This AUP governs the use of FuturaHosters.com's hosting service. Violation of this AUP may result in suspension or termination of your service. In the event of a dispute between you and FuturaHosters.com regarding the interpretation of this AUP, FuturaHosters.com's interpretation, in its reasonable commercial judgment, shall govern.

The following is the entire Acceptable User Policy ('AUP') agreement between FuturaHosters.com and the personal or corporate account holder. FuturaHosters.com provides World Wide Web Hosting, Voice Services Hosting, Game Servers Hosting, Web Design and script installation. FuturaHosters.com has certain legal and ethical responsibilities consisting with the use of its servers and equipment involved in these services. FuturaHosters.com's general policy is to act as a provider of Internet presence. FuturaHosters.com reserves the rights to suspend or cancel a customer's access to any or all services provided by FuturaHosters.com when we decide that the account has been inappropriately used.

What is Appropriate Usage?

FuturaHosters.com is designed to serve the web hosting needs of small, medium, independently owned and operated businesses. It is not appropriate to use our services to support large enterprises or internationally based businesses with a sustained demand that places undue burden on our systems or negatively impacts use by small, medium, independently owned and operated businesses.

FuturaHosters.com is a shared hosting service, which means that a number of customers' web sites and other email or storage services are hosted from the same physical server. FuturaHosters.com uses abuse controls to help ensure that use of our services does not adversely affect the performance of our system or other customers' sites. It is not appropriate to use an account primarily as an online storage space or for archiving electronic files.

Disk Space

If you use your services consistently with the Terms of Service and these paragraphs, your site can grow as large as necessary to meet your small/medium business needs, but to ensure a great experience for all, we will place some constraints on how fast you can grow. The vast majority of our customers' sites grow at rates well within our rules, but our abuse controls may cause a brief delay while we evaluate if expansion is appropriate for your particular plan.

FuturaHosters.com Customers may not initiate the following (below), if any customer does FuturaHosters.com may terminate the account with no refund. Depending on the situation there will/won't be warnings sent.
a) Use of any kind of distributed computing software, including but not limited to SETI@home, Node Zero and Folding@home.
b) Run any type of interactive real-time chat applications that require server resources. Remotely-hosted services are fully allowed.
c) Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons.
d) Run any file sharing, bit torrent or other P2P network services, client or server software.
e) Run/host any file mirror platform to distribute software and/or downloads.
f) Run any internet speed test software/platform/mirror/host.

Bandwidth

In most cases, if you use our services consistently with our Terms of Service, visitors to your web site will be able to download and view as much content from your site as they like. However, in certain circumstances, our server processing power, server memory, or abuse controls could limit downloads from your site. You will always be able to use as much bandwidth as your account has.

Unlimited

You may have noticed all of our services come with unlimited bandwidth. This is subject to a fair usage policy that we need to discuss together when your usage begins to create problems to other customers on the same structure.

Offensive Content

You may not publish or transmit via FuturaHosters.com's services any content that FuturaHosters.com reasonably believes:
a) constitutes child pornography;
b) constitutes pornography;
c) is excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence, or contains harassing content or hate speech;
d) is unfair or deceptive under the consumer protection laws of any jurisdiction, including chain letters and pyramid schemes;
e) is defamatory or violates a person's privacy;
f) creates a risk to a person's safety or health, creates a risk to public safety or health, compromises national security, or interferes with a investigation by law enforcement;
g) improperly exposes trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information of another person;
h) is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections;
i) clearly infringes on another person's trade or service mark, patent, or other property right;
j) promotes illegal drugs, violates export control laws, relates to illegal gambling, or illegal arms trafficking;
k) is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws applicable to you or to FuturaHosters.com;
l) is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may result in retaliation against FuturaHosters.com by offended viewers;

FuturaHosters.com does not accept material such as:
a) Proxy, Warez, Escrow, High Yield Investment Programs (HYIP), illegal Gambling and Lottery sites.
b )Content "published or transmitted" via FuturaHosters.com service includes Web content, e-mail, bulletin board postings, chat, and any other type of posting or transmission that relies on any Internet service provided by FuturaHosters.com.
* FuturaHosters.com can terminate service for any of the above reasons and it's at FuturaHosters.com's sole discretion to issue a refund

Security

You must take reasonable security precautions. You must protect the confidentiality of your password, and you should change your password periodically.

Bulk Comercial Email

Bulk commercial email, mailing lists and email reflectors are NOT allowed on FuturaHosters.com servers.

Unsolicited E-Mail

You may not send any unsolicited e-mail, either in bulk or individually, to any person who has indicated that they do not wish to receive it. You must comply with the rules of any other network you access or participate in using your FuturaHosters.com services.

Material Protected By Copyright

You may not publish, distribute, or otherwise copy in any manner any music, software, art, or other work protected by copyright law unless:
a) you have been expressly authorized by the owner of the copyright for the work to copy the work in that manner.
b) you are otherwise permitted by established international copyright law to copy the work in that manner.

FuturaHosters.com will terminate the service of repeat copyright infringers.

Other

You must have valid and current information on file with your domain name registrar for any domain hosted on the FuturaHosters.com network.

Disclaimer

FuturaHosters.com is under no duty, and does not by this AUP undertake a duty, to monitor or police our customers' activities and disclaims any responsibility for any misuse of the FuturaHosters.com network.

Internet Abuse

You may not engage in illegal, abusive, or irresponsible behavior, including:

a) Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures (including those belonging to FuturaHosters.com and its customers) without express authorization of the owner of the system or network;
b) monitoring data or traffic on any network or system without the authorization of the owner of the system or network;
c) Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks;
d) Use of an Internet account or computer without the owner's authorization, including, but not limited to Internet scanning (tricking other people into releasing their passwords), password robbery, security hole scanning, and port scanning;
e) Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting;
f) Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against the FuturaHosters.com network.
g) Use of FuturaHosters.com network in a way that unreasonably interferes with FuturaHosters.com other customers use of the network

Newsgroup, Chat Forums, Other Networks

You must comply with the rules and conventions for postings to any bulletin board, chat group or other forum in which you participate, such as IRC and USENET groups including their rules for content and commercial postings. These groups usually prohibit the posting of off-topic commercial messages, or mass postings to multiple forums.

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