Network Business
Systems, Inc.
AUP: Acceptable Use Policy
Table of Contents
1. PARTIES
2. CONSIDERATION
3. ACCOUNT INFORMATION
4. CHARGES AND FEES
5. GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
6. RIGHT TO MONITOR & COMMUNICATIONS
PRIVACY POLICY.
7. SERVER MAINTENANCE
8. TECHNICAL SUPPORT
9. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE
The following document constitutes the
"Acceptable Use Policy" by the
"Subscriber" and NETWORK BUSINESS
SYSTEMS, INC., the "ISP". By
accessing the Internet service, you are
a Subscriber and hereby agree to comply
with, and insure that any party authorized
to use the service, and/or any party that
gains access of the service through your
equipment, complies with this agreement
in its entirety. Further, the Subscriber
acknowledges the ISP may amend this agreement
from time to time. NETWORK BUSINESS SYSTEMS,
INC. may terminate or suspend a Subscriber's
service for any violation of any term
or condition of this Acceptable Use Policy.
Please contact the ISP with any questions
concerning this agreement.
SUBSCRIBER may not revise any of the terms
of this Agreement without express prior
authorization and written agreement signed
by a duly elected Officer of ISP. This
Agreement may not be modified orally,
and only be modified by a written instrument,
signed by SUBSCRIBER and a duly authorized
Officer of ISP. If e-mail is used for
the writing, the signatures shall be electronic
digital signatures that are publicly registered
with a duly authorized certification authority
in the jurisdiction in which ISP operates
its business.
NETWORK BUSINESS SYSTEMS, INC. may periodically
add to, amend, or update this Acceptable
Use Policy, which shall become effective
immediately upon its posting at www.nbson.net.
Subscribers are responsible for regularly
reviewing this policy and at all times
must comply with all of its terms and
conditions; including, any additions,
amendments, and updates.
ISP may terminate or suspend any Customer's
access to all or part of ISP Internet
services without notice if they determine
the Customer, or any other user of the
Customer's account, engages in any conduct
or activities that ISP, at its sole discretion,
violates any term or condition of this
Acceptable Use Policy. If ISP terminates
or suspends a Customer's access to any
ISP Internet services due to any such
violation, the Customer agrees that it
has no right:
1. to access any ISP Internet service
via any method;
2. to receive any credits(s) whether or
not otherwise due to the Customer (such
credit(s) to be forfeited); or
3. to any notification on the Customer's
behalf of any third party providers of
services, merchandise, or information
(ISP shall not be responsible for any
costs or consequences resulting from lack
of notice to such providers on behalf
of the Customer).
This Agreement shall be governed by the
laws of the State of Illinois, including
its choice of law and conflicts of law
rules, and SUBSCRIBER and ISP each submit
to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts
of the State of Illinois.
1. PARTIES
A. NETWORK BUSINESS SYSTEMS, INC. (hereinafter
referred to as "ISP"), is an
Illinois Company, with its principal place
of business located at 23834 E. 1260TH
ST. Geneseo Illinois 61254.
B. "SUBSCRIBER" is someone using
the ISP services.
C. In this Agreement, ISP and SUBSCRIBER
may sometimes be referred to collectively
as the "PARTIES." Where this Agreement
uses the term "PARTIES," it intends
both ISP and SUBSCRIBER.
2. CONSIDERATION
A. In consideration of ISP's providing online
services to SUBSCRIBER, and SUBSCRIBER's
payment of and promises to pay fees to ISP
and SUBSCRIBER's promises to abide by the
terms and conditions of this Agreement,
as ISP may amend this Agreement from time
to time, and in consideration of all the
mutual covenants and promises made in this
Agreement, the PARTIES hereby agree as follows:
3. ACCOUNT INFORMATION
A. Customers must provide accurate billing
information to ISP. This requirement shall
be ongoing and it shall be each individual
Customer's responsibility to update such
billing information as necessary to keep
it current. Without limiting ISP's ability
to terminate a Customer's service for
any violation of any term or condition
of this Acceptable Use Policy, the provision
of inaccurate information or data, including
without limitation the fraudulent use
of credit card numbers, on any form, contract
or online application, shall be grounds
for immediate termination of a Customer's
service, and may subject the Customer
to civil or criminal liability.
