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We reserves the right to change or modify
any of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, and any
policy or guideline incorporated by reference at any time and from time
to time in its sole discretion, and to determine whether and when any
such changes apply to both existing and future customers. Any changes or
modification will be effective upon posting of the revisions on the Web
site (the "Site"). We will post a notice of such changes or
modifications to this Agreement or the Addendum on the Site for 30 days.
Pacific Online may post changes or modifications to referenced
Acceptable Use Policies without notice to you. Your continued use of
Services following posting of any changes or modifications will
constitute your acceptance of such changes or modifications.
1. Term and Payment for Services
1.1. Term and Termination. This
Agreement shall be for successive one month terms, automatically renewed
each month unless cancelled by you by notice given and received at least
two days before the your renewal date. Any notice of termination will be
effective at the end of the current prepaid period.
1.2. Default and Cure. In the
event that either party hereto defaults in the performance of any of its
material duties or obligations under this Agreement, including failure
to make any payments due under this Agreement, and such default is not
cured within 15 days after written notice is given to the defaulting
party specifying the default, then the party not in default, after given
written notice (including by email) thereof to the defaulting party, may
terminate this Agreement. Notwithstanding any other provision herein,
Pacific Online may terminate this Agreement immediately if it
determines, in good faith, that the customer has violated Pacific
Online's Acceptable Usage Policy.
1.3. Charges. You agree to pay for
all charges attributable to your use of the Services at the then current
Pacific Online prices, which shall be exclusive of any applicable taxes.
You are responsible for the payment of all federal, provincial, state
and local sales, use, value added, goods and services, excise, duty and
any other taxes assessed with respect to the Services, other than taxes
based on Pacific Online's net income.
1.4. Payment. Upon entering this
Agreement, you must choose to pay either by cheque or direct charge to a
credit card. If you choose to pay by credit card upon registering for
the Services, you thereby authorize Pacific Online to charge your credit
card to pay for any charges that may apply to your account. You agree
that Pacific Online may accumulate any supplemental charges, incurred by
you in your use of the Services ("Supplemental Charges") until your
monthly bill date and then charge your account. You must notify Pacific
Online of any changes to your card account (including, without
limitation, applicable account number or cancellation or expiration of
the account), your billing address, or any information that may prohibit
Pacific Online from charging your account. If you fail to pay any fees
and taxes within five days from applicable due date for credit card or
invoice payments, late charges of the lesser of 1.5% per month or the
maximum allowable under applicable law shall also become payable by you
to Pacific Online. In addition, your failure to fully pay any fees and
taxes within seven days after the applicable due date will be deemed a
material breach of this Agreement, justifying Pacific Online's
suspension of its performance of the Services and/or termination of this
Agreement. You are responsible for any fees associated with
reinstatement of Services. Any such suspension or termination would not
relieve you from paying past due fees plus interest. In the event of
collection enforcement, you will be liable for any costs associated with
such collection, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys'
fees, court costs and collection agency fees. If any cheque is returned
for insufficient funds, Pacific Online may impose a processing charge of
$25.
2. Use of Services
2.1. Applicable Use Policy.
Pacific Online's Acceptable Use Policy (the "Usage Policy") governs the
general policies and procedures for use of the Services. The Usage
Policy is posted on Pacific Online's Web site (or such other location as
Pacific Online may specify) and may be updated from time-to-time. YOU
SHOULD CAREFULLY READ THE USAGE POLICY. BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU AGREE
TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THE USAGE POLICY AND ANY MODIFICATIONS.
PACIFIC ONLINE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO TERMINATE YOUR ACCOUNT FOR ANY
VIOLATION OF THE ACCEPTABLE USAGE POLICY OR THIS AGREEMENT.
2.2. Material and Product
Requirements. 2.2. Material and Product Requirements. Use of the
Services requires a certain level of knowledge in the use of Internet
languages, protocols and software. This level of knowledge varies,
depending on the anticipated use and desired content of your Web site.
