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Acceptable Usage Policy
Acceptable Usage
Policy
Important Note: This
document is updated often. Please make a habit of reviewing it
from time to time to stay abreast of acceptable as well as
inappropriate uses of your iHostKing.com Web Hosting account.
Reports of activity in violation of this policy may be sent via
e-mail to
abuse@ihostking.com.
This document is
divided into the following sections:
Introduction
General Information
Shell Account Policies
Electronic Mail
Web Sites
Security
Network Management
Network Performance
Illegal Activity
Introduction
When
you open your iHostKing.com account, you join two communities. First is the
community formed by our network and our customers; the second
community is the one
made up of all networks and users connected to
each other to form the Internet. Becoming a
member of these
communities gives you certain rights and privileges, but also
imposes
certain duties and responsibilities. iHostKing.com has established
an Acceptable Use Policy in
order to make these duties and
responsibilities more clear. This document is intended to
provide a
general understanding of iHostKing.com's Acceptable Use Policy. The
following
factors guide the establishment and enforcement of
iHostKing.com's usage policies:
 | Ensure reliable service to
our customers |
| Ensure security and privacy
of our systems and network, as well as the networks and
systems of others |
| Comply with existing laws
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| Maintain our reputation as
a responsible service provider |
| Encourage responsible use
of the Internet and discourage activities which reduce the
usability and value of Internet services |
| Preserve the value of
Internet resources as a conduit for free expression and
exchange of information |
| Preserve the privacy and
security of individual users
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iHostKing.com intends to provide
its customers access to everything the Internet has to
offer. While iHostKing.com is firmly committed to the principles of
free speech, certain activities are damaging to the
resources of both iHostKing.com and the Internet and cannot be
permitted under the guise of free speech. The resources of
iHostKing.com and the Internet are limited, and abuse of these
resources by one user has a negative impact on the entire
community.
We do not routinely monitor
the activity of accounts except for measurements of system
utilization and the preparation of billing records. However,
in our efforts to promote good citizenship within the
Internet community, we will respond appropriately if we
become aware of inappropriate use of our service.
If a iHostKing.com account is used
to violate the Acceptable Use Policy, we reserve the right
to terminate your service without notice and you agree to
indemnify iHostKing.com and its affiliates against any claims
threatened or brought by third parties as a result of your
violation of this Acceptable Use Policy and/or the content
of your website. We prefer to advise customers of
inappropriate behavior and any necessary corrective action.
However, flagrant violations of the Acceptable Use Policy
will result in immediate termination of service. Our failure
to enforce this policy, for whatever reason, shall not be
construed as a waiver of our right to do so at any time.
If you have any questions
regarding this policy, please contact us at
abuse@iHostKing.com.com
General Information
iHostKing.com customers are prohibited
from transmitting on or through any of
iHostKing.com's services, any
material that is, in iHostKing.com's sole discretion, unlawful,
obscene, threatening, abusive, defamatory, libelous, or
encourages conduct that would
constitute a criminal offense,
give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any local,
state,
federal or international law. In general, you may NOT
use your iHostKing.com account:
| In a manner which violates
any law, regulation, treaty or tariff;
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| In a manner which violates
the rules, regulations and policies of any network, server,
web site, database or service provider that you access
through your iHostKing.com account;
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| In a manner which is
defamatory, fraudulent, indecent, offensive or deceptive;
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| To threaten, harass, abuse
or intimidate others; |
| To damage the name or
reputation of iHostKing.com, its parent, affiliates and
subsidiaries; |
| To break security on any
computer network, or to access an account which does not
belong to you; or |
| In a manner which
interferes with other customers' use and enjoyment of the
services provided by iHostKing.com.
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iHostKing.com's services may only be
used for lawful purposes. Transmission, distribution, or
storage
of any information, data or material in violation of United
States or state regulation
or law, or by the common law, is
prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, material
protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, or any other
statute. iHostKing.com's
reserves the right to remove such illegal
material from its servers or to immediately
terminate your
services.
The customer is responsible for
keeping their billing data with iHostKing.com up-to-date and
accurate.
Furnishing false data on any contract or application, including
fraudulent use of
credit card numbers, is grounds for immediate
termination, and may subject the offender to
civil or criminal
liability.
iHostKing.com reserves sole discretion
to determine whether any use of the service is a
violation of
this policy. Guidelines for using your account follows. This
information is only a
guideline, and is not intended to be
all-inclusive.
Certain iHostKing.com accounts give you
the ability to send and receive electronic mail.
Misuse of
electronic mail may result in termination of service. The
following examples are
non-exclusive and are provided for your
guidance.
| You may not use your account to
send unsolicited bulk or commercial messages. ("spam") This
includes, but is not limited to, bulk mailing of commercial
advertising, informational announcements, charity requests,
petitions for signatures, and political or religious tracts.
Such messages may only be sent to those who have explicitly
requested it. |
| You may not use your account to
collect responses from unsolicited bulk or commercial e-mail
sent from accounts with other providers. |
| Forging, altering or removing
electronic mail headers is prohibited. |
| You may not send numerous copies
of the same or substantially similar message, nor may you send
very large messages or files to a recipient, with the intent to
disrupt a server or account ("mail bombing").
