General Summary
The following
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) will set forth
general and specific information in regards
to the use of Hosting4Wealth -
Hosting4Wealth.Net's infrastructure.
Infrastructure in this regard will consist
of, but not be limited to, bandwidth,
transport, servers, switches, IP address and
any other equipment that will transmit,
receive or otherwise be a vehicle of
transmission of data of any sort.
Further set forth in this document will be
information about general acceptable and
unacceptable use. It is the duty of all
users of Hosting4Wealth -
Hosting4Wealth.Net's offerings to read and
thoroughly understand the information set
forth in this document. We explicitly
reserve the right to enforce this document
and further reserve the right to add to,
update, change, modify or otherwise deem at
any given time, conduct unbecoming and act
as we see fit.
Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation without notice.
Hosting4Wealth will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of any of these provisions.
Activity which results in the suspension or deactivation of an account will result in a forfeiture of all fees paid. Complaints made regarding abuses of an account will be investigated and if found guilty will be grounds for immediate suspension.
Use Prohibited
Child Pornography - Child Erotica
Federal child exploitation statutes set
forth the illegality of possession,
production, reception, transport or
distribution of any sexually explicit
depiction of children.
Any user found to commit this type of abuse
will have service suspended immediately
until remedy or face service termination.
Repeat offenders will be promptly
terminated.
Illegal Use
Users may not transmit, retransmit or store
materials in violation of any federal, state
or local laws or regulations. Users may not
abuse or fraudulently use products or
services offered by Hosting4Wealth nor
allow/permit such use by clients or third
parties. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property right used without proper authorization, prescription drug sales, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws or the laws of
united states of america.
Examples of non-acceptable content or links:
- Copyrighted media, without authority to distribute or display,
- Unlicensed applications,
- Cracking programs or key generators,
- Child pornography or kidnapping material,
- Fraudulent activity, phishing, pyramid schemes, chain letters, forgery, or impersonation,
- Terrorist propaganda, racist material, or bomb/weapon instructions,
- Virus/Virii, Spyware, Malware, or other infectious material,
- Material protected by trade secret or other statute,
- Pirated software,
- Hackers programs or archives,
- Warez sites,
- MP3,
- File & Data Hosting
- and IRC and associated programs (including psybnc, "bots", etc...)
Additionally, Hosting4Wealth.net prohibits:
- Scripts commonly used for abuse, attacks, or flooding,
- Threatening, harrassing, or obscene content,
- Any proxies which do not require authentication (including open mail proxies, unprotected anonymous web surfing proxies, etc...),
Links to unacceptable content, as defined above, are also prohibited.
The subscriber to
Hosting4Wealth service agrees to indemnify and hold harmless
Hosting4Wealth from any claims resulting from the use of the service that damages the subscriber or any other party.
No online pharmacies are allowed on our network.
Sites related to HYIP (High Yield Investment Programs), Ponzi schemes or pyramid schemes are prohibited.
Hosting4Wealth will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.
Adult Content
Legal Adult Content is allowed.
Security
Violations of system or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability. Examples include, but are not limited to the following: Unauthorized access, use, probe, or scan of a systems security or authentication measures, data or traffic. Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks. Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting.
Server Resource
Any website that uses a high amount of server resources (such as, but not limited to, CPU time, memory usage, and network resources) will be given an option of either paying extra for a dedicated server / semi-dedicated server (which depends on the resource needed) or reducing the resource used to an acceptable level.
Hosting4Wealth shall be the sole arbiter of what is considered to be a high server usage level.
(Please refer to
Resource
Abuse Policy here)
Chat Rooms
Hosting4Wealth does not provide nor allow chat room's On shared hosting environments. You may elect for a Dedicated Server to Run a chat room efficiently
Background Running Programs
Hosting4Wealth does not allow background Daemons such as IRC bots; eggdrop; BitchX; XiRCON; and any other program that interferes with normal server operation.
