| Acceptable Uses Policy
The Internet is intended for use by
mature adults (and by minors when supervised by mature adults). Our customers
are expected to use the Internet with respect, courtesy, and responsibility,
giving due regard to the rights of other Internet users. The customer is
expected to have a basic knowledge of how the Internet functions, the types
of use which are generally acceptable, and the types of use which are to
be avoided. Common sense is the best guide as to what is considered acceptable
use. The following are unacceptable uses:
Illegality in any form, including
but not limited to activities such as unauthorized distribution or copying
of copyrighted software, violation of U.S. export restrictions, harassment,
fraud, trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing, and other illegal
activities.
Net abuse, including but not
limited to activities such as using a non-existent email return address
on a commercial solicitation, spamming (sending unsolicited advertising
to numerous email addresses or newsgroups and/or generating a significantly
higher volume of outgoing email than a normal user), allowing spamming
by third parties to promote a web site hosted by us, trolling (posting
outrageous messages to generate numerous responses), mailbombing (sending
multiple messages without significant new content to the same user), subscribing
someone else to a mailing list without that person's permission, cross-posting
articles to an excessive number of newsgroups, or attempting without authorization
to enter into a secured computer system. We reserves the right to determine
what constitutes net abuse.
Tortuous conduct, including
but not limited to posting of defamatory, scandalous, or private information
about a person without their consent, intentionally inflicting emotional
distress, or violating trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property
rights.
Misuse of system resources,
including but not limited to employing posts or programs which consume
excessive CPU time or storage space; permitting use of mail services, mail
forwarding capabilities, POP accounts, or autoresponders other than for
the customer's own account; resale of access to CGI scripts installed on
our servers; or attempting to use a single customer account for third party
web sites by allowing more than one domain pointer to be used to reference
pages within the customer's site. |