ClickSmartNetwork, LLC
Acceptable Use Policy
Last Updated December 9, 2009
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ClickSmartNetwork, LLC, its parent, subsidiaries, divisions and related web sites (hereinafter
collectively referred to as “Company”) Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP")
describes the proper kinds of conduct and prohibited uses of Company’s
services (the "Services"), as described and subscribed to pursuant
to the applicable Terms and Conditions Agreement (“Agreement”) of
which this policy is incorporated. This AUP is not exhaustive and Company reserves
the right to modify the AUP at any time, effective upon posting of the modified
AUP to the website. By registering for and using the Services, and thereby accepting
the Terms and Conditions under which you have accessed the Services, you agree
to abide by this AUP as modified from time to time. Any violation of the AUP
may result in the suspension or termination of your account and such other action
as Company deems appropriate.
VIOLATION OF ANY OF THESE GUIDELINES IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED AND MAY RESULT IN THE IMMEDIATE TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION OF THE SERVICES YOU RECEIVE FROM COMPANY. YOU WILL REMAIN SOLELY LIABLE AND RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES AND ANY AND ALL CONTENT THAT YOU DISPLAY, UPLOAD, DOWNLOAD OR TRANSMIT THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICES. "CONTENT" INCLUDES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, YOUR E-MAIL, WEB PAGES, PERSONAL HOME PAGES, AND DOMAIN NAMES.
INDIRECT OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS OF THE AUP, AND ACTUAL OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS BY A THIRD PARTY ON YOUR BEHALF, WILL BE CONSIDERED VIOLATIONS OF THE AUP BY YOU.
1. YOUR GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES.
The Services enable
you to interact with users of the Internet and retrieve and send vast amounts
of commercial information. Company provides the Services with the goals of (a)
ensuring security, reliability and privacy of the Services and the users of
the Services, (b) maintaining an image and reputation of Company as a responsible
provider of the Services, (c) preserving the value of Internet resources as
a conduit for free expression, (d) encouraging the responsible use of Internet
resources and discouraging degrading, libelous or illegal uses of such resources.
Consequently, Company expects you, and all other users of the Services, to take
responsibility in using the Internet with courtesy and responsibility, and be
familiar with and to practice good Internet etiquette, in furtherance of the
above stated goals.
2. PROHIBITED CONDUCT.
You may use the Services only for lawful purposes. Transmission, distribution,
sale, or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law, regulation,
or the AUP is prohibited. The following non-exhaustive list details the kinds
of illegal or harmful conduct that are prohibited. Company reserves the rights
to restrict or prohibit any and all uses of the Services or content on your
Website(s) and to remove such materials from its servers, which Company determines
in its sole discretion is harmful to its servers, systems, network, reputation,
good will, other Company customers, or any third party.
• Defamation. You agree not to post or transmit any content in violation
of any applicable law of libel or defamation in the United States or elsewhere.
• False advertising. You agree not to post or transmit on or though any
services any advertising or promotional materials that contain false, deceptive
or misleading statements, claims, or representations.
• Copyright/Trademark Infringement. You agree not to post or transmit
on or through the services any content that infringes on the intellectual property
rights or other proprietary rights including, without limitation, material protected
by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other intellectual property
right of another person or entity or use the same without proper authorization.
Infringement may result from, among other activities, the unauthorized copying
and posting of pictures, logos, software, articles, musical works, and videos.
• Offensive Materials. You agree not to transmit, disseminate, sell, store
or host material that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic,
indecent, lewd, harassing, threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity
rights, abusive, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable.
• Export Violations. You agree not to post or send software or technical
information in violation of U.S. export laws, including, without limitation,
the Export Administration Act and the Export Administration Regulations maintained
by the Department of Commerce.
• Harmful Content. You agree not to disseminate or host 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.
