Acceptable Use
Many business and people use Inkit, and we’re proud of the trust placed in us. In exchange, we trust you to use our services responsibly. You agree not to misuse the Inkit website, application, and services (the “Service“) or help anyone else to do so.
If you violate this policy, we may suspend or terminate your account. We may also suspend or terminate accounts according to our Terms of Service where we see behavior, content, or other factors that poses a risk to our Services.
1. For example, you must not even try to do any of the following in connection with the Services:
1.1 Search, access, or create accounts for the Services by any means other than our publicly supported interfaces (for example, “scraping” or creating accounts in bulk).
1.2 Access, tamper with, or use non-public areas or parts of the Services, or shared areas of the Services you haven’t been invited to.
1.3 Interfere with or disrupt any user, host, or network, for example by sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, or mail-bombing any part of the Services.
1.4 Abuse referrals or promotions to get more discount credits than deserved.
1.5 Circumvent account storage and mailing limits.
1.6 Publish or share materials that are unlawfully indecent or pornographic, or that contain extreme acts of violence.
1.7 Advocate bigotry or hatred against any person or group of people based on their race, religion, ethnicity, sex, sexual preference, gender identity, disability, or impairment.
1.8 Violate the law in any way, including publishing, mailing, emailing or sharing material that’s fraudulent, defamatory, or misleading or violate the privacy or infringe the rights of others.
1.9 Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system or network.
1.10 Breach or otherwise circumvent any security or authentication measures.
1.11 Send unsolicited communications, promotions or advertisements, or spam.
1.12 Send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information, including “spoofing” or “phishing”.
1.13 Promote or advertise products or services other than your own without appropriate authorization.
1.14 Sell the Services unless specifically authorized to do so.
2. You Agree Not To Send
2.1 Send mail or email that violates CAN-SPAM Laws.
2.2 Send mail or email that violates United States Postal Service and other service provider’s rules and regulations.
2.3 Send mail or email offering to sell illegal goods or services.
2.4 Pornography/adult/sexually explicit content.
2.5 Unfortunately some industries have higher-than-average abuse complaints, which can jeopardize our Services. We do not allow businesses that offer these types of products, services or content:
a. Pharmaceutical products.
b. Affiliate marketing.
c. Multi-level marketing.
d. List brokers or list rental services.
e. Work from home, make money online and lead generation opportunities.
f. Gambling products or services.
g. Escort, adult entertainment and dating services.
h. Get out of debt and credit repair services.
3. Mail Subject to Additional Scrutiny
Certain types of content may cause higher-than-average abuse rates. In general, hard bounce rates should be less than 5%, and spam complaint rates should be less than 0.1%. We reserve the right to review, suspend, or disable accounts that exceed these rates or offer the following services, products, or content:
3.1 Real estate services.
3.2 Mortgages and loans services.
3.3 Insurance services.
3.4 Nutritional, herbal, and vitamin supplements.
3.5 Services that assist or support sending mail or email on behalf of third parties without creating or reviewing the content.
3.6 Adult entertainment, escort and dating services.
3.7 Additional prohibited actions.
4. Prohibited Activities
We ask that our users to play their part in making Inkit a community that everyone wants to be a part of. You agree not to:
4.1 Send or mail spam. Spam can be in the form of bulk mail or one to one commercial mail. For bulk mail we use the definition, “unsolicited bulk mail.” For single commercial mail, we define spam as any message that violates CAN SPAM law. You must be able to point to an opt-in form or show other evidence of consent for bulk mail or email.
4.2 Put into your account or mail any material that wasn’t created by you, provided for you to use, or that would violate anyone’s rights. That includes photos, text, graphics, logos, and other content.
4.3 Use any misleading or incorrect names, addresses, email addresses, titles, or other information on the website or in any mail or email created or sent using our Service.
4.4 Decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software on our Service, or in any way used or downloaded from the Service.
4.5 Use any of the software on our Service, or downloaded from the Service, to create a competing product.
4.6 Set up multiple accounts for any person or entity in order to send similar content, unless you’re part of a franchise or agency.
4.7 Upload or send to purchased, rented, third-party, co-reg, publicly available data, or partner lists of any kind.
4.8 Host content on our Service for any purpose other than to send mail or email campaigns.
4.9 Host images on our Service for any purpose other than for use in your mail or email campaigns.
4.10 Delete, bulk unsubscribe, or otherwise modify your list or orders in order to avoid our billing thresholds.
4.11 Share your login credentials or password.
4.12 Import or incorporate any of this information into any lists, mail or uploads to our servers: Social Security numbers, bank information, payment information, passwords, security credentials, or sensitive personal information.
5. Best Practices
As a direct mail and email service provider, it’s our responsibility to be extra aware about preventing spam-related abuse. We provide, and may update from time to time, articles outlining sending best practices in our knowledge base. You may only use Inkit in accordance with these best practices and our Terms of Service. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account if we find that you violate them.