World Dating Partners (WDP) is the Trade Name of Datech Limited a UK registered company. World Dating Partners creates, hosts and maintains various online dating and adult contact sites around the world, and as such this site is here to help and maintain part of the service you are registered to.

E-Mail Policy

WDP use mailing a system to send news to our subscribers and notifications about changes of user status, payment notifications and information about new profiles, messages from other users and support.

WDP use five domains for sending e-mails: wdpregistration.com, wdpinfo.com, wdpcupid.com, wdpsystem.com and wdpbusiness.com. The domain wdpregistration.com is mostly used for user registration and activation and for sending notifications from payment systems. The domain wdpcupid.com is used for sending notifications. Newsletters are sent from wdpinfo.com and wdpbusiness.com is used for correspondence with partners and wdpsystem.com.

World Dating Partners (Datech Limited) strictly forbids the use of spam from any of its subscribers or users and does not send unsolicited e-mails to anyone without the prior consent of the individual concerned. For the purpose of clarity spam shall be defined as any unsolicited commercial e-mail sent to third parties that has no existing relationship or permission to be sent e-mails for the purpose of promoting or generating business, or traffic, promoting any idea, harassing anyone for any reason, etc. especially but not limited to being via bulk e-mail.

Our e mails adhere to the requirements of CAN-SPAM which can be found here: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/canspam.htm

We send e-mails only to users that send us a subscribe request.

We provide a return e-mail address and web link that allows a recipient to ask not to send future e-mail messages to that e-mail address and we honor the unsubscribe requests as fast as we honor subscribe requests. Unsubscription requires a maximum of 3 days in some cases.

E-mail headers ("From," "To", routing information including the originating domain name and e-mail address) are accurate and identify the person who initiated the e-mail or mailing list. The “Subject” line does not mislead the recipient about the contents or subject matter of the message. Unsolicited messages and sexually explicit messages are labeled appropriately.

If you believe you have received any unsolicited e-mails from this website or have problems to unsubscribe to any newsletter please contact us at contacts@datech.ltd.uk and we will use our best efforts to help you.

Where it is possible we are subscribed to Complaint Feedback Loop program (like AOL-FBL) to get info about complaints. Users that complaint our mails as Bulk are automatically unsubscribed from the list.

Bounced e-mail addresses are being deactivated. Users are provided with web page where they can check their current mailing status.

E-mail servers have valid reverse DNS records. There are no connections from dynamic IP space.

We use e-mail authentication technologies like SPF and DomainKeys, to show user that the e-mail is legitimately from our mail servers.

DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) lets an organization take responsibility for a message while it is in transit. The organization is a handler of the message, either as its originator or as an intermediary. Their reputation is the basis for evaluating whether to trust the message for delivery. Technically DKIM provides a method for validating a domain name identity that is associated with a message through cryptographic authentication.

Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an extension to the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). SPF allows software to identify and reject forged addresses in the SMTP MAIL FROM (Return-Path), a typical nuisance in e-mail spam. SPF is defined in RFC 4408.

We make large effort to secure our mail servers and prevent open proxies, open relays, broken formal scripts, and other insecure servers.

It should be noted that due to the nature of SMTP protocol used for mail delivery, sending mail does not guarantee delivery to the recipient. Messages can be returned or even dropped during delivery. Further they can not be delivered if the recipient does not want to receive it or consider it as a spam or has misconfigured software. SMTP provides mechanisms to inform sender if message has reached recipient or there have been problems with delivery that would work in most of the cases.

Whitelisting

Many email service providers and internet service providers have SPAM filters to keep out the unsolicited email. Due to the volume of users we have, WDP send vast amounts of email. This occasionally causes email service providers to interpret our emails as SPAM.

To make sure that you can receive our email you can "whitelist" emails from WDP. Whitelisting means that you set up your email software to accept incoming email from a specific email address or domain and therefore overriding your mail service provider's SPAM filter.

WDP uses several email addresses for communication with users. Therefore, the most effective way to make sure that you receive our email is to whitelist the entire domain. Depending on the exact email service or program you are using whitelisting a domain may be done by entering something like one of the following for every domain:

wdpregistration.com
@wdpregistration.com
*wdpregistration.com

In the event that your email service or program cannot whitelist entire domains we would suggest you add these individual addresses to your whitelist:

alert@wdpcupid.com
alert@wdpinfo.com
mail@wdpcupid.com
news@wdpbusiness.com
welcome@wdpbusiness.com
welcome@wdpregistration.com
welcome@wdpsystem.com

Since every email system is different we have included whitelisting instructions for a few popular email service providers.

Appendix.

Whitelisting instructions for popular providers and programs

AOL

AOL (version 9.0 or higher)

In AOL, you can add the WDP address to the "People I Know" list. To add the address,

• Copy the "from" address from the latest WDP mail. (or you can copy the addresses listed above).
• Select the Mail menu and select Address Book.
• In the pop up box, select Add.
• Paste the copied address/type the address required in the Other email field.
• Make the newly added address the "Primary email address" by checking the checkbox.
• Select Save.

