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Acceptable Use Policy
Met-Net Communications Services, Inc
We are pleased to offer each of our customers ("you"), and your customers and other users ("users"), the means to acquire and disseminate a wealth of public, private, commercial, and non-commercial information through the use of our services. You and your users may access the Internet through some of our services. The Internet provides a means for free and open discussion and dissemination of information. However, its openness makes it vulnerable to abuse.
Because the information that you and your users create is carried over our networks and may reach a large number of persons, including both users and nonusers of our services, users' improper and/or illegal use of our services may negatively affect those other persons and may therefore harm our goodwill, business reputation, and operations. We have established this Acceptable Use Policy (this "Policy") in order to protect our services and networks, you and our other customers, your and their users, and the Internet community as a whole, from improper and/or illegal activity. Pursuant to this Policy, we reserve the right to take certain preventative or corrective actions.
Complaints: Complaints about a violation of this Policy should be sent to abuse@met-net.com.
Revisions and Customer Agreements: This Policy may be revised from time-to-time. Your use of our services after changes to the Policy are posted on our Web site, www.Met-Net.com, will constitute your acceptance of any new or additional terms of this Policy that result from those changes. Your use of our services is subject to the terms and conditions of any agreements entered into between you and us. This Policy is incorporated into such agreements by reference.
Violations of Policy: You (and your users) violate this Policy and you violate your service agreement when you or your users engage in the any of the following prohibited activities:
Spam and Facilitating Activities: Sending unsolicited bulk and/or commercial messages over the Internet ("spam"), maintaining an open SMTP relay, or receiving responses to spam. Spam associated with our network is harmful because of its negative impact on consumer and industry attitudes toward us and because it can overload networks and disrupt service to our other customers and their users. When a complaint of spamming is received, we reserve the right to determine, in our sole discretion, whether or not an e-mail is spam based or whether or not the recipient list was derived from an "opt-in" e-mail list.
E-Mail Relay.Any use of another person's electronic mail server to relay e-mail without express permission from the other person.
Forging of Headers: Forging or misrepresenting message headers, whether in whole or in part, to mask the originator of the message or otherwise attempting to fraudulently conceal, forge, or otherwise falsify a sender: s identity, or injecting false data into the Internet, for instance in the form of bad routing information (including but not limited to the announcing of networks owned by someone else or reserved by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) or incorrect DNS information.
Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses, or Other Destructive Activities: Distributing viruses, worms, Trojan horses, or engaging in pinging, flooding, mailbombing, or denial of service attacks, or distributing information facilitating the creation, distribution or engaging in any of the above. Destructive activities include any activity that has the effect of disrupting the use of or interfering with the ability of others to use effectively our networks or any connected networks, systems, services, or equipment.
Illegal or Unauthorized Access to Other Computers or Networks: Accessing illegally or without authorization computers, accounts, or networks belonging to another person; attempting to penetrate security measures of another person.s system (often known as "hacking"), including any activity that might be used as a precursor to an attempted system penetration (e.g., port scan, stealth scan, or other information gathering activity); or attempting to intercept, redirect, or otherwise interfere with communications intended for others.
Intellectual Property: Engaging in any activity that infringes or misappropriates the intellectual property rights of others, including copyrights, trademarks, patents, service marks, and trade secrets. Software piracy is an example of such infringement. We are required by law to remove or block access to content upon receipt of a proper notice of copyright infringement. We may terminate the privileges of customers who commit repeat violations of copyright laws.
Privacy and Other Personal Rights: Engaging in activity that violates privacy, publicity, or other personal rights of others.
Obscene Speech or Materials: Using our networks to advertise, transmit, store, post, display, or otherwise make available child pornography or obscene speech or material. We are required by law to notify law enforcement agencies when we become aware of the presence of child pornography on or being transmitted through our networks.
Defamatory or Abusive Language and Harassment: Using our networks as a means to transmit or post defamatory, abusive, or threatening language, or to harass others, whether through language, frequency or size of messages.
USENET Postings: Posting to a USENET group material that is not in compliance with that group's charter and other policies, including cross-posting to unrelated news groups and posting of commercial messages (unless specifically invited by charter). Inappropriate postings also include those which have the effect of disrupting newsgroups with materials, postings, or activities that are (as determined by us in our sole discretion) frivolous, unlawful, obscene, threatening, abusive, libelous, hateful, excessive, or repetitious, unless such materials or activities are expressly allowed or encouraged under the newsgroup's name, FAQ, or charter.
