Acceptable Use Policy

Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

Failure to observe the guidelines set forth in this Accepable Use Polict (AUP) can result in anything from a warning to a suspension of privileges or termination of your Service. Decisions of the Company are final. The Company may refer potential violations of laws to the proper authorities, will cooperate in the investigation of any suspected criminal or civil wrong, and will cooperate with authorities when required to do so by law, subpoena, or when the public safety is at stake. The Company assumes no obligation to inform a Business or an End User that information has been provided and, in some cases, may be prohibited by law from giving such notice.

General Use Policy

In this Policy, "Service(s)" refers to any Internet service (eg: Dial-up or DSL Internet access and web hosting,) and/or Telephony (eg: fixed wire, mobile or Voice over IP) or similar services that you may be provided by the Company to you. This Policy is intended to provide you with a set of guidelines you must follow in your use of your account. You are responsible for avoiding the prohibited activities and following the Policy set forth herein. Violations of this Policy, and therefore the Terms and Conditions of use, may result in action including, but not limited to fines, or suspension or termination of your account.

The Company will not, as an ordinary practice, proactively monitor all the activities of those who use its Services to ensure that its users comply with this Policy and/or the law. If the Company is alerted to violations or potential violations of this Policy, the Company will take whatever measures it deems necessary to stop or prevent those violations, including the actions described in this Policy.

The following is a list of guidelines for using your Internet related Services. This Policy is a guideline and is not an inclusive listing of prohibited conduct.

Abuse of Email/Spamming

The Service you are receiving from the Company may include the ability to send and receive electronic mail. Use of your electronic mail account to send unsolicited commercial messages is prohibited. Mass electronic messages or "mail-bombing" (sending mass unsolicited mail or deliberately sending very large attachments to one recipient) are prohibited. Forging electronic mail headers (addresses) is also prohibited regardless of commercial content. Use of electronic mail to harass or intimidate others is prohibited.

Spamming, sending large numbers of unsolicited commercial email messages or unsolicited bulk email to advertise, offer, sell, or buy any goods or services, for any business or individual, is strictly prohibited. In response to a complaint, the Company has the discretion to determine, from all of the evidence it receives, whether the intended recipients were from an "opt-in" email list.

You are also prohibited from sending the same or substantially similar unsolicited email message, whether commercial or not, to fifty (50) or more recipients.

In the interest of maintaining network performance, you should not send unreasonably large electronic mail attachments. You are prohibited from running programs designed to defeat network inactivity time-outs and maintaining an open SMTP relay is prohibited.

Facilitating a Violation of this AUP

You are strictly prohibited from advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available any software, program, product, or service that is designed to violate or facilitate a violation of this AUP. This includes the facilitation of the means to spam, initiation of pinging, flooding, mailbombing, denial of service attacks, and piracy of software.

Illegal Activity/Tortious Conduct

Any activity on the Company network that is a violation of any State or Federal law is a violation of this policy. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to: transmitting obscene materials; intentionally spreading computer viruses; gaining unauthorized access to private networks; engaging in the transmission of pirated software; conducting or participating in illegal gambling, soliciting for illegal pyramid schemes through electronic mail or USENET postings.

You are strictly prohibited from using the Service in a manner that:

violates rules, regulations and policies applicable to any network, server, computer database, web site or ISP that you access through the Service;
violates any law, regulation, treaty or tariff; · is defamatory, fraudulent, indecent, offensive or deceptive;

threatens, harasses, abuses, or intimidates others;
damages the name or reputation of the Company, its affiliates or subsidiaries; or
to create or attempt to utilize a domain name that is defamatory, fraudulent, indecent, offensive, deceptive, threatening, abusive, harassing, or which damages the name or reputation of the Company.

Interference with Other Customers Use

You are prohibited from using the Service in a manner that interferes with other customers' use and enjoyment of the Services provided by the Company.

Internet Relay Chat Rules

Although the Company does not offer software or technical support for Internet Relay Chat (IRC), you may use your account to connect to IRC servers and networks maintained by third parties. Please remember that you are a guest when you make use of these facilities. It is particularly important that you do not engage in activities that might interfere with other customers' access to IRC.

