Acceptable
Usage Policy
Important Note: This document is updated
often. Please make a habit of reviewing it from time to
time to stay abreast of acceptable as well as inappropriate
uses of your Psychz Internet Services account. Reports of
activity in violation of this policy may be sent via e-mail
to abuse@Psychz.net.
This document is divided into the following
sections:
* Introduction
* General Information
* Shell Account Policies
* Electronic Mail
* Web Sites
* Security
* Network Management
* Network Performance
* Illegal Activity
* Privacy Statement
Introduction
When you open your Psychz account, you
join two communities. First is the community formed by our
network and our customers; the second community is the one
made up of all networks and users connected to each other
to form the Internet. Becoming a member of these communities
gives you certain rights and privileges, but also imposes
certain duties and responsibilities. Psychz has established
an Acceptable Use Policy in order to make these duties and
responsibilities more clear. This document is intended to
provide a general understanding of Psychz's Acceptable Use
Policy. The following factors guide the establishment and
enforcement of Psychz's usage policies:
* Ensure reliable service to our customers
* Ensure security and privacy of our systems and network,
as well as the networks and systems of others
* Comply with existing laws
* Maintain our reputation as a responsible service provider
* Encourage responsible use of the Internet and discourage
activities which reduce the usability and value of Internet
services
* Preserve the value of Internet resources as a conduit
for free expression and exchange of information
* Preserve the privacy and security of individual users
Psychz intends to provide its customers
access to everything the Internet has to offer. While Psychz
is firmly committed to the principles of free speech, certain
activities are damaging to the resources of both Psychz
and the Internet and cannot be permitted under the guise
of free speech. The resources of Psychz and the Internet
are limited, and abuse of these resources by one user has
a negative impact on the entire community.
We do not routinely monitor the activity
of accounts except for measurements of system utilization
and the preparation of billing records. However, in our
efforts to promote good citizenship within the Internet
community, we will respond appropriately if we become aware
of inappropriate use of our service.
If a Psychz account is used to violate
the Acceptable Use Policy, we reserve the right to terminate
your service without notice and you agree to indemnify Psychz
and its affiliates against any claims threatened or brought
by third parties as a result of your violation of this Acceptable
Use Policy and/or the content of your website. We prefer
to advise customers of inappropriate behavior and any necessary
corrective action. However, flagrant violations of the Acceptable
Use Policy will result in immediate termination of service.
Our failure to enforce this policy, for whatever reason,
shall not be construed as a waiver of our right to do so
at any time.
If you have any questions regarding this
policy, please contact us at abuse@Psychz.net.
General Information
Psychz customers are prohibited from transmitting
on or through any of Psychz's services, any material that
is, in Psychz's sole discretion, unlawful, obscene, threatening,
abusive, defamatory, libelous, or encourages conduct that
would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil
liability, or otherwise violate any local, state, federal
or international law.
In general, you may NOT use your Psychz
account:
* In a manner which violates any law, regulation,
treaty or tariff;
* In a manner which violates the rules, regulations and
policies of any network, server, web site, database or service
provider that you access through your Psychz account;
* In a manner which is defamatory, fraudulent, indecent,
offensive or deceptive;
* To threaten, harass, abuse or intimidate others;
* To damage the name or reputation of Psychz, its parent,
affiliates and subsidiaries;
* To break security on any computer network, or to access
an account which does not belong to you; or
* In a manner which interferes with other customers' use
and enjoyment of the services provided by Psychz.
Psychz's services may only be used for
lawful purposes. Transmission, distribution, or storage
of any information, data or material in violation of United
States or state regulation or law, or by the common law,
is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, material
protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, or any
other statute. Psychz's reserves the right to remove such
illegal material from its servers or to immediately terminate
your services.
The customer is responsible for keeping
his billing data with Psychz up-to-date and accurate. Furnishing
false data on any contract or application, including fraudulent
use of credit card numbers, is grounds for immediate termination,
and may subject the offender to civil or criminal liability.
Psychz reserves sole discretion to determine
whether any use of the service is a violation of this policy.
