I have spent some time here viewing but have never posted - I am the VP of Operations for teamr.com who produces MyScoutLink and I wanted to clear the air on a few points. I thought it was important for me to join this discussion after viewing wallyn's post below so that I could clarify our practices for everyone involved. SPAM is something we take extremely seriously, as is the security of our users information.
Here is what we will send to our users...After signing up for an account we send a 5 day follow-up email offering assistance and thanking users for joining, and each month we send an email newsletter highlighting our software upgrades and other projects. This newsletter only goes to the account organizer/troop leader, not to the scouts, and recipients can unsubscribe from this list either through the link at the bottom of the email or by going to their My Account screen. That's it! The only communications sent to anyone other than the person who signed up for the account are the reminder emails as determined by the group leader. We do not send advertising emails to your group members.
wallyn I apologize if you feel you are being SPAMed and would very much like to hear from you if your experience differs from what I have described above. I would also like everyone to know that Free users can send unlimited SMS (text) and Email Messages to their group members and the system will generate automatic reminders to all members if you tell it to do so. Additionally, free users can create their own webpage (password protected if they wish), generate surveys, use our project manager, and upload up to 20MB of documents, photos, etc to be stored online. Pay members have access to a few additional functions, but close to 99% of the site's functionality is available for free.
I had not posted previously because I did not want to use this forum for promotion of our product, and I will not do so in the future. However, if anyone has any questions or concerns with the MyScoutLink system I can be reached directly at doug@teamr.com.
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Hello everyone,
I have spent some time here viewing but have never posted - I am the VP of Operations for teamr.com who produces MyScoutLink and I wanted to clear the air on a few points. I thought it was important for me to join this discussion after viewing wallyn's post below so that I could clarify our practices for everyone involved. SPAM is something we take extremely seriously, as is the security of our users information.
Here is what we will send to our users...After signing up for an account we send a 5 day follow-up email offering assistance and thanking users for joining, and each month we send an email newsletter highlighting our software upgrades and other projects. This newsletter only goes to the account organizer/troop leader, not to the scouts, and recipients can unsubscribe from this list either through the link at the bottom of the email or by going to their My Account screen. That's it! The only communications sent to anyone other than the person who signed up for the account are the reminder emails as determined by the group leader. We do not send advertising emails to your group members.
wallyn I apologize if you feel you are being SPAMed and would very much like to hear from you if your experience differs from what I have described above. I would also like everyone to know that Free users can send unlimited SMS (text) and Email Messages to their group members and the system will generate automatic reminders to all members if you tell it to do so. Additionally, free users can create their own webpage (password protected if they wish), generate surveys, use our project manager, and upload up to 20MB of documents, photos, etc to be stored online. Pay members have access to a few additional functions, but close to 99% of the site's functionality is available for free.
I had not posted previously because I did not want to use this forum for promotion of our product, and I will not do so in the future. However, if anyone has any questions or concerns with the MyScoutLink system I can be reached directly at doug@teamr.com.
Thanks for your time and consideration
Doug Feeney