Acceptable Use Policy Hosting.nl
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Acceptable Use Policy Hosting.nl English
I. Hosting.nl customers found to be in violation of this policy in the sole and final determination of Hosting.nl will be subject to immediate suspension and eventual termination of the customer's account without refund for pre-paid services.
II. Hosting.nl may subject the customer to liability for damages caused and costs incurred by enforcing this policy.
III. Any act which results in the disruption of service to other Hosting.nl customers or to other Internet users will subject the customer to immediate account cancellation without refund for pre-paid services, and may subject the customer to liability for the cost of services lost, plus the costs of investigation.
IV. Any attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, either on Hosting.nl's network or any other network, will subject the customer to disciplinary action up to and including, but not limited to, immediate account cancellation without refund for pre-paid services, and may subject the customer to liability for damages caused and costs incurred by the unauthorized access or attempt to gain unauthorized access.
V. Customer agrees to reimburse Hosting.nl's costs associated with investigating and resolving any incident covered by this AUP.
1. Accounts and passwords
A. Customer shall handle identification data (user names,passwords), address data and/or codes with utmost care.
B. Identification data, address data and/or codes are not to be shared with any other party without prior consent by Hosting.nl.
C. Customer shall be held responsible and liable for any misuse carried out using identification data belonging to customer, regardless of the identity of the actual person carrying out this misuse.
2. Network Use
Customers are not allowed to use Hosting.nl's systems or networks to:
A. disrupt the network host systems. B. disrupt network services or net communications.
C. attempt security breaches on any system connected to the Internet.
D. damage or impair the Hosting.nl equipment, hardware, software, data, or operations.
E. use the system for illegal or criminal purposes.
F. carry out deceptive on-line marketing practices.
G. violate the privacy of individual users on the Internet by reading their E-mail or private communications to other users.
H. introduce viruses and other types of malicious programs into any network or system
I. use the system as a means to improperly gain access to other computer systems, networks, or programs.
J. gain or try to gain unauthorised access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without express authorisation of the owner of the system or network.
K. perform unauthorised monitoring of data or traffic on any network or system without express authorisation of the owner of the system or network.
L. interfere with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mailbombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks.
M. intentionally seek information on, obtain copies of, or modify files, other data, or passwords belonging to others, or represent themselves as another user unless explicitly authorized to do so by that user.
N. disrespect legal protection provided by copyright and license to programs and data.
O. disrespect the integrity of computing and network systems; for example, users shall not intentionally develop or use programs that harass other users or infiltrate a computer, computing system or network and/or damage or alter the software components of a computer, computing system or network.
P. transmit any material (by email, uploading, posting, or otherwise) that, intentionally or unintentionally, violates any applicable national or international law, or any rules or regulations promulgated there under.
Q. transmit any material (by email, uploading, posting, or otherwise) that threatens or encourages bodily harm or destruction of property.
R. transmit any material (by email, uploading, posting, or otherwise) that harasses another Internet user.
S. make fraudulent offers to sell or buy products, items, or services or to advance any type of financial scam such as (but not limited to) "pyramid schemes", "get rich quick schemes" and "chain letters".
T. add, remove or modify identifying network header information in an effort to deceive or mislead.
U. attempt to impersonate any person by using forged headers or other identifying information.
V. access, or attempt to access, the accounts of others, or to penetrate, or attempt to penetrate, security measures of Hosting.nl's or another entity's computer software or hardware, electronic communications system, or telecommunications system, whether or not the intrusion results in the corruption or loss of data.
W. transmit any material (by email, uploading, posting, or otherwise) that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material, the digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted sources, and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software.
X. collect, or attempt to collect, personal information about third parties without their knowledge or consent.
3. E-mail
Customers are not allowed to:
A. transmit unsolicited commercial email ("UCE") or unsolicited bulk email ("UBE") messages to any Internet user via their Hosting.nl account or via any other Internet connection that in any way implicates Hosting.nl.
B. use e-mail, anonymous or otherwise, to send threatening or harassing messages.
C. send e-mail to more than 10 addresses at the same time (using the To, Cc, or Bcc headers), with the exception of mailinglists hosted by Hosting.nl.
D. send e-mail to more than 100 addresses in total without prior permission from Hosting.nl; item 3C still applies when permission is granted.
E. forge any part of the header information in an e-mail message.
F. temporarily or permanently connect an insufficiently secured mail server to the Hosting.nl network. Your mail server is only allowed to accept incoming e-mail that is destined for your own e-mail domain(s), and it is only allowed to transmit outgoing e-mail that originates inside your own IP range or local network. Under no circumstance is your mail server allowed to accept e-mail from outside your network for subsequent delivery outside your network. In short: your mail server must be either a starting point or an end point for e-mail, not a transit point. Hosting.nl explicitly reserves the right to block an insufficiently secured mail server without advance notice. Any kind of mailing list use by any customer within the Hosting.nl network must follow the guidelines available at MAPS http://mail-abuse.org/manage.html, and RFC 3098 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3098.html. These guidelines are considered an integral part of this AUP.
4. WWW
Hosting.nl reserves the right to remove from its servers any customer-produced information found to be offensive by members of the Internet Community, or unlawful by national or international regulations (specifically, but not only, protected material). 'Offensive' includes advertizing the website by means disallowed by chapters 3 and 4 of this AUP ('spamvertizing'), regardless of the actual ISP used to advertize the website. Repeated complaints may result in the termination of a customer's account and removal of stored data without prior notice.
Violations may be reported to mailto:abuse@hosting.nl.