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Acceptable Use Policy
Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting's Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") is provided to give our customers and users a clear understanding of what Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting expects of them while using the service. All users of Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting's web hosting: those who access some of our services but do not have accounts, as well as those who pay a service fee to subscribe to the Services, must comply with this AUP and our TOS (Terms of Service). Use of Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting Service constitutes acceptance and agreement to Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting's AUP as well as Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting's TOS (Terms of Service) *All payments To Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting are non-refundable past the 30-day (shared hosting) moneyback guarantee period* WE DO NOT OFFER PRO-RATED REFUNDS FOR THE CURRENT MONTH!!! But will refund any advanced payments not including the current month. *Dedicated server purchases and setup fees are non refundable once purchased. WE DO NOT OFFER PRO-RATED REFUNDS FOR THE CURRENT MONTH!!! But will refund any advanced payments not including the current month. *Domain Name Registrations, SSL certificates and IP addresses are non refundable once purchased. We support the uncensored flow of information and ideas over the Internet and do not actively monitor subscriber activity under normal circumstances. Similarly, we do not exercise editorial control over the content of any web site, e-mail transmission, newsgroups, or other material created or accessible over or through the services, except for certain proprietary web sites. However, in accordance with our TOS (Terms of Service), we may remove any materials that, in our sole discretion, may be illegal, may subject us to liability, or which may violate this AUP. Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting may cooperate with legal authorities and/or third parties in the investigation of any suspected or alleged crime or civil wrongdoing. Your violation of this AUP may result in the suspension or immediate termination of either your Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting account or other actions as detailed in Section 3 WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE. This document is intended to provide a basic understand of Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting's Acceptable Use Policy. The following are guidelines for the establishment and enforcement of Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting's AUP: *Ensure reliable service to our customers *Ensure security and privacy of our systems and network, as well as the networks and systems of others *Comply with existing laws *Maintain our reputation as a responsible service provider *Encourage responsible use of the Internet and discourage activities which reduce the usability and value of Internet services *Preserve the value of Internet resources as a conduit for free expression and exchange of information *Preserve the privacy and security of individual users Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting intends to provide its customers access to everything the Internet has to offer. While the Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting is firmly committed to the principles of free speech, certain activities that may be damaging to the resources of both the Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting and the Internet and cannot be permitted under the guise of free speech. The resources of the Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting and the Internet are limited, and abuse of these resources by one user has a negative impact on the entire community. We do not routinely monitor the activity of accounts except for measurements of system utilization and the preparation of billing records. However, in our efforts to promote good citizenship within the Internet community, we will respond appropriately if we become aware of inappropriate use of our service. During the initial signup period of new accounts on our shared or dedicated servers we may audit/review content to verify that they meet the requirements of our AUP and TOS, any accounts found to be in violation of either AUP or TOS will be terminated and payments made may or may not be refunded. This is to the sole discretion of the board of directors of Silicon Landscapes, Inc. You may not use your dedicated rack or virtual site to publish material, which Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting determines, at its sole discretion, to be unlawful, indecent or objectionable. For purposes of this policy, "material" refers to all forms of communications including narrative descriptions, graphics (including photographs, illustrations, images, drawings, logos), executable programs, video recordings, and audio recordings. If a Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting account is used to violate the Acceptable Use Policy or our TOS, we reserve the right to terminate your service without notice. We prefer to advise customers of inappropriate behavior and any necessary corrective action, however, flagrant violations of the Acceptable Use Policy will result in immediate termination of service. Our failure to enforce this policy, for whatever reason, shall not be construed as a waiver of our right to do so at any time. As a member of our network community, you must use your Internet access responsibly. If you have any questions regarding this policy, please contact us at admin@siliconlandscapes.com VIOLATIONS OF Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY The following constitute violations of this AUP: Illegal use: Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting's services may not be used for illegal purposes, or in support of illegal activities. Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting reserves the right to cooperate with legal authorities and/or injured third parties in the investigation of any suspected crime or civil wrongdoing. Harm to minors: Use of the Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting service to harm, or attempt to harm, minors in any way, including, but not limited to child pornography. Threats: Use of the Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that threatens or encourages bodily harm or destruction of property. Harassment: Use of the Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that harasses another. Fraudulent activity: Use of Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting service to make fraudulent offers to sell or buy products, items, or services, or to advance any type of financial or credit offers and money making schemes whether they are considered scams or otherwise such as "pyramid schemes," "ponzi schemes," "get rich quick," and "chain letters." This also includes providing links to any of the aformentioned information. Forgery or impersonation: Adding, removing or modifying