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Acceptable Use Policy US Datacentre
An Acceptable Use Policy US Datacentre (AUP-USDC) is a set of rules and conditions systematized by a network, system or a website owner that define and restrict the ways in which the network, system or website may be utilized.
The AUP-USDC of ISHost, which is owned by DirectCyberTech, an INDIA company headquartered in Kerala, is aimed at explicitly outlining the purposes for which customers CANNOT use our hosting services and position data on our network servers.
This Acceptable Use Policy US Datacentre (AUP-USDC) is accepted as part of the US Datacentre Web Hosting Terms of Service each user agrees to abide by when signing up for an account with our hosting services. Any violation of these AUP-USDC terms will be considered as violation of our US Datacentre Web Hosting Terms of Service.
We – ISHost, shall be the final part to determine whether an act constitutes a violation of this AUP-USDC and misuse of our services. We reserve our right to respond accordingly and/or immediately terminate the provision of the services, shall we become aware, and/or have sufficient evidence, of any prohibited conduct outlined in this AUP-USDC, or any other action threatening the secure environment of our hosting customers and/or network of servers. We shall be the sole arbiter in determining the sufficiency of the present evidence.
In order to protect our company’s reputation and responsibilities, and guarantee robust and reliable hosting service to all our customers, as well as the privacy and security of all our individual users, we – ISHost – hereby state the following AUP-USDC conditions to come into force for each user signing up for a web hosting account with our hosting services:
SYSTEM ABUSE
Any customer in violation of our system or network security is subject to criminal and civil liability, as well as immediate account termination. Examples include, but are not limited to the following:
- – Unauthorized access, use, probe, or scan of our system’s security, authentication measures, data, or traffic. Interference with the service to any user, host or network including, but not limited to e-mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload the system and broadcast attacks, forging of any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or newsgroup posting.
- – Any attempt at doing harm to a server or a customer of ISHost services:
ISHost will immediately and resolutely react to any attempt at misuse of an Internet account or computer, or any attempt to gain access to an internet account or computer by a ISHost customer unauthorized by the account/computer owner. Such attempts include, but are not limited to the following: ‘Internet scamming’ (tricking other people into releasing their passwords, etc.), password robbery, security hole scanning, running proxy – proxy lists and any kind of proxy scripts (including, but not limited to php proxy and nph proxy), introducing of any computer programs (viruses, Trojan horses, trap doors, back doors, worms, time bombs, packet bombs, cancel bots, etc.) that are intended to negatively interfere with, intercept, irreversibly damage or take hold of any system, data or personal information. It WILL NOT matter whether the attacked account or computer belongs or not to ISHost services. The fraud will be subject to actions based on the very nature of the attack and those may represent a warning, an account suspension or cancellation, and/or civil or criminal legal actions.
- – Background operations/programs on servers:
‘Background process’ is a program that runs in the background of the operating system. What is specific for a background process is that, once started, it runs simultaneously with other foreground processes. This means that, the shell executing the background operation does not wait for it to finish or terminate, as it does with foreground processes, but is free to start executing more operations along with the background one. Typical background processes are ircd, irc bot, bnc, and many others.
Background processes are not permitted on any of our cloud hosting servers, as they usually lead to CPU overload and can be used for malicious and/or illegal actions. As our primary task is to provide highest quality web hosting service to all our customers, we cannot permit any background processes to be executed and threaten the performance of our server network. Our cloud hosting system does not allow a big multitude of users to simultaneously use the system memory and processing time of our servers.
- – Excessive use of system resources:
In order to ensure higher server performance and quality of hosting service all cloud hosting plans are subject to certain resource limitations concerning, but not limited to, server CPU usage, Memory usage, disk-space and traffic. If a hosting account exceeds the allowed amount of system resources the account owner will be immediately notified to take actions in order to decrease the usage. If such action is not instantly taken by the owner the account will be suspended. If an excessive CPU usage is detected the account owner will be offered to place an order for a CPU usage upgrade or upgrade to a plan which allows higher CPU usage.
If any hosting account is found to be causing degradation of the server and/or our hosting network’s performance, regardless of the reason, the account will be subject to suspension or immediate removal, depending on the situation. ISHost will be the sole arbiter in determining whether a given account is excessively using the server resources and/or causing a server degradation.
SPAM AND SPAMVERTIZING
SPAMMING IS PROHIBITED. Users MAY NOT utilize our hosting services to transmit, distribute or deliver any unsolicited bulk or commercial messages over the Internet (an action known as “spam” or “spamming”).
Spamming is a violation of ethic norms and will be interpreted as an infringement. ISHost will not tolerate the sending of unsolicited bulk or commercial messages through our services, as well as through another service that is mentioning, in some way, our customer’s domain name or implies the utilization of our network or our e-mail services for sending the unsolicited bulk or messages.