You must have the necessary knowledge to create and maintain a Web site,
and it is not Pacific Online’s responsibility to provide this knowledge
or customer support outside of the Services agreed to by you and Pacific
Online. Unless we have agreed otherwise in a separate agreement, you
must ensure that all material including text, graphics, photographs,
drawings, sound, video, names, logos, hypertext links to other websites,
data and other material placed by you (“Customer Material”) on Pacific
Online’s equipment is in a condition that is “server-ready,” which is in
a form requiring no additional manipulation by Pacific Online and which
will permit stable, continuous operation of the servers on which it is
hosted without interruption or interference. Pacific Online will make no
effort to validate any Customer Material for operability, stability,
content, correctness or usability. If any Customer Material is not
“server-ready”, Pacific Online has the option at any time to reject this
material. Pacific Online will notify you of its refusal of the material
and afford you the opportunity to amend or modify the material to
satisfy the needs and requirements of Pacific Online. If any Customer
Material interrupts or interferes in any way with the servers on which
it is hosted, Pacific Online has the option of taking down the site
without prior notice to you.
2.3. Bandwidth and Storage Usage.
You agree that use of the Services under this Agreement will not exceed
the bandwidth and storage usage limits set out. If you use any bandwidth
or storage space in excess of the agreed upon number of megabytes per
month, you agree to pay the associated additional charges.
2.3.1 Bandwidth Availability. Your
account will have a specified maximum capacity per month, which will
depend upon the plan you have chosen. If in any month the actual traffic
exceeds this maximum capacity, you will be charged for the excess at the
then-current rate, which will be posted on Pacific Online's website.
2.3.2 Disk Space Overages. Disk
space overages shall be determined and charged for daily on the basis of
the excess amount of disk space used by you as of the time of
determination, at the same cost per megabyte as provided for in the plan
you have chosen.
2.4. No Modification to Customer
Material. Pacific Online will not make any modifications to any
Customer Material made available online by you before it is transmitted
to subsequent users.
3. Enforcement
3.1. Investigation of Violations.
Pacific Online may investigate any reported or suspected violation of
this Agreement, its policies or any complaints and take any action that
it deems appropriate and reasonable under the circumstance to protect
its systems, facilities, customers and/or third parties. Pacific Online
will not access or review the contents of any e-mail or similar stored
electronic communications except as required or permitted by applicable
law or legal process.
3.2. Actions. Pacific Online
reserves the right and has absolute discretion to restrict or remove
from its servers any Customer Material that violates this Agreement or
related policies or guidelines, or is otherwise objectionable or
potentially infringing on any third party's rights or potentially in
violation of any laws. If we become aware of any possible violation by
you of this Agreement, any related policies or guidelines, third party
rights or laws, Pacific Online may immediately take corrective action,
including, but not limited to, (a) issuing warnings, (b) suspending or
terminating the Service, (c) restricting or prohibiting any and all uses
of content hosted on Pacific Online's systems and (d) disabling or
removing any Customer Material including hypertext links to third-party
Web sites, any of your content distributed or made available for
distribution via the Services, or other content not supplied by Pacific
Online which, in Pacific Online's sole discretion, may violate or
infringe any law or third-party rights or which otherwise exposes or
potentially exposes Pacific Online to civil or criminal liability or
public ridicule. It is Pacific Online's policy to terminate repeat
infringers. Pacific Online's right to take corrective action, however,
does not obligate us to monitor or exert editorial control over the
information made available for distribution via the Services. If Pacific
Online takes corrective action due to such possible violation, Pacific
Online shall not be obligated to refund to you any fees paid in advance
of such corrective action.
3.3. Disclosure Rights. To comply
with applicable laws and lawful governmental requests, to protect
Pacific Online's systems and customers, or to ensure the integrity and
operation of Pacific Online's business and systems, Pacific Online may
access and disclose any information it considers necessary or
appropriate, including, without limitation, user profile information
(such as name, e-mail address), IP addressing and traffic information,
usage history, and content residing on Pacific Online's servers and
systems. Pacific Online also reserves the right to report any activity
that it suspects violates any law or regulation to appropriate law
enforcement officials, regulators, or other appropriate third parties.
4. Intellectual Property Rights
4.1. Grant to Pacific Online. You
hereby grant to Pacific Online a non-exclusive, worldwide and
royalty-free license for the initial term and any renewal term to use
the Customer Material as necessary for the purposes of rendering and
operating the Services to you under this Agreement. You expressly (a)
grant to Pacific Online a license to cache and make archival or back-up
copies of Customer Material including content supplied by third parties,
and (b) agree that such caching and making of copies is not an
infringement of any of your intellectual property rights or any third
party's intellectual property rights. Except for the rights expressly
granted above, Pacific Online is not acquiring any right, title or
interest in or to your Customer Material.