identifying network header information in an effort to deceive or mislead is prohibited. Attempting to impersonate any person by using forged headers or other identifying infrmation is prohibited. The use of anonymous remailers or nicknames does not constitute impersonation. Unsolicited commercial e-mail / Unsolicited bulk e-mail (SPAM) Use of the Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting service to transmit any unsolicited commercial or unsolicited bulk e-mail is expressly prohibited. Violations of this type will result in the immediate termination of the offending Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting account. System Resources. No site is allowed to utilize more than 5% of CPU resources. Failure to comply to a warning email we will be forced to suspend/terminate your account. *SPAM*: Spamming or installing spam software may result in immediate and permanent removal of the account from our network without notice to the customer. Any account guilty of a second violation WILL be immediately and permanently removed from our network without notice and may be reported to the proper law enforcent agency for prosecution under the can spam act. E-mail / News Bombing: Malicious intent to impede another person's use of electronic mail services or news will result in the immediate termination of the offending Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting account. E-mail / Message Forging: Forging any message header, in part or whole, of any electronic transmission, originating or passing through the Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting service is in violation of this AUP. Non Business/E-Commerce accounts are not permitted to host or advertise personal/corporate businesses either for profit or not. Any account found to be in violation of this rule may be suspended or terminated without notice and without the possibility of a refund. Usenet SPAMing: Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting has a zero tolerance policy for the use of its network for the posting of messages or commercial advertisements, which violate the rules, regulations, FAQ or charter of any newsgroups or mailing list. Commercial messages that are appropriate under the rules of a newsgroup or mailing list or that are solicited by the recipients are permitted. Unauthorized access: Use of the Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting service to access, or to attempt to access, the accounts of others, or to penetrate, or attempt to penetrate, security measures of Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting'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, is expressly prohibited and the offending Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting account is subject to immediate termination. Copyright or trademark infringement: Use of the Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting service to transmit any material (by e-mail, 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. Collection of personal data: Use of the Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting service to collect, or attempt to collect, personal information about third parties without their knowledge or consent. Network disruptions and unfriendly activity: Use of the Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting service for any activity which affects the ability of other people or systems to use Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting Services or the Internet. This includes "denial of service" (DOS) attacks against another network host or individual user. Interference with or disruption of other network users, services or equipment is prohibited. It is the Member's responsibility to ensure that their network is configured in a secure manner. A Subscriber may not, through action or inaction, allow others to use their network for illegal or inappropriate actions. A Subscriber may not permit their network, through action or inaction, to be configured in such a way that gives a third party the capability to use their network in an illegal or inappropriate manner. Unauthorized entry and/or use of another company and/or individual's computer system will result in immediate account termination. Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting will not tolerate any subscriber attempting to access the accounts of others, or penetrate security measures of other systems, whether or not the intrusion results in corruption or loss of data. Fraud: Involves a knowing misrepresentation or misleading statement, writing or activity made with the intent that the person receiving it will act upon it. Infringement of Copyright, Patent, Trademark, Trade Secret, or Intellectual Property Right: Distribution and/or posting of copyrighted or the aforementioned infringements will not be tolerated. Distribution of Viruses: Intentional distributions of software that attempts to and/or causes damage, harassment, or annoyance to persons, data, and/or computer systems are prohibited. Such an offense will result in the immediate termination of the offending account. Inappropriate Use of Software: Use of software or any device that would facilitate a continued connection, i.e. pinging, while using Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting services could result in suspension service. Third Party Accountability: Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting subscribers will be held responsible and accountable for any activity by third parties, using their account, that violates guidelines created within the Acceptable Use Policy. IRC networks: It is absolutely forbidden to host an IRC server that is part of or connected to another IRC network or server. Servers found to be connecting to or part of these networks will be immediately removed from our network without notice. The server will not be reconnected to the network until such time that you agree to completely remove any and all traces of the irc server, and agree to let us have access to your server to confirm that the content has been completely removed. Any server guilty of a second violation will result in immediate account termination. Adult Content (Pornography): We will not allow any of our sites, customers, or customers customers to host any type of adult content material, the only allowed material must be of a scholastic nature or must be used for artistic purposes. Silicon Landscapes, Inc. will be at its sole discresion the final judge on what constitutes a breach of this section. Proxy Sites: We do not allow proxy websites on our shared servers. Streaming audio and video: we allow streaming audio and video as long as they do not use/contain or are based off of any type of copyrighted material. Video and audio file sizes must be limited in size to no more than 20 megs video and 5 megs audio per file and these streams must not use a large amount of bandwidth or system resources or you may be asked to upgrade your account to a more expensive version to help cover the larger expense of bandwidth. These limitations are place on our shared hosting customers, Dedicated server customers have no such limitation on file size or transmission