Teamhosts Acceptable Use Policy Illegal Activity Unauthorized distribution or copying copyrighted software, violation of US/UK export restrictions, harassment, fraud, trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing, and other illegal activities. Teamhosts reserves the right to report such illegal activities to any and all-regulatory, administrative and/or governmental authorities for appropriate prosecution. Teamhosts 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. Customers may only use Teamhosts services for lawful purposes. Our acceptable use policy is one of zero tolerance. We reserve the right to immediately discontinue service to customer without liability, refund, or continuance of any prepaid service fees. The following are unacceptable uses and shall be cause for the immediate termination of web services without notice to the customer. Content: All services provided by Teamhosts may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any United States Federal, State or City law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material -------------------- Material we judge to be threatening or obscene or material protected by trade secret and other statute, and invasion of privacy. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Teamhosts from any claims resulting from the use of the service which damages the subscriber or any other party. All pornographic content and sex-related merchandising is prohibited on all Teamhosts servers. This includes sites that may infer sexual content or links to adult content elsewhere. Teamhosts will be the sole arbiter in determining violations of this provision. Also prohibited are sites that promote any illegal activity or present content that may be damaging to Teamhosts servers or any other server on the Internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited. Examples of unacceptable content or links: Pirated software Hacker programs or archives Warez sites Teamhosts will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. Net Abuse Spamming - sending unsolicited advertising to numerous email addresses or newsgroups and/or generating a significantly higher volume of outgoing email than a normal user Trolling - posting outrageous messages to generate numerous responses Mail-bombing - sending multiple messages without significant new content to the same user; Spamming by third parties to promote a web site hosted by Teamhosts, using a non-existing email return address on a commercial solicitation, subscribing someone else to a mailing list without that persons permission, cross-posting articles to an excessive number of or to inappropriate newsgroups are in violation of our AUP and of certain State laws. Posting information, violating trademarks, copyrights or other intellectual property rights or intentionally inflicting emotional distress, posting of private, defamatory, scandalous, or information about a person without their consent violates our AUP. In all instances, Teamhosts reserves the right to determine what defines the term 'Net abuse'. Commercial Advertising - Email Spamming, or the sending of unsolicited email, from a Teamhosts server or using an email address or domain that is maintained on an Teamhosts machine as reference is STRICTLY prohibited. Teamhosts will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. Misuse of System Resources Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server, or customer, of Teamhosts is strictly prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: using programs that consume excessive CPU time; allowing the use of mail services, mail forwarding capabilities, or autoresponders other than for the customer's own account; resale of disk space without an appropriate reseller agreement; use of servers for backup of files unrelated to the web site of the account; or resale or remote access to CGI scripts installed on our servers. No IRC related software is permitted on our servers. This includes servers, bots, bouncers, or any other software that is used for the purpose of creating, maintaining or providing access to IRC servers or channels. Accounts that are found to have such software uploaded to their web space are subject to immediate suspension and/or termination without notice. Cancellation: Cancellation can be made via email to sales@Teamhosts.com. Although no notice is required, and there is no cancellation fee, all fees paid for service up to the notice of cancellation are non-refundable. If cancellation is made within the first 30 days of service all hosting fees will be refunded. This does not include fees for domain registration. Suspension: Activity which results in a suspension or deactivation of an account will result in a forfeiture of fees paid. Complaints made regarding abuses of an account will be grounds for suspension. Refusal of Service: We reserve the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion. All sub-networks, distributive hosting sites, and dedicated servers of Teamhosts must adhere to the above policies. Please direct any reports of violations of the above policies to abuse@Teamhosts.com Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation.

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