4.2. Pacific Online Materials and
Intellectual Property. All materials including but not limited to
any computer software (in object code and source code form) data or
information developed or provided by Pacific Online or its suppliers or
agents pursuant to this Agreement, and any know-how, methodologies,
equipment, or processes used by Pacific Online to provide the Services
to you including without limitation all copyrights, trademarks, patents,
trade secrets and other proprietary rights are and will remain the sole
and exclusive property of Pacific Online or its suppliers, including but
not limited to any software programs, inventions, products and
technology innovations and methodologies utilized, developed or
disclosed by Pacific Online during the term of this Agreement.
Unauthorized copying, reverse engineering, decompiling and creating
derivative works based on the any such software is expressly forbidden
except as permitted in this Agreement. You may be held legally
responsible for violation of any patent rights, copyright or trade
secret rights that is caused or encouraged by failure to abide by the
terms of this Agreement.
4.3. Trademarks. You hereby grant
to Pacific Online a limited right to use your trademarks, if any, for
the limited purpose of permitting Pacific Online to fulfill its duties
under this Agreement. This is not a trademark license and no other
rights relating to the trademarks are granted by this Agreement.
Specifically, but without limitation, the rights granted by this
Agreement do not include the right to sublicense use of your trademarks
or to use your trademarks with any other products or services outside
the scope of the Services provided under this Agreement. The limited
trademark use rights granted under this section terminate upon
termination of this Agreement.
5. Warranty; Warranty Disclaimer
5.1. Customer and Third Party Acts.
Pacific Online is not responsible in any manner for any nonconforming
Services to the extent caused by you or your customers. In addition,
Pacific Online is not responsible for loss or corruption of data in
transmission or for failure to send or receive data due to events beyond
Pacific Online's reasonable control.
5.2. No Express or Implied Warranty.
ALL SERVICES, SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTS PROVIDED BY PACIFIC ONLINE UNDER
THIS AGREEMENT ARE PROVIDED WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY IN
FACT OR IN LAW, WHATSOEVER. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT PACIFIC
ONLINE EXERCISES NO CONTROL OVER, AND ACCEPTS NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR, THE
CONTENT OF THE INFORMATION PASSING THROUGH PACIFIC ONLINE'S COMPUTERS,
NETWORK HUBS AND POINTS OF PRESENCE, OR THE INTERNET. PACIFIC ONLINE
DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE OPERATION OF THE SERVICES WILL BE
UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ANY OF YOUR DATA WILL NOT BE
IRRETREIVABLY LOST AND PERMANENTLY UNAVAILABLE TO YOU. ALL SERVICES
PERFORMED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT ARE PERFORMED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT
WARRANTY AGAINST FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY
FAILURE DUE TO COMPUTER HARDWARE OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS. EXCEPT AS
EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THIS AGREEMENT, PACIFIC ONLINE DOES NOT MAKE AND
HEREBY DISCLAIMS, AND YOU HEREBY WAIVE ALL RELIANCE ON, ANY
REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ARISING BY LAW OR OTHERWISE REGARDING THE
SERVICES INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR CONDITIONS OF
QUALITY, AND ANY WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO PATENT, COPYRIGHT,
TRADESECRET OR TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT.
5.3. Your Warranties and
Representations to Pacific Online. You warrant, represent, and
covenant to Pacific Online that (a) you are at least 18 years of age or
are a duly organized and validly existing entity; (b) you possess the
legal right and ability to enter into this Agreement; (c) you will use
the Services only for lawful purposes and in accordance with this
Agreement and all applicable policies and guidelines; (d) you will be
financially responsible for the use of your account; (e) you have
acquired or will acquire all authorizations necessary for all Customer
Material including hypertext links to third-party Web sites; (f) you
have verified or will verify the accuracy of all Customer Material
including without limitation any descriptive claims, warranties,
guarantees, nature of business and address where business is conducted,
and (g) your Customer Material does not and will not infringe or violate
any right of any third party (including any copyright, trade secret or
other rights of any description whatsoever) or violate any applicable
law, regulation or ordinance.
