This AUP governs the use of Forbest Hosting’s web hosting service. Violation of this AUP may result in suspension or termination of your service. In the event of a dispute between you and Forbest Hosting regarding the interpretation of this AUP, Forbest Hosting’s interpretation, in its reasonable commercial judgment, shall govern. If you have any questions regarding this AUP, contact Forbest Hosting using any of the means provided by the "Contact Us" link on every page.
You may not publish or transmit via Forbest Hosting’s service any content that Forbest Hosting reasonably believes:
constitutes child pornography;
constitutes pornography;
is excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence,
or contains harassing content or hate speech;
is unfair or deceptive under the consumer protection laws of any jurisdiction, including chain letters and pyramid schemes;
is defamatory or violates a person’s privacy;
creates a
risk to a person’s safety or health, creates a risk to public safety or health, compromises national security, or interferes with a investigation by law enforcement;
improperly exposes trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary
information of another person;
is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections;
clearly infringes on another person’s trade or service mark, patent, or other property right;
promotes illegal drugs, violates
export control laws, relates to illegal gambling, or illegal arms trafficking;
is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws applicable to you or to Forbest Hosting; or
is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or
may result in retaliation against Forbest Hosting by offended viewers.
Content “published or transmitted” via Forbest Hosting’s service includes Web content, e-mail, bulletin board postings, chat, and any other type of posting or
transmission that relies on any Internet service provided by Forbest Hosting.
You must take reasonable security precautions. You must protect the confidentiality of your password, and you should change your password periodically.
You must obtain Forbest Hosting’s advance approval for any bulk commercial e-mail, which will not be given unless you are able to demonstrate all of the following to Forbest Hosting’s reasonable satisfaction:
Your intended recipients
have given their consent to receive e-mail via some affirmative means, such as an opt-in procedure;
Your procedures for soliciting consent include reasonable means to ensure that the person giving consent is the owner of the e-mail
address for which the consent is given;
You retain evidence of the recipient’s consent in a form that may be promptly produced on request, and you honor recipient’s and Forbest Hosting’s requests to produce consent evidence within 72
hours of receipt of the request.
The body of the e-mail must describe how the e-mail address was obtained, for example, “You opted in to receive this e-mail promotion from our Web site or from one of our partner sites,” and information
on how to request evidence of the consent, for example, “If you would like to learn more about how we received your e-mail address please contact us at abuse@forbesthosting.com.
You have procedures in place that allow a recipient to
easily revoke their consent - such as a link in the body of the e-mail, or instructions to reply with the word “Remove” in the subject line. Revocations of consent are honored within 72 hours, and you notify recipients that their revocation
of their consent will be honored in 72 hours;
You must post an abuse@**yourdoman.com** e-mail address on the first page of any Web site associated with the e-mail, you must register that address at abuse.net, and you must promptly
respond to messages sent to that address;
You must have a Privacy Policy posted for each domain associated with the mailing;
You have the means to track anonymous complaints;
You may not obscure the source of your e-mail in any
manner. Your e-mail must include the recipients e-mail address in the body of the message or in the “TO” line of the e-mail; and
You otherwise comply with the CAN SPAM Act and other applicable law.
These policies apply to messages
sent using your Forbest Hosting service, or to messages sent from any network by you or any person on your behalf that directly or indirectly refer the recipient to a site hosted via your Forbest Hosting service. In addition, you may not
use a third party e-mail service that does not practice similar procedures for all its customers.
Forbest Hosting may test and otherwise monitor your compliance with its requirements, including requesting opt-in information from
a random sample of your list at any time.
You may not send any unsolicited e-mail, either in bulk or individually, to any person who has indicated that they do not wish to receive it.
You must comply with the rules of any other network you access or participate in using your
Forbest Hosting’s services.
You may not publish, distribute, or otherwise copy in any manner any music, software, art, or other work protected by copyright law unless:
you have been expressly authorized by the owner of the copyright for the work to copy the work in
that manner;
you are otherwise permitted by established United States copyright law to copy the work in that manner.
Forbest Hosting will terminate the service of repeat copyright infringers.Copyright Infringement Notice (Digital
Millennium Copyright Act)If you believe your copyright is being infringed by a person using the Forbest Hosting network, please send your E-mail notice of copyright infringement to:
Forbest Hosting
Abuse@forbesthostinbg.com
Your
notice must include the following:
A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have
been infringed, or if multiple copyrighted words at a single site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject
of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit Forbest Hosting to locate the material;
Information reasonably sufficient to permit Forbest Hosting
to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an e-mail address;
A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner,
the copyright owner’s agent, or the law;
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Other
You
must have valid and current information on file with your domain name registrar for any domain hosted on the Forbest Hosting network.
Forbest Hosting is under no duty, and does not by this AUP undertake a duty, to monitor or police our customers’ activities and disclaims any responsibility for any misuse of the Forbest Hosting network.
Inquiries regarding this policy
should be directed to Forbest Hosting using any of the means provided by the "Contact Us" link on every page.
You may not engage in illegal, abusive, or irresponsible behavior, including:
Unauthorized 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 (including those belonging to Forbest Hosting and its customers) without express authorization of the owner of the system or network;
monitoring data or traffic on any network or system without the
authorization of the owner of the system or network;
Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks;
Use
of an Internet account or computer without the owner’s authorization, including, but not limited to Internet scanning (tricking other people into releasing their passwords), password robbery, security hole scanning, and port scanning;
Forging
of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting; or
Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against the Forbest Hosting’s network.
Use of Forbest Hosting’s network
in a way that unreasonably interferes with Forbest Hosting’s other customers use of the network
You must comply with the rules and conventions for postings to any bulletin board, chat group or other forum in which you participate, such as IRC and USENET groups including their rules for content and commercial postings. These groups usually prohibit the posting of off-topic commercial messages, or mass postings to multiple forums.