Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

Profitable Web Projects SLU (PWP1) provides internet hosting services. By using the Services provided by PWP1, Customers agree to comply with the Acceptable Use Policies outlined in this agreement and also to indemnify PWP1 against any claims by third parties arising from violation of this Policy.

PWP1 reserves the right to make changes to this Acceptable Use Policy at any time, and any changes will be effective immediately upon posting to our website pwp1.net. PWP1's Customers are responsible for regularly reviewing the Policy. Continued use of the Services following any changes shall constitue acceptance of the changes.

This policy recognises the fundamental fact that no one owns or controls the Internet. PWP1 cannot monitor or control all the activities of our Customers. We do not intend to actively screen, review, censor, edit or take responsibility for the activities or content of our Customers. The Customer, not PWP1, assumes all responsibility relating to their Internet activities including, but not limited to:

  • Aspects of the Customer's business
  • Content and data provided by or through a Customer or the Customer's end users for use with the Services
  • Decisions about Customer's computer and communications systems needed to access the Services
  • Results obtained from using the PWP1 services
  • Compliance with all applicable laws and governmental regulations regarding Customer's business or use of the Services.
  • Use of the PWP services by Customer's end users
  • Compliance with this Acceptable Use Policy by the Customer and the Customer's end users.

Activities conducted on the Internet are subject to many of the same laws and regulations applicable to the offline environment. Customers must exercise a high degree of judgement and responsibility with respect to their use of the Services, including the responsibility to comply with this Acceptable Use Policy. Customers will violate this Policy when they or their affiliates engage in any of the following activities:

Network and Other Abuse

Using the PWP1 network or other PWP1 resources in any way that adversely affects other PWP1 Customers is strictly prohibited. This includes but is not limited to:

  • Gaining or attempting to gain unauthorised access to servers or services. Such attempts include "Internet scamming" (tricking other people into releasing their personal information), password robbery, security hole scanning, port scanning, probing, monitoring or testing for system or network vulnerabilities.
  • Introducing viruses, trojan horses, trap doors, back doors, Easter eggs, worms, time bombs, packet bombs, cancel bots or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.
  • Intentionally omitting, deleting, forging or misrepresenting transmission information, including headers, return addressing information and IP addresses. Using IP addresses which were not assigned to them by PWP1
  • Maintaining an open email relay/open data relay or allowing any data to be sent through services purchased from PWP1 by an unrelated third party, including, but not limited to, via open email gateways or open proxy servers.

Illegal Content

Accounts may be terminated that include content or which have links to content that:

  • Is unlawful or considered offensive by the web community. Promotes injury or harm against any group or individual
  • Promotes or teaches illegal activities
  • Exploits or depicts children in a negative/sexual way
  • Infringes on copyright, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, or other intellectual property including pirated computer programs, cracker utilities, warez and software serial numbers or registration codes.
  • Violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation governing the Customer's business or activities, including without limitation the laws and regulations governing export control, unfair competition, false advertising, consumer protection, issuance or sale of securities, trade in firearms, privacy, data transfer and telecommunications.

SPAM or Unsolicited Commercial Email

PWP1 has zero tolerance for the sending of SPAM or Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) over our network. PWP1's Customers must not send UCE and must not host sites or information advertised in UCE. Customers are also responsible for the actions of their clients and must take all reasonable precautions to secure their servers and/or sites against SPAM exploits (e.g. open email relays and insecure scripts).

Violating our UCE or SPAM policy will result in penalties. Upon detection or notification of a violation of our UCE policy, PWP1 will initiate an immediate investigation. During this time, outgoing mail may be suspended from the offending ip address or site to prevent further violations. If a client is found to be in violation of our UCE policy, PWP1 will impose penalties and/or, at its discretion, restrict or terminate the offending account and the Customer's access to our network. Repeated or serious violations may result in the immediate termination of the account. SPAM is a very serious matter. PLEASE DO NOT SPAM. EDUCATE YOUR CLIENTS and TAKE ALL PRECAUTIONS against SPAM EXPLOITS.

Legitimate email

  • Subscribers to the One Site Hosting package are limited to a maximum transmission volume of 250 e-mails per hour per domain. Contact us if you require a greater email transmission volume.
  • All e-mail sent by companies using any of our servers must clearly state the registered address of the sender, place of registration and company registration number.
  • All marketing e-mail sent via our servers must offer a clear, simple and functional unsubscribe route.
  • Messages to consumers must only be sent to e-mail addresses which have been collected in a manner under which the e-mail address owner has been provided with a clear choice to receive or not to receive marketing e-mails. We recommend the same for messages to businesses.

Administrative Login and Management Software

To facilitate network/server management, inventory and related activities, All PWP1 Servers include a PWP1 administrative account and password and/or daemon. All reasonable precautions are taken by PWP1 and it's providers to maintain the security of these tools and the privacy of client data. Customers must not tamper, hinder, delete, or in any way change the functioning of these tools. To do so intentionally or otherwise is grounds for the immediate suspension of Customer's hosting account.

Fair usage of shared, burstable resources

For some shared resources we require that customers do not continuously use an unreasonable excess of those resources (using them in a burstable fashion is, of course, entirely acceptable). Examples of an excess might include continuously & actively using swap on a virtual server rather than upgrading RAM, running software that uses all available CPU constantly (such as SETI@Home) or continuously using many times the base-allocation of unmetered bandwidth. In such circumstances we reserve the right, at our discretion, to request that the client cease such activities or be forcibly upgraded to a more suitable package or, in the case of excess use of unmetered bandwidth, be moved to a metered bandwidth connection.

Account Cancellation

This Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is not exhaustive. PWP1 has the right to refuse service to anyone at any time WITHOUT WARNING OR PRIOR NOTICE. No refunds of fees paid will be made if account termination is due to a violation of the Acceptable Use Policy as outlined above.
 
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