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By subscribing to, or utilizing, ZCNet's web hosting
or any related
services, you agree to abide by this Acceptable Use
Policy.
Your utilization of ZCNet’s services constitutes your
express agreement to abide by this Acceptable Use Policy
(the “Rules, as the same may be changed from time-to-time
by ZCNet, at its sole and absolute discretion. These
Rules are designed to enhance the quality of our Web
Hosting services and to protect our customers, and the
Internet community as a whole, from illegal, irresponsible,
or disruptive Internet activities. These Rules apply
to all customers of ZCNet. We hope and expect that common
sense and good judgment will guide all of our customers'
use of our ZCNet Services. Even with such Rules in effect,
minors should be supervised when using the Internet.
Adults and minors should be aware of what is on the
Internet and to understand the concept of what is accepted
and what should be avoided. The following non-exhaustive
list details the kinds of illegal or harmful conduct,
which are prohibited. ZCNet reserves the right to restrict
or prohibit any and all uses of its services or content
on your Web site and to remove such materials, including
your website, from its servers at any time ZCNet determines
in its sole discretion that such content or materials
violates this Agreement, is illegal, or is harmful to
its servers, systems, network, reputation, good will,
other ZCNet customers, or any third party. Depending
on the severity of the violation and the history of
your account, ZCNet may take any reasonable disciplinary
action it determines in its sole and absolute discretion,
including, but not limited to, one or more of the foregoing
or following actions: (a) issuance of a verbal or written
warning; (b) suspension of your account; (c) termination
of your account; (c) billing for administrative and
legal costs and fees and/or reactivation costs. All
of the foregoing rights are cumulative, and the exercise
of any right at any time shall not preclude the exercise
of any other right, or the same right, at any other
time for the same violation or any subsequent violation.
Illegal or Improper Activities. You may not
use ZCNet’s services or servers in any manner in violation
of any state, local or federal law of the United States
of America, or any of its states or which in any manner
is in violation of any applicable local or national
law of any country. Such violations and activities include,
but are not limited to, violations of U.S. or other
applicable foreign export laws or restrictions including
the U.S. Export Administration Act and accompanying
regulations, posting or trafficking in government secrets,
providing any information to in any way assist or encourage
any terrorist activities, providing any information
concerning nuclear or biological weapons or other weapons
of mass destruction, posting or trafficking in obscene
material, solicitation of a minor or others for illegal
acts, dealing drugs, harassment, fraud, stalking, abuse,
or other subject matters that are prohibited under applicable
federal, state, local or foreign law.
Dangerous Activities. You may not use ZCNet’s
services or servers to post or disseminate in any manner,
any information or material which may be dangerous,
damaging or injurious to persons or property or which,
directly or indirectly, may be used to create danger,
damage or injury to persons or property.
Infringement. You may not use ZCNet’s services
or servers in any manner which infringes the intellectual
property rights or other proprietary rights of any third
party including, without limitation, material protected
by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other
intellectual property right used without proper authorization.
Infringement may result from, among other activities,
the unauthorized copying and posting of pictures, logos,
software, articles, musical works, and videos. In compliance
with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”),
please send DMCA notifications of claimed copyright
infringements to: Director or Security, ZCNet , webmaster@ZCNet.com.
Fraudulent Activities. You may not offer or
disseminate fraudulent goods, services, schemes, or
promotions (i.e., make money fast schemes, chain letters,
pyramid schemes, ponzi schemes), or furnish false data
on any signup form, contract or online application or
registration, or fraudulently use any information obtained
through the use of ZCNet’s servers or services, including
without limitation use of credit card numbers.
Offensive Subject Matter. You may not use
ZCNet’s services or servers for transmitting, disseminating,
sale, storage or hosting subject matter that is unlawful,
libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent,
lewd, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, threatening,
hateful, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights,
abusive, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable. You
may not use ZCNet’s services or servers to conduct any
sexually oriented business or disseminate pornographic
pictures, videos, banners, text or any similar material.
You may not use ZCNet’s services or servers to threaten
bodily harm or destruction of property.
Harmful Activities. You may not use ZCNet’s
services or servers for disseminating or hosting harmful
content including, without limitation, viruses, Trojan
horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or any other computer
programming routines that may damage, interfere with,
surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system,
program, data or personal information.
Tortuous Activities. You may not use ZCNet’s
services or servers for any tortuous conduct, including,
but limited to, posting defamatory, libelous, slanderous,
scandalous, or private information about a person or
company without their consent; intentionally inflicting
emotional distress; making unlawful threats; stalking,
interfering with any contract or prospective economic
relations; engaging in fraud or deception; engaging
in sexual or other harassment; or for violating any
patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual
property rights.