B. SUBSCRIBER REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS
THAT SUBSCRIBER IS AT LEAST EIGHTEEN YEARS
OF AGE.
C. SUBSCRIBER acknowledges that SUBSCRIBER
will choose a user name and a password to
access the services provided by ISP. It
is SUBSCRIBER's responsibility to remember
both the user name and password. Therefore,
for security purposes, ISP recommends that
SUBSCRIBER change SUBSCRIBER's password
regularly.
D. SUBSCRIBER is responsible for maintaining
the confidentiality of SUBSCRIBER's password
and is liable for any harm resulting from
disclosing or allowing disclosure of any
password or from use by any person of SUBSCRIBER's
password to gain access to the SUBSCRIBER's
accounts.
E. ISP expects SUBSCRIBER to be reasonable
and responsible in selecting a user name.
Vulgar, or otherwise offensive user names,
may offend the sensibilities of other
subscribers to ISP's service or to other
Internet users. SUBSCRIBER may not select
or use a user name that is the real name
of another person, or a user name that
violates a trademark right, copyright,
or any other proprietary right, or which
ISP deems in its sole discretion to be
vulgar or otherwise offensive. ISP reserves
the right to delete any such user name,
or to request deletion.
F. SUBSCRIBER understands that SUBSCRIBER's
password is confidential and is intended
solely for the use of SUBSCRIBER and for
no other person's use.
G. SUBSCRIBER understands that ISP will
rely on SUBSCRIBER's agreement to keep SUBSCRIBER's
password secret and confidential and that
SUBSCRIBER will not reveal SUBSCRIBER's
password to any other person or entity,
except as required by law.
H. SUBSCRIBER understands that disclosure
of SUBSCRIBER's password to any other
person or entity, except as required by
law, could cause irreparable damages to
ISP, including, but not limited to, compromise
of ISP's confidential and proprietary
business information and trade secrets,
compromise of the integrity of the information
and communications of other subscribers
to ISP's service, interruption of ISP's
services, lost profits to ISP, and damages
to ISP's business reputation and goodwill.
I. SUBSCRIBER understands and agrees that
disclosure of SUBSCRIBER's password to any
other person or entity, except as required
by law, is a MATERIAL BREACH of this Agreement,
and MAY VIOLATE LOCAL, STATE, and FEDERAL
LAW.
J. SUBSCRIBER understands that disclosure
of SUBSCRIBER's password to any other
person or entity, except as required by
law, could cause irreparable damages to
SUBSCRIBER, including, but not limited
to, compromise of SUBSCRIBER's confidential
and proprietary business information and
trade secrets, lost profits, and damages
to SUBSCRIBER's reputation and goodwill.
In the event that SUBSCRIBER discloses
SUBSCRIBER's password to any other person
or entity, SUBSCRIBER shall and hereby
does forever agree to defend, hold harmless,
and indemnify ISP from any harm or damages
whatsoever resulting directly or indirectly
from SUBSCRIBER's disclosure of SUBSCRIBER's
password to any other person or entity.
K. SUBSCRIBER understands and agrees that
SUBSCRIBER shall be entirely liable for
all activities conducted through use of
SUBSCRIBER's password, whether any third
person or entity may also be liable for
such activities.
L. SUBSCRIBER understands and agrees that
SUBSCRIBER may allow a minor child (under
eighteen years of age) to use the SUBSCRIBER's
account, subject to the following restrictions:
M. SUBSCRIBER represents that SUBSCRIBER
understands that the online service and
the Internet contain various text, images,
and other content that some people consider
inappropriate for viewing by children.
N. SUBSCRIBER shall supervise the minor
child's use of the system directly or through
the use of software designed and configured
to prevent access to any information that
SUBSCRIBER considers inappropriate for viewing
by children.
O. SUBSCRIBER shall and hereby does forever
agree to defend, hold harmless, and indemnify
ISP from any harm or damages to any person,
including any minor child SUBSCRIBER allows
to use SUBSCRIBER's account, whatsoever
resulting directly or indirectly from
SUBSCRIBER's allowing any minor child
to use SUBSCRIBER's account subject SUBSCRIBER
to civil and/or criminal liability.
