Spam Policy

ZERO Tolerance Spam Policy

The Real Water Club has a ZERO tolerance for Spam. All Spam complaints are taken seriously. Spam is considered an unethical form of Internet advertising and is becoming illegal in more and more states.

In addition Spamming can incur substantial monetary fines from any of the providers through which Spam is directed because of the time, resources and expense it can incur for business. Spam is a negative form of advertising and is HIGHLY disliked within the Internet community.

An email is SPAM if it has been sent to an address that was not requested from you. You must not send Spam via our service or send Spam that in any way implicates our services by including the company web site domain(s) or any other web site associated with The Real Water Club. This includes mentioning a Real Water Club email address or URL in any bulk email message, or including any URL that in any way eventually links to a URL that is maintained on The Real Water Club server(s). If you willfully violate our Spam Policy you will:

1) Have your web site terminated immediately without notice.

2) Have a MINIMUM of $1000 claim filed against you in a court of law.

3) Be immediately reported to your ISP and any or all of the companies of the business opportunity program(s) you are representing.

4) Be reported to additional proper authorities to take action against you such as Spam Cop.

5) Be permanently banned from ALL The Real Water Club systems.

The Real Water Club reserves the right to determine what constitutes a violation of our Spam Policy. The sole opinion of The Real Water Club is ABSOLUTE in determining any and all spam violations.

Should The Real Water Club services or web sites be disrupted in anyway due to spamming, the responsible party will be charged and billed $500.00 per hour until service is restored. Applicant may also be subject to legal action if appropriate.

If you have been spammed, please notify us by clicking HERE and let our Abuse department know of it.

Definition of Spam
Spam is the sending of unsolicited and unauthorized e-mails or online communications such as but not limited to bulletin boards, usergroups or instant messaging services to individuals or businesses who do not know you personally. And who have not agreed or requested to receive your emails. Or have not provided their email address directly to the sender. Or an email sent to a recipient who would not have a reasonable expectation of receiving email from the sender. Spam can be a single email or a bulk mailing.

Posting messages to Usenet or News Group groups that explicitly forbid the posting of commercial solicitations or solicitations not pertaining to their content is Spam.

Buying a list of emails from a third party and individually or bulk emailing them is considered Spam.

Opt-out lists where a person is specifically required to request removal from a mailing list in order to prevent solicitation is Spam.

Hiring a company that is mailing out to a list of people with your opportunity that did not specifically request to receive your information beforehand is considered Spam.

Emailing through an approved DOUBLE Opt-in list provider is NOT considered Spam. Double opt-in means that not only did the people request to be on the list, they verified it by approving the request a second time. The BEST guideline for knowing whether or not an email is Spam is if someone did not specifically request the information then it is SPAM.

Promoting Your Site on FFA (Free For All) sites is NOT allowed.
FFA sites (Free For All) sites and similar programs have a HIGH RISK of generating Spam complaints because of the nature of that type of program. Advertising on FFA sites is not permitted for promoting any Real Water Club web site, related web site and/or services. Any complaints generated from advertising with FFA programs will be treated as Spam.

Free For All Sites are sites with lots of links to peoples' web sites. You are told that if you list your site, you will have your own FFA site where you can send people to post their links. Your link will be replicated to many other sites. You are told that everytime someone adds their link, they will get an email telling them about your opportunity.

Then, your link is also on their site, and everyone who adds a link to their site gets an email from you. This leads to an enormous amount of email going out from you, automatically. Many people who put links on FFA sites don't realize that the tons of email they get is simply a result of posting their link, then they complain of SPAM.

FFA sites are notorious for generating Spam complaints.

Policy for using lists obtained from 3rd Parties
In general, many email lists obtained from third parties are culled from internet web sites, domain registrations, and other NON opt-in sources. The use of such lists with our system is prohibited.

There are certain cases when the use of a list obtained from a third party may be acceptable, however. In order for a mailing to a third party list to be acceptable under our unsolicited email policies, the following rules must be adhered to:

I) The email addresses obtained by the third party must be strictly opt-in, and follow all of our policies regarding opt-in email list collection.

II) The third party assembling the email list must make a clear disclosure stating that recipients' addresses ARE provided to others.

III) The third party must be able to provide documentation regarding the validity of the addresses in case of an unsolicited email complaint.

IV) Any messages sent to addresses obtained from a third party must contain information disclosing the source of the addresses. IF A THIRD PARTY PROHIBITS SUCH DISCLOSURE, THEIR LIST MAY NOT BE USED WITH OUR SYSTEM.

V) The content of messages sent to addresses from a third party list must be consistent with the disclosure made to the recipients upon initial provision of the email address.


As a list owner, you are fully responsible for any third party's adherence to our policies for lists which you obtain and use in our system. Any violation of our policies by third parties will be seen as violations by you, and will subject your account to suspension, termination, and penalty fees accordingly. WARNING: No reputable opt-in list company will sell you email addresses.