Export Control: Unlawfully exporting encryption software to points outside the United States or otherwise violating export control laws or regulations.
Other Illegal Activities: Engaging in activities that are determined to be illegal, including advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, fraudulently charging credit cards, and pirating software.
Other Activities: Engaging in activities, whether lawful or unlawful, that we reasonably determine to be harmful to our customers or their users, or to our operations, reputation, goodwill, or customer relations.
Facilitating a Violation of this Policy: Advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available any software, program, product, or service that has the effect of violating or facilitating the violation of this Policy. Failure to cooperate effectively in preventing a violation of this Policy by one of your users is itself a violation of this Policy.
Remedies: You are responsible for avoiding violations of this Policy, whether or not the violation is generated by you or one of your users: We will not, as an ordinary practice, monitor the communications of our customers and their users to ensure that they comply with this Policy or applicable law. When we become aware of a violation of this Policy, however, we may take any action reasonably intended to stop the violation. Such actions may include, but are not limited to, removing information, shutting down a Web site, implementing screening software designed to block offending transmissions, denying access to the Internet, and suspending or terminating our services. We may refuse to accept postings from newsgroups where we have knowledge that the content of the newsgroup postings is in violation of this Policy. We may take such actions against you, even though a violation may be generated by your user rather than by you and even though the action may affect your other users. We may also take such actions directly against your user which is generating the violation, but we have no obligation to do so. We may require you to install and use any appropriate devices to prevent violations of this Policy, including devices designed to filter or terminate access to the services provided by us.
Cooperation: We anticipate working closely and cooperatively with you to resolve violations of this Policy in most cases, as quickly as possible and with a minimum of disruption to operations and services: We do not require those of you who offer services to other users to monitor or censor transmissions or Web sites created by such users. If you become aware of any violation of this Policy by any person, including your users, please notify us. We, in turn, will notify you in most cases of complaints received by us regarding incidents of alleged violation of this Policy by you or your users. (In cases where the viability of our networks is threatened or which involve spamming, mail relaying, alteration of your source IP address information, denial of service attacks, illegal activities, harassment or copyright infringement, we reserve the right to suspend your service or your user's access to the service without notification") You should promptly investigate all such complaints and take all necessary actions to remedy any actual violations of this Policy. We may identify to the complainant that you are investigating the complaint and may provide the complainant with the necessary information to contact you directly to resolve the complaint. You should identify a representative for the purposes of receiving such communications.
Your Receipt of Information: We cannot monitor, verify, warrant, or vouch for the accuracy and quality of the information that you or your users may acquire: For this reason, you and they must exercise your best judgment in relying on information obtained from the Internet, and should also be aware that some material posted to the Internet is sexually explicit or otherwise offensive. Because we cannot monitor or censor the Internet, and will not attempt to do so, we cannot accept any responsibility for injury to you or your users that results from inaccurate, unsuitable, offensive, or illegal Internet communications.
Your Dissemination of information: We do not review, edit, censor, or take responsibility for any information that you or your users may create: When you or your users send information using our services, you have the same liability as do other authors for copyright infringement, defamation, and other harmful speech.
Privacy of Communications: We are concerned about the privacy of on-line communications and Web sites: In general, the Internet is neither more nor less secure than other means of communication, including mail, facsimile, and voice telephone service, all of which can be intercepted and otherwise compromised. As a matter of prudence, however, we urge you to assume that all of your on-line communications are insecure. We cannot assume any responsibility for the security of information transmitted over our facilities.
We will not intentionally monitor private electronic mail messages sent or received by you or your users unless required to do so by law, governmental authority, or when public safety is at stake. We may, however, monitor our services electronically to determine that our facilities are operating satisfactorily. We may disclose information, including but not limited to, information concerning a subscriber, a transmission made using our network, or a Web site, in order to comply with a court order, subpoena, summons, discovery request, warrant, statute, regulation, or governmental request. We assume no obligation to notify you or your users that your information has been provided, and in some cases we may be prohibited by law from giving such notice. We may disclose subscriber information or information transmitted over our networks where necessary to protect us and others from harm, or where such disclosure is necessary to the proper operation of our networks, services and systems.