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| You may not use electronic mail
to harass or intimidate others. Harassment, whether through
language, frequency of messages, or size of messages, is
prohibited. Sending a single unwelcome message may be considered
harassment. If a recipient asks to stop receiving e-mail, you
must not send that person any further messages. |
| You may not forward or otherwise
propagate chain letters, whether or not such messages solicit
money or other items of value, and whether or not the recipient
wishes to receive such mailings. |
| iHostKing.com accounts may not be used
to collect replies to messages sent from another Internet
service provider if those messages violate this Acceptable Use
Policy or the acceptable use policy of the other service
provider. |
| If you use the services of
another provider to promote a web site hosted by or through
iHostKing.com, then the provisions of this Acceptable Use Policy shall
apply to the methods used to promote such site.
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Web Sites
iHostKing.com provides storage space
and access for web sites through its Web Hosting
services. In
addition, dedicated accounts may provide for the hosting of web
sites.
iHostKing.com will not routinely monitor the contents of your
web sites.
You are solely responsible for
any information contained on your web site. However, if
complaints are received regarding language, content or graphics
contained on your web site,
iHostKing.com may, at its sole discretion,
remove the web site hosted on iHostKing.com
servers and terminate your
Web Hosting service. You agree to promptly reimburse
iHostKing.com for
any reasonable expenses it incurs (including attorney's fees) in
defending
itself form third party claims relating to any of the
content (whether created by you, your
customers or your users)
contained on your website.
You may not use your web site to
publish material which iHostKing.com determines, at its
sole
discretion, to be unlawful, indecent or objectionable. For
purposes of this policy,
"material" refers to all forms of
communications including narrative descriptions, graphics
(including photographs, illustrations, images, drawings, logos),
executable programs, video
recordings, and audio recordings.
Unlawful content
is that which violates any law, statute, treaty, regulation, or
lawful order.
This includes, but is not limited to: obscene
material; defamatory, fraudulent or deceptive
statements;
threatening, intimidating or harassing statements, or material
which violates
the privacy rights or property rights of others
(copyrights or trademarks, for example).
Objectionable content
is otherwise legal content with which iHostKing.com concludes, in its
sole discretion, it does not want to be associated in order to
protect its reputation and
brand image, or to protect its
employees, shareholders and affiliates.
Examples of prohibited web site
content:
| Materials which hold iHostKing.com
including its affiliates, employees or shareholders up to public
scorn or ridicule.
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| Materials which encourage the
commission of a crime; or which tends to incite violence; or
which tends to degrade any person or group based on sex,
nationality, religion, color, age, marital status, sexual
orientation, disability or political affiliation.
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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
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.
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 ("cracking"). 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.
Users who violate systems or
network security may incur criminal or civil liability.
iHostKing.com
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.
Network Management
You are responsible for ensuring
that the services obtained from iHostKing.com are used in
an
appropriate manner by your customers and users. Therefore, you
must take steps to
manage the use of the services obtained from
iHostKing.com in such a way that network
abuse is minimized. You must
also make information publicly available about how to contact
you, and you must respond in a timely manner to complaints
concerning misuse of the
services obtained from iHostKing.com. Failure
to responsibly manage the use of the services
obtained from
iHostKing.com may be cause for termination of services to you.
You must designate one or more
individuals ("Contacts") to be responsible for every host, IP
network or subnet connected to the Internet through the use of
the services. You must
provide Contact names, phone numbers, and
postal and e-mail addresses ("Contact
Information") to any and
all appropriate Domain Name Registrars prior to the initial
network
connection of your service. You must keep Contact
Information updated and accurate at all
times. Changes in the
Contact Information must be sent to the appropriate Domain Name
Registrars in a timely manner.
Contacts must have the
authority, access and tools necessary to configure, operate and
control access to your systems. For important timesharing hosts,
primary domain name
servers and mail relays or gateways,
Contacts must be accessible to iHostKing.com via
telephone 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week.
Every customer who allows third
party access to the services provided by iHostKing.com,
whether such
third parties are employees, users or customers, must maintain a
postmaster
address for the receipt of complaints by e-mail.
Messages delivered to the postmaster
address must be reviewed
and handled in a timely manner.
Network Performance
iHostKing.com accounts operate on
shared resources. Excessive use or abuse of these
shared network
resources by one customer may have a negative impact on all
other
customers. Misuse of network resources in a manner which
impairs network performance is
prohibited by this policy and may
result in termination of your account.
You are prohibited from
excessive consumption of resources, including CPU time, memory,
disk space and session time. You may not use resource-intensive
programs which negatively
impact other customers or the
performance of iHostKing.com systems or networks.
iHostKing.com reserves the
right to terminate or limit such activities.
Illegal Activity
Any activity on our network that
is a violation of any state or federal law is a violation of
this
policy and will result in immediate termination of service.
Prohibited activities include, but are
not limited to:
| Transmitting obscene materials
or child pornography
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| Intentionally spreading or
threatening to spread computer viruses
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| Gaining or attempting to gain
unauthorized access to any network, including iHostKing.com's private
network infrastructure
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| Accessing or attempting to
access information not intended for you
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| Transmitting pirated software
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| Conducting or participating in
illegal gambling
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| Soliciting for pyramid and other
illegal schemes.
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iHostKing.com does not permit any site
that contains:
| (i) images (including on banner ads) of nude
models that appear to be under the age of 18 (in iHostKing.com's sole
judgment), |
| (ii) sexually explicit images (including on banner
ads) of models that appear to be under the age of 18 (in
iHostKing.com's sole judgment); or |
| (iii) sites containing language
promoting child pornography together with any sexually explicit
or nude images. |
As required by federal law in the United States,
iHostKing.com will forward all offenders of
this policy to the
appropriate federal agency.
iHostKing.com
reserves the right to add, delete, or modify any provision of
its Terms of
Service Agreement, and Acceptable Usage Policy at any time
without notice.
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