SSH Access (Jail-Shell Only)
At anytime,
user may request to Hosting4Wealth server
administrator to enable SSH (Jail-Shell)
access to his/her account for a period of 72
hours only and Hosting4Wealth will issue a
one time access fee of $5.00 for the
requested SSH (Jail-Shell) access for each
domain on each time. Once payment made for
SSH (Jail-Shell) request, his/her account
will be granted the permission to use the
SSH (Jail-Shell) access for a period of 72
hours. (Payments are non refundable)
IRC
Hosting4Wealth does not allow IRC server, IRC bots, or IRC shells to be operated on our network.
Banned Scripts
We do not allow proxy servers or scripts, torrent trackers or torrent clients to be run from our shared/reseller hosting servers.
Backups
Hosting4Wealth performs daily backups on all servers to ensure critical files are never lost. However
Hosting4Wealth is NOT responsible for lost data, time, income or any other resource due to faulty backups or non-existent backups.
Please always backup your own data for redundancy. Any user that need us to restore a backup for
their hosting account due an error made beyond our control, there is a $5.00 one time fee required. If your account or data is lost due to system or drive we will restore it at no additional charge. The data on our shared servers are backed up on a separate hard
drive on a weekly and/or daily basis. Due to the nature of hard drives having errors or issues we can not ensure 100% recovery, however we will always strive to recover 100%. The charge for the restore is used to maintain the highest level of security and integrity on our backups and to strive to be able to help you restore data which may be unrecoverable without backups.
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. The client assumes responsibility for all material on their site that may be put on by a third party (such as the usage of Free For All links pages). Use of
Hosting4Wealth's service requires a certain level of knowledge in the use of Internet languages, protocols, and software. This level of knowledge varies depending on the anticipated use and desired content of the web space by the client.
The following examples are offered: Web Publishing: requires knowledge of HTML, properly locating and linking documents, FTPing Web contents, Graphics, text, sound, image mapping, etc. FrontPage web publishing: knowledge of the FrontPage tools as well as Telnet and FTP understanding and capability. CGI-Scripts: requires a knowledge of the UNIX environment, TAR & GUNZIP commands, Perl, C Shell scripts, permissions, etc. Mail: a use of mail clients to receive and send mail, etc. The client agrees that he or she has the necessary knowledge to create and maintain their web space. Client agrees that it is not the responsibility of
Hosting4Wealth to provide this knowledge or support outside matter specific to
Hosting4Wealth servers.
Network Filtering/Blocking
Users in violation of any provision set
forth in this document may have content or
traffic blocked or filtered as a remedy of
abuse. Notification of such
filtering/blocking likely will be sent to
the user, however there is no guarantee that
such notification will be sent.
Filtering/blocking may be manual or
automatic depending on the nature of the
offense.
Software Distribution
Hosting4Wealth's shared Web Hosting accounts
are not to be used for the purposes of
distributing software and multimedia
products. If you wish to distribute software
and/or multimedia files, please contact
sales[AT]Hosting4Wealth for special arrangement.
Multimedia Files
Multimedia files are defined as any graphics, audio, and video files.
Hosting4Wealth.net Web Hosting accounts are not to be used for the purposes of distributing and storing unusual amount of multimedia files. Any Web site whose disk space usage for storing the multimedia files exceed 70% of its total usage, either in terms of total size or number of files, will be deemed to be using unusual amount of multimedia files.
Domain Names
Hosting4Wealth will take necessary steps to register domain names on behalf of the client when requested. However, clients are responsible for renewing their domain names.
Hosting4Wealth does not take responsibility for failing to renew domain names. If your domain name was registered via our company, you must check and take appropriate actions to renew a domain that is about to expire. We do not handle renewals unless specifically asked for by sending a ticket to our helpdesk.
Account Migration/Transfer
Hosting4Wealth provides free account
migration/transfer up to a total of 100
accounts migration/transfer of data from the
other hosting provider during it's first 72
hours after the order had been confirmed and
for each subsequent hosting account which
needed to perform an account
migration/transfer there will be a charge of
$2.00 per domain account requested for the
transfer.
Email - READ CAREFULLY
The sending of bulk mail is ONLY permitted
AFTER Confirmed Opt-In has been verified by
the Abuse Desk. Starting such a mail
campaign without the approval of
Hosting4Wealth's Abuse Desk will result in
service suspension until verification and
approval has been made. Complaints generated
in regards to bulk mail are immediately
deemed as proof that the recipient did not
request such emails and therefore is
considered abuse.
