Overview

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 Dedicated hosting services and position data on our network servers.

This Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is accepted as part of the Dedicated Terms of Service each customer agrees to abide by when signing up for a Dedicated server account with our hosting services. Any violation of these AUP terms will be considered as violation of our Dedicated Terms of Service.

We, 'Online Presence Solutions', 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 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 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:

 

 

 

I. Compliance with law

The Customer shall not post, transmit, re-transmit or store material on or through any of the Services or Products which, in the sole judgment of the Company:

  1. Is in violation of any local, state, federal or non-United States law or regulation
  2. Threatening, obscene, indecent, defamatory or that otherwise could adversely affect any individual, group or entity (collectively, "Persons")
  3. Or violates the rights of any person, including rights protected by copyright, trade secret, patent or other intellectual property or similar laws or regulations including, but not limited to, the installation or distribution of "pirated" or other software products that are not appropriately licensed for use by the Customer. The Customer shall be responsible for determining what laws or regulations are applicable to the use of the Services and Products.

 

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II. Customer security obligation

Each Customer must take a reasonable care of keeping each server or network device attached to the Company's infrastructure up-to-date and patched with the latest security updates. Failure to protect a server may result in a security compromise by outside sources.

The Company is not responsible for Customer server level security unless a security administration package, a firewall security administration package or a fully managed operating system package is contracted for and maintained.

A compromised server creating network interference will result in immediate Customer notification and will be disconnected from the network immediately so as to not directly affect other Customers. No service credits will be issued for outages resulting from disconnection due directly to breached server security.

The Customer is solely responsible for any breaches of security affecting servers under Customer control, including repairing the system, terminating the account(s) of the abusive user(s), and reporting occurrence of the issue to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

If a Customer intentionally creates a security breach, the cost to resolve any damage to the Customer's server or other servers will be charged directly to the Customer. The labor used to resolve such damage is categorized as emergency security breach recovery and is currently charged at $60.00 USD per hour.

 

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III. System abuse

Any Dedicated server 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:

  • Unauthorized access, use, probe, or scan of our system’s security, authentication measures, data or traffic
  • Interference with the service to any user, host or network including, but not limited to: e-mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload the system and broadcast attacks, forging of any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or newsgroup posting.
  • Any attempt at doing harm to a server or a customer of our web hosting services:
'Online Presence Solutions' will immediately and resolutely react to any attempt at misuse of an Internet account or computer, or any attempt to gain access to an internet account or computer by a customer unauthorized by the account/computer owner. Such attempts include, but are not limited to the following: ‘Internet scamming’ (tricking other people into releasing their passwords, etc.), password robbery, security hole scanning, running proxy - proxy lists and any kind of proxy scripts (including, but not limited to php proxy and nph proxy), introducing of any computer programs (viruses, Trojan horses, trap doors, back doors, worms, time bombs, packet bombs, cancel bots, etc.) that are intended to negatively interfere with, intercept, irreversibly damage or take hold of any system, data or personal information. It WILL NOT matter whether the attacked account or computer belongs or not to 'Online Presence Solutions' services. The fraud will be subject to actions based on the very nature of the attack and those may represent a warning, an account suspension or cancellation, and/or civil or criminal legal actions.  

 

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IV. Email policies

1. SPAMMING IS PROHIBITED. Users MAY NOT utilize our 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 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.

3. E-mail spoofing
Is a fraudulent e-mail activity in which the sender’s (3rd party) e-mail address and other parts of the e-mail header are changed so as to appear that the e-mail has been sent from a different source (e-mail address owner/server).
4. Unsolicited message
Is a message that is sent against the privacy policy of a newsgroup, or is sent to a recipient without their explicit permission.

