any SPAM complaint regarding a Adult Art Network™ Affiliate is cause for immediate termination. This is a very serious matter. DO NOT send email to anyone who has not made a verifiable request for information.

What types of advertising are considered SPAM?

• Any non verifiable non opt-in emailing. Bulk emailing (sending an email advertisement to persons listed on an email address lead list). Advertising with bulk email services (companies who will send an email advertisement to persons listed on an email address lead list for you) will be grounds for immediate account termination.
• Newsgroup Posting. Posting commercial messages is spam and any complaints from newsgroup moderators about an affiliate will be grounds for immediate account termination.
• IRC / IM / ICQ Clients Unsolicited messages through any media, including chat rooms and instant messages is considered SPAM.

PRE-APPROVAL REQUIRED FOR ALL AFFILIATES USING EMAIL TO PROMOTE ADULT ART NETWORK™: You must be on our approved list of affiliates that have and will continue to abide by our SPAM POLICIES and the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 before you can send any email promoting our websites.

OPT-IN ONLY: All Email addresses must be OPT-IN. Upon request you the affiliate must provide us with original IP and recipients name, physical address (if possible) and where you originally collected the Email address from.

1. the recipient must have expressly consented to receive the email, either in response to a clear and conspicuous request for such consent or at the recipient's own initiative (active or ex-customers); and
2. if the email is from a party other than the party to which the recipient communicated such consent, the recipient must have been given clear and conspicuous notice at the time the consent was communicated that the recipient's email address could be transferred to such other party for the purpose of initiating commercial email messages.

NO FALSE OR MISLEADING HEADER INFORMATION: Header information must be technically accurate, which includes an originating email address, domain name, or Internet Protocol address. The `from' line must accurately identify the person who initiated the message, and should not be false or misleading; and header information should not be misleading, it must identify accurately the computer used to initiate the message, no relaying or retransmitting of messages for purpose of disguising its origin.

NO DECEPTIVE SUBJECT LINES: The exact phrase "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT:" must be contained in capital letters as the first 19 characters at the beginning of the subject line. This phrase in the subject line must be in ASCII format.

The email subject line must not contain text with written descriptions of Sexually Explicit Conduct. Also the "brown paper wrapper" area of the email message must not contain materials with Sexually Explicit Conduct. "Sexually Explicit Conduct" in the context of the CAN SPAM acts means actual or simulated sexual intercourse [including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether heterosexual or homosexual]; bestiality; masturbation; sadistic or masochistic abuse; or lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of a human being.

CONTENT: The "Brown Paper Wrapper" section refers to the opening portion of the e-mail that is "immediately visible" to the recipient, without scrolling down or taking any other affirmative steps to view the message. NO SEXUALLY EXPLICIT IMAGES OR LANGUAGE MAY APPEAR IN THIS "BROWN PAPER BAG" AREA (the "immediately visible area") OF THE EMAIL. However, sexually explicit material can be displayed beneath the "brown paper wrapper" area of the email message that is any area which requires the viewer to take an affirmative step to view the material, such as scrolling down or accessing the material by clicking on a link.

The exact phrase "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT:" must appear in a "Clear and Conspicuous manner" within this "brown paper bag" section. To comply, this exact phrase should be set forth in capital letters as the first 19 characters in the "brown paper wrapper" area of the email message. Within this area there also must be a "clear and conspicuous" notice that the message itself is an advertisement or solicitation.

OPT-OUT LINK: All mail must contain a functioning return email address or other Internet-based mechanism, clearly and conspicuously displayed, that:

1. a recipient may use to submit, in a manner specified in the message, a reply email message or other form of Internet-based communication requesting not to receive future commercial email messages from that sender at the email address where the message was received; and
2. remains capable / active of receiving such messages or communications for no less than 30 days after the transmission of the original message.
3. requests for removal must be honored within 5 days, preferable sooner, or instantaneously.

SPAM POLICY VIOLATIONS: Any Adult Art Network™ affiliate who breaks any of the above rules will have their account immediately terminated and all monies earned will be lost.