Code of Ethics and Anti-Spam

Portuguese Song Lyrics Web Site

We at PortugueseSongLyrics.com don't like spam. We neither practice it nor can tolerate it in other sites. We do believe that the Internet needs to be kept as spam-free as possible so that we can all benefit from its full array of potentialities. Spamming makes the Worldwide Web a much less efficient tool. We also believe that a really ethical approach is necessary to everyone's Internet presence.

We have developed the following Code of Ethics and Anti-Spam, which we commit ourselves to abide by:

1. PortugueseSongLyrics.com shall be submitted to relevant directories and categories only. Any links exchanged with other webmasters will primarily serve the human visitors to our and their sites. No element, text or links will be cloaked. No outgoing links will be hidden from the human visitor or made invalid by means of technical tricks.

2. No keywords or keyword mispellings irrelevant to our content shall be stuffed into or next to our text. Users visiting us from a search engine should in fact find what they searched for. Misleading them to visit our site by introducing non relevant keywords is not an option. We condemn this practice by other web sites and engage not to make use of it ourselves. If and when keyword variations will be used to help searchers who accidentally mispelled a keyword in a search engine, such variations will only be produced after the legitimate keyword or keyphrase relevant to our page.

3. No indiscriminate distribution of unsolicited e-mail or newsletters will take place from PortugueseSongLyrics.com. Any newsletter or similar device will indeed include a voluntary subscription form, and sending will be limited to those people who did subscribe, while an unsubscribe option will also be available and easy to use from the very newsletter so that users can decide to cancel reception without any further disturbance. E-mail colected will never be sold or given to others.

4. Any advertisements at PortugueseSongLyrics.com will be placed in a way designed to be clearly perceived as advertising by the visitors.

5. Any data collected from the users shall be kept secret and used solely for the purposes mentioned in the web site at the moment of collection of such data. Text and other elements submitted to the web site by the public shall be monitored to make sure that these rules and the web site's quality of content are preserved. Particularly, no adult oriented materials shall be accepted as the web site is open to anyone including minors.

We welcome your comments and suggestions on this Code of Ethics and Anti-Spam. If you see any text or other element in PortugueseSongLyrics.com which in your opinion does not meet these rules, please send us an urgent e-mail and we shall immediately review the specific item. Please bear in mind that this web site is contributed by many people, including members of the general public. Therefore your help is crucial to identify and eliminate any breach of our Code of Ethics and Anti-Spam.