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This Acceptable Use Policy specifies certain actions prohibited by webtownusa.com. Webtownusa.com reserves the right to modify this Policy at any time to stay in compliance with any laws, regulations and security requirements. By using webtownusa.com services, any customer, employee or third party unconditionally accepts the terms of this policy.

 ILLEGAL USE.

Webtownusa.com may be used only for lawful purposes. Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation coming to or from any unauthorized network or system is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights used without proper authorization; government and military data protected by law and national security; university and academic data protected by public policy; and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws. Any violation of the above which compromises the integrity of HSN Data Corp. or webtownusa.com or any other network is strictly prohibited.

SYSTEM AND NETWORK SECURITY.

Violations of system or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability. Webtownusa.com will investigate incidents involving such violations and may involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities if a criminal violation is suspected. Examples of unlawful acts, system, or network security violations include, without limitation, the following:
 

• Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, damage, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without express authorization of the owner of the system or network.
• Unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic on any network or system without express authorization of the owner of the system or network. Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mailbombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks.
• Unauthorized access to any data, system, or network from an unauthorized system or network for any purpose which is not lawful or which is intended to do harm.
• Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting. Electronic forging of any kind to include but not limited to IP addresses, domains, business names, etc.

Sending unsolicited mail messages, including, without limitation, commercial advertising and informational announcements, is explicitly prohibited. A user shall not use another site's mail server to relay mail without the express permission of the site owner.

USENET.

Posting the same or similar message to one or more newsgroups (excessive cross-posting or multiple-posting, also known as "SPAM") is expressly prohibited.
 

INDIRECT OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS OF THE POLICY, AND ACTUAL OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS BY A THIRD PARTY ON BEHALF OF AN HSN DATA CORP. (WEBTOWNUSA.COM) CUSTOMER OR A CUSTOMER'S END USER, SHALL BE CONSIDERED VIOLATIONS OF THE POLICY BY SUCH CUSTOMER OR END USER.

For Example:
 
If you are hosting a bulk email site on webtownusa.com servers and you use another ISP to SPAM from in order to reference your webtownusa.com site by IP address or domain name, you are violating webtownusa.com policy and possibly the law.
 
If you have been granted telnet access to webtownusa.com servers, multiple telnet log-ons are strictly prohibited and you must come from a valid IP address. Forgery is against the law.

Any type of denial of service attack from valid or invalid addresses is a violation of webtownusa.com security policy and against the law.

If you have been granted password privileges for FTP or telnet, sharing your password with an unauthorized user or third party is strictly prohibited.

• illegal Use or System or Network Security issues
  
• email abuse
  
• USENET abuse or SPAM

Webtownusa.com will also not tolerate any adult material or spamming and both infringements shall result in immediate termination and removal of the site and/or virtual server without a refund. Webtownusa.com  prides itself as a responsible member of the Internet community and is committed to protecting the data of and providing quality service to all webtownusa.com customers all of the time.

COLLECTION PROCEDURES.

If your account becomes overdue after the due date on an invoice for either hosting or design/development services, the following will occur; you will receive a reminder via email that have not received your payment and you will experience an interruptian in service (FTP and other services) if payment is not received within 3 days of your past due date. Your account will then be turned over to our collection department and a reinstatement fee of $25 will be accessed to your account. If we pursue any legal remedy and obtain judgement against you, we will enforce that judgement. If you pay and we receive notice of returned payment for any reason to include insufficient funds and/or fraud, we will charge you any associated collection costs to include attorney and collection fees.

INTERACTION WITH WEBTOWNUSA.COM STAFF.

Any threat, vulgar language or harrasment directed at any webtownusa.com staff member  through phone or email may result in immediate termination of an account. Any violation of this policy by any employee, contractor or third party programmer of webtownusa.com should be reported immediately.

Disclaimer

HSN Data Corp., (webtownusa.com), does not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the content, comments, opinions or statements hosted by webtownusa.com customers, banner exchange participants, advertisers, vendors or partners. Information, products, and services offered, sold or placed online belong to the respective companies or individuals who place them there and are not representative of HSN Data Corp. or webtownusa.com. The user understands that HSN Data Corp. (webtownusa.com) is not responsible for the content, quality or merchantability of any information, product or service offered herein and the user must assume full responsibility to evaluate independently the accuracy, completeness, quality and usefulness of any information or other content.

HSN Data Corp. (webtownusa.com) hereby expressly disclaims any and all warranties, express and implied, including but not limited to any warranties of accuracy, reliability, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose by any vendor, customer, or associate offering information, products, and services through webtownusa.com's web site, linked to webtownusa.com's web site, or hosting with webtownusa.com. The user agrees that HSN Data Corp. (webtownusa.com) is not responsible, and shall have no liability to such user, with respect to any information, product or service offered by others who are linked to the webtownusa.com web site or hosted on webtownusa.com servers. HSN Data Corp. (webtownusa.com) shall not be liable for any damages allegedly sustained arising out of use of the information, products and services. Webtownusa.com's only liability in the event of errors shall be the correction or removal of the erroneous information after verification.