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Collect emails on the Internet and use these emails for marketing purposes on-line may, under certain conditions, not a legal activity in some countries. The use of MailWalker and InstantWalker is therefore subject to a number of good practices and knowledge of legal constraints.
This article can be used as a basis for organizing your collection so you can respect the laws in your country.
MailWalker and InstantWalker are extremely powerful tools that allow you to collect large amounts of adressess. Nevertheless the interest of MailWalker and InstantWalker does not lie in the quantitative aspect of their results but in the more qualitative and more focused than those provided by its competitors.
By developing tools, we have always kept in mind - and this is the case for the future - the quality and selectivity should be addresses from our main objective. And we have already achieved this great goal MailWalker and InstantWalker offer a very large number of options and settings you can make a very precise targeting at the creation of your file.

If you want to be a "blind" with a maximum address, go your way: MailWalker and InstantWalker are not meant to spammers!

MailWalker and InstantWalker have been designed for those of you who want to be very small files targeted. The advantage of this approach is that you are almost certain to reach an attentive audience to the content of your mailing: you make a good conversion rate and you reduce the risk of being perceived as a spammer.

Unfortunately, the selectivity of our software is not enough for you to be blameless in the eyes of the law. We provide a tool that you can not collect any address but this does not fault when it does not even do it responsibly and respectfully.

To see a little clearer on the collection of addresses, I propose to discuss the really sensitive operation:

Collecting addresses

Collect addresses for the sake of doing so and without intent to use or deal in the future (without any store at any time or in any way) is a completely legal regardless of how the present . But this is just a figure of rhetorical style: when you collect addresses is to do something. That is why we speak here of collecting addresses in its acceptance "collection of addresses with the intent to use them in one way or another."

According to the legislation in force in your country this collection, via the software MailWalker or InstantWalker, may be regarded as unfair and / or illegal. In the case of France, for example, collect nominative mails (see next section) and non-professional mails with a collector such as MailWalker prohibited. 

But thanks to MailWalker and InstantWalker, you can collect addresses that do not fall into this category. Both tools are equipped with several features and options to targeting and selectivity at the maximum collection of mail, it is imperative to fully understand them before using them. Feel free to experiment on setting small amounts of data to be sure you know the full range of parameters.

Store and use addresses

Store addresses, whatever form and media, can often be equated to the storage of personal data. For example, in France, the CNIL defines the concept of personal data:

Constitutes personal data information on an identified or which can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identification number or to one or more elements to it. [Act No. 78-17 - Article 2]

A personal email address is totally with this definition. Address a generic type contact@company.com, however, does not fall into this category.

Thus, depending on your country, although the storage and use of addresses is not collected in the fields of activity MailWalker or InstantWalker, we recommend you to take all necessary measures to ensure the legality of such storage and processing of these data potentially of a personal nature.
To take the example of France, you have to make a statement in this file and its processing to the CNIL in most cases, and an application for leave in very rare cases.
Furthermore, in the scenario above - the most often been - and still in France, you must obtain prior authorization for the marketing by mail. However, deciding on the interpretation of the law on confidence in the digital economy, the CNIL concluded at its meeting on 17 February 2005, that:

"Individuals can be explored by e-mail to the e-mail address without their prior consent, if the message is sent for the function they perform in public or private organization that has assigned that address"...

Conclusion

Keep in mind that you must use MailWalker and InstantWalker with respect to the recipients of your emailing campaigns. Do not use these tools with the intent to collect addresses for spam. And whatever your goal campaign emailing be sure to comply with the law.

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NB: This article is not legal analysis but simply food for thought for you to develop your collection of emails. In any case it can not replace the laws in your country or state.

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