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Use Policy
Acceptable Use Policy
Use of WCSHOST.Net Services constitutes acceptance and agreement
to WCSHOST.Net AUP (Acceptable use policy) as well as WCSHOST.Net
TOS (Terms of Service). WCSHOST.Net reserves the right to
revise, amend, or modify this AUP, TOS, and our other policies
and agreements at any time and in any manner. Notice of any
revision, amendment, or modification will be posted in accordance
with our TOS. All users of Internet services, and their clients,
must comply with this AUP and our TOS.
We support the uncensored flow of information and ideas over
the Internet and do not actively monitor subscriber activity
under normal circumstances. Similarly, we do not exercise
editorial control over the content of any web site, e-mail
transmission, newsgroups, or other material created or accessible
over or through the services, except for certain proprietary
Web sites. However, in accordance with our TOS (Terms of Service),
we may remove any materials that, in our sole discretion,
may be illegal, may subject us to liability, or which may
violate this AUP. WCSHOST.Net may cooperate with legal authorities
and/or third parties in the investigation of any suspected
or alleged crime or civil wrongdoing. Your violation of this
AUP may result in the suspension or immediate termination
of either your WCSHOST.Net account or other actions as detailed
below without notice, based upon the nature of the violation.
This document is intended to provide a basic understanding
of WCSHOST.Net's Acceptable Use Policy. The following are
guidelines for the establishment and enforcement of WCSHOST.Net's
AUP. If a WCSHOST.Net account violates this Acceptable Use
Policy or our TOS, we reserve the right to terminate your
service without notice. We prefer to advise customers of inappropriate
behavior and any necessary corrective action, however based
on the nature of the violation, could result in immediate
termination of service.
The following constitute violations of this AUP:
Illegal Activities: WCSHOST.Net's services
may not be used for illegal purposes, or in support of illegal
activities. WCSHOST.Net reserves the right to cooperate with
legal authorities and/or injured third parties in the investigation
of any suspected crime or civil wrongdoing.
Harm or Endangerment to other people: You
may not use WCSHOST.Net’s service to harm, or attempt
to harm, minors in any way, including, but not limited to
child pornography, or use WCSHOST.Net’s service to transmit
any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise)
that threatens or encourages bodily harm or destruction of
property.
Forgery or impersonation: Adding, removing
or modifying identifying network header information in an
effort to deceive or mislead is prohibited. Attempting to
impersonate any person by using forged headers or other identifying
infrmation is prohibited. The use of anonymous remailers or
nicknames does not constitute impersonation.
Unsolicited E-mail, News Bombing (SPAM):
Use of the WCSHOST.Net service to transmit any unsolicited
commercial or unsolicited bulk e-mail is expressly prohibited.
Violations of this type will result in the immediate termination
of the offending WCSHOST.Net account. Anyone hosting websites
or services on their server that support spammers or cause
any of our IP space to be listed in any of the various Spam
Databases will have their server immediately removed from
our network. The server will not be reconnected until such
time that you agree to remove any and all traces of the offending
material immediately upon reconnection and agree to allow
us access to the server to confirm that all material has been
completely removed. Severe violations may result in immediate
and permanent removal of the server from our network without
notice to the customer. Any server guilty of a second violation
will be immediately and permanently removed from our network
without notice. Malicious intent to impede another person's
use of electronic mail services or news will result in the
immediate termination of the offending WCSHOST.Net account.
Copyright or trademark infringement: Use
of the WCSHOST.Net service to transmit any material (by e-mail,
uploading, posting or otherwise) that infringes any copyright,
trademark, patent, trade secret or other proprietary rights
of any third party, including, but not limited to, the unauthorized
copying of copyrighted material, the digitization and distribution
of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted
sources, and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software.
Use of the WCSHOST.Net service to collect, or attempt to collect,
personal information about third parties without their knowledge
or consent. Distribution and/or posting of copyrighted or
the aforementioned infringements will not be tolerated.
