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UCE (Unsolicited Commerce Email) - SPAM
To reach its goal of providing the best business class web hosting services
to our users, Globalhost.us offers users a full range of commercial hosting
services. Abuse of these services is considered a violation of our Terms of
Service/AUP ("Contract Agreement" You have executed before the service was
started.) One of the most serious abuses is using your account to send
unsolicited commercial e-mail, otherwise known as "spam." The following are
examples of spam and are blatantly contrary to our TOS/AUP.
Spamming, or the sending of mass unsolicited
email, from or through a Globalhost.us server or using an email address that
is maintained on a Globalhost.us machine is STRICTLY prohibited.
Globalhost.us 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
Globalhost.us 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.
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Inappropriate E-Mail Activities:
Commercial e-mail: Defined as sending unsolicited commercial e-mails. This
is prohibited. You are not permitted to use your Globalhost.us account or
e-mail alias/account of your Virtual Server to send unsolicited commercial
e-mail. Using an e-mail address hosted anywhere on Globalhost.us servers to
collect responses from unsolicited commercial e-mail is prohibited. This
includes using a throw-away, free e-mail account to promote your
Globalhost.us account and redirectors for the same account.
Mail Bombing: Defined as sending large volumes of unsolicited e-mail to
individuals from your Globalhost.us account. This is strictly prohibited.
Harassment: Defined as sending threatening or harassing e-mail after being
requested to stop, is prohibited. Extremely threatening or harassing e-mail
never is allowed.
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Inappropriate Newsgroup Activities:
Newsgroup Spamming: Defined as excessive cross-posting, or posting the same
article to several newsgroups. This is prohibited. Generally accepted
standards allow no more than 15 newsgroups, or cross-postings, for a single
article or substantially similar articles. Such articles may be canceled.
You are not allowed to use your Globalhost.us based mail facilities to SPAM
the newsgroups.
Off topic or inappropriate postings: There is no restriction on content,
except as defined by each newsgroup. Continued posting of off-topic articles
is prohibited. Please note that commercial advertisements are off-topic in
the vast majority of newsgroups.
Should you violate Globalhost.us's SPAM Policies, you WILL be charged $200
per hour for the time it takes us to "clean-up" your SPAM. This shall
include but not be limited to the time required to answer e-mail from angry
recipients of your SPAM and/or repair of a damaged server due to the "Mail
Bombing" or other actions of the angry recipients in retaliation of your
SPAM. You will also be charged $20 per gigabyte of data transfer that your
SPAM incurred, including bandwidth used by answers to or complaints about
your SPAM. We will invoice this amount and should it not be paid, we will
take legal action against you in court, and/or we will contact a collection
agency to recover the funds. Please note also that it is now considered a
crime to send UCE (unsolicited commercial e-mail) as it falls into the
category of "junk faxes." Globalhost.us will turn over all names and
personal information to the proper local, state, federal, and international
officials of any person who violates this policy.
We take a very dim view of SPAM. It is one of the most annoying things
encountered on the Internet. Any Globalhost.us client found to be spamming
will have his/her account terminated immediately - no questions asked (we
will investigate the report thoroughly before terminating any account).
There is no warning or second chance. If we find that you have violated our
Acceptable Usage Policy, we will report you and the incident to the proper
local, state and federal authorities and will prosecute you to the full
extent of the law.
We are not attempting to censor, nor are we attempting to curtail the
business of our customers. But as a whole, spamming hurts our members and us
more than it helps the one spammer. Do yourself, and us, a favor: PLEASE
DON'T DO IT.
If you know of any Globalhost.us client that is or might be violating this
policy, please send a message or, if possible, forward the SPAM or UCE in
full (including headers) to abuse@Globalhost.us.com.
Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a Globalhost.us server or
customer of Globalhost.us is strictly prohibited.
Any sub-networks of Globalhost.us 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.
Globalhost.us.com'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@Globalhost.us.com for special arrangement.
Multimedia files are defined as any graphics, audio, and video files.
Globalhost.us.com 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.
Any database stored on Globalhost.us.com servers shall be limited in size to
20% of the total disk space allotted for a particular domain.
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Actions Taken by Globalhost.us
The failure by a customer to meet or follow any of the above policies/terms
is grounds for account deactivation. Globalhost.us will be the sole arbiter
as to what constitutes a violation of the AUP. Globalhost.us reserves the
right to remove any account without prior notice.
When Globalhost.us becomes aware of an alleged violation of its AUP,
Globalhost.us will initiate an investigation. During the investigation,
Globalhost.us may restrict a customer's access in order to prevent further
potentially unauthorized activity. Depending on the severity of the
violation, Globalhost.us 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, Globalhost.us will notify
the appropriate law enforcement authorities of such violation.
Globalhost.us does not issue credits for outages incurred through service
disablement resulting from AUP violations.
Globalhost.us customers agree to indemnify and hold harmless Globalhost.us
from any claims resulting from the use of our services that damages them or
any other party. The Globalhost.us 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. Globalhost.us expressly disclaims
any representation or warranty that the Globalhost.us service will be
error-free, secure or uninterrupted. No oral advice or written information
given by Globalhost.us, its employees, licensors or the like, will create a
warranty; nor may you rely on any such information or advice. Globalhost.us
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.
Globalhost.us reserves the right to add, delete, or modify any provision of
this Policy at any time without notice.
We reserve the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole
discretion.
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