You shall not use IRC scripts or programs that interfere with or deny service to other users on any other server, host, network, or channel.
You shall not engage in activities that harass other users. This includes, but is not limited to, "flooding" (rapidly entering text with the intent to disrupt service), "flashing" (disrupting terminal emulation), "takeovers" (improper seizing and abuse of operator privileges), attempting to send private messages to those who do not wish to receive them, attempting to return to a channel after being banned from it, and other disruptive behaviors.
You shall not attempt to impersonate other users. The use of nicknames does not necessarily constitute impersonation.
You shall not run "clones" (multiple, simultaneous IRC connections) and/or "robots".

Newsgroups/USENET Postings and Chat Rooms Abuse

The Service you have purchased may give you access to thousands of USENET news groups. These USENET groups allow you to read and post articles on a variety of topics. USENET groups may be moderated or un-moderated. Groups may also have a charter that describes what posts are appropriate.

Posting commercial messages to a USENET group is a violation of this policy unless that specific USENET group has invited commercial postings in its charter. If you are unable to find a group's charter, or the charter does not address commercial posts, you must assume that commercial posting to that group is not welcome.

Posting off-topic articles or articles that are not related to that group's subject matter as defined in the newsgroup's charter are also not welcomed. Cross-posting identical postings to over five USENET groups, posting for the purpose of threatening, harassing or intimidating USENET group users and forging USENET post header information are also prohibited activities.

The Company does not censor or the control content posted to a USENET group. As a user of our Service, you are solely responsible for the content that you publish.

You are also prohibited from abusing chat rooms. Such abuse includes, but is not limited to, scrolling (repeatedly entering either meaningless characters, three or more repeated blank lines, the same text three or more times, or consistently repeating text in a Chat room).

Network Security

It is your responsibility to ensure the security of your own network. You are responsible for ensuring that your customers and users use the Services in an appropriate manner. You are required to take all necessary steps to manage the use of the Services obtained from the Company in such a way that network abuse is minimized.

Violations of system or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability. The Copany will investigate incidents involving such violations and will cooperate with law enforcement if a criminal violation is suspected.

Examples of system or network security violations include, but are not limited to the following:

Failing to secure your system against abuse. You are responsible for configuring and securing your services to prevent the disruption of service to other customers. You will be held liable if unknown third parties utilize your Services at any time for the purpose of illegally distributing licensed software. It is your responsibility to monitor these services. Examples of unsecured services would be use of SMTP relay, incorrect configuration of Proxy or SOCKS services, PC Anywhere, SNMP Broadcaster, FTP server. You are responsible for taking corrective actions on vulnerable or exploited systems to prevent continued abuse. It is your responsibility to insure that your network and/or computer are configured in a secure manner. You may not, through action or inaction, allow others to use your network for illegal or inappropriate uses, and/or any other disruptive, provoking, abusive behavior that is in violation of these guidelines or the Company Service agreement for the Service(s) you have purchased;
Using any software or device that allows your account to stay logged on while you are not actively using the Service or using your account for the purpose of operating a server of any type;
Uploading or distributing files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel bots, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer or property of another;
Hacking - breaking the security on any computer network or accessing an account that does not belong to you. This includes, but is not limited to, unauthorized access to, or use of, data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without express authorization of the owner of the system or network;
Unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic on any network or system without express authorization of the owner of the system or network. This would include use of sniffers or SNMP tools.

Other Activities

You are prohibited from engaging in any other activity, illegal or not, that the Company determines in its sole discretion, to be harmful to its subscribers, operations, reputation, goodwill, or customer relations.

Web hosting and Co-location Surveillance

The Company performs routine surveillance of its network. Although the Company may not proactively monitor your activities for violations of this Policy, there may be instances in which the Company, through its routine surveillance may find violations of this Policy. In those instances, the Company may act upon information obtained during routine surveillance.

Abuse

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