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Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation without notice. Diamond Internet Solutions will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of any of these provisions. Activity which results in the suspension or deactivation of an account will result in a forfeiture of all fees paid. Complaints made regarding abuses of an account will be investigated and if found guilty will be grounds for immediate suspension. To report suspected abuses or any violations of these policies, please contact abuse [at] RightDNS.com Illegal Usage Diamond Internet Solutions servers may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or distribution of any information, data or material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property right used without proper authorization, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws. Examples of non-acceptable content or links: Pirated software, Hackers programs or archives, Warez sites, MP3, and IRC bots. The subscriber to Diamond Internet Solutions service agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Diamond Internet Solutions from any claims resulting from the use of the service that damages the subscriber or any other party. Diamond Internet Solutions will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. Adult Content Due to special system and network requirements of adult oriented sites, pornography and sex-related merchandising are prohibited. This includes sites that may infer sexual content, or links to adult content elsewhere. This is also true for sites that promote any illegal activity or content that may be damaging to our servers or any other server on the Internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited. Security Violations of system or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability. Examples include, but are not limited to the following: Unauthorized access, use, probe, or scan of a systems security or authentication measures, data or traffic. Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks. Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting. Server Resource Any website that uses a high amount of server resources (such as, but not limited to, CPU time, memory usage, and network resources) will be given an option of either paying extra (which depends on the resource needed) or reducing the resource used to an acceptable level. Diamond Internet Solutions shall be the sole arbiter of what is considered to be a high server usage level. Any hosting account deemed to be adversely affecting the server performance or the network integrity will be shut down without prior notice. Chat Rooms Diamond Internet Solutions does not allow clients to install their own chat rooms. Chat rooms tend to be large system hogs and we cannot permit it as an account option. Diamond Internet Solutions does provide a choice of Java chatrooms which should meet most users' needs and run without hindering the performance of the machine of our servers. Background Running Programs and Cron Jobs Diamond Internet Solutions does not allow background Daemons such as IRC bots; eggdrop; BitchX; XiRCON; and any other program that interferes with normal server operation. IRC Diamond Internet Solutions does not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers. Backups Diamond Internet Solutions performs weekly backups on all servers to ensure critical files are never lost. However Diamond Internet Solutions is NOT responsible for lost data, time, income or any other resource due to faulty backups or non-existant backups. Client Responsibility The client is responsible for all activity originating from the account unless proven to be a victim of outside hacking or address forgery. The client is responsible for securing their username/password. The client assumes responsibility for all material on their site that may be put on by a third party (such as the usage of Free For All links pages). Use of Diamond Internet Solutions's service 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 the web space by the client. The following examples are offered: Web Publishing: requires knowledge of HTML, properly locating and linking documents, FTPing Web contents, Graphics, text, sound, image mapping, etc. FrontPage web publishing: knowledge of the FrontPage tools as well as Telnet and FTP understanding and capability. CGI-Scripts: requires a knowledge of the UNIX environment, TAR & GUNZIP commands, Perl, CShell scripts, permissions, etc. Mail: a use of mail clients to receive and send mail, etc. The client agrees that he or she has the necessary knowledge to create and maintain their web space. Client agrees that it is not the responsibility of Diamond Internet Solutions to provide this knowledge or support outside matter specific to Diamond Internet Solutions servers. UCE (Unsolicited Commerce Email) - SPAM Spamming, or the sending of mass unsolicited email,
from or through a Diamond Internet Solutions server or using an
email address that is maintained on a Diamond Internet Solutions
machine is STRICTLY prohibited. Diamond Internet Solutions will be
the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of
this provision. If you engage in any of the foregoing
activities using the service of another ISP or IPP, but
channeling activities through a Diamond Internet Solutions server
as a maildrop for responses, you are in violation.
Violators will be assessed a minimum of $500.00 fine and
will face an immediate suspension. Server abuse Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a Diamond Internet Solutions server or customer of Diamond Internet Solutions is strictly prohibited. Any sub-networks of Diamond Internet Solutions and dedicated servers must adhere to the above policies. The failure to meet or follow any of the above guidelines are grounds for account deactivation. We reserve the right to remove any account without prior notice. Software Distribution Diamond Internet Solutions's shared Web Hosting accounts are not to be used for the purposes of distributing software and multimedia products. If you wish to distribute software and/or multimedia files, please contact admin [at] RightDNS.com for special arrangement. Multimedia Files Multimedia files are defined as any graphics, audio, and video files. Diamond Internet Solutions Web Hosting accounts are not to be used for the purposes of distributing and storing unusual amount of multimedia files. Any Web site whose disk space usage for storing the multimedia files exceed 70% of its total usage, either in terms of total size or number of files, will be deemed to be using unusual amount of multimedia files. Actions Taken by Diamond Internet Solutions The failure by a customer to meet or follow any of the above policies/terms is grounds for account deactivation. Diamond Internet Solutions will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of the AUP. Diamond Internet Solutions reserves the right to remove any account without prior notice. When Diamond Internet Solutions becomes aware of an alleged violation of its AUP, Diamond Internet Solutions will initiate an investigation. During the investigation, Diamond Internet Solutions may restrict a customer's access in order to prevent further potentially unauthorized activity. Depending on the severity of the violation, Diamond Internet Solutions may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend, or terminate a customer's web hosting account and/or pursue other civil remedies. If such violation is a criminal offense, Diamond Internet Solutions will notify the appropriate law enforcement authorities of such violation. Diamond Internet Solutions does not issue credits for outages incurred through service disablement resulting from AUP violations. Diamond Internet Solutions customers agree to indemnify and hold harmless Diamond Internet Solutions from any claims resulting from the use of our services that damages them or any other party. The Diamond Internet Solutions service is provided on an as is, as available basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Diamond Internet Solutions expressly disclaims any representation or warranty that the Diamond Internet Solutions service will be error-free, secure or uninterrupted. No oral advice or written information given by Diamond Internet Solutions, its employees, licensors or the like, will create a warranty; nor may you rely on any such information or advice. Diamond Internet Solutions and its partners and suppliers will not be liable for any cost or damage arising either directly or indirectly from any transaction or use of the service. Modification Diamond Internet Solutions reserves the right to add, delete, or modify any provision of this Policy at any time without notice.
We reserve the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend
service at our sole discretion.
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