Acceptable Use Policy
Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") is provided to give our
customers and users a clear understanding of what InterWeb
expects of them while using the service. All users of
InterWeb's Internet services: those who access some of our
Services but do not have accounts, as well as those who
pay a service fee to subscribe to the Services, must
comply with this AUP and our TOS (Terms of
Service).
Use of InterWeb Service constitutes
acceptance and agreement to InterWeb's AUP as well as InterWeb's
TOS (Terms of Service)
We support the
uncensored flow of information and ideas over the
Internet and do not actively monitor subscriber activity
under normal circumstances. Similarly, we do not
exercise editorial control over the content of any web
site, e-mail transmission, newsgroups, or other material
created or accessible over or through the services,
except for certain proprietary Web sites. However, in
accordance with our TOS (Terms of Service), we may
remove any materials that, in our sole discretion, may
be illegal, may subject us to liability, or which may
violate this AUP. InterWeb may cooperate with legal
authorities and/or third parties in the investigation of
any suspected or alleged crime or civil wrongdoing. Your
violation of this AUP may result in the suspension or
immediate termination of either your InterWeb account or
other actions as detailed in Section 3 WITHOUT PRIOR
NOTICE.
This document is intended to provide
a basic understand of InterWeb's Acceptable Use Policy. The
following are guidelines for the establishment and
enforcement of InterWeb's AUP:
- Ensure reliable service to our customers
- Ensure security and privacy of our systems and
network, as well as the networks and systems of others
- Comply with existing laws
- Maintain our reputation as a responsible service
provider
- Encourage responsible use of the Internet and
discourage activities which reduce the usability and
value of Internet services
- Preserve the value of Internet resources as a
conduit for free expression and exchange of
information
- Preserve the privacy and security of individual
users
InterWeb intends to provide its customers access to
everything the Internet has to offer. While the InterWeb is
firmly committed to the principles of free speech,
certain activities that may be damaging to the resources
of both the InterWeb and the Internet and cannot be
permitted under the guise of free speech. The resources
of the InterWeb and the Internet are limited, and abuse of
these resources by one user has a negative impact on the
entire community.
We do not routinely monitor the
activity of accounts except for measurements of system
utilization and the preparation of billing records.
However, in our efforts to promote good citizenship
within the Internet community, we will respond
appropriately if we become aware of inappropriate use of
our service.
You may not use your dedicated rack
or virtual site to publish material, which InterWeb.Net
determines, at its sole discretion, to be unlawful,
indecent or objectionable. For purposes of this policy,
"material" refers to all forms of communications
including narrative descriptions, graphics (including
photographs, illustrations, images, drawings, logos),
executable programs, video recordings, and audio
recordings.
If a InterWeb account is used to violate
the Acceptable Use Policy or our TOS, we reserve the
right to terminate your service without notice. We prefer to advise customers of inappropriate behavior
and any necessary corrective action, however, flagrant
violations of the Acceptable Use Policy will result in
immediate termination of service. Our failure to enforce
this policy, for whatever reason, shall not be construed
as a waiver of our right to do so at any time.
As
a member of our network community, you must use your
Internet access responsibly. If you have any questions
regarding this policy, please contact us at abuse@interwebdirect.co.uk.
VIOLATIONS
OF InterWeb ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
The following
constitute violations of this AUP:
- Illegal use: InterWeb's services may not be used
for illegal purposes, or in support of illegal
activities. InterWeb reserves the right to cooperate with
legal authorities and/or injured third parties in the
investigation of any suspected crime or civil
wrongdoing.
- Harm to minors: Use of the InterWeb service to
harm, or attempt to harm, minors in any way,
including, but not limited to child
pornography.
- Threats: Use of the InterWeb service to transmit
any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or
otherwise) that threatens or encourages bodily harm or
destruction of property.
- Harassment: Use of the InterWeb service to
transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting
or otherwise) that harasses another.
- Fraudulent activity: Use of InterWeb service to
make fraudulent offers to sell or buy products, items,
or services, or to advance any type of financial scam
such as "pyramid schemes," "ponzi schemes," and "chain
letters."
- Forgery or impersonation: Adding, removing
or modifying identifying network header information in
an effort to deceive or mislead is prohibited.
