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Acceptable Use Policy

Electric City Consulting LLC(ECC) has the responsibility to provide each of our clients with the best services we can provide to the best of our ability and expertise. Our policies are designed to maximize the availability of all advertised services to our customers. Including you. Hosting accounts that violate our Acceptable Use Policies may be deactivated, without prior notice and without warning. We don't allow:

  • Inappropriate or Illegal Material: publishing or linking to pornography, obscenity, trademarks or copyrighted material without permission, virus and Trojan Horse software, "pirate", "hacker", "warez", and "P2P" file archives.
  • Deceptive or Fraudulent Material: publishing or linking to faux Web pages designed to deceive the reader to take inappropriate action (as opposed to parody), forged From: or envelope source in e-mail.
  • Display of Private Information: publishing or linking to financial information, Social Security Numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, medical information, or other sensitive information about others.
  • UBE ("spam"): sending or relaying unsolicited bulk e-mail, using UBE, even if not sent from American Internet, to advertise (spamvertise) your site, providing any service to spammers such as mailboxes, smart-hosting, or Web sites.
  • Abusive Activities: Internet scans or monitoring of any kind, denials of service attacks, and any other activity designed to disrupt the enjoyment of the Internet by others.
  • Internet Relay Chat: scripts, bots, "eggdrops", servers, or clients of any kind.
  • Account or Domain Identity Fraud: deliberately providing inaccurate information for contacts, billing, or WHOIS registration information.
  • Account Abuse: purchasing multiple accounts solely for the purpose of avoiding limits and charges for bandwidth, scripts that bypass our mail transport agents (MTAs) by using port 25/tcp.
  • Excessive Activities: use of more than 15 percent of server resources (CPU, memory, disk accesses), overly complex SQL queries, overloading our mail server(s) with large amounts of mail, or the unapproved use of background-running scripts on shared-customer servers
  • Excessive Bandwidth: use of more network bandwidth (sum of incoming and outgoing traffic) than is permitted by your hosting plan augmented by any excess-bandwidth purchase.
  • Inappropriate Use: using more than 33 percent of traffic or disk usage for file storage and transfer on shared-customer servers without prior permission.
  • Exploitable Server Scripts: any CGI script that can be hijacked for unintended purposes. The formmail.cgi and formmail.pl scripts are specifically prohibited, and are automatically disabled when found; we provide a secure formmail.php script for your use.
  • Any other material, use, or activity that ECC determines to be harmful to its on-site system and facilities, its operations, its network, or to other Internet users.
 
 
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