caLLLendar has two primary goals:
1. To assist the chapters of Black Greek Letter Organizations with their aims and purposes.
2. To provide information to the members of the organizations and the general public.
PRIVACY POLICY
Our plege to you, is that we will NOT share your email address with anyone.
It is not displayed on the site, redistributed, or accessible to 3rd party organizations and/or advertisers.
In short, we'll send reminders for you to see events or add data.
The abuse of the email addresses in our database undermines the fundamental purposes of caLLLendar
Therefore, extreme measures are taken to secure the contact information, including:
Storing the backup of the database on an encrypted filesystem.
Encrypting email addresses WITHIN the database (so that the hosting company cannot find them useful).
Encrypting the data during transfers on the local network while reducing exposure during ftp.
Moreover, we will NOT email ANY solicitation or message that is not directly related to the caLLLendar.
Email lists are exploited and/or used to tranmit inappropriate, political, racially inflammatory, derogatory, or just plain ignorant emails.
We won't have that here.
A reason caLLLendar does not spam:
Spam can overwhelm the email box a member of caLLLendar. When that happens, the member may stop using the email address and lose contact with us. We send occassional emails to update the member about their account as well as login information. Members that read their update emails (and log in occassionally) get more benefit from our site, and also benefit our site much more than members who dont. Spam email hurts caLLLendar.
How spam works:
Spam is unsolicited email typically designed to make a profit. In order to make a profit, the person sending the spam needs to send millions of emails to generate sales. Other types of spam are designed to harm email filters or computer systems. Spammers use various ways to collect email addresses. One of the ways spammers collect addresses is by using robots to surf the web and collect them from websites. Sometimes, the robots simply collect domain names and then the spammer sends email to different usernames for that domain (i.e. webmaster@yourdomain.com, links@yourdomain.com, info@yourdomain.com). The moment you post your e-mail address on a web page, a USENET newsgroup, or an IRC chat room, you are opening yourself up to e-mail harvesting robots ("spambots") which automatically and continuously scour the 'net for e-mail addresses to add to spam mailing lists. Lovely, huh? Spambots do not read HTML pages as they are rendered by a browser but read (or harvest) text that actually is the HTML (the source code).
How to protect your email address:
1. Never publish your email address online.
Don't put it on your web site, your online resume, or on a contact page.
Use a form that does not include your email address. Another
option, although not as good as a form, is to create an image of your email address and post
that to your web pages instead of the address. Email spiders usually
cannot read images. For those people who convert their email into
"john at foo dot com", I contend that it is trivial for the mail
address spiders to convert and record addresses in this form.
2. Acceptance list
You can dedicate an email address that you use only for signing up for memberships.
Then, use the filters in your email client to throw away any email that is not specifically from one of the places that you wish to receive email from.
3. Skip online discussion lists or forums if they post your email.
If you find a discussion list
which does not disguise the addresses, then complain to the site
administrator. Tell them that they are helping by serving email
addresses to spammers.
How to prove caLLLendar does not spam:
1. Create a random email address like "CLINKSj983n@yourdomain.com"
2. Use the email address for your membership at caLLLendar ONLY.
3. Forward the random address to the account that you check daily.
If you follow those three steps, you will see that caLLLendar only sends occasional information about your account.
We do NOT sell, share, or spam email addresses. |