Network disruptions: Use of the WCSHOST.Net
service for any activity which affects the ability of other
people or systems to use WCSHOST.Net Services or the Internet.
This includes "Denial Of Service" (DOS) attacks
against another network host or individual user. Interference
with or disruption of other network users, services or equipment
is prohibited. WCSHOST.Net will not tolerate any subscriber
attempting to access the accounts of others, or penetrate
security measures of other systems, whether or not the intrusion
results in corruption or loss of data. WCSHOST.Net, does not
allow the hosting of IRC, IRC Bots, or eggdrops or IRC Related
scripts/programs on our network. Accounts found hosting this
material will be subject to immediate cancellation without
refund. Use of the WCSHOST.Net service to access, or to attempt
to access, the accounts of others, or to penetrate, or attempt
to penetrate, security measures of WCSHOST.Net's or another
entity's computer software or hardware, electronic communications
system, or telecommunications system, whether or not the intrusion
results in the corruption or loss of data, is expressly prohibited
and the offending WCSHOST.Net account is subject to immediate
termination.
Security: You are responsible for any misuse
of your account, even if the inappropriate activity was committed
by a friend, family member, guest or employee. Therefore,
you must take steps to ensure that others do not gain unauthorized
access to your account. In addition, you may not use your
account to breach security of another account or attempt to
gain unauthorized access to another network or server.
Network Security: WCSHOST.Net accounts operate
on shared network resources. Excessive use or abuse of these
resources by one customer may have a negative impact on all
other customers. Misuse of network resources in a manner which
impairs network performance is prohibited by this policy and
may result in termination of your account.
SERVER-SIDE SCRIPT USAGE
Our servers are not your testing platforms. User accounts
are on high end, live server responsible for maintaining many
accounts. Your server space is being provided to display your
finished product to the web - NOT for testing purposes. If
you are uploading a script to our server, you acknowledge
that you have already tested your script elsewhere and that
you know how to install the script.
Any script that the on duty administrator deems to be potentially
threatening to the overall performance of our web server will
be terminated immediately and your account access will be
locked out. When scripts are executed that are potentially
harmful to the server in the long term, the offending account
will be terminated immediately without a refund of any pre-paid
fees. A termination includes the purging of all files.
Please note the following script usage policies:
The script must use low system resources. Scripts that consume
a large amount of server memory or CPU power will be subject
to termination, and/or additional fee.
Each user account may not use more than their fair share of
system resources at any given time. Scripts found using excessive
memory or cpu resources, will be disabled without notice.
All scripts are subject to veto power of the system administrator(s).
If a script is found to be affecting the other users in the
shared-hosting environment - it will be reviewed and the owner
of the script contacted after its been disabled. Scripts may
not interact with any server configuration or hardware. Users
running scripts that interact with any server configuration
or any hardware will be subject to immediate cancellation
of the user account without refund.
The script can be used and referenced from any site on the
Net (i.e. free counters, etc.) however, scripts must stay
within the allowable usage of our system resources. Users
using more resources than a single user account is entitled
to use will be assessed additional monthly charges.
The script must be executed in a timely fashion. Any script
that uses the processor for more than a few milliseconds is
subject to removal.
Scripts must be secure. Unnecessarily chmoding scripts to
777 is a policy violation. Placing scripts in a publicly viewable
directory (one without an index.html files) is a policy violation.
Any accounts with scripts found in violation of any WCSHOST.Net
Webhosting policy are subject to future scrutiny of all cgi
by our system administrator. If a script is found to be harmful
to the system, it will be killed immediately and the account
locked until the account owners have been contacted. Any time
spent by WCSHOST.Net Webhosting to kill a script and/or to
lock an account will be billed to the account at a rate of
$75.00 per hour. Malicious scripts are subject to immediate
account cancellation.
REPORTING VIOLATIONS OF WCSHOST.Net AUP
WCSHOST.Net requests that anyone who believes that there
is a violation of this AUP direct the information to the Abuse
Department abuse@wcshost.net if possible, please provide the
IP address used to commit the violation, date and time of
the violation, and evidence of the violation.
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