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Acceptable Use
Policy
PLEASE READ
CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OUR SERVICES.
THIS ACCEPTABLE
USE POLICY CONSTITUTES A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND TECHNOLOGY
DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, D.B.A. COMPUTER SOLUTIONS OF TENNESSEE. ("CSOT",
"WE" OR "US")
a provider of
retail web hosting, e-mail, and electronic commerce (“Services”).
A. ACCEPTANCE:
1. YOU AGREE TO
REFRAIN FROM THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLES OF PROHIBITED CONDUCT;
2. IF YOU ARE
ACCEPTING ON BEHALF OF A COMPANY, YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT TO CSOT
THAT YOU HAVE FULL AUTHORITY TO BIND SUCH COMPANY; AND
3. IF YOU DO NOT
AGREE TO ABIDE BY THIS POLICY PLEASE DO NOT USE OUR SERVICES.
B. PROHIBITED
CONDUCT
You will violate
this Policy if you engage in the following examples of prohibited
activities while using our Services:
(a)
Spamming
(i)
Sending unsolicited bulk and/or commercial messages over
the Internet (known as “spamming”)
(ii)
Maintaining an open SMTP relay
(b)
Facilitating a Violation of this Policy
(i)
Advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available
any software, program, product, or service that is designed to
violate this Policy, which includes the facilitation of the
means to spam, initiation of pinging, flooding, mail bombing,
denial of service attacks, and piracy of software
(c)
Infringing Intellectual Property Rights
(i)
Engaging in any activity that:
(a)
infringes or misappropriates the intellectual property
rights of others, including copyrights, trademarks, service
marks, trade secrets, software piracy, and patents held by
individuals, corporations, or other entities
(b)
violates
privacy, publicity, or other personal rights of others
(d)
Obscene Speech or Materials
(i)
Using CSOT Services to advertise, transmit, store, post,
display, or otherwise make available child pornography or other
forms of pornography or obscene speech or material. CSOT
shall notify law enforcement agencies when it becomes aware of
the presence of child pornography on or being transmitted
through CSOT Services
(e)
Promoting Violence or Injury
(i)
Advocating, promoting or providing assistance in carrying
out violence or any other unlawful activity against any persons,
animals or any governments, businesses or other entities
(ii)
Describing or displaying a weapon, or parts of weapons,
or manuals for assembling any weapon, including but not limited
to firearms, ammunition, explosives, grenades, bombs and caustic
or other dangerous substances
(iii) Promoting products
or services that involve a significant risk of death or injury
to any persons, or damage to business or other entities or
property
(f)
Defamatory or Abusive Language
(i)
Using CSOT’s Services as a means to transmit or post
defamatory, harassing, abusive, or threatening language
(g)
Forging of Headers
(i)
Forging or misrepresenting message headers, whether in
whole or in part, to mask the originator of the message
(h)
Illegal or Unauthorized Access to Other Computers or Networks
(i)
Accessing illegally or without authorization computers,
accounts, or networks belonging to another party, or attempting
to penetrate security measures of another individual's system
(often known as "hacking")
(ii)
Engaging in any activity that might be used as a
precursor to an attempted system penetration (i.e. port scan,
stealth scan, or other information gathering activity)
(i)
Distribution of Internet Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses, or
Other Destructive Activities
(i)
Distributing information regarding the creation of and
sending Internet viruses, worms, Trojan horses, pinging,
flooding, mail bombing, or denial of service attacks
(ii)
Engaging in activities that disrupt the use of or
interfere with the ability of others to effectively use the
network or any connected network, system, service, or equipment
(j)
Export Control Violations
(i)
Exporting encryption software over the Internet or
otherwise, to points outside Canada or the United States
(k)
Illegal Activities
(i)
Engaging in activities that are determined to be illegal,
including advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making
available ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, phishing scams,
fraudulently charging credit cards, and pirating software
(l)
Gambling
(i)
Engaging in or promoting gambling
(m)
Promoting Intoxicants
(i)
Illegally displaying or promoting any type(s) of
intoxicant, alcoholic beverage, cigarettes or illegal substance
(n)
Instructing others in Prohibited Activities
(i)
Providing instructions with respect to any activities
listed in (a) through (n) above
(o)
Other Activities
(i)
Engaging in any other activity, whether lawful or
unlawful, that CSOT in its sole discretion determines to be
harmful to customers, operations, reputation, goodwill, or
customer relations.
C. FAILURE TO
ABIDE BY THIS ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
CSOT reserves the
right in its sole and absolute discretion to restrict or remove from
its servers any content that it deems to be in violation of this
Acceptable Use Policy or any laws. CSOT may immediately take
action, including, but not limited to, (a) issuing warnings, (b)
suspending or terminating the Service(s), (c) restricting or
prohibiting any and all uses of content hosted on CSOT' systems,
and/or (d) disabling or removing: (i) any hypertext links to
third-party web sites, (ii) any of your content distributed or made
available for distribution via the Services, or (iii) other content
not supplied by CSOT. It is CSOT's policy to terminate
Services to infringers. The above stated rights of action,
however, do not obligate CSOT to monitor or exert editorial control
over the information made available for distribution via the
Services and you acknowledge that CSOT has no obligation to censor
or monitor use of the Services by you, or any obligation to censor
or monitor any content, material or other information sent, received
or accessible through the Services. In the event CSOT takes
action due to such possible violation, CSOT shall not be obligated
to refund to you any fees paid in advance of such action. |
