This Acceptable Usage Policy (the "Policy") governs, in addition to the Space for Me "Terms of Use Agreement", the terms of use by the ("Customer"), which is defined as any individual, web designer, or third-party consultant granted permissible access by Customer to Customer's account or Space for Me's ("Provider") servers or services.
Customer agrees when using, or accessing Provider's services that the following terms and conditions of this policy will be met:
Overview
In order to provide a high class, professional service, we have a few conditions for Customers of our service. Some of these conditions may seem strict, but they insure a safe, functional, and trusted environment for our customers to publish their information on the World Wide Web.
Some of our competitors do not require their customers to comply with such conditions. If any of our existing or potential customers are unwilling or unable to comply with these conditions, we respectfully invite them to visit one of our competitors.
Email Usage Policies
Provider does not support unsolicited email messages sent by Customers of our system (also known as junk email or SPAM). Customers sending unsolicited email messages from our system, or through other systems with messages referencing their website, will have all of their services temporarily suspended. They will then be contacted by Provider and informed of the suspension before having their services reinstated. A repeated violation may cause cancellation of service without refund of any fees.
Illegal Activities
Customers found using our system for illegal activities, including but not limited to breaking in to remote systems, credit card fraud, theft, vandalism, threats, or violence, will have their accounts immediately canceled without refund of any fees.
- Attacking services and servers provided by Provider or its customers (known as "hacking"). Activities include, but are not limited to, tricking other people into releasing their password (known as "Internet scanning," password robbery, security hole scanning, port scanning etc.).
- Unauthorized accessing or using of data, systems or networks including explore, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without authorization of the system’s or network’s owner.
- Unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic on any network or system without permission from the system or network owner.
- Interfering with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, intentional attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks.
- Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting.
Hostnames, IP Addresses
Provider will remain the sole owner of all IP network addresses within the Provider's network. Customer shall not knowingly modify any TCP/IP configuration that will conflict, or otherwise disrupt network service by using configurations not allocated to Customer by Provider. Best effort will be taken to maintain permanency of customer's allocated IP address, however Provider reserves the right to change customer's underlying IP network address during upgrades, security provisioning, or any other network migration service.
Web, FTP, Publishing Content Policies
Provider does not allow any of the following content, or links to such content, to be published on Provider's Hosting Systems:
- Content of a pornographic, sexually explicit, or violent nature.
- Any products or services where right is protected by the Intellectual Property law is strongly prohibited included, but not limited to, copyright, trade secret, patent, trademark, or any other intellectual property laws or regulations.
- Pirated software sites.
- Content that is associated with the distribution or delivering illegal activities included, but not limited to, illegal drugs, illegal gambling, obscene materials or any products or services that are prohibited under applicable legislation.
- "Hate sites" or content that could be reasonably considered as slanderous or libelous.
- Posting, transmitting, or allowing Internet access to information the customer desires to keep confidential.
- Distributing information related to the creation of and sending Internet viruses, worms, Trojan horses, pinging or denial of service attacks.
Customers posting any of the above content on their sites will be notified using Customer's current email address on file, and given a 48 hour grace period to make any corrective actions. If no corrective actions are taken, Provider will suspend the services of the hosting account until a resolution is met between Provider and Customer. A repeated violation of this Policy may cause cancellation of service without refund of any fees.
Provider offers generous amounts of disk space, and network bandwidth. Customer is not permitted to knowingly allow another website or hosting server to link to content files stored on Provider's servers. Customer may not use hosting account as a remote storage server only. 80% of customer's content files stored on Provider's server must have associated text file document (i.e. HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and/or CSS) inside the account linking to the content stored on that account.
Violations of any of the above activities are strongly prohibited and may result in criminal and civil liability. Provider reserves the right to investigate any incidents involving such violations and will fully cooperate with law enforcement authority if any illegal activity is suspected. Violation may also result in the immediate termination or suspension of the services you receive from Provider. You shall solely liable and responsible for your use of the services and any and all content that you display, upload, download or transmit through the use of our services. "Content" includes, but is not limited to, any of the following: your e-mail, web pages, personal home pages, and domain names. It is Provider’s policy to terminate repeat infringers and we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone at any time.
Violators of the Policy are responsible, without limitations, for the cost of labor to clean up and correct any damage done to the operation of the network and business operations supported by the network, and to respond to complaints incurred by Provider. Labor is categorized as emergency security breach recovery and is currently charged at USD $200 per hour.
Sanctions
Sanctions for violating the Policy may include but are not limited to one or more of the following:
- A fine of $100 per complaint
- Immediate suspension of services without refund
- Immediate cancellation of account without refund
- Turning over evidence to law enforcement authorities
- Billing for actual hours of labor involved in investigating a problem caused by the violator
Disclaimer
Provider disclaims any obligation to monitor its customers and other users with respect to violations of this Policy. Provider has no liability or responsibility for the actions of any of its customers or other users or any content any user may post on any website.
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