3. If you register, purchase or subscribe at any website, be sure to review their policies regarding the distribution of your email address, uses for future offers they or third parties may send and their overall email use and marketing policies. Some policies are broadly written so as to allow almost any use of your address. Be sure this is not the case and if you are unsure, follow up any entering of your address with an email to the webmaster or postmaster making it clear what your address can or can't be used for. It's your email address. 4. Consider disabling (through your email program) HTML email (email with images) to reduce offensive images as well as to decrease the ‘size' of the email. Images make for longer download times and take up more storage space. Friends and family can send ‘attachments' with pictures and other images, if you want to receive them. 5. Spammers frequently send mail via ‘diction' attacks where they essentially are trying to guess at your name/email address. Consider altering your address such as john10smith@isp.com or 10jsmith@isp.com. These minor alterations will prevent diction attacks from identifying your address. 6. Check headers. Every email you receive leaves an electronic trail. Your mail program will allow you to view the header and see the actual sender, their IP address (originating computer address) and other information. You can perform IP ‘lookups' for free and establish where the mail is coming from and report spam, contact the sender and even block specific IP addresses from sending future mail. Contact your postmaster at your ISP for more detail about this. 7. Utilize unsubscribe links and options. While some unethical organizations will use your address again, most will not. If you are uneasy about entering your email address to get your address off a list, consider sending an email to the webmaster, postmaster or calling a customer service number to remove yourself. Alius Designs provides an alternative in that we assign a “Subscriber ID” number which can be used to unsubscribe instead of your actual address. We realize that spam is a problem and want to assist our subscribers, customers and visitors to our site and those who take advantage of the services we offer. We want to help alleviate any problem you may have if we can because we believe it’s good customer service and good business to do so. We understand that many people don't understand the problem or how to address it. If you are receiving mail from us occasionally, it is because you: 1. Registered at our site to receive information, product offerings and services or directly purchased something at our website or one of our web pages. 2. Registered at another website where during your visit there you likewise agreed to receive mail from us, specifically. 3. Registered with another company that specifically stated their intentions to allow third parties to present you with information, product offerings and services. Every registration address we receive we always confirm by sending an email stating that your address has been part of one of the above registrations processes, we offer links to our site, policies as well as to unsubscribe. We provide a valid return address as well as phone and street address contact information. In addition, here is more information about Alius Designs' privacy policy: Information We Collect. “Subscription" occurs when an end-user registers for the Alius Designs' (The “Company:) services, either via registration at our website, via opt-in or opt-out co-registration at a marketing partner's website, or via an opt-out permission pass / opt-out mailing as per the providers stated policy to do so. Alius Designs collects personally identifiable information about our subscribers, based on: voluntary information gathered at the time of registration, subscriber interaction and response to subsequent electronic mailings and website use, information provided by marketing partners, and information appended from data aggregators. Information collected may include, but is not necessarily limited to: name, email address, postal address, gender, birth date, telephone number, activity, interests, and other demographic information. This information enables us to better tailor our content to Alius Designs subscribers' needs and to help our clients and customers to promote and sell their products and services. Alius Designs gathers subscriber information using some or all of the following processes: Subscriber Feedback/Inquiries: Subscribers have the ability to contact the Company to provide us with their feedback. The Company uses this information to respond to the subscriber and analyze customer service issues. Cookies: The Company minimizes the use of cookies to only those necessary to properly route subscribers, and customize the subscriber's experience. The Company provides links to advertiser and partner websites. These sites may choose to use cookies to better promote their products and services. Please see your own browser about disabling cookies. Alius Designs Does not use cookies to track any browsing by subscribers. Usage Tracking: The Company tracks information related to the electronic mailings and web pages viewed by subscribers, as well as the hyperlinks clicked by subscribers, while viewing our emails or visiting our websites.