This Acceptable Use Policy specifies certain actions prohibited by Plains Web for users of the Plains Web Network. Plains Web reserves the right to modify this Policy at any time to stay in compliance with any laws, regulations and security requirements. By using Plains Web services, any customer, employee or third party unconditionally accepts the terms of this policy. ILLEGAL USE. The Plains Web Network may be used only for lawful purposes. Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation coming to or from any unauthorized network or system is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights used without proper authorization; government and military data protected by law and national security; university and academic data protected by public policy; and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws. Any violation of the above which compromises the integrity of the Plains Web Network or any other network is strictly prohibited. NETWORK AND MACHINE RESOURCES. Plains Web reserves the right to monitor and allocate network and machine resources. IP addresses are allocated per server and according to virtual server specifications. CGI resources are allocated one per domain (a virtual host is required for each cgi-bin and is considered a virtual host). Plains Web in its sole discretion and upon reasonable notice to customer reserves the right to discontinue any hosting account and/or any script which causes excessive server load and/or uses excessive server and network resources. SYSTEM AND NETWORK SECURITY. Violations of system
or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil
liability. Plains Web will investigate incidents involving such violations
and may involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities if a criminal
violation is suspected. Plains Web respects the privacy of customer data and
vigilantly protects that data and ALL customers who host with Plains Web. If
any violation of the law or this AUP is suspected, Plains Web reserves the
right to investigate. Use of the Plains Web network constitutes consent to
monitoring. Examples of unlawful acts, system, or network security
violations include, without limitation, the following:
EMAIL. Sending unsolicited mail messages, including, without limitation, unwanted advertising and informational announcements, is explicitly prohibited. A user shall not use another site's mail server to relay mail without the express permission of the site owner. Legitimate mailing lists and subscriber lists are acceptable. USENET. Posting the same
messages to multiple newsgroups (excessive cross-posting or
multiple-posting, also known as "spam") is expressly prohibited. INDIRECT OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS OF THE POLICY, AND ACTUAL OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS BY A THIRD PARTY ON BEHALF OF A PLAINS WEB CUSTOMER OR A CUSTOMER'S END USER, SHALL BE CONSIDERED VIOLATIONS OF THE POLICY BY SUCH CUSTOMER OR END USER. For Example: If you are hosting a bulk email site on Plains Web servers and you use another ISP to SPAM from in order to reference your Plains Web site by IP address or domain name, you are violating Plains Web policy and possibly the law. If you have been granted telnet access to Plains Web servers, multiple telnet log-ons are strictly prohibited and you must come from a valid IP address. Forgery is against the law. Any type of denial of service attack from valid or invalid addresses is a violation of Plains Web security policy and against the law. If you have been granted password privileges for FTP or telnet, sharing your password with an unauthorized user or third party is strictly prohibited. Complaints regarding illegal Use or System or Network Security issues should be sent to service@plainsonline.net Complaints regarding email abuse should be sent to abuse@plainsonline.net Complaints regarding USENET abuse or SPAM should be sent to abuse@plainsonline.net COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT The Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides limitations for service provider liability relating to material online with regard to information residing, at the discretion of the user, on a system or network that the service provider controls or operates. 17. U.S. 512(c). The designated agents for notification of claimed infringement are: Plains Network
Services, Inc. INTERACTION WITH Plains Web STAFF. Any threat, vulgar and profane language directed at any Plains Web staff member through phone or email may result in immediate termination of an account. Any violation of this policy by any employee, contractor or third party programmer of Plains Web should be reported immediately.
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