Acceptable Use Policy
BizLocal.com Acceptable Use
Policy
BizLocal.com ("We", "Us" or
"Our") provides a platform for internet web hosting services to
its subscribers (the "Subscribers" or "you" or
"your"). Services provided to you by Us ("Services") may
be suspended or terminated in accordance with the Terms of Services
for violation of Our Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP"). You are
responsible for violations of this AUP by you and by anyone using
your Services, whether or not authorized by you. We may amend this
AUP at any time to further detail or describe reasonable
restrictions on your use of its Services. The AUP is posted at
View Here
Inquiries regarding this AUP should be directed
to BizLocal.com, abuse@bizlocal.com.
Content Protected by Copyright
You may not use the Services to publish,
distribute, or otherwise copy any music, software, art, or other
work protected by copyright law unless you have been expressly
authorized by the owner of the copyright for the work to copy the
work in that manner or you are otherwise permitted by established
United States copyright law to copy the work in that manner. You may
not use a domain name that infringes on a third party's trademark,
service mark, or other proprietary right.
Prohibited Content
You may not publish or transmit pornography,
any content that is excessively violent or that incites or threatens
violence, contains harassing content or hate speech, is unfair or
deceptive such as chain letters and pyramid schemes, is defamatory
or violates a person's privacy, creates a risk to a person's safety
or health, compromises national security, interferes with a
investigation by law enforcement, improperly exposes confidential or
proprietary information of another person, is intended to assist
others in defeating technical copyright protections, infringes on
another person's intellectual property, promotes illegal drugs,
violates export control laws, relates to illegal gambling or illegal
arms trafficking, is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is
illegal under laws applicable to you or to Us, or is otherwise
malicious, fraudulent, or may result in retaliation against Us by
offended viewers. Content "published or transmitted" includes Web
content, e-mail, bulletin board postings, chat, and any other type
of posting or transmission that relies on the Internet.
Linking
You may not use the Services to publish
directories, links or other information pointing to sites that
contain content prohibited by this AUP.
Resale
You may not resell the Services, either in
whole or in part.
Excessive Use of System Resources
You may not use the Services in a way that
consumes a disproportionate amount of system resources. For example,
you may not distribute software to the public, provide a public file
download Services or employ programs that consume excessive CPU
capacity. We may suspend or terminate your Services for violation of
this provision in addition to requiring you to pay Overage Fees as
described in the Terms of Service.
Bulk or Commercial E-Mail
You must obtain Our advance approval for any
bulk or commercial e-mail, which will not be given unless you are
able to demonstrate, at a minimum, that your intended recipients
have given their consent to receive e-mail via some affirmative
means, such as an opt-in procedure, your procedures for soliciting
consent include reasonable means to ensure that the person giving
consent is the owner of the e-mail address for which the consent is
given, you retain evidence of the recipient's consent in a form that
may be promptly produced on request, and you honor the recipient's
and Our requests to produce consent evidence within 72 hours of
receipt of the request.
You may not obscure the source of your e-mail
in any manner. Your e-mail must include the recipient's e-mail
address in the body of the message or in the "TO" line of the
e-mail.
These policies apply to messages sent using the
Services, or to messages sent from any network by you or any person
on your behalf that directly or indirectly refer the recipient to a
site hosted via the Services. In addition, you may not use a third
party e-mail service that does not practice similar procedures for
all its customers.
We may test and otherwise monitor your
compliance with its requirements, including requesting opt-in
information from a random sample of your list at any time.
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.
You must comply with the rules of any other
network you access or participate in using the Services.
Domain Names
We are not responsible for notifying you of any
impending domain name expiration dates. Generally you must submit a
renewal request at least 45 days prior to the expiration of the
domain. You must keep your WHOIS information accurate and
up-to-date. The e-mail address for the Administrative Contact in the
WHOIS database must be the same as your billing e-mail address in
Our records, and We may, but are not required to, change the e-mail
address to comply with this requirement if necessary. Domain names
may not be transferred within the first sixty (60) days of initial
registration. Your rights to any domain name are governed by the
rules and regulations of ICANN, the Registrar, and applicable law.
Please note that requests for domain name transfers may not succeed
for a variety of reasons not within Our control.
Internet Abuse
You may not use Our Services to engage in
illegal, abusive, or irresponsible behavior, including: ·
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 Us and our Subscribers) without
express authorization of the owner of the system or network; ·
monitoring data or traffic on any network or system without the
authorization of the owner of the system or network; · Interference
with service to any user, host or network including, without
limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload
a system and broadcast attacks; · 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; · Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the
header information in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting; or · Any
conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against Our Services
or network, including engaging in behavior that results in any
server under your control being the target of a denial of service (DoS)
attack.
Cooperation with Investigations and Legal
Proceedings.
We may, without notice to you, report to the
appropriate authorities any conduct by you and your customers that
it believes violates applicable law, and provide any information it
has about you in response to a formal or informal request from a law
enforcement or regulatory agency, or in response to a formal request
in a civil action that on its face meets the requirements for such a
request.
Other
You must have valid and current information on
file with your domain name registrar for any domain hosted on Our
network. · Any actions which directly or indirectly result in Our IP
space being listed in any of the various abuse databases may result
in the immediate suspension or termination of your Services. · You
must use the Services in a manner that complies with applicable law.
You may not use the Services for the development, design,
manufacture, production, stockpiling, or use of nuclear, chemical or
biological weapons, weapons of mass destruction, or missiles, in a
country listed in Country Groups D:4 and D:3 of Supplement No. 1 to
Part 740 of the United States Export Administration Regulations, and
you may not provide access to the Services to any person (including
any natural person, business entity or government entity) that is
located in or is a national of any embargoed country which are Cuba,
Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan or Syria as of September, 2005.
Copyright Infringement Notice (Digital
Millennium Copyright Act)
If you believe your copyright is being
infringed by a person using the our Services, please send your
written notice of copyright infringement to:
3DPromote.com
abuse@3dpromote.com
305 Meadow St, Walterboro, SC 29488
Disclaimer
We are under no duty, and does not by this AUP
undertake a duty, to monitor or police your activities and disclaims
any responsibility for any misuse of Our Services or network. We
have no obligation to any person who has not entered into an
agreement for Services.