Acceptable Use Policy
This
Acceptable Use Policy document, including the following list of
Prohibited Activities, is an integral part of your Hosting Agreement
with Joe's Datacenter, LLC. If you engage in any of the activities
prohibited by this AUP document Joe's Datacenter, LLC may suspend or
terminate your account. Joe's Datacenter, LLC will investigate
incidents involving such violations and may involve and will cooperate
with law enforcement if a criminal violation is suspected.
Joe's
Datacenter, LLC's Acceptable Use Policy (the "Policy") for Joe's
Datacenter, LLC Services is designed to help protect Joe's Datacenter,
LLC, Joe's Datacenter, LLC'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 Joe's
Datacenter, LLC. Joe's Datacenter, LLC reserves the right to modify the
Policy at any time, effective upon posting at
http://joesdatacenter.com/aup.html.
Prohibited Uses of Joe's Datacenter, LLC 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 Joe's Datacenter, LLC's servers is
prohibited. Likewise, the sending of UBE from another service provider
advertizing a web site, email address or utilizing any resource hosted
on Joe's Datacenter, LLC's servers, is prohibited. Joe's Datacenter,
LLC 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 Joe's Datacenter, LLC 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 Joe's Datacenter, LLC-hosted domain, or
referencing any Joe's Datacenter, LLC 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/rokso.
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 Joe's Datacenter, LLC 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 Joe's Datacenter, LLC network or on another provider's network.
10.
Using Joe's Datacenter, LLC's Services to interfere with the use of the
Joe's Datacenter, LLC network by other customers or authorized users.
Customer Responsibility for Customer's Users
Each
Joe's Datacenter, LLC customer is responsible for the activities of its
users and, by accepting service from Joe's Datacenter, LLC, is agreeing
to ensure that its customers/representatives or end-users abide by this
Policy. Complaints about customers/representatives or end-users of an
Joe's Datacenter, LLC customer will be forwarded to the Joe's
Datacenter, LLC customer's postmaster for action. If violations of the
Joe's Datacenter, LLC Acceptable Use Policy occur, Joe's Datacenter,
LLC reserves the right to terminate services with or take action to
stop the offending customer from violating Joe's Datacenter, LLC's AUP
as Joe's Datacenter, LLC deems appropriate, without notice.
Security Violations
You are responsible for any misuse of your account, even if the
inappropriate activity was committed by a friend, family member, guest
or employee.
INDIRECT OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS OF THE POLICY, AND ACTUAL OR ATTEMPTED
VIOLATIONS BY A THIRD PARTY ON BEHALF OF A JOE'S DATACENTER, LLC
CUSTOMER OR A CUSTOMER'S END USER, SHALL BE CONSIDERED VIOLATIONS OF
THE POLICY BY SUCH CUSTOMER OR END USER.
AUP is subject to change without notice.
Please direct any questions regarding our Acceptable Use Policy to security@joesdatacenter.com
Last Modified: 4/7/11
