Updated
December 05, 2003
AIHOST Acceptable Use policy
All services provided by AIHOST™. may be used for lawful purposes only.
Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in
violation of any or United States Federal, State or City, or any International
laws is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copy righted material,
material we judge to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade
secret and other statute. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless
aihost.net. from any claims resulting from the use of the service which damages
the subscriber or any other party.
The following are unacceptable uses:
Illegality in any form, including but not limited to activities such as
unauthorized distribution or copying of copyrighted software, violation of U.S.
export restrictions, harassment, fraud, trafficking in obscene material, drug
dealing, and other illegal activities. Websites promoting illegal activities,
including, but not limited to, hacking, serial numbers, cracks, or information
which violates any local, state, federal, or U.S. export restriction laws.
Websites which promoting Hate propaganda or have illegal Adult Material such
as c h i l d p o r n are strictly prohibited. Because of increased
controversy surrounding Emulators/ROMs, we do not allow any websites pertaining
to Emulators/ROMs. These issues usually have to do with copyright violations and
we prohibit any websites distributing Emulators or ROMs. Websites whose primary
purpose is file distribution or mirroring another website. Illegal MP3 files are
strictly forbidden from our servers. There are no exceptions made to this rule
as it exists to protect ourselves from any copyright infringement problems.
Net abuse, including but not limited to activities such as using a
non-existent e-mail return address on a commercial solicitation, spamming
(sending unsolicited advertising to numerous e-mail addresses or newsgroups
and/or generating a significantly higher volume of outgoing e-mail than a normal
user), allowing spamming by third parties to promote a web site hosted by
aihost.net, Spam is a direct violation and will get the site deleted without
notice or refund, 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 of
newsgroups, or attempting without authorization to enter into a secured computer
system. aihost.net reserves the right to determine what constitutes net abuse.
Any processes executed which run in the background from the command line,
including IRC Bots, EXE's and CGI scripts. Links to illegal adult websites,
illegal MP3 sites, warez sites, or hacking websites.
Tortuous conduct, including but not limited to posting of defamatory,
scandalous, or private information about a person without their consent,
intentionally inflicting emotional distress, or violating trademarks,
copyrights, or other intellectual property rights.
Security
Violations of system or network security are prohibited and may result in
criminal and civil liability. Examples include but are not limited to the
following: unauthorized access, command line abuse, use, probing, or scanning of
systems security or authentication measures, data, or traffic; interference with
service to any user, host, or network including, without limitation, mail
bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system, broadcast attacks;
forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an
e-mail or a newsgroup posting. Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a
aihost.net 's servers, network or customers are strictly prohibited.
Copyright Material, Materials distributed on your website cannot infringe
upon another groups copyrights. This especially includes distributing copyright
software, illegal MP3 files which usually consist of copyrighted music, and
Emulators/ROMs. Please ensure that your website consists of your own work and
none of the contents on your website do not infringe upon anyone else's
copyrights.
Actions Taken by Artificial Intelligent Hosting (AIHOST™).
The failure by a customer to meet or follow any of the above Terms of Use may
result in account termination. aihost.net will be the sole arbiter as to what
constitutes a violation of the Terms of Use. aihost.net reserves the right to
terminate any account without prior notice.
When aihost.net becomes aware of an alleged violation of its Terms of Use,
aihost.net will initiate an investigation. During the investigation, aihost.net
may restrict a customer's access in order to prevent further potentially
unauthorized activity. Depending on the severity of the violation, aihost.net
may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend, or terminate a customer's web
hosting account and/or pursue other civil remedies. If such violation is a
criminal offense, aihost.net will notify the appropriate law enforcement
authorities of such violation. aihost.net does not issue credits for outages
incurred through service disablement resulting from Terms of Use violations.
Artificial Intelligent Hosting (AIHOST™), reserves the right to change,
modify, or update this statement at any time without notice.
