Acceptable Use Policy

 

Defined as client based accounts on web servers administered by Admo.net. 
Adult content is not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to, pornographic images, text, and sound files. 
IRC servers, IRC bots, and Mush/Moo/Mud servers are forbidden 
Spam is strictly forbidden. Any instances of spam relating to your web site will result in account deactivation and a fine for each complaint we receive.
Sites which place an unreasonable load on the server due to excessive CGI scripts, etc. will be suspended and we will ask the owner to reduce the site load or move to a dedicated server. 
Hate literature, material in violation of copyright laws, and other illegal material are not permitted. 

Electronic Mail Back to the top

Your Admo.net account gives you the ability to send and receive electronic mail. Admo.net believes that electronic mail should be used for personal communication and not as a broadcast medium. The following examples are non-exclusive and are provided for your guidance.


You may not use your account to send unsolicited bulk or commercial messages ("spam"). This includes, but is not limited to, bulk mailing of commercial advertising, informational announcements, charity requests, petitions for signatures, and political or religious tracts. Such messages may only be sent to those who have explicitly requested it. 
Individuals who are operating their own mail servers should ensure that their systems are secured against external relaying to prevent abuse of resources. 
Individuals who maintain mailing lists should ensure that their mailing list software requires confirmation of subscription to prevent malicious subscriptions to lists by third parties. 
You may not use your account to collect responses from unsolicited bulk or commercial e-mail sent from accounts with other providers. 
Forging, altering or removing electronic mail headers is prohibited. 
You may not send numerous copies of the same or substantially similar message, nor may you send very large messages or files to a recipient, with the intent to disrupt a server or account ("mail bombing"). 
You may not use electronic mail to harass or intimidate others. Harassment, whether through language, frequency of messages, or size of messages, is prohibited. Sending a single unwelcome message may be considered harassment. If a recipient asks to stop receiving email, you must not send that person any further messages. 
You may not forward or otherwise propagate chain letters, whether or not such messages solicit money or other items of value, and whether or not the recipient wishes to receive such mailings. 
Admo.net accounts may not be used to collect replies to messages sent from another Internet service provider if those messages violate this Acceptable Use Policy or the acceptable use policy of the other service provider. 
If you use the services of another provider to promote a web site hosted by or through Admo.net, then the provisions of this Acceptable Use Policy shall apply to the methods used to promote such site. 

Not every "flame" message or angry exchange of email or newsgroup posting can automatically be considered harassment. Admo.net is not responsible for the content or tone of any email or other transmissions of the subscribers to its service or other parties using the Internet. Subscribers or others should not expect that Admo.net will attempt to mediate or otherwise become involved in any particular disagreement or dispute between Internet users. The Internet is a network intended for use by mature, adult users. All users should recognize this principle and undertake at all times to act with respect, courtesy and responsibility, giving due regard to the interests and rights of other Internet users, groups, and networks. We expect and appreciate the use of common sense and good judgement while using the network. 

Homepage, Web Pages, Web Sites Back to the top

The customers, clients or users are solely responsible for any information contained on their homepages, web pages or web sites. However, if complaints are received regarding language, content or graphics contained on your homepage, web pages, or web sites, Admo.net may, at its sole discretion, remove the homepage, web pages, or web site hosted on Admo.net servers and terminate your service and/or your access. 

You may not use your personal home page site to publish material that Admo.net determines, at its sole discretion, to be unlawful, indecent or objectionable. For purposes of this policy, "material" refers to all forms of communications including narrative descriptions, graphics (including photographs, illustrations, images, drawings, logos), executable programs, video recordings, and audio recordings. 

Unlawful content is that which violates any law, statute, treaty, regulation, or lawful order. This includes, but is not limited to: obscene material; defamatory, fraudulent or deceptive statements; threatening, intimidating or harassing statements, or material which violates the privacy rights or property rights of others (copyrights or trademarks, for example). 

Indecent content is that which depicts sexual or excretory activities in a patently offensive matter as measured by contemporary community standards. 

Objectionable content is otherwise legal content with which Admo.net concludes, in its sole discretion, it does not want to be associated in order to protect its reputation and brand image, or to protect its employees, shareholders and affiliates. 

