Web Hosting Policy
By signing up for our web hosting services, you agree to accept and to be bound by these terms and conditions.
Web Site Content
All sites hosted with us may be used for lawful purposes only. You must not submit, publish, or display on our Network any defamatory, illegal, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, infringing, or threatening content. In addition, you may not submit, publish, or display any content on your site in violation of any US laws, Federal, state or local. You are solely responsible for the content you make accessible while using OCS-Networks.Com servers and networks. You may not use the service to assist any other person or entity to violate any Federal, State, or Local laws, ordinances, or regulations.
OBriens Computer Service is not obligated to monitor the network for the purpose of examining customer's content. You hereby acknowledge that if we are made aware of content that is determined to be, in our sole discretion, unacceptable, undesirable, offensive, indecent, obscene, excessively violent or otherwise objectionable, we have the right, but not the obligation, to edit, remove or deny access to such content. OBriens Computer Service may disclose any content or records concerning customer's account as required to satisfy any legal requirement, regulation, government request or court order.
Pornography and sex-related merchandising are expressly prohibited on our servers. This includes implying sexual content, display of nudity, or any link to adult content anywhere else. This is also true for sites that promote illegal activity of any type or content that may be damaging to our servers or any other servers on the Internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited. In addition, the sale of or promoting bulk email services are not allowed. Non-acceptable content or links include but are not necessarily limited to:
We will also not host the following types of sites...
- Diet related or sites selling diet pills
- Viagra or other pharmaceutical type sites
- Sites containing links to or selling cigarettes
- Free or paid email sites/services
- Male enhancement type sites
System Security
Customers
may not use our servers to attempt in any way to circumvent
user authentication or security of any host, network, site or
account. This includes, but is not limited to, accessing any
data not intended for the customer, logging into any server or
account the customer is not expressly authorized to access,
password cracking, probing the security of other networks in
search of weakness, or violation of any other organization's
security policy. Customers may not attempt to interfere or
deny service to any user, host, or network. This includes, but
is not limited to, flooding, mail bombing, or other deliberate
attempts to overload or crash a host, site or network. OBriens Computer Service
will cooperate fully with investigations of
violations of systems or network security at other sites,
including cooperating with law enforcement authorities in the
investigation of suspected criminal violations. Users who
violate system or network security may incur criminal or civil
liability.
Use of CGI
Scripts
If any CGI-scripts are deemed to be
adversely affecting the server performance or the network
integrity, they may be shut down without prior notice.
CGI-script sharing with any site not hosted by OBriens Computer Service
is not allowed.
Internet
Relay Chat
OBriens Computer Service currently prohibits its
customers from operating IRC or IRC Bots on any of our web
site hosting servers. On-line Conference Centers hosted on a
separate servers are available for a monthly fee that include
IRC compatible chat rooms.
Excessive Resource Usage
Any web site
that uses an excessively high amount of server resources
including but not limited to CPU time, memory, and network
bandwidth will be given an option of either upgrading their
service level or reducing the resource used to an acceptable
level.
Programs Running in
Background
Background programs are prohibited unless
prior approval is received. We will consider requests on a one
for one basis. If approved, extra charges will be assessed
based on resource requirements or system maintenance.
Spamming Not
Permitted
You must not use our equipment or any
email address hosted with us in connection with the
transmission of spam, flames, mail bombs, or substantially
similar, unsolicited email messages. Your domain may not be
referenced as originator, intermediary, or reply-to address in
any of the above. This shall include the sending of
unsolicited mass mailings from any other service that in any
way implicates the use of our network, equipment, or any
OBriens Computer Service email address. A message is considered to be
unsolicited if it is posted in violation of a newsgroup
charter or if it is sent to a recipient who has not requested
or invited the message. Simply making one's email address
accessible to the public will not constitute a request or
invitation to receive messages, for purposes of enforcing this
provision.
When any customer is found to have been
engaged in spamming in violation of this agreement, OBriens Computer Service
reserves the right to disable that customer's web
site without warning. In addition, OCS-Networks.Com may
impose a $200 penalty for each spam policy violation.
OCS-Networks.Com solely reserves the right to refuse or
cancel service to spammers. OCS-Networks.Com reserves the
right to determine what violates this policy. As such, any
violation may result in cancellation of services without
refund. Such cancellation of services for cause, specifically
for the reasons provided herein, shall automatically void the
OCS-Networks.Com 30 Day Money Back guarantee.
Obscenity
Violation of indecency and/or
obscenity laws is not permitted on our networks and can result
in criminal penalties.
Copyrights and Infringement
Material
available to you when using our services may be subject to
protection under the United States or other copyright laws, or
laws protecting trademarks, trade secrets and/or proprietary
information. Except when expressly permitted by the owner of
such copyrights, you must not use our services in a manner
that would infringe, violate, dilute or misappropriate any
such rights, with respect to any material, that you access or
receive through our network. If you use a domain name in
connection with our services, you must not use that domain
name in violation of any trademark, service mark, or similar
rights of any third party.
Refusal of Service
OCS-Networks.Com
reserves the right at its sole discretion to refuse or cancel
service. Violation of any of OCS-Networks.Com Terms of
Service could result in a warning, suspension, or possible
account termination. Accounts terminated due to policy
violations will not be refunded including during the 30 Day
money back guarantee period.
Cancellation of Service
To cancel your
hosting plan, you must email sales@ocs-networks.com from
the email address you provided upon purchasing your hosting
plan. Include your domain name(s), password, address, and
phone number for verification.
OCS-Networks.Com to be Held
Harmless
Customer agrees that it will protect,
indemnify, save and hold OCS-Networks.Com, harmless from any
and all stipulations, liabilities, losses, expenses and
claims, as well as reasonable attorney's fees assessed against
OCS-Networks.Com, its agents, customers, officers, employees
and administration that may arise or result from any service
provided or performed or agreed to be performed or any product
sold by it's customers, agents, employees or assigns. Customer
agrees to defend, indemnify and hold OCS-Networks.Com
harmless against liabilities arising out of;
1.
Any injury to person or property caused
by any products sold or distributed in association with
OCS-Networks.com services;
2.
Any material furnished by customer infringing or allegedly
infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party;
3. Copyright violation and any
defective products sold to a customer from OCS-Networks.com
services.
Disclaimer
OCS-Networks.com will not
be responsible for any damages your business may suffer.
OCS-Networks.com makes no warranties of any kind, expressed
or implied for services we provide. OCS-Networks.com
disclaims any warranty or merchantability or fitness for a
particular purpose. This includes data loss resulting from
delays, non-deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all
service interruptions of any kind caused by OCS-Networks.com
and its employees. OCS-Networks.com reserves the right to
amend or update these policies without notice. Failure to
follow any terms and conditions may result in account
deactivation.
OCS-Networks.com wishes to emphasize
that in accepting services, customers indemnify
OCS-Networks.com for the violation of any law or
OCS-Networks.com policy, that results in loss to
OCS-Networks.com or the bringing of any claim against
OCS-Networks.com. This means that if OCS-Networks.com is
sued because of activities of the customer that violate any
law, or this policy, the customer will pay any damages awarded
against OCS-Networks.com, plus costs and reasonable
attorneys' fees.
Should any portion of this Terms of
Use Agreement be found to be in violation of any law in any
locality, then this agreement shall be deemed to be modified
only to the extent necessary to be considered legal and
enforceable in such locality only.
Last Revised: March 01, 2008