ProHosting > Policies > Acceptable Use Policy
By subscribing
to, or utilizing, ProHosting's web hosting or any related services, you
agree to abide by this Acceptable Use Policy.
Your utilization of ProHosting’s services constitutes
your express agreement to abide by this Acceptable Use Policy (the "Rules"),
as the same may be changed from time-to-time by ProHosting, at its sole and
absolute discretion. These Rules are designed to enhance the quality of our
Web Hosting services and to protect our customers, and the Internet community
as a whole, from illegal, irresponsible, or disruptive Internet activities.
These Rules apply to all customers of ProHosting. We hope and expect that common
sense and good judgment will guide all of our customers' use of our ProHosting
Services. Even with such Rules in effect, minors should be supervised when
using the Internet. Adults and minors should be aware of what is on the Internet
and to understand the concept of what is accepted and what should be avoided.
The following non-exhaustive list details the kinds of illegal or harmful conduct,
which are prohibited. ProHosting reserves the right to restrict or prohibit
any and all uses of its services or content on your Web site and to remove
such materials, including your Web site, from its servers at any time ProHosting
determines in its sole discretion that such content or materials violates this
Agreement, is illegal, or is harmful to its servers, systems, network, reputation,
good will, other ProHosting customers, or any third party. Only the customer
may add content to their paid ProHosting Web site. ProHosting will not force
content to appear on the customer's paid ProHosting Web site without giving
30 days written notice by e-mail or by snail mail. Depending on the severity
of the violation and the history of your account, ProHosting may take any reasonable
disciplinary action it determines in its sole and absolute discretion, including,
but not limited to, one or more of the foregoing or following actions: (a)
issuance of a verbal or written warning; (b) suspension of your account; (c)
termination of your account; (c) billing for administrative and legal costs
and fees and/or reactivation costs. All of the foregoing rights are cumulative,
and the exercise of any right at any time shall not preclude the exercise of
any other right, or the same right, at any other time for the same violation
or any subsequent violation
Illegal or Improper Activities. You may not use ProHosting’s
services or servers in any manner in violation of any state, local or
federal law of the United States of America, or any of its states or which
in any manner is in violation of any applicable local or national law
of any country. Such violations and activities include, but are not limited
to, violations of U.S. or other applicable foreign export laws or restrictions
including the U.S. Export Administration Act and accompanying regulations,
posting or trafficking in government secrets, providing any information
to in any way assist or encourage any terrorist activities, providing
any information concerning nuclear or biological weapons or other weapons
of mass destruction, posting or trafficking in obscene material, solicitation
of a minor or others for illegal acts, dealing drugs, harassment, fraud,
stalking, abuse, or other subject matters that are prohibited under applicable
federal, state, local or foreign law.
Dangerous Activities. You may not use ProHosting’s services or
servers to post or disseminate in any manner, any information or material
which may be dangerous, damaging or injurious to persons or property or
which, directly or indirectly, may be used to create danger, damage or
injury to persons or property.
Infringement. You may not use ProHosting’s services or servers
in any manner which infringes the intellectual property rights or other
proprietary rights of any third party including, without limitation, material
protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other intellectual
property right used without proper authorization. Infringement may result
from, among other activities, the unauthorized copying and posting of
pictures, logos, software, articles, musical works, and videos. In compliance
with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), please send DMCA notifications
of claimed copyright infringements to: Director or Security, ProHosting
, security@prohosting.com.
Fraudulent Activities. You may not offer or disseminate fraudulent
goods, services, schemes, or promotions (i.e., make money fast schemes,
chain letters, pyramid schemes, ponzi schemes), or furnish false data
on any signup form, contract or online application or registration, or
fraudulently use any information obtained through the use of ProHosting’s
servers or services, including without limitation use of credit card numbers.
Offensive Subject Matter. You may not use ProHosting’s services
or servers for transmitting, disseminating, sale, storage or hosting subject
matter that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic,
indecent, lewd, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, threatening, hateful,
harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory
or otherwise objectionable. You may not use ProHosting’s services or servers
to conduct any sexually oriented business or disseminate pornographic
pictures, videos, banners, text or any similar material. You may not use
ProHosting’s services or servers to threaten bodily harm or destruction
of property.
Harmful Activities. You may not use ProHosting’s services or
servers for disseminating or hosting harmful content including, without
limitation, viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or any
other computer programming routines that may damage, interfere with, surreptitiously
intercept or expropriate any system, program, data or personal information.
Tortuous Activities. You may not use ProHosting’s services or
servers for any tortuous conduct, including, but limited to, posting defamatory,
libelous, slanderous, scandalous, or private information about a person
or company without their consent; intentionally inflicting emotional distress;
making unlawful threats; stalking, interfering with any contract or prospective
economic relations; engaging in fraud or deception; engaging in sexual
or other harassment; or for violating any patents, trademarks, copyrights,
or other intellectual property rights.
