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Agreeing to Third Coast Web Solutions Acceptable use Policy and Terms
of Conditions is mandatory for Hosting signing up or using our services.
Please make sure you read everything.
If you have any questions
Contact
Us.
Third Coast Web Solutions Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") is provided to
give our customers and users a clear understanding of what Third Coast
Web Solutions expects of them while using the service. All users of
Third Coast Web Solutions Internet services: those who access some of
our Services but do not have accounts, as well as those who pay a
service fee to subscribe to the Services, must comply with this AUP and
our TOS (Terms of Service).
IMPORTANT NOTICE: *All Payments To Third
Coast Web Solutions for Domain Registration(s) Are Non-Refundable.
(if applicable)
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. Third Coast Web Solutions 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 Third
Coast Web Solutions account or other actions as detailed in Section 3
WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE.
This document is intended to provide a basic understand of Third Coast
Web Solutions Acceptable Use Policy. The following are guidelines for
the establishment and enforcement of Third Coast Web Solutions AUP:
· Ensure reliable service to our customers
· Ensure security and privacy of our systems and network, as well
as the networks and systems of others
· Comply with existing laws
· Maintain our reputation as a responsible service provider
· Encourage responsible use of the Internet and discourage
activities which reduce the usability and value of Internet services
· Preserve the value of Internet resources as a conduit for free
expression and exchange of information
· Preserve the privacy and security of individual users
Third Coast Web Solutions intends to provide its customers access to
everything the Internet has to offer. While Third Coast Web Solutions is
firmly committed to the principles of free speech, certain activities
that may be damaging to the resources of both Third Coast Web Solutions
and the Internet and cannot be permitted under the guise of free speech.
The resources of Third Coast Web Solutions and the Internet are limited,
and abuse of these resources by one user has a negative impact on the
entire community.
We do not routinely monitor the activity of accounts except for
measurements of system utilization and the preparation of billing
records. However, in our efforts to promote good citizenship within the
Internet community, we will respond appropriately if we become aware of
inappropriate use of our service.
You may not use your Hosting Package to publish material, which Third
Coast Web Solutions determines, at its sole discretion, to be unlawful,
indecent or objectionable. For purposes of this policy, "material"
refers to all forms of communications including narrative descriptions,
graphics (including photographs, illustrations, images, drawings,
logos), executable programs, video recordings, and audio recordings.
If a Third Coast Web Solutions account is used to violate the 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, flagrant
violations of the Acceptable Use Policy will result in immediate
termination of service. Our failure to enforce this policy, for whatever
reason, shall not be construed as a waiver of our right to do so at any
time.
As a member of our network community, you must use your Internet access
responsibly. If you have any questions regarding this policy, please
contact us at
abuse@Third Coast Web Solutions.com
VIOLATIONS OF THIRD COAST WEB SOLUTIONS ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
The following constitute violations of this AUP:
1. Illegal use: Third Coast Web Solutions services may not be
used for illegal purposes, or in support of illegal activities. Third
Coast Web Solutions reserves the right to cooperate with legal
authorities and/or injured third parties in the investigation of any
suspected crime or civil wrongdoing.
2. Harm to minors: Use of Third Coast Web Solutions service to
harm, or attempt to harm, minors in any way, including, but not limited
to child pornography, child pedophiliac material (pedo hard pics).
3. Threats: Use of Third Coast Web Solutions service to transmit
any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that threatens
or encourages bodily harm or destruction of property.
4. Harassment: Use of Third Coast Web Solutions service to
transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that
harasses another.
5. Fraudulent activity: Use of Third Coast Web Solutions service
to make fraudulent offers to sell or buy products, items, or services,
or to advance any type of financial scam such as "pyramid schemes," "ponzi
schemes," and "chain letters."
6. 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 information is prohibited. The use
of anonymous remailers or nicknames does not constitute impersonation.
