Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
HDI Webmedia provides Internet World Wide Web page Hosting, and Dedicated Servers. HDI Webmedia has certain legal and ethical responsibilities consisting with the use of its server and equipment involved in these services.
HDI Webmedia's general policy is to act as a provider of Internet presence. We have specific ethical concerns regarding the use of our computers detailed below. HDI Webmedia reserves the right to suspend or cancel a customer's access to any or all services provided by us when we decide that the account has been inappropriately used.
Server Abuse
Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server, or customer, of HDI Webmedia is strictly prohibited.
HDI Webmedia will strongly react to any use or attempted use of an Internet account or computer without the owner's authorization. Such attempts include "Internet scamming" (tricking other people into releasing their passwords), password robbery, security hole scanning etc.
Any unauthorized use of accounts or computers by a HDI Webmedia customer, whether or not the attacked account or computer belongs to us, will result in action against the attacker. Possible actions include warnings, account suspension or cancellation, and civil or criminal legal action, depending on the seriousness of the attack
IMPORTANT NOTE - HDI Webmedia has the right to discontinue service, or deny access to anyone who violates our Policies or the terms and conditions shown below WITHOUT WARNING OR PRIOR NOTICE. No refunds of fees paid will be made if account termination is due to violation of the terms outlined below.
Customers may not run IRC, bots or clients. Unacceptable uses also include, but are NOT limited to: Bulk emailing, unsolicited emailings, newsgroup spamming, pornographic content (except where specified), illegal content, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, warez, cracks, software serial numbers, and/or anything else determined by us to be unacceptable use of our services including abuse of server resources.
Accounts may be terminated that include the following content or which have links to the following content:
- Providing material that is grossly offensive to the Web community including blatant expressions of bigotry, racism, hatred, or profanity
- Promoting or providing instructional information about illegal activities, or promoting physical harm or injury against any group or individual.
- Displaying material containing obscene nudity or pornographic material (except where specified).
- Displaying material that exploits children under 18 years of age.
- Acts of copyright infringement including offering pirated computer programs or links to such programs, information used to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, including serial or registration numbers for software programs, or any type of cracker utilities
Abuse of Unlimited Traffic
Some of our customers are privileged to be offered unlimited traffic for their web sites. The intention of this is to provide a large space to serve web documents, not an off site storage area for electronic files. All (90%) of your web pages (html) must be 'linked' with files (.GIF, .JPEG, etc.) stored on our servers. Web sites that are found to contain either/or no html documents, a large number of unlinked files are subject to warning, suspension or cancellation at the discretion of the HDI Webmedia management team. Any customer who violates these Policies in abusing either space/site transfer will be notified and given 2 days to remedy the problem. If the problem is not resolved within the allotted period, the client will be billed for the overages.
To maintain the integrity of our service the following limitations apply:
Sites with banners, graphics or cgi scripts running from their domain used on other domains. Sites with picture galleries (This is any site where 50% of the files transferred is graphics) Sites offering download files or archives. (This is any site where 50% or more of there monthly traffic is from file downloads). Sites using more than 30% of system resources for longer than 60 seconds. Sites running multimedia files (QuickTime, Real Audio, Real Video, MP3).
For those that do not qualify for the unlimited service, traffic will go unmonitored until you reach monthly limit. Thereafter, normal data transfer cost of $2.00/1GB/month will be billed to your account. If you do not pay for your overages your site will be disabled within 7 days of your first notice.
HDI Webmedia will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.
Unsolicited Email (Spam)
Unsolicited commercial advertisements are not allowed in e-mail, and will likely result in account suspension or cancellation. Commercial advertisements are unwelcome in most Usenet discussion groups and on most e-mail mailing lists. Inappropriate posting may result in account suspension or cancellation. See the newsgroup or mailing list's charter for whether advertising is allowed or not. "Spamming," or sending a message to many different off-topic newsgroups, is particularly unethical and will be treated as such. Sending a message, especially an advertisement, to more than five or six recipients, is by itself spamming unless the individuals have specifically requested to be added to a mailing list on that topic. E-mail is a person-to-person medium, not a broadcast medium. Upon your first Spam offense your mail will be disabled for 72 hours. Upon your second Spam offense your entire domain will be disabled for 72 hours and you will be fined $100.00 per sent Spam. Upon your third offense your account with HDI Webmedia will be terminated, you will be fined $200.00 per sent Spam. No refunds will be given if your account is terminated for Spam.
CGI Scripts
Each account comes with its own cgi-bin. You are free to use any CGI scripts you wish, however we reserve the right to disable any CGI script that effects normal server operation without prior warning. You must create a folder called "cgi-bin" it will not automatically show on the server in your new account.
Chat Rooms
We do not allow clients to install their own chat rooms, without approving it with the HDI Webmedia Support Team. Most chat rooms tend to be large system hogs and we cannot allow it as an account option. However, we do provide a choice of Java chat rooms for a small extra charge that will more than fill your needs and run without hindering the performance of the machine for others. Note: Parachat chat rooms do not apply to this rule. They are perfectly fine to install.