Security Back to the top

You are responsible for any misuse of your account, even if the inappropriate activity was committed by a friend, family member, guest or employee. Therefore, you must take steps to ensure that others do not gain unauthorized access to your account. In addition, you may not use your account to breach security of another account or attempt to gain unauthorized access to another network or server. 

For security purposes the listed account holder, and/or the listed account administrator are the only authorized individuals that may request edits, changes, or information for the account. Authorization to release information and/or edit and/or make changes from anyone other than the listed account holder and/or the listed account administrator must be received in writing. Your password provides access to your account. It is your responsibility to keep your password secure. Passwords must contain at least six characters, and should contain at least one number or symbol, should contain both uppercase and lowercase letters, and should not be based on any word found in the dictionary or on any personal information (name or birth date, for example). Your password should not be the same as your userid. Sharing your password and account access with unauthorized users is prohibited. 

You should take care to prevent others from using your account since you will be held responsible for such use. Attempting to obtain another user's account password is strictly prohibited, and may result in termination of service. You must adopt adequate security measures to prevent or minimize unauthorized use of your account. 

You may not attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of any host, network or account ("cracking"). This includes, but is not limited to, accessing data not intended for you, logging into or making use of a server or account you are not expressly authorized to access, or probing the security of other networks. Use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security is prohibited. Examples of these tools include, but are not limited to, password guessing programs, cracking tools or network probing tools. 

You may not attempt to interfere with service to any user, host, or network ("denial of service attacks"). This includes, but is not limited to, "flooding" of networks, deliberate attempts to overload a service, and attempts to "crash" a host. 

Users who violate systems or network security may incur criminal or civil liability. Admo.net will cooperate fully with investigations of violations of systems or network security at other sites, including cooperating with law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations.

Billing Back to the top

All Admo.net Accounts are monthly accounts and are prepaid. Charges for terminating accounts are not prorated. Charges for usage by customer beyond the base amount of usage contained in customer's service plan shall be billed the following month along with base charges for the coming month. Volume discounts for bulk purchases of monthly connectivity services remain in effect for the total length of the term, otherwise, full fees will apply. Pre-authorized Payment by credit card or automatic bank debit is the preferred method of payment. Payment is due by the first of the month or upon receipt of any invoice. 

Prepaid amounts that are refunded are subject to a $25.00 service charge and are billed at current monthly rates for the portion of the timed used. Full refunds are available within the first seven (7) days excepting for violations of the Acceptable Use Policy. Admo.net may terminate any account with no refund to customer in the event of customer's breach of any of the terms or conditions contained herein. Delinquent accounts are those that remain unpaid at the beginning of the next accounting cycle, and are subject to a 2% per month service charge (24 % per annum). Accounts that are delinquent for two accounting cycles are put on "accounting hold" their files archived and access denied. . Admo.net accounts continue to accrue charges while they are on hold. Accounts that are unpaid for three accounting cycles have their files purged There is a service reconnection charge equal to one half the currently charged set-up fee, or ten dollars, whichever is greater, to remove accounts from accounting hold status. The account holder acknowledges responsibility for the account until payment in full is made. There is a $20.00 service charge for each returned check. 

Account Cancellations Back to the top

Cancellation requests for Admo.net accounts must be received in writing in a support ticket one month prior to the next billing cycle. 

Technical Support Back to the top

Admo.net will only be responsible for the Internet software that is included with the Admo.net installation packages for standardized hardware. Internet software that has not been provided by Admo.net or systems that are not standardized are not the responsibility of Admo.net either for support, functionality or replacement. The User agrees to obtain a basic knowledge of their computer’s operating system, configuration and interface, along with a basic knowledge of the Internet and its operating principles and procedures. 

Network Performance Back to the top 

Admo.net accounts operate on shared resources. Excessive use or abuse of these shared network resources by one customer may have a negative impact on all other customers. Misuse of network resources in a manner which impairs network performance is prohibited by this policy and may result in termination of your account. You are prohibited from excessive consumption of resources, including CPU time, memory, disk space and session time on shared resources. You may not use resource-intensive programs that negatively impact other customers or the performance of Admo.net systems or networks. Admo.net reserves the right to terminate or limit such activities. 

