Emailing contacts Gathered offline

I have a large list of contacts gather from trade shows and conferences. I tried emailing a few a followup and inviting them to opt in for our newsletter and active campaign flagged my account. Can anyone make any suggestions on how to avoid this happening in the future? Active campaign is replyin quite slowly and this suspension has put our campaign behind schedule.

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You must have direct permission of every subscriber in your list to send them emails. This includes emails that you would obtain offline. If you ask people to subscribe offline (such as on a piece of paper) you must be able to provide documented proof of the subscribers giving you permission to email them. Please note that simply getting someone’s business card is not an acceptable opt-in and you cannot import or send to emails that you have obtained from business cards.