Acceptable Use Policy
As a provider of web site hosting, and other Internet-related services, innerspace.net offers its customers (also known as subscribers), and their customers and users, the means to acquire and disseminate a wealth of public, private, commercial, and non-commercial information. innerspace.net respects that the Internet provides a forum for free and open discussion and dissemination of information, however, when there are competing interests at issue, innerspace.net reserves the right to take certain preventative or corrective actions. In order to protect these competing interests, innerspace.net has developed an Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP"), which supplements and explains certain terms of each customer's respective service agreement and is intended as a guide to the customer's rights and obligations when utilizing innerspace.net's services. This AUP will be revised from time to time. A customer's use of innerspace.net's services after changes to the AUP are posted on innerspace.net's web site, www.innerspace.net, will constitute the customer's acceptance of any new or additional terms of the AUP that result from those changes.
One important aspect of the Internet is that no one party owns or controls it. This fact accounts for much of the Internet's openness and value, but it also places a high premium on the judgment and responsibility of those who use the Internet, both in the information they acquire and in the information they disseminate to others. When subscribers obtain information through the Internet, they must keep in mind that innerspace.net cannot monitor, verify, warrant, or vouch for the accuracy and quality of the information that subscribers may acquire. For this reason, the subscriber must exercise his or her best judgment in relying on information obtained from the Internet, and also should be aware that some material posted to the Internet is sexually explicit or otherwise offensive. Because innerspace.net cannot monitor or censor the Internet, and will not attempt to do so, innerspace.net cannot accept any responsibility for injury to its subscribers that results from inaccurate, unsuitable, offensive, or illegal Internet communications.
When subscribers disseminate information through the Internet, they also must keep in mind that innerspace.net does not review, edit, censor, or take responsibility for any information its subscribers may create. When users place information on the Internet, they have the same liability as other authors for copyright infringement, defamation, and other harmful speech. Also, because the information they create is carried over innerspace.net's network and may reach a large number of people, including both subscribers and nonsubscribers of innerspace.net, subscribers' postings to the Internet may affect other subscribers and may harm innerspace.net's goodwill, business reputation, and operations.
For the above reasons, subscribers violate innerspace.net policy and the service agreement when they, their customers, members, affiliates, or subsidiaries engage in the following prohibited activities:
Falsifying Contact Information -- Providing false contact information to innerspace.net, including but not limited to false information about the customer's name, address, email, phone, fax, etc., for the purposes of opening or keeping open an innerspace.net account or for registering domains through innerspace.net.
Spamming -- Sending unsolicited bulk and/or commercial messages over the Internet (known as "spamming"). It is not only harmful because of its negative impact on consumer attitudes toward innerspace.net, but also because it can overload innerspace.net's network and disrupt service to innerspace.net subscribers. When a complaint is received, innerspace.net has the discretion to determine from all of the evidence whether the email recipients were from an "opt-in" email list. For an email list to be considered "opt-in", it must use double opt-in email confirmation. Customers should retain email confirmation emails from all opt-in list members with full headers when sending to opt-in lists, and advise innerspace.net at least 48 hours before sending any large mailing to such lists. Failure to do so may result in an account being terminated for spamming.
Intellectual Property Violations -- Engaging in any activity that infringes or misappropriates the intellectual property rights of others, including copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, software piracy, and patents held by individuals, corporations, or other entities. Also, engaging in activity that violates privacy, publicity, or other personal rights of others. innerspace.net is required by law to remove or block access to customer content upon receipt of a proper notice of copyright infringement. It is also innerspace.net's policy to terminate the privileges of customers who commit repeat violations of copyright laws.
Obscene Speech or Materials -- Using innerspace.net's network to advertise, transmit, store, post, display, or otherwise make available child pornography or obscene speech or material. innerspace.net is required by law to notify law enforcement agencies when it becomes aware of the presence of child pornography on or being transmitted through innerspace.net's network.
Other Adult Content -- Using innerspace.net's network to advertise, transmit, store, post, display, or otherwise make available pornography or other adult content, whether or not such content is considered "obscene", is not allowed.
Defamatory or Abusive Language -- Using innerspace.net's network as a means to transmit or post defamatory, harassing, abusive, or threatening language.
Forging of Headers -- Forging or misrepresenting message headers, whether in whole or in part, to mask the originator of the message.
Illegal or Unauthorized Access to Other Computers or Networks -- Accessing illegally or without authorization computers, accounts, or networks belonging to another party, or attempting to penetrate security measures of another individual's system (often known as "hacking"). Also, any activity that might be used as a precursor to an attempted system penetration (i.e. port scan, stealth scan, or other information gathering activity).
Distribution of Internet Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses, or Other Destructive Activities -- Distributing information regarding the creation of and sending Internet viruses, worms, Trojan horses, pinging, flooding, mail bombing, or denial of service attacks. Also, activities that disrupt the use of or interfere with the ability of others to effectively use the network or any connected network, system, service, or equipment.
Facilitating a Violation of this AUP -- Advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available any software, program, product, or service that is designed to violate this AUP, which includes the facilitation of the means to spam, initiation of pinging, flooding, mail bombing, denial of service attacks, and piracy of software.
Export Control Violations -- Exporting encryption software over the Internet or otherwise, to points outside the United States.
Other Illegal Activities -- Engaging in activities that are determined to be illegal, including advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, so-called "High Yield Investment Programs" (HYIPs) and/or money games (whether legal or illegal), fraudulently charging credit cards, and pirating software.
Other Activities -- Engaging in activities, whether lawful or unlawful, that innerspace.net determines to be harmful to its subscribers, operations, reputation, goodwill, or customer relations.
As we have pointed out, the responsibility for avoiding the harmful activities just described rests primarily with the subscriber. innerspace.net will not, as an ordinary practice, monitor the communications of its subscribers to ensure that they comply with innerspace.net policy or applicable law. However, when innerspace.net becomes aware of harmful activities and/or violations of this acceptable use policy, it may take any action to stop the harmful activity, including but not limited to, removing information, shutting down a web site (with or without warning), implementing screening software designed to block offending transmissions, denying access to the Internet, or take any other action it deems appropriate. If any account is shut down for violations of this AUP, no refunds will be issued.
Customers agree to reimburse innerspace.net for any damages, including but not limited to legal costs, clean-up costs, incidental damages, etc., resulting from any violations of this AUP as well as from any attempt to force innerspace.net to put a site back up by the use of blackmail-type threats to use our return addresses in spam.