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:

5. Block removal
If Customer actions have caused Company mail servers or Company IP address ranges to be placed on black hole lists and other mail filtering software systems used by companies on the Internet, the Customer will incur a $100 charge to the Customer's account and $100 per hour for administrative charges incurred to remove and protect mail servers and IP ranges.
6. Mass mailings
Sending mass unsolicited email is considered spam. Unsolicited email is defined as email sent to a recipient who has not double-opted in to mailings from the Customer. Senders of mass mailings must maintain complete and accurate records of all opt-ins, including the email and its headers if applicable, and provide such records to the Company upon request. If positive and verifiable proof of opt-in cannot be provided, complaints from recipients of the mailing are considered proof they did not subscribe and the mailing is unsolicited.
7. Mailing lists
Company's mass mailing rules also apply to mailing lists, list servs, or mailing services contracted for by the Customer. The policy is stated as follows: An acceptable mailing list will be focused at a targeted audience that has voluntarily signed up for e-mail information using a double opt-in process or that has made their e-mail address available to the Customer for distribution of information. The list must also allow for automatic removal by all end Customers with non-distribution in the future

 

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V. IP allocation

The Company administers an Internet network on which multiple Customer servers reside. Customers shall NOT use IP addresses that were not assigned to them by the NOC staff or network administrators. Any server utilizing IP addresses outside of the assigned range will be suspended from network access until the IP addresses overlap can be corrected.

Use of an unauthorized IP address will result in a charge of $20 per IP. Use of an unauthorized IP address creating a third party Customer outage will result in a $100 charge and termination of service until the IP allocation is resolved.

 

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VI. IRC policy

The Company allows stand alone IRC servers which are not connected to global IRC networks such as Undernet, EFnet, DALnet and other IRC networks. IRC servers which establish and maintain connections to global IRC networks such as Undernet, EFnet, DALnet and others will be considered to be in violation of the Acceptable Use Policy.

 

The Company does not allow IRC plug-ins, scripts, add-ons, clones or other software that has the intent or effect of disrupting or denying service to other users. Harassing, disrupting or denying service to other users is expressly prohibited, and may result in the immediate suspension or cancellation of Customer account(s).

If IRC servers attract DoS or DDoS attacks that disrupt or deny service to other Customers, the Company will null-route, ACL or otherwise suspend service to maintain quality of service for other Customers on our network.

The Company allows the limited use of stand-alone IRC 'bots'. The Company prohibits the use of 'botnets'. A Customer's IRC server may run a 'bot', but the Customer may not join a 'botnet'. The use of IRC BNC's or other proxy and re-direction software is expressly prohibited.

For the purposes of policy enforcement, any malicious activity observed to originate from a Customer's server may result in the immediate suspension of service to the offending Customer's server without prior notice. Frequently compromised servers may be reviewed for account termination on a case-by-case basis. The purpose of this case-by-case review is to deter AUP prohibited activity from occurring under the blanket excuse of a 'compromised server.'

Harassing, abusive and aggressive IRC activity is prohibited. This includes 'flooding' (rapid transmission of information with the intent to harass or deny service), 'hijacking' (taking improper or unauthorized control of В channel or server operator privileges), sending messages to users who do not want them, attempting to circumvent a channel or server ban, impersonating other IRC users and other abusive IRC behavior as determined by the Company.

The Company reserves the right to modify or amend the IRC policy at any time.

 

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VII. Inappropriate or unlawful content

Content published or transmitted via 'Online Presence Solutions' Dedicated server hosting services includes website content, email content, forum/blog postings, chat content, and/or any other type of content hosted on our dedicated 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:

 

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VIII. Copyrights

Copyrighted material must not be placed on customer's Dedicated server hosting 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 Dedicated server hosting services for the removal of any such material. Repeated violations of LiquidNet's Copyright Infringement Policy could result in permanent suspension of a customer's account.

 

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IX. Corrective actions

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 Dedicated server 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.

 

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X. Reporting 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 professional assistance.

 

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XI. Policy for hosting resellers

If you are using your dedicated server for reseller hosting purposes, you are responsible for the conduct of your Customers and by agreeing with this AUP, agree that your Customers will adhere to the AUP. Hosting resellers should make their prospective Customers aware of the AUP and the consequences for violation.

 

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XII. Revisions

We reserve our right to change this AUP at any time, without prior notice. We encourage our Dedicated hosting users to periodically review this Acceptable Use Policy and our Dedicated Terms of Service.

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