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Terms, Conditions and Acceptable
Use Policy
Starcom Systems provides Internet World Wide Web page
hosting and e-mail services. Starcom Systems has certain
legal and ethical responsibilities regarding the use
of its computer network and equipment involved in
these services.
Starcom
Systems's general policy is to act as a neutral provider
of access to the global Internet and has specific
ethical concerns regarding the use of its computers
detailed below. Starcom Systems reserves the right
to suspend or cancel a customer's access to any or
all services provided by Starcom Systems when Starcom
Systems decides that the account has been inappropriately
used.
Specific Acceptable
Use Policies
Unauthorized use of other people's accounts or computers
Starcom Systems will strongly react to any use or
attempted use of an Internet account or computer without
the owner's authorization. Such attempts include "social
engineering" (tricking other people into releasing
their passwords), password cracking, security hole
scanning etc.
Any unauthorized use of accounts or computers by a
Starcom Systems customer, whether or not the attacked
account or computer belongs to Starcom Systems, will
result in action against the attacker. Possible actions
include warnings, account suspension or cancellation,
and civil or criminal legal action, according to the
seriousness of the attack.
Adult
Sites
Adult-oriented sites, pornography and sex-related
merchandising are prohibited. This includes sites
that may infer sexual content of any kind or provide
links to adult content elsewhere. 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.
Child
Pornography
The use of Starcom Systems's services to store, post,
display, transmit, advertise or otherwise make available
child pornography is prohibited. Starcom Systems is
required by law, and will, notify law enforcement
agencies when it becomes aware of the presence of
child pornography on, or being transmitted through,
its services.
Usage
of Server Resources
Customer agrees that Customer shall not use excessive
amounts of server resources (such as, but not limited
to, CPU time & memory usage) on any of Starcom
Systems's servers. Any violationof this policy may
result in corrective action by Starcom Systems, including
assessment of additional charges, disconnection or
discontinuance of any and all Services, or termination
of this Agreement, which actions may be taken in Starcom
Systems's sole and absolute discretion. If Starcom
Systems takes any corrective action under this section,
Customer shall not be entitled to a refund of any
fees paid in advance prior to such action.
Users may not initiate the following:
a) Use 25% or more of system resources for longer
then 90 seconds. There are numerous activities that
could cause such problems; these include: CGI scripts,
FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc.
b) Run any type of interactive real-time chat applications
that require server resources. Remotely-hosted services
are fully allowed.
c) Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes
at any point in time on the server. This includes
any and all daemons, such as IRCD.
d) Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet
Relay Chat) network.
e) Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike,
half-life, battlefield1492, etc<
Commercial
advertisements with e-mail
Sending unsolicited bulk and/or commercial messages
over the Internet (known as "spamming")
is prohibited, regardless of whether or not it overloads
a server or disrupts service to Starcom Systems's
customers. The term "spamming" also includes,
but is not limited to, maintaining an open SMTP policy,
engaging in spamming using the service of another
ISP or IPP and referencing in the spam a Web site
hosted on a Starcom Systems server, and selling or
distributing software (on a Web site residing on a
Starcom Systems server) that facilitates spamming.
Violators will be assessed a minimum fine of $300
and will face immediate suspension. Starcom Systems
reserves the right to determine, in its sole and absolute
discretion, what constitutes a violation of this provision.
Fraudulent
Content
Offering or distributing any fraudulent goods, services,
schemes or promotions (e.g. - make money fast schemes,
chain-letters, pyramid schemes), or submitting false
data on any sign-up form, contract or online application
through registration, or any fraudulent use of information
obtained through the use of the Plans, including,
without limitation, use of credit card numbers, phone
numbers, e-mail addresses, or home addresses is strictly
prohibited.
Not
allowed scripts and applications
We do not host any proxy servers (ie. nph-proxy, cgi-proxy),
IRC bots and any resource hungry applications on our
servers
Abuse
of Traffic and Storage
Starcom Systems customers are privileged to be offered
high traffic and storage amount for their web sites.
The intention of Starcom Systems is to provide a large
space to serve web documents, not an offsite storage
area for electronic files. All web pages (html) must
be 'linked' with all files (.gif, .jpeg, .exe, etc.)
stored on Starcom Systems's server. Web sites that
are found to contain no html documents or a number
of unlinked files are subject to warning, suspension
or cancellation at the discretion of Starcom Systems
management. Starcom Systems will not host music archive
sites that violate any copyright laws in any file
format. Any sites that are found to contain this content
will be warned, suspended or cancelled at the discretion
of Starcom Systems management.
Customer agrees to pay for additional generated transfer
over his/her account limit.
Customer shall be charged according to our current
price list posted on the Hosting Plans page of this
web site.
Account
Cancellation
All accounts are set-up on a pre-pay basis. Starcom
Systems reserves the right to change the prices of
any of its services at any time.
Payment is due every 30 days from the date on which
the account will be established, or every 365 days
if the account is paid for yearly. Clients will be
automatically charged UNLESS a cancellation request
has been sent to Sales@StarcomSystems.net,
and Starcom Systems have confirmed your request. Cancellation
requests must be sent in 5 days before your next billing
date and include your account login/domain name and
password. Cancellations may only be made by the primary
contact person on the account. Account will be cancelled
within 3 days after cancellation request.
Lawful
Purpose
Starcom Systems reserves the right to refuse service
to anyone. Customers may only use Starcom Systems's
server for lawful purpose. Transmission of any material
in violation of any Federal, State or Local regulation
is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to
copyrighted material, material legally judged to be
threatening or obscene, and material protected by
trade secrets.
Indemnification
Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save
and hold Starcom Systems harmless from any and all
demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including
reasonable attorney's fees asserted against Starcom
Systems, its agents, its customers, officers and employees,
that may arise or result from any service provided
or performed or agreed to be performed or any product
sold by customer, its agents, employees or assigns.
Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless
Starcom Systems against liabilities arising out of:
- any injury to person or property caused by any
products sold or otherwise distributed in connection
with Starcom Systems's server;
- any material supplied by customer infringing or
allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of
a third party;
- copyright infringement and
- any defective products sold to customer from Starcom
Systems's server.
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