Attempting to impersonate any person by using forged
headers or other identifying infrmation is prohibited.
The use of anonymous remailers or nicknames does not
constitute impersonation.
- Unsolicited commercial e-mail / Unsolicited bulk
e-mail (SPAM) Use of the InterWeb service to transmit
any unsolicited commercial or unsolicited bulk e-mail
is expressly prohibited. Violations of this type will
result in the immediate termination of the offending
InterWeb account.
IMPORTANT
NOTICE:
BEGINNING IMMEDIATELY, anyone
hosting websites or services on their server that
support spammers or cause any of our IP space to be
listed in any of the various Spam Databases will have
their server immediately removed from our network. The
server will not be reconnected until such time that
you agree to remove ANY and ALL traces
of the offending material immediately upon
reconnection and agree to allow us access to the
server to confirm that all material has been COMPLETELY removed. Severe violations may
result in immediate and permanent removal of the
server from our network without notice to the
customer. Any server guilty of a second violation WILL be immediately and permanently removed
from our network without notice.
- E-mail / News Bombing: Malicious intent to
impede another person's use of electronic mail
services or news will result in the immediate
termination of the offending InterWeb account.
- E-mail / Message Forging: Forging any
message header, in part or whole, of any electronic
transmission, originating or passing through the InterWeb
service is in violation of this AUP.
- Usenet SPAMing: InterWeb has a zero tolerance
policy for the use of its network for the posting of
messages or commercial advertisements, which violate
the rules, regulations, FAQ or charter of any
newsgroups or mailing list. Commercial messages that
are appropriate under the rules of a newsgroup or
mailing list or that are solicited by the recipients
are permitted.
- Unauthorized access: Use of the InterWeb service
to access, or to attempt to access, the accounts of
others, or to penetrate, or attempt to penetrate,
security measures of InterWeb's or another entity's
computer software or hardware, electronic
communications system, or telecommunications system,
whether or not the intrusion results in the corruption
or loss of data, is expressly prohibited and the
offending InterWeb account is subject to immediate
termination.
- Copyright or trademark infringement: Use of
the InterWeb service to transmit any material (by e-mail,
uploading, posting or otherwise) that infringes any
copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other
proprietary rights of any third party, including, but
not limited to, the unauthorized copying of
copyrighted material, the digitization and
distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or
other copyrighted sources, and the unauthorized
transmittal of copyrighted software.
- Collection of personal data: Use of the InterWeb
service to collect, or attempt to collect, personal
information about third parties without their
knowledge or consent.
- Network disruptions and unfriendly activity: Use of the InterWeb service for any activity which affects
the ability of other people or systems to use InterWeb
Services or the Internet. This includes "denial of
service" (DOS) attacks against another network host or
individual user. Interference with or disruption of
other network users, services or equipment is
prohibited. It is the Member's responsibility to
ensure that their network is configured in a secure
manner. A Subscriber may not, through action or
inaction, allow others to use their network for
illegal or inappropriate actions. A Subscriber may not
permit their network, through action or inaction, to
be configured in such a way that gives a third party
the capability to use their network in an illegal or
inappropriate manner. Unauthorized entry and/or use of
another company and/or individual's computer system
will result in immediate account termination. InterWeb
will not tolerate any subscriber attempting to access
the accounts of others, or penetrate security measures
of other systems, whether or not the intrusion results
in corruption or loss of data.
- Fraud: Involves a knowing misrepresentation
or misleading statement, writing or activity made with
the intent that the person receiving it will act upon
it.
- Infringement of Copyright, Patent, Trademark,
Trade Secret, or Intellectual Property Right: Distribution and/or posting of copyrighted or the
aforementioned infringements will not be
tolerated.
- Distribution of Viruses: Intentional
distributions of software that attempts to and/or
causes damage, harassment, or annoyance to persons,
data, and/or computer systems are prohibited. Such an
offense will result in the immediate termination of
the offending account.
- Inappropriate Use of Software: Use of
software or any device that would facilitate a
continued connection, i.e. pinging, while using InterWeb
services could result in suspension
service.
- Third Party Accountability: InterWeb subscribers
will be held responsible and accountable for any
activity by third parties, using their account, that
violates guidelines created within the Acceptable Use
Policy.
