Crap crap crap, I was not aware of this (which now seems like common sense *facepalm at myself*). I sent an email. Will they totally hate me now?
I'm completely mortified.
To make things even worse, when I realized it wasn't appropriate I sent an apology and now I'm like "oh great, I just compounded the issue, giving this person more stupid emails to wade through when they're probably already super busy."
Pls kill me.
EDIT: just received a quick response that included "no apology necessary" but still utterly mortified