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This clause defines a specific and common practice—collecting contacts from business cards—as an invalid basis for messaging, directly limiting how users may build recipient lists.
Users are prohibited from messaging any contact whose email address or phone number was sourced from a business card.
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The Services are intended for business use by corporate or business entities, and you agree that you will not use the Services for any personal or individual use.
You may not display any personal contact, banking, or peer-to-peer payment information, whether in relation to you or any other person (for example, names, home addresses or postcodes, telephone numbers, email addresses, URLs, credit/debit card...)
You agree that Promotional Codes: (a) must be used in a lawful manner; (b) must be used for the intended audience and purpose; (c) may not be duplicated, sold or transferred in any manner...
"simply getting someone's business card is not an acceptable opt-in and you cannot send messages to email addresses or phone numbers you obtained from business cards.Excerpt from ActiveCampaign's Acceptable Use Policy
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This clause defines a specific and common practice—collecting contacts from business cards—as an invalid basis for messaging, directly limiting how users may build recipient lists.
Users are prohibited from messaging any contact whose email address or phone number was sourced from a business card.
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