4. CHARGES AND FEES
A. ISP reserves the right to change its
fees and billing methods at any time effective
thirty (30) days after Notice to SUBSCRIBER.
If any such change is unacceptable to
SUBSCRIBER, SUBSCRIBER may terminate his,
her, or its subscription to the ISP as
provided in Section 13 below. SUBSCRIBER's
continued use of the ISP Service following
any such change shall be deemed acceptance
of such change.
B. SUBSCRIBER's monthly fee for use of
ISP's Service is payable in advance and
is not refundable in whole or part.
C. SUBSCRIBER is responsible for all charges
associated with connecting to ISP's Service.
D. If the payment method for SUBSCRIBER's
subscription to ISP's Service is by credit
card and payment is not received by ISP
from the card issuer or its agents, SUBSCRIBER
agrees to pay all amounts due upon demand
by ISP.
E. If ISP does not receive the full amount
of SUBSCRIBER's balance for use of the
ISP Service within thirty (30) days of
the invoice date, an additional 1.5% (or
the highest amount allowed by law, whichever
is lower) per month late charge will be
added to SUBSCRIBER's bill and shall immediately
become due and payable.
F. SUBSCRIBER shall also be liable for
all attorney and collection fees arising
from ISP's efforts to collect any unpaid
balance of SUBSCRIBER's account.
G. Methods of Payment.
" Credit cards
o Visa®
o MasterCard®
o Discover®
o American Express®
o Personal Checks
o Business Checks
o Cashier's Checks
o Traveler's Checks
o Money Orders
Note: Checks that are dishonored for any
reason are subject to a collection fee
of $25 per dishonored check, and SUBSCRIBER's
account and access to ISP's Service may
be suspended until all amounts SUBSCRIBER
owes to ISP have been paid in full.
H. SUBSCRIBER shall be responsible for
any and all fixed and accumulative charges
resulting from SUBSCRIBER's connection
to or use of ISP's Service.
I. The first month service fee (or other
available billing period selected) is
due upon account setup.
J. Each month (or other billing period
selected) on the date of the application,
SUBSCRIBER's account shall be charged
the monthly access and any other fees
for the new month plus any accumulated
charges for prior months.
K. Failure to use the SUBSCRIBER's account
does not relieve SUBSCRIBER of payment
obligations.
L. ISP reserves the right to terminate
SUBSCRIBER's access to ISP's Service for
any unpaid subscriptions or amounts past
due at any time after the due date.
M. Accounts that are past due or in default
are subject to an interest charge of 1.5%
per month on the outstanding balance.
N. Termination of access to ISP's Service
shall not relieve SUBSCRIBER from the
obligation to satisfy outstanding invoices
and to pay to ISP all amounts SUBSCRIBER
owes to ISP pursuant to this Agreement,
or otherwise.
O. In the event ISP utilizes an attorney
to collect any unpaid amounts from SUBSCRIBER,
SUBSCRIBER shall be responsible for the
payment of all of ISP's attorneys' fees
and costs in the collection of those sums.
P. Refund will be made only on prepayment
of the monthly service fee for more than
a month.
Q. All refunds shall be prorated based
on full months of service that are unused,
partial months will not be refunded.
R. All refunds will be based upon used
month(s) being charged for the full, undiscounted
price for a month for the type of account
being subscribed.
S. ISP may, at its sole discretion, give
SUBSCRIBER a refund.
5. GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
A. Customers may not resell NBSON.Net Internet
services without the prior written consent
of ISP.
1) Customer is not allowed to run web servers
or mail servers without expressed written
permission from ISP. This includes P2P software
or any other future software that allows
file sharing across the Internet.
B. Customers may not attempt to circumvent
user authentication or security of any host,
network, or account (i.e., "cracking"
activities). Without limiting the general
nature of the foregoing prohibition, "cracking"
includes accessing data not intended for
the Customer, logging into a server or account
the Customer is not expressly authorized
to access, or probing the security of other
networks in any manner. ISP will cooperate
fully with investigations of violations
of systems or network security at any ISP
or third party sites, including cooperating
with law enforcement authorities in the
investigation of suspected criminal violations.
