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Hosting Acceptable Use Policy
PageKeeper Service Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
Important Note: This document is updated often. Please make a habit of reviewing it
from time to time to stay abreast of acceptable as well as inappropriate uses of
your PageKeeper Service Hosting account. PageKeeper Service is not required to send
notifications when this page is updated.

Reports of activity in violation of this policy may be sent via form at:
http://www.pagekeeperservice.com/contact.html

When you open your PageKeeper Service account, you join two communities. First is
the community formed by our network and our customers: the second community is the
one made up of all Hosting and users connected to each other to form the Internet.
Becoming a member of these communities gives you certain rights and privileges, but
also imposes certain duties and responsibilities. PageKeeper Service has established
an Acceptable Use Policy in order to make these duties and responsibilities more
clear. This document is intended to provide a general understanding of PageKeeper
Service's Acceptable Use Policy. The following factors guide the establishment and
enforcement of PageKeeper Service's usage policies:

- Ensure reliable service to our customers
- Ensure security and privacy of our systems and network, as well as the hosting
  and systems of others
- Comply with existing laws
- Maintain our reputation as a responsible service provider
- Encourage responsible use of the Internet and discourage activities which reduce
  the usability and value of Internet services
- Preserve the value of Internet resources as a conduit for free expression and
  exchange of information
- Preserve the privacy and security of individual users

PageKeeper Service intends to provide its customers access to everything the
Internet has to offer. While PageKeeper Service is firmly committed to the
principles of free speech, certain activities are damaging to the resources of both
PageKeeper Service and the Internet and cannot be permitted under the guise of free
speech. The resources of PageKeeper Service and the Internet are limited, and abuse
of these resources by one user has a negative impact on the entire community.

If a PageKeeper Service account is used to violate the Acceptable Use Policy, we
reserve the right to terminate or suspend your service without notice and you agree
to indemnify PageKeeper Service and its affiliates against any claims threatened or
brought by third parties as a result of your violation of this Acceptable Use
Policy and/or the content of your website. We prefer to advise customers of
inappropriate behavior and any necessary corrective action. However, violations of
the Acceptable Use Policy will result in immediate termination or suspension of
service. Our failure to enforce this policy, for whatever reason, shall not be
construed as a waiver of our right to do so at any time.

If you have any questions regarding this policy, please contact us at
http://www.pagekeeperservice.com/contact.html


General Information

PageKeeper Service customers are prohibited from transmitting on or through any of
PageKeeper Service's services, any material that is, in PageKeeper Service's sole
discretion, unlawful, obscene, threatening, abusive, defamatory, libelous, or
encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil
liability, or otherwise violate any local, state, federal or international law.

In general, you may NOT use your PageKeeper Service account:

In a manner which violates any law, regulation, treaty or tariff:
In a manner which violates the rules, regulations and policies of any network,
server, web site, database or service provider that you access through your
PageKeeper Service account:
In a manner which is defamatory, fraudulent, indecent, offensive or deceptive:
To threaten, harass, abuse or intimidate others:
To damage the name or reputation of PageKeeper Service , its' parent, affiliates
and subsidiaries:
To break security on any computer network, or to access an account which does not
belong to you: or
In a manner which interferes with other customers' use and enjoyment of the
services provided by PageKeeper Service .

PageKeeper Service's services may only be used for lawful purposes. Transmission,
distribution, or storage of any information, data or material in violation of
United States or state regulation or law, or by the common law, is prohibited. This
includes, but is not limited to, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade
secret, or any other statute. PageKeeper Service reserves the right to remove such
illegal material from its servers or to immediately terminate your services without
notice.

The customer is responsible for keeping billing data with PageKeeper Service
up-to-date and accurate. Furnishing false data on any contract or application,
including fraudulent use of credit card numbers, is grounds for immediate
termination, and may subject the offender to civil or criminal liability.

PageKeeper Service reserves sole discretion to determine whether any use of the
service is a violation of this policy. Guidelines for using your account follow.
This information is only a guideline, and is not intended to be all-inclusive.


Electronic Mail

Certain PageKeeper Service accounts give you the ability to send and receive
electronic mail. PageKeeper Service maintains a ZERO tolerance policy in regards to
SPAM. We do not tolerate SPAM mailings and any account that is used to send such
will be terminated without notice. Any account terminated for SPAM is subject to a
$500 administration fee, this fee will be charged directly to the credit card on
file. In addition any losses incurred by PageKeeper Service because of such will be
the direct responsibility of the account holder.

