Westchester Web Hosting - WestchesterInternet.com
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Acceptable Use Policy
Acceptable Use Policy & Service Guidelines
 

WestchesterInternet.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.

Content:

All services provided by WestchesterInternet.com 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 WestchesterInternet.com 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 WestchesterInternet.com servers. This includes sites that may infer sexual content or links to adult content elsewhere. WestchesterInternet.com 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 WestchesterInternet.com 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
  • MP3 files of copyrighted music other than your own

WestchesterInternet.com will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Commercial Advertising - Email:

Spamming, or the sending of unsolicited email, from a WestchesterInternet.com server or using an email address or domain that is maintained on an WestchesterInternet.com machine as reference is STRICTLY prohibited.

WestchesterInternet.com 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 WestchesterInternet.com 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.

Operation of IRC servers or IRC bots on our servers will result in an immediate suspension of service.