C. ISP Internet services may only be used
for lawful purposes. ISP Internet services
may not be used to transmit or store any
material of any nature that is, in ISP's
sole discretion, harmful, harassing, defamatory,
pornographic, profane, vulgar, indecent,
unlawful, obscene, threatening, abusive,
libelous, or hateful, or that encourages
conduct that would violate any local, state,
national or international law or regulation.
Without limiting the general nature of the
foregoing prohibition, ISP Internet services
may not be used to transmit or store any
material protected by copyright, trademark,
trade secret, patent or
other intellectual property laws without
the express consent of the owner of such
material. ISP may, at its discretion, block
or remove any prohibited material(s) from
its system. Further, ISP Internet services
will not be used to offend any person based
on a person's race, ethnic heritage, national
origin, sex, sexual orientation or preference,
age, physical or mental illness or disability,
marital status, employment status, housing
status, religion, or other characteristics
as may be defined by applicable civil rights
laws, or otherwise objectionable to ISP.
D. In any action between ISP and SUBSCRIBER
to enforce any of the terms of this Agreement,
ISP shall be entitled to recover expenses
from SUBSCRIBER, including reasonable attorney's
fees.
E. ISP's failure to insist upon or enforce
strict performance of any provisions of
this Agreement shall not be construed as
a waiver of any provision or right. Neither
the course of conduct between ISP and SUBSCRIBER
nor any trade practice shall act to modify
any provision of this Agreement.
F. ISP shall not be liable or deemed to
be in default for any delay or failure in
performance under this Agreement or interruption
of service resulting directly or indirectly
from acts of God, civil or military authority,
acts of public enemy, war, riots, civil
disturbances, insurrections, accidents,
fire, explosions, earthquakes, floods, the
elements, strikes, labor disputes, shortages
of suitable parts, materials, labor or transportation,
magnetic interference, interruptions of
electrical power or other utility service,
unavailability of any telecommunications
service or connection to any telecommunications
service, or any cause beyond the reasonable
control of ISP.
G. The right to use the ISP's Service is
not transferable. Accounts and access to
ISP's Service are for the sole use of SUBSCRIBER.
SUBSCRIBER shall be responsible for the
confidentiality of SUBSCRIBER's password.
Loaning SUBSCRIBER's account to other persons,
except as expressly allowed under this Agreement,
connecting a system to ISP's Service when
that system is used by multiple persons
or computers, group use of SUBSCRIBER's
log-in information or password are explicitly
prohibited.
H. If SUBSCRIBER wishes to make purchases
on the Internet using ISP's Service, SUBSCRIBER
is hereby notified that many Internet merchants
or information or service providers from
whom SUBSCRIBER is making the purchase may
require SUBSCRIBER to supply certain information,
including credit card or other payment mechanism
information. SUBSCRIBER also acknowledges
that the information SUBSCRIBER provides
is being transmitted over the Internet,
which is an open computer communications
network, in which the information is subject
to interception by third parties, and that
the persons or entities with whom SUBSCRIBER
deals online may not keep SUBSCRIBER's information
confidential once SUBSCRIBER discloses it
to them. Further, ISP does not control any
of these Internet merchants or information
or service providers, except as specifically
stated in this Agreement.
I. ISP makes no representations or warranties
whatsoever concerning the availability,
quality, or business practices of any person
with whom SUBSCRIBER chooses to conduct
business on the Internet and shall have
no liability to SUBSCRIBER for any harm,
injury, or damages resulting from commercial
transactions conducted on the Internet by
SUBSCRIBER or any person using SUBSCRIBER's
account with ISP's Service.
J. SUBSCRIBER agrees that all information
SUBSCRIBER may provide to any Internet merchant
or information or service provider on the
Internet through ISP's Service for purposes
of making purchases shall be accurate, complete,
and current.
K. Internet merchants and information and
service providers offering merchandise,
information, and services on the Internet
set their own prices and may change prices
or institute new prices at any time.
L. SUBSCRIBER agrees to pay all charges
incurred by users of SUBSCRIBER's account
with ISP and credit card or other payment
mechanism at the prices in effect when such
charges are incurred.
M. SUBSCRIBER shall also be solely responsible
for paying any applicable taxes relating
to purchases on the Service.
N. SUBSCRIBER shall and hereby does forever
agree to defend, hold harmless, and indemnify
ISP from any harm or damages to any person
resulting from commerce engaged in by SUBSCRIBER
or any person using SUBSCRIBER's account
with ISP's Service.
O. To provide a high quality and efficient
Service to all subscribers, ISP reserves
the right to block or filter mass solicitations
on or through ISP's service that constitute
"spamming" as defined in this
Agreement, regardless of the source or origin
of such mass solicitations.
P. Either SUBSCRIBER or ISP may terminate
this Agreement at any time. SUBSCRIBER's
sole right with respect to any dissatisfaction
with any term of this Agreement or ISP's
performance of this Agreement is to terminate
this Agreement by notifying ISP in writing.
SUBSCRIBER will be held responsible and
will owe any unpaid balances on equipment
and services purchased by ISP.
6. RIGHT TO MONITOR & COMMUNICATIONS
PRIVACY POLICY.
While ISP has no obligation to monitor the
Customers' use of ISP Internet service in
any way, ISP may monitor the service from
time to time and disclose information regarding
Customers' use of ISP Internet service if
required by any law, regulation, ordinance
or subpoena issued by a duly authorized
law enforcement agency, to operate the service
properly, or to protect itself, its affiliates
or its Customers.
A. ISP shall have the right, but not the
duty, to monitor communications occurring
through its system and to disclose such
communications from time to time as may
be necessary to:
(1) operate ISP's Service properly,
(2) administer and manage ISP's business,
(3) provide all of ISP's subscribers with
the highest quality service,
(4) offer all of ISP's subscribers with
opportunities ISP thinks will be of interest
to its subscribers,
(5) verify compliance with law
(6) verify compliance with this Agreement,
(7) protect ISP and its subscribers, and
(8) satisfy any law, regulation, or other
governmental request.
B. SUBSCRIBER acknowledges said right of
ISP and consents to the reasonable and periodic
monitoring and disclosure of online communications
occurring on ISP's Service.
C. Other than as expressly described in
this Agreement, ISP will not intentionally
monitor or disclose any private e-mail message
unless required by law.
D. Except as required by law or to protect
the physical safety of any person, ISP will
not disclose any information, data, or records
relating to
(1) SUBSCRIBER's account with ISP,
(2) Identifying SUBSCRIBER as a user of
ISP's Service (except as such information
will be publicly disclosed by the SUBSCRIBER
by sending e-mail, posting to newsgroups,
and so forth),
(3) SUBSCRIBER's billing information,
(4) SUBSCRIBER's name, address, and telephone
number,
(5) Any information regarding SUBSCRIBER's
credit cards used to pay the charges for
ISP's Service, or checking accounts used
to pay the charges for ISP's Service, or
(6) SUBSCRIBER's use of ISP's Service or
of the Internet.
E. ISP reserves the right to refuse to post
or to remove any information or materials,
in whole or in part, that, in ISP's sole
and absolute discretion, are unacceptable,
undesirable, or in violation of applicable
law or of this Agreement.
F. SUBSCRIBER agrees that ISP has the right
to cooperate in any investigation that is
requested by parties alleging that SUBSCRIBER
has violated any law that is enforceable
in ISP's or SUBSCRIBER's jurisdiction, or
any provision of this Agreement.
G. SUBSCRIBER agrees that ISP has the
right to disclose to the appropriate authorities
any evidence of illegal activity ISP discovers
in the course of any investigation requested
by an outside party, or discovered in
the routine operation and maintenance
of ISP's Server and network components.
SUBSCRIBER further agrees that ISP may
make copies of such materials for the
use of those authorities in their investigation
if requested for the purpose of preservation
of evidence.
H. ISP will not release SUBSCRIBER's confidential
information or billing information to any
third party except upon presentation of
a valid order of a court or government entity
within ISP's jurisdiction. SUBSCRIBER agrees
that ISP's judgment as to the validity of
any court order or subpoena shall be considered
proper and final.
I. Electronic Communications Privacy Act
(ECPA) Notice. SUBSCRIBER agrees that ISP's
Service and the Internet are not considered
secure communications media for the purposes
of the ECPA, and that SUBSCRIBER has no
expectation of privacy in unencrypted communications
transmitted or received over the Internet
via ISP's Service or otherwise and will
not rely on any such expectation of privacy.
7. SERVER MAINTENANCE
A. ISP will attempt to maintain 99% uptime
on all servers. Attempts will be made
to keep all downtime to a minimum. Unscheduled
shutdowns may occur without prior warning.
8. TECHNICAL SUPPORT
A. Technical support is available by telephone
at 309-944-8823 at the following days
and times:
o Sunday - Closed
o Monday from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
o Tuesday from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
o Wednesday from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00
p.m.
o Thursday from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
o Friday from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
o Saturday - Closed
For telephone technical support outside
the hours listed above, please leave a
message on our voice mail system, providing
the following information:
o Your name
o Your username on the ISP service
o Your telephone number
o The best time to return your call
o A brief description of the problem you
are having
B. Technical support is available by electronic
mail at the following e-mail address:
help@nbson.com. When requesting technical
support by e-mail, please provide the
following information:
o your name
o your username on the ISP service (if
you are sending e-mail from another Internet
or online service than ISP's service)
o your telephone number
o the best time to telephone you, if telephone
contact is necessary
o a description of the problem you are
having, including as much of the following
information about the problem as you can
provide:
o the date and time the problem first
occurred
o the type of computer you are using
o the operating system you are using
o the telephone number you use to access
ISP's service
o the type and speed of modem you are
using
o whether the problem occurred once or
more than once
o what you were doing or attempting to
do on the ISP service when the problem
occurred
o whether the problem caused you to be
disconnected from the ISP service or is
preventing you from accessing the ISP
service
o the exact content of any error messages
that were displayed when the problem occurred
o any means you have found to circumvent
the problem
C. ISP will provide SUBSCRIBER with technical
support related to SUBSCRIBER's use of
ISP's service, at no additional charge,
subject to the following restrictions:
D. ISP will NOT provide SUBSCRIBER with
free technical support for any computer
hardware or telecommunications products.
E. ISP will NOT provide SUBSCRIBER with
free technical support for any software
products other than the ISP Software that
ISP has supplied to SUBSCRIBER to make
a dial-up connection to the ISP.
F. ISP is under no obligation to provide
SUBSCRIBER with information about how
to access any particular resource on the
Internet, other than ISP's server and
the ISP Software.
G. ISP will provide limited information
about using the Internet generally, subject
to the knowledge and experience of ISP's
Technical Support Staff, and subject to
ISP's ability to meet the technical support
demands of all of ISP's subscribers.
9. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE
A. ISP Internet service is provided on
an "as is, as available" basis.
ISP makes no expressed or implied warranties,
representations or endorsements whatsoever
with regarding to any merchandise, information
or service provided through ISP Internet
service or on the Internet in general.
Also, ISP shall not be liable for any
cost or damages arising either directly
or indirectly from any such transaction.
Neither ISP nor any of its affiliates,
directors, officers, employees, agents
or contractors warrant that ISP Internet
service will be uninterrupted or error
free of that any information, software
or material accessible via ISP Internet
service is free of viruses, worms, Trojan
horses, or other harmful components. Under
no circumstances shall ISP, its affiliates,
directors, officers, employees, agents
or contractors be liable for any direct,
indirect, incidental, special, punitive,
or consequential damages that result in
any way from a customers use of or inability
to use ISP Internet service or to access
the Internet or any part thereof or that
result from mistakes, errors, omissions,
interruptions, deletions of file, errors,
defects, delays in operation, or transmission,
or any failure of performance
B. ISP will provide the following standard
services to SUBSCRIBER:
(1) Electronic Mail.
a) SUBSCRIBER may use one or more electronic
mailboxes, depending on the type of account
SUBSCRIBER maintains. SUBSCRIBER is required
to remove all incoming mail from SUBSCRIBER's
mailbox(es) on a regular basis and should
use the automated features of a mail client
to do so. All e-mail messages older than
3 months will be deleted from the mail server
automatically.