Prohibited:
- Spam.
Sending Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE) or
Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) for
any purpose whatsoever.
-
Spamvertising. Having third parties send
out UBE /UCE on any user's behalf to
advertise URLs or any service on
Hosting4Wealth's network.
First Spam
Abuse Notification (Hosting4Wealth ->
Client):
-
Provide the Abuse Notification to the
client, and assess a $50 fine. Failure
to pay the fine within 24 hours may
result in service interruption, due to
suspension.
- After
three Abuse Notifications are issued
service may be subject to termination,
as well as ineligibility to order any
future hosting services.
- If an
IP range or IP address has been
black-listed as a result of a spam
complaint, Hosting4Wealth.net will issue
a fine of $500 and may terminate the
service.
- Upon
receiving complaints, Hosting4Wealth.net
will notify the client by issuing an
abuse notification.
- On
the first notification,
Hosting4Wealth.net will warn the
client, as well as issue a $50 fine.
- On
the second notification,
Hosting4Wealth.net will issue a fine
of $50.00 per complaint received,
with a maximum of 5.
- On
the third complaint,
Hosting4Wealth.net will terminate
service as well as issue a fine of
$50.00 per additional complaint
received, with a maximum of 10.
-
Compromised Servers Issued Spam
Notifications: If Hosting4Wealth.net
suspects that a client's server or
account has been
infiltrated in an effort to send
Spam/Bulk e-mail, Hosting4Wealth.net
will offer the following options:
-
Offer a free Operating System
reinstallation, setting the
configuration back to the original
state it was provisioned in.
- If
Operating System reinstallation is
not accepted as an option,
Hosting4Wealth.net may offer to manually
retrieve/repair the files on the
server, at a fee to be assessed and
paid prior to any work being done.
- On
the second instance of server
compromise Hosting4Wealth.net
reserves the right to terminate the
client's services.
If any Spam
complaints are disputed, and fines wish to
be disregarded, full logs, as well as any
requested information must be provided
within 24 hours of the initial Abuse
Notification. Failure to dispute, or provide
required information within the 24 hour time
period is acceptance of the notification,
and all fees associated with it.
Users must
configure any email server in such a way
that it will not accept third party emails
for forwarding such as an open relay. SMTP
servers must be configured in such a way
that any user must authenticate to send
email. (For Dedicated Server)
Hosting4Wealth's Abuse Desk will not
send/forward complaints to users for the
purposes of listwashing. Should a user have
received permission from Hosting4Wealth's
Abuse Desk to run a true "Confirmed Opt-in"
campaign, complaints will be handled in such
a fashion that the sender may remove the
recipient from their list after they have
proven to the Abuse Desk that the user did
opt-in. Any approved campaign found to be
operating using third party "bought" lists
where opt-in confirmation cannot provided,
service will be suspended. Further, time
stamps and IP addresses in a database with a
recipient's mail address WILL NOT suffice as
sufficient proof of Confirmed Opt-in. We
will need to inspect the confirmation
emails' headers to make sure @aol came from
aol servers, etc. Recording a time stamp,
email address and IP address is not
Confirmed Opt-in.
DMCA -17 USC §512 "DMCA"
Violations of 17 USC §512 "DMCA" will be
promptly handled by Hosting4Wealth by means
of notification. After receiving
notification of DMCA violation(s),
Hosting4Wealth will act promptly to notify
the infringer of the identified
infringement. Should a user of
Hosting4Wealth not respond to the notice of
our Abuse Desk, the infringed material will
be blocked, filtered or otherwise be
suspended until the user complies. Notice of
infringement should be sent to
abuse[AT]hosting4wealth.net
Notification
- A
physical or electronic signature of a
person authorized to act on behalf of
the owner of an exclusive right that is
allegedly infringed. [As an electronic
signature, Hosting4Wealth's agent
accepts facsimile/fax and digitized
image of your signature attached to
electronic mail.
-
Identification of the copyrighted work
claimed to have been infringed, or, if
multiple copyrighted works at a single
online site are covered by a single
notification, a representative list of
such works at that site.
