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Policies and Procedures
Most of our policies are centered around being good Net Citizens. Other policies are for Operations, Information and Legal.
ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
This Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) specifies certain actions prohibited by Netopoly for users of the Netopoly
Network or Servers. Netopoly reserves the right to modify this Policy at any time to stay in compliance with any laws, regulations and security requirements. By using
Netopoly services, any customer, employee or third party unconditionally accepts the terms of this policy.
ILLEGAL USE
The Netopoly Network may be used only for lawful purposes. Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation coming to or from any unauthorized network or system is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights used without proper authorization; government and military data protected by law and national security; university and academic data protected by public policy; and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws. Any violation of the above which compromises the integrity of the Netopoly Network or any other network is strictly prohibited.
NETWORK AND MACHINE RESOURCES
Netopoly reserves the right to monitor and allocate network and machine resources. IP addresses are allocated per server and according to virtual server specifications. CGI resources are allocated one per domain. Netopoly, in its sole discretion and upon reasonable notice to customer, reserves the right to discontinue any hosting account and/or any script which causes excessive server load and/or uses excessive server and network resources.
SYSTEM AND NETWORK SECURITY
Violations of system, server or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability. Netopoly will investigate incidents involving such violations and may involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities if a criminal violation is suspected. Netopoly respects the privacy of customer data and vigilantly protects that data and ALL customers who host with Netopoly. If any violation of the law or this AUP is suspected, Netopoly reserves the right to investigate. Use of the Netopoly network
and servers constitutes consent to monitoring. Examples of unlawful acts, system, or network security violations include, without limitation, the following:
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Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems,
servers or networks, including any attempt to probe, damage, scan or test the vulnerability of a system,
server or network or to breach security or authentication measures without express authorization of the owner of the system,
server or network.
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Unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic on any network,
server or system without express authorization of the owner of the system,
server or network. Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation,
mail bombing, denial-of-service (DOS) attacks, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks.
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Unauthorized access to any data, system, server
or network from an unauthorized system or network for any purpose which is not lawful or which is intended to do harm.
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Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting. Electronic forging of any kind to include, but not limited to, IP addresses, domains, business names, etc.
EMAIL
Sending unsolicited mail messages, including, without limitation, unwanted advertising and informational announcements, is explicitly prohibited. A user shall not use another site's mail server to relay mail without the express permission of the site owner. Legitimate mailing lists and subscriber lists are acceptable. Otherwise, it's SPAM.
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