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 Acceptable Use Policy
version 1.2
SUBSCRIBER ACCESS
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
This Policy represents Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs's
Acceptable Use Policy ("Policy") applicable
to the Customers of Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs and supersedes
any other written or oral Policy. Upon notice
published on-line via Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs's web
page Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs may modify the Policy,
amplify the Policy, as well as discontinue
or change services offered.
Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs reserves the right
to revise this Policy at any time. Customer may view the most up-to-date version
of this policy at any time at http://www.advant-techs.com/advant-hostpolicy.asp
By using any of the services offered by Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs, Customer is bound by and must comply with
this Policy in its entirety. Violations of the
guidelines, delineated below, will result in
cancellation of the Customer account or such
other action as Woods Design & Consulting
Inc. operating as Advant-Techs, in its sole discretion,
may deem appropriate.
POLICY ENFORCEMENT
1. When Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs becomes aware of an alleged violation of its Acceptable Use Policy, Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs will initiate an investigation. During the investigation Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs may restrict Customer 's access in order to prevent further possible unauthorized activity. Depending on the severity of the violation, Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend, or terminate Customer's account and/or pursue other civil remedies. If such violation is a criminal offense, Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs will notify the appropriate law enforcement department of such violation.
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
1. If Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs becomes aware of material that could be infringing on a third party's copyright, posted by Customer, it will initiate an investigation. If Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs receives from a Complainant a claim with the applicable copyright or trademark registration number; a copy of the underlying copyrighted work along with the Customer 's materials; and, a good faith certification, signed under penalty of perjury, that the work is the property of the Complainant, that the work has been copied and that use of the work is not defensible, Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs, in its discretion, may, at any time, deny access to the challenged material of Customer. 2. Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs will notify Customer of the copyright infringement allegation and will allow Customer to respond to the allegation(s). 3. Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs shall have no liability, directly or indirectly, to Complainants or third parties for Customer's infringing copyrighted materials. Customer shall reimburse Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs for all expenses associated with processing valid infringement allegations and defending any and all legal claims associated therewith. REPORTING NETWORK ABUSE
1. Any party seeking to report any violations of Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs's policy may contact via e-mail: abuse@advant-techs.com
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Acceptable Use Policy
version 1.2
I. SYSTEM AND NETWORK SECURITY
1. Customer may not tamper with other accounts, or commit unauthorized intrusion into any part of Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs's system, or use any of Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs's machines, files, accounts, networks to intrude without authorization into any other system.
2. Customer may not use Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs services not included in Customer's account, or devise ways to circumvent security in order to access services Customer is not paying for.
3. Customer may not use the system in a manner that encumbers disk space, processors or other system resources beyond those allowed by the specific type of account. Customer may not make deliberate attempts to interfere with a service, overload a service or attempt to disable a host.
II. EMAIL
1. Customers may not continue to send commercial e-mail to a recipient if recipient has requested that Customer discontinue such communication.
2. Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs prohibits the transmission of e-mail that is harassing, libelous, defamatory, legally obscene or pornographic, threatening, abusive or hateful to non-consenting recipients.
3. Customers may not forge header information.
4. Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs prohibits the use of Customer's account, or network connection, to collect replies of messages sent from any another provider that violates the rules of this Policy or those of the originating provider.
5. Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs prohibits the use of and reserves the right to cancel any customer account, which promotes its business by means of spamming, using either Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs's or other ISPs networks.
III. BILLING
1.All announced prices are in Canadian Dollars unless otherwise stated.
IV. GENERAL
1. Web site hosting and all other services provided to the Customer by Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs may only be used for lawful purposes. Customer will use the web hosting services in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws of the province of Alberta, and the Canadian federal government.
2. Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to deactivate the Customer's web hosting account(s) upon an indication of credit problems including delinquent payments.
3. Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs hosting service is provided on an "as is, as available" basis. Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs gives no warranty, expressed or implied, for the web hosting services provided, including, without limitation, warranty of merchantability and warranty of fitness for a particular purpose. This no warranty expressly includes any reimbursement for losses of income due to disruption of service by Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs or its providers beyond the fees paid by Customer to Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs for services.
4. Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs is not responsible for any damages arising from Customer's use of Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs or by Customer's inability to use the web hosting services for any reason.
5. While Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs shall make every reasonable effort to protect and backup data for Customer on a regular basis, Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs is not responsible for Customer's files residing on Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs servers. Customer is solely responsible for independent backup of data stored on Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs servers.
6. Customer hereby agrees that any material submitted for publication on Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs through Customer's account(s) will not contain anything leading to an abusive or unethical use of the web hosting product(s) or the host server(s). Abusive and unethical materials and uses include, but are not limited to pornography, obscenity, nudity, violations of privacy, computer viruses, and any harassing and harmful materials or uses. Customer hereby agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs from any claim resulting from your publication of materials or your use of those materials. Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs may or may not give notice before deactivating the use of an account(s) which Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs decides is an abusive or unethical use of the web hosting account(s) or host server(s).
7. Due to the public nature of the Internet, all information should be considered publicly accessible and important or private information should be treated carefully. Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs is not liable for protection or privacy of electronic mail or other information transferred through the Internet or any other network Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs or its customers may utilize.
8. Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs maintains control and any ownership of any and all I.P. Numbers and addresses that may be assigned to Customer and reserves in its sole discretion the right to change or remove any and all I.P. numbers and addresses.
9. Use of any information obtained via Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs is at your own risk. Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs specifically denies any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through its services.
10. Use of other organizations' networks or computing resources is subject to their respective permission and usage policies.
11. If Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs cancels Customer's account for any reason, Customer agrees not to reregister without Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs's written consent. In the event Customer reregisters without Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs's prior written consent, Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs will cancel Customer 's account and all dues and fees paid to date regardless of whether service has been rendered will be forfeited. Additionally, any amounts owed in arrears will be made due and payable immediately.
12. Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs requires that Customer is qualified to contract. Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs cannot accept payments from persons who are not at least eighteen (18) years of age. Customer will be held responsible for keeping all billing data for Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs accurate and up to date. False data supplied for the contract between Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs and Customer will be grounds for account termination.
13. The Customer agrees to defend, hold harmless, and expeditiously indemnify Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs from any and all liability, claim, loss, damage or expense arising out of Customer's breach or violation of any covenant contained in this Policy, or resulting from the Customer's use of the service.
14. Customer agrees to waive and hold Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs harmless from any claims relating to any action taken by Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs as part of an investigation into a suspected violation of this Policy or as a result of its conclusion that a violation of this Policy has occurred. Therefore, Customer cannot sue or recover any damages whatsoever from Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs as a result of the decision to remove material from its server, or to suspend or terminate Customer 's account.
15. The web server is physically located in the province of Alberta, and the Customer may only access the server by means of the Internet, an interstate common carrier of information.
16. Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs reserves the right to kill CPU intensive processes.
17. Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs has a strong corporate policy to respect and protect the privacy of its customers and their information that is stored on Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs's Hosting Services. Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs will only access and disclose information as necessary to comply with applicable laws and government requests, to provide Woods Design & Consulting Inc. operating as Advant-Techs Services, to operate or maintain its systems or to protect itself or its customers.
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CONTENT
1. All services may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any Canadian Federal Government, Province 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. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claims resulting from the use of the service which damages the subscriber or any other party.
Note: Pornography and sex-related merchandising are prohibited on all servers. This includes sites that may infer sexual content, or link to adult content elsewhere. This is also true for sites that promote any illegal activity or content that may be damaging to our servers or any other server on the internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited.
Examples of non-acceptable content or links:
Pirated software
Hackers programs or archives
Warez Sites
Irc Bots
Mp3
We will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.
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