02) Acceptable use & general conduct

2 Acceptable use & general conduct

You irrevocably agree that it is your responsibility at all times to:

• Use our service and services in a manner which does not violate any applicable laws or regulations;
• Respect the conventions of the newsgroups, lists and networks that you use;
• Respect the legal protection afforded by copyright, trademarks, license rights and other laws to materials accessible via our Service;
• Respect the privacy of others;
• Use the service in a manner which does not interfere with or disrupt other network users, services or equipment;
• Refrain from acts that waste resources or prevent other users from receiving the full benefit of our Services; and
• Ensure your use of our Services remains ethical and in accordance with accepted community standards.

It is not acceptable to use our Service(s) for the following non-exhaustive examples and you irrevocably agree that you will not use our Service(s) to:

• Violate copyright or other intellectual property rights or publish any material that infringes any third party's intellectual property rights or any other rights;
• Illegally store, use or distribute software;
• Transmit threatening, obscene or offensive materials;
• Engage in electronic 'stalking' or other forms of harassment such as using abusive or aggressive language;
• Misrepresent or defame others;
• Commit fraud;
• Gain unauthorised access to any computing, information, or communications devices or resources, including but not limited to any machines accessible via the Internet;
• Damage, modify or destroy the files, data, passwords, devices or resources of us, other users or third parties;
• Engage in misleading or deceptive on-line marketing practices;
• Conduct any business or activity or solicit the performance of any activity that is prohibited by law;
• Make an unauthorised transmission of confidential information or material protected by trade secrets;
• "Spam" or engage in "spamming" activities, or sending unsolicited commercial activities;
• Engage obscene speech or materials, this includes, advertising, transmitting, storing, posting, displaying or otherwise making available; child pornography, offensive sexual content or materials or any other obscene speech or material;
• Post or transmit defamatory, harassing, abusive or threatening language;
• Create, distribute or provide information/data regarding internet viruses, worms, Trojan horses, pinging, flooding, mail-bombing or denial of service attacks;
• Facilitate a violation of this clause and the relevant Acceptable Use Policy;
• Perform any other action through utilisation of any service which we deem unsatisfactory;
• Run Proxy or any proxy related services; or
• Use greater than 100,000 inodes (every file on your hosting account uses 1 inode), or create file system damage by the rapid creation of large volumes of files.

You also agree not to attempt any of the following:

• Use 25% or more of system resources for longer than 90 seconds. There are numerous activities that could cause such problems; these include: CGI scripts, scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, Mail, etc;
• Use more than 512 MB of RAM;
• Use, create or generate (directly or indirectly) in excess of 100 website connections or 100 active processes;
• Use more than 1 MB/s of disk IO;
• Run any type of interactive real-time chat applications that require server resources. Remotely-hosted services are fully allowed;
• Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD;
• Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network;
• Run any gaming servers/services;
• Use hosting services for storage of any data not related to the displayed website. You are expressly prohibited from use as an online file repository;
• Run standalone, automated server-side processes including, but not limited to any daem;
• Execute any script for longer than 180 seconds;
• Execute any database query that takes longer than 30 seconds to complete;
• Create or maintain in excess of 1,000 tables per database;
• Create or maintain in excess of 1 GB of storage per database;
• Any activity which causes the server to crash / restart;
• Check their email more than every 3 minutes; or
• Enable error logging/debugging for more than 15 minutes at a time, create more than 500 debug/log files per day or use more than 1GB of disk space for debug/log files

You agree that we may at our discretion and by order of any law enforcement agency disclose information relating to your account and use of services. We may also report any action we find in breach of this agreement, local, state, federal or international laws and cannot be held liable for any outcome resulting in our actions. You must at all times comply with law. You irrevocably agree that you will also be in breach of this Agreement on violation of state, federal or international laws. You irrevocably agree that any breach of this clause can result in immediate suspension or termination of services and loss of all data held on provided services, and you release us, our staff and our suppliers of any liability resulting in such instances.