Abusive Activities. You may not use ZCNet’s
services or servers for any abusive activities on the
Internet, including, but not limited to, activities
such as using a non-existent email return address, spamming
(sending unsolicited advertising to numerous email addresses
or newsgroups and/or generating a significantly higher
volume of outgoing email than a normal user), or allowing
spamming by third parties to promote a website, trolling
(posting outrageous messages to generate numerous responses),
mail-bombing (sending multiple messages without significant
new content to the same user), subscribing someone else
to a mailing list without that person=s permission,
cross-posting articles to an excessive number o newsgroups,
hacking ( unauthorized access to or use of data, systems,
server or networks, including any attempt to probe,
scan or test the vulnerability of a system or to breach
the security thereof), spoofing (any attempt to impersonate
any person or otherwise deceive or mislead through alteration
of headers); deletion of author attributions, legal
notices, or proprietary designations in an effort to
deceive or mislead; forging or altering any TCP-IP packet
header, email header or any part of a message header,
using manual or electronic means to avoid any use limitations
on you use of ZCNet’s servers such as timing out; sending
or disseminating harassing email or chain letters; or
use of flames (hostile attacks or invectives aimed at
a group or an individual.
Misuse of System Resources. You may not engage
in any uses or activities that misuse ZCNet’s services,
servers or system resources, including, but not limited
to employing or posting programs which consume excessive
CPU time or storage space; permitting use of mail services,
mail forwarding capabilities, POP accounts, or autoresponders
other than for your own account; or resale of access
to CGI scripts installed on ZCNet’s servers.
Service Contract: Virtual Hosting Service is
subject to the following terms and conditions: 1.The
specific fees and surcharges vary depending on the particular
plan ordered. ZCNet may change and institute new fees
and surcharges at any time upon thirty(30) days prior
notice via e-mail or snail mail. Either party may terminate
the service without cause or prior notice. 2.The client
agrees to comply with the Acceptable Use Policy set
forth above and to refrain from any of the unacceptable
uses set forth therein. ZCNet reserves an absolute right
to determine for itself what is abusive, pornographic,
offensive, or inappropriate and will terminate the service
in the event it deems any use to violate the said Policy.
3.The client agrees that ZCNet has the right and responsibility
to fully cooperate in any legal investigation regarding
any aspect of services, including services sold to the
client. Any use or attempted use of system to engage
in software piracy or other illegal activities will
result in an immediate termination of service and a
report to the FTP, SPA, or other appropriate authorities.
4.The client agrees to indemnify and hold ZCNet harmless
in connection with any controversy or legal action arising
from the client's use of service, including but not
limited to controversies over domain name selection
and web site content. 5.ZCNet does not warrant that
the eCommerce Software Solution (including any documentation)
will meet Client's requirements or that the operation
of the Software will be uninterrupted or error free.
THE ECOMMERCE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY
OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
AND THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT
ARE SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMED WITH RESPECT TO THE SOFTWARE.
THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF
THE SOFTWARE IS WITH THE CLIENT AND SHOULD THE SOFTWARE
PROVE DEFECTIVE, CLIENT AND NOT ZCNet ASSUMES THE ENTIRE
COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION
UNLESS OTHERWISE AGREED. No oral or written information
or advice given by ZCNet, its marketers, distributors,
agents or employees shall create a warranty or in any
way increase the scope of Client's rights set forth
herein, and Client may not rely on any such information
or advice. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY IN NO EVENT SHALL
ZCNet BE LIABLE TO CLIENT FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL
OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS, LOSS
OF USE, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF DATA OR COST
OF OBTAINING SUBSTITUTE GOODS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING
TO THE SOFTWARE, OR THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ZCNet HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES. The foregoing limitations of liability
shall apply notwithstanding any failure of essential
purpose of any limited remedy stated herein. liability
to Client or any third party arising out of or related
to this Agreement however caused and arising under any
theory of liability, whether based in contract, tort
(including negligence), or otherwise shall not exceed
in aggregate the Client Fees paid by Client for the
Software. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR
EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT
APPLY TO Client. 6.Although ZCNet backs up its systems
regularly and works hard to prevent technical problems,
system failures, and service disruptions, such occurrences
are possible, particularly in connection with such things
as total power losses, natural calamities, acts of war
or terrorism, destructive acts of hackers, or band width
charges on the Internet. system backup is therefore
not guaranteed and each client therefore agrees to maintain
a backup copy of his or her web site and any other important
information and to store the same on his or her own
computer. The client further agrees that liability for
any failure to provide virtual hosting service regardless
of cause or duration shall be limited to a refund of
the fees paid for the month in which the failures occur.
It is specifically agreed that ZCNet shall under no
circumstances be liable for any lost profits or other
consequential damages. 7.This agreement is not assignable
or transferable without express written consent of ZCNet.
The terms and conditions of this agreement shall be
interpreted and enforced pursuant to the laws of the
State of California.
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