You may not use your account to send unsolicited bulk or commercial messages
("SPAM"). This includes, but is not limited to, bulk mailing of commercial
advertising, informational announcements, charity requests, petitions for
signatures, and political or religious tracts. Such messages may only be sent to
those who have explicitly requested it.

You may not use your account to collect responses from unsolicited bulk or
commercial e-mail sent from accounts with other providers. Forging, altering or
removing electronic mail headers is prohibited. You may not send numerous copies of
the same or substantially similar message, nor may you send very large messages or
files to a recipient, with the intent to disrupt a server or account
("mail bombing"). You may not use electronic mail to harass or intimidate others.
Harassment, whether through language, frequency of messages, or size of messages,
is prohibited. Sending a single unwelcome message may be considered harassment. If
a recipient asks to stop receiving e-mail, you must not send that person any
further messages. You may not forward or otherwise propagate chain letters, whether
or not such messages solicit money or other items of value, and whether or not the
recipient wishes to receive such mailings.

PageKeeper Service accounts may not be used to collect replies to messages sent
from another Internet service provider if those messages violate this Acceptable
Use Policy or the acceptable use policy of the other service provider.

If you use the services of another provider to promote a web site hosted by or
through PageKeeper Service, then the provisions of this Acceptable Use Policy shall
apply to the methods used to promote such site.


Web Sites

PageKeeper Service provides storage space and access for web sites through its Web
services. PageKeeper Service will not routinely monitor the contents of your web
sites. You may only host one domain per virtual account.

You are solely responsible for any information contained on your web site. However,
if complaints are received regarding language, content or graphics contained on
your web site, PageKeeper Service may, at its sole discretion, remove the web site
hosted on PageKeeper Service servers and terminate your Web service. You agree to
promptly reimburse PageKeeper Service for any reasonable expenses it incurs
(including attorney's fees) in defending itself form third party claims relating to
any of the content (whether created by you, your customers or your users) contained
on your website.

You may not use your web site to publish material which PageKeeper Service
determines, at its sole discretion, to be unlawful, indecent or objectionable. For
purposes of this policy, "material" refers to all forms of communications including
narrative descriptions, graphics (including photographs, illustrations, images,
drawings, logos), executable programs, video recordings, and audio recordings.

Unlawful content is that which violates any law, statute, treaty, regulation, or
lawful order. This includes, but is not limited to: obscene material: defamatory,
fraudulent or deceptive statements: threatening, intimidating or harassing
statements, or material which violates the privacy rights or property rights of
others (copyrights or trademarks, are examples).

Indecent content is that which depicts sexual or excretory activities in a patently
offensive matter as measured by contemporary community standards. Objectionable
content is otherwise legal content with which PageKeeper Service concludes, in its
sole discretion, it does not want to be associated in order to protect its
reputation and brand image, or to protect its employees, shareholders and
affiliates.

You may not conduct hostee or offer free web hosting to people based on your
subdomains.

Examples of prohibited web site content:

Material which encourages the commission of a crime: or which tends to incite
violence: or which tends to degrade any person or group based on sex, nationality,
religion, color, age, marital status, sexual orientation, disability or political
affiliation.


Security

You are responsible for any misuse of your account, even if the inappropriate
activity was committed by a friend, family member, guest, visitor or employee.
Therefore, you must take steps to ensure that others do not gain access to your
account. In addition, you may not use your account to breach security of another
account or attempt to gain unauthorized access to another network or server.

Denial of Services, DDoS, Smurf and other service attacks started against your web
site will effect the entire population of the PageKeeper Service Network, therefore
your site will be subject to immediate termination of your account.

You must adopt adequate security measures to prevent or minimize unauthorized use
of your account.

You may not attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of any host,
network or account ("cracking"). This includes, but is not limited to, accessing
data not intended for you, logging into or making use of a server or account you
are not expressly authorized to access, or probing the security of other Hosting.
Use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security is prohibited.
Examples of these tools include, but are not limited to, password guessing
programs, cracking tools or network probing tools.

You may not host within your account files used to hack, crack, decode or generate
keys.

