Terms of Use
Sendn provides small, medium,
and large sized businesses a variety of tools and features to collect
and catalogue visitor email addresses and to create, launch, and
manage online email marketing campaigns. It is strictly
forbidden for this service to be used in the sending of unsolicited
email, often referred to as spam.
The following are the terms and conditions for use of the
Services. By creating a Sendn Account and logging in to Sendn, you accept
all of these terms and conditions.
1. Acknowledgements. Subject in each case to the terms listed in the remainder of this Agreement, you hereby acknowledge and agree that:
- Sendn may not be used for the sending of unsolicited email, often referred to as spam.
- Sendn may not be used for unlawful purposes.
- You will be subject to recurring monthly subscription fees once you have completed your free trial.
- You agree you will not access or use third party mailing lists in connection with preparing or distributing spam/unsolicited email.
- Sendn will not use your subscriber list or any other customer information for any other purposes than those intended with the Services.
- You agree to import, manually add or otherwise use only completely permission-based lists in connection with your use of the Services. Lists purchased from the Internet does not constitute an opt-in for your subscriber list.
- Every email message sent in connection with the Services must contain the Sendn "unsubscribe" link in the footer that allows subscribers to remove themselves from your mailing list or update their preferences.
- You agree to process unsubscribe requests within a 5 day timeframe, with the goal to be for the quickest processing possible.
2. Services and Support
2.1
The Services are provided subject to this Agreement, as
it may be amended by Sendn, and any guidelines, rules or
operating policies that Sendn may establish and post periodically
(herein "Agreement"), including without limitation Sendn"s Email
Marketing Privacy Policy, as linked to in the footer of all email
generated from Sendn. By posting updated versions of the
Agreement on the Sendn website, or otherwise providing notice to
you, Sendn may modify the terms of the Agreement and may
discontinue or revise any or all other aspects of the Services in
its sole discretion. All such changes shall become effective upon
posting of the revised Agreement on the Sendn website
2.2
The Services are available only to persons who can form
legally binding contracts under applicable law. Without limiting the
foregoing, the Services are not available to individuals under the
age of 18. If you do not qualify, you are not permitted to use the
Services.
2.3
You must fully complete the registration form on the sign-up page in order to use the Services. You must
provide true, current, accurate, and complete information about
yourself as requested in the registration form. You are responsible
for maintaining the security of your account, passwords, and
subscriber lists. A working email that you frequently check must be
on-file at all times.
3. Free Trial and Payments
3.1
You have a free 30-day trial membership with up to
100 subscribers. After the initial free trial expires, you need to upgrade your account
to the plan with the number of subscribers you wish to use.
3.2
Payment
for Services will be made by a valid credit card accepted by Sendn.
Sendn currently accepts in US dollars: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and
Discover through PayPal. Fees will be billed on a 30
day cycle in your selected currency (US dollar or Canadian dollar)
for Services, starting at the time of your upgrade to your desired plan.
4. Email and Permission
Practices
4.1
Every email message sent with the
Services must contain an "unsubscribe" link that allows subscribers
to remove themselves from your mailing list and a link to the Email
Marketing Privacy Policy. Each aforementioned link must remain
operational for a period of thirty (30) days after the date on which
you send the message, and must be in form and substance satisfactory
to Sendn. You acknowledge and agree that you will not alter,
remove, disable or attempt to remove/disable either link. These
links are automatically added for you and no special action must be
taken to ensure their existence.
4.2
It is
impossible to add people manually, only through our forms, in which
those subscribers must also confirm their subscriptions. Thus, third party lists are not allowed Prior to
the subscriber confirming their intent to enroll in your mailing
list by clicking the auto-generated link supplied in an
email, you are not to contact them.
4.3
You cannot mail to distribution lists, group lists,
newsgroups, or spam email addresses. You cannot copy an Sendn
template or any other features or functionality from the Services
and use them for any purpose other than sending emails from the
Service.
4.5
You are responsible for monitoring, correcting, and
processing unsubscribe requests within 5 days of receiving such
notification. Failure to actively process these request may result
in the termination of your account. If you need any assistance with
the processing of requests, please contact Sendn.
