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AllHostNet is dedicated to providing an all-round quality service. The
terms and conditions which follow are necessary to ensure that we
may continue to provide the best possible service to all of our
customers whilst at the same time satisfying our legal and ethical
responsibilities.
Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for
immediate account deactivation without notice. AllHostNet
will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of any
of these provisions.
Activity which results in the suspension or deactivation of an
account will result in a forfeiture of all fees paid. Complaints
made regarding abuses of an account will be investigated and if
found guilty will be grounds for immediate suspension.
To report suspected abuses or any violations of these policies,
please contact us at
AllHostNet
provides services to clients all around the world. AllHostNet has the responsibility to protect each client and provide
them with the best services available. The following guidelines were
designed to insure these services.
Content:
All services provided by AllHostNet may be used for lawful
purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any
information, data or material in violation of any United States
Federal, State or City law is prohibited. This includes, but is not
limited to: copyrighted material, material we judge to be
threatening or obscene, unlicensed software or files, or material
protected by trade secret and other statue. The subscriber agrees to
indemnify and hold harmless AllHostNet from any claims
resulting from the use of the service which damages the subscriber
or any other party.
Note: Please email us
regarding our policies on hosting pornography and sex-related
merchandising sites.
Pornography - Due to legal
and social issues, we will not accept any new customers who publish
pornographic images. We do not allow any
pornographic content on our server, including but not limited to
photographs of nudes, explicit language, or sexual fiction. If an
existing customer publishes pornographic images, AllHostNet will
suspend and cancel your account.
Let's make this easy to
understand:
No site that promotes porn or nudity will be allowed on our servers,
this includes BANNERS, CLICKER SITES, EDITORIALS, STORIES, NUDE
PHOTOGRAPHS,
EXPLICIT LANGUAGE, SEXUAL FICTION, OR ANYTHING THAT AllHostNet DEEMS INAPPROPRIATE FOR OUR SERVERS. If an existing customer
publishes
pornographic images, AllHostNet will remove the site from
our server without notice and all monies paid will be forfeited.
Non-acceptable content,
links and websites
- Pirated software
- "Illegal MP3's"
- Hacker and Cracker
programs, Websites or archives
- Pornography
- Emails promoting pornography
Warez Sites/Hacking Cracking
Sites:
Warez Sites are sites that are typically used by "hackers" to trade
(upload/download) illegally pirated copies of software programs with
one another. AllHostNet has a zero-tolerance policy on all Warez Sites. Sites that become a trading post for "warez" programs
will be reported to any and all regulatory, administrative, and/or
governmental authorities for prosecution. In addition to your
account being deleted from our servers, you may face legal action
that can be taken against you by the programmers/software companies
of the copyrighted software.
AllHostNet will be
the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this
provision.
Excessive CPU usage -
Customers will not be allowed to use excessive amounts of CPU
processing on any of our servers. Such action is grounds for
immediate suspension. For example:
1) Personal customers cannot give
away, sell or resell our counters or auto-responders to the rest of
the world which caused an excessive amount of requests on our
server(s).
2) Email bombs.
3) Reselling CGI access to other 3rd parties
4) IRC Daemons, are strictly prohibited
5) Other activities, whether lawful or unlawful, that we determine
to be harmful to our subscribers, operations, or reputation,
including activities that restrict or inhibit any other user from
using and enjoying the service or the Internet.
6) Spam, or Unsolicited Mail Submissions- NO DOMAIN MAINTAINED BY
AllHostNet will be permitted to submit Spam or Unsolicited
email of any type. The sending of Spam or unsolicited email using
our email server.
Right to refuse service
AllHostNet has the right to refuse service to any client
which we feel may impact on our server stability.
HIGH RESOURCE USER
POLICY
Resources are defined as bandwidth and/or processor utilization.
AllHostNet may implement the following policy to its sole
discretion:
When a website is found to be
monopolizing the resources available, AllHostNet reserves
the right to suspend that site immediately. This policy is only
implemented in extreme circumstances and is intended to prevent the
misuse of our servers.
If we receive a complaint on Spam
or Unsolicited email from a Domain maintained on our servers, the
account will be subject to suspension and/or cancellation without
notice.
SERVER USE - Personal
Accounts
Personal accounts are to be used by the primary owner only, account
holders are not permitted to resell, store or give away web-hosting
services of their website to other parties. Web hosting services are
defined as allowing a separate, third party to host content on the
owner's web site. Exceptions to this include ad banners, classified
ads, and personal ads.
To maintain the integrity of our
service the following limitations apply:
Sites running large
chat room gatherings.
AllHostNet will be
the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this
provision.
Chat Rooms:
AllHostNet does allow clients to install chat rooms, these
can be found in the control panel. However, these tend to be large
system hogs and may fall into the usage limitations policy (see
above). We do not allow the installation of your own chat room
scripts.
Background
Processes/Programs
AllHostNet may allow programs to run continually in the
background, these are considered on a one to one basis and a extra
charge may be incured based on system resources used and operational
maintenance needed.
Cron Jobs:
AllHostNet does allow Cron Jobs to be conducted on our
servers.
IRC's:
AllHostNet currently does not allow IRC, IRC bots,
eggdrops, BitchX,
psyBNC
to be operated on our servers.
This includes, but is not
limited to, IRC bots (eggdrop, energymech, etc.), IRC servers, and
IRC bouncers (bnc, psybnc, etc.)
Customers also must not store
copies of this software on our servers. Anybody
caught using such software or having such software stored in any of
their directories will have their accounts immediately disabled
without prior notice. This is also grounds for immediate account
termination.
Commercial Advertising -
Email:
Spamming, or the sending of unsolicited email, from a AllHostNet server or using an email address that is maintained on a
AllHostNet server for this purpose is STRICTLY prohibited.
For general reference, we consider spam any email that is sent to
more than 10 people at a time that did not ask for it to be sent to
them.
AllHostNet will be
the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this
provision.
Mailing Lists
Opt-In email is
acceptable, as long as Opt-Out/Removal request are fully honored.
AllHostNet
has allocated tools to ensure
proper delivery of opt-in opt-out
mailing lists and normal email. It is important that you use these
tools accordingly. All full packages
include access to the
pre-installed Mailman Mailing List Software. Large mailing lists,
(those exceeding 500 subscribers) sent using the
AllHostNet Services, must be sent using the mailing list tools
that have been pre-installed for this purpose. If your mailing list
exceeds 1,500 addresses you should contact AllHostNet
requesting permission to send the mailing through the
AllHostNet
servers prior to sending any messages.
Sending a large mailing through mailing list software other than
AllHostNet's pre-installed
software can adversely affect the
flow of email. Should such a large mailing disrupt normal services
or create unacceptable server loads,
the account associated with the
mailing risks termination. All accounts may only have one mailing
list. Running more than one mailing
list on your account risks
suspension and termination of services.
Please make
an effort to send out large mailings from the hours of 12AM - 8AM
EST.
Server Abuse:
Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a AllHostNet
server or customer of AllHostNet is strictly prohibited.
AllHostNet will pursue legal action to the fullest extent
for all abuse of the AllHostNet Network.
Suspension/De-Activation:
If any terms or conditions are failed to be followed it will result
in grounds for account suspension or de-activation. AllHostNet reserves the right to remove any account without prior
notice. If AllHostNet deactivates your account(s) for
violating policy, your will forfeit your rights to a refund...and
none will be given. No refunds for advance payments, on de-activated
accounts. Normal policy is a warning first, and account
de-activation the second offense. Serious offenses may cause
immediate de-activation.
Use of AllHostNet
Service constitutes acceptance and agreement to AllHostNet's AUP as
well as AllHostNets TOS (Terms
of Service)
AllHostNet 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). All users of AllHostNet Internet
services, and their clients, must comply with this AUP and our TOS
(Terms of Service).
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