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What
you can & can't do with your WizardWebs hosted account.
WizardWebs Usage Policy
was developed with the following objectives:
- Ensure security,
reliability and privacy of WizardWebs's systems and network, and the
networks and systems of others.
- Preserve the
privacy and security of individual users.
- Encourage the
responsible use of net resources and discourage practices which degrade
the usability of network resources and thus the value of Internet
services.
- Maintain the
image and reputation of WizardWebs as a responsible provider.
- Avoid situations
that may cause WizardWebs to incur civil liability.
We expect our Customers
to use the Internet with courtesy and responsibility and to be familiar
with and to practice good Internet etiquette. By adhering to the following
policies, our customers are protecting the rights and privileges of all
Internet users.
Violation
of any of the following policies is strictly prohibited and may result
in immediate account suspension or termination.
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General
Conduct
- Customers
may not engage in tortious conduct including, but not limited
to, posting of defamatory, scandalous, or private information
about a person(s) or comapany without their consent, illegal pornography,
intentionally inflicting emotional distress, or making physical
threats against another person via email, news, or any other electronic
media/service we provide.
- Customers
are prohibited from transmitting on or through any of WizardWebs's
services, any material that is, in WizardWebs's sole discretion,
unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, or encourages conduct
that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability,
or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international
law, statute or regulation.
- WizardWebs's
services may only be used for lawful purposes. Transmission, distribution,
or storage of any information, data or material in violation of
Singapore's or local regulation or law, or by the common law,
or international law is prohibited. This includes, but is not
limited to, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade
secret, or any other statute, law or regulation. WizardWebs reserves
the right to remove such illegal material from its servers.
These could include any of the following:
Pornography, Obscenity, Sex Related Merchandise, Racism, Hacking,
Cracking, Virus, Warez, Pirated Software, Hacker's or Cracker's
Aids/Tools, Threatening acts, Malicious acts, Breaking any applicable
laws/regulations, Spamming, Online Gambling, Copyrighted MP3s
in any file formats (e.g. zip, rar, etc), Copyrighted movies in
any file formats (e.g. zip, rar, etc)
- The Customer
is responsible for providing and maintaining accurate and up-to-date
billing information. Furnishing false data on the signup form,
contract, or online application, including fraudulent use of credit
card numbers, is grounds for immediate termination, and may subject
the offender to civil or criminal liability.
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System
and Network Usage
- Email
- Harassment,
whether through language, frequency, or size of messages,
is prohibited.
- Customers
may not send any email that has not been solicited. If a recipient
asks to stop receiving email, the customer must not send that
person any further email.
- Customers
are explicitly prohibited from sending unsolicited bulk mail
messages ("junk mail" or "spam"). This includes, but is not
limited to, bulk-mailing of unsolicited commercial advertising,
informational announcements, and political tracts. Such material
may only be sent to those who have explicitly requested it.
- Customers
may not forward or otherwise propagate chain letters, whether
or not the recipient wishes to receive such mailings.
- Malicious
email, including but not limited to "mailbombing" (flooding
a user or site with very large or numerous pieces of email)
and "trolling" (posting outrageous messages to generate numerous
responses) is prohibited.
- Forging
of header or any other information is not permitted.
- Subscribing
someone else to a mail list or removing someone else from
a mail list without that person's permission is prohibited.
- WizardWebs
accounts or services may not be used to collect replies to
messages sent from another Internet Service Provider, where
those messages violate this Usage Policy or the usage policy
of that other provider.
- These
rules apply to other types of Internet-based distribution
mediums as well, such as RLG's Ariel system (a system for
sending FAX-like documents over the Internet).
- Customers
may not send Usenet spams (i.e. publicizing their site in
a large number of newsgroups that are irrelevant to the topic
of the site).
NOTE: WizardWebs
operates under a strict one-warning policy regarding unsolicited
email, unless the violation is of such nature that the account,
in our sole discretion requires immediate suspension or termination,
in which event service will be immediately suspended/terminated.
- Security
- Customers
may not attempt to circumvent user authentication or security
of any host, network, or account ("cracking"). This includes,
but is not limited to, accessing data not intended for the
customer, logging into a server or account the customer is
not expressly authorised to access, or probing the security
of other networks.