4.6
The following content is
not allowed to be sent using Sendn:
- gambling
- betting
- lead sales
- pornography/adult content
- pharmaceutical
- promotion or sale of products or services that are deemed unlawful within the United States
- work-at-home offers promoting "get rich quick", "build your wealth" and "financial independence" offerings
4.7
Occasionally, emails that you send through the Service
may generate abuse complaints from recipients. As is congruent with
our privacy policy, Sendn cannot share with you the email
addresses of those who complain about your email campaign. You are
responsible for ensuring that your email campaigns do not generate a
number of abuse complaints in excess of industry standards.
Sendn, in its sole discretion, shall determine whether your level
of abuse complaints is within industry standards, and its
determination shall be final, binding and conclusive for all
purposes under this Agreement.
4.8
If you are found to be hosting prohibited content or
distributing prohibited content your account will be terminated.
4.9
Sendn may, at its own discretion, immediately disable
your access without refund to the Services if Sendn believes in
its sole discretion that you have violated any of the email and
permission practices listed above, or are partaking in any other
conduct deemed inappropriate by Sendn.
5. Responsibilities and Restrictions
5.1
Sendn will not use your customer list or any other customer
information for any other purposes than those intended with the
service. Your customer information will not be shared with any other
parties unless required by law. Sendn will, at times, access your
subscriber list to help with the management of it.
5.2
This is an Agreement for Services, and you are not
granted a license to any software by this Agreement. You will not,
directly or indirectly: reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or
otherwise attempt to discover the source code, object code, or
underlying structure, ideas, or algorithms of, or found at or
through the Services or any software, documentation, or data related
to the Services ("Software"); remove any proprietary notices or
labels from the Services or any Software, modify, translate, or
create derivative works based on the Services or any Software; or
copy, distribute, pledge, assign, or otherwise transfer or encumber
rights to the Services or any Software. Unless you are expressly
authorized by Sendn, you may not display, copy, reproduce, or
distribute the Software, any component thereof, any documentation
provided in connection with the Services or the Software. Violation
of these restrictions may result in the termination of this
Agreement.
5.3
The Service shall be used for your internal business
(which includes civic or charitable) purposes only, and you shall
not use the Services or any Software for timesharing or
service-bureau purposes or otherwise for the benefit of a third
party. If you are using the Services in any country in the European
Community, the prohibition against modifying, translating, reverse
engineering, decompiling, disassembling or creating derivative works
based on the Services or the Software does not affect your rights
under any legislation implementing the E.C. Council Directive on the
Legal Protection of Computer Programs.
5.4
You acknowledge
and agree that the Services and the Sendn company names and logos and
all related product and service names, design marks and slogans, are the property of
Sendn.
5.5
You represent, covenant, and warrant that you will use
the Services only in compliance with the Agreement, the federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003
and all other applicable laws (including but not limited to policies
and laws related to spamming, privacy, obscenity, or defamation and
child protective email address registry laws). You agree you will
not access or otherwise use third-party mailing lists in connection
with preparing or distributing unsolicited email to any third party.
You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless Sendn and its
business partners, third-party suppliers and providers, licensors,
officers, directors, employees, distributors and agents against any
damages, losses, liabilities, settlements, and expenses (including
without limitation costs and reasonable attorneys' fees) in
connection with any claim or action that arises from an alleged
violation of the foregoing or otherwise arising from or relating to
your use of the Services. In addition, you acknowledge and agree
that Sendn has the right to seek damages when you use the
Services for unlawful purposes, in an unlawful manner, and/or in a
manner inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, and that such
damages may include, without limitation, direct, indirect, special,
incidental, cover, reliance and/or consequential damages. Although
Sendn has no obligation to monitor the content provided by you or
your use of the Services, Sendn may do so and may remove any such
content or prohibit any use of the Services it believes may be (or
is alleged to be) in violation of the foregoing.
5.6
The Services may
only be used for lawful purposes. Transmission or solicitation of
any material that violates United States federal, state or other
laws that may apply in this jurisdiction or your local
area is prohibited.
5.7
In using the varied features of the Services, you may
provide information (such as name, address, contact information, and
other registration information) to Sendn. Sendn may use this
information and any technical information about your use of the
Services to tailor its presentations to you, facilitate your
movement through the Service, or communicate separately with you.
