LEGAL USE
WEBPOWERPLUS services may only be
used for lawful purposes. Transmission or solicitation of any
material that violates United States Federal, State or other
laws that may apply in this jurisdiction or your local area is
prohibited. This may include material that is obscene,
threatening, harassing, or libelous, promotes gambling, or is in
any way a violation of intellectual property laws. No material
may be published on Web pages hosted by WEBPOWERPLUS that would
commonly be considered "indecent" or "appealing to the prurient
interest" also commonly referred to as "adult" material, nor
will any links to such Web sites be tolerated within the Web
pages hosted by WEBPOWERPLUS.
Much of the content and many of the goods and services offered
on or through WEBPOWERPLUS are provided by third-parties. When
you access such content or purchase such goods or services, you
are contracting with a third-party, and not with
WEBPOWERPLUS. WEBPOWERPLUS makes reasonable commercial efforts
to assure that affiliated third-parties are reputable but cannot
guarantee the content, goods and/or services that they provide.
If you experience a problem with the content, goods and/or
services accessed from a third-party through WEBPOWERPLUS,
please notify us at
complaint@WEBPOWERPLUS.
Complaints may be investigated by WEBPOWERPLUS but WEBPOWERPLUS
is under no obligation to act or not act with regards to any
complaint. Any action taken on a complaint will be at the sole
discretion of WEBPOWERPLUS.
No Spam Policy:
As a provider of Internet network services and
management, WEBPOWERPLUS considers it an obligation to put an
end to Spam. We respect your need for efficient, cost-effective
and interruption-free services, and to protect this service, we
have the following Spam policy:
Any WEBPOWERPLUS customer willfully responsible for Chain
Letters, Sourced Spam or for Caused Spam will have their account
terminated without notice and no refund of pre-paid hosting fees
for the offending account. No new accounts will be permitted for
any customer previously found to be in violation of our Spam
policy.
For purposes of this policy, the
following definitions apply:
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Excessive Volume: More than 250 email messages
sent in a one hour period, unless the software used to send
such messages was WEBPOWERPLUS' Mailing List Manager in which
case no more than 2,500 messages can be sent in a one hour
period with a daily limit of 10,000 messages.
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"Chain" letters: Commercial solicitations
where no prior commercial relationship exists and where the
recipient has not previously initiated communication.
Religious, philosophical, or charitable solicitations or
fliers where the recipient has not previously initiated
communication.
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Sourced Spam: Each and every Unsolicited Email
Message that is sent through a single WEBPOWERPLUS supplied
email account whenever that single email account originates an
Excessive Volume.
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Caused Spam: Each and every Unsolicited Email
Message, sent in an Excessive Volume by any party over any
network to any party, which advertises or mentions a site
hosted by a WEBPOWERPLUS customer on the WEBPOWERPLUS network,
whenever directly caused by the actions of a WEBPOWERPLUS
customer.
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Spamware: Promotion of any type of bulk e-mail
software, spam tools, or mailing lists without the express
authorization of distribution from its subscribers shall
constitute a violation of our No Spam policy.
WEBPOWERPLUS also reserve
the right to remove members who send mass/spam news postings, as
well as any accounts advertising or distributing software or
services that may contribute to news or e-mail spamming.
WEBPOWERPLUS reserves the right to report such violations to the
proper government authorities, as well as Internet service
providers, and Internet control organizations, including, but
not limited to, UUNet and Navisite. To report spam,
please forward the spam with all original headers to
abuse@WEBPOWERPLUS.
WEBPOWERPLUS prohibits all scripts that automatically update a
links listing and are submitted to by automated programs, either
by design or by use. Use of these scripts is grounds for
termination of your WEBPOWERPLUS account without any prior
notice.
It is a violation of these Terms for you to misuse or
fraudulently use credit cards, charge cards, electronic funds
transfers, and/or electronic checks. A determination of such
misuse or fraudulent use shall be in WEBPOWERPLUS' sole
discretion. Further, WEBPOWERPLUS shall report, and you shall
waive all rights to privacy, to the extent permitted by law, all
such misuses and fraudulent uses as determined by WEBPOWERPLUS
in its sole discretion to appropriate government authorities,
credit reporting services, financial institutions and credit
card companies.
It is a violation of these Terms for you to attempt to breach or
to breach the security or firewall systems of WEBPOWERPLUS, its
Internet access provider, or its Affiliates. If you become aware
of such an attempt to breach or actual breach, please notify us
at
abuse@WEBPOWERPLUS.
Complaints may be investigated by WEBPOWERPLUS but WEBPOWERPLUS
is under no obligation to act or not act with regards to any
complaint. Any action taken on a complaint will be at the sole
discretion of WEBPOWERPLUS.
LIMITS ON BANDWITH USAGE:
Data transfer is limited to a monthly
maximum dictated by your level of membership and additional
purchases. In the event that you exceed your bandwidth
limitation, you may be contacted by Support and given an
opportunity to expand your bandwidth limitation.
