You may plan of being private with information you accept. Do you know what the legal requirements regarding any information you collect? Do you need a privacy policy?
Do you know what the advertising laws are? Do you know how they relate to your web site and what you personally advertise?Spam
No, not the form of canned ham, if you get this wrong you could lose a lot more than just the privilege of being on the web. This needs to be looked at from different standpoints.There are two kinds. One you can go to jail for. Yes it is against the law. The other is one of the internet mores you dare not break. Are you educated on one of the most essential website legalities, not being a spammer.
Avoid Becoming a E-mail List Spammer
This is a compilation related mostly to e-mail list campaigns. However, it will provide some ideas of what not to do if you want to avoid the ugly part of spamming, which could include jail time.
Avoiding Email List Spam Liability Your starting a list. What is acceptable practice. First look at appropriate use of e-mail lists.
The Bad What could be considered spam? The answer may surprise you.
Internet Spam Examples The second of 5 Bad ways to handle email lists.
Email List Spam Examples The third of 5 examples of Bad ways to use email lists.
Email List Spamming The fourth of 5 examples of the Bad.
Spamming Example The fifth of 5 examples. More bad.
If you go to Spam Ugly looks at what can happen if you violate the Spam Laws.
Mores on the Web
Mores are the unwritten laws or customs of a community. Although they may not have written sanctions should they be broken like a law, you may still be sanctioned.
Some of the unwritten laws include search engine optimizing. There are two kinds. Good called White Hat and bad called Black Hat.
We will not tell you the black hat techniques on this site. If you think of it, as a business person and part of a community, how would you like to be treated. If it is sneaky, annoying or irritating, it could be black hat.
Spam...What are the spam mores and what can happen to you if you break them.
Avoid Link Spamming
Avoid Blog Spamming
Getting Your e-Mail Past Spam Blockers
Getting Your Postings Past Spam Filters
What to do When Receiving Spam
Keeping Your Website e-Mail out of Spamville
Business Legalities
If you have a business, in most municipalities it needs to be registered. The fee can be as little as $20. If you don’t want to part with your hard earned money, even if it should cost you $200, then you probably will not be any good at being in business for yourself.
The exception...There is a common exception. It is the DBA exception. If (and this depends on your local municipality) you create a business based on just your name in some cases you need not register your business name.
So your business becomes DBA (doing business as) _______________ (fill in your first and last name) or _________________ (fill in first and last name) Company is another way to do it.
Your tax accountant will know how to advise you on this.
These are some but may not be all the website legalities you will need to be aware of. Most of them are common sense. Consider how you would like to be treated is a basic rule of how to behave on the web so as to not get into trouble.
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