Effective October 1, 2007

Rank1st is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust in us, our products, and our Web site. To that end, we are providing this notice, which explains our practices regarding the security, filtering and acceptance of e-mail messages through servers owned and operated by Rank1st Technology Services.

Acceptance of this E-mail Policy

By sending e-mail through our servers you agree to the terms and conditions of this policy. Without limitation of the foregoing, you understand and agree that (a) e-mail messages sent through Rank1st servers may be stored indefinitely, (b) Rank1st may store, access and use the information in any jurisdiction, including jurisdictions in which the privacy laws may be different and less protective than those in your home jurisdiction, and (c) Rank1st may collect, process and use this information internally for a variety of purposes. Please do not send e-mail messages through our servers if you do not agree to the terms and conditions of this policy. Rank1st reserves the right to change this E-mail Policy at any time. If we do so, we will post any changes on our Web site.

What is necessary to send e-mail through Rank1st servers?

In general, following best practices for configuring secure, reliable and RFC compliant e-mail servers will insure the acceptance of e-mail by our servers and subsequent delivery to our hosted domains. The following is a brief, but not necessarily complete list of requirements that will insure the delivery of e-mail through our servers:

1. Insure that your domain, server or IP address is not listed in any spam e-mail databases.
   • We do not accept e-mail from spam database listed domains
   • We do not accept e-mail from servers connected via a dial-up connection
   • We do not accept e-mail from certain areas of the world known to be origins of spam(we will pre-authorize a valid sender however, please contact us)
2. Insure that your e-mail server is operating in an RFC compliant mode.
3. Insure that your e-mail server has a resolvable reverse DNS entry.
4. Verify your information, insuring you are sending to a valid e-mail address hosted by our servers.

We recommend using the dnstools at DNSStuff.com to test your domain.

Links to Other Web sites

Links from our web site are provided for your convenience. Rank1st is not responsible for the content of any third party Web site or the privacy practices of such third parties.

Questions or Whitelisting

If you have any questions or concerns about this policy or would like your domain or server whitelisted, please e-mail us at info@rank1st.com. You may also contact us by postal mail at Rank1st Technology Services, 30762 Tern Avenue, Shafer, MN 55074 or call us at (651) 465-3225. Please note, it is at the sole discrection of Rank1st Technology Services to provide assistance in troubleshooting e-mail or whitelisting a domain. Charges for troubleshooting assistance will apply.