Policy Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail

SPAM Policy

Closeout Services Corp. supports and complies with federal SPAM laws including the Federal Law: CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Among the regulations Closeout Services complies with are the following:

• email messages are not deceptively labeled.
• subject lines are not deceptive
• false headers are not used
• email messages included opt-out instructions
• message must include the sender's physical address

Unsolicited Mail Policy

Closeout Services Corp. does not want to

Federal Law: CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (S. 877)

The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act requires unsolicited commercial e-mail messages to be labeled (though not by a standard method) and to include opt-out instructions and the sender's physical address. It prohibits the use of deceptive subject lines and false headers in such messages. The FTC is authorized (but not required) to establish a "do-not-email" registry. State laws that require labels on unsolicited commercial e-mail or prohibit such messages entirely are pre-empted, although provisions merely addressing falsity and deception would remain in place. The CAN-SPAM Act took effect on January 1, 2004.

The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 was introduced by Senators Conrad R. Burns (R-MT) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) in April 2003, with minor changes from the previous year's version, S. 630 (2002). Two other bills (S. 1231 and S. 1293) were subsequently merged into it. The enrolled (final) text of S. 877 as it was passed by the Senate on November 25, 2003, and agreed to by the House of Representatives on December 8, 2003, is available in PDF at this link HERE . The bill was signed by the President on December 16, 2003, and took effect on January 1, 2004.