186K acceptable usage policy

1.1 The Customer accepts responsibility for any content transferred by it or any of its End Users through the 186K Network (including, but not limited to, Email, web pages, newsgroups or chat services).

1.2 The Customer and its End Users shall not use the 186K Network or the 186K Service to do any of the following:

1.2.1 publish, post, send, link to, distribute or disseminate defamatory, infringing, obscene, or otherwise unlawful material or information, the suitability of such content or material to be determined solely by 186K;

1.2.2 publish, post, send, transmit, link to, distribute or disseminate any information that is obtained in breach of confidence;

1.2.3 publish, post, send, transmit, link to, unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, spam, bulk Email, chain letters, multilevel/pyramid schemes, or any other form of solicitation.

1.2.4 publish, post, send, transmit, link to, distribute or disseminate material which constitutes a violation or infringement of any person, firm or company or the rights thereof (including, but not limited to, third party intellectual property rights or confidentiality);

1.2.5 publish, post, send, transmit, link to, distribute or disseminate, make available or upload files or software that contains a virus or corrupt data or other harmful feature;

1.2.6 publish, post, send, transmit, link to, distribute or disseminate mass emailing programs or cross-posting of messages to a large number of Usenet groups;

1.2.7 threaten, harass, stalk, abuse, disrupt or otherwise violate the rights (including rights to privacy or security) of others;

1.2.8 engage in illegal or unlawful activities;

1.2.9 make available or upload files that contain software or other material, data or information not owned by or licensed to the Customer or the End User (as appropriate);

1.2.10 disrupt or otherwise abuse the 186K Service or the 186K Network by, including but not limited to, excessive use of CPU resources, excessive use of disk space, excessive use of email storage space, excessive use of web storage space, hacking of the 186K Network, 186K Service and systems, the running of packet sniffers or port scanners, the installation and continuous use or running of programs, such as IRC bots and the reselling of CGI scripts;

1.2.11 falsify the true ownership of software or other material or information contained in a file that the Customer or End User makes available via the 186K Network or the 186K Service;

1.2.12 forge or block headers and/or addresses or any other action the purpose of which is to hide the Customer's or End User’s true identity or discredit a third party;

1.2.13 obtain access, through whatever means, to restricted areas of the 186K Network or the 186K Service;

1.2.14 use the 186K Network or the 186K Service in such a way that the whole or part of it is interrupted, damaged, rendered less efficient or such that the effectiveness or functionality of the 186K Network or the 186K Service is in any way impaired;

1.2.15 impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your affiliation with anyone or entity;

1.2.16 violate any other law or regulation whilst accessing and using the 186K Network or the 186K Service;

1.2.17 interfere with computer networking or elecommunications services to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, denial of service attacks, flooding of a network, overloading a service, improper seizing and abuse of operator privileges and attempts to "crash" a host.

1.3 186K reserves the right at its sole discretion to allow the Customer or End User to send legitimate bulk Email via the 186K Network or the IP Service subject to the following provisions:

1.3.1 That a prior written application by the Customer or End User is made to 186K;

1.3.2 In the event that 186K agrees to grant permission to the Customer or End User to send legitimate bulk Email via the 186K Network or the 186K Service, it is the sole responsibility of the Customer or End User to obtain written permission from 186K prior to the sending of the bulk Email;

1.3.3 A sample of the content or material to be included in the bulk Email should be provided for the prior approval of 186K;

1.3.4 To allow 186K to determine the date and time of the sending of the bulk Email;

1.3.5 186K reserves the right to make a reasonable charge for the transmission of bulk Email via the 186K Network or the 186K Service

1.4 The sending of unauthorised bulk Email via the 186K Network or the 186K Service will be chargeable and such charge to be determined solely by 186K. 186K reserves the right to pursue compensation in cases where abuse of the 186K Network or the 186K Service results in any form of service denial and/or blacklisting by outside agents or networks.

1.5 Whilst 186K cannot review all transmissions by the Customer or End User, 186K reserves the right at its sole discretion and without prior notice to review, remove or otherwise block any material that the Customer and/or End User post or terminate the Customer or End User account in the 186K Service as appropriate for violating the above provisions.

1.6 186K reserves the right to charge the Customer or End User a reasonable fee for misuse of the 186K Service or the 186K Network to include, without limitation, clear up fees for the removal of material uploaded by either the Customer or its End User.

1.7 The Customer and/or End User is solely responsible for the security of any device connected to the 186K Service or the 186K Network, including any data stored on that device. The Customer and End User are solely responsible for keeping a copy of their scripts/files/data as backup on a remote system (not on the 186K servers or the 186K Service). 186K is not responsible for any lost or deleted scripts, files, information, software or data whatsoever.

1.8 Excessive use of Email resources due to relaying, receiving, or running an open relay will result in immediate suspension of 186K Service or termination of the End User account as appropriate and without notice. This policy applies to all Email interfaces, including web forms and CGI scripts.

1.9 The Customer and End User are solely responsible for any information that is published on the web or other Internet services. The Customer and End User must ensure that the recipient of the content is appropriate. For example, Customer and End User must take appropriate precautions to prevent minors from receiving inappropriate content. 186K and its employees reserve the right to refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that it, in its sole discretion, deems to be offensive, indecent, or otherwise inappropriate regardless of whether such material or its dissemination is unlawful.

1.10 Should any violation of 186K Acceptable Use Policy occur, 186K reserves the right to terminate the Customer or End User account in the 186K service as appropriate, without notice and without refund. The Customer will be held responsible without l imitation for any damages to, including but not limited to, the SP, Network, or the SP Service, servers, connectivity, reputation, business, operations, or equipment.

1.11 The SP reserves the right to change this Acceptable Use Policy at its sole discretion and without prior notice.