Acceptable Use Policy

Child Pornography – Hosting, Distributing, or Linking to Pornography Involving a Person Under Legal Age

Copyright Infringement – Hosting, Distributing, or Linking to Copyright Infringed Materials

CPU/Memory/Resource Abuse – Consuming Excessive Amount of Server Resources Causing Server Performance Issues

DoS Source – Source of Denial of Service Attack

DoS Target – Target of Denial of Service Attack

Forgery – Faking an IP Address, Hostname, E-Mail Address, or Header

Fraud Site – Hosting or Linking to a Website Intended to Deceive the Public

HYIP – Hosting or Linking to a High Yield Investment Program Website

Identity Theft – Hosting, Distributing, or Linking to Stolen Account Identification Information

Infection – Hosting, Distributing, or Linking to Exploits, Trojans, Viruses, or Worms

IRC – Hosting Internet Relay Chat Server not authorized by Valid Email Collector Host

IRC – Hosting Internet Relay Chat Server not authorized by Valid Email Collector Host

Mass Storage – Storing Mass Amounts of Backups, Archives, Videos, etc.

Phishing – Identity Theft by Email Under False Pretense

Bulk Email – No more than 500 emails of similar content (Opt In)

Spam Email – Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) or Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE)

Spam List – Hosting, Distributing, or Linking to Email Address Lists for Spam

Spam Site – A Site Advertised by Spam Email or Spam Web

Spam Ware – Hosting, Distributing, or Linking to Software Designed for Spamming

Spam Web – Unsolicited, Bulk, or Forged Site Advertisement in Web Logs, Forums, or Guestbooks

Spamhaus/RBL – Spam Causing Blacklisting of an IP at www.spamhaus.org/RBL for Malicious Activity

Terrorist Site – Hosting or Linking to a Site Advocating Terrorism

Toolz – Hosting, Distributing, or Linking to Tools or Instructional Material on Hacking/Cracking or Other Illegal Activity Trademark – Hosting, Distributing, or Linking to Trademark Infringed Materials

Warez – Hosting, Distributing, or Linking to Crackz, Hackz, KeyGenz, Serialz, or Pirated Software

Any other material Valid Email Collector Host judges to be threatening or obscene.

Virtual Private Server (VPS) and Dedicated Server Customers Only The provisions of this section also apply to all customers with Dedicated and VPS accounts: You are solely responsible for any breaches of security affecting the servers under your control. If your server is involved in an attack on another server or system, it will be shut down and an immediate investigation will be launched to determine the cause/source of the attack. In such an event, you shall be responsible for the cost to rectify any damage done to your server and any other requirement affected by the security breach. You may not engage in activities designed to monitor Internet traffic other than your own. This means, that you may not monitor our Internet traffic, nor the Internet traffic of any other entity.

DMCA Copyright Infringement Information In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have adopted a policy to suspend or terminate the accounts of website owners found to be in violation of copyright. We respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask you to do the same. We may, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may be repeat infringers. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide our Copyright Agent (identified below) the following information:

An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest;

A description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;

A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;

Your address, telephone number, and email address;

A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;

A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner’s behalf.