AOL (version 7.0 or 8.0)

• Select Mail in the Menu on the top of the screen.
• Select Mail Controls.
• The Mail Control Screen would be displayed. Select Next.
• Select Customize Mail Controls for this Screen Name and click Next.

Version 8.0

• You can select "Allow email from all AOL members, email addresses and domains" (allows all emails).
• Select Next until the Save button shows up at the bottom.
• Select Save.

Version 7.0

• In the exclusion and inclusion parameters, include WDP domains.

Yahoo!Mail

You can ask Yahoo to filter mails from FreePatentsOnline to your inbox.

• Open Yahoo! mailbox.
• Select Mail Options.
• Select Filters.
• Click Add Filter.
• In the top row, labeled From Header, select contains from the pull down menu. Enter the WDP address in the text box next to the pull down menu. (you can either give a specific WDP email address or whitelist the domain: @wdpregistration.com or *wdpregistration.com).
• Move down to the bottom where there is the option Move the message to. Select inbox from the pull down menu.
• Select Add Filter button once again.

Hotmail

To whitelist us in Hotmail, you can add our email address to your Safe List. For that,

• Access your Hotmail mailbox.
• Select Options from the top right (next to Help).
• Select Junk e-Mail Protection (the first link).
• Select Safe List.
• In the space provided, enter the WDP address (you can either enter a specific email address or use *wdpregistration.com or @ wdpregistration.com to whitelist the domain).
• Select Add.
• Ensure the safe list box has the address you entered, and select Ok.

You can also add the FreePatentsOnline email address to your contact list:

• Open the most recent email from us.
• Select the Save Address button (to the right in the line of options above the email).
• Click Ok.

Gmail

To ensure that you receive WDP mails in your inbox, you can add the WDP address to your contact list. And, If one of our mails has been moved to the spam folder, you can mark them Not Spam, to whitelist it.

• Open the latest issue of the e-mail you want to whitelist.
• There would be a few drop down options just after the date on the right hand side.
  Select Add sender to contact list.

Alternatively,

• Select contacts from the options on the left side of the Gmail Inbox.
• Select Create Contact on the top menu.
• Enter the WDP address in the primary email box.
• Select Save.

If one of our mails has been by mistake moved to the spam folder, you can prevent it happening by:

• Selecting the Spam link - to open the spam folder.
• Open the wrongly filtered WDP mail.
• Select the Not Spam button at the top of the email (right next to the delete forever).

MSN

In MSN, to whitelist our mails, you can add our mail addresses to your Safe List. This is how you do that:

• Select Settings: Email | Junk e-mail (bottom left, just above Calendar).
• From the E-mail settings screen, select Junk E-mail Guard.
• Select Safe List.
• Enter the FreePatentsOnline address (you can either enter a specific email address or use *wdpregistration.com or @wdpregistration.com to whitelist the domain) in the text box provided for Add people to safe list.
• Select Add.

Outlook 2003 or higher

If you are using Outlook 2003 or higher for your emails, you can whitelist by:

• Open the email.
• From the list of emails, right click on the sender's email address.
• Select Add sender to Address book.
• Click Save and close.

For domain whitelisting,

• Open email.
• Select the drop down arrow after Contacts in the contacts section (left-hand side, below Folders).
• Select New Contact.
• In the E-mail addresses box, enter *@wdpregistration.com .
• Select Add and click OK.

Norton AntiSpam

AntiSpam works along with Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape and Yahoo, MSN/Hotmail to block spam mails before it reaches your inbox. To make sure FreePatentsOnline mails reach you, you can add us to your Personal Friends list or Global Friends list. Here is how you can do that:

• Start Norton AntiSpam, select Status & Settings tab.
• Select AntiSpam.
• Select Configure button - right hand side bottom of the screen.
• Select Allowed List tab - second tab on the list of tabs.
• Select Add.
• Enter WDP address in the Email address box.
• Select Ok.

McAfee Spamkiller

The McAfee Spamkiller works with Outlook, Outlook Express, Outlook 98, MSN/Hotmail to block spams. To whitelist WDP mails,

• Select Friends tab.
• Select Email Address tab.
• Select the down arrow to view Personal Friends List.
• Select Add a Friend from the right hand side.
• In the address box, add the WDP address (the specific email address), and select
• Single e-mail address as type, and Add.
• Select Domains.
• In the address box, enter wdpregistration.com, choose "all users at domain" as type and click Add.
• Select Save.
• Repeat procedure with other WDP domains.

Spam Assassin

In Spam Assassin, you can whitelist WDP in the User Preferences. To whitelist,

• Find the spamassassin folder from your hard drive, and open it.
• There would be a file named user_prefs. Open it with a text editor (for e.g. Notepad). If there is no such file, create it.
• Make a new line in the file. On that line, enter whitelist_from, followed by the WDP address that you wish to whitelist. To whitelist the domain, enter @wdpregistration.com (and other WDP domains).
• Save and close the file.