-
Identification of the material that is
claimed to be infringing or to be the
subject of infringing activity and that
is to be removed or access to which is
to be disabled, and information
reasonably sufficient to permit the
service provider to locate the material.
[Please include a URL such as http://...
or ftp://... identifying the material or
representative material. If possible
specify any IDs, passwords, or other
authorization required to access the
material. Please specify date, time, and
time zone from which the material was
observed. Technicians may require time
information in order to identify
dynamically assigned internet
locations.]
-
Information reasonably sufficient to
permit the service provider to contact
the complaining party, such as an
address, telephone number, and, if
available, an electronic mail address at
which the complaining party may be
contacted.
- A
statement that the complaining party has
a good faith belief that use of the
material in the manner complained of is
not authorized by the copyright owner,
its agent, or the law.
- A
statement that the information in the
notification is accurate, and under
penalty of perjury, that the complaining
party is authorized to act on behalf of
the owner of an exclusive right that is
allegedly infringed.
Server Abuse
Hacking, cracking, distribution of viruses,
fraudulent activities, network sabotage,
pyramid schemes, phishing, and/or any
conduct deemed illegal or unwanted shall be
subject to suspension or termination. Users
are responsible for the proper secure
configuration of their services and are
responsible for any damages caused by their
neglect or exposure of vulnerabilities
whether intentional or unintentional.
Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a
Hosting4Wealth server or customer of
Hosting4Wealth is strictly prohibited.
Any sub-networks of
Hosting4Wealth and dedicated servers must adhere to the above policies. The failure to meet or follow any of the above guidelines are grounds for account deactivation. We reserve the right to remove any account without prior notice.
User agrees to only use shared hosting services for its intended applications. Misuses include scientific/grid/distributed computing, data warehouse/backup storage, or bandwidth sinks.
Hosting4Wealth. will be the sole arbiter to what is considered a misuse of service.
User agrees to ask
Hosting4Wealth. in the event they are unsure of their application's fitness for our shared hosting services.
Actions Taken by Hosting4Wealth
The failure by a customer to meet or follow any of the above policies/terms is grounds for account deactivation.
Hosting4Wealth will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of the AUP.
Hosting4Wealth reserves the right to remove any account without prior notice.
When
Hosting4Wealth becomes aware of an alleged violation of its AUP,
Hosting4Wealth will initiate an investigation. During the investigation,
Hosting4Wealth may restrict a customer's access in order to prevent further potentially unauthorized activity. Depending on the severity of the violation,
Hosting4Wealth may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend, or terminate a customer's web hosting account and/or pursue other civil remedies. If such violation is a criminal offense,
Hosting4Wealth will notify the appropriate law enforcement authorities of such violation.
Hosting4Wealth does not issue credits for outages incurred through service disablement resulting from AUP violations.
Hosting4Wealth customers agree to indemnify and hold harmless
Hosting4Wealth from any claims resulting from the use of our services that damages them or any other party. The
Hosting4Wealth service is provided on an as is, as available basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement.
Hosting4Wealth expressly disclaims any representation or warranty that the
Hosting4Wealth service will be error-free, secure or uninterrupted. No oral advice or written information given by
Hosting4Wealth, its employees, licensors or the like, will create a warranty; nor may you rely on any such information or advice.
Hosting4Wealth and its partners and suppliers will not be liable for any cost or damage arising either directly or indirectly from any transaction or use of the service.
Modification
Hosting4Wealth reserves the right to add, delete, or modify any provision of this Policy at any time without notice.
Release of Liability
Ability to restrict conduct, communication
or content which might violate this
Acceptable Usage Policy prior to
introduction to Hosting4Wealth's network is
not practical. Hosting4Wealth's failure or
overlook of any violation of this AUP does
not constitute a waiver of Hosting4Wealth's
rights.
Remuneration
Hosting4Wealth users that violate this AUP
or any provision herein may possibly incur
fees in regards to clean-up or repair of any
harmed devices, block listings, service
interruptions, etc. Fees will be
commensurate with the violation's severity.
Refusal Of Service
We reserve the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion. |