An Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is a set of rules and conditions systematized by a network, system or a website owner that define and restrict the ways in which the network, system or website may be utilized.
The AUP of 'Online Presence Solutions' is aimed at explicitly outlining the purposes for which customers CANNOT use our SEMI-DEDICATED hosting services and position data on our network servers.
This Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is accepted as part of the Semi-Dedicated Terms of Service each customer agrees to abide by when signing up for a Semi-Dedicated server account with our hosting services. Any violation of these AUP terms will be considered as violation of our Semi-Dedicated Terms of Service.
We, shall be the final part to determine whether an act constitutes a violation of this AUP and misuse of our services. We reserve our right to respond accordingly and/or immediately terminate the provision of the services, shall we become aware, and/or have sufficient evidence, of any prohibited conduct outlined in this AUP, or any other action threatening the secure environment of our Semi-Dedicated hosting customers and/or network of servers. We shall be the sole arbiter in determining the sufficiency of the present evidences.
In order to protect our company’s reputation and responsibilities, and guarantee robust and reliable Semi-Dedicated hosting services to all our customers, as well as the privacy and security of all our individual users, we – 'Online Presence Solutions' - hereby state the following AUP conditions to come into force for each user signing up for a Semi-Dedicated server account with our hosting services:
Any Semi-Dedicated hosting customer in violation of our system or network security is subject to criminal and civil liability, as well as immediate account termination.
Examples include, but are not limited to the following:
1. SPAMMING IS PROHIBITED. Users MAY NOT utilize our Semi-Dedicated server hosting services to transmit, distribute or deliver any unsolicited bulk or commercial messages over the Internet (an action known as "spam" or "spamming").
Spamming is a violation of ethic norms and will be interpreted as an infringement. 'Online Presence Solutions' will not tolerate the sending of unsolicited bulk or commercial messages through our Semi-Dedicated server hosting services, as well as through another service that is mentioning, in some way, our customer’s domain name or implies the utilization of our network or our e-mail services for sending the unsolicited bulk or messages.
2. SPAMVERTISING IS PROHIBITED. ‘Spamvertizing’ refers to the practice of sending unsolicited spam messages for the purpose of advertising a particular website.
If such e-mails are relayed through 3rd party (e-mail spoofing) and/or are promoting a domain hosted on our servers, this will lead to immediate account suspension unless an evidence of legitimacy for non-involvement of the domain owner in the particular illegal action is provided.
We, at our sole discretion, shall determine whether any of the messages you are sending is spam or spamvertizing.
For your information, spamming generally includes, but is not limited to the following:
Content published or transmitted via 'Online Presence Solutions' Semi-Dedicated hosting services includes website content, email content, forum/blog postings, chat content, and/or any other type of content hosted on our servers, published online or transmitted through our network’s services.
The user of our services is NOT permitted to post online content or have links to content that:
Copyrighted material must not be placed on customer's Semi-Dedicated accounts without the explicit permission of the copyright owner or a person explicitly authorized to give such permission by the copyright owner. Upon receipt of a claim for copyright infringement, or a notice of such violation, we will immediately run full investigation and, upon confirmation, will promptly remove the infringing material from the Services. Further procedures (in accordance with our stated below corrective measures) will be carried out if necessary. We will assume no liability to any Customer of the Services for the removal of any such material.
We reserve our right to be the sole arbiter in determining the seriousness of each infringement of this AUP and to immediately take corrective actions.
We will disable the customer's Semi-Dedicated hosting account if we deem necessary, at our sole discretion. Upon closing of the customer’s account we will send an e-mail notification to the customer, stating the reason for the termination and quoting our terms’ chapter that has been violated. The customer will be given an opportunity to respond and take measures to remedy the situation should he/she consider him/herself abused by a third party. Upon fulfilling of this obligation, we may re-activate the customer’s Semi-Dedicated account, if we find, at our own discretion, sufficient evidence pro customer’s side.
Closed Semi-Dedicated accounts due to repeated violations will not be re-activated. A backup may be requested, however it will be subject to certain penalty fees imposed according to the breach of this AUP terms. The final penalty fee will be determined by the type and frequency of the violations.
If you need to report a violation of this AUP agreement or believe that you or your system has been subject to attack originating from our web hosting system, please contact us immediately. Our professional team will investigate the situation and provide you with full assistance.
We reserve our right to change this AUP at any time, without prior notice. We encourage our Semi-Dedicated hosting users to periodically review this Acceptable Use Policy and our Semi-Dedicated Terms of Service.