Acceptable Use Policy
This AUP governs the use of HostingPlans.com's
web hosting service. Violation of this AUP may result in suspension
or termination of your service. In the event of a dispute between
you and HostingPlans.com regarding the interpretation of this
AUP, HostingPlans.com's interpretation, in its reasonable commercial
judgment, shall govern. If you have any questions regarding this
AUP, contact our Pre-Sales Department.
Table of Contents
Offensive Content
Security
Bulk Commercial E-Mail
Unsolicited E-Mail
Material Protected by Copyright
Copyright Infringement Notice
Other
Disclaimer
**Internet Abuse**
**Newsgroup, Chat Forums, Other Networks**
Offensive Content
You may not publish or transmit via HostingPlans.com's
service any content that HostingPlans.com reasonably believes:
- constitutes child pornography;
- constitutes pornography;
- is excessively violent, incites violence,
threatens violence, or contains harassing content or hate speech;
- is unfair or deceptive under the consumer
protection laws of any jurisdiction, including chain letters
and pyramid schemes;
- is defamatory or violates a person's privacy;
- creates a risk to a person's safety or health,
creates a risk to public safety or health, compromises national
security, or interferes with a investigation by law enforcement;
- improperly exposes trade secrets or other
confidential or proprietary information of another person;
- is intended to assist others in defeating
technical copyright protections;
- clearly infringes on another person's trade
or service mark, patent, or other property right;
- promotes illegal drugs, violates export control
laws, relates to illegal gambling, or illegal arms trafficking;
- is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct
that is illegal under laws applicable to you or to HostingPlans.com;
or
- is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may
result in retaliation against HostingPlans.com by offended
viewers.
Content "published or transmitted" via HostingPlans.com's
service includes Web content, e-mail, bulletin board postings,
chat, and any other type of posting or transmission that relies
on any Internet service provided by HostingPlans.com.
Security
You must take reasonable security precautions. You must
protect the confidentiality of your password, and you should change
your password periodically.
Bulk Commercial E-Mail
You must obtain HostingPlans.com's advance approval for
any bulk commercial e-mail, which will not be given unless you
are able to demonstrate all of the following to HostingPlans.com's
reasonable satisfaction:
- Your intended recipients have given
their consent to receive e-mail via some affirmative means,
such as an opt-in procedure;
- Your procedures for soliciting consent include
reasonable means to ensure that the person giving consent is
the owner of the e-mail address for which the consent is given;
- You retain evidence of the recipient's consent
in a form that may be promptly produced on request, and you
honor recipient's and HostingPlans.com's requests to produce
consent evidence within 72 hours of receipt of the request.
- The body of the e-mail must describe how the
e-mail address was obtained, for example, "You opted in to
receive this e-mail promotion from our Web site or from one
of our partner sites," and information on how to request evidence
of the consent, for example, "If you would like to learn more
about how we received your e-mail address please contact us
at abuse@** yourdomain.com **.
- You have procedures in place that allow a
recipient to easily revoke their consent - such as a link in
the body of the e-mail, or instructions to reply with the word "Remove" in
the subject line. Revocations of consent are honored within
72 hours, and you notify recipients that their revocation of
their consent will be honored in 72 hours;
- You must post an abuse@** yourdoman.co**m e-mail
address on the first page of any Web site associated with the
e-mail, you must register that address at abuse.net, and you
must promptly respond to messages sent to that address;
- You must have a Privacy Policy posted for
each domain associated with the mailing;
- You have the means to track anonymous complaints;
- You may not obscure the source of your e-mail
in any manner. Your e-mail must include the recipients e-mail
address in the body of the message or in the "TO" line of the
e-mail; and
- You otherwise comply with the CAN SPAM Act
and other applicable law.
These policies apply to messages sent using your
HostingPlans.com service, or to messages sent from any network
by you or any person on your behalf that directly or indirectly
refer the recipient to a site hosted via your HostingPlans.com
service. In addition, you may not use a third party e-mail service
that does not practice similar procedures for all its customers.
HostingPlans.com may test and otherwise monitor
your compliance with its requirements, including requesting opt-in
information from a random sample of your list at any time.
Unsolicited E-Mail
You may not send any unsolicited e-mail, either in bulk
or individually, to any person who has indicated that they do not
wish to receive it.
You must comply with the rules of any other network
you access or participate in using your HostingPlans.com's services.
Material Protected by Copyright
You may not publish, distribute, or otherwise copy in
any manner any music, software, art, or other work protected by
copyright law unless:
- you have been expressly authorized by the
owner of the copyright for the work to copy the work in that
manner;
- you are otherwise permitted by established
United States copyright law to copy the work in that manner.
*HostingPlans.com will terminate the service of repeat
copyright infringers.
Copyright Infringement Notice (Digital
Millennium Copyright Act)
If you believe your copyright is being infringed by a
person using the HostingPlans.com network, please visit the following website to submit your written
notice of copyright infringement:
http://www.copyright.gov/
Your notice must include the following:
- A physical or electronic signature of a person
authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right
that is allegedly infringed;
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed
to have been infringed, or if multiple copyrighted words at
a single site are covered by a single notification, a representative
list of such works at that site;
- Identification of the material that is claimed
to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity
and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled,
and information reasonably sufficient to permit HostingPlans.com
to locate the material;
- Information reasonably sufficient to permit
HostingPlans.com to contact you, such as an address, telephone
number, and, if available, an e-mail address;
- A statement that you have a good faith belief
that use of the material in the manner complained of is not
authorized by the copyright owner, the copyright owner's agent,
or the law;
- A statement that the information in the notification
is accurate, and under penalty of perjury that you are authorized
to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is
allegedly infringed
Other
You must have valid and current information on file with
your domain name registrar for any domain hosted on the HostingPlans.com
network.
Disclaimer
HostingPlans.com is under no duty, and does not by this
AUP undertake a duty, to monitor or police our customers' activities
and disclaims any responsibility for any misuse of the HostingPlans.com
network.
Inquiries regarding this policy should be directed
to our Pre-Sales Department.
Internet Abuse
You may not engage in illegal, abusive, or irresponsible
behavior, including:
- Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks,
including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability
of a system or network or to breach security or authentication
measures (including those belonging to HostingPlans.com and
its customers) without express authorization of the owner of
the system or network;
- monitoring data or traffic on any network or system without
the authorization of the owner of the system or network;
- Interference with service to any user, host or network including,
without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts
to overload a system and broadcast attacks;
- Use of an Internet account or computer without the owner's
authorization, including, but not limited to Internet scanning
(tricking other people into releasing their passwords), password
robbery, security hole scanning, and port scanning;
- Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header
information in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting; or
- Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against
the HostingPlans.com's network.
- Use of HostingPlans.com's network in a way that unreasonably
interferes with HostingPlans.com's other customers use of the
network
Newsgroup, Chat Forums, Other Networks
You must comply with the rules and conventions for postings
to any bulletin board, chat group or other forum in which you participate,
such as IRC and USENET groups including their rules for content
and commercial postings. These groups usually prohibit the posting
of off-topic commercial messages, or mass postings to multiple
forums.