Value
Site Hosting is dedicated to providing an all-round top quality service.
The terms and conditions which follow are necessary to ensure that
we may continue to provide the best possible service to all of our
customers while at the same time satisfying our legal and ethical
responsibilities.
Failure
to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account
deactivation without notice. Value Site Hosting 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.
To report suspected abuses
or any violations of these policies, please contact abuse@valuesite.com
.
Illegal
Usage
Value
Site Hosting servers may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission,
storage, or distribution of any information, data or material in violation
of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes,
but is not limited to: copyrighted material, 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. Examples of non-acceptable content
or links: Pirated software, Hackers programs or archives, Warez sites,
MP3, and IRC bots. The subscriber to Value Site Hosting service
agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Value Site Hosting from any
claims resulting from the use of the service that damages the subscriber
or any other party.
Value
Site Hosting will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation
of this provision.
Adult
Content
Due to special system and network requirements of adult oriented sites, pornography and sex-related merchandising are prohibited. This includes sites that may infer sexual content, or links to adult content
elsewhere. This is also true for sites that promote any illegal activity or content that may be damaging to our servers or any other server on the Internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited.
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 (which depends on the resource needed)
or reducing the resource used to an acceptable level. Value Site Hosting
shall be the sole arbiter of what is considered to be a high server
usage level.
CGI/PHP/ASP
Scripts
Cgi script
sharing with domains not hosted by Value Site Hosting is not allowed.
Any cgi-scripts deemed to be adversely affecting the server performance
or the network integrity will be shut down without prior notice. See
our Script usage policy for more details.
Chat
Rooms
Value Site Hosting
does not allow clients to install their own chat rooms. Chat rooms
tend to be large system hogs and we cannot permit it as an account
option. Value Site Hosting does provide a choice of Java chatrooms which
should meet most users' needs and run without hindering the performance
of the machine of our servers.
Background
Running Programs and Cron Jobs
Value Site Hosting
does not allow background Daemons such as IRC bots; eggdrop; BitchX;
XiRCON; and any other program that interferes with normal server operation.
IRC
Value Site Hosting
does not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers.
Backups
Value Site Hosting performs daily backups on all servers to ensure critical files are never lost. However Value Site Hosting is NOT responsible for lost data, time, income or any other resource due to faulty backups or nonexis
tent 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 Value Site Hosting'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, CShell 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
Value Site Hosting to provide this knowledge or support outside matter
specific to Value Site Hosting servers.
UCE
(Unsolicited Commerce Email) - SPAM
Spamming,
or the sending of mass unsolicited email, from or through a Value Site Hosting
server or using an email address that is maintained on a Value Site Hosting
machine is STRICTLY prohibited. Value Site Hosting will be the sole arbiter
as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. If you engage
in any of the foregoing activities using the service of another ISP
or IPP, but channeling activities through a Value Site Hosting server
as a maildrop for responses, you are in violation. Violators will
be assessed a minimum of $200.00 fine and will face an immediate suspension.
See our NO SPAM Policy for more details.
Server
abuse
Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a Value Site Hosting server or customer of Value Site Hosting is
strictly prohibited.
Any sub-networks
of Value Site Hosting 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.
Software
Distribution
Value
Site Hosting's shared Web Hosting accounts are not to be used for the
purposes of distributing software and multimedia products.
Multimedia
Files
Multimedia
files are defined as any graphics, audio, and video files. Sunrise
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.
Database
Any database
stored on Value Site Hosting servers shall be limited in size to
20% of the total disk space allotted for a particular domain.
Actions
Taken by Value Site Hosting
The failure
by a customer to meet or follow any of the above policies/terms is
grounds for account deactivation. Value Site Hosting will be the
sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of the AUP. Sunrise
Web Hosting reserves the right to remove any account without prior
notice.
When
Value Site Hosting becomes aware of an alleged violation of its AUP, Value Site Hosting
will initiate an investigation. During the investigation, Value Site Hosting
may restrict a customer's access in order to prevent further potentially
unauthorized activity. Depending on the severity of the violation,
Value Site Hosting 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, Value Site Hosting
will notify the appropriate law enforcement authorities of such violation.
Value Site Hosting
does not issue credits for outages incurred through service disablement
resulting from AUP violations.
Value
Site Hosting customers agree to indemnify and hold harmless Sunrise
Web Hosting from any claims resulting from the use of our services
that damages them or any other party. The Value Site Hosting 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. Value Site Hosting expressly disclaims any representation
or warranty that the Value Site Hosting service will be error-free,
secure or uninterrupted. No oral advice or written information given
by Value Site Hosting, its employees, licensers or the like, will
create a warranty; nor may you rely on any such information or advice.
Value Site Hosting 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
Sunrise
Web Hosting reserves the right to add, delete, or modify any provision
of this Policy at any time without notice.
Refusal
Of Service
We reserve
the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion.