DWHS Inc. | Acceptable Use Policy and Terms Of Service Agreement
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Web Hosting TOS Policies revised as of 05-25-2005
Agreeing to DWHS Web Hosting Acceptable Use Policy and Terms
of Service is mandatory for Hosting signing up or using
our services. Please make sure you read everything. The
following rules apply to sites you host with DWHS Web Hosting
Acceptable Use Policy
Introduction
During the term of its agreement with DWHS Web Hosting,
the customer must ensure that the use of any resource offered
to the customer or owned or controlled by DWHS Web Hosting
("Service") conforms with DWHS Web Hosting's then
current Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP"). DWHS Web
Hosting may modify, without prior notice, the AUP as DWHS
Web Hosting deems appropriate; such modified AUP is effective
upon posting on DWHS Web Hosting's website.
Responsibility
You are responsible for your sites and all sites that you
host to be in accordance with all rules on this page. Misuse
by you may result in actions on your account, including
removal from the host without a refund.
Inappropriate Use
The Service must not be used to publish, post, distribute
or otherwise disseminate unlawful material or information
including, but not limited to: threatening, harassing, defamatory,
obscene, or fraudulent information and materials, or proprietary,
copyrighted, or otherwise intellectually protected information
and materials for which Customer does not have authorization
or authority to possess or distribute. The Service must
not be used to request unlawful services or materials. The
Service must not be used for activities DWHS Web Hosting
deems to impact its customers or its ability to deliver
services to its customers. Such activities may include,
but are not limited to:
Obscene Speech or Materials
The distribution of child pornography or any, defamatory
or threatening speech or material.
Intellectual Property Infringement
Any activity infringing on the intellectual property rights
of others, including copyrights, trademarks, service marks,
trade secrets, and patents.
Spamming
Sending unsolicited commercial bulk email ("UCE"),
news postings or chain letters; advertising transmitting,
or otherwise making available any software, program, product,
or service that is designed to facilitate sending UCE; use
of web pages that allow "spam"ing (known as "ghost
sites") that directly or indirectly refers to domains
or IP addresses hosted by DWHS Web Hosting. DWHS Web Hosting
reserves the right to determine in its sole discretion what
constitutes UCE based on the information available. Sending
any email to purchased lists or lists obtained by any other
method (such as harvesting) is not acceptable. Customers
may ony send email to recepients who have joined mailing
lists directly from their site.
Maintaining an Open Email Relay
Allowing email to be sent through Customer's system by a
third party (i.e. neither to nor from Customer or Customer's
accounts).
Fraud
Using a false identity; using pyramid/ponzi scheme; storage
or transmission of any intentionally incorrect data or packet.
Virus, Worm, or Trojan horse program distribution
The deliberate transmission of computer viruses, worms or
trojan software.
Denial of Service
Using any technique to intentionally degrade or disable
the delivery of any legitimate data.
Glutting of servers
Oversized storage of any files that would be unreasonably
large (ie. making a zip file filled with text files just
to pad the size). Again, your webspace is not for data back
up. It is only for hosting real sites.
Unauthorized Access
Attempting to gain unauthorized entry to any site or network,
or any network or host scanning, probing, monitoring or
other information gathering associated with such activity;
using the Service to guess passwords.
Applications
Customer may not run any program or script on the server
that runs constantly or 'listens' on ports unless provided
in the control panel. This includes applications associated
with chat services.
Public Forums
Inappropriate postings to newsgroups, chat rooms, electronic
bulletin boards and any other public forum on, or using,
the Service.
Customer Responsibilities
Bulk Email
Customers sending bulk email must provide recipients with
an easy and effective mechanism for removal from bulk email
list. Customer must include the source of the addressee's
address in each bulk email message.
CPU Usage
Sites may not use extreme unwarranted CPU usage. This includes
usage of "heavy" scripts or Flash/shockwave files.
By heavy we mean oversized without cause, to the point where
most users would be unable to view them in a reasonable
amount of time. No single site may consume 30% of CPU usage
for a sustained period of time.
Service Resale
Customer may not resell the Service or any portion of the
Service unless under a Reseller plan.
Password Protection
Customer is responsible for protecting passwords and for
any authorized or unauthorized use.
Music Files
Customer may not with out permission have sound/video files
in any format (MP3, ASX, ASF, RA, RAM , QTV) due to the
high rate of illegal transfer of copywritten material.
Content Protection
Customer agrees to provide appropriate protection to prevent
minors (persons under 18 years of age) from accessing any
unsuitable material that Customer publishes via any Service.
Content Ownership
Customer is responsible for all content or information residing
on, or obtained, or transmitted via, the Service, regardless
of whether such use is by Customer.
File repository /Dump Sites
Customer may not use disk space as a file repository, or
dump site. This includes but is not limited too; warez,
serialz, sound files, applications, zip files. This includes
using the space in order to store content used on other
sites (remote linking) . Examples of this would be using
the web space to store images for auction descriptions,
flash or any other files used on another site but stored
on our server.
Free Email / Hosting Sites
We do not permit the free giving of POP email accounts or
the issuing of free hosting. This includes near free (1
penny per year for instance).
Facilitating AUP Violation
Customer activity that facilitates the violation of this
AUP by any party constitutes a violation of this AUP by
Customer.
AUP Enforcement
Violation of the AUP may subject Customer to international,
federal, and/or state civil and/or criminal liability, including
without limitation, Ohio Business & Professional Code.
DWHS Web Hosting reserves the right in its sole discretion
and without prior notice to suspend and/or terminate Customer's
access to the Service at any time for violating this AUP.
DWHS Web Hosting also reserves the right to suspend, filter
or block, and/or terminate Customer's access if Customer's
account is being used to exploit or attack the Service or
the networks of others. If Customer's account has been compromised
and attempts to reach Customer and/or to have Customer repair
a breach of security fail, DWHS Web Hosting reserves the
right to suspend or terminate Customer's service. If Customer's
access is suspended or terminated, DWHS Web Hosting, in
its sole discretion, may refuse to accept all new e-mail
sent to the terminated e-mail address and delete Customer's
data stored on Service. DWHS Web Hosting will fully cooperate
with law enforcement authorities in the detection and prosecution
of illegal activity.
Violation of Rules
Breaking any of these aforementioned rules may result in
immediate account suspension with out refund, as well as
criminal prosecution where deemed necessary.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: DWHS Web Hosting (DWHS Web Hosting)
shall not be responsible for any claimed damages, including
incidental and consequential damages, which may arise from
servers going off-line or being unavailable for any reason
whatsoever. Further, DWHS Web Hosting (DWHS Web Hosting)
shall not be responsible for any claimed damages, including
incidental or consequential damages, resulting from the
corruption or deletion of any web site from one of DWHS
Web Hosting (DWHS Web Hosting) servers. All damages shall
be limited to the immediate termination of service. DWHS
Web Hosting (DWHS Web Hosting) shall be the sole arbiter
of what is and is not a violation of these acceptable use
policies. DWHS Web Hosting (DWHS Web Hosting) reserves the
right to terminate an account at any time and for any reason
that causes harm to any customer's web sites. DWHS Web Hosting
(DWHS Web Hosting ) reserves the right to delete all content
and files upon termination. DWHS Web Hosting (DWHS Web Hosting)
reserves the right to withhold any pre-paid funds for any
site removed for violations of these policies. DWHS Web
Hosting (DWHS Web Hosting) reserves the right to refuse,
cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion. DWHS
Web Hosting (DWHS Web Hosting) reserves the right to change
these Policies without prior notice or warning. Non-enforcement
of any part of these Policies does not constitute consent.