Acceptable Usage Policy

This legally binding contract (the “Agreement”) is by and between EtherClear Managed Hosting Limited, company number 7149712 registered in England and Wales (“EtherClear”), and you and your assigns, employees, agents or contractors (“You”, “Your”, the “Client”) and is effective as of the date you purchase hosting services from EtherClear. This Agreement sets forth the EtherClear’s Acceptable Use Policy for Your use of EtherClear’s hosting services (collectively, the “Services”) and represents the entire agreement between You and EtherClear relating to the Services.

EtherClear does everything possible to maintain a high level of service, many customers are highly dependent on our high standards. To maintain these standards we will not provide services and reserve the right to immediately suspend or terminate people who are using our services for:

-Hacking, including but not limited to penetrating or attempting to access, without authorisation, another computer or network. Port scanning, stealth scanning, fraudulent credit card, PayPal, bank account, “phishing” techniques, identity fraud.
-Hosting files or other data which infringes on another’s copyright or intellectual property rights.
-Spamming, or sending of bulk unsolicited email. We maintain a very strict policy on spamming, which includes the sending of unauthorised messages by use of our services, or by maintaining an open SMTP connection. We reserve the right to refuse or terminate service and charge you £1.00 GBP for every spam email sent since your account was activated, and charge £250 per hour per member of staff who is engaged in removing our servers from spam lists and remote blocking lists, based on reasonable indications that you are engaged in spamming of any kind.
- Uploading or linking to content that violates another’s right of publicity or privacy.
- Uploading or linking to content that violates another’s copyright or intellectual property

Content

All services provided by EtherClear may be used only for lawful purposes.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless EtherClear Managed Hosting Ltd from any claims resulting from the use of our services.

Use of our services to infringe copyright or trademark is not allowed. This includes but is not limited to the unauthorised copying or photographs, artwork, music, books, tv episodes, movies, cartoons, advertisements or any other copyrighted work. The offer of selling any counterfeit merchandise of a trademark holder will result in the immediate termination of your account without prior warning. If you believe that your copyright or trademark is being infringed upon, please email abuse [atsigngoeshere] etherclear.co.uk with as much information as possible

Unacceptable material on all servers

Below are some examples of unacceptable material that cannot be hosted on our shared servers, these include:

Spam scripts, mail bombers, irc servers, live chat scripts, chat rooms, brute force programs, ip scanners, hate sites, hacker focused sites, sites promoting illegal activities, muds, rpgs, lottery sites, banking programs, autosurf sites, forex or egold exchange, investment sites, commercial audio streaming (more than 1 stream), topsites, scoring or ban management scripts for game servers such as hlstats or other scripts which perform these sorts of functions, affiliate servers, banner-ad services, image/file serving services (similar to rapidshare, photobucket), filedump, mirrors, irc bots, proxy scripts, anonymizers, pirated software, website scraping tools, website data aggregation, shell scripts, ddos scripts.

Potential harm to minors is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. This includes but is not limited to child pornography or content perceived to be child pornography. Any site found to host child pornography or linking to child pornography will be suspended immediately without notice and the customer’s details will be provided to the police along with all logs, ip addresses and all data we have on the customer.

Offering video or audio streaming or downloads, mp3 files, games and shareware is not permitted.

Using a shared account as a backup or storage device is not permitted, with the exception of the use of one (1) cPanel backup of the same account.