SiteManager CMS Web Hosting - Acceptable Use Policy
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Last Revised: August 31, 2009
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General
Infinity Arts has created this Acceptable Use and Service Policy ("AUP") to outline our policies for accessing
the Internet from our servers. All users of Infinity Arts' hosting services (the "Services"), including clients
and non-clients, must comply with this AUP. Infinity Arts attempts to advance the free flow of ideas and
information over the Internet and does not, as a normal
practice, proactively monitor use of the Services. Nor do we edit or control the content of any material
available through the Services, with the exception of our proprietary websites. Yet, we may remove any
materials that, in our judgment, may be illegal, create liability, or violate this AUP. Infinity Arts may
cooperate with legal authorities and others in the investigation of any suspected crime or wrongdoing. You
acknowledge that Infinity Arts may preserve and disclose the content of a Website if required to do so by law
or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with
legal process, enforce our agreements or policies, respond to claims that the content violates the rights
of third parties, or protect the rights, property or personal safety of Infinity Arts, our users and the
general public. You further agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with the use of
any Internet content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness and usefulness of such content.
Violations of this AUP may result in actions including the suspension or termination of your account.
This AUP is incorporated in our hosting agreements and other policies. This AUP is a guideline and is not
an inclusive listing of prohibited conduct.
Please note that by subscribing to and/or using the services provided by Infinity Arts, or any derivative
thereof, you are accepting the terms and conditions set forth in this Acceptable Use Policy.
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Prohibitions Under Infinity Arts' Acceptable Use and Service Policy ("AUP")
You agree not to use or attempt to use Infinity Arts' Services to:
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Violate, intentionally or unintentionally, any applicable local, state, national or international law, or any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to: transmitting obscene materials; intentionally spreading computer viruses; gaining unauthorized access to private networks; engaging in the transmission of pirated software; conducting or participating in illegal gambling, or soliciting for illegal pyramid schemes through electronic mail or postings. |
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Violate any regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law. |
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Harm minors in any way. |
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Threaten or incite bodily harm or damage to property. |
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Stalk or otherwise harass another. |
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Make fraudulent offers to buy or sell products or services or to promote any financial scam such as "pyramid schemes," "Ponzi schemes," and "chain letters." |
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Attempt to access other's accounts or to pierce security measures of computer software or hardware, electronic communications systems, or telecommunications systems, even if there is no loss of data or damage. |
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Add, remove or change identifying network header information in an effort to mislead or attempt to impersonate any person by use of forged headers or other identifying information. Using anonymous re-mailers or nicknames is not prohibited. Using purposely misleading headers ("munging" headers) in order to avoid spam email address collectors is also allowed. |
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Publish, submit, copy, upload, post, transmit, reproduce, take, infringe on, or distribute information, software, or other material that is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, any other type of intellectual property rights, trademark laws (by rights of privacy or publicity) or other proprietary right of any party unless you own or control the rights or have obtained consent to do so. This includes using any material that you do not have a right to make available under any law, contractual or fiduciary relationship (including inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned as part of employment relationships or under other nondisclosure agreements). This prohibition also includes the use of any material or information including images or photos that are made available through a Infinity Arts' Service, digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted sources, and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software. |
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Accumulate personal information about others without their knowledge or authorization. |
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Resell, or exploit the Services for any commercial purpose without Infinity Arts' approval. |
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Adversely affect the ability of others to use Infinity Arts' Services or the Internet. This includes making available material that contains software viruses or other code, files or programs designed to interfere with the functionality of computer software, hardware or telecommunications equipment. Also prohibited are attempts to disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, cause a screen to "scroll" faster than others can type, or repeatedly entering either meaningless characters, three or more repeated blank lines, the same text three or more times, or consistently repeating text in a Chat room.. You may not otherwise interfere with real time exchanges or use denial of service attacks against others. Similarly, you must not disrupt the Services, servers, networks or disobey procedures and requirements relating to the Services. You are prohibited from allowing use of the network for illegal or inappropriate actions or a configuration that allows others to use their network improperly. |
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We do not allow clients to install their own chat rooms within any hosting account, without approving it with Infinity Arts. Most chat rooms tend to be large system hogs and we cannot allow it as an account option. |
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The publishing of any site or web page(s) whose revenue is gained in part or whole from adult content. |
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Use "robots" or otherwise collect email addresses in order to send unsolicited or unauthorized material. |
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Exceed the maximum monthly traffic allotment for your website. You agree that we have no responsibility for the deletion or failure to store communications and content that exceeds these limits. |
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Network Security
Clients may not use the Infinity Arts network with an 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 the client logging into a server or account the client is not expressly authorized to access.
- Password cracking.
- Forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting.
- Attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization.
- Probing the security of other networks in search of weakness.
- Or violation of any other organization's security policy.
Clients may not attempt to interfere or deny service to any user, host, or network. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Flooding.
- Mail bombing.
- Or other deliberate attempts to overload or crash a host or network.
Infinity Arts 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. Users who violate system or network security may incur criminal or civil liability. You are solely responsible for any security breaches affecting servers or accounts under your control. If your server or website is responsible for or involved in an attack on or unauthorized access into another server or system, Infinity Arts will shut it down immediately. You will pay any charges resulting from the cost to correct security breaches affecting Infinity Arts or any of its other clients.
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Hosting Account 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.
- Your password provides access to your account. It is your responsibility to keep your password secure.
- 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.
- Attempting to obtain another user's account password is strictly prohibited, and may result in termination of service.
- You must adopt adequate security measures to prevent or minimize unauthorized use of your account.
- 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.
- 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.
Clients who violate systems or network security may incur criminal or civil liability. Infinity Arts 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.
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Contacting Infinity Arts
We require that you make information publicly available about how to contact you, and that you respond in a timely manner to any of our complaints of abuse of the Services. Further, you agree to abide by and additionally be governed by the covenants and restrictions set forth in all Infinity Arts' Policies, updated from time to time by Infinity Arts and located in the "Web Hosting" Section of your Infinity Arts extranet. If you fail to responsibly manage the use of the Services obtained from Infinity Arts or if you are found to be in violation of any Policy, we may terminate Services to you, WITHOUT refund.
If you wish to report a violation of this AUP or any other Policy, you may contact us via email using our Contact form. Any one wishing to send us a Notification of Claimed Infringement pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 ("DMCA") must send such notification utizling our Contact form.
To be most effective, please provide the following information on the alleged violation:
- An email with detailed information
- Evidence of what happened
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Revisions to this Acceptable Use and Service Policy
We reserve the right to revise this AUP, or our other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner. We will post any revisions to this AUP, together with a revision date in the "Web Hosting" Section of your Infinity Arts extranet.
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