How to reduce "Spam" with privacy policies
Privacy policies reduce "spam" complaints by telling your customers what, when, and how their information will be used.
It never fails; almost daily our inbox continues to fill up with the dreaded spam. Sure, the email programs do their best to filter out spam and prevent it from clogging up our inbox, but it does not always work. Every person in the world gets spam, rather we like it or not. However, there are steps that you can take to start reducing spam.
Read the Privacy Policy
To see how your information will be used, who has the right to use it, and when it will be used check that the website has a privacy policy. If it doesn't have a privacy policy available - don't sign up. It's that simple.
Be Careful Where You Put Your Email
You may be doing it innocently, but posting your email on the internet at any point is opening yourself and your email up to a world of spam trouble. People use certain types of programs that have only one purpose, scouring the internet for vulnerable email address. It is always best to keep it hidden from the public or at least camouflage it as best as you can. Instead of typing the email as a whole, use words in place of signs, graphics could also work well.
Do Not Open It
Opening spam makes you a target, believe it or not, even though these emails have a link to unsubscribe, all this is doing is verifying your email address to the spammers. If you can at all avoid it, just delete the spam emails without opening. When we say without opening, you should keep this in mind. Spammers also have programs that can tell when an email has been opened.
Read It Before You Provide It
Before you sign up for any type of mailing list, group, or subscription of any type, it is important that you take a look at the provided privacy policy. Find out exactly how this website intends to use the information you provide. Is this a company the offers your email address or personal information to other companies either free or otherwise? Is this a company that you really want to receive emails from? This is very important in reducing spam. If they do not have a privacy policy, avoid using the service altogether.
Reducing spam means taking some steps to avoid giving out your email address. Make sure that you use the filtering system provided by your email provider and set it up to maximize the filtering of spam.
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