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16 CFR 316.5: Prohibition on charging a fee or imposing other requirements on recipients who wish to opt out.

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  1. Title 16—Commercial Practices
  2. CHAPTER I—FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
  3. SUBCHAPTER C—REGULATIONS UNDER SPECIFIC ACTS OF CONGRESS
  4. PART 316—CAN-SPAM RULE

Neither a sender nor any person acting on behalf of a sender may require that any recipient pay any fee, provide any information other than the recipient's electronic mail address and opt-out preferences, or take any other steps except sending a reply electronic mail message or visiting a single Internet Web page, in order to:

(a) Use a return electronic mail address or other Internet-based mechanism, required by 15 U.S.C. 7704(a)(3), to submit a request not to receive future commercial electronic mail messages from a sender; or

(b) Have such a request honored as required by 15 U.S.C. 7704(a)(3)(B) and (a)(4).

Collected 2026-08-27T02:24:29Z. Source file · JSON

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