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Acceptable Use Policy
I. Mission Statement
A. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com provides Internet & Application Web Hosting for
Chief Cornstalk District BSA Units. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com has certain legal
and ethical responsibilities regarding the use of its servers and equipment
involved in these services. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com reserves the right to
terminate your service without notice. We prefer to advise units of
inappropriate behavior and any necessary corrective action. However, flagrant
violations of the Acceptable Use Policy will result in immediate termination of
service.
B. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com’s general policy is to provide our units with an
enjoyable Internet hosting experience. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com has specific
ethical concerns regarding the use of its computers as detailed below.
II. Miscellaneous Provisions
A. Acceptable Bandwidth Use and Unacceptable Overuse Clause
1. Bandwidth is a term used to describe the total traffic your web site and
other services associated with the use of your website consume. Bandwidth
includes all data transfer in and out of your website.
2. Bandwidth includes the following: HTML, e-mail transfer, httpd or ftp
downloads from webpage, anonymous FTP downloads, CGI scripts, Real Audio, Real
Video, Telnet, and SSH, SQL, PERL, PHP, ASP.
3. If you have any questions on this policy, contact us prior to signing up.
4. All customers who reach their bandwidth limit will be e-mailed regarding the
overages to the e-mail address provided upon sign up.
5. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com will provide you with web statistics software to
monitor your own bandwidth, however, it is the sole responsibility of the site
operator to be aware of their bandwidth usage
6. If you run out of bandwidth, fill out a
trouble ticket, and chiefcornstalkdistrict.com will instruct you on how to cut
down your use, or if needed, give you more.
B. Background Running Programs
1. We do not allow programs to run continually in the background.
C. New Domain Name Registration
1. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com cannot register a domain name for your unit. You
will receive a URL such as: troopx.chiefcornstalkdistrict.com. If you wish to
buy your own domain name you are only allowed one domain per account.
D. Disk Storage
1. The intention of chiefcornstalkdistrict.com is to provide a large space to
serve web documents related to scouts in the Chief Cornstalk District.
2. Web sites that are found to contain no html documents, or a large number of
unlinked files, are subject to warning, suspension or cancellation at the sole
discretion of chiefcornstalkdistrict.com’s management.
3. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com does not allow the reselling of your web space on
any of its packages.
4. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com will notify you once you have reached your disk
space usage limit. Thereafter, you have the option to upgrade to another package
or reduce the amount of space usage.
E. CGI Scripts
1. Each account comes with its own cgi-bin. You are free to use any CGI scripts
you wish.
2. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com reserves the right to disable and or remove any
CGI script that affects normal server operation without prior warning.
3. Any CGI script owned and installed by you which has been stuck in memory by
error will be removed immediately and the account holder will be warned of this
activity. If further abuse of the system resources continue,
chiefcornstalkdistrict.com reserves the right to suspend or deactivate the
account and depending on the severity, be compensated for any damages it may
cause.
III. Conditions
A. Any provision of this contract this is broken will result in immediate
account termination.
B. Payment Policies
1. No monetary payment is nessecary for a site for your unit. However
chiefcornstalkdistrict.com requires that you place a google code on your site
within one month of pages being published.
2. All accounts are set up on a "first come first serve" basis.
3. Any account not brought current within one week (7 days) of e-mail notices or
exceeding a 2 month inactivity time frame in any way is subject to suspension or
cancellation.
C. Cancellation
1. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com reserves the right to cancel service at any time
for any reason without liability.
2. Any violation of policies that results in extreme amounts of extra costs (ex:
$50-$100 or more) will be billed to
customer. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com will first contact the unit webmaster for
these costs, then the units adult leader.
3. All clients who wish to cancel must make its request via the trouble ticket
system located within the Tech Support Center. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com DOES
NOT accept cancellation requests via any other methods of communication. NOTE:
If you don't receive confirmation of cancellation within 24hrs, it indicates we
have not received your cancellation request.
4. Clause III of this agreement shall remain in full effect even after full
account cancellation has been completed and confirmed via electronic mail.
