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CoMedia Communications, Inc.
CoMedia Network Acceptable Use Policy |
Introduction
CoMedia Communications, Inc.'s ("CCI") Acceptable Use
Policy ("AUP") for products and services is designed to
help protect CCI, its customers, and the Internet
community in general from fraud, abuse of resources, and
irresponsible or illegal activities.
Subject to CCI's Privacy Policy, CCI makes no guarantee
regarding, and assumes no liability for, the security
and integrity of any data or information a User
transmits via the Service or over the Internet,
including any data information transmitted via any
server designated as "secure." CCI does not monitor,
exercise control over, or accept responsibility for the
content of any information passing through its network.
All persons and organizations, including CCI customers,
who transmit information over or who publish information
that is made accessible through CCI's network are
responsible for the content of the information and for
complying with the laws applicable to its publication.
CoMedia Communications, Inc. will cooperate with legal
authorities in the investigation of any suspected
criminal or civil violations.
Customer Responsibilities
CCI's services are intended solely for the use of the
contract holder, its corporate affiliates and/or
subsidiaries that are connected by LAN, WAN or remote
access applications, and may not be re-sold to or used
by any outside entity without prior written consent from
CCI. CCI offers ISP/Resalable Services for customers who
intend to resell products and services to third parties.
Each CCI customer (commercial and ISP/reseller) is
responsible for the activities of its own customers or
end-users and, by accepting service from CCI, agrees to
inform its customers and/or end-users of this AUP or its
own Acceptable Use Policy, which must be co-extensive
and consistent with these terms.
Prohibited Conduct
CCI's services may only be used for lawful and
appropriate purposes. Customers may not transmit,
retransmit, redirect, or store material in violation of
any federal or state laws or regulations including, but
not limited to, obscenity, indecency, defamatory or
material infringing trademarks or copyrights. CCI
customers may not abuse or fraudulently use CCI products
and services, nor allow such use by others. The
following illustrate some, but not all, uses that are
prohibited under this AUP:
Child Pornography: It is illegal under Federal
child exploitation statutes to possess, produce,
receive, transport or distribute by any means, including
computer, visual depictions of "sexual intercourse"
and/or "sexually explicit conduct" involving persons
under the age of 18.
Inappropriate Content: Using the services to
transmit, distribute, redirect, or store material that,
as reasonably determined by CCI, is inappropriate,
obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, abusive,
hateful or which contains or incites violence
Denial of Service: Engaging in any activity that
may or will interfere with the service of any other
user, host or network on the Internet. Users are also
prohibited from any activity considered a precursor to
attempted security violations, including, but not
limited to, any form of scanning, probing, or other
testing or information gathering activity, without prior
express written consent from CCI's IP Security Manager.
Distribution of Viruses: Distribution of
software, programs or messages that may cause damage or
annoyance to persons, data, and/or computer systems.
Customers that receive a notification of infection have
48 hours to secure or remove the host from the network.
Hosts not timely secured or removed by customers may be
blocked by CCI from accessing the network.
Forging Headers: Forging or misrepresenting any
portion of a message header of an electronic
transmission originating or passing through CCI's
network.
Email Spamming [or Mailbombing]: The transmitting
of unsolicited email to multiple recipients, sending
large amounts of email repeatedly that annoys, harasses
or threatens another person or entity, or any attempt to
use CCI servers as a mail drop or nameserver for SPAM.
Sending unsolicited bulk email from another Internet
service provider's network advertising or implicating
any service hosted or provided by CCI, , including
without limitation email, web, FTP and DNS services. The
sending of email with added words/characters in an
attempt to bypass Bayesian filters is prohibited. For
bulk emailers on the CCI network - removal of
complainants is required, as is the creation of a master
no-send list. Bulk emailers may also be required to
provide the complete opt-in information for each
complainant within 24 hours of the request. Utilizing a
customer affiliate program to generate leads makes a CCI
Customer responsible for the actions of its affiliates.
This control includes, but is not limited to, blocking
affiliate links and sending the affiliate traffic to a
404 error type page.
Fraudulent Activities: Fraud is an intentional
misrepresentation or misleading statement, writing or
activity made with the intent that the person receiving
it will act upon it, or, obtaining or attempting to
obtain service by any means or device with intent to
avoid payment. This includes the hosting of phishing
websites.
Unauthorized Access: Illegal or unauthorized
access to other computers, accounts, or networks.
Accessing, or attempting to access, any computer
resource belonging to another party, or attempting to
penetrate security measures of other systems.
Network Sabotage: Any use of CCI products and
services to interfere with the use of Internet resources
or CCI's network by other customers or end-users.
Pyramid Schemes: A fraudulent system of achieving
financial gain, which requires an endless stream of
recruits for success.
Unlawful Acts: Any use of CCI products and
services to violate the law or in aid of any unlawful
act.
Non-email Based Spamming: Posting of messages to
newsgroups/blogs/services that are irrelevant, blanket
posting of messages to multiple newsgroups/blogs/services,
and the posting of annoying, harassing and/or
threatening messages. Violation of any rules, policies
or charters posted online by any search engine,
subscription web service, chat area, bulletin board,
webpage, or any other service accessed via the CCI
network is prohibited.
Facilitating a Violation of this AUP:
Advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available
any software, program, product, or service that is
designed to allow a user to violate this AUP. This
includes, but is not limited to, the facilitation of the
means to spam, initiation of pinging, flooding, mail
bombing, denial of service attacks, and piracy of
software.
Blacklisting: Behavior by a customer that causes
blacklisting must be remedied within 48 hours.
Activities that result in re-listing are prohibited and
must be stopped immediately. Known spammers, previously
unidentified, will be removed from the network once
identified.
Violations and Enforcement
At CCI's sole discretion, violations of any element of
this AUP may result in a warning to the offender
followed by suspension or termination of service if
customer does not cease the violation. CCI may
immediately suspend or terminate service with or without
notice if CCI determines that a violation of the AUP has
occurred. CCI will enforce this AUP according to the
severity of the offense and violator's history of prior
AUP infringements. Severe and/or repeated offenses will
result in immediate termination of service. CCI is not
liable for damages of any nature suffered by any
customer, end-user, or any third party resulting in
whole or in part from CCI exercising its rights under
this AUP. CCI has no practical ability to monitor all
conduct, communications, or content that might violate
this AUP prior to its transmission over the CCI network
but, where possible and necessary, may do so at its
discretion. Therefore, CCI does not assume liability for
others' violations of the AUP or failures to terminate
those violations. CCI reserves the right to charge time
and materials to resolve customer issues that are not
resolved by the customer in a timely manner.
*CCI reserves the right to modify this AUP at any time
without prior notification to customers.
To report a violation of this AUP or an abuse of CCI's
services, please e-mail:
abuse@comediacom.com |
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