6. Limitation and Exclusion of Pacific
Online's Liability
6.1. Limitations. IN NO EVENT
SHALL PACIFIC ONLINE HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, OR
ALTERATION, THEFT, LOSS OR DESTRUCTION OF INFORMATION OR DATA
DISTRIBUTED OR MADE AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION VIA THE SERVICES THROUGH
ACCIDENT, FRAUDULENT MEANS OR DEVICES. PACIFIC ONLINE SHALL HAVE NO
LIABILITY UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR OTHERWISE FOR CONSEQUENTIAL,
EXEMPLARY, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, EVEN IF PACIFIC
ONLINE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN ANY
EVENT, THE LIABILITY OF PACIFIC ONLINE TO YOU FOR ANY REASON AND UPON
ANY CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT ACTUALLY PAID TO
PACIFIC ONLINE BY YOU UNDER THIS AGREEMENT DURING THE 90 DAYS
IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE ON WHICH SUCH CLAIM ACCRUED. THIS
LIMITATION APPLIES TO ALL CAUSES OF ACTION IN THE AGGREGATE, INCLUDING,
WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO BREACH OF CONTRACT, BREACH OF WARRANTY,
NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, MISREPRESENTATIONS, AND OTHER TORTS. THE
FEES FOR THE SERVICES SET BY PACIFIC ONLINE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT HAVE
BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE BASED UPON THIS ALLOCATION OF RISK.
ACCORDINGLY, YOU HEREBY RELEASE PACIFIC ONLINE FROM ANY AND ALL
OBLIGATIONS, LIABILITIES, AND CLAIM IN EXCESS OF THE LIMITATION STATED
IN THIS SECTION 6.1. BECAUSE SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE
EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL
DAMAGES, IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS, OUR LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW.
6.2. Interruption of Service. You
hereby acknowledge and agree that Pacific Online will not be liable for
any delay, outages or interruptions of the Services. Further, Pacific
Online shall not be liable for any delay or failure to perform its
obligations under this Agreement, where such delay or failure results
from any act of God or other cause beyond its reasonable control
(including, without limitation, any mechanical, electronic,
communications or third-party supplier failure).
6.3. Indemnification. You will
defend, indemnify and hold harmless Pacific Online and its officers,
directors, shareholders, employees, consultants, agents, affiliates and
suppliers (each, an "Indemnitee") from any and all threatened or actual
claims, demands, causes of action, suits, proceedings (formal or
informal), losses, damages, fines, penalties, liabilities, costs and
expenses of any nature, including reasonable attorneys' fees and court
costs, sustained or incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee by
any person, firm, corporation, governmental authority, partnership or
other entity by reason of or arising out of or relating to: (a) your
violation or breach of any term, condition, representation or warranty
of this Agreement or any applicable policy or guideline; (b) your
conduct, including but not limited to your negligence, gross negligence,
or wilful misconduct; (c) your improper or illegal use of the Services;
(d) any claim by a former employee of yours whose employment has been or
may be terminated in connection with or as a result of the execution of
this Agreement and performance of the Services by Pacific Online; or (e)
any claim relating to your Customer Material, services or products,
including but not limited to advertising, product liability claims or
infringement of any trademark, copyright, patent, trade secrets or
non-proprietary right of a third party (including, without limitation,
defamation, libel, or violation of privacy or publicity).
7. Miscellaneous
7.1. Confidentiality. The parties
each agree that all Confidential Information (as defined below)
communicated to it by the other is done so in confidence and will be
used only for the purposes of this Agreement and will not be used to
compete with the other party or disclosed to any third party without the
prior written consent of the other party except as permitted under this
Agreement. "Confidential Information" means all information in any form,
including, without limitation, printed or verbal communications and
information stored in printed, optical or electromagnetic format, which
relates to the Services; or computer, data processing or electronic
commerce programs and software; electronic data processing applications,
routines, subroutines, techniques or systems; information which
incorporates or is based upon proprietary information of either party;
or information concerning business or financial affairs, product
pricing, financial conditions or strategies, marketing, technical
systems of either party; or any information concerning customers or
vendors of either party; or any data exchange between a party and any
customers or vendors. Exceptions to Confidential Information include (a)
information in the public domain; (b) information developed
independently by a party without reference to information disclosed
under this Agreement; or (c) information received from a third party
without restriction and/or breach of this or a similar Agreement. It is
not a violation of this provision to disclose Confidential Information
in compliance with any legal, accounting or regulatory requirement
beyond the control of either Party or, but in such case, prior to
disclosure, the disclosing Party shall give written notice to the other
Party to permit that Party an opportunity to challenge such disclosure.
