The permission statement

On the Match your columns step, you must tick this before you go on: Everyone on this list asked to hear from me. No bought, rented, or scraped lists. It’s a promise about where the list came from. It protects every email you send afterwards.

Why it matters

People who never asked for your emails mark them as spam. Mailbox providers watch those complaints. Enough of them push your emails toward the junk folder for everyone, even the people who did ask.

A bought, rented, or scraped list is the fastest way to the junk folder. A list you built yourself, from people who signed up, is the safest thing you can send to.

What Jounce records

When you select Import subscribers, Jounce saves a record of what you agreed to. It holds the date, your sign-in email, the file’s name and row count, and your choice for existing emails. The file’s contents aren’t part of the record. If that record can’t be saved, the import doesn’t run and nothing changes.

Jounce also checks most addresses before adding them, and the rest shortly after. It sets aside a shared inbox, a throwaway address, or a domain that can’t receive mail. Why were some rows rejected? lists what it looks for.

If the later check finds that someone’s domain can’t receive mail, Jounce keeps them on your list but skips them in every send.

Where else the promise shows

When you add one person by hand, a lighter version shows under the form: Only add people who asked to hear from you.

Pasting a long list of new addresses into the Type or paste emails box while sending sends them to this screen instead. The Recipients step says those addresses go through the import screen and offers Import these addresses. That opens this same screen with the addresses already in it. So you make the same promise for a pasted list.