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Invermidas.com Policies
and Guidelines
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| We
(Invermidas.com, Invermidas Corp.) provide web hosting services to
a great many number of clients which means that we have a responsibility
to protect each client and to provide the best services available.
The following guidelines were established to ensure these crucial
obligations are met. These Policies, Guidelines, and Disclaimer are
intended for all domains residing on Invermidas.com servers. |
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| Un-monitored
Traffic Restrictions |
| Un-Monitored
Traffic does not apply to any domain account consuming 20% or more
of systems resources. Following are a list of sites that will often
require more than 20% of our systems resources: Multiple domains residing
at a single IP address, domains with archives or galleries, (i.e.
.gif, .jpg, .exe, .zip, .tar, etc.), and domain accounts offering
download files.
We are not saying that your web site can not
contain such files, however if at any time they consume 20% or more
of our systems resources you will be contacted to resolve the problem.
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| Unacceptable
Activities |
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include spamming (sending unsolicited advertising to those with which
the customer has no existing business relationship, posting off-topic
advertising in newsgroups); spoofing (using a return email address
which is not the valid reply address of the sender or sending an email
message which does not contain enough information to enable the recipient
to identify the party who is really sending the message; passive spamming
(promoting a web site hosted by Invermidas.com by spamming from some
other source), trolling (posting controversial messages in newsgroups
to generate responses), mailbombing (inundating a user with email
without any serious intent to correspond), generating a higher volume
of outgoing mail than a normal user (20% or more of available system
resources), and subscribing someone else to an electronic mailing
list without that person's permission. A message is considered unsolicited
if it is posted in violation of a newsgroup charter or sent to a recipient
who has not requested the message. Making an email address available
to the public does not constitute a request to receive messages. Distribution
of mass emailing programs is also prohibited. All recipients on a
mailing list must have personally subscribed. Mailing lists may not
be used to distribute unsolicited email. Any customer repeatedly "mailbombed"
or that attracts such behavior will be asked to leave. If you are
not sure if your actions will be in violation, please ask first (abuse@invermidas.com). |
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| Age |
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client must be 18 years of age to obtain our service. |
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| Abuse
of the legal rights of others |
| Examples
of unacceptable activities in this regard include posting private
information about a person without their consent, infringing intellectual
property rights, defaming a person or business, and knowingly making
available code which will have a deleterious effect on third party
computers, Invermidas.com supports free speech on the Internet, and
will not suspend or cancel a customer’s account simply because it
disagrees with the views expressed by the customer. Where there are
allegations that a customer’s on-line activity has violated the legal
rights of a third party, Invermidas.com will not substitute itself
for a court of law in deciding tort claims raised by the third party. |
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| Abuse
of the law |
| Invermidas.com’s
services may be used for lawful purposes only. Illegality includes
but is not limited to: drug dealing; attempting without authorization
to access a computer system; pirating (distributing copyrighted material
in violation of copyright law, specifically MP3s, MPEG's, ROMs, and
ROM emulators); gambling; schemes to defraud; trafficking in obscene
material; sending a message or having content that is obscene, lewd,
lascivious, filthy, or indecent with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten,
or harass another person; threatening bodily harm or damage to individuals
or groups; violating U.S. export restrictions; stalking; or violating
other state or federal law such as the Electronic Communications Privacy
Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or the Economic Espionage Act.
Linking to illegal material is also prohibited. Invermidas.com reserves
the right to check system files, email, and other data on our servers
for illegal content and materials, or for any other reasons deemed
necessary. |
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| Pornography
/ Online Gambling |
| Invermidas.com
is a family friendly service. Pornography, sex-related merchandising,
Online Gambling, links to such material, even if legal, is not an
acceptable use of Invermidas.com’s servers. |
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| Abuse
of Invermidas.com's Server Resources |
| Running
programs in the background on a Invermidas.com’s server without Invermidas.com’s
prior written authorization, or running chat rooms, Internet Relay
Chat, IRC bots, and the like are not acceptable uses of Invermidas.com’s
servers. Further, any usage of twenty percent (20%) or more of our
system resources is an undue burden on our system and is unacceptable.
