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The proposed consent order has been 

placed on the public record for thirty 

(30) days for receipt of comments by 

interested persons. Comments received 

during this period will become part of 

the public record. After thirty days, the 

Commission will again review the 

agreement and the comments received, 

and will decide whether it should 

withdraw from the agreement and take 

appropriate action or make final the 

agreement’s proposed order. 

This matter concerns alleged false or 

misleading representations that AIM 

made to consumers concerning its 

participation in the Safe Harbor privacy 

framework agreed upon by the U.S. and 

the European Union (‘‘EU’’) (‘‘U.S.-EU 

Safe Harbor Framework’’). The U.S.-EU 

Safe Harbor Framework allows U.S. 

companies to transfer data outside the 

EU consistent with European law. To 

join the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor 

Framework, a company must self-certify 

to the U.S. Department of Commerce 

(‘‘Commerce’’) that it complies with a 

set of principles and related 

requirements that have been deemed by 

the European Commission as providing 

‘‘adequate’’ privacy protection. These 

principles include notice, choice, 

onward transfer, security, data integrity, 

access, and enforcement. Commerce 

maintains a public Web site, 

www.export.gov/safeharbor, where it 

posts the names of companies that have 

self-certified to the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor 

Framework. The listing of companies 

indicates whether their self-certification 

is ‘‘current’’ or ‘‘not current.’’ 

Companies are required to re-certify 

every year in order to retain their status 

as ‘‘current’’ members of the U.S.-EU 

Safe Harbor Framework. 

American International Mailing 

provides a service for transporting mail, 

parcels, and freight worldwide. 

According to the Commission’s 

complaint, AIM has set forth on its Web 

site, www.aimmailing.com/ 

privacy.html, privacy policies and 

statements about its practices, including 

statements related to its participation in 

the U.S-EU Safe Harbor Framework. 

The Commission’s complaint alleges 

that American International Mailing 

falsely represented that it was a 

‘‘current’’ participant in the U.S.-EU 

Safe Harbor Framework when, in fact, 

from May 2010 until January 2015, AIM 

was not a ‘‘current’’ participant in the 

U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework. The 

Commission’s complaint alleges that in 

May 2006, American International 

Mailing submitted its self-certification 

to the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework. 

AIM did not renew its self-certification 

in May 2010 and Commerce 

subsequently updated American 

International Mailing’s status to ‘‘not 

current’’ on its public Web site. In 

January 2015, American International 

Mailing removed its Safe Harbor 

representation from its Web site privacy 

policy. 

Part I of the proposed order prohibits 

American International Mailing from 

making misrepresentations about its 

membership in any privacy or security 

program sponsored by the government 

or any other self-regulatory or standardsetting organization, including, but not 

limited to, the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor 

Framework and the U.S.-Swiss Safe 

Harbor Framework. 

Parts II through VI of the proposed 

order are reporting and compliance 

provisions. Part II requires American 

International Mailing to retain 

documents relating to its compliance 

with the order for a five-year period. 

Part III requires dissemination of the 

order now and in the future to persons 

with responsibilities relating to the 

subject matter of the order. Part IV 

ensures notification to the FTC of 

changes in corporate status. Part V 

mandates that American International 

Mailing submit an initial compliance 

report to the FTC, and make available to 

the FTC subsequent reports. Part VI is 

a provision ‘‘sunsetting’’ the order after 

twenty (20) years, with certain 

exceptions. 

The purpose of this analysis is to 

facilitate public comment on the 

proposed order. It is not intended to 

constitute an official interpretation of 

the proposed complaint or order or to 

modify the order’s terms in any way. 

By direction of the Commission. 

Donald S. Clark, 

Secretary. 

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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

[File No. 132 3084] 

Network Solutions, LLC; Analysis of 

Proposed Consent Order To Aid Public 

Comment 

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed consent agreement. 

