Bashy's Hosting Acceptable Use Policy
An Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is a set of
rules and conditions compiled by a network,
system or a website owner. These rules
explicitly define and restrict the ways in
which the respective network, system or
website may be used.
The
AUP of Bashy's Hosting aims to
clearly outline the purposes for which our
customers CANNOT utilize our hosting
services and position data on our network
servers.
This Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is an
integral part of the Web Hosting
Terms of Service which each customer
agrees to abide by when signing up for an
account with our web hosting company.
Any violation of this
AUP will be deemed a violation of our Web
Hosting Terms of Service.
We, at our own discretion, shall determine
whether an act constitutes a breach of this
AUP terms and misuse of our services. We
reserve our right to be the sole arbiter in
determining the sufficiency of the presented
evidences. We will respond accordingly,
and/or immediately terminate the provision
of the services, shall we receive report,
and/or have sufficient proof, of any
prohibited conduct outlined in this AUP, or
any other activity threatening the security
of our hosting environment and/or our
network of hosting servers.
In order to protect our companys reputation
and responsibilities, and guarantee
state-of-the-art and reliable hosting
services to all our customers, as well as
privacy and security for all users, we
Bashy's Hosting - hereby outline the
following AUP rules and conditions to come
into force for each customer signing up for
a web hosting account with our company:
- System
Abuse
-
Spam and Spamvertizing
-
Inappropriate or Unlawful
-
Content
- Copyrights
-
Corrective Actions
-
Reporting Violations
- Revisions
1.
SYSTEM ABUSE
Any customer in violation of our system or
network security is subject to criminal and
civil liability, as well as immediate
account termination. Examples include, but
are not limited to the following:
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Unauthorized access, use, probe, or scan
of our systems security, authentication
measures, data or traffic. Interference
with the service to any user, host or
network including, but not limited to:
e-mail bombing, flooding, deliberate
attempts to overload the system and
broadcast attacks, forging of any TCP/IP
packet header or any part of the header
information in an e-mail or newsgroup
posting.
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Any attempt at doing harm to a server or
a customer of our web hosting services:
Bashy's Hosting will immediately and
resolutely react to any attempt at misuse of
an Internet account or computer, or any
attempt to gain access to an internet
account or computer by a Bashy's Hosting
customer unauthorized by the
account/computer owner. Such attempts
include, but are not limited to the
following: Internet scamming (tricking other
people into releasing their passwords,
etc.), password robbery, security hole
scanning, running proxy - proxy lists and
any kind of proxy scripts (including, but
not limited to php proxy and nph proxy),
introducing of any computer programs
(viruses, Trojan horses, trap doors, back
doors, worms, time bombs, packet bombs,
cancel bots, etc.) that are intended
to negatively interfere with, intercept,
irreversibly damage or take hold of any
system, data or personal information. It
WILL NOT matter whether the attacked account
or computer belongs or not to Bashy's
Hosting services. The fraud will be subject
to actions based on the very nature of the
attack and those may represent a warning, an
account suspension or cancellation, and/or
civil or criminal legal actions.
Background process is a program that runs in
the background of the operating system. What
is specific for a background process is
that, once started, it runs simultaneously
with other foreground processes. This means
that, the shell executing the background
operation does not wait for it to finish or
terminate, as it does with foreground
processes, but is free to start executing
more operations along with the background
one. Typical background processes are ircd,
irc bot, bnc, and many others.
Background processes are not permitted on
any of our shared hosting servers, as they
usually lead to CPU overload and can be used
for malicious and/or illegal actions. As our
primary task is to provide highest quality
web hosting service to all our customers, we
cannot permit any background processes to be
executed and threaten the performance of our
server network. Our shared hosting system
does not allow a big multitude of users to
simultaneously use the system memory and
processing time of our servers.
In order to ensure higher server performance
and quality of hosting service all shared
hosting plans are subject to certain
resource limitations concerning, but not
limited to, server CPU usage, Memory usage,
disk-space and traffic. If a hosting account
exceeds the allowed amount of system
resources the account owner will be
immediately notified to take actions in
order to reduce the usage. If such action is
not instantly taken by the owner the account
will be suspended. If an excessive CPU usage
is detected the account owner will be
suggested to place an order for a CPU usage
upgrade or upgrade to a plan which allows
higher CPU usage.
If any hosting account is found to be
causing degradation of the server and/or our
hosting networks performance, regardless of
the reason, the account will be subject to
suspension or immediate removal, depending
on the situation. Bashy's Hosting will be
the sole arbiter in determining whether a
given account is excessively using the
server resources and/or causing a server
degradation.
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2.
SPAM AND
SPAMVERTIZING
SPAMMING IS PROHIBITED.
Users MAY NOT utilize
our web hosting services
to transmit, distribute or deliver any
unsolicited bulk or commercial messages over
the Internet (an action known as "spam" or
"spamming").
Spamming is
a
violation
of ethic norms and
will be interpreted as an
infringement. Bashy's Hosting
will not tolerate
the sending of unsolicited bulk or
commercial messages through our services, as
well as through another service that is
mentioning, in some way, our customers
domain name or implies the utilization of
our network or our e-mail services for
sending the unsolicited bulk or messages.