Guidelines for using your account follows. This information
is only a guideline, and is not intended to be all-inclusive.
Shell Account Policies
* Shell accounts may not be used to do
any type of compilation of any sort from C, C++ programs.
* IRC are not permitted on any of the accounts given.
* Hacking attempts, scanning will result a termination of
your account.
* High load average during your shell session will not be
permitted or tolerated.
* Bouncers, BNC are not permitted on shell accounts given.
* Snooping through system files or directories is consider
a "hacking" attempt and will result in account
termination.
* Shell access is a priviledge to use and should not be
abused, suspension of shell will result if abused.
Electronic Mail
Certain
Psychz accounts give you the ability to send and receive
electronic mail. Misuse of electronic mail may result in
termination of service. The following examples are non-exclusive
and are provided for your guidance.
* You
may not use your account to send unsolicited bulk or commercial
messages ("spam"). This includes, but is not limited
to, bulk mailing of commercial advertising, informational
announcements, charity requests, petitions for signatures,
and political or religious tracts. Such messages may only
be sent to those who have explicitly requested it.
* You may not use your account to collect responses from
unsolicited bulk or commercial e-mail sent from accounts
with other providers.
* Forging, altering or removing electronic mail headers
is prohibited.
* You may not send numerous copies of the same or substantially
similar message, nor may you send very large messages or
files to a recipient, with the intent to disrupt a server
or account ("mail bombing").
* You may not use electronic mail to harass or intimidate
others. Harassment, whether through language, frequency
of messages, or size of messages, is prohibited. Sending
a single unwelcome message may be considered harassment.
If a recipient asks to stop receiving e-mail, you must not
send that person any further messages.
* You may not forward or otherwise propagate chain letters,
whether or not such messages solicit money or other items
of value, and whether or not the recipient wishes to receive
such mailings.
* Psychz accounts may not be used to collect replies to
messages sent from another Internet service provider if
those messages violate this Acceptable Use Policy or the
acceptable use policy of the other service provider.
* If you use the services of another provider to promote
a web site hosted by or through Psychz, then the provisions
of this Acceptable Use Policy shall apply to the methods
used to promote such site.
Web
Sites
Psychz
provides storage space and access for web sites through
its Web Hosting services. In addition, dedicated accounts
may provide for the hosting of web sites. Psychz will not
routinely monitor the contents of your web sites.
You
are solely responsible for any information contained on
your web site. However, if complaints are received regarding
language, content or graphics contained on your web site,
Psychz may, at its sole discretion, remove the web site
hosted on Psychz servers and terminate your Web Hosting
service. You agree to promptly reimburse Psychz for any
reasonable expenses it incurs (including attorney's fees)
in defending itself form third party claims relating to
any of the content (whether created by you, your customers
or your users) contained on your website.
You
may not use your web site to publish material which Psychz
determines, at its sole discretion, to be unlawful, indecent
or objectionable. For purposes of this policy, "material"
refers to all forms of communications including narrative
descriptions, graphics (including photographs, illustrations,
images, drawings, logos), executable programs, video recordings,
and audio recordings.
Unlawful
content is that which violates any law, statute, treaty,
regulation, or lawful order. This includes, but is not limited
to: obscene material; defamatory, fraudulent or deceptive
statements; threatening, intimidating or harassing statements,
or material which violates the privacy rights or property
rights of others (copyrights or trademarks, for example).
Indecent
content is that which depicts sexual or excretory activities
in a patently offensive matter as measured by contemporary
community standards.
Objectionable
content is otherwise legal content with which Psychz concludes,
in its sole discretion, it does not want to be associated
in order to protect its reputation and brand image, or to
protect its employees, shareholders and affiliates.
Examples
of prohibited web site content:
* Materials
which hold Psychz including its affiliates, employees or
shareholders up to public scorn or ridicule.
* Materials which encourage the commission of a crime; or
which tends to incite violence; or which tends to degrade
any person or group based on sex, nationality, religion,
color, age, marital status, sexual orientation, disability
or political affiliation.