Limitation of Liability Back to the top

ALL SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS, AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THOSE OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ARE MADE WITH RESPECT TO THESE SERVICES OR ANY INFORMATION OR SOFTWARE PROVIDED THEREBY. Admo.net is not responsible for Customer's files residing on the Admo.net network. Customer is responsible for independent backup of all such data at a site determined by customer. Admo.net cannot and does not exercise any control whatsoever over the information passing through its network or through the Internet. Admo.net is in no way responsible for any data loss or damage arising from viral infection from the Internet. Admo.net and/or contributors shall have no liability whatsoever to you for any claim(s) relating in any way to: your inability or failure to perform research or related work or to work properly or completely, or any lost profits or consequential, exemplary, incidental, indirect or special damages relating in whole or in part to your rights hereunder or use of, or inability to use, Admo.net’s Internet Services. Admo.net will not be responsible for any damage suffered by you, including, but not limited to, loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries, mis-deliveries, or service interruptions caused by its own negligence or your errors or omissions. Use of any information obtained via Admo.net’s Internet Services is at your sole risk. Admo.net specifically disclaims any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through Admo.net’s Internet Services. As a user you are warned that some Internet sites accessible via the Admo.net network allow posting, retrieval, and/or electronic mailing of materials that may be considered obscene or objectionable. Admo.net is not responsible for inadvertent or deliberate access to such material and cannot prevent access of such material. It is recommended that each customer closely monitor use of his/her account especially in the case of potential use or misuse by minor children. Accounts for minor children must be opened by a parent or legal guardian with their explicit consent. Admo.net network services may be used only for lawful purposes. Transmittal of any material in violation of any international, federal or state regulation is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted materials, material legally judged to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade secret or software protected by copyright. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Admo.net (AKA Admo.net Inc, Admo.net) from any claims resulting from your use of the service that damages you or another party. Any access to other networks through the Admo.net network must comply with the rules appropriate for the other network. Violation of the rules of other networks is grounds for account cancellation. This includes, but is not limited to, mass Usenet posting, Usenet cross-posting, mass emailing, and/or the sending of unsolicited email, commercial or otherwise. Admo.net and its affiliates shall not be liable under any legal theory (including tort or contract) for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages in any way related to the product or services provided. Under no circumstances and under no legal theory, tort, contract, or otherwise, shall Admo.net be liable to you or any other person for any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any character including, without limitation, damages for loss of goodwill, work-stoppage, computer failure or malfunction, or any and all other commercial damages or losses, or for any damages even if Admo.net has been informed of the possibility of such damages, or for any claim by any other party. 

Operation Back to the top

Admo.net reserves the right to change its services without notice including but not limited to access procedures, hours of operation, menu structures, commands, documentation, and services offered. Notice of modifications to this Acceptable Use Policy will be posted to this Admo.net Web page. Customers are encouraged to review the current Acceptable Use Policy on a regular basis. Customer's use of Admo.net network after such notice shall constitute Customer acceptance of such modifications. Customer understands that Admo.net services may be interrupted for several reasons, including but not limited to malfunctions, maintenance, and improvement or as required to protect network resources in the event of malfunctions or misuse. Customer understands that it may not receive advance notification of any such interruption of service. There will be no refunds for scheduled or unscheduled service interruptions of less than 24 hours duration. At its sole discretion, Admo.net may elect to provide a pro rata or additional/extension of service refund for service interruptions of greater than 24 hours. Admo.net reserves the right at its sole discretion to delete any information entered into Admo.net network computer systems by Customer. Admo.net and its authorized representatives shall retain the right, but shall not be obligated, to review/accept/reject publicly viewable information. Admo.net reserves the right to delete Customer's files, including but not limited to Web page(s) and email, for which a storage fee has not been paid and which have not been accessed for more than one (1) month. Admo.net reserves the right to refuse and/or terminate service to anyone or any entity for any reason at its sole discretion with or without notice. The owner of this document is the Network Operations Centre (NOC) of Admo.net Inc.