Abusive Activities. You may not use ProHosting’s services or
servers for any abusive activities on the Internet, including, but not
limited to, activities such as using a non-existent email return address,
spamming (sending unsolicited advertising to numerous email addresses
or newsgroups and/or generating a significantly higher volume of outgoing
email than a normal user), or allowing spamming by third parties to promote
a Web site, trolling (posting outrageous messages to generate numerous
responses), mail-bombing (sending multiple messages without significant
new content to the same user), subscribing someone else to a mailing list
without that person=s permission, cross-posting articles to an excessive
number o newsgroups, hacking ( unauthorized access to or use of data,
systems, server or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test
the vulnerability of a system or to breach the security thereof), spoofing
(any attempt to impersonate any person or otherwise deceive or mislead
through alteration of headers); deletion of author attributions, legal
notices, or proprietary designations in an effort to deceive or mislead;
forging or altering any TCP-IP packet header, email header or any part
of a message header, using manual or electronic means to avoid any use
limitations on you use of ProHosting’s servers such as timing out; sending
or disseminating harassing email or chain letters; or use of flames (hostile
attacks or invectives aimed at a group or an individual.
Misuse of System Resources. You may not engage in any uses or
activities that misuse ProHosting’s services, servers or system resources,
including, but not limited to employing or posting programs which consume
excessive CPU time or storage space; permitting use of mail services,
mail forwarding capabilities, POP accounts, or autoresponders other than
for your own account; or resale of access to CGI scripts installed on
ProHosting’s servers.
Service Contract: Virtual
Hosting Service is subject to the following terms and conditions:
1. The
specific fees and surcharges vary depending on the particular plan ordered.
ProHosting may change and institute new fees and surcharges at any time
upon thirty(30) days prior notice via e-mail or snail mail. Either party
may terminate the service without cause or prior notice.
2. The client agrees
to comply with the Acceptable Use Policy set forth above and to refrain
from any of the unacceptable uses set forth therein. ProHosting reserves
an absolute right to determine for itself what is abusive, pornographic,
offensive, or inappropriate and will terminate the service in the event
it deems any use to violate the said Policy.
3. The client agrees that ProHosting
has the right and responsibility to fully cooperate in any legal investigation
regarding any aspect of services, including services sold to the client.
Any use or attempted use of system to engage in software piracy or other
illegal activities will result in an immediate termination of service and
a report to the FTP, SPA, or other appropriate authorities.
4. The client
agrees to indemnify and hold ProHosting harmless in connection with any
controversy or legal action arising from the client's use of service, including
but not limited to controversies over domain name selection and web site
content.
5. ProHosting does not warrant that the eCommerce Software Solution
(including any documentation) will meet Client's requirements or that the
operation of the Software will be uninterrupted or error free. THE ECOMMERCE
SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AND THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT ARE
SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMED WITH RESPECT TO THE SOFTWARE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS
TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS WITH THE CLIENT AND SHOULD
THE SOFTWARE PROVE DEFECTIVE, CLIENT AND NOT ProHosting ASSUMES THE ENTIRE
COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION UNLESS OTHERWISE AGREED.
No oral or written information or advice given by ProHosting, its marketers,
distributors, agents or employees shall create a warranty or in any way
increase the scope of Client's rights set forth herein, and Client may not
rely on any such information or advice. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY IN NO EVENT
SHALL ProHosting BE LIABLE TO CLIENT FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL OR
SPECIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF USE, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION,
LOSS OF DATA OR COST OF OBTAINING SUBSTITUTE GOODS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING
TO THE SOFTWARE, OR THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ProHosting
HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. The foregoing limitations
of liability shall apply notwithstanding any failure of essential purpose
of any limited remedy stated herein. liability to Client or any third party
arising out of or related to this Agreement however caused and arising under
any theory of liability, whether based in contract, tort (including negligence),
or otherwise shall not exceed in aggregate the Client Fees paid by Client
for the Software. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF
LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION
OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO Client.
6. Although ProHosting backs up its
systems regularly and works hard to prevent technical problems, system failures,
and service disruptions, such occurrences are possible, particularly in
connection with such things as total power losses, natural calamities, acts
of war or terrorism, destructive acts of hackers, or band width charges
on the Internet. System backup is therefore not guaranteed and each client
therefore agrees to maintain a backup copy of his or her web site and any
other important information and to store the same on his or her own computer.
The client further agrees that liability for any failure to provide virtual
hosting service regardless of cause or duration shall be limited to a refund
of the fees paid for the month in which the failures occur. It is specifically
agreed that ProHosting shall under no circumstances be liable for any lost
profits or other consequential damages.
7. This agreement is not assignable
or transferable without express written consent of ProHosting. The terms
and conditions of this agreement shall be interpreted and enforced pursuant
to the laws of the State of Utah.
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