User Being Unsubscribed Unwillingly

[JordinL4]

One of the members at my club calls me every few days saying he isn't receiving the emails, when I go to check his subscription, it shows that he is unsubscribed. We've gone back and forth with me resubscribing him, I thought it was a user error, but it's become clear he isn't unsubscribing from our emails willingly. He has a Comcast email address. I've tried contacting Constant Contact directly regarding this issue, and I haven't been given much help on how to fix this problem for good. I now have a second member with an Outlook email address with the SAME issue. Please help, I don't have time to troubleshoot these types of issues daily. Thank you in advance!

[JordinL4]

Hello @JordinL4 ,

If you're noticing unusual unsubscribe activity, there's a few things to check:

1. Check with the contacts to see if they're forwarding the emails. Unsubscribe links in footers are coded for the original recipient, so if they forward it and the forwardee explicitly confirms the actual contact's email address on the unsubscription confirmation page, we're forced to honor it for legal and compliance reasons. If this is your situation, I'd recommend you strongly encourage your forwarding contacts to stop doing so in general. If there's others who want to receive your emails, they can subscribe directly to you.
2. Have the affected contact(s) check their email program's settings. Some email programs are set to automatically unsubscribe them from emails after X amount of deletions without opening, for example. The contact would want to check their email program settings to see if they have anything that'd auto-unsub them for any reason, and consider turning that off.
3. Check any programs you have connected with your Constant Contact account. If you're running an integration, especially one developed outside of our system, that syncs a contact database with your CTCT account, then they would also potentially have the ability to manage your lists. This includes deleting contacts from your CTCT account, unsubscribing them, changing contact details like name and physical address, and other such management.

[William_A]

Hello @JordinL4 ,

If you're noticing unusual unsubscribe activity, there's a few things to check:

1. Check with the contacts to see if they're forwarding the emails. Unsubscribe links in footers are coded for the original recipient, so if they forward it and the forwardee explicitly confirms the actual contact's email address on the unsubscription confirmation page, we're forced to honor it for legal and compliance reasons. If this is your situation, I'd recommend you strongly encourage your forwarding contacts to stop doing so in general. If there's others who want to receive your emails, they can subscribe directly to you.
2. Have the affected contact(s) check their email program's settings. Some email programs are set to automatically unsubscribe them from emails after X amount of deletions without opening, for example. The contact would want to check their email program settings to see if they have anything that'd auto-unsub them for any reason, and consider turning that off.
3. Check any programs you have connected with your Constant Contact account. If you're running an integration, especially one developed outside of our system, that syncs a contact database with your CTCT account, then they would also potentially have the ability to manage your lists. This includes deleting contacts from your CTCT account, unsubscribing them, changing contact details like name and physical address, and other such management.