Acceptable Use Policy
This Acceptable Use Policy document,
including the following list of Prohibited Activities, is an integral
part of your Hosting
Agreement with Darkbit.net/Darkbit Technical Services
('Darkbit'). If you engage in any of the activities prohibited by
this AUP document Darkbit.net/Darkbit
Technical Services may suspend or terminate your
account.
Darkbit's Acceptable Use Policy (the "Policy")
for Darkbit Services is designed to help protect Darkbit, Darkbit's
customers and the Internet community in general from irresponsible
or, in some cases, illegal activities. The Policy is a non-exclusive
list of the actions prohibited by Darkbit. Darkbit reserves the right
to modify the Policy at any time, effective upon posting at
http://www.darkbit.net/company/aup.html.
Prohibited Uses of Darkbit's
Systems and Services
1. Transmission, distribution or
storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or
regulation is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, material
protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual
property right used without proper authorization, and material that
is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates
export control laws.
2. Sending Unsolicited Bulk Email ("UBE",
"spam"). The sending of any form of Unsolicited Bulk Email
through Darkbit's servers is prohibited. Likewise, the sending of UBE
from another service provider advertizing a web site, email address
or resource hosted on Darkbit's servers, is prohibited. Darkbit
accounts or services may not be used to solicit customers from, or
collect replies to, messages sent from another Internet Service
Provider where those messages violate this Policy or that of the
other provider.
3. Running Unconfirmed Mailing Lists.
Subscribing email addresses to any mailing list without the express
and verifiable permission of the email address owner is prohibited.
All mailing lists run by Darkbit customers must be Closed-loop
("Confirmed Opt-in"). The subscription confirmation message
received from each address owner must be kept on file for the
duration of the existence of the mailing list. Purchasing lists of
email addresses from 3rd parties for mailing to from any
Darkbit-hosted domain, or referencing any Darkbit account, is
prohibited.
4. Advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making
available any software, program, product, or service that is designed
to violate this AUP or the AUP of any other Internet Service
Provider, which includes, but is not limited to, the facilitation of
the means to send Unsolicited Bulk Email, initiation of pinging,
flooding, mail-bombing, denial of service attacks.
5.
Operating an account on behalf of, or in connection with, or
reselling any service to, persons or firms listed in the Spamhaus
Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database at
www.spamhaus.org.
6. Unauthorized attempts by a user to gain
access to any account or computer resource not belonging to that user
(e.g., "cracking").
7. Obtaining or attempting to
obtain service by any means or device with intent to avoid
payment.
8. Unauthorized access, alteration, destruction, or
any attempt thereof, of any information of any Darkbit customers or
end-users by any means or device.
9. Knowingly engage in any
activities designed to harass, or that will cause a denial-of-service
(e.g., synchronized number sequence attacks) to any other user
whether on the Darkbit network or on another provider's network.
10.
Using Darkbit's Services to interfere with the use of the Darkbit
network by other customers or authorized users.
Customer Responsibility for
Customer's Users
Each Darkbit customer is responsible for
the activities of its users and, by accepting service from Darkbit,
is agreeing to ensure that its customers/representatives or end-users
abide by this Policy. Complaints about customers/representatives or
end-users of an Darkbit customer will be forwarded to the Darkbit
customer's postmaster for action. If violations of the Darkbit
Acceptable Use Policy occur, Darkbit reserves the right to terminate
services with or take action to stop the offending customer from
violating Darkbit's AUP as Darkbit deems appropriate, without notice.
Revision 1 9/11/2005