This Acceptable Use policy document, including the following list of prohibited Activities, is an integral part of your Hosting Agreement with Wholesale Internet, Inc.. If you engage in any of the activities prohibited by this AUP document Wholesale Internet, Inc. may suspend or terminate your account and may result in criminal and civil liability. Wholesale Internet, Inc. will investigate incidents involving such violations and may involve and will cooperate with law enforcement if a criminal violation is suspected.
Wholesale Internet, Inc.'s Acceptable Use policy (the "policy") for Wholesale Internet, Inc. Services is designed to help protect Wholesale Internet, Inc., Wholesale Internet, Inc.'s customers and the Internet community in general from irresponsible or, in some cases, illegal activities. The policy is a non-exclusive list of the actions prohibited by Wholesale Internet, Inc.. Wholesale Internet, Inc. reserves the right to modify the policy at any time, effective upon posting here.
Examples of Wholesale Internet, Inc. system or network security violations include, without limitation, the following:
- Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property right used without proper authorization, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws.
- Sending Unsolicited Bulk Email ("UBE", "spam"). The sending of any form of Unsolicited Bulk Email through Wholesale Internet, Inc.'s servers is prohibited. Likewise, the sending of UBE from another service provider advertising a web site, email address or utilizing any resource hosted on Wholesale Internet, Inc.'s servers is prohibited. Wholesale Internet, Inc. accounts or services may not be used to solicit customers from, or collect replies to, messages sent from another Internet Service provider where those messages violate this policy or that of the other provider.
- Running Unconfirmed Mailing Lists. Subscribing email addresses to any mailing list without the express and verifiable permission of the email address owner is prohibited. All mailing lists run by Wholesale Internet, Inc. customers must be Closed-loop ("Confirmed Opt-in"). The subscription confirmation message received from each address owner must be kept on file for the duration of the existence of the mailing list. Purchasing lists of email addresses from 3rd parties for mailing to or from any Wholesale Internet, Inc.-hosted domain, or referencing any Wholesale Internet, Inc. account is prohibited.
- Advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available any software, program, product, or service that is designed to violate this AUP or the AUP of any other Internet Service provider, which includes, but is not limited to, the facilitation of the means to send Unsolicited Bulk Email, initiation of pinging, flooding, mail-bombing, denial of service attacks,stress testing, or port scanning.
- Operating an account on behalf of, or in connection with, or reselling any service to, persons or firms listed in the Spamhaus Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database at www.spamhaus.org/rokso.
- Unauthorized attempts by a user to gain access to any account or computer resource not belonging to that user (e.g., "cracking").
- Obtaining or attempting to obtain service by any means or device with intent to avoid payment.
- Unauthorized access, alteration, destruction, or any attempt thereof, of any information of any Wholesale Internet, Inc. customers or end-users by any means or device.
- Knowingly engage in any activities designed to harass, or that will cause a denial-of-service (e.g., synchronized number sequence attacks) to any other user whether on the Wholesale Internet, Inc. network or on another provider's network.
- Using Wholesale Internet, Inc.'s Services to interfere with the use of the Wholesale Internet, Inc. network by other customers or authorized users.
- Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting.
- Forging or modifying the source IP address within the header of IP packets originating from your service. e.g. Spoofing
- INDIRECT OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS OF THE POLICY, AND ACTUAL OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS BY A THIRD PARTY ON BEHALF OF A WHOLESALE INTERNET, INC. CUSTOMER OR A CUSTOMER'S END USER, SHALL BE CONSIDERED VIOLATIONS OF THE POLICY BY SUCH CUSTOMER OR END USER.
Customer Responsibility for Customer's Users
Each Wholesale Internet, Inc. customer is responsible for the activities of its users and, by accepting service from Wholesale Internet, Inc., is agreeing to ensure that its customers/representatives or end-users abide by this policy. Complaints about customers/representatives or end-users of any Wholesale Internet, Inc. customer will be forwarded to the Wholesale Internet, Inc. customer's postmaster for action. If violations of the Wholesale Internet, Inc. Acceptable Use Policy occur, Wholesale Internet, Inc. reserves the right to terminate services with or take action to stop the offending customer from violating Wholesale Internet, Inc.'s AUP as Wholesale Internet, Inc. deems appropriate, without notice.
Please direct any questions regarding our Acceptable Use Policy to [email protected].
