DIGITIZEDHOST® – ACCEPTIBLE USE POLICY

Any person, business, organization, reseller, or user of any DigitizedHost® service agrees to the following policies, and use of any DigitizedHost® service constitutes acceptance of all expressed policies. Modifications of DigitizedHost®’s policies can be made at any time, and are in effect at the time of posted changes. DigitizedHost® will determine if and when policies have been violated.

Illegal Activity: DigitizedHost®’s servers will only be used to host websites with lawful content. Any content in violation of Country, Federal, State, or Local regulations is prohibited. Using DigitizedHost®’s services to conspire to commit, or support the commission of illegal activities is also prohibited. Examples of unlawful content include, but are not limited to:

  • Involvement in the transmission of copyrighted media, applications, published works, or data protected by trade secret, without sufficient rights to said materials.
  • Child pornography and/or kidnapping materials.
  • Materials that are terroristic in nature.
  • Materials meant to incite violence.
  • Materials that violate human and animal rights.
  • Pyramid or Ponzi schemes.
  • Fraudulent sites and phishing.
  • Cracking programs and/or key generators.
  • Materials that violate import/export restrictions.
  • Materials that are threatening, harassing, or obscene in content.
 
Hacking: DigitizedHost®’s servers will host no websites whose purpose is the discussion of hacking activities, or distribution of hacking tools. Also, accessing any system, service, or network hosted by DigitizedHost® is prohibited without the owner’s express consent.</p”>

Service Interruptions: Any action that causes service interruption to DigitizedHost®’s networks or servers, or any other outside network or server, is prohibited.

Anonymous Proxies: Anonymous proxies are prohibited on DigitizedHost®’s networks and servers.

Spamming: Using DigitizedHost®’s servers to advocate, sell, or make available tools or methods to send or relay unsolicited emails, especially to advertise for their site hosted by DigitizedHost®, is prohibited. Any violation of this policy will result in immediate account cancellation without a refund. For more information about DigitizedHost®’s policies regarding spamming, please read the ANTI-SPAM POLICY.

Personal Information Harvesting: Use of or collecting personal identifiers (including email addresses and screen names) without the consent of the individual, company, or organization is prohibited.

Blacklisting: If the IP numbers assigned to your DigitizedHost® account become listed on an abuse database (such as Spamhaus), your account will be in violation of this Acceptable Use Policy. DigitizedHost® retains the right to suspend and/or terminate any accounts in violation.

Investment Sites: Investment sites such as FOREX, egold exchange, etc are prohibited.

HYIPs: High-yield investment programs are prohibited.

Spoofing/Impersonation: Impersonation of another entity (such as through email, Internet forums, etc) or spoofing email or network packet headers is prohibited.

Spamdexing: Activities and actions related to Black Hat SEO, spamdexing, and “scraper sites” are prohibited.

Personal Backups: DigitizedHost®’s servers is not intended for data backup or archiving (with the exception of DigitizedHost®’s services), so DigitizedHost® reserves the right to apply additional charges or discontinuation of services.

Automation Tools: Automation tools, auto typers, macros, and bots used to circumvent restrictions on games or other applications are prohibited.

Port Scans: Unnecessary port scans are prohibited.

Exceeding Resource Limits: Excessive use of resource limits is prohibited.

Filtering: DigitizedHost® may block, filter, or throttle ports and/or IP address ranges.

SHARED HOSTING ADDENDUM
Any person, business, organization, reseller, or user of any DigitizedHost® service agrees to the following policies regarding shared web hosting products and services. Adult Thumbnail Galleries/Banner Exchanges: Running banner exchanges, free adult thumbnail gallery posts, and free adult image galleries on a site hosted by DigitizedHost®’s servers is prohibited.

Abusive Scripts/Processes: Any script, process, etc (such as CPU-intensive CGI/PHP scripts or websites exceeding the allowable limits of a shared hosting environment) that prevents satisfactory use of DigitizedHost®’s services is prohibited.

IRC Bots/Bouncers: IRC bots, “bouncers”, bnc, etc are prohibited.

BitTorrent Software: Use of BitTorrent protocol is prohibited.

Proxy Software: Use of any proxy software is prohibited.

Network Daemons: Connections to or from external networks are prohibited; processes may only bind to the local host.

Policy Violations: Any materials that violate Country, Federal, State, Local, or DigitizedHost® regulations are prohibited, including storage, presentation, or transmission of any such materials. Violations may result in temporary account deactivation, service termination, or complete cancellation of any services. Customers will be contacted regarding any violation by the DigitizedHost® Abuse Department via email if it appears there has been a violation of these terms. Any alert is a courtesy, and must be responded to promptly within 24 hours. In the case of abuse, the customer must respond immediately and sufficiently to the satisfaction of DigitizedHost®, or the customer’s account will be suspended and charged an eighty dollar ($80.00 USD) fee. In the event of reactivation, any and all abuse or service fees must be paid prior to reactivation. Service termination may result from repeated abuse and/or failure to respond to abuse alerts.

Note: It is the customer’s responsibility to ensure that the contact information, especially the email address on record, is accurate, valid, and monitored at all times. Abuse alerts will be communicated through the listed email address. If the customer needs to set, modify, or change the contact email address, he/she should use the client management interface. Any activity that violates DigitizedHost’s® terms and conditions is the responsibility of the customers/resellers associated with the prohibited products and/or services. If an unauthorized party is found to be utilizing a service of DigitizedHost® for the purpose of prohibited products and/or services, the direct customer/reseller is responsible for rectifying and correcting these violations. In the course of investigating an unauthorized user, DigitizedHost® may disable all of a customer’s services until the system can be reinstalled or secured. If DigitizedHost® is required to investigate unauthorized use on behalf of a customer, the customer agrees to compensate DigitizedHost® at a rate of sixty-five dollars ($65.00 USD) per hour of service. Reinstallation, which does not include any operating system changes or licensing costs, is performed for a fee of thirty-five dollars ($35.00 USD). It is the responsibility of DigitizedHost’s® customers to maintain secure systems, including (but not limited to) requesting kernel updates, applying application patches, securing dedicated servers, securing virtual private servers, securing user accounts/websites, and securing third-party applications. To qualify for a higher level of support, direct customers/resellers should ensure fully managed support services.