Webbit Hosting - Acceptable Use Policy

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Interpretation

The following policy is intended to be a guideline to WEBBIT HOSTING's position against violations of the accepted norms of the internet community and is not intended to be exhaustive. We reserve the right at all times to protect our reputation and goodwill.

Web Space

1. The customer must not disclose his/her password to any third party.
2. The customer is responsible for keeping backups of all his/her own data. WEBBIT HOSTING will not be responsible for loss of customer's data for any reason. Although every effort will be made to protect our users data.
3. The customer is responsible for ensuring that the data offered in their web space does not break any US law or any local law in the home state of the customer.
4. WEBBIT HOSTING reserves the right to remove a site under any of the following circumstances:
   1. The material is suspected to be illegal.
   2. The customer closes their account or the customer's account is suspended
   3. The presence of the site adversely affects in any way the ability of WEBBIT HOSTING to provide its services to other customers.
   4. Any violation or breach of WEBBIT HOSTING's Acceptable Use Policy or Terms & Conditions.
5. The customer must not resell his/her web space.
6. The customer must not promote his/her web space in such a way that he/she would breach this policy, whether through WEBBIT HOSTING or an alternative Internet Service Provider.
7. Any content of an adult nature must contain a warning page as to the content of the site which should be displayed prior to the viewing of any such adult content.

Email

1. The customer must not use WEBBIT HOSTING services for any of the following purposes:
1. Initiating or propagating 'chain' email or 'pyramid' emails.
2. Sending SPAM or unsolicited emails, especially of a commercial nature.
3. Using their WEBBIT HOSTING account as a maildrop for responses for any of the above actions.
2. The customer must not email a person after they have specifically requested that you do not mail them. This applies to any automated mail system you employ.
3. The customer must not send email with headers modified in such a way as to disguise the true source of such mail or article.
4. WEBBIT HOSTING has zero tolerance for spam originating from our customers, or from our customers' customers, or for spam advertising web sites of our customers or our customers' customers.
1. When we receive a complaint, we will forward it to you. If we don't receive a response indicating the complete resolution of the complaint within 24 hours, we may drop the section of IP space involved in the spam complaint until we are convinced that the problem is resolved. In particular, we are concerned with spam that not only originates from your network, but also that advertises sites hosted on your network.
2. If we get repeat complaints and it is clear that the problem has not been resolved, we may blackhole the section of IP space involved in the spam complaint until we are convinced that the problem is resolved. If so, we will contact you as soon as is feasible.
3. We reserve the right, to drop the section of IP space involved in spam or Denial-of-Service complaints if it is clear that the offending activity is causing great harm to parties on the Internet. In particular, if open relays are on your network or a customer's network, or if denial of service attacks, are originating from your network. In certain rare cases, we may have to do this before attempting to contact you. If we do this, we will contact you as soon, as is feasible.
5. WEBBIT HOSTING will enforce a strict anti-spam policy. Senders of Spam (Unsolicited Commercial Email) either into our network from the outside or from within our network to the outside world will be charged a fee of $5 per message.

Miscellaneous

1. The customer must not use their account for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized access to any computer or service.
2. The customer is responsible at all times for use of the account, whether through the customer or through third parties

Network Usage

1. Customers may not use WEBBIT HOSTING's network to attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of any host, network, or account. 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 authorized to access, password cracking, probing the security of other networks in search of weakness, or violation of any other organization's security policy.
2. Customers may not attempt to interfere or deny service to any user, host, or network. This includes, but is not limited to, flooding, mail bombing, or other deliberate attempts to overload or crash a host or network. If your server is the initiator or target of a denial of service attack that adversely affects our/somebody else's network, we will terminate your account without warning and you will be held responsible for any charges that may result from this action. WEBBIT HOSTING 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. Users who violate systems or network security may incur criminal or civil liability.
3. Customers may not take any action that results in a loss or reduction of service event for any other WEBBIT HOSTING Customer.

Breaches

1. Following a breach of the AUP, WEBBIT HOSTING will take any action it considers to be appropriate up to and including closure of the account without notice. All breaches will be reviewed on a case by case basis.
2. WEBBIT HOSTING reserves the right to publish details of breaches and the action taken including the name of the account holder.
3. WEBBIT HOSTING does not allow credits or refunds for any outages resulting from a suspension or deletion of an account under this policy.
4. WEBBIT HOSTING reserves the right to charge a $125 per hour cleanup fee for the following violations (including but not limited to):
1. UCS (Unsolicited Commercial Email / Unsolicited Bulk Email) cleanup.
2. Denial of Service Attacks.
3. Serious Harassment.
4. Customer actions that result in a loss or reduction of service event for other WEBBIT HOSTING customers.
5. WEBBIT HOSTING reserves the right to modify or amend this Policy at any time.
6. Any breaches of this Policy should be reported to abuse@webbithosting.com and the entire posting, together with the full headers, should be forwarded. Although it is not always possible to respond to each abuse report, all complaints will be investigated thoroughly.