Anti-spam policy

What this policy covers

This policy explains how Bail Bond Loan Services handles email and other electronic messages, and the anti-spam rules we follow. It sits alongside our privacy policy, which covers what information the site collects and how advertising works here.

Our email practices

This site is an informational resource. In practice that means:

• We do not send marketing or promotional email. There is no newsletter.
• We do not collect email addresses through the site. There are no sign-up forms, no "subscribe" boxes and no lead-capture fields. The only email address on the site is a contact address you can choose to write to.
• We do not buy, rent, trade or harvest email lists, and we do not scrape addresses from websites.
• We do not send email to anyone who has not written to us first.

If you email us, we receive the message and the address it came from, and we may reply. That reply is correspondence about your own question, not an advertisement. We do not add your address to any list, and we do not pass it to third parties for marketing.

If we ever send a commercial message

We do not send one today. If that ever changes, any commercial email we send will meet the requirements of the federal CAN-SPAM Act (15 U.S.C. § 7704 and the Federal Trade Commission's implementing rules at 16 C.F.R. Part 316), which means:

• Accurate "from," "to" and routing information, with no forged or misleading headers.
• A subject line that honestly describes the message.
• Clear identification of the message as an advertisement where that applies.
• A valid physical postal address for the sender, and a clear, conspicuous way to opt out of future messages.
• Opt-out requests honored within 10 business days, with no fee and no requirement to supply anything beyond an email address.
• No further marketing to an address after it has opted out, and no transfer of opted-out addresses to anyone who would not honor the same request.

California requirements

California regulates commercial email separately from federal law, mainly in Business and Professions Code sections 17529 through 17529.9. For any commercial email sent from California or to a California email address, section 17529.5 makes it unlawful to use another party's domain name without permission, to use falsified, misrepresented or forged header information, or to use a subject line likely to mislead a reasonable recipient about a material fact regarding the message's contents.

California's rules also require that commercial email be identifiable as an advertisement, carry a valid physical postal address, and offer a way to opt out, and they require that an unsubscribe request be honored promptly and that the address not be sold or transferred to someone who would ignore the request. These obligations are enforceable by the Attorney General, by email service providers and by recipients, with liquidated damages of $1,000 for each violating message under section 17529.3.

Because we send no commercial email and collect no addresses, none of these obligations are currently engaged. We keep this policy in place so the commitment is on the record rather than implied.

Text messages and phone calls

We do not send marketing text messages or make automated or prerecorded calls, so the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act and its rules on prior express consent for marketing texts and calls do not apply to any activity we carry out. We have no calling or texting capability on this site.

Google's sending and advertising rules

Google's email sender guidelines apply to anyone sending mail to Gmail accounts. For senders of volume mail, Google requires both SPF and DKIM authentication with an aligned DMARC record, valid forward and reverse DNS (PTR) records, TLS in transit, a spam-complaint rate kept below 0.3%, and a one-click unsubscribe mechanism (RFC 8058) that is honored within two business days. We publish no sender infrastructure because we send no mail; if that ever changes, we will meet those requirements before sending anything.

Google's advertising policies for sites in its ad programs likewise prohibit spam and deceptive practices, and require that advertising be clearly separated from editorial content. That is how this site is built: ads are labeled, they never generate a message to you, and no ad placement on this site is a recommendation of the advertiser.

Reporting a message that claims to be from us

If you receive an email, text or call claiming to come from Bail Bond Loan Services, please tell us at info@bailbondloanservices.com and include the sender's address and the message text. Do not click links or pay anything requested in it. Because we do not send outbound messages, a message claiming to be from us is very likely to be from someone else, and we will treat your report as a possible fraud or phishing attempt.

If you believe you received unsolicited commercial email that violates these rules, you can also report it to the Federal Trade Commission at spamreport.gov, or, for California matters, to the California Attorney General.

Changes to this policy

We may update this page if our practices or the law change. The date at the top shows the current version.

Where these rules come from

• 15 U.S.C. § 7704 — CAN-SPAM message requirements
• 16 C.F.R. Part 316 — FTC CAN-SPAM implementing rules
• California Business and Professions Code § 17529.5
• California Business and Professions Code, Article 1.8 (§§ 17529–17529.9)
• Google email sender guidelines
• Google AdSense program policies — unacceptable practices