5. Once an account is cancelled and customer notified by electronic mail,
customer understands that all material stored including but not limited to email
will be lost. Customer cannot hold chiefcornstalkdistrict.com liable for any
lost information the customer failed to back up.
V. Prohibitions
A. Server Abuse
1. Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server, or customer, of
chiefcornstalkdistrict.com is strictly prohibited.
2. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com will strongly react to any use or attempted use of
an Internet account or computer without the owner's authorization. Such attempts
include but are not limited to "Internet scamming" (tricking other people into
releasing their passwords), password robbery, security hole scanning.
3. You understand that any unauthorized use of accounts or computer, whether or
not the attacked account or computer belongs to chiefcornstalkdistrict.com, will
result in action against the attacker. Possible actions include warnings,
account cancellation, and civil or criminal legal action, depending on the
seriousness of the attack.
B. Unsolicited E-Mail (spam)
1. Unsolicited commercial advertisements are not allowed in e-mail, and will
likely result in account cancellation. Commercial advertisements are unwelcome
in most Usenet discussion groups and on most e-mail mailing lists. Inappropriate
postings may result in account cancellation. See the newsgroup or mailing list's
charter for whether advertising is allowed or not.
2. "Spamming," or sending a message to many different off-topic newsgroups, is
particularly unethical and will be treated as such. Sending a message,
especially an advertisement, to more than five or six recipients, is by itself
spamming unless the individuals have specifically requested to be added to a
mailing list on that topic. E-Mail is a person-to-person medium, not a broadcast
medium.
3. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com does not tolerate Spam. Upon your first Spam
offense your account will be terminated with no chance of redemption.
C. Copywritten Files
1. Files found on chiefcornstalkdistrict.com's servers which are found to
violate International or local copywrights agreements will be removed and the
account cancelled immediately without prior notification to the customer. All
copyright owners will be notified accordingly.
2. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a
violation of this provision.
D. IRC -We currently do not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers.
If one is found to be operating, it will be removed and your account terminated
without prior notice to you.
E. Chat Rooms
1. Due to the large amount of bandwidth and system resources used by chat rooms,
you understand that you are not allowed to install your own chat room without
first approving it with the chiefcornstalkdistrict.com support team. The
chiefcornstalkdistrict.com Support Team can be reached using the trouble ticket
system in the Tech Support Center.
2. Parachat, javascript, and PHP chat rooms are acceptable and do not apply to this rule. They may be
installed without prior approval from chiefcornstalkdistrict.com.
3. If you have any questions concerning whether your proposed chat room is a
parachat, java, or PHP chat room, contact chiefcornstalkdistrict.com prior to installation.
F. Abuse of SMTP Mail Server
1. By signing up for chiefcornstalkdistrict.com account, you agree not to share
your SMTP account with anyone and to maintain high standards for sending out
emails not be in violation of Section V Paragraph B.
VI. Lawful Purpose
A. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com reserves the right to refuse service to anyone.
B. Customers may only use the chiefcornstalkdistrict.com’s server for lawful
purposes.
C. Transmission of any material in violation with Federal, State or Local
regulation is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, copywritten
material, material legally judged to be threatening or obscene, and material
protected by trade secrets. The designation of any materials as such described
above is left entirely to the discretion of chiefcornstalkdistrict.com’s
management.
D. Regardless of the place of signing this agreement, the client agrees, for
purposes of venue, this contract was entered into Logan County, West Virgina, United States of America, and
any dispute will be litigated or arbitrated in this jurisdiction.
VII. Disclaimer
A. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com is not responsible for any damages suffered by you
or your unit as a result of services we provide.
B. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or
implied, for services we provide.
C. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com disclaims any warranty or merchantability or
fitness for a particular purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from
delays, non-deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service interruptions
caused by chiefcornstalkdistrict.com and its employees.
D. chiefcornstalkdistrict.com reserves the right to revise its policies at any
time without notice. It is the customer's responsibility to monitor
www.chiefcornstalkdistrict.com.com/aup.htm for policy changes.
E. All Sub-Networks of chiefcornstalkdistrict.com must adhere to the above
policies.
F. Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account
deactivation without refund.
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