SUMMARY: The consent agreement in this 

matter settles alleged violations of 

federal law prohibiting unfair or 

deceptive acts or practices. The attached 

Analysis to Aid Public Comment 

describes both the allegations in the 

draft complaint and the terms of the 

consent order—embodied in the consent 

agreement—that would settle these 

allegations. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before May 7, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a 

comment at https://ftcpublic.comment

works.com/ftc/networksolutionsconsent 

online or on paper, by following the 

instructions in the Request for Comment 

part of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

section below. Write ‘‘Network 

Solutions, LLC—Consent Agreement; 

File No. 132 3084’’ on your comment 

and file your comment online at https:// 

ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/

networksolutionsconsent by following 

the instructions on the web-based form. 

If you prefer to file your comment on 

paper, write ‘‘Network Solutions, LLC— 

Consent Agreement; File No. 132 3084’’ 

on your comment and on the envelope, 

and mail your comment to the following 

address: Federal Trade Commission, 

Office of the Secretary, 600 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Suite CC– 

5610 (Annex D), Washington, DC 20580, 

or deliver your comment to the 

following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW., 

5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex D), 

Washington, DC 20024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Evans, Bureau of Consumer 

Protection, (202) 326–2026, 600 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20580. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to Section 6(f) of the Federal Trade 

Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and 

FTC Rule 2.34, 16 CFR 2.34, notice is 

hereby given that the above-captioned 

consent agreement containing consent 

order to cease and desist, having been 

filed with and accepted, subject to final 

approval, by the Commission, has been 

placed on the public record for a period 

of thirty (30) days. The following 

Analysis to Aid Public Comment 

describes the terms of the consent 

agreement, and the allegations in the 

complaint. An electronic copy of the 

full text of the consent agreement 

package can be obtained from the FTC 

Home Page (for April 7, 2015), on the 

World Wide Web at: http://www.ftc.gov/ 

os/actions.shtm. 

You can file a comment online or on 

paper. For the Commission to consider 

your comment, we must receive it on or 

before May 7, 2015. Write ‘‘Network 

Solutions, LLC—Consent Agreement; 

File No. 132 3084’’ on your comment. 

Your comment—including your name 

and your state—will be placed on the 

public record of this proceeding, 

including, to the extent practicable, on 

the public Commission Web site, at 

http://www.ftc.gov/os/

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1 In particular, the written request for confidential 

treatment that accompanies the comment must 

include the factual and legal basis for the request, 

and must identify the specific portions of the 

comment to be withheld from the public record. See 

FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c). 

discretion, the Commission tries to 

remove individuals’ home contact 

information from comments before 

placing them on the Commission Web 

site. 

Because your comment will be made 

public, you are solely responsible for 

making sure that your comment does 

not include any sensitive personal 

information, like anyone’s Social 

Security number, date of birth, driver’s 

license number or other state 

identification number or foreign country 

equivalent, passport number, financial 

account number, or credit or debit card 

number. You are also solely responsible 

for making sure that your comment does 

not include any sensitive health 

information, like medical records or 

other individually identifiable health 

information. In addition, do not include 

any ‘‘[t]rade secret or any commercial or 

financial information which . . . is 

privileged or confidential,’’ as discussed 

in Section 6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 

46(f), and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR 

4.10(a)(2). In particular, do not include 

competitively sensitive information 

such as costs, sales statistics, 

inventories, formulas, patterns, devices, 

manufacturing processes, or customer 

names. 

If you want the Commission to give 

your comment confidential treatment, 

you must file it in paper form, with a 

request for confidential treatment, and 

you have to follow the procedure 

explained in FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 

4.9(c).1 Your comment will be kept 

confidential only if the FTC General 

Counsel, in his or her sole discretion, 

grants your request in accordance with 

the law and the public interest. 

Postal mail addressed to the 

Commission is subject to delay due to 

heightened security screening. As a 

result, we encourage you to submit your 

comments online. To make sure that the 

Commission considers your online 

comment, you must file it at https://

ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/

networksolutionsconsent by following 

the instructions on the Web-based form. 

If this Notice appears at http://

www.regulations.gov/#!home, you also 

may file a comment through that Web 

site. 