Abuse of SMTP Mail Server
We do not allow clients to send more than 2000 pieces of e-mail per day. If you do send more than 2000 pieces of e-mail per day, your account will be placed on hold for Network Abuse. If you are sending legitimate e-mails and they total more than 2000 per day your account will be moved to a special server that is specifically designed to handle high volumes of e-mail. You will be charged $75.00/month in addition to your regular hosting charges if your account is moved to this server. Please contact Web@CrazyHosting.net to have your domain moved.
Background Running Programs
We may allow programs to run continually in the background. These are considered on a one-to-one basis and an extra charge will be incurred based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed.
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
We currently do not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers.
Payment Policies
All accounts are set up on a pre-pay basis. Setup fees are charged for all new dedicated servers and major account changes and are nonrefundable. HDI Webmedia.com reserves the right to change prices at any time, unless other terms have been agreed upon. Any account not brought current within a week (7 days) of e-mail notice or exceeding this time frame in any way is subject to suspension. The customer is responsible for all money owed on the account from the time it was established to the time that the customer notifies us of a request for termination of services. All payment is in U.S. currency. We will bill each client $25 per returned check.
Cancellation
HDI Webmedia reserves the right to cancel service at any time. All fees paid in advance of cancellation will be prorated and paid by HDI Webmedia if HDI Webmedia institutes it's right of cancellation. Any violation of policies which results in extra costs will be billed to the customer (i.e. transfer, space etc.)
All of our web hosting plans are backed by a 30 day money back guarantee. If you are not completely satisfied with our services or support within the first 30 days of your contract, you will be given a full refund of the contract amount excluding setup fees and overages. Setup fees are refundable only if the account order is canceled prior to activation. For web hosting contracts of 3 months or less, the full contract amount less any setup fees and overages will be refunded if HDI Webmedia is notified within the first 15 days following activation. No refund is available after the 30th day. This policy does not apply to any additional services such as overages, referrer logs, real audio/video, additional disk space, additional pop accounts, etc. Due to security concerns, all account cancellations must be done via our control panel. Phone or email requests will not constitute acceptance of any cancellation. Refunds will be made by company check or issued back to your credit card within 45 days of receipt of cancellation.
Lawful Purpose
HDI Webmedia reserves the right to refuse service to anyone. Customers may only use our services for lawful purpose. Transmission of any material in violation of any Federal, State or Local regulation is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to copyrighted material, material legally judged to be threatening or obscene, and material protected by trade secrets. The designation of any materials as such described above is left entirely to the discretion of the EZ Network Solutions management team. Regardless of the place of signing this agreement, the client agrees that for purposes of venue this contract was entered into in Baltimore County, Maryland, and any dispute will be litigated or arbitrated in Baltimore County, Maryland..
Indemnification
CUSTOMER AGREES THAT IT SHALL DEFEND, INDEMNIFY, SAVE AND HOLD EZ Network Solutions HARMLESS FROM ANY AND ALL DEMANDS, LIABILITIES, LOSSES, COSTS AND CLAIMS, INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEY'S FEES ASSERTED AGAINST HDI Webmedia, ITS AGENTS, ITS CUSTOMERS, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES, THAT MAY ARISE OR RESULT FROM ANY SERVICE PROVIDED OR PERFORMED OR AGREED TO BE PERFORMED OR ANY PRODUCT SOLD BY CUSTOMER, IT'S AGENTS, EMPLOYEES OR ASSIGNS. CUSTOMER AGREES TO DEFEND, INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS HDI Webmedia AGAINST LIABILITIES ARISING OUT OF; (1) ANY INJURY TO PERSON OR PROPERTY CAUSED BY ANY PRODUCTS SOLD OR OTHERWISE DISTRIBUTED IN CONNECTION WITH HDI Webmedia'S SERVER; (2) ANY MATERIAL SUPPLIED BY CUSTOMER INFRINGING OR ALLEGEDLY INFRINGING ON THE PROPRIETARY RIGHTS OF A THIRD PARTY; ( 3) COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT AND (4) ANY DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS SOLD TO CUSTOMER FROM EZ Network Solutions'S SERVER.
Disclaimer
HDI Webmedia WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES YOUR BUSINESS MAY SUFFER. HDI Webmedia MAKES NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED FOR SERVICES WE PROVIDE. NETEZYTE.COM DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY OR MERCHANT ABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THIS INCLUDES LOSS OF DATA RESULTING FROM DELAYS, NON-DELIVERIES, WRONG DELIVERY, AND ANY AND ALL SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS CAUSED BY NETEZYTE.COM AND ITS EMPLOYEES. NETEZYTE.COM RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REVISE ITS POLICIES AT ANY TIME. ALL SUB-NETWORKS, RESELLERS AND DEDICATED SERVERS OF NETEZYTE.COM MUST ADHERE TO THE ABOVE POLICIES. FAILURE TO FOLLOW ANY TERM OR CONDITION WILL BE GROUNDS FOR IMMEDIATE ACCOUNT DEACTIVATION.
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