Acceptable Use Policy

1. USER-SUPPLIED CONTENT

All services may be used for lawful purposes only. Through Alfa Roza’s Service, Client may have access to chat areas, bulletin boards, web pages, email, or other services that enable Client to send or post materials (“content”) and make that content available to others. Client must not submit, publish, or display on the Network any defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, infringing, or threatening content. In addition, Client may not submit, publish, or display any content that violates any US Federal, State, or Local law. Client is solely responsible for the content made accessible through the Network. Client may not use the Service to assist any other person or entity to violate any Federal, State, or Local laws, ordinances, or regulations.

Alfa Roza is not obligated to monitor the network to examine available content. Client hereby acknowledges that if Alfa Roza is made aware of content that is determined to be, in Alfa Roza’s sole discretion, unacceptable, undesirable, offensive, indecent, obscene, excessively violent or otherwise objectionable, Alfa Roza has the right, but not the obligation, to edit, remove or deny access to such content. Alfa Roza may disclose any content or records concerning Client’s account as required to satisfy any law, regulation, governmental request, or court order.

2. Prohibited Activities

The following content and activities may not be displayed or promoted by Client nor associated in any way with Client’s account or Alfa Roza’s services. Alfa Roza shall be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

• Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any United States Federal, State or local law.
• Copyrighted material used without permission.
• Material or activities judged by Alfa Roza to be threatening, obscene, disparaging, or hate-related.
• Material protected by trade secret or other statute.
• Content that promotes any illegal or prohibited activity.
• Content that may be damaging to Alfa Roza’s servers or any other server on the Internet.
• Pirated software (warez).
• Hacking/Phreaking – Includes sites with material, links, or resources for hacking, phreaking, viruses, anarchy, or any type of site that promotes or participates in willful harm to Internet sites or providers.
• Promotion or sale of unsolicited or bulk e-mail (SPAM) software or services.
• Unsolicited or bulk e-mail or newsgroup posts (SPAM) which references and/or is traceable to Alfa Roza and/or any Client in any way.
• Illegally distributed Audio/Video media.
• Harassing, annoying, or otherwise interfering with any person’s, group’s, or organization’s use or enjoyment of the Internet experience.
• Links or references to any of the above.
  
  

4. NETWORK SECURITY

Client may not use Alfa Roza’s Network in an attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of any host, network, or account. This includes but is not limited to, accessing data not intended for the Client, logging into a server or account the Client is not expressly authorized to access, password cracking, probing the security of other networks in search of weakness, or violation of any other organization’s security policy. Client may not attempt to interfere or deny service to any user, host, or network. This includes, but is not limited to, flooding, mail bombing, or other deliberate attempts to overload or crash a host or network. Alfa Roza will cooperate fully with investigations of violations of systems or network security at other sites, including cooperating with law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations. Users who violate system or network security may incur criminal or civil liability.

5. BACKGROUND RUNNING APPLICATIONS

Background daemons in general are prohibited. Alfa Roza will consider requests to allow these applications on a case-by-case review basis. If allowed, extra charges will be assessed based on resources and system maintenance needed.

6. SERVER RESOURCES

Any website that uses a high amount of server resources (such as, but not limited to CPU time, memory usage, and network resources) will be given an option of either upgrading their service level or reducing the resource used to an acceptable level.

7. UNSOLICITED E-MAIL (SPAM)

Alfa Roza’s servers may not be the source, intermediary, or destination address involved in the transmission of unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE), unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE), spam, off-topic newsgroup posts, flames, or mail bombs. Client’s domain may not be referenced or traceable in any way as a result of any of the above. This prohibition extends to the sending of unsolicited mass mailings from another service that in any way implicates the use of Alfa Roza’s network or equipment. Alfa Roza reserves the right to refuse and/or cancel service to known spammers. Alfa Roza reserves the sole right to determine what constitutes a violation of this provision.

SPAM is any unsolicited e-mail, post, or facsimile in the newsgroup, e-mail, fax, or other electronic medium. Any unsolicited commercial email (no matter how relevant or important it may be) is spam; any unsolicited bulk email (commercial or not) is also spam. Mass and unsolicited are not concurrent conditions for spam. One and/or the other is sufficient. In the medium of newsgroups, spam is considered to be any off-topic posting and/or any identical posting to multiple newsgroups. A message is considered unsolicited if it is posted in violation of a newsgroup charter or if it is sent to a recipient who has not requested or invited the message. For purposes of this provision, merely making one’s e-mail address accessible to the public shall not constitute a request or invitation to receive messages.

Any spam complaints received about Client domains are addressed seriously. After investigation, if it is deemed by Alfa Roza that spamming practices have indeed been utilized on Alfa Roza’s servers, Alfa Roza reserves the right to terminate a domain account immediately with no refund and to assess a $250 penalty per spam incident. Client expressly accepts Alfa Roza’s right to assess this penalty and agrees to its assessment and payment.

8. SERVER ABUSE

Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to any server is strictly prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to attempting to gain access to password files other than your own, attempting to gain unauthorized access to other accounts on your server, or anything that causes server malfunction. Failure to comply is subject to immediate account deactivation without a refund.

Please note that while CGI/PERL scripts and/or mSQL/mySQL code can unintentionally cause server malfunction, Alfa Roza will make the final determination if the code was maliciously programmed. If the code was programmed incorrectly but not out of apparently malicious intent, Alfa Roza will disable the program, but not cancel Client’s account.

9. TRAFFIC OVERAGES

Alfa Roza will make every reasonable effort to notify Client of projected traffic overages prior to any action being taken to disable Client’s account. However, Alfa Roza reserves the right to disable Client’s account without prior warning due to traffic over the account allocation. In some cases, “unusual” traffic patterns will cause an automatic disablement of Client’s account without warning.

Bandwidth usage is calculated weekly around midnight on Monday morning. A monthly projection is calculated at that time based upon month-to-date actual usage. If the projection exceeds the account allocation, an e-mail warning is sent to the Client. If actual bandwidth usage exceeds the allocation, the account is automatically disabled; the Client is notified via e-mail of the disablement and is given the option of purchasing additional bandwidth to re-enable the account. Client is not automatically charged for excess bandwidth usage without agreeing to the charges in advance. However, payment for excess bandwidth usage will be required before the account can be re-enabled.

Effective 2 November 2023