limit other than the standard copyright notice above and our T.O.S and A.U.P pages. Free Hosting Sites: Under no circumstances may you run a free hosting website under your shared paid hosting account. Security: You are responsible for any misuse of your account, even if the inappropriate activity was committed by a friend, family member, guest or employee, or a customer of yours. Therefore, you must take steps to ensure that others do not gain unauthorized access to your account. In addition, you may not use your account to breach security of another account or attempt to gain unauthorized access to another network or server. Your password provides access to your account. It is your responsibility to keep your password secure. Sharing your password and account access with unauthorized users is prohibited. You should take care to prevent others from using your account since you will be held responsible for such use. Attempting to obtain another user's account password is strictly prohibited, and may result in termination of service. You must adopt adequate security measures to prevent or minimize unauthorized use of your account. You may not attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of any host, network or account. This includes, but is not limited to, accessing data not intended for you, logging into or making use of a server or account you are not expressly authorized to access, or probing the security of other networks. Use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security is prohibited. Examples of these tools include, but are not limited to, password guessing programs, cracking tools or network probing tools. You may not attempt to interfere with service to any user, host or network ("denial of service attacks"). This includes, but is not limited to, "flooding" of networks, deliberate attempts to overload a service, and attempts to "crash" a host. Users who violate systems or network security may incur criminal or civil liability. Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting will cooperate fully with investigations of violations of systems or network security at other sites, including cooperating with law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations. Network Performance Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting accounts operate on shared resources. Excessive use or abuse of these shared network resources by one customer may have a negative impact on all other customers. Misuse of network resources in a manner which impairs network performance is prohibited by this policy and may result in termination of your account. You are prohibited from excessive consumption of resources, including CPU time, memory, disk space and session time. You may not use resource-intensive programs which negatively impact other customers or the performances of Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting systems or networks. Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting reserves the right to terminate or limit such activities. REPORTING VIOLATIONS OF Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting's AUP Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting requests that anyone who believes that there is a violation of this AUP direct the information to the Abuse Department at abuse@siliconlandscapes.com. If available, please provide the following information: The IP address used to commit the alleged violation The date and time of the alleged violation, including the time zone or offset from GMT Evidence of the alleged violation E-mail with full header information provides all of the above, as do system log files. Other situations will require different methods of providing the above information. Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting may take any one or more of the following actions in response to complaints:
REVISIONS TO THIS ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this AUP, our TOS (Terms of Service) and our other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner. Notice of any revision, amendment, or modification will be posted in accordance with our TOS (Terms of Service). Silicon Landscapes, Inc. Hosting Online Privacy Notice Thank you for visiting SiliconLandscapes.com. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. The Information We Collect At certain parts of some of our sites, only persons who provide us with the requested personally identifiable information will be able to order products, programs, and services or otherwise participate in the site's activities and offerings. We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows 95 or Mac OS) and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink). How We Use the Information We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, and to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you. The information we collect in connection with our online forums and communities is used to provide an interactive experience. We use this information to facilitate participation in these online forums and communities and, from time to time, to offer you products, programs, or services. We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request. Agents and contractors of Silicon Landscapes, Inc. who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Notice by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for Silicon Landscapes, Inc.. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Notice. Finally, Silicon Landscapes, Inc..com will not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated uses. Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites and Sponsors Some of our sites contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties. Some Silicon Landscapes, Inc..coms may use a reputable third party to present or serve the advertisements that you may see at its Web pages. Our privacy policy does not cover any use of information that a third-party ad server may have collected from you. For more information on this site's use of such third-party ad servers, please click here. Cookies To enhance your experience with our sites, many of our web pages use "cookies." Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering at one of our sites. However, once you choose to furnish the site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our web pages (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to our site), save your password in password-protected areas, and enable you to use shopping carts on our sites. We also may use cookies to offer you products, programs, or services. Our Commitment to Security We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online. How You can Access or Correct Information For instructions on how you can access the personally identifiable information that Silicon Landscapes, Inc..com has collected about you online, or how to correct factual errors in such information, refer to your profile. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections. How to Contact Us If you have any questions or concerns about the Silicon Landscapes, Inc. online policy for this site or its implementation you may contact us at contact @ siliconlandscapes.com |