WEBPOWERPLUS
reserves the right to terminate in its sole discretion any WEBPOWERPLUS Web
site because of the traffic or bandwidth requirement of such Web
site exceeds the limitations for Bandwidth usage specified in
Service Plan contracted for; in the event such website's usage
creates other operational or technological problems; suspend visitor access to the account until the next
calendar month OR upgrade your membership to the next higher
membership level that is sufficient to satisfy your Bandwidth
usage during the month in which you exceeded such limit.
Thereafter, your monthly membership fee would be revised
accordingly to the posted monthly for such membership level.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
INFRINGEMENT:
It is WEBPOWERPLUS' policy to protect the
intellectual property rights of others and to act expeditiously
upon notice of claimed infringement, to investigate and to take
appropriate actions. WEBPOWERPLUS will terminate all members and
users who repeatedly infringe on intellectual property laws, such as:
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Utilize the service to copy
material from third parties (including text, graphics, music,
videos or other copyrightable material) without proper
authorization;
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Utilize the service to
misappropriate or infringe the patents, copyrights, trademarks
or other intellectual property rights of any third party;
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Utilize the service to traffic
in illegal drugs, illegal gambling, obscene materials or other
any products or services that are prohibited under applicable
law; or
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Utilize the service in any
manner that violates applicable law.
Use of
Service
WebPower Plus expects that
Customer will use the Internet with courtesy and responsibility, and be familiar
with, (and practice) good Internet etiquette. By adhering to the
following policies, our Customers are protecting the rights and
privileges of all Internet users.
Customers must provide or update
WEBPOWERPLUS with accurate and up-to-date contact and billing
information. Providing false information on our signup forms,
contracts, or any of our on-line application forms (including the
fraudulent use of credit card numbers) is immediate grounds for
termination, and may subject the offender to civil and/or
criminal liability.
Customers are prohibited from transmitting on or through any of
WEBPOWERPLUS facilities any material that is, in the sole
discretion of WEBPOWERPLUS, unlawful, abusive, threatening,
libelous, or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal
offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any
local, state, national or international law, statute or
regulation.
Customers may not utilize the
service in connection with any other disruptive or abusive
activity. Without limiting the general application of this rule,
Customers may not:
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Utilize the service to cause denial of service
attacks against WEBPOWERPLUS or other network hosts or
Internet users or to otherwise degrade or impair the operation
of our servers and facilities or the servers and facilities of
other network hosts or Internet users.
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Utilize the Services to subvert, or assist
others in subverting, the security or integrity of any of our
systems, facilities or equipment.
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Utilize the Services to gain unauthorized
access to the computer networks of WEBPOWERPLUS or any other
person.
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Utilize the Services to provide passwords or
access codes to persons not authorized to receive such
materials by the operator of the system requiring the password
or access code.
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Utilize the service to (A) forge the signature
or other identifying mark or code of any other person, (B)
impersonate or assume the identity or any other person, or (C)
engage in any other activity (including "spoofing") to attempt
to deceive or mislead other persons regarding the true
identity of the User (excluding the use of anonymous remailers
or Internet nicknames).
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Utilize the service to distribute or post any
virus, worm, Trojan horse, or computer code intended to
disrupt services, destroy data, destroy or damage equipment,
or disrupt the operation of the Services.
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Utilize the service to conduct port scans or
other invasive procedures against any server (except any
server for which the User is an authorized system
administrator).
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Utilize the service to distribute, advertise
or promote software or services that have the primary purpose
of encouraging or facilitating unsolicited commercial e-mail
or Spam.
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Utilize the service in any manner that might
subject WEBPOWERPLUS to unfavorable regulatory action, subject
WEBPOWERPLUS to any liability for any reason, or adversely
affect WEBPOWERPLUS’s public image, reputation or goodwill,
including, without limitation, sending or distributing
illegal, hateful, vulgar, racially, ethnically or otherwise
objectionable materials as determined by WEBPOWERPLUS in its
sole discretion.
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Utilize the service in any other manner to
interrupt or interfere with the Internet usage of other
persons.
Email
1. Harassment, whether through language,
frequency, or size of messages, is prohibited.
2. Customers may not send email to any person who does not wish
to receive it. If a recipient asks to stop receiving email, the
Customer must not send that person any further email.
3. Customers are bound by the WEBPOWERPLUS "No
Spam Policy".
4. Customers may not forward or otherwise propagate chain
letters, whether or not the recipient wishes to receive such
mailings.
5. Malicious email, including but not limited to "mailbombing"
(flooding a user or site with very large or numerous pieces of
email) and "trolling" (posting outrageous messages to generate
numerous responses) is prohibited.
6. Forging of header or any other information is not permitted.
7. Subscribing someone else to a mail list or removing someone
else from a mail list without that person's permission is
prohibited.
8. WEBPOWERPLUS accounts or services may not be used to collect
replies to messages sent from another Internet Service Provider,
where those messages violate this Usage Policy or the usage
policy of that other provider.