b) SUBSCRIBER's e-mail address will be in
the form of "username@nbson.net"
where "username" is the user name
as selected by SUBSCRIBER, except in cases
wherein ISP requests SUBSCRIBER to change
the user name, in cases wherein ISP must
delete a user name, or where SUBSCRIBER
has their own domain wherein their e-mail
address will be in the form of "username@domainname"
where "domainname" is the name
of SUBSCRIBER's domain. SUBSCRIBER has no
property or other right in a particular
user name and ISP shall have no liability
whatsoever to SUBSCRIBER as a result of
undeliverable electronic mail resulting
from any change to SUBSCRIBER's user name,
regardless of the reason for such change.
(2) Personal or Commercial Pages on the
World Wide Web.
Subject to all the terms and conditions
of this Agreement and all applicable laws,
ISP grants SUBSCRIBER the right to publish
personal or commercial pages accessible
to the World Wide Web, with the following
size limitations:
a) The maximum storage space a SUBSCRIBER
may use on ISP's service to publish Web
pages is 5 megabytes for consumer and 10
megabytes for business. This includes all
pages and content supplied by those pages,
including text, graphics, sound, video,
files available for downloading, storage
for information received from the Web pages,
and hyperlinks to other pages on the World
Wide Web or other resources available through
the Internet. Subject to availability of
disk storage, SUBSCRIBER may purchase additional
storage space from ISP at the rate of $5.00
per 10 megabytes of storage per month.
b) The maximum amount of data transferred
from all of SUBSCRIBER's personal or commercial
Web pages stored on ISP's server is 250
megabytes per month based on the log files.
All data transferred from SUBSCRIBER's personal
or commercial Web pages that exceeds the
monthly maximum shall be billed to SUBSCRIBER
at a rate of 10 cents per megabyte transferred.
c) ISP reserves the right to suspend or
terminate at its discretion SUBSCRIBER's
access to ISP's service or to require the
removal of links or other content on or
any pages SUBSCRIBER has published to the
World Wide Web if providing such content
or links causes undue strain on any ISP
server either through excessive hits or
by excessive bandwidth.
(3) Backup of SUBSCRIBER's Data.
a) ISP performs incremental and/or differential
backups of all data on its servers. Backups
are scheduled to minimize the drain on system
resources and to optimize the access time
to ISP's service for all subscribers. Therefore,
the time of day or night when ISP backs
up the system may vary somewhat from day
to day.
b) SUBSCRIBER understands and acknowledges
that ISP backs up the server data solely
as a courtesy to all subscribers to help
prevent loss of data in the case of a total
server failure.
c) SUBSCRIBER understands and acknowledges
that ISP has no duty under this Agreement
to back up the data on its server nor to
restore lost data from any backups made.
d) SUBSCRIBER understands and acknowledges
that ISP may discontinue daily backups of
the server data at any time, without prior
notice to SUBSCRIBER.
e) SUBSCRIBER understands and acknowledges
that SUBSCRIBER shall be solely responsible
for backing up SUBSCRIBER's data on SUBSCRIBER's
own computer, notwithstanding ISP's regularly
scheduled backups of the data on ISP's server.
f) SUBSCRIBER understands and acknowledges
that ISP shall have no liability whatsoever
for any data loss incurred by SUBSCRIBER
and SUBSCRIBER agrees to defend, hold harmless,
and indemnify ISP from any claims for damages
of any and all kinds by any third parties
resulting from any loss of data by SUBSCRIBER.
g) SUBSCRIBER understands and acknowledges
that ISP has fully informed SUBSCRIBER of
ISP's backup policies and that SUBSCRIBER
will not rely upon or claim to have relied
upon ISP's backup of the data on ISP's server,
for any purpose whatsoever to which such
reliance may be related.
h) SUBSCRIBER understands and acknowledges
that this Agreement creates no bailment
of SUBSCRIBER's data, information, or other
property, and that ISP shall, under no circumstances,
be deemed a carrier, bailee, or warehouseman
of SUBSCRIBER's data, information, or other
property.
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