Anti-Spam Policy

• We email local service businesses, at addresses those businesses published themselves. We do not email consumers at home.
• We do not buy, rent, trade, or exchange email lists, and we take no address from a list broker, a lead vendor, or an appended dataset.
• We have no affiliates, resellers, or third-party marketers. Nobody is authorised to promote Almora by email on our behalf, ever.
• Every email tells you how to stop: reply “stop”. Within one business day that removes your address from every record we hold, permanently: not one campaign, and not one sending address.
• Any link in a message from us points to almorasites.com. No URL shorteners, no redirect services, no cloaking domains, no click-tracking wrappers.

Almora sends cold business-to-business introductions to local service businesses. We describe them plainly rather than calling them something else: they are commercial solicitations, and the recipient did not ask for them. What follows is what we actually do, stated so it can be checked against the messages themselves.

• Businesses, at addresses they published themselves. Every address on our list came from a public business record: a state licence registry (contractor, cosmetology or massage boards, for example), where the business itself filed the contact address it wants to be reached at, or open map data (Overture Maps), where businesses publish their own listings, or the business’s own website. Many of those addresses are at Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Outlook or an ISP domain, because that is what many small owner-run businesses put on their licence filings and their signs. We treat them as business addresses because the business published them as its business contact, and we would rather say that here than have it look like something we hid. We do not email consumers at home, and we do not email an address a business has not published.
• Nothing guessed. We never construct an address from a pattern — no invented first.last@company.com, no speculative info@ aimed at a domain that might happen to accept it. Every address is one somebody published, and every one is checked by a mailbox verifier before it can be exported. Addresses that fail, and addresses on catch-all domains where a check proves nothing, do not get sent to.
• One email per step, and never more than the sequence. Each campaign has a sequence of emails that we set before it starts. A business gets one email for each step of that sequence and never more than it, and nothing once the sequence ends. A reply of “stop” at any step ends it for good. Once a business’s sequence is over it is not started again later, and we do not reach the same business a second time through a different address.
• One kind of business at a time. Each campaign goes to one trade, with an email written for that trade, and offers it one specific thing. We do not send one message to everyone.
• Identified as a solicitation. Each message says who we are, says in plain words that we are seeking their business, tells you how to stop, and carries our postal address.
• How much we send. This is one person sending from 12 mailboxes on three sending domains. Our ceiling is at most about 300 new emails a day across all of them, and a new mailbox starts low and climbs to its share gradually. We are not going to dress that up as a small number by calling it something else: it is the whole of our sending capacity, and there is no second channel behind it.

Our list is built from public business records: state licence registries (contractor, cosmetology or massage boards, for example), open map data (Overture Maps), where businesses publish their own listings, business directories, and businesses’ own websites. A licence filing is one a business makes itself, naming the contact address it wants used. A listing in open map data is one a business published about itself, with the contact address it gave there.

An address from a business’s own website is one our crawler read there: an address behind a mailto: link, on a contact page, or in the site’s own structured contact data. We use the word crawler rather than avoiding it. Reading a business’s published contact address off that business’s own website is something we do, and a policy that denied it would be checkable and false within a minute. What we do not do is take addresses out of somebody else’s collection of them.

We send through a third-party sending platform, on our instruction. The list, the copy and the decision about who is contacted are entirely ours; the platform is a tool, not a marketer, and nobody there chooses a recipient for us.

The mailboxes sit on domains Almora owns, and those sending domains are not almorasites.com, which is our brand and demo site. That is an ordinary arrangement for outbound mail, and we would rather state it here than have you find it in a header and wonder what else was left out. Any link inside a message body points to almorasites.com.

• Buy, rent, trade, or exchange a list of email addresses, or take addresses from a list broker, a lead vendor, or an appended dataset.
• Email a consumer at home, or any address that is not a business’s own published business contact.
• Pay, permit, or benefit from an affiliate, reseller, lead vendor, or any other third party sending email that advertises Almora. If you receive mail promoting Almora from anyone other than us, it is not authorised — please report it.
• Use a URL shortener, redirect service, cloaking domain, or any other technique to disguise where a link goes.
• Wrap our links in click-tracking redirects, or embed a tracking pixel. Our messages are plain text, and any link in one is the literal almorasites.com URL we wrote. If a link in mail from us ever resolves through some other host, that is a misconfiguration on our side — tell us and we will fix it and say what happened.
• Send from forged, misleading, or borrowed sender addresses, or use a misleading subject line. We do not fake a reply or a forward: no subject line of ours opens “Re:” or “Fwd:” on a conversation that never happened. Our first email to a business is a first message, and it never carries a “Re:”.
• Continue emailing anyone who has asked us to stop, for any reason.

Every email from us ends the same way: reply “stop”, and we will not email you again. A stop reply marks that address as opted out on every record we hold, matched on the address itself rather than on the one record the email came from, so it also covers the duplicate entries a licence roster inevitably produces for the same owner. We record it by hand within one business day, well inside the ten business days the law allows; it is permanent, and every future send re-checks it. You do not need to confirm or explain. Messages from our earliest campaigns carried an unsubscribe link instead; that link still works the same way.

If you would rather not reply to the sending address, that is reasonable too. Write to privacy@almorasites.com or hello@almorasites.com from the address you want removed. Either reaches a person rather than an autoresponder, and we do it by hand well inside the ten business days the law allows, then confirm.

If you believe you have received mail from us that breaks this policy, or mail from anyone else that advertises Almora, please tell us at hello@almorasites.com. Include the full message headers if you can — they let us identify exactly what was sent and from where.

We answer every report from a person, not an autoresponder, and we will tell you what we found. Written notice can be sent to Almora, c/o Ryan Arndt, 5331 S Macadam Ave Ste 258 PMB 1129, Portland, OR 97239-3871.

This policy binds us, and it is the standard we expect to be held to. Almora is one person, so there is nobody here to blame for a breach and nobody to discipline: a breach would be ours. We do not treat a complaint as a dispute to be won — an address that does not want our mail comes off first, and is discussed afterwards if at all.

If any statement on this page does not match what we actually do, we would rather hear about it and correct the page than defend it. Write to hello@almorasites.com and say which sentence.

See also our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.