The Acceptable Use Policy ("Policy") explains the proper conduct and prohibited uses of all PAWS Services (collectively called Plan(s)). It is essential in providing quality service, an  protecting all our customers' privileges. By registering for the Plan(s), and accepting the Terms and Conditions, you also acknowledge, and accept that you are also bound by this Policy, and agree to abide by this Policy for as long as you are bound by the Terms and Conditions agreement.

Modification

PAWS reserves the right to update this Policy at anytime and will be immediately effective upon posting to our web site.

Violations

Violation of this Policy is strictly prohibited. Any violation will result in immediate suspension, termination and/or compensations awarded to PAWS for damages caused by these violations as detailed in this Policy. You shall remain solely liable and responsible for your use of the Plan(s) and any all content that you display, upload, download, or transmit through the use of the Plan(s). PAWS will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this policy.

Illegal Use

You may use a PAWS Plan(s) for lawful purposes only. Transmission, distribution, sale, or storage of any material that violates any law, regulation or this Policy is strictly prohibited. This includes, without limitation: copyrighted material; trademarks; patent; trade secrets, material that obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat or violates export control laws. Examples of unacceptable content or links include: pirated software, hacker programs or archives, Warez sites. PAWS reserves the right to restrict, prohibit, or remove any content that PAWS determines in its sole discretion to be harmful to the server, networks, equipment, reputation, customer or any other third party. 

E-mail

Spamming, the sending of unsolicited mass e-mail from, through, or towards any PAWS server is strictly prohibited. Spamming includes, without limitation: (1) any form of advertising such as commercial advertising; (2) informational announcements to people who do not request them; (3) harassing e-mails, whether through language, frequency, amount, or size; (4) chain letters; (5) malicious e-mail such as "mail bombing"; (6) e-mail containing forged or false information, including the mail-sender and routing information, and subject header. You will also violate this policy if you use the services of other ISP or IPP to spam, but channeling these activities to your Plan(s) on any PAWS server. PAWS will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. Any violation of this provision will result in immediate termination of your account, plus accessed a minimum fine of $200. 

Usage

We do not allow any kind of illegal software downloads or uploads on our servers.

Adult Content

Adult-oriented sites, pornography and sex-related merchandising are strictly prohibited. This includes sites that may infer sexual content of any kind or provide links to adult content elsewhere. We also prohibit sites that provide storage, sale, distribution, hypertext link to, advertisement, promotion or hosting of material that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, harmful, threatening, harassing, or an intrusion of privacy or publicity rights, or otherwise objectionable.

CGI-scripts

Cgi-script sharing among domains not hosted by PAWS is strictly prohibited. Any CGI-scripts considered to be harming system performance or network integrity will be shut down without prior notice. Also, excessive CPU processing or memory usage is strictly prohibited on any PAWS server. 

Security

Any form of violation of a PAWS, or any third party's server, system, or network security through the use of the Plan(s) are prohibited and may result in criminal or civil liability. PAWS may investigate such incidents involving such violations and cooperate with the proper law enforcement authorities if a criminal violation is suspected. This includes, without limitation: (1) distributing or hosting content, destructive or harmful content including, without limitation, viruses, Trojan Horses, worms, time bombs, cancel bots or any computer programming routines that may damage or interfere with any system, program, data or personal information; (2) any form of hacking or unauthorized access, which includes, without limitation, use probing, or scanning of systems security or authentication measures, data or traffic; (3) interference with service to any user, host, or network including any form of attempts to overload a system, any form of system attacks, or forgery which can come from any kind of program/script/command or messages of any kind designed to interfere with a user's terminal session, via any means, locally or by Internet; (4) any form of interception which includes, without limitation, unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic on any network, server or system without express authorization from the owner; (5) any form of avoidance of system restriction; (6) and any form of failure to safeguard accounts which includes, without limitation, failure to prevent unauthorized access by giving away passwords. PAWS reserves the right to limit or disable any and all account features that may compromise server security.

Fraud Content

Offering or distributing any fraudulent goods, services, schemes or promotions (e.g. - make money fast schemes, chain-letters, pyramid schemes), or submitting false data on any sign-up form, contract or online application through registration, or any fraudulent use of information obtained through the use of the Plans, including, without limitation, use of credit card numbers, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, or home addresses is strictly prohibited.

Copyright or trademark infringement

Use of the PAWS service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other proprietary rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material, the digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted sources, and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software. Copyright or trademark infringement is cause for immediate account termination without refund!

Privacy Policy

Privacy for our customers is extremely important to PAWS. We strongly believe in individual's rights to privacy and that personal information is not a commodity and should not be treated as one. At all times, we will never share your personal information with any third parties without your permission. Your email addresses are not for sale or trade and are strictly guarded. All client information such as email, phone numbers, addresses, etc is used only for internal purposes. This contact information is used to get in touch with you when necessary and for announcements. Financial information is only collected and used by a 3rd party payment processor.

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Last modified: January 12, 2006

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