Security
You
are responsible for any misuse of your account, even if
the inappropriate activity was committed by a friend, family
member, guest or employee. Therefore, you must take steps
to ensure that others do not gain access to your account.
In addition, you may not use your account to breach security
of another account or attempt to gain unauthorized access
to another network or server.
* You
must adopt adequate security measures to prevent or minimize
unauthorized use of your account.
* You 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 you, logging into or making use of a server
or account you are not expressly authorized to access, or
probing the security of other networks. Use or distribution
of tools designed for compromising security is prohibited.
Examples of these tools include, but are not limited to,
password guessing programs, cracking tools or network probing
tools.
* You 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, deliberate attempts to overload a service,
and attempts to "crash" a host.
* Users who violate systems or network security may incur
criminal or civil liability. Psychz 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.
Network
Management
You
are responsible for ensuring that the services obtained
from Psychz are used in an appropriate manner by your customers
and users. Therefore, you must take steps to manage the
use of the services obtained from Psychz in such a way that
network abuse is minimized. You must also make information
publicly available about how to contact you, and you must
respond in a timely manner to complaints concerning misuse
of the services obtained from Psychz. Failure to responsibly
manage the use of the services obtained from Psychz may
be cause for termination of services to you.
* You
must designate one or more individuals ("Contacts")
to be responsible for every host, IP network or subnet connected
to the Internet through the use of the services. You must
provide Contact names, phone numbers, and postal and e-mail
addresses ("Contact Information") to any and all
appropriate Domain Name Registrars prior to the initial
network connection of your service. You must keep Contact
Information updated and accurate at all times. Changes in
the Contact Information must be sent to the appropriate
Domain Name Registrars in a timely manner.
* Contacts must have the authority, access and tools necessary
to configure, operate and control access to your systems.
For important timesharing hosts, primary domain name servers
and mail relays or gateways, Contacts must be accessible
to Psychz via telephone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
* Every customer who allows third party access to the services
provided by Psychz, whether such third parties are employees,
users or customers, must maintain a postmaster address for
the receipt of complaints by e-mail. Messages delivered
to the postmaster address must be reviewed and handled in
a timely manner.
Network
Performance
Psychz
accounts operate on shared resources. Excessive use or abuse
of these shared network resources by one customer may have
a negative impact on all other customers. Misuse of network
resources in a manner which impairs network performance
is prohibited by this policy and may result in termination
of your account.
* You
are prohibited from excessive consumption of resources,
including CPU time, memory, disk space and session time.
You may not use resource-intensive programs which negatively
impact other customers or the performance of Psychz systems
or networks. Psychz reserves the right to terminate or limit
such activities.
Illegal
Activity
Any
activity on our network that is a violation of any state
or federal law is a violation of this policy and will result
in immediate termination of service. Prohibited activities
include, but are not limited to:
* Transmitting
obscene materials or child pornography
* Intentionally spreading or threatening to spread computer
viruses
* Gaining or attempting to gain unauthorized access to any
network, including Psychz's private network infrastructure
* Accessing or attempting to access information not intended
for you
* Transmitting pirated software
* Conducting or participating in illegal gambling
* Soliciting for pyramid and other illegal schemes.
Psychz
does not permit any site that contains: (i) images (including
on banner ads) of nude models that appear to be under the
age of 18 (in Psychz's sole judgment), (ii) sexually explicit
images (including on banner ads) of models that appear to
be under the age of 18 (in Psychz's sole judgment); or (iii)
sites containing language promoting child pornography together
with any sexually explicit or nude images. As required by
federal law in the United States, Psychz will forward all
offenders of this policy to the appropriate federal agency.
Privacy
Statement
Psychz has a policy to respect and protect the privacy of
its customers and their information that is stored with
Psychz. Psychz will only access and disclose information
as necessary to comply with applicable laws and government
requests, to provide the Psychz Services, to operate or
maintain its systems or to protect itself or its customers.
Psychz
reserves the right to add, delete, or modify any provision
of its Terms and Condition, Acceptable Usage Policy at any
time without notice. |