If your usage ever exceeds twenty percent (20%) of system resources,
you will be contacted and asked to eliminate the problem. In addition,
any domain that exceeds ten gigabytes of bandwidth traffic can be
terminated without prior notice. |
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| Hacking
/ Cracking |
| Invermidas.com
reserves the right to report illegal activities to any and all regulatory,
administrative, and/or governmental authorities for prosecution. |
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| Other
Behavior |
The
following examples of unacceptable behavior are non-exclusive, and
are provided for guidance purposes. If you are unsure if your actions
will be a violation of our policies please ask .abuse@invermidas.com
Server broadcast messages or any message sent
on an intrusive basis to any directly or indirectly attached network
Attempt to circumvent any user authentication or security of host,
network, or account. Accessing data not intended for user. Probing
the security of any network. Spawning dozens of processes. Port
scans, ping floods, packet spoofing, forging router information,
Denial of Service attacks, sniffers, flooding, spoofing, ping bombing,
smurfs, winnuke, land, teardrop. Promulgation of viruses. IRC bots
such as eggdrop or BitchX. Any activity, whether or not the intrusion
results in the corruption or loss of data, will be investigated
and proper action taken. The presence of any of these programs,
whether or not run, will result in action against the user including
suspension or termination.
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| Client
Responsibility |
| The
client is responsible for all activity originating from the account
unless proven to be a victim of outside hacking or address forgery.
The client is responsible for securing their username/password. Use
of Invermidas.com's service requires a certain level of knowledge
in the use of Internet languages, protocols, and software. This level
of knowledge varies depending on the anticipated use and desired content
of the web space by the client. The following examples are offered:
Web Publishing: requires knowledge of HTML, properly locating and
linking documents, FTPing Web contents, Graphics, text, sound, image
mapping, etc. FrontPage web publishing: knowledge of the FrontPage
tools as well as Telnet and FTP understanding and capability. CGI-Scripts:
requires a knowledge of the UNIX environment, TAR & GUNZIP commands,
Perl, CShell scripts, permissions, etc. Mail: a use of mail clients
to receive and send mail, etc. The client agrees that he or she has
the necessary knowledge to create and maintain their web space. Client
agrees that it is not the responsibility of Invermidas.com to provide
this knowledge or support outside matter specific to Invermidas.com's
servers. |
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| System
Backups |
| Full
backups are made weekly, and backups of new/changed data made nightly.
No guarantees are made of any kind, either expressed or implies, as
to the integrity of these backups. Backups are made for server restoration
purposes only. It is the clients’ responsibility to maintain local
copies of their web content any information. If loss of data occurs
due to an error of Invermidas.com, Invermidas.com will attempt to
recover the date for no charge to the client. If data loss occurs
due to negligence of client in securing their account or by an action
of the client, Invermidas.com will attempt to recover the data from
the most recent archive for a $75.00 fee. |
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| IP
Numbers |
| Invermidas.com
maintains control and any ownership of any and all IP numbers and
addresses that may be assigned to the client and reserves in its sole
discretion the right to change or remove any and all IP numbers and
addresses. |
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| Money
Back Guarantee |
| Should
you become unsatisfied with our services within the first 30 days
of your account activation, Invermidas.com will refund your hosting
fee.Invermidas.com does not refund fees which you have paid to registrars
such as InterNic, Bulkregister, Etc. |
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| Limitation
of Liability |
| Invermidas.com
shall not be responsible for any claimed damages, including incidental
and consequential damages, which may arise from Invermidas.com’s servers
going off-line or being unavailable for any reason whatsoever. Further,
Invermidas.com shall not be responsible for any claimed damages, including
incidental or consequential damages, resulting from the corruption
or deletion of any web site from one of Invermidas.com’s servers.
All damages shall be limited to the immediate termination of service.
Invermidas.com shall be the sole arbiter of
what is and is not a violation of these acceptable use policies.
Invermidas.com reserves the right to terminate an account at any
time and for any reason that causes harm to any Invermidas.com customer's
web sites. Invermidas.com reserves the right to delete all content
and files upon termination. Invermidas.com reserves the right to
withhold any pre-paid funds for any site removed for violations
of these policies. Invermidas.com reserves the right to refuse,
cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion.
Invermidas.com reserves the right to change
these Policies without prior notice or warning. Non-enforcement
of any part of these Policies does not constitute consent. By purchasing
services from Invermidas.com you are accepting to be bound by aformentioned
policies and guidelines.
Violations
of these Policies should be referred to abuse@invermidas.com
All complaints will be investigated promptly.
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