Netkeepers - ni solutions group - acceptable use policy
Revision Date: 4-30-2004
This Acceptable Use Policy (“Policy”), pertaining to NetKeepers.ca and NI Solutions Group’s hosting services provided directly by NetKeepers.ca and NI Solutions Group or by its third party providers, defines activities and content that are prohibited. NetKeepers.ca and NI Solutions Group reserves the right to remove any content or restrict the use of the services for activities or content that, in NetKeepers.ca and NI Solutions Group’s reasonable judgment, violate the terms or conditions under which NetKeepers.ca and NI Solutions Group provides the services or violate this Policy. NetKeepers.ca and NI Solutions Group may make reasonable modifications to this Policy from time to time without notice and it is the responsibility of the CUSTOMER to refer back to this document for changes.. Questions about this Policy (e.g., whether any contemplated use is permitted) and reports of violations of this Policy should be directed to NetKeepers.ca and NI Solutions Group.
Prohibited uses include, inter alias (not restricted to…), using the service or permitting others to use the service in a manner that, in NetKeepers.ca and NI Solutions Group’s reasonable judgment, is a use of the service:
1. to violate any law of any applicable jurisdiction, including, without limitation, laws governing advertising, alcohol, antitrust, child protection, drugs, encryption, exportation, food, financial services, firearms, gambling, importation, information systems, intellectual property, obscenity, privacy, securities, telecommunications and tobacco;
2. to commit a tortuous or otherwise wrongful act, including, without limitation, the posting or communication of libellous, defamatory, scandalous, threatening, harassing, or private information without the permission of the person(s) involved, or posting content that is likely to cause emotional distress, whether through content, frequency, or size;
3. to engage in or to facilitate gambling activities;
4. to post, send, or receive any content that is obscene, pornographic, lewd, lascivious, or excessively violent;
5. to offer, solicit, sell, buy, rent, or license any goods, products, services, or information in, from, or to any location in which such activity is unlawful;
6. to advocate, promote, or otherwise encourage violence against any government, organization, group, individual or property, or to provide instruction, information, or assistance in causing or carrying out such violence;
7. to post, send, receive, display, distribute, or execute any content, including, without limitation, text, graphics, images, music, recordings, computer programs, links, frames, and “meta tags,” that violates any copyright, right of publicity, patent, trademark, service mark, trade name, mask work, trade secret or other intellectual property right of others;
8. to delete or alter author attributions, copyright notices, or trademark notices, unless expressly permitted in writing by the owner;
9. to violate the terms of applicable software licensing agreements;
10. to obtain or attempt to obtain unauthorized access, such as attempting to circumvent or circumventing any authentication or other security feature of any system, network, or account. This includes accessing data not intended for the user, logging into a server or account the user is not authorized to access, or probing the security of any system, network, or account;
11. to interfere or attempt to interfere with service to any user, host, or network by use of any program, script, command, or otherwise. This includes “denial of service” attacks, “flooding” of networks, deliberate attempts to overload a service or to burden excessively a service’s resources, and attempts to “crash” a host;
12. to introduce viruses, worms, harmful code and/or Trojan horses;
13. to attempt to circumvent the approval process for posting to a moderated newsgroup or bulletin board or to attempt to evade spam filters;
14. to cancel or supersede posts other than your own, with the exception of official newsgroup or bulletin board moderators performing their duties;
15. to send or post unsolicited messages or e-mail, whether commercial or not, a) to any recipients who have requested that messages not be sent to them, or b) to a large number of recipients, including users, newsgroups, or bulletin boards, at one time in a manner that is inconsistent with applicable law;
16. to send or post a message whose subject or content is unrelated to the subject matter of the newsgroup or bulletin board to which it is posted;
17. to send or post a message or e-mail with deceptive, absent, or forged header or sender identification information;
18. to propagate chain letters and pyramid schemes, whether or not the recipient wishes to receive such mailings;
19. to use Internet Relay Chat “bots”;
20. to hold NetKeepers.ca and NI Solutions Group, its affiliates, officers, employees and/or shareholders up to public scorn or ridicule; and/or
21. to resell NetKeepers.ca and NI Solutions Group’s services, in whole or in part, to any entity or individual, without NetKeepers.ca and NI Solutions Group’s prior written consent, or to misrepresent your relationship with NetKeepers.ca and NI Solutions Group.
If CUSTOMER becomes aware of any such activities, CUSTOMER will take all actions necessary to stop such activities immediately, including, if necessary, terminating CUSTOMER’s user’s access to CUSTOMER’s online facilities.