Acceptable
Use Policy for web hosting domain registration at anncomputer.com
Acceptable
Use Policy
As a high-quality web hosting provider to thousands of
customers, ANN Computer values its good reputation. Accordingly,
it is important to us that our customers use our services
and the Internet in general , responsibly and courteously.
Most of our customers do so and seldom need to refer to
these AUPs. Nonetheless, the following constitute examples
of unacceptable uses of ANN Computer's services, which will
result in suspension, or termination of the customer's account.
Affronts
to Etiquette
Unacceptable activities 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 ANN Computer 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 (over
10% 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 distributed 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@anncomputer.com).
Age
The client must be 18 years of age to obtain our service.
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.
ANN Computer 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, ANN Computer
will not substitute itself for a court of law in deciding
tort claims raised by the third party.
Abuse
of the law
ANN Computer'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. Anything
violating Indian Law will be considered as abuse of our
services and the person indulging in the same will be considered
totally liable for his acts. On finding this we will discontinue
the services immediately and inform the same to the Law
enforcement agencies to take care of the situation. This
will not arising any liability on ANNComputer.com or any
of its associates, partners or proprietor.
ANN Computer 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.
Pornography
Pornography and sex-related merchandising, or links to
such material, even if legal, is not an acceptable use of
ANN Computer's servers.
Abuse
of ANN Computer's Server Resources
Running programs in the background on a ANN Computer's
server without ANN Computer's prior written authorization,
or running chat rooms, Internet Relay Chat, IRC bots, Greeting
Cards sites, software downloading sites, more then 1000
emails a day and the like are not acceptable uses of ANN
Computer's servers. Further, any usage of ten percent (10%)
or more of our system resources is an undue burden on our
system and is unacceptable. If your usage ever exceeds ten
percent (10%) of system resources, your account may be terminated
immediately and without prior notice. In addition any domain
that exceeds ten gigabytes of bandwidth traffic can be terminated
without prior notice. Usage of scripts or other utilities
to direct pointed domain names to subdirectories is not
permitted and is grounds for termination of the account.
Hacking/Cracking
ANN Computer reserves the right to report illegal activities
to any and all regulatory, administrative, and/or governmental
authorities for prosecution.
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
contact abuse@anncomputer.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.
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. The client assumes responsibility
for all material on their site that may be put on by a third
party (such as the usage of Free For All links pages). Use
of ANN Computer'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. Front Page web publishing: knowledge of the Front Page
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 ANN Computer
to provide this knowledge or support outside matter specific
to ANN Computer's servers.
Backups
No guarantees are made of any kind, either expressed or
implied, 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 ANN Computer, ANN Computer will attempt to recover the
data for no charge to the client but does not guarantee
its recovery. If data loss occurs due to negligence of client
in securing their account or by an action of the client,
ANN Computer will attempt to recover the data from the most
recent archive for a Rs.5000/- fee.
IP
numbers
ANN Computer maintains control and any ownership of any
and all I.P. 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.
Limitation
of Liability
ANN Computer shall not be responsible for any claimed damages,
including incidental and consequential damages, which may
arise from ANN Computer's servers going off-line or being
unavailable for any reason whatsoever. Further, ANN Computer
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 ANN Computer's
servers. All damages shall be limited to the immediate termination
of service.
ANN Computer shall be the sole arbiter of what is and is
not a violation of these acceptable use policies. ANN Computer
reserves the right to terminate an account at any time and
for any reason that causes harm to any ANNComputer. customer's
web sites.ANN Computer reserves the right to delete all
content and files upon termination. ANNComputer.com reserves
the right to withhold any pre-paid funds for any site removed
for violations of these policies. ANN Computer reserves
the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole
discretion.
ANN Computer reserves the right to change the Acceptable
Use Policy without prior notice or warning. Non-enforcement
of any part of the Acceptable Use Policy does not constitute
consent.
Violations of these Acceptable Use Policy should be referred
to abuse@anncomputer.com
All complaints will be investigated promptly.