You may not attempt to interfere with service to any user, host, or network
("denial of service attacks"). This includes, but is not limited to, "flooding" of
Hosting, deliberate attempts to overload a service, and attempts to "crash" a host.

Users who violate systems or network security may incur criminal or civil
liability. PageKeeper 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.


Network Management

You are responsible for ensuring that the services obtained from PageKeeper Service
are used in an appropriate manner by your customers and users. Therefore, you must
take steps to manage the use of the services obtained from PageKeeper Service in
such a way that network abuse is minimized. You must also make information publicly
available about how to contact you, and you must respond in a timely manner to
complaints concerning misuse of the services obtained from PageKeeper Service.
Failure to responsibly manage the use of the services obtained from PageKeeper
Service may be cause for termination of services to you.

You must designate one or more individuals ("Contacts") to be responsible for every
host, IP network or subnet connected to the Internet through the use of the
services. You must provide Contact names, phone numbers, and postal and e-mail
addresses ("Contact Information") to any and all appropriate Domain Name Registrars
prior to the initial network connection of your service. You must keep Contact
Information updated and accurate at all times. Changes in the Contact Information
must be sent to the appropriate Domain Name Registrars in a timely manner. Contacts
must have the authority, access and tools necessary to configure, operate and
control access to your systems.

For important timesharing hosts, primary domain name servers and mail relays or
gateways, Contacts must be accessible to PageKeeper Service via telephone 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week. Every customer who allows third party access to the services
provided by PageKeeper Service , weather such third parties are employees, users or
customers, must maintain a postmaster address for the receipt of complaints by
e-mail. Messages delivered to the postmaster address must be reviewed and handled
in a timely manner.


Network Performance

PageKeeper Service accounts operate on shared resources. Excessive use or abuse of
these shared network resources by one customer may have a negative impact on all
other customers. Misuse of network resources in a manner which impairs network
performance is prohibited by this policy and may result in termination or
suspension of your account without notice.

You are prohibited from excessive consumption of resources, including CPU time,
memory, disk space and session time. You may not use resource-intensive programs
which negatively impact other customers or the performance of PageKeeper Service
systems or Hosting. PageKeeper Service reserves the right to terminate or limit
such activities.

Denial of Services, DDoS, Smurf and other service attacks started against your web
site will effect the entire population of the PageKeeper Service network, therefore
your site will be subject to immediate termination of your account.



Internet Relay Chat

You may not use IRC scripts or programs that interfere with or deny service to
other users on any other server, host, network or channel.

IRC BOTS ARE PROHIBITED

You may not engage in activities which harass other users. This includes, but is
not limited to, "flooding" (rapidly entering text with the intent to disrupt
service), "flashing" (disrupting terminal emulation), "takeovers" (improper seizing
and abuse of operator privileges), attempting to send private messages to those who
do not wish to receive them, attempting to return to a channel after being banned
from it, and other disruptive behaviors.

You may not attempt to impersonate other users. The use of nicknames does not
constitute impersonation. You may run "clones" (multiple simultaneous IRC
connections) and "robots" only as permitted by the host IRC server.

Illegal Activity

Any activity on our network that is a violation of any state or federal law is a
violation of this policy and will result in immediate termination of service.

Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to:

Transmitting obscene materials or child pornography
Intentionally spreading or threatening to spread computer viruses
Gaining or attempting to gain unauthorized access to any network, including
PageKeeper Service's private network infrastructure
Accessing or attempting to access information not intended for you
Transmitting pirated software
Conducting or participating in illegal gambling
Soliciting for pyramid and other illegal schemes

PageKeeper Service does not permit any site that contains: (i) images (including on
banner ads) of nude models that appear to be under the age of 21 (in PageKeeper
Service's sole judgment), (ii) sexually explicit images (including on banner ads)
of models that appear to be under the age of 21 (in PageKeeper Service's sole
judgment): or (iii) sites containing language promoting child pornography together
with any sexually explicit or nude images. As required by federal law in the United
States, PageKeeper Service will report all offenders of this policy to the
appropriate federal agency.


Privacy Statement

PageKeeper Service has a policy to respect and protect the privacy of its customers
and their information that is stored with PageKeeper Service. PageKeeper Service
will only access and disclose information as necessary to comply with applicable
laws and government requests, to provide the PageKeeper Service Services, to
operate or maintain its systems or to protect itself or its customers.

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