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 Program This! Hosting Internet Services account. Reports of activity in violation of this policy may be sent via e-mail to web@programthisweb.com.
When you open your Program This! Hosting 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. Program This! Hosting 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 Program This! Hosting's Acceptable Use Policy. The following factors guide the establishment and enforcement of Program This! Hosting's usage policies:
Program This! Hosting intends to provide its customers access to everything the Internet has to offer. While Program This! Hosting is firmly committed to the principles of free speech, certain activities are damaging to the resources of both Program This! Hosting and the Internet and cannot be permitted under the guise of free speech. The resources of Program This! Hosting and the Internet are limited, and abuse of these resources by one user has a negative impact on the entire community.
If a Program This! Hosting account is used to violate the Acceptable Use Policy, we reserve the right to terminate or suspend your service without notice and you agree to indemnify Program This! Hosting 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, violations of the Acceptable Use Policy will result in immediate termination or suspension 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@programthisweb.com.
Program This! Hosting customers are prohibited from transmitting on or through any of Program This! Hosting's services, any material that is, in Program This! Hosting'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 Program This! Hosting account:
Program This! Hosting'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. Program This! Hosting'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 Program This! Hosting 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.
Program This! Hosting 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.
Program This! Hosting 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.
Program This! Hosting 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 Program This! Hosting, then the provisions of this Acceptable Use Policy shall apply to the methods used to promote such site.
Program This! Hosting 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. Program This! Hosting 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, Program This! Hosting may, at its sole discretion, remove the web site hosted on Program This! Hosting servers and terminate your Web Hosting service. You agree to promptly reimburse Program This! Hosting 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 Program This! Hosting 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 Program This! Hosting 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.
Any site that offers hostees or free or fee based hosting accounts under the subdomain of its master account are NOT allowed. These types of sites severely degrade system performance and are NOT allowed.
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. Program This! Hosting 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.
You are responsible for ensuring that the services obtained from Program This! Hosting 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 Program This! Hosting 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 Program This! Hosting . Failure to responsibly manage the use of the services obtained from Program This! Hosting 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 Program This! Hosting via telephone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Every customer who allows third party access to the services provided by Program This! Hosting, 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.
Program This! Hosting 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 or suspension of your account without notice.
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 Program This! Hosting systems or networks. Program This! Hosting reserves the right to terminate or limit such activities.
You may not use IRC scripts or programs that interfere with or deny service to other users on any other server, host, network or channel. IRC BOTS ARE PROHIBBITED.
You may not engage in activities which harass other users. This includes, but is not limited to, "flooding" (rapidly entering text with the intent to disrupt service), "flashing" (disrupting terminal emulation), "takeovers" (improper seizing and abuse of operator privileges), attempting to send private messages to those who do not wish to receive them, attempting to return to a channel after being banned from it, and other disruptive behaviors.
You may not attempt to impersonate other users. The use of nicknames does not constitute impersonation.
You may run "clones" (multiple simultaneous IRC connections) and "robots" only as permitted by the host IRC server.
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:
Program This! Hosting 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 Program This! Hosting's sole judgment), (ii) sexually explicit images (including on banner ads) of models that appear to be under the age of 18 (in Program This! Hosting'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, Program This! Hosting will forward all offenders of this policy to the appropriate federal agency.
Program This! Hosting has a policy to respect and protect the privacy of its customers and their information that is stored with Program This! Hosting . Program This! Hosting will only access and disclose information as necessary to comply with applicable laws and government requests, to provide the Program This! Hosting Services, to operate or maintain its systems or to protect itself or its customers.