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Disclaimer
Offensive Content
You may not publish or transmit via YPHOST.COM's service any content that
YPHOST.COM reasonably believes:
* 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
YPHOST.COM;
* is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may result in retaliation against
YPHOST.COM by offended viewers.
Content "published or transmitted" via YPHOST.COM'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
YPHOST.COM.
Security
You must take reasonable security precautions. You must protect the
confidentiality of your password, and you should change your password
periodically.
Bulk Commercial E-Mail
You must obtain YPHOST.COM'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 YPHOST.COM'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 YPHOST.COM'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@YPHOST.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 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
YPHOST.COM 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
YPHOST.COM service. In addition, you may not use a third party e-mail
service that does not practice similar procedures for all its customers.
YPHOST.COM 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.
Unsolicited E-Mail
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 YPHOST.COM's services.
Material Protected by Copyright
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.
YPHOST.COM will terminate the service of copyright infringers.
Copyright Infringement Notice (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
If you believe your copyright is being infringed by a person using the
YPHOST.COM network, please contact us immediately.
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
YPHOST.COM to locate the material;
* Information reasonably sufficient to permit
YPHOST.COM 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.
Internet Abuse
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
YPHOST.COM 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
YPHOST.COM's network.
* Use of YPHOST.COM's network in a way that unreasonably interferes with
YPHOST.COM's other customers use of the network.
IRC Servers
It is absolutely forbidden to host IRC servers on
YPHOST.COM servers. Customer accounts found hosting this material will be
subject to immediate cancellation without refund.
Peer-To-Peer Networks
YPHOST.COM's service cannot be used to support any Peer-To-Peer network in any
way. The following activities are expressly prohibited at
YPHOST.COM:
* hosting "trackers";
* running P2P message boards;
* publishing Bit Torrent, eMule, or other similar links on one's site.
Other
You must have valid and current information on file with your domain name
registrar for any domain hosted on the
YPHOST.COM network.
Disclaimer
YPHOST.COM 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
YPHOST.COM network.
Network Performance
YPHOST.COM 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 without a refund.
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
YPHOST.COM systems or networks.
YPHOST.COM reserves the right to terminate or limit such activities.
