**Reliable Web
Solutions**
Acceptable Use Policy
(“AUP”)
This AUP
governs the use of RWSHost’s web hosting service.
Violation of this AUP may result in suspension or
termination of your service. In the event of a dispute
between you and RWSHost regarding the interpretation
of this AUP, RWSHost’s interpretation, in its
reasonable commercial judgment, shall govern. If you
have any questions regarding this AUP, contact Webhost@RWSHost.com
Table of Contents
-Offensive Content
-Security
-Bulk Commercial E-Mail
-Unsolicited E-Mail
-Material Protected by Copyright
-Copyright Infringement Notice
-Other
-Disclaimer
**Internet Abuse**
**Newsgroup, Chat Forums, Other Networks**
Offensive Content
You may not publish or transmit via RWSHost’s
service any content that RWSHost reasonably believes:
- constitutes child pornography;
- constitutes pornography;
- is excessively violent, incites
violence, threatens violence, or contains harassing
content or hate speech;
- is unfair or deceptive under
the consumer protection laws of any jurisdiction,
including chain letters and pyramid schemes;
- is defamatory or violates a
person’s privacy;
- creates a risk to a person’s
safety or health, creates a risk to public safety
or health, compromises national security, or interferes
with a investigation by law enforcement;
- improperly exposes trade secrets
or other confidential or proprietary information
of another person;
- is intended to assist others
in defeating technical copyright protections;
- clearly infringes on another
person’s trade or service mark, patent, or
other property right;
- promotes illegal drugs, violates
export control laws, relates to illegal gambling,
or illegal arms trafficking;
- is otherwise illegal or solicits
conduct that is illegal under laws applicable to
you or to RWSHost;
- is otherwise malicious, fraudulent,
or may result in retaliation against RWSHost by
offended viewers.
Content “published or transmitted”
via RWSHost’s service includes Web content,
e-mail, bulletin board postings, chat, and any other
type of posting or transmission that relies on any
Internet service provided by RWSHost.
Security
You must take reasonable security precautions.
You must protect the confidentiality of your password,
and you should change your password periodically.
Bulk Commercial E-Mail
You must obtain RWSHost’s advance approval
for any bulk commercial e-mail, which will not be
given unless you are able to demonstrate all of the
following to RWSHost’s reasonable satisfaction:
- Your intended recipients have
given their consent to receive e-mail via some affirmative
means, such as an opt-in procedure;
- Your procedures for soliciting
consent include reasonable means to ensure that
the person giving consent is the owner of the e-mail
address for which the consent is given;
- You retain evidence of the
recipient’s consent in a form that may be
promptly produced on request, and you honor recipient’s
and RWSHost’s requests to produce consent
evidence within 72 hours of receipt of the request.
- The body of the e-mail must
describe how the e-mail address was obtained, for
example, “You opted in to receive this e-mail
promotion from our Web site or from one of our partner
sites,” and information on how to request
evidence of the consent, for example, “If
you would like to learn more about how we received
your e-mail address please contact us at abuse@**yourdomain.com**.
- You have procedures in place
that allow a recipient to easily revoke their consent
– such as a link in the body of the e-mail,
or instructions to reply with the word “Remove”
in the subject line. Revocations of consent are
honored within 72 hours, and you notify recipients
that their revocation of their consent will be honored
in 72 hours;
- You must post an abuse@**yourdoman.com**
e-mail address on the first page of any Web site
associated with the e-mail, you must register that
address at abuse.net, and you must promptly respond
to messages sent to that address;
- You must have a Privacy Policy
posted for each domain associated with the mailing;
- You have the means to track
anonymous complaints;
- You may not obscure the source
of your e-mail in any manner. Your e-mail must include
the recipients e-mail address in the body of the
message or in the “TO” line of the e-mail;
- You otherwise comply with the
CAN SPAM Act and other applicable law.
These policies apply to messages
sent using your RWSHost service, or to messages sent
from any network by you or any person on your behalf
that directly or indirectly refer the recipient to
a site hosted via your RWSHost service. In addition,
you may not use a third party e-mail service that
does not practice similar procedures for all its customers.
RWSHost may test and otherwise
monitor your compliance with its requirements, including
requesting opt-in information from a random sample
of your list at any time.
Unsolicited E-Mail
You may not send any unsolicited e-mail,
either in bulk or individually, to any person who
has indicated that they do not wish to receive it.
You must comply with the rules
of any other network you access or participate in
using your RWSHost’s services.
Material Protected by Copyright
You may not publish, distribute, or otherwise
copy in any manner any music, software, art, or other
work protected by copyright law unless:
- you have been expressly authorized
by the owner of the copyright for the work to copy
the work in that manner;
- you are otherwise permitted
by established United States copyright law to copy
the work in that manner.
RWSHost will terminate the service
of repeat copyright infringers.
Copyright Infringement
Notice (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
If you believe your copyright is being infringed
by a person using the RWSHost network, please send
your written notice of copyright infringement to:
Reliable Web Solutions
7164 - 120th Street, Suite 224
Surrey, BC, V3W-3M8
Your notice must include the following:
- A physical or electronic signature
of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner
of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
- Identification of the copyrighted
work claimed to have been infringed, or if multiple
copyrighted words at a single site are covered by
a single notification, a representative list of
such works at that site;
- · Identification of the
material that is claimed to be infringing or to
be the subject of infringing activity and that is
to be removed or access to which is to be disabled,
and information reasonably sufficient to permit
RWSHost to locate the material;
- Information reasonably sufficient
to permit RWSHost to contact you, such as an address,
telephone number, and, if available, an e-mail address;
- A statement that you have a
good faith belief that use of the material in the
manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright
owner, the copyright owner’s agent, or the
law;
- A statement that the information
in the notification is accurate, and under penalty
of perjury that you are authorized to act on behalf
of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly
infringed.
Disclaimer
RWSHost is under no duty, and does not by
this AUP undertake a duty, to monitor or police our
customers’ activities and disclaims any responsibility
for any misuse of the RWSHost network.
Inquiries regarding this policy
should be directed Matthew Hick at Webhost@RWSHost.com.
Internet Abuse
You may not engage in illegal, abusive, or
irresponsible behavior, including:
- Unauthorized access to or use
of data, systems or networks, including any attempt
to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system
or network or to breach security or authentication
measures (including those belonging to RWSHost and
its customers) without express authorization of
the owner of the system or network;
- monitoring data or traffic
on any network or system without the authorization
of the owner of the system or network;
- · Interference with service
to any user, host or network including, without
limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts
to overload a system and broadcast attacks;
- Use of an Internet account
or computer without the owner’s authorization,
including, but not limited to Internet scanning
(tricking other people into releasing their passwords),
password robbery, security hole scanning, and port
scanning;
- Forging of any TCP-IP packet
header or any part of the header information in
an e-mail or a newsgroup posting; or
- Any conduct that is likely
to result in retaliation against the RWSHost’s
network.
·
Use of RWSHost’s network in a way that unreasonably
interferes with RWSHost’s other customers use
of the network
Newsgroup, Chat Forums, Other Networks
You must comply with the rules and conventions
for postings to any bulletin board, chat group or
other forum in which you participate, such as IRC
and USENET groups including their rules for content
and commercial postings. These groups usually prohibit
the posting of off-topic commercial messages, or mass
postings to multiple forums.
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