SPAMVERTISING IS PROHIBITED. ‘Spam vertexing’ refers to the practice of sending unsolicited spam messages for the purpose of advertising a particular website.
If such e-mails are relayed through 3rd party (e-mail spoofing) and/or are promoting a domain hosted on our servers, this will lead to immediate account suspension unless evidence of legitimacy for non-involvement of the domain owner in the particular illegal action is provided.
‘E-mail spoofing’ is a fraudulent e-mail activity in which the sender’s (3td party) e-mail address and other parts of the e-mail header are changed so as to appear that the e-mail has been sent from a different source (e-mail address owner/server).
‘Unsolicited message’ is a message that is sent against the privacy policy of a newsgroup or is sent to a recipient without their explicit permission. We, at our sole discretion, shall determine whether any of the messages you are sending is spam or spam vertexing. For your information, spamming generally includes, but is not limited to the following.
- – Sending of unsolicited messages in bulk, or sending of unsolicited e-mails, which provoke complaints from recipients.
- – Sending of junk mail.
- – Use of distribution lists that include people who have not given prior explicit permission to be involved in such a distribution process.
- – Posting commercial ads to USENET newsgroups that do not permit it.
- – Posting articles containing binary encoded data to non-binary newsgroups.
- – Excessive and repeated posting of off-topic messages to newsgroups.
- – Excessive and repeated cross-posting.
- – E-mail harassment of another Internet Customer or Customers, including but not limited to, transmitting of any threatening, libellous or obscene material, or material of any nature that may be deemed offensive.
- – E-mailing of age-inappropriate communications or content to anyone under the age of 18.
INAPPROPRIATE OR UNLAWFUL CONTENT
CONTENT published or transmitted via ISHost’ s hosting services includes website content, email content, forum/blog postings, chat content, and/or any other type of content hosted on our servers, published online, or transmitted through our network’s services.
The user of our services is NOT permitted to post online content or have links to content that:
- – is defamatory, abusive or obscene, violates a person’s reputation/privacy, is reasonably deemed offensive by the web community, is anti-religious or anti-human rights, or contains any type of threatening or hate speech, encourages harassment or physical harm to any group or individual, or is otherwise malicious/fraudulent and may result in complaints/liabilities/or retaliation against ISHost by offended viewers.
- – promotes or encourages illegal activities (e.g. illegal drugs, illegal gambling, arms trafficking, etc.) or violates any applicable law, statute, ordinance, or regulation, including but not limited to the laws and regulations governing export control, unfair competition, false advertising, consumer protection, etc.
- – represents pornography – any type of pornographic/adult material, including child pornography, or advertisements of pornographic websites.
- – represents infringement on copyright, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, or third party’s intellectual property or proprietary rights, including pirated computer programs, hacking/phreaking software, warez or any type of software/content (including also ROMs, ROM Emulators, media files – MP3, AVI, .RM, etc., torrent files, and others) that is copyrighted, is NOT uploaded in compliance with its license agreement or is NOT freely available for distribution.
COPYRIGHTS
Copyrighted material must not be placed on Customers’ accounts without the explicit permission of the copyright owner, or a person specifically authorized to give such permission by the copyright owner. Upon receipt of a claim for copyright infringement, or a notice of such violation, we will immediately run full investigation and, upon confirmation, will promptly remove the infringing material from the Services. Further procedures (in accordance with our stated below corrective measures) will be carried out if necessary. We will assume no liability to any Customer of the Services for the removal of any such material.
CORRECTIVE ACTIONS
We reserve our right to be the sole arbiter in determining the seriousness of each infringement and to immediately take corrective actions.
We will disable the customer’s account if we deem necessary, at our sole discretion. Upon closing of the customer’s account, we will send an e-mail notification to the customer, stating the reason for the termination and quoting our terms’ chapter that has been violated. The customer will be given an opportunity to respond and take measures to remedy the situation should he/she consider him/herself abused by a third party. Upon fulfilling of this obligation, we may re-activate the customer’s account, if we find, at our own discretion, sufficient evidence pro customer’s side.
Closed accounts due to repeated violations will not be re-activated. A backup may be requested; however, it will be subject to certain penalty fees imposed according to the breach of this AUP-USDC terms. The final penalty fee will be determined by the type and frequency of the violations.
REPORTING VIOLATIONS
If you need to report a violation of this AUP-USDC agreement or believe that you or your system has been subject to attack originating from our system, please contact us immediately. Our team will fully investigate the situation and provide you with professional assistance.
REVISIONS
We reserve our right to change this AUP-USDC at any time, without prior notice. We encourage our users to periodically review this Acceptable Use Policy and our Web Hosting Terms of Service.