ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
This Acceptable Use Policy document, including the following list of Prohibited
Activities, is an integral part of your Hosting Agreement with Abinko. If you engage
in any of the activities prohibited by this AUP document Abinko may suspend or terminate
your account.
Abinko's Acceptable Use Policy (the "Policy") for Abinko Services is designed to
help protect Abinko, Abinko's customers and the Internet community in general from
irresponsible or, in some cases, illegal activities. The Policy is a non-exclusive
list of the actions prohibited by Abinko. Abinko reserves the right to modify the
Policy at any time, effective upon posting at
http://www.abinko.com/legal/aup.aspx
Prohibited Uses of Abinko Systems and Services:
1. Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable
law or regulation is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, material protected
by copyright, 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.
2. Sending Unsolicited Bulk Email ("UBE", "spam"). The sending of any form of Unsolicited
Bulk Email through Abinko's servers is prohibited. Likewise, the sending of UBE
from another service provider advertizing a web site, email address or utilizing
any resource hosted on Abinko's servers, is prohibited. Abinko accounts or services
may not be used to solicit customers from, or collect replies to, messages sent
from another Internet Service Provider where those messages violate this Policy
or that of the other provider.
3. Running Unconfirmed Mailing Lists. Subscribing email addresses to any mailing
list without the express and verifiable permission of the email address owner is
prohibited. All mailing lists run by Abinko customers must be Closed-loop ("Confirmed
Opt-in"). The subscription confirmation message received from each address owner
must be kept on file for the duration of the existence of the mailing list. Purchasing
lists of email addresses from 3rd parties for mailing to from any Abinko-hosted
domain, or referencing any Abinko account, is prohibited.
4. 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, but is not limited to, the facilitation
of the means to send Unsolicited Bulk Email, initiation of pinging, flooding, mail-bombing,
denial of service attacks.
5. Operating an account on behalf of, or in connection with, or reselling any service
to, persons or firms listed in the Spamhaus Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO)
database at www.spamhaus.org.
6. Unauthorized attempts by a user to gain access to any account or computer resource
not belonging to that user (e.g., "cracking").
7. Obtaining or attempting to obtain service by any means or device with intent
to avoid payment.
8. Unauthorized access, alteration, destruction, or any attempt thereof, of any
information of any Abinko customers or end-users by any means or device.
9. Knowingly engage in any activities designed to harass, or that will cause a denial-of-service
(e.g., synchronized number sequence attacks) to any other user whether on the Abinko
network or on another provider's network.
10. Engaging in activities, whether lawful or unlawful, that Abinko determines to be harmful to its subscribers, operations, reputation, goodwill, or customer relations.
Customer Responsibility for Customer's Users
Each Abinko customer is responsible for the activities of its users and, by accepting
service from Abinko, is agreeing to ensure that its customers/representatives or
end-users abide by this Policy. Complaints about customers/representatives or end-users
of an Abinko customer will be forwarded to the Abinko customer's postmaster for
action. If violations of the Abinko Acceptable Use Policy occur, Abinko reserves
the right to terminate services with or take action to stop the offending customer
from violating Abinko's AUP as Abinko deems appropriate, without notice.