acceptable use policy
You must abide by the following Acceptable Use Policy. If
you have customers, that you allow access to any of the resources
provided to you by cafeOui.net, you are also responsible for enforcing
this Acceptable Use Policy. While a paid customer of cafeOui.net,
you may post this Acceptable Use Policy document on your web site.
cafeOui.net Acceptable Use Policy
1. Purpose
The purpose of this policy is to outline the acceptable use of web hosting, dedicated servers, and network connectivity
at cafeOui.net. These rules are in place to protect cafeOui.net and its customers. Inappropriate use exposes cafeOui.net
to risks including virus attacks, compromise of network systems and services, and legal issues.
2. Unacceptable Use
The following activities are, in general, prohibited. Under no circumstances
is the customer authorized to engage in any activity that is illegal
under local, state, federal or international law while utilizing
cafeOui.net owned and/or managed resources, including but not limited
to cafeOui.net's servers, customer's colocated servers while residing
in cafeOui.net's facility and cafeOui.net's network.
cafeOui.net will be the sole arbiter regarding what constitutes unacceptable use. If in doubt, please contact cafeOui.net before proceeding.
The lists below are by no means exhaustive, but attempt to provide a framework for activities that fall into the category of unacceptable use.
The following activities are strictly prohibited, with no exceptions:
Copyrighted Materials and Content
1. Violations of the rights of any person or company protected
by copyright, trade secret, patent or other intellectual property,
or similar laws or regulations, including, but not limited to, the
installation or distribution of "pirated" or other software
products that are not appropriately licensed for use by the customer.
2. Unauthorized copying of copyrighted material including, but not limited to, digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books or other copyrighted sources, copyrighted music, and the installation of any copyrighted software for which the customer or the end user does not have an active license is strictly prohibited.
3. Exporting software, technical information, encryption software or technology, in violation of international or regional export control laws, is illegal.
4. Storing or distributing adult-related material.
System and Network Activities
5. Introduction of malicious programs into the network or
server (e.g., viruses, worms, Trojan horses, e-mail bombs, etc.).
6. Revealing your account password to others or allowing use of your account by others that are not a direct member of your company. This includes family and other household members when work is being done at home.
7. Using a cafeOui.net computing asset to actively engage in procuring or transmitting material that is in violation of sexual harassment or hostile workplace laws in the user's local jurisdiction, or in the United States, whichever is more restrictive.
8. Making fraudulent offers of products, items, or services originating from any cafeOui.net server or network.
9. Effecting security breaches or disruptions of network communication. Security breaches include, but are not limited to, accessing data of which the customer is not an intended recipient or logging into a server or account that the customer is not expressly authorized to access. For purposes of this section, "disruption" includes, but is not limited to, network sniffing, pinged floods, packet spoofing, denial of service, distributed denial of service, and forged routing information for malicious purposes.
10. Port scanning or security scanning is expressly prohibited unless prior notification to cafeOui.net is made and cafeOui.net has authorized such activity.
11. Executing any form of network monitoring which will intercept data not intended for the customer's account/host.
12. Circumventing user authentication or security of any host, network or account.
13. Interfering with or denying service to any user other than the customer's account/host (for example, denial of service attack).
14. Using any program/script/command, or sending messages of any kind, with the intent to interfere with, or disable, a user's terminal session, via any means, locally or via the Internet.
15. Running any IRC related scripts or programs, including but not limited to eggdrop, bnc, ircdaemon and irc bot.
16. Running any process / daemon / service in the background on cafeOui.net's shared server without cafeOui.net's prior approval.
17. On cafeOui.net's shared server, running CGI or server-side scripts or programs, intentionally or otherwise, using excessive amount of system resources or causing degradation of server performance. Any such process will be terminated without prior warning or notice. cafeOui.net will be the sole arbiter of what constitutes excessive use of system resources and degraded server performance.
18. Accessing system files or files that do not belong to the customer.
Email and Communications Activities
19. Sending unsolicited email messages, including the
sending of "junk mail" or other advertising material to individuals
who did not specifically request such material (email spam).
20. Any form of harassment via email, telephone or paging, whether through language, frequency, or size of messages.
21. Unauthorized use, or forging, of email header information.
22. Solicitation of email for any other email address, other than that of the poster's account, with the intent to harass or to collect replies.
23. Creating or forwarding "chain letters", "Ponzi" or other "pyramid" schemes of any type.
24. Use of unsolicited email originating from within cafeOui.net's networks or other Internet service providers on behalf of, or to advertise, any service hosted by cafeOui.net or connected via cafeOui.net's network.
25. Posting the same or similar non-business-related messages to large numbers of Usenet newsgroups (newsgroup spam).
3. Enforcement
cafeOui.net reserves the right to suspend or terminate without warning
or notice, the account and services of any customer found to have
violated this policy. Furthermore, the customer may be liable for
termination fees of up to $500.
4. Definitions
Spam:
Unauthorized and/or unsolicited electronic mass mailings.
5. Revisions
AUP::rev 1.5, 15 April 2006
