1. Customers of Web Technology Development, LLC are forbidden from partaking
in an "abusive practice." The following is a list of current abusive
practices. Web Technology Development, LLC reserves the right to add to or
modify this list at any time.
Sending unsolicited commercial e-mail with your account. Also, a violation
is incurred if any unsolicited email is reported relating to your domain
with us in any way, regardless of what SMTP (outgoing mail server) was used
to transmit the message.
Upload, posting or reproducing in any way materials protected by copyright
without the permission of the copyright holder.
Participating in an abusive practice will lead to an immediate account termination
without prior notice or refund of any pre-payment.
2. This agreement is not assignable or transferable without the express
written consent of Web Technology Development, LLC.
3. Web Technology Development, LLC's hosting services may only be used for
lawful purposes. Transmission of any material in violation of any U.S. or
any state regulation is prohibited. This includes but is not limited to:
copyrighted material, material legally judged to be threatening or obscene,
or material protected by trade secret.
The client specifically agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Web Technology
Development, LLC from any claim resulting from a breach of these terms, and/or
the use of the service which damages another.
Spam / UCE Policy
Recent growth of the Internet has brought about more possibilities for abuse
of this new communications medium. Thus, Web Technology Development, LLC
has developed the following policies regarding abuse of Internet services.
These policies were established to protect you, our customer, form Internet
harassment and intrusions of privacy.
"Netiquette" is a term which has come to receive widespread use
on the Internet. Netiquette is generally defined as the standards or practices
an individual or organization engages in to engender responsible Internet
citizenship on their behalf, as well as refraining from standards or practices
which would impose undue financial, time, or social constraints on other
users of the Internet.
The Internet has no single governing body. There is no Internet Management
to complain to when things go wrong. Every facet of the Internet is overseen
by individual organizations (such as Web Technology Development, LLC) whose
networks are interconnected to form the Internet. Additionally, every user
of the Internet is responsible for his/her own behavior.
Due to the decentralized system of responsibility, the Internet has managed
to retain a sense of "community". Even though many large, commercial
entities have recently come online, most of the information on the Internet
is made available through the efforts of Internet citizens around the world
who have a desire to simply share information with other people.
Because the Internet is simply an interconnected set of similar networks,
each entity using the Internet assumes some liability for the cost associated
with traffic and storage. When the costs of storage space and transmission
are all figured together, a single newsgroup posting can cost the collective
Internet thousands of dollars! There are similar costs associated with the
bandwidth required to transmit e-mail. Therefore, someone using e-mail or
news postings for abusive purposes can create a large financial impact on
the individual networks involved.
Aside from the financial costs, individuals who have fallen victim to some
sort of Internet abuse have other costs including decreased effectiveness
of the Internet. For example, someone besieged by SPAM e-mail (a massive
bulk e-mail message to subscribers who did not indicate any desire to receive
such e-mail) spends additional time downloading and responding to e-mail
which was not requested in the first place. A newsgroup subscriber may see
their favorite newsgroup overrun with meaningless off-topic advertisements;
thus, obscuring any effective information still remaining in that newsgroup.
Because of the potential consequences of this type of activity, Web Technology
Development, LLC disapproves of this type of behavior by its customers. Any
Web Technology Development, LLC customer who abuses the resources of the
Internet in any of the following ways will lose their access to the Web Technology
Development, LLC network permanently. This includes:
1. Excessive posting of e-mail to Internet users who previously have not
indicated a desire to receive such e-mail;
2. Posting messages to multiple Internet newsgroups which are not immediately
relevant to the topics of the newsgroups;
3. Posting advertisements on groups that don't specifically permit advertising.
(How do you know? Watch the group for a while before you post blindly. If
other people are advertising openly, then you are pretty safe doing the same.
Don't advertise unless you are sure.)
4. Using the Web Technology Development, LLC network for any illegal purpose.
There are literally thousands of advertising and marketing resources that
are effective and are available for low or no cost. These include classifieds
on every one of the thousands of malls on the Internet, your free JTL Networks
web space, registering with search engines, appropriate USENET postings.
This is not to say that advertising on the Internet is not allowed. It simply
means that Web Technology Development, LLC reserves the right to cancel the
account of any subscriber who advertises inappropriately especially through
the use of unsolicited mass mailings and spamming using USENET.
If the subject of Internet abuse is still unclear, please see one of the
following URLs:
http://marketing.tenagra.com/rfc1855.html
http://www.oak-ridge.com/ibbch4p1.html
http://www.vix.com/spam/
Any subscriber who violates the SPAM policies of Web Technology Development,
LLC will be charged $125.00 per hour for the time it takes to "clean
up" the SPAM. This shall include but not be limited to the time required
to answer mail from recipients of your SPAM and/or repair any damage to the
server due to the "mail bombing" or other actions of the recipients
in response to the SPAM.
Web Technology Development, LLC will turn provide the name and personal
information of any person found to be in violation of any laws to the appropriate
state and/or federal officials for further legal action.