- Violation of InterWeb Shared Hosting: It is
absolutely forbidden to host pornographic content or
IRC servers on Shared Hosting Accounts. Shared Hosting
Accounts found hosting this material will be subject
to immediate cancellation without refund.
- IRC networks: It is absolutely forbidden to
host an IRC server that is part of or connected to
another IRC network or server. Servers found to be
connecting to or part of these networks will be
immediately removed from our network without notice.
The server will not be reconnected to the network
until such time that you agree to completely remove
any and all traces of the irc server, and agree to let
us have access to your server to confirm that the
content has been completely removed. Any server guilty
of a second violation will result in immediate account
termination.
- Banned Scripts and/or Applications: We do
not allow the use of the following scripts to be used
on our hosting accounts:
Proxy Scripts (nph-proxy and others)
IRC
Scripts (cgi::irc and others)
Anonymizer
Torrent Trackers
Chat Room
Scripts
HiveMail and similar email provisioning
scripts
phpShell and similar command execution
scripts
'tpg' showcase scripts.
- Security
You are responsible for any
misuse of your account, even if the inappropriate
activity was committed by a friend, family member,
guest or employee. Therefore, you must take steps to
ensure that others do not gain unauthorized access to
your account. In addition, you may not use your
account to breach security of another account or
attempt to gain unauthorized access to another network
or server.
a. Your password provides access to your account. It
is your responsibility to keep your password secure.
b. Sharing your password and account access with
unauthorized users is prohibited. You should take
care to prevent others from using your account since
you will be held responsible for such use.
c. Attempting to obtain another user's account
password is strictly prohibited, and may result in
termination of service.
d. You must adopt adequate security measures to
prevent or minimize unauthorized use of your
account.
e. You may not attempt to circumvent user
authentication or security of any host, network or
account. This includes, but is not limited to,
accessing data not intended for you, logging into or
making use of a server or account you are not
expressly authorized to access, or probing the
security of other networks. Use or distribution of
tools designed for compromising security is
prohibited. Examples of these tools include, but are
not limited to, password guessing programs, cracking
tools or network probing tools.
f. You may not attempt to interfere with service to
any user, host or network ("denial of service
attacks"). This includes, but is not limited to,
"flooding" of networks, deliberate attempts to
overload a service, and attempts to "crash" a host.
g. Users who violate systems or network security may
incur criminal or civil liability. InterWeb will
cooperate fully with investigations of violations of
systems or network security at other sites,
including cooperating with law enforcement
authorities in the investigation of suspected
criminal violations.
Network Performance
InterWeb accounts operate on shared resources.
Excessive use or abuse of these shared network
resources by one customer may have a negative impact
on all other customers. Misuse of network resources in
a manner which impairs network performance is
prohibited by this policy and may result in
termination of your account.
You are prohibited
from excessive consumption of resources, including CPU
time, memory, disk space and session time. You may not
use resource-intensive programs which negatively
impact other customers or the performances of InterWeb
systems or networks. InterWeb reserves the right to
terminate or limit such
activities.
REPORTING VIOLATIONS OF InterWeb
AUP
InterWeb requests that anyone who believes
that there is a violation of this AUP direct the
information to the Abuse Department at abuse@interwebdirect.co.uk.
If
available, please provide the following
information:
- The IP address used to commit the alleged
violation
- The date and time of the alleged violation,
including the time zone or offset from GMT
- Evidence of the alleged violation
E-mail with full header information provides all of
the above, as do system log files. Other situations
will require different methods of providing the above
information. InterWeb may take any one or more of the
following actions in response to complaints:
- Issue written or verbal warnings
- Suspend the Member's newsgroup posting privileges
- Suspend the Member's account
- Terminate the Member's account
- Bill the Member for administrative costs and/or
reactivation charges
- Bring legal action to enjoin violations and/or to
collect damages, if any, cause by violations
REVISIONS TO THIS ACCEPTABLE USE
POLICY
InterWeb reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify
this AUP, our TOS (Terms of Service) and our other
policies and agreements at any time and in any manner.
Notice of any revision, amendment, or modification
will be posted in accordance with our TOS (Terms of
Service).
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