Minuteman Hosting provides web hosting to numerous 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 Minuteman Hosting servers, including regular
hosting clients, resellers, and their clients. We ask that all clients
reselling our hosting services in any way, including those providing
non-virtual hosting services, implement these same Policies, Guidelines,
and Disclaimers into their own web sites to ensure that the same
are understood and met by their clients.
Unacceptable Activities
These 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 Minuteman Hosting
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 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 at contact@minutemanhosting.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. Minuteman Hosting 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, Minuteman Hosting will
not substitute itself for a court of law in deciding tort claims
raised by the third party.
Abuse of the law
Minuteman Hosting'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. Minuteman Hosting 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 Minuteman Hosting's servers.
Abuse of Minuteman Hosting's Server
Resources
Running programs in the background on a Minuteman Hosting's server
without Minuteman Hosting's prior written authorization, or running
chat rooms, Internet Relay Chat, IRC bots, and the like are not
acceptable uses of Minuteman Hosting'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 30 gigabytes of bandwidth traffic can be terminated without
prior notice. Hacking/Cracking: Minuteman Hosting reserves the right
to report illegal activities to any and all regulatory, administrative,
and/or governmental authorities for prosecution.
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 contact@minutemanhosting.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.
Use of Minuteman Hosting'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 Minuteman Hosting
to provide this knowledge or support outside matter specific to
Minuteman Hosting's servers.
Backups
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 Minuteman Hosting, Minuteman Hosting 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, Minuteman Hosting will attempt to recover the data from
the most recent archive.
IP Numbers
Minuteman Hosting 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
Minuteman Hosting shall not be responsible for any claimed damages,
including incidental and consequential damages, which may arise
from Minuteman Hosting's servers going off-line or being unavailable
for any reason whatsoever. Further, Minuteman Hosting 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 Minuteman Hosting's servers. All damages
shall be limited to the immediate termination of service.
Minuteman Hosting shall be the sole arbiter of what is and is not
a violation of these acceptable use policies. Minuteman Hosting
reserves the right to terminate an account at any time and for any
reason that causes harm to any Minuteman Hosting customer's web
sites. Minuteman Hosting reserves the right to delete all content
and files upon termination. Minuteman Hosting reserves the right
to withhold any pre-paid funds for any site removed for violations
of these policies. Minuteman Hosting reserves the right to refuse,
cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion.
Minuteman Hosting reserves the right to change these Policies without prior notice
or warning. Non-enforcement of any part of these Policies does not
constitute consent. Violations of these Policies should be referred
to contact@minutemanhosting.com All complaints will be investigated
promptly.
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