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User Agreement Hosting & Design Services On Equal Grounds 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. UNACCEPTABLE ACTIVITIES: Age: |
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. On Equal Grounds
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, On Equal Grounds will not substitute itself
for a court of law in deciding tort claims raised by the third party.
Abuse of the law:
On Equal Grounds' 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. On Equal Grounds
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.
*Abuse of On Equal Grounds 's Server Resources:
*Running programs in the background on a On Equal Grounds' server without On Equal Grounds' prior written authorization, or running chat rooms, Internet Relay Chat,
IRC bots, and the like are not acceptable uses of On Equal Grounds' 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 single domain that exceeds ten gigabytes
of bandwidth traffic must be approved by us as we must maintain load balances.*
Hacking/Cracking:
On Equal Grounds 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 .
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 IRC clients such as ircII 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.
Content displayed or sent which is geared to instill hate, prejudice, discrimination and or to cause violent actions or abuse will not be allowed. Client's space use and or services will be suspended immediately if such content is discovered. Client's account will not be closed allowing for removal and appropriate explanation.
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 On Equal Grounds'
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 On Equal Grounds to provide this knowledge or support outside matter
specific to On Equal Grounds 's servers.
BACKUPS:
Full backups are made weekly, and backups of new/changed data made nightly.
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.
IP NUMBERS:
On Equal Grounds 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.
MONEY BACK GUARANTEE:
Regular Hosting Clients - Should you become unsatisfied with our services within the first 30 days of your account activation, On Equal Grounds will refund your hosting fee.
On Equal Grounds does not refund fees which you have paid to InterNIC. (domain names)
There are no refunds on programming, SSL certs., or prepaid support
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY:On Equal Grounds shall be the sole arbiter of what is and is not a violation of these acceptable use policies. On Equal Grounds reserves the right to terminate an account at any time and for any reason that causes harm to any On Equal Grounds customer's web sites. On Equal Grounds reserves the right to delete all content and files upon termination. On Equal Grounds reserves the right to withhold any pre-paid funds for any site removed for violations of these policies. On Equal Grounds reserves the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion.
On Equal Grounds 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 Sales at On equal Grounds.
All complaints will be investigated promptly.
On Equal Grounds 2011 - 2018