• Fraudulent Conduct. Your agree not to offer or disseminate fraudulent
goods, services, schemes, or promotions (i.e., make money fast schemes, chain
letters, pyramid schemes), or furnishing false data on any signup form, contract
or online application or registration, or the fraudulent use of any information
obtained through the use of the Services, including without limitation, use
of credit card numbers.
• False Pretenses. You agree not to use the services to impersonate any
person or communicate under a false name or a name that you are not entitled
or authorized to use in all forms of online communication. False domain registration
is strictly prohibited.
• Failure to Abide by Third-Party Website Policies. You agree not to violate
the rules, regulations, or policies that apply to any third-party network, server
computer database, or website that you access by or through the services.
• Child Pornography. You agree not to violate the Federal child exploitation
statutes to possess, produce, receive, transport or distribute by any means,
including computer, visual depictions of “sexual intercourse” and/or
“sexually explicit conduct” involving children.
• Distribution of Viruses. You agree not to intentionally distribute any
software that attempts to and/or causes damage or annoyance to persons, data,
and/or computer systems.
• Facilitating a Violation of this AUP. You agree not to advertise, transmit,
or otherwise make available any software, program, product, or service that
is designed to violate this AUP which includes, but is not limited to, spam,
pinging, flooding, mailbombing, denial of service attacks or piracy of software.
• Unauthorized access. Using the Services to access, or to attempt to
access, the accounts of others, or to penetrate, or attempt to penetrate, security
measures of another entity's computer software or hardware, electronic communications
system, or telecommunications system, whether or not the intrusion results in
the corruption or loss of data.
• Collection of personal data. Using the Services to collect, or attempt
to collect, personal information about third parties without their knowledge
or consent.
• Reselling the services. Reselling the Services without Company's express
written consent.
• Network disruptions and unfriendly activity. Using the Services for
any activity which adversely affects the ability of other people or systems
to use Company's Services or the Internet. This includes "denial of service"
(DoS) attacks against another network host or individual user. Interference
with or disruption of other network users, network services or network equipment
is prohibited. It is your responsibility to ensure that their network is configured
in a secure manner. You may not, through action or inaction, allow others to
use your network for illegal or inappropriate actions. You may not permit your
network, through action or inaction, to be configured in such a way that gives
a third party the capability to use their network in an illegal or inappropriate
manner.
3. SYSTEM AND NETWORK SECURITY
AND INTEGRITY.
Violations of Company's or any third party's server, system or network security
through the use of the Services are prohibited, and may result in criminal and
civil liability. Company may investigate incidents involving such violations.
Company may involve and cooperate with law enforcement if a criminal violation
is suspected. Examples of server, system or network security violations include,
without limitation, the following:
• Hacking. Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems, servers or
networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of
a system, server or network or to breach security or authentication measures
without express authorization of the owner of the system, server or network.
• Interception. Unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic on any network,
server, or system without express authorization of the owner of the system,
server, or network.
• Intentional Interference. Interference with service to any user, host
or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, news bombing, other
flooding techniques, deliberate attempts to overload a system, broadcast attacks
and any activity resulting in the crash of a host. Intentional interference
also means the use of any kind of program/script/command, or sends messages
of any kind, designed to interfere with a user's terminal session, via any means,
locally or by the Internet.
• Falsification of Origin or Routing Information. Forging of any TCP-IP
packet header, e-mail header or any part of a message header. Using, selling,
or distributing in conjunction with services any computer program designed to
conceal the source or routing information of electronic mail messages in a manner
that falsifies an internet domain, header information, date or time stamp, originating
email address or other identifier.
• Avoiding System Restrictions. Using manual or electronic means to avoid
any use limitations placed on the Services such as timing out.
• Failure to Safeguard Accounts. Failing to prevent unauthorized access
to accounts, including any account passwords.
4. E-MAIL.
The Services may be used to transmit Commercial E-mail that complies with all
United States state and federal laws including, but not limited to the CAN-SPAM
Act of 2003. However, you may not distribute, publish, or send any of the following
types of e-mail:
• Unsolicited promotions, advertising or solicitations (commonly referred
to as "spam") that is not compliant with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003,
including, without limitation, commercial advertising and informational announcements
to those email addresses who have requested that their email addresses be opted
out.