If either Party is subpoenaed, such Party shall give written notice to
the other Party to permit that Party an opportunity to challenge the
disclosure of Confidential Information. Upon the termination of this
Agreement and upon written request of the disclosing Party, each Party
shall promptly return all Confidential Information of the other Party.
This provision shall survive the termination of this Agreement for two
years.
7.2. Notices. All notices, reports, requests, or other
communications given pursuant to this Agreement shall be made in
writing, shall be delivered by hand delivery, overnight courier service,
fax, or electronic mail, shall be deemed to have been duly given when
delivered.
7.3. Choice of Law and Forum. THIS AGREEMENT, WILL BE GOVERNED BY
THE LAWS OF THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND THE FEDERAL LAWS OF
CANADA APPLICABLE THEREIN, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO RULES GOVERNING CHOICE
OF LAWS. ANY ACTION RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT MUST BE BROUGHT IN THE
COURTS OF THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA LOCATED IN VANCOUVER, BRITISH
COLUMBIA, AND YOU IRREVOCABLY CONSENT TO THE JURISDICTION OF SUCH
COURTS. THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE GOVERNED BY THE UNITED NATIONS
CONVENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SALE OF GOODS, THE
APPLICATION OF WHICH IS EXPRESSLY EXCLUDED.
7.4. Entire Agreement. This Agreement and all policies and
guidelines incorporated in this Agreement by reference constitutes the
entire Agreement of the parties and may not be modified or altered
orally but only by an agreement in writing signed by both parties.
7.5. No Fiduciary Relationship; No Third-Party Beneficiaries.
Pacific Online is not the agent, fiduciary, trustee or other
representative of you. Nothing expressed or mentioned in or implied from
this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give to any person
other than the parties hereto any legal or equitable right, remedy or
claim under or in respect to this Agreement. This Agreement and all of
the representations, warranties, covenants, conditions and provisions
hereof are intended to be and are for the sole and exclusive benefit of
the parties hereto.
7.6. Assignments. You may not transfer or assign your rights,
duties, or obligations under this Agreement without Pacific Online's
prior written consent. Pacific Online may assign its rights and
obligations under this Agreement and may utilize affiliate or agents in
performing its duties and exercising its rights under this Agreement,
without your consent. Subject to that restriction, this Agreement will
be binding on, inure to the benefit of and be enforceable against the
parties and their respective personal representatives, successors and
assignees.
7.7. No Waiver. Pacific Online's
failure to enforce the strict performance of any provision of this
Agreement will not constitute a waiver of Pacific Online's right to
subsequently enforce such provision or any other provisions under this
Agreement.
7.8. Severability. If any
provision of this Agreement is deemed illegal, invalid, void or
otherwise unenforceable in whole or in part, that provision shall be
severed or shall be enforced only to the extent legally permitted, and
the remainder of the provision and the Agreement shall remain in full
force and effect. If any provision of this Agreement is deemed to be
invalid, void or unenforceable only with respect to a particular
application, such term or provision shall remain in full force and
effect with respect to all other applications.
7.9. Survival. All provisions of
this Agreement relating to your warranties, intellectual property
rights, limitation and exclusion of liability, your indemnification
obligations and payment obligations shall survive the termination or
expiration of this Agreement.
7.10. Electronic Acceptance. You
agree that by clicking on the "I Accept" button during signup and
registering for and using the Services, you have read this Agreement and
agree to be bound by the terms and conditions contained herein as well
as the Pacific Online AUP.
Customer
Support: Acceptable Use Policy
Reliability of Information on the Web.
The fact that that no one party owns or controls the Internet
accounts for much of its openness and value, but it also places a high
premium on the judgment and responsibility of those who use the
Internet, both in the information they acquire and in the information
they disseminate to others. When customers obtain information through
the Internet, they must keep in mind that Pacific Online cannot monitor,
verify, warrant or vouch for the accuracy and quality of the information
that subscribers may acquire. For this reason, the subscriber must
exercise his or her best judgment in relying on information obtained
from the Internet, and also should be aware that some material posted to
the Internet is sexually explicit or otherwise offensive. Because
Pacific Online cannot monitor or censor websites, and will not attempt
to do so, Pacific Online cannot accept any responsibility for injury to
subscribers that results from inaccurate, unsuitable, offensive or
illegal Internet communications
User's Responsibilities. When
subscribers disseminate information through the Internet, they also must
keep in mind that Pacific Online does not review, edit, censor or take
responsibility for any information its subscribers may create. When
users place information on the Internet, they have the same liability as
other authors for copyright infringement, defamation, and other harmful
speech. Also, because the information they create is carried over
Pacific Online's network and may reach a large number of people,
including both subscribers and nonsubscribers of Pacific Online,
subscribers' postings to the Internet may affect other subscribers and
may harm Pacific Online's goodwill, business reputation, and operations.
