ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY & SERVICE GUIDELINES
Beginning August
16, 2001, we will not allow any UBB or
yaBB bulletin board systems to operate
on our servers. These BB's put undue stress
on the servers. For this reason, we can not
allow these BB's to run on our servers.
F5hosting.com provides web hosting to many clients, and we
have a responsibility to protect each client and to provide
the best services available. The following guidelines were
designed to ensure these obligations are met.
Content: All services
provided by F5hosting.com may be used for lawful purposes
only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any
information, data or material in violation of any Canadian
Federal, Provincial or City law is prohibited. This
includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material,
material we judge to be threatening or obscene or material
protected by trade secret and other statute, and invasion of
privacy. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless
F5hosting.com from any claims resulting from the use of the
service which damages the subscriber or any other party.
All pornographic content and sex-related merchandising is
prohibited on all F5hosting.com servers. This includes sites
that may infer sexual content or links to adult content
elsewhere. F5hosting.com will be the sole arbiter in
determining violations of this provision.
Also prohibited are sites that promote any illegal activity or
present content that may be damaging to F5hosting.com servers
or any other server on the Internet. Links to such materials
are also prohibited.
Examples of unacceptable content or links:
•
Pirated software
•
Hacker programs or archives
•
Warez sites
F5hosting.com will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes
a violation of this provision.
Commercial Advertising - Email:
Spamming, or the sending of unsolicited email, from a
F5hosting.com server or using an email address or domain that
is maintained on an F5hosting.com machine as reference is
STRICTLY prohibited.
F5hosting.com will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes
a violation of this provision.
Misuse of System
Resources: Any attempt to undermine
or cause harm to a server, or customers,
of F5hosting.com is
strictly prohibited. This includes,
but is not limited to: using programs
that consume excessive CPU time; allowing
the use of mail services, mail forwarding
capabilities, or autoresponders other
than for the customer's own account; resale
or subleasing or subletting (free) use
of disk space without an appropriate reseller
agreement; use of servers for backup of
files unrelated to the web site of the
account; or resale or remote access to
CGI scripts installed on our servers.
Operation of IRC servers or IRC bots on
our servers or uploading CGI scripts to attempt to gain shell access will result in an immediate
suspension of service. Not DNS'ing your
domain name to our servers, only using
an IP address that we assign is prohibited.
Your site MUST be pointed to our servers.
WE DO NOT DO IP HOSTING!
Cancellation: Cancellation
can be made via email to
support@f5hosting.com. Although no notice is required, and
there is no cancellation fee, all fees paid for service up to
the notice of cancellation are non-refundable. If cancellation
is made within the first 30 days of service all hosting fees
will be refunded. This does not include fees for domain
registration.
Suspension: Activity which
results in a suspension or deactivation of an account will
result in a forfeiture of fees paid. Complaints made regarding
abuses of an account will be grounds for suspension.
Refusal of Service: We
reserve the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at
our sole discretion. All sub-networks, distributive hosting
sites, and dedicated servers of F5hosting.com must adhere to
the above policies. Please direct any reports of violations of
the above policies to
support@f5hosting.com.
Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for
immediate account deactivation.
