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This Acceptable Use Policy ("Policy") describes the proper
and prohibited use of Visual NetCentre's Shared Web Hosting services
("Services") as subscribed to per the Master Service Agreement.
This Policy is designed as a guideline and is not exhaustive as such.
The policy can be modified from time to time effective upon posting
on Visual NetCentre's web site. The Services allow you to develop,
publish, and display a web site, store data in a database, send
and receive e-mail messages, maintain a bulletin board through which
you can interact with the Internet users, and send and retrieve
various information.
Visual NetCentre does not monitor or censor the information you
make available or collect through the use of the Services with the
exception of systems and network resources monitoring. However,
Visual NetCentre will act upon Policy violations when such are discovered
during regular monitoring processes or reported to Visual NetCentre.
Visual NetCentre expects you, and all other users of the Services,
to take responsibility in using the Internet with courtesy and responsibility,
and be familiar with and to practice good Internet etiquette.
As consideration for Visual NetCentre's provision of Services,
you agree to abide by the following provisions relating to the acceptable
use of your Visual NetCentre account.
Visual NetCentre reserves the right in its sole discretion
to:
- Revise this Acceptable Use Policy which shall be posted at Visual
NetCentre's web site; and
- Remove any content for any reason, including but not limited
to, your violation of any conditions of this Acceptable Use Policy.
Visual NetCentre's right to remove inappropriate content under
this Policy shall not place an obligation on Visual NetCentre
to monitor or exert editorial control over the content of your
account.
You agree not to use or allow access to Visual NetCentre
services to:
- Create or maintain software download or distribution sites or
sites created for the purpose of mass distribution of software
products. A software distribution site is defined as a site on
which 50% or more of total bandwidth (data transfer) is used for
programs or binary code downloads.
- Create or maintain sites that generate system errors or exceptions
that disrupt servers' performance or cause server-wide outages.
This includes overriding or avoiding system settings and restrictions
imposed by the terms of Services.
- Create or maintain sites that consume thirty-five percent or
more of CPU capacity or use two hundred megabytes of memory, both
physical and virtual combined, on the hosting server.
- Exceed allowed bandwidth by transferring amounts of data greater
than allowed by the terms of purchased Service.
- Violate any applicable laws, regulations, or other provisions
having the force of law, either intentionally or unintentionally.
- Impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise
misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
- Employ misleading e-mail addresses or falsify information in
any part of any communication.
Do not upload, transmit, disseminate, post, store or post
links to any content that:
- Prohibited from transmitting or posting by law, or by contractual
or fiduciary relationship;
- Facilitates hacking or unauthorized access or use of data, systems,
servers or networks including any attempt to probe, scan or test
for vulnerabilities, or to breach security or authentication measures;
- Falsifies origin by forging TCP/IP packet headers, e-mail headers,
or any part of a message header, unauthorized monitoring of data
or traffic;
- Interferes with service to any user, system or network by using
flooding techniques, overloading a system or a network, staging
or broadcasting an attack, or any other means resulting in a crash
of a host either deliberately or by negligence;
- Infringes or contributes to any infringement of any intellectual
property, material protected by copyright, trademark, patent,
trade secret or proprietary right of any party;
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Is or may be considered unsolicited or unauthorized advertising,
promotional materials, or any junk mail, spam, spamvertisements,
make money fast schemes, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any
other form of solicitation;
- Contains viruses, worms, Trojan horses, time bombs, trap doors,
or any other computer code, files, or programs or repetitive requests
for information designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality
of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
- Is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious,
unlawful, libelous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, or invasive of
privacy;
- Is of adult nature, pornographic, or harmful to minors;
- Promotes illegal activity, including providing instructions
for illegal activity, or transmitting, disseminating or offering
fraudulent goods, services, schemes or promotions, or furnishing
false data on any signup form, contract or online application
or registration, or the fraudulent use of any information obtained
through the use of the Services including use of credit card numbers.
- Exploits the images of children or discloses personally identifiable
information belonging to children.
- If Visual NetCentre determines that you have violated the terms
of this Acceptable Use Policy, that determination, made at Visual
NetCentre's sole discretion, is grounds for immediate termination
of your Visual NetCentre account without notice or penalty to
Visual NetCentre.
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