For these reasons, subscribers violate Pacific Online policy and the
terms of service agreement when they, their customers, affiliates, or
subsidiaries engage in the following prohibited activities:
- Spamming. Sending unsolicited
bulk and/or commercial messages over the Internet (known as
"spamming"). It is not only harmful because of its negative impact
on consumer attitudes toward Pacific Online, but also because it can
overload Pacific Online's network and disrupt service to Pacific
Online subscribers. Also, maintaining an open SMTP relay is
prohibited. When a complaint is received, Pacific Online has the
discretion to determine from all of the evidence whether the email
recipients were from an "opt-in" email list.
- Intellectual Property Violations.
Engaging in any activity that infringes or misappropriates the
intellectual property rights of others, including copyrights,
trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, software piracy, and
patents held by any third party, or engaging in activity that
violates privacy, publicity, or other personal rights of others.
Pacific Online is required by law to remove or block access to
customer content upon receipt of a proper notice of copyright
infringement. It is also Pacific Online's policy to terminate the
privileges of customers who commit repeat violations of copyright
laws.
- Obscene Speech or Materials.
Using Pacific Online's network to advertise, transmit, store, post,
display or otherwise make available any speech or material that is,
under law, pornographic or obscene. Pacific Online is required by
law to notify law enforcement agencies when it becomes aware of the
presence of child pornography on or being transmitted through
Pacific Online's network.
- Defamatory or Abusive Language.
Using Pacific Online's network as a means to transmit or post
defamatory, harassing, abusive, or threatening language.
Forging of Headers. Forging or misrepresenting message headers,
whether in whole or in part, to mask the originator of the message.
- Illegal or Unauthorized Access to
Other Computers or Networks. Accessing illegally or without
authorization computers, accounts, or networks belonging to another
party, or attempting to penetrate security measures of another
individual's system (often known as "hacking"). Also, any activity
that might be used as a precursor to an attempted system penetration
(i.e. port scan, stealth scan, or other information gathering
activity).
- Distribution of Internet Viruses,
Worms, Trojan Horses, or Other Destructive Activities.
Distributing information regarding the creation of and sending
Internet viruses, worms, Trojan horses, pinging, flooding, mail
bombing, or denial of service attacks. Also, activities that disrupt
the use of or interfere with the ability of others to effectively
use the network or any connected network, system, service, or
equipment.
- Facilitating a Violation of this
AUP. Advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available
any software, program, product, or service that is designed to
violate this AUP or the AUP of any other Internet Service Provider,
which includes the facilitation of the means to spam, unsolicited
bulk or consumer email, initiation of pinging, flooding, mail
bombing, denial of service attacks and piracy of software.
Export Control Violations. Exporting encryption software over the
Internet or otherwise, to points outside the United States.
- Usenet Groups. Pacific Online
reserves the right not to accept postings from newsgroups where we
have actual knowledge that the content of the newsgroup violates the
AUP.
- Other Illegal Activities.
Engaging in activities that are determined to be illegal, including
advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available ponzi
schemes, pyramid schemes, fraudulently charging credit cards, and
pirating software.
- Other Activities. Engaging in
activities, whether lawful or unlawful, that Pacific Online
determines to be harmful to its subscribers, operations, reputation,
goodwill, or customer relations.
The primary responsibility for avoiding
the harmful activities just described rests with you. Pacific Online
will not, as an ordinary practice, monitor the communications of its
subscribers to ensure that they comply with Pacific Online policy or
applicable law. When Pacific Online becomes aware of harmful activities,
however, it may take any action to stop the harmful activity, including
but not limited to, removing information, shutting down a web site,
implementing screening software designed to block offending
transmissions, denying access to the Internet, or take any other action
it deems appropriate. |