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1. Offensive Content.
You may not publish or transmit via StaticHost’s
service any content that StaticHost 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 StaticHost; or
- is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may result in retaliation
against StaticHost by offended viewers.
Content “published or transmitted” via StaticHost’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 StaticHost.
2. Banned Scripts
You may not run any scripts on the StaticHost network
that consumes a considerable amount of processing time
or RAM usage. Furthermore, any scripts that act as a "proxy"
are not allowed; due to the malicious activity and traffic
that they attract to the StaticHost network. Banned scripts
include, but are not limited to: PHProxy, NPH-Proxy (CGI
Proxy) and BBlocked.
3. Security.
You must take reasonable security precautions. You must
protect the confidentiality of your password, and you
should change your password periodically.
4. Bulk Commercial
E-Mail.
You must obtain StaticHost’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 StaticHost’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 StaticHost’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@**yourdomain.com** 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 StaticHost
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 StaticHost
service. In addition, you may not use a third party e-mail
service that does not practice similar procedures for
all its customers.
StaticHost 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.
5. 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 StaticHost’s
services.
6. 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 StaticHost 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;
Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation
against the StaticHost network; or
- Use of StaticHost’s network in a way that
unreasonably interferes with StaticHost’s other
customer’s use of the network.
7. 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
Kingdom and United States copyright law to copy the
work in that manner.
StaticHost will terminate the service of repeat copyright
infringers.
8. Copyright
Infringement Notice (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
If you believe your copyright is being infringed by a
person using the StaticHost network, please e-mail your
written notice of copyright infringement to:
abuse@statichost.co.uk
Your notice must include the following:
- A 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 StaticHost to locate the material;
- Information reasonably sufficient to permit StaticHost
to contact you, such as an e-mail address, telephone
number, and, if available, a street 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.
9. Other.
You must have valid and current information on file with
your domain name registrar for any domain hosted on the
StaticHost network.
10. Disclaimer.
StaticHost 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 StaticHost network.
Inquiries regarding this policy should be e-mailed to
support@statichost.co.uk |
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