If you file your comment on paper, 

write ‘‘Network Solutions, LLC— 

Consent Agreement; File No. 132 3084’’ 

on your comment and on the envelope, 

and mail your comment to the following 

address: Federal Trade Commission, 

Office of the Secretary, 600 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Suite CC– 

5610 (Annex D), Washington, DC 20580, 

or deliver your comment to the 

following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW., 

5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex D), 

Washington, DC 20024. If possible, 

submit your paper comment to the 

Commission by courier or overnight 

service. 

Visit the Commission Web site at 

http://www.ftc.gov to read this Notice 

and the news release describing it. The 

FTC Act and other laws that the 

Commission administers permit the 

collection of public comments to 

consider and use in this proceeding as 

appropriate. The Commission will 

consider all timely and responsive 

public comments that it receives on or 

before May 7, 2015. You can find more 

information, including routine uses 

permitted by the Privacy Act, in the 

Commission’s privacy policy, at http:// 

www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm. 

Analysis of Proposed Consent Order To 

Aid Public Comment 

The Federal Trade Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) has accepted, subject to 

final approval, an agreement containing 

a consent order from Network Solutions, 

LLC (‘‘Network Solutions’’). The 

Commission has placed the proposed 

Order on the public record for thirty 

days for receipt of comments by 

interested persons. Comments received 

during this period will become part of 

the public record. After thirty days, the 

Commission will again review the 

agreement and the comments received, 

and will decide whether it should 

withdraw from the agreement and take 

appropriate action or make final the 

agreement’s proposed Order. 

Network Solutions advertises and 

sells web hosting services. The 

company’s web hosting services allow 

customers to make Web pages available 

on the internet by storing their Web 

page information, including 

programming code, images, and videos, 

on Web servers owned or leased by 

Network Solutions, and by providing 

the technology and internet connectivity 

required to serve the Web pages on the 

internet. Network Solutions has sold its 

web hosting services subject to a thirtyday money back guarantee. It has 

advertised that guarantee on its Web 

site. 

The Commission’s proposed 

Complaint alleges that Network 

Solutions failed to disclose adequately 

that its web hosting thirty-day money 

back guarantee could be subject to a 

cancellation fee. This cancellation fee 

was sometimes a substantial portion of 

the purchase price. Network Solutions 

did not disclose the cancellation fee on 

its Web pages advertising the guarantee. 

Instead, at the bottom of those Web 

pages, Network Solutions included a 

hyperlink to ‘‘Terms and Conditions’’ 

for the guarantee. This link often 

appeared in smaller print than the rest 

of the Web page and sometimes also 

appeared in blue text against a black 

background. The link opened a pop-up 

window that disclosed the existence of 

the cancellation fee. The Commission’s 

proposed Complaint alleges that, 

coupled with the triggering 

representation that it offers a thirty-day 

money back guarantee, Network 

Solutions’ failure to disclose adequately 

the cancellation fee is a deceptive act or 

practice under Section 5 of the FTC Act. 

The proposed Order contains 

provisions designed to prevent Network 

Solutions from engaging in the same or 

similar acts or practices in the future. 

Section I of the proposed Order requires 

Network Solutions to clearly and 

conspicuously disclose the material 

terms of any money back guarantees 

applicable to Web hosting services, 

including the existence and amount of 

any fee applicable to money-back 

guarantees. It also requires Network 

Solutions to refund the full purchase 

price of Web hosting sold under a 

money back guarantee, in response to a 

request that complies with the terms of 

that guarantee, unless any applicable 

fees are disclosed clearly and 

conspicuously. Section II of the 

proposed Order broadly prohibits 

misrepresentations with regard to 

refund or cancellation policies or any 

other material fact concerning the Web 

hosting services that Network Solutions 

offers or sells. Sections III through VI of 

the proposed Order are standard 

reporting and compliance provisions 

that allow the Commission to better 

monitor Network Solutions’ ongoing 

compliance with the Order. Under 

Section VII, the Order will expire in 

twenty years, with certain exceptions. 

The purpose of this analysis is to aid 

public comment on the proposed Order. 

It is not intended to constitute an 

official interpretation of the Complaint 

or proposed Order, or to modify in any 

way the proposed Order’s terms. 

By direction of the Commission. 

Donald S. Clark, 

Secretary. 

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