BookandHost.Com provides web hosting
to many clients, and we have a responsibility to protect each client
and to provide the best services available. The following guidelines
were designed to ensure these obligations are met.
This Acceptable Use Policy ("Policy") describes the proper
and prohibited use of BookandHosts 's Shared Web Hosting services ("Services")
as subscribed to per the Master Service Agreement. This Policy is designed
as a guideline and is not exhaustive as such. The policy can be modified
from time to time effective upon posting on BookandHost's web site.
The Services allow you to develop, publish, and display
a web site, store data in a database, send and receive e-mail messages,
maintain a bulletin board through which you can interact with the Internet
users, and send and retrieve various information.
BookandHost does not monitor or censor the information
you make available or collect through the use of the Services with the
exception of systems and network resources monitoring. However, BookandHost
will act upon Policy violations when such are discovered during regular
monitoring processes or reported to BookandHost. BookandHost expects
you, and all other users of the Services, to take responsibility in
using the Internet with courtesy and responsibility, and be familiar
with and to practice good Internet etiquette.
As consideration for BookandHost's provision of Services,
you agree to abide by the following provisions relating to the acceptable
use of your BookandHost account.
BookandHost reserves the right in its sole discretion
to:
Revise this Acceptable Use Policy which shall be posted
at BookandHost web site; and Remove any content for any reason, including
but not limited to, your violation of any conditions of this Acceptable
Use Policy.
BookandHost's right to remove inappropriate content under this Policy
shall not place an obligation on BookandHost to monitor or exert editorial
control over the content of your account.
You agree not to use or allow access to BookandHost
services to:
1. Create or maintain software download or distribution
sites or sites created for the purpose of mass distribution of software
products. A software distribution site is defined as a site on which
50% or more of total bandwidth (data transfer) is used for programs
or binary code downloads.
2. Create or maintain sites that generate system errors
or exceptions that disrupt servers' performance or cause server-wide
outages. This includes overriding or avoiding system settings and restrictions
imposed by the terms of Services.
3. Create or maintain sites that consume thirty-five
percent or more of CPU capacity or use two hundred megabytes of memory,
both physical and virtual combined, on the hosting server.
4. Exceed allowed bandwidth by transferring amounts
of data greater than allowed by the terms of purchased Service.
5. Violate any applicable laws, regulations, or other
provisions having the force of law, either intentionally or unintentionally.
6. Impersonate any person or entity or falsely state
or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
7. Employ misleading e-mail addresses or falsify information
in any part of any communication.
8. Upload, transmit, disseminate, post, store or post
links to any content that:
i. Prohibited from transmitting or posting by law,
or by contractual or fiduciary relationship;
ii. Facilitates hacking or unauthorized access or use
of data, systems, servers or networks including any attempt to probe,
scan or test for vulnerabilities, or to breach security or authentication
measures;
iii. Falsifies origin by forging TCP/IP packet headers,
e-mail headers, or any part of a message header, unauthorized monitoring
of data or traffic;
iv. Interferes with service to any user, system or network
by using flooding techniques, overloading a system or a network, staging
or broadcasting an attack, or any other means resulting in a crash of
a host either deliberately or by negligence;
v. Infringes or contributes to any infringement of any
intellectual property, material protected by copyright, trademark, patent,
trade secret or proprietary right of any party;
vi. Is or may be considered unsolicited or unauthorized
advertising, promotional materials, or any junk mail, spam, spamvertisements,
make money fast schemes, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other
form of solicitation;
vii. Contains viruses, worms, Trojan horses, time bombs,
trap doors, or any other computer code, files, or programs or repetitive
requests for information designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the
functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications
equipment;
viii. Is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing,
tortious, unlawful, libelous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, or invasive
of privacy;
ix. Is of adult nature, pornographic, or harmful to
minors;
x. Promotes illegal activity, including providing instructions
for illegal activity, or transmitting, disseminating or offering fraudulent
goods, services, schemes or promotions, or furnishing false data on
any signup form, contract or online application or registration, or
the fraudulent use of any information obtained through the use of the
Services including use of credit card numbers.
xi. Exploits the images of children or discloses personally
identifiable information belonging to children.
If Book and Host determines that you have violated the
terms of this Acceptable Use Policy, that determination, made at BookandHost
sole discretion, is grounds for immediate termination of your BookandHost
account without notice or penalty to BookandHost.
Jurisdiction and governing law
The laws of India only and no other nation shall govern these terms.
The Parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts
located in Visakhapatnam(Andhra Pradesh) India as regards any claims
or matters arising under or in relation to these terms and conditions.