• Commercial promotions, advertising, solicitations, or informational
announcements that contain false or misleading information in any form.
• Harassing e-mail, whether through language, frequency, or size of messages.
• Chain letters.
• Malicious e-mail, including without limitation "mailbombing"
(flooding a user or Web site with very large or numerous pieces of mail) or
"trolling" (posting outrageous messages to generate numerous responses).
• E-mails containing forged or falsified information in the header (including
sender name and routing information), or any other forged or falsified information.
• Third Party Links. Links to third party web sites should not be inserted
in emails without the direct or indirect permission of the third party, and
your email should conspicuously notify the recipient that the link is to a third
party over which you have no control or operation.
• In addition, you may not use Company's mail server or another website's
mail server to relay mail without the express permission of the account holder
or the Web site. Posting the same or similar message to one or more newsgroups,
message boards, blogs, Company discussion groups, etc., (excessive cross-posting
or multiple-posting) also is explicitly prohibited.
Third Party Links. Links to third party web sites should not be inserted in
emails without the direct or indirect permission of the third party, and your
email should conspicuously notify the recipient that the link is to a third
party over which you have no control or operation.
In addition, you may not use Company's mail server or another Web site's mail
server to relay mail without the express permission of the account holder or
the Web site. Posting the same or similar message to one or more newsgroups,
message boards, blogs, online discussion groups, etc., (excessive cross-posting
or multiple-posting) also is explicitly prohibited.
5. INSTANT MESSAGING AND
CHAT SERVICES.
Inappropriate use
or misuse of instant messaging or chat applications on the Company network is
not acceptable or does not comply with the applicable laws and regulations.
6. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY
SITES.
The Website may contain links to other websites that are maintained by third
parties over which Company has no control. These links are provided for convenience
only. Use of these links will cause you to leave this Site and use of third-party
websites is entirely at your own risk. Company makes no representation or warranty
concerning any other site or the information, products or services offered or
appearing on or through these sites. Company does not sponsor or endorse the
operators of the sites or the content, products or services they provide, and
Company is not responsible or liable for the conduct of the sites' operators,
the content, availability, accuracy, quality, advertising, products, services
or other materials offered at the sites.
7. MODIFICATION OF THE POLICY
AND AGREEMENT.
We reserve the right to modify this Policy and Agreement at any time, effective
upon its posting, as modified. Each time you use the Website, you agree to then
currently posted policies and Agreements by accessing or using our Website,
products or services.
8. PRIVACY POLICY.
Company respects the privacy of visitors to our site. Please take a few minutes
to review our Privacy Policy.
9. REPORTING VIOLATIONS
OF AUP.
Company requests that anyone who believes that there is a violation of this
AUP direct the information to its legal department at: legal@clicksmartnetwork.com.
In making this report, please provide the following information if it is available:
(1) the IP address used to commit the alleged violation; (2) the date and time
of the alleged violation; (3) evidence of the alleged violation.
In response to any complaint, Company may take any one or more of the following
actions: (1) issue written or verbal warnings; (2) suspend services; (3) terminate
services without notice; (4) bring legal action to enjoin violations and/or
to collect damages, if any caused by the violation; (5) such other actions in
the sole discretion of Company.
10. MISCELLANEOUS.
Any failure to insist upon or enforce performance of any provision in this Policy
will not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. Neither the course
of conduct between the parties nor trade practice will act to modify any provision
in this Policy and Agreement. Company may assign its rights and duties under
these terms to any party at any time without notice to you. If any provision
of this Agreement is deemed unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable,
then that provision will be deemed severable from these terms and conditions
so that it does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining
provisions.
Any questions regarding this AUP should be directed to legal@clicksmartnetwork.com
.