SPAMVERTISING IS PROHIBITED. Spamvertizing
refers to the practice of sending
unsolicited spam messages for the purpose of
advertising a particular website.
If such e-mails are relayed through 3rd
party (e-mail spoofing) and/or are promoting
a domain hosted on our servers, this will
lead to immediate account suspension unless
an evidence of legitimacy for
non-involvement of the domain owner in the
particular illegal action is provided.
E-mail spoofing is a fraudulent e-mail
activity in which the senders (3td party)
e-mail address and other parts of the e-mail
header are changed so as to appear that the
e-mail has been sent from a different source
(e-mail address owner/server).
Unsolicited message is a message that is
sent against the privacy policy of a
newsgroup, or is sent to a recipient without
their explicit permission. We,
at our sole discretion,
shall determine
whether any of the messages you are sending
is spam or spamvertizing. For your
information, spamming generally includes,
but is not limited to the following
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Sending of unsolicited messages in bulk,
or sending of unsolicited e-mails,
which provoke
complaints from recipients;
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Sending of junk mail;
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Use of distribution lists that include
people who have not given prior
explicit
permission to be involved in such a
distribution process;
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Posting commercial ads to USENET
newsgroups that do not permit it;
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Posting articles containing binary
encoded data to non-binary newsgroups;
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Excessive and repeated posting of
off-topic messages to newsgroups;
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Excessive and repeated cross-posting;
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E-mail harassment of another Internet
Customer or Customers, including but not
limited to, transmitting of any
threatening, libellous or obscene
material, or material of any nature that
may be deemed offensive;
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E-mailing of age-inappropriate
communications or content to anyone
under the age of 18.
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3.
INAPPROPRIATE OR UNLAWFUL CONTENT
CONTENT published or transmitted via Bashy's
Hostings hosting services includes website
content, email content, forum/blog postings,
chat content, and/or any other type of
content hosted on our servers, published
online or transmitted through our networks
services.
The user of our services is NOT permitted to
post online content or have links to content
that:
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is defamatory, abusive or obscene,
violates a persons reputation/privacy,
is reasonably deemed offensive by the
web community, is anti-religious or
anti-human rights, or contains any type
of threatening or hate speech,
encourages harassment or physical harm
to any group or individual, or is
otherwise malicious/fraudulent and may
result in complaints/liabilities/or
retaliation against Bashy's Hosting by
offended viewers;
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promotes or encourages illegal
activities (e.g. illegal drugs, illegal
gambling, arms trafficking, etc.) or
violates any applicable law, statute,
ordinance or regulation, including but
not limited to the laws and regulations
governing export control, unfair
competition, false advertising, consumer
protection, etc.
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represents pornography any type of
pornographic/adult material, including
child pornography, or advertisements of
pornographic websites;
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represents infringement on copyright,
patents, trademarks, trade secrets, or
third party's intellectual property or
proprietary rights, including pirated
computer programs, hacking/phreaking
software, warez or any type of
software/content (including also ROMs,
ROM Emulators, media files MP3, AVI,
.RM, etc., torrent files, and others)
that is copyrighted, is NOT uploaded in
compliance with its license agreement or
is NOT freely available for
distribution.
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4.
COPYRIGHTS
Copyrighted material must not be placed on
customers' accounts without the explicit
permission of the copyright owner or a
person explicitly authorized to give such
permission by the copyright owner. Upon
receipt of a claim for copyright
infringement, or a notice of such violation,
we will immediately run full investigation
and, upon confirmation, will promptly remove
the infringing material from the Services.
Further procedures (in accordance with our
stated below corrective measures) will be
carried out if necessary. We will assume no
liability to any Customer of the Services
for the removal of any such material.
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5.
CORRECTIVE
ACTIONS
We reserve our right to be the sole arbiter
in
determining the
seriousness of each infringement
and to immediately
take corrective
actions.
We will disable the customer's account if we
deem necessary, at our
sole discretion. Upon closing of the
customers account we will send an e-mail
notification to the customer, stating the
reason for the termination and quoting our
terms chapter that has been violated. The
customer will be given an opportunity to
respond and take measures to remedy the
situation should he/she consider him/herself
abused by a third party. Upon fulfilling of
this obligation, we may re-activate the
customers account, if we find, at our own
discretion, sufficient evidence pro
customers side.
Closed accounts due to
repeated violations will not be
re-activated. A backup may be requested,
however it will be subject to certain
penalty fees imposed according to the breach
of this AUP terms. The final penalty fee
will be determined by the type and frequency
of the violations.
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6.
REPORTING
VIOLATIONS
If you need to report
a violation of this AUP agreement or believe
that you or your system has been subject to
attack originating from our web hosting
system, please contact us immediately. Our
professional team will investigate the
situation and provide you with full
assistance.
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7.
REVISIONS
We reserve our right to change this AUP at
any time, without prior notice. We encourage
our users to periodically review this
Acceptable Use Policy and our Web Hosting
Terms of Service.
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