7. Unsolicited commercial e-mail / Unsolicited bulk e-mail (SPAM)
Use of Third Coast Web Solutions 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 Third Coast Web Solutions account.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
BEGINNING IMMEDIATELY, 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/domain immediately removed from our network. The server/domain
will not be reconnected until such time that you agree to remove ANY
and ALL traces of the offending material/domains immediately upon
reconnection and agree to allow us access to the server/domain to
confirm that all material has been COMPLETELY removed. Severe
violations may result in immediate and permanent removal of the
server/hosting account from our network without notice to the customer.
Any server/domain guilty of a second violation WILL be
immediately and permanently removed from our network without notice.
8. E-mail / News Bombing: Malicious intent to impede another
person's use of electronic mail services or news will result in the
immediate termination of the offending Third Coast Web Solutions
account.
9. E-mail / Message Forging: Forging any message header, in part
or whole, of any electronic transmission, originating or passing through
Third Coast Web Solutions service is in violation of this AUP.
10. Usenet SPAMing: Third Coast Web Solutions has a zero
tolerance policy for the use of its network for the posting of messages
or commercial advertisements, which violate the rules, regulations, FAQ
or charter of any newsgroups or mailing list. Commercial messages that
are appropriate under the rules of a newsgroup or mailing list or that
are solicited by the recipients are permitted.
11. Unauthorized access: Use of Third Coast Web Solutions service
to access, or to attempt to access, the accounts of others, or to
penetrate, or attempt to penetrate, security measures of Third Coast Web
Solutions 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 Third Coast Web Solutions account is
subject to immediate termination.
12. Copyright or trademark infringement: Use of Third Coast Web
Solutions 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.
13. Collection of personal data: Use of Third Coast Web Solutions
service to collect, or attempt to collect, personal information about
third parties without their knowledge or consent.
14. Network disruptions and unfriendly activity: Use of Third
Coast Web Solutions service for any activity which affects the ability
of other people or systems to use Third Coast Web Solutions 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. It is the
Member's responsibility to ensure that their network is configured in a
secure manner. A Subscriber may not, through action or inaction, allow
others to use their network for illegal or inappropriate actions. A
Subscriber may not permit their network, through action or inaction, to
be configured in such a way that gives a third party the capability to
use their network in an illegal or inappropriate manner. Unauthorized
entry and/or use of another company and/or individual's computer system
will result in immediate account termination. Third Coast Web Solutions
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.
15. Fraud: Involves a knowing misrepresentation or misleading
statement, writing or activity made with the intent that the person
receiving it will act upon it.
16. Infringement of Copyright, Patent, Trademark, Trade Secret, or
Intellectual Property Right: Distribution and/or posting of
copyrighted or the aforementioned infringements will not be tolerated.
17. Distribution of Viruses: Intentional distributions of
software that attempts to and/or causes damage, harassment, or annoyance
to persons, data, and/or computer systems are prohibited. Such an
offense will result in the immediate termination of the offending
account.
18. Inappropriate Use of Software: Use of software or any device
that would facilitate a continued connection, i.e. pinging, while using
Third Coast Web Solutions services could result in suspension service.
19. Third Party Accountability: Third Coast Web Solutions
subscribers will be held responsible and accountable for any activity by
third parties, using their account, that violates guidelines created
within the Acceptable Use Policy.
20. Violation Of Third Coast Web Solutions Hosting Accounts: It
is absolutely forbidden to host pornographic content or IRC servers on
Hosting/Reseller Accounts. Hosting/Reseller accounts found hosting this
material will be subject to immediate cancellation without refund.
21. IRC networks: It is absolutely forbidden to host an IRC
server that is part of or connected to another IRC network or server.
Servers/hosting found to be connecting to or part of these networks will
be immediately removed from our network without notice. The
server/hosting will not be reconnected to the network until such time
that you agree to completely remove any and all traces of the irc
server, and agree to let us have access to your server to confirm that
the content has been completely removed. Any server/member guilty of a
second violation will result in immediate account termination.
