CCHosting.com Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy specifies certain actions prohibited by CCHosting.com for users of the CCHosting.com Network. CCHosting.com reserves the right to modify this Policy at any time to stay in compliance with any laws, regulations and security requirements. By using CCHosting.com services, any customer, employee or third party unconditionally accepts the terms of this policy.

ILLEGAL USE

The CCHosting.com Network may be used only for lawful purposes. Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation coming to or from any unauthorized network or system is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights used without proper authorization; government and military data protected by law and national security; university and academic data protected by public policy; and material that, in CCHosting.com's sole discretion, is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws. Any violation of the above which compromises the integrity of the CCHosting.com Network or any other network is strictly prohibited.

NETWORK AND MACHINE RESOURCES

CCHosting.com reserves the right to monitor and allocate network and machine resources. IP addresses are allocated per server and according to virtual server specifications. Cgi resources are allocated one per domain (a virtual host is required for each cgi-bin and is considered a virtual host). CCHosting.com in its sole discretion and upon reasonable notice to customer reserves the right to discontinue any hosting account and/or any script which causes excessive server load and/or uses excessive server and network resources.

SYSTEM AND NETWORK SECURITY

Violations of system or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability. CCHosting.com will investigate incidents involving such violations and may involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities if a criminal violation is suspected. CCHosting.com respects the privacy of customer data and vigilantly protects that data and ALL customers who host with CCHosting.com. If any violation of the law or this AUP is suspected, CCHosting.com reserves the right to investigate. Use of the CCHosting.com network constitutes consent to monitoring. Examples of unlawful acts, system, or network security violations include, without limitation, the following:

Unauthorised access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, damage, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without express authorization of the owner of the system or network.

Unauthorised monitoring of data or traffic on any network or system without express authorisation of the owner of the system or network. Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks.

Unauthorised access to any data, system, or network from an unauthorised system or network for any purpose which is not lawful or which is intended to do harm.

Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting. Electronic forging of any kind to include but not limited to IP addresses, domains, business names, etc.

EMAIL

Sending unsolicited email messages, including, without limitation, unwanted advertising and informational announcements, is explicitly prohibited, whether sent in bulk or not, and whether commercial in nature or not. The use of CCHosting.com resources to sell or enable the sale of "bulk" and/or "stealth" email software (to include so-called "spoof" software) is strictly forbidden. The use of CCHosting.com resources to sell or enable the sale of software designed to "harvest" email addresses is also categorically prohibited. A user shall not use another site's mail server to relay mail without the express permission of the site owner. Legitimate mailing lists and subscriber lists are acceptable. Otherwise, it is spam.

USENET

Posting the same messages to multiple newsgroups (excessive cross-posting or multiple-posting, also known as "SPAM") is expressly prohibited.

INDIRECT OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS OF THE POLICY, AND ACTUAL OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS BY A THIRD PARTY ON BEHALF OF A CCHOSTING.COM CUSTOMER OR A CUSTOMER'S END USER, SHALL BE CONSIDERED VIOLATIONS OF THE POLICY BY SUCH CUSTOMER OR END USER.

For Example:

If you are hosting a bulk email site on CCHosting.com servers and you use another ISP to SPAM from in order to reference your CCHosting.com site by IP address or domain name, you are violating CCHosting.com policy and possibly the law.

If you have been granted telnet access to CCHosting.com servers, multiple telnet log-ons are strictly prohibited and you must come from a valid IP address. Forgery is against the law.

Any type of denial of service attack from valid or invalid addresses is a violation of CCHosting.com security policy and against the law.

If you have been granted password privileges for FTP or telnet, sharing your password with an unauthorised user or third party is strictly prohibited.

Complaints regarding illegal Use or System or Network Security issues should be sent to network@cchosting.com Complaints regarding email abuse should be sent to abuse@cchosting.com Complaints regarding USENET abuse or SPAM should be sent to abuse@cchosting.com

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides limitations for service provider liability relating to material online with regard to information residing, at the discretion of the user, on a system or network that the service provider controls or operates. 17. U.S. 512(c). http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:h.r.2281.enr: The designated agents for notification of claimed infringement are:

CCHosting.com.
ATTN: General Manager
Kilconly
Tuam
Co. Galway
Ireland

For alleged copyright infringement go to http://cchosting.com/policies/copyright.htm
For other legal issues or concerns contact:

CCHosting.com.
ATTN: General Manager
Kilconly
Tuam
Co. Galway
Ireland

To view our online agreement http://cchosting.com/policies/online_agreement.htm

CCHosting.com does not tolerate any pornographic material or spamming and both infringements will result in an investigation and possible termination and removal of the site and/or virtual server without a refund. CCHosting.com prides itself as a responsible member of the Internet community and is committed to protecting the data of and providing quality service to all CCHosting.com customers all of the time.

INTERACTION WITH CCHOSTING.COM STAFF

Any threat, vulgar and profane language directed at any CCHosting.com staff member through phone or email may result in immediate termination of an account. Any violation of this policy by any employee, contractor or third party programmer of CCHosting.com should be reported immediately. Bottom line is let's work together toward a mutually beneficial relationship, and create a prosperous and responsible Internet community.