- Customers
may not attempt to interfere with service to any user, host,
or network ("denial of service attacks"). This includes, but
is not limited to, "flooding" of networks, overload of a service,
and any activity resulting in the "crash" of a host.
- Customers
may not use any kind of program/script/command, or send messages
of any kind, designed to interfere with a user's terminal
session, via any means, locally or by the Internet.
- Customers
must safeguard their account passwords to prevent unauthorised
access to their account. Customer is liable for all resource
fees incurred under customer's account. If customer grants
public write permissions to customer's account, customer is
liable for fees for disk space consumed by any others writing
to the account.
- Users
who violate systems or network security may incur criminal
or civil liability. WizardWebs will cooperate fully with investigations
of violations of systems or network security at other sites,
including cooperating with law enforcement authorities in
the investigation of suspected criminal violations.
- Privacy
- WizardWebs
will not sell or knowingly disclose its customer lists or
customer email or listserv address lists. We will attempt
to protect the privacy of our customers and their information
that is stored on our network. WizardWebs will only access
and disclose information as necessary to comply with applicable
laws and government requests, to operate and maintain our
systems and services, or to protect ourselves or our customers.
- WizardWebs
will not monitor or disclose a customer's private email messages
unless required by court order or law. We will cooperate with
the authorities and will notify such authorities if it suspects
that a customer is engaged in illegal activities.
- General
Uses
- Customers
may not permit the use of mail services, mail forwarding capabilities,
POP accounts, or autoresponders other than for the customer's
own account.
- Customer
may not resell space in their account. Should customer wish
to host materials for companies that are not under direct
control of customer, arrangements should be made by sending
mail to paul@wizardwebs.net.
Failure to comply with this is grounds for immediate suspension
of account until such time as the issue is resolved.
- Customers
may not employ posts or programs that consume excessive CPU
time or storage space. WizardWebs reserves the right to kill
off CPU intensive process.
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Material
and Product Requirements
- Customers
must ensure that all material and data placed on WizardWebs's
equipment is in a condition that is "server-ready," which is in
a form requiring no additional manipulation on WizardWebs's part.
We shall make no effort to validate this information for content,
correctness or usability. In the event that the Customer's material
is not "server-ready", we have the option at any time to reject
this material. WizardWebs will notify the customer immediately
of its refusal of the material and afford the customer the opportunity
to amend or modify the material to satisfy the needs and/or requirements
of WizardWebs.
- Use of WizardWebs's
service requires a certain level of knowledge in the use of Internet
languages, protocols, and software. This level of knowledge varies
depending on the anticipated use and desired content of the customer's
Web space. Customers must have the necessary knowledge to create
and maintain a Web space. It is not the responsibility of WizardWebs
to provide this knowledge or customer support outside of the service
as agreed by WizardWebs and the customer.
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Customer
Responsible for Backups
- Customer
is responsible for maintaining a backup copy of customer's WizardWebs
files elsewhere to ensure recovery in the event of loss or damage
to customer's files. WizardWebs makes periodic backups of all
files, but makes no guarantees of any kind, either expressed or
implied, as to the integrity of these backups. Should the file
loss be due to some error on the part of WizardWebs, WizardWebs
will attempt to recover the files from their most recent archives
at no cost to the customer. Should the file loss be due to some
action of the customer, or due to vandalism brought on by the
customer's negligence of securing their account, WizardWebs will
attempt to recover the files from their most recent archives.
This may be at cost to the customer.
THE USAGE
POLICY DEFINES THE ACTIONS WHICH WizardWebs CONSIDERS TO BE ABUSIVE OR
ILLEGAL, AND THUS, STRICTLY PROHIBITED. THE EXAMPLES SET FORTH IN THIS
POLICY ARE NON-EXCLUSIVE, AND ARE PROVIDED SOLELY FOR GUIDANCE TO WizardWebs'
CUSTOMERS. If you are unsure whether any contemplated use or activity
is prohibited, please send email to paul@wizardwebs.net
and we will assist you. Please note that the actions listed are also not
permitted from other Internet Service Providers on behalf of, or to advertise,
any service hosted by WizardWebs, or connected via our network. Furthermore,
such services may not be advertised via deceptive marketing policies.
WizardWebs must further limit any exceptions made to the Usage Policy
as secondary in regards to server and network security, performance and
integrity. Any user, regardless of exception status, may have his or her
service temporarily disabled if it is interfering with our servers or
network.
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