Sendn will not provide information to companies you have not
authorized for that purpose unless required by law or if you are
terminated from Sendn due to unsolicited commercial email being
sent from your account.
5.8
For every email message sent in connection with the
Services, you acknowledge and agree that the Services may
automatically add an identifying footer stating "Powered by
Sendn" or a similar message or graphic. You agree to fully
cooperate with and provide reasonable assistance to Sendn in
promoting and advertising the Services.
6. Termination
6.1
You may terminate this Agreement at any time by emailing
Sendn. There are no refunds for any fees paid. Termination will only
be effective when receipt of your email is confirmed.
6.2
Sendn may terminate this Agreement or the Services, or
disable your account, in each case at any time with or without
cause, and with or without notice. Sendn shall have no liability
to you or any third party because of such termination or action.
6.3
If your account, at Sendn"s sole discretion,
is classified as inactive for over 105 days, Sendn has the right
to permanently remove your subscriber data. Sendn will attempt to
contact you via email prior to taking any permanent removal
actions.
6.4
Sendn will delete any of your archived data within 30
days after the date of termination. After termination, you are
required to process all unsubscribe requests within 20 days of your
last email campaign. Sendn, upon request, will provide the list
of unsubscribe requests from your last campaign. All sections of
this Agreement that by their nature should survive termination will
survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership,
warranty disclaimers and limitations of liability.
7. Warranty Disclaimer; Remedies
USE OF
THE SERVICES AND ANY RELIANCE BY YOU UPON THE SERVICES, INCLUDING
ANY ACTION TAKEN BY YOU BECAUSE OF SUCH USE OR RELIANCE, IS AT YOUR
SOLE RISK. Sendn DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE
UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE; NOR DOES IT MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE
RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM USE OF THE SERVICES. THE SERVICES
ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND Sendn DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT.
Your exclusive and sole remedy for any failure
or nonperformance of the Services shall be for Sendn to use
commercially reasonable efforts to adjust or repair the Services.
8. Limitation of Liability
TO THE
MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO
LEGAL THEORY, TORT, CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, SHALL Sendn OR ANY OF
ITS UNDERLYING SERVICE PROVIDERS, BUSINESS PARTNERS, INFORMATION
PROVIDERS, LICENSORS, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, ACCOUNT PROVIDERS,
EMPLOYEES, DISTRIBUTORS OR AGENTS (COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO FOR
PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION AS "Sendn") BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY
OTHER PERSON FOR ANY MONEY DAMAGES, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT,
SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, COVER, RELIANCE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, EVEN
IF Sendn SHALL HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY. IN THE EVENT THAT
NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, Sendn IS FOUND LIABLE TO YOU FOR
DAMAGES FROM ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER, AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE
ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT
LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE), THE LIABILITY OF Sendn TO YOU WILL BE
LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THE SERVICES. SOME JURISDICTIONS
DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THIS LIMITATION AND EXCLUSION MAY NOT
APPLY TO YOU.
9. Export of Services or Technical Data
You may not remove or export from the United States
or Canada or allow the export or re-export of the Services, or any
direct product thereof, including technical data, in violation of
any laws, restrictions, or regulations of the United States or any
other applicable country.
10. Miscellaneous
10.1
Sendn and
you agree that the Agreement is the complete and exclusive statement
of the mutual understanding of the parties and supersedes and
cancels all previous written and oral agreements, communications,
and other understandings relating to the subject matter of the
Agreement, and that all waivers and modifications must be in a
writing signed by both parties, except as otherwise provided herein.
No delay or omission by either party in exercising any right or
remedy under this Agreement or existing at law or equity shall be
considered a waiver of such right or remedy.
10.2
If any provision of the Agreement is found to be
unenforceable or invalid, that provision will be limited or
eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that this Agreement
will otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable.
10.3
No partnership, agency, joint venture, or employment is
created as a result of the Agreement, and you do not have any
authority of any kind to bind Sendn in any respect whatsoever.
10.4
In any action or proceeding to enforce rights under the
Agreement, the prevailing party will be entitled to recover its
costs and attorneys' fees.

