Acceptible Use policy

This Acceptable Use Policy document, including the following list of Prohibited Activities, is an integral part of your Hosting Agreement with ComputerMN.com. If you engage in any of the activities prohibited by this AUP document ComputerMN.com may suspend or terminate your account.

ComputerMN.com's Acceptable Use Policy (the "Policy") for ComputerMN.com Services is designed to help protect ComputerMN.com, ComputerMN.com'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 ComputerMN.com. ComputerMN.com reserves the right to modify the Policy at any time, effective upon posting at http://www.ComputerMN.com/aup.html.

Prohibited Uses of ComputerMN.com 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 ComputerMN.com'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 ComputerMN.com's servers, is prohibited. ComputerMN.com 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.
The sending of unsolicited commercial email (SPAM) through our web servers promoting any web site, or via third party web servers promoting a web site hosted by us, can result in the suspension or termination of the client's web hosting account, without refund. A $50 clean up fee may be charged for spam.
If ComputerMN.com suspects a client is sending unsolicited commercial email (SPAM) through our web servers, ComputerMN.com has the right to suspend or terminate their account with or without notice

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 ComputerMN.com 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 ComputerMN.com-hosted domain, or referencing any ComputerMN.com 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 ComputerMN.com 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 ComputerMN.com network or on another provider's network.

10. Using ComputerMN.com's Services to interfere with the use of the ComputerMN.com network by other customers or authorized users.
11. Offensive Content: You may not publish or transmit via Computer MN's service any content that Computer MN reasonably believes:
·    constitutes child pornography;
·    constitutes pornography or adult related material;
·    is excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence, or contains harassing content or hate speech;
·    is unfair or deceptive under the consumer protection laws of any jurisdiction, including chain letters and pyramid schemes;
·    is defamatory or violates a person’s privacy;
·    creates a risk to a person’s safety or health, creates a risk to public safety or health, compromises national security, or interferes with a investigation by law enforcement;
·    improperly exposes trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information of another person;
·    is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections;
·    clearly infringes on another person’s trade or service mark, patent, or other property right;
·    promotes illegal drugs, violates export control laws, relates to illegal gambling, or illegal arms trafficking;
·    is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws applicable to you or to Computer MN; or
·    is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may result in retaliation against Computer MN by offended viewers.
 
Content “published or transmitted” via Computer MN’s service includes Web content, e-mail, bulletin board postings, chat, and any other type of posting or transmission that relies on any Internet service provided by Computer MN.
 
12. Internet Abuse: You may not engage in illegal, abusive, or irresponsible behavior, including:
·    Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures (including those belonging to Computer MN and its customers) without express authorization of the owner of the system or network;
·    monitoring data or traffic on any network or system without the authorization of the owner of the system or network;
·    Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks;
·    Use of an Internet account or computer without the owner’s authorization, including, but not limited to Internet scanning (tricking other people into releasing their passwords), password robbery, security hole scanning, and port scanning;
·    Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting; or
·    Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against the Computer MN’s network.
·    Use of Computer MN’s network in a way that unreasonably interferes with Computer MN’s other customers use of the network



Customer Responsibility for Customer's Users

Each ComputerMN.com customer is responsible for the activities of its users and, by accepting service from ComputerMN.com, is agreeing to ensure that its customers/representatives or end-users abide by this Policy. Complaints about customers/representatives or end-users of an ComputerMN.com customer will be forwarded to the ComputerMN.com customer's postmaster for action. If violations of the ComputerMN.com Acceptable Use Policy occur, ComputerMN.com reserves the right to terminate services with or take action to stop the offending customer from violating ComputerMN.com's AUP as ComputerMN.com deems appropriate, without notice.