22. Adult Content: Explicit adult content (pornography) will be
grounds for immediate suspension of your account. Sites containing only
links to adult content will be immediately suspended. Third Coast Web
Solutions will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of
this provision. Adult-oriented sites, pornography and sex-related
merchandising are prohibited. We also prohibit sites that provide
storage, sale, distribution, hypertext link to, advertisement, promotion
or hosting of material that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, harmful,
threatening, harassing, or an intrusion of privacy or publicity rights,
or otherwise objectionable. Note: Artistic nudity may be acceptable, but
this is at the sole discretion of Third Coast Web Solutions.
23. Banned Scripts :
The following scripts are banned from
use on our shared and reseller hosting and may not be uploaded or run.
Reasons for banning them include adverse effects on server load,
invitations to hackers/spammers/criminal activity, etc.
IRC egg drops
Proxy servers
Mail bombers
Anonymous mailers
IP spoofers
Port scanners
nph-proxy
UBB (Ultimate Bulletin Board, all versions)
Ikonboard, Yabb (all versions)
lstmrge.cgi
FormMail.cgi, FormMail.pl from
Matt's Script Archive
are not allowed. See
Here
Greymatter (gm.cgi)
Cgi/Perl Content management systems
Shell, SSH, Telnet Scripts and Shell, SSH, Telnet Alternatives.
Any script that uses & processes a massive number of flatfiles or large
flatfile databases
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.
· Your password provides access to your account. It is your
responsibility to keep your password secure.
· Sharing your password and account access with unauthorized
users is prohibited. You should take care to prevent others from using
your account since you will be held responsible for such use.
· Attempting to obtain another user's account password is
strictly prohibited, and may result in termination of service.
· You must adopt adequate security measures to prevent or
minimize unauthorized use of your account.
· You may not attempt to circumvent user authentication or
security of any host, network or account. This includes, but is not
limited to, accessing data not intended for you, logging into or making
use of a server or account you are not expressly authorized to access,
or probing the security of other networks. Use or distribution of tools
designed for compromising security is prohibited. Examples of these
tools include, but are not limited to, password guessing programs,
cracking tools or network probing tools.
· You may not attempt to interfere with service to any user, host
or network ("denial of service attacks"). This includes, but is not
limited to, "flooding" of networks, deliberate attempts to overload a
service, and attempts to "crash" a host.
· Users who violate systems or network security may incur
criminal or civil liability. Third Coast Web Solutions will cooperate
fully with investigations of violations of systems or network security
at other sites, including cooperating with law enforcement authorities
in the investigation of suspected criminal violations.
Network Performance
Third Coast Web Solutions accounts operate on shared resources.
Excessive use or abuse of these shared network 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.
You are prohibited from excessive consumption of resources, including
CPU time, memory, disk space and session time. You may not use
resource-intensive programs which negatively impact other customers or
the performances of Third Coast Web Solutions systems or networks. Third
Coast Web Solutions reserves the right to terminate or limit such
activities.
REPORTING VIOLATIONS OF THIRD COAST WEB SOLUTIONS AUP
Third Coast Web Solutions requests that anyone who believes that there
is a violation of this AUP direct the information to the Abuse
Department at abuse@Third Coast Web Solutions.com
If available, please provide the following information:
· The IP address used to commit the alleged violation
· The date and time of the alleged violation, including the time
zone or offset from GMT
· Evidence of the alleged violation
E-mail with full header information provides all of the above, as do
system log files. Other situations will require different methods of
providing the above information. Third Coast Web Solutions may take any
one or more of the following actions in response to complaints:
· Issue written or verbal warnings
· Suspend the Member's newsgroup posting privileges
· Suspend the Member's account
· Terminate the Member's account
· Bill the Member for administrative costs and/or reactivation
charges
· Bring legal action to enjoin violations and/or to collect
damages, if any, cause by violations
REVISIONS TO THIS ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
Third Coast Web Solutions reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify
this AUP, our TOS (Terms of Service) 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
(Terms of Service).
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