1. Introduction
When you open your WingsSoftPro account, you join two communities. First is
the community formed by our network and our customers; the second community is
the one made up of all networks and users connected to form the Internet.
Becoming a member of these communities gives you certain rights and privileges,
but also imposes certain duties and responsibilities. WingsSoftPro has
established an Acceptable Use Policy in order to make these duties and
responsibilities clear. This document is intended to provide a general
understanding of WingsSoftPros Acceptable Use Policy. The following
factors guide the establishment and enforcement of WingsSoftPros usage policies:
Ensure reliable service to our customers
- Ensure security and privacy of
our systems and network, as well as the networks and systems of others.
- Comply with existing laws.
- Maintain our reputation as
responsible service providers.
- Encourage responsible use of the
Internet and discourage activities that reduce the usability and value of
Internet services.
- Preserve the value of Internet
resources as a conduit for free expression and exchange of information.
- Preserve the privacy and
security of individual users.
WingsSoftPro intends to provide its customers access to everything the
Internet has to offer. While WingsSoftPro is firmly committed to the principles
of free speech, certain activities are damaging to the resources of both
WingsSoftPro and the Internet and cannot be permitted under the guise of free
speech. The resources of WingsSoftPro and the Internet are limited, and abuse of
these resources by one user has a negative impact on the entire community. We do
not routinely monitor the activity of accounts except for measurements of system
utilization and the preparation of billing records. However, in our efforts to
promote good citizenship within the Internet community, we will respond
appropriately if we become aware of the inappropriate use of our service. If a
WingsSoftPro account is used to violate the Acceptable Use Policy, we reserve
the right to terminate your service without notice and you agree to indemnify
WingsSoftPro and its affiliates against any claims threatened or brought by
third parties as a result of your violation of this Acceptable Use Policy and/or
the content of your website. We prefer to advise customers of inappropriate
behavior and any necessary corrective action. However, flagrant violations of
the Acceptable Use Policy will result in immediate termination of service. Our
failure to enforce this policy, for whatever reason, shall not be construed as a
waiver of our right to do so at any time. If you have any questions regarding
this policy, please contact us
2. General Information
- In a manner that violates any
law, regulation, treaty or, tariff.
- In a manner that violates the
rules, regulations, and policies of any network, server, website, database,
or service provider that you access through your WingsSoftPro account.
- In a manner that is defamatory,
fraudulent, indecent, offensive or deceptive.
- To threaten, harass, abuse, or
intimidate others.
- To damage the name or reputation
of WingsSoftPro, its parent, affiliates, and subsidiaries.
- To break security on any
computer network, or to access an account that does not belong to you; or
- In a manner that interferes with
other customers’ use and enjoyment of the services provided by WingsSoftPro.
WingsSoftPros services may only be used for lawful purposes. Transmission,
distribution, or storage of any information, data, or material in violation of
the United States or state regulation or law, or by the common law, is
prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, material protected by
copyright, trademark, trade secret, or any other statute. WingsSoftPros reserves
the right to remove such illegal material from its servers or to immediately
terminate your services. The customer is responsible for keeping his billing
data with WingsSoftPro up-to-date and accurate. Furnishing false data on any
contract or application, including fraudulent use of credit card numbers, is
grounds for immediate termination, and may subject the offender to civil or
criminal liability. WingsSoftPro reserves sole discretion to determine whether
any use of the service is a violation of this policy. Guidelines for using your
account follows. This information is only a guideline and is not intended to be
all-inclusive.
3. Electronic Mail
Certain WingsSoftPro accounts give you the ability to send and receive
electronic mail. Misuse of electronic mail may result in termination of service.
The following examples are non-exclusive and are provided for your guidance.
- You may not use your account to
send unsolicited bulk or commercial messages (“spam”). This includes, but is
not limited to, bulk mailing of commercial advertising, informational
announcements, charity requests, petitions for signatures, and political or
religious tracts. Such messages may only be sent to those who have
explicitly requested them.
- You may not use your account to
collect responses from unsolicited bulk or commercial e-mail sent from
accounts with other providers.
- Forging, altering or removing
electronic mail headers is prohibited.
- You may not send numerous copies
of the same or substantially similar message, nor may you send very large
messages or files to a recipient, with the intent to disrupt a server or
account (“mail bombing”).
- You may not use electronic mail
to harass or intimidate others. Harassment, whether through language,
frequency of messages, or size of messages, is prohibited. Sending a single
unwelcome message may be considered harassment. If a recipient asks to stop
receiving e-mail, you must not send that person any further messages.
- You may not forward or otherwise
propagate chain letters, whether or not such messages solicit money or other
items of value, and whether or not the recipient wishes to receive such
mailings.
- WingsSoftPro accounts may not be
used to collect replies to messages sent from another Internet service
provider if those messages violate this Acceptable Use Policy or the
acceptable use policy of the other service provider.
- If you use the services of
another provider to promote a website hosted by or through WingsSoftPro,
then the provisions of this Acceptable Use Policy shall apply to the methods
used to promote such site.
4. Web Sites
WingsSoftPro provides storage space and access for websites through its Web
Hosting services. In addition, dedicated accounts may provide for the hosting of
websites. WingsSoftPro will not routinely monitor the contents of your websites.
You are solely responsible for any information contained on your website.
However, if complaints are received regarding language, content, or graphics
contained on your website, WingsSoftPro may, at its sole discretion, remove the
web site hosted on WingsSoftPro servers and terminate your Web Hosting service.
You agree to promptly reimburse WingsSoftPro for any reasonable expenses it
incurs (including attorney’s fees) in defending itself from third-party claims
relating to any of the content (whether created by you, your customers, or your
users) contained on your website. You may not use your website to publish
material that WingsSoftPro determines, at its sole discretion, to be unlawful,
indecent, or objectionable. For purposes of this policy, “material” refers to
all forms of communication including narrative descriptions, graphics (including
photographs, illustrations, images, drawings, logos), executable programs, video
recordings, and audio recordings. Unlawful content is that which violates any
law, statute, treaty, regulation, or lawful order. This includes, but is not
limited to: obscene material; defamatory, fraudulent, or deceptive statements;
threatening, intimidating, or harassing statements, or material that violates
the privacy rights or property rights of others (copyrights or trademarks, for
example). Objectionable content is otherwise legal content with which
WingsSoftPro concludes, in its sole discretion, it does not want to be
associated in order to protect its reputation and brand image or to protect its
employees, shareholders, and affiliates.
Examples of prohibited web site content :
- Materials which hold
WingsSoftPro including its affiliates, employees or shareholders up to
public scorn or ridicule.
- Materials that encourage the
commission of a crime; or which tend to incite violence; or which tends to
degrade any person or group based on sex, nationality, religion, color, age,
marital status, sexual orientation, disability or political affiliation.
5. Security
You are responsible for any misuse of your account, even if the inappropriate
activity was committed by a friend, family member, guest or employee. Therefore,
you must ensure that others do not gain access to your account. In addition, you
may not use your account to breach the security of another account or attempt to
gain unauthorized access to another network or server.
- You must adopt adequate security
measures to prevent or minimize unauthorized use of your account.
- You may not attempt to
circumvent user authentication or security of any host, network or account
(“cracking”). This includes, but is not limited to, accessing data not
intended for you, logging into or making use of a server or account you are
not expressly authorized to access or probing the security of other
networks. Use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security is
prohibited. Examples of these tools include, but are not limited to,
password guessing programs, cracking tools or network probing tools.
- You may not attempt to interfere
with service to any user, host, or network (“denial of service attacks”).
This includes, but is not limited to, “flooding” of networks, deliberate
attempts to overload a service, and attempts to “crash” a host.
- Users who violate systems or
network security may incur criminal or civil liability. WingsSoftPro will
cooperate fully with investigations of violations of systems or network
security at other sites, including cooperating with law enforcement
authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations.
6. Network Management
You are responsible for ensuring that the services obtained from WingsSoftPro
are used in an appropriate manner by your customers and users. Therefore, you
must take steps to manage the use of the services obtained from WingsSoftPro in
such a way that network abuse is minimized. You must also make information
publicly available about how to contact you, and you must respond in a timely
manner to complaints concerning misuse of the services obtained from
WingsSoftPro. Failure to responsibly manage the use of the services obtained
from WingsSoftPro may be cause for termination of services to you.
- You must designate one or more
individuals (“Contacts”) to be responsible for every host, IP network or
subnet connected to the Internet through the use of the services. You must
provide Contact names, phone numbers, and postal and e-mail addresses
(“Contact Information”) to any and all appropriate Domain Name Registrars
prior to the initial network connection of your service. You must keep
Contact Information updated and accurate at all times. Changes in the
Contact Information must be sent to the appropriate Domain Name Registrars
in a timely manner.
- Contacts must have the
authority, access and tools necessary to configure, operate and control
access to your systems. For important timesharing hosts, primary domain name
servers, and mail relays or gateways, Contacts must be accessible to
WingsSoftPro via telephone 18 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Every customer who allows third
party access to the services provided by WingsSoftPro, whether such third
parties are employees, users, or customers, must maintain a postmaster
address for the receipt of complaints by e-mail. Messages delivered to the
postmaster’s address must be reviewed and handled in a timely manner.
7. Network Performance
WingsSoftPro accounts operate on shared resources. Excessive use or abuse of
these shared network resources by one customer may have a negative impact on all
other customers. Misuse of network resources in a manner that impairs network
performance is prohibited by this policy and may result in the termination of
your account.
- You are prohibited from
excessive consumption of resources, including CPU time, memory, disk space
and session time. You may not use resource-intensive programs which
negatively impact other customers or the performance of WingsSoftPro systems
or networks. WingsSoftPro reserves the right to terminate or limit such
activities.
8. Illegal Activity
Any activity on our network that is a violation of any state or
federal law is a violation of this policy and will result in immediate
termination of service. Prohibited activities include, but are not
limited to:
- Transmitting obscene materials
or child pornography.
- Intentionally spreading or
threatening to spread