Acceptable Use Policy
Nerd Marketing Agency is committed to ensuring the highest level of service for its members. As part of that commitment, it is important that we all abide by this Acceptable Use Policy, thus preserving the highest reputation and deliverability of our service. Violation of this policy may lead to account suspension or termination without notice. Additionally, accounts may be suspended or terminated pursuant to our Terms & Conditions for behavior, activities, or content that threaten our systems.
Prohibited Content
Nerd Marketing Agency may not be used to promote, market, exchange, store or produce offensive, illegal, harassing activities, or business that is likely to be flagged by spam agencies/filters. For this reason, Nerd Marketing Agency cannot service content including, but not limited to:
Anything deemed illegal including, but not limited to, illegal goods and services
Emails that violate CAN-SPAM Laws
Pornography/sexually explicit content
Escort and dating services or products
Pharmaceutical products
Products involving unsubstantiated medical claims
Products or business opportunities promising unsubstantiated income claims or guaranteed profits
Gambling or sport betting services or products
Cannabis, marijuana and any related products or services
Automated financial trading software, Forex robots, stock picks or trading signals, or any other hands-free trading instrument.
Selling or harvesting Social Media “likes”, traffic, leads or followers
Email advertisements for multiple companies all to the same list (sometimes known as “dedicated email ads” or “solo email ads”)
Content Subject to Scrutiny
While the following activities are not forbidden, they have a higher-than-normal likelihood of resulting in a loss in reputation and email delivery. As a result, businesses engaging in these practices that cause or may cause a degradation in the service Nerd Marketing Agency provides may be subject to review resulting in throttling, suspension, or termination:
Online trading, day trading tips, or stock market related content
Crypto currencies, virtual currencies or digital currencies
Daily horoscope reports
Mortgages, loans and certain financial instruments
Adult Entertainment/Novelty Items
Services that support programmatically sending mail on behalf of third parties without creating or reviewing the content
False or misleading business opportunities, scams, or pyramid schemes;
Health claims that have been determined to be false or misleading by a regulatory agency; illegal activities;
Sales of drugs or pharmaceuticals;
Sales of illegal products or services;
Pornography or sexually explicit content;
Content that promotes or depicts human trafficking, child abuse, animal abuse, or which encourages or promotes abuse of alcohol, drugs or other substances, graphic or gratuitous violence, or people being injured, beaten, hurt, attacked, or humiliated;
Content that is needlessly shocking to the senses, gratuitously gross, or which depicts or promotes accidents, death, hate speech attacking or demeaning a group based on race, ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, and the like;
Any use of the Software in connection with predatory behavior, including invasions of privacy, directed to other persons, particularly children, is not permissible and, will not be tolerated.
Harvesting or scrubbing leads from directories, websites, forums, social media sites, etc. All leads must be acquired through a voluntary form fill-in, such as a registration form, a checkout form, etc.
Promoting affiliate links via commonly frowned-upon practices in the affiliate marketing industry including, but not limited to: cookie injection, spamming forums or social media, automated scripts, etc
Use, initiation, or implementation of any automated system, including without limitation, "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers," on, through, or with the our software in a manner that utilizes more resources from (a) the software, (b) any Nerd Marketing Agency or SaaS system server or site, or (c) any third party server or site, in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser
The sending or distribution of unsolicited commercial email
The use of malicious code, spyware, malware, Trojan horses and the like
Purchased lists (of any form), Rented lists (of any form), List brokers (of any form)
This document was last updated on May 3, 2023.
