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Media-discounters.com Acceptable
Use Policy and Service Guidelines
Media-discounters.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 Media-discounters.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
Media-discounters.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 Media-discounters.com servers. This includes sites that
may infer sexual content or links to adult content elsewhere.
Media-discounters.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 Media-discounters.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
Media-discounters.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 Media-dicounters.com
server or using an email address or domain that is maintained
on an Media-discounters.com machine as reference is STRICTLY prohibited.
Media-discounters.com will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes
a violation of this provision. Sites that promote, sell, or otherwise
provide access to spamware products or products that are solely
for the purpose of extraction or sale of email addresses or which
are used to send bulk email are not permitted on any Media-discounters.com
server.
Misuse
of System Resources:
Any
attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server, or customer, of
Media-discounters.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.
No IRC related software is permitted on our servers. This includes
servers, bots, bouncers, or any other software that is used for
the purpose of creating, maintaining, or providing access to IRC
servers or channels. Accounts that are found to have such software
uploaded to their web space are subject to immediate suspension
and/or termination without notice.
Account Policies and Cancellation:
Cancellation
requests can be submitted via sales@media-dicounters.com.
Although no notice is required, and there is no cancellation fee,
all fees paid for service up to the notice of cancellation are
non-refundable. If cancellation is made within the first 30 days
of service all hosting fees will be refunded. This does not include
fees for domain registration and Web site design, which are nonrefundable.
Accounts
are payable in full at the time the account is created. If payment
by check or money order is selected, payment must be received
within two (2) weeks of account activation or the account will
be suspended without further notice to the end user. New accounts
that remain past due thirty (30) days after account activation
are subject to termination. Any account reaching thirty (30) days
past due is subject to suspension for nonpayment. Such accounts
are subject to termination after forty-five (45) days in a past
due state.
Suspension:
Activity
which results in a suspension or deactivation of an account will
result in a forfeiture of fees paid. Complaints made regarding
abuses of an account will be grounds for suspension.
Refusal
of Service:
We
reserve the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our
sole discretion.
All
sub-networks, distributive hosting sites, and dedicated servers
of Media-disoounters.com must adhere to the above policies. Please
direct any reports of violations of the above policies to abuse@media-discounters.com.
Failure
to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate
account deactivation.
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