Everything Macintosh provides web hosting to numerous clients which means that we have a responsibility to protect each client and to provide the best services available. The following guidelines were established to ensure these crucial obligations are met.
Unacceptable Acitivities
- Spamming (sending unsolicited advertising to those with whom you have no existing business relationship.
- Spoofing (using a return email address which is not the valid reply address of the sender, or sending an email message that does not contain enough information to enable the recipient tp identify who is really sending the message).
- Passive spamming (promoting a web site hosted by Everything Macintosh by spamming from some other source).
- Mail-bombing (inundating a user with email without any serious intent to correspond).
- Generating a higher volume of outgoing mail than a normal user (20% or more of available system resources).
Age
The client must be 18 years of age to obtain our service.
Abuse of the legal rights of others
Examples of unacceptable activities in this regard include posting private information about a person without their consent, infringing intellectual property rights, defaming a person or business, and knowingly making available code which will have a deleterious effect on third party computers.
Everything Macintosh supports free speech on the Internet, and will not suspend or cancel a customer’s account simply because it disagrees with the views expressed by the customer. Where there are allegations that a customer’s on-line activity has violated the legal rights of a third party, Everything Macintosh will not substitute itself for a court of law in deciding tort claims raised by the third party.
Abuse of the law
Everything Macintosh’s services may be used for lawful purposes only. Illegality includes but is not limited to: drug dealing; attempting without authorization to access a computer system; pirating (distributing copyrighted material in violation of copyright law; gambling; schemes to defraud; trafficking in obscene material; sending a message or having content that is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person; threatening bodily harm or damage to individuals or groups; violating U.S. export restrictions; stalking; or violating other state or federal law such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or the Economic Espionage Act. Linking to illegal material is also prohibited. Everything Macintosh reserves the right to check system files, email, and other data on our servers for illegal content and materials, or for any other reasons deemed necessary.
Pornography
Pornography and sex-related merchandising, or links to such material, even if legal, is not an acceptable use of Everything Macintosh’s servers.
Abuse of Everything Macintosh’s Server Resources
Running programs in the background on an Everything Macintosh server without our prior written authorization, or running chat rooms, Internet Relay Chat, IRC bots, and the like are not acceptable uses of our services. Further, any usage of 20% or more of our system resources is an undue burden on our system and is unacceptable. If your usage exceeds twenty percent (20%) of system resources, you will be contacted and asked to eliminate the problem. In addition, any domain that exceeds ten gigabytes of bandwidth traffic can be terminated without prior notice.
Hacking/Cracking
Everything Macintosh reserves the right to report illegal activities to any and all regulatory, administrative, and/or governmental authorities for prosecution.
Other Behavior
The following examples of unacceptable behavior are non-exclusive, and are provided for guidance purposes. If you are unsure if your actions will be a violation of our policies please ask us.
Server broadcast messages or any message sent on an intrusive basis to any directly or indirectly attached network Attempt to circumvent any user authentication or security of host, network, or account. Accessing data not intended for user. Probing the security of any network. Spawning dozens of processes. Port scans, ping floods, packet spoofing, forging router information, Denial of Service attacks, sniffers, flooding, spoofing, ping bombing, smurfs, winnuke, land, teardrop. Promulgation of viruses. IRC bots such as eggdrop or BitchX. Any activity, whether or not the intrusion results in the corruption or loss of data, will be investigated and proper action taken. The presence of any of these programs, whether or not run, will result in action against the user including suspension or termination.
Client Responsibility
The client is responsible for all activity originating from the account unless proven to be a victim of outside hacking or address forgery. The client is responsible for securing their username/password.
Limitation of Liability
Everything Macintosh shall not be responsible for any claimed damages, including incidental and consequential damages, which may arise from Everything Macintosh’s servers going off-line or being unavailable for any reason whatsoever. Further, Everything Macintosh shall not be responsible for any claimed damages, including incidental or consequential damages, resulting from the corruption or deletion of any web site from one of Everything Macintosh’s servers. All damages shall be limited to the immediate termination of service. Everything Macintosh shall be the sole arbiter of what is and is not a violation of these acceptable use policies. Everything Macintosh reserves the right to terminate an account at any time and for any reason that causes harm to any Everything Macintosh customer’s web sites. Everything Macintosh reserves the right to delete all content and files upon termination. Everything Macintosh reserves the right to withhold any pre-paid funds for any site removed for violations of these policies. Everything Macintosh reserves the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion. Everything Macintosh reserves the right to change these Policies without prior notice or warning. Non-enforcement of any part of these Policies does not constitute consent.
Violations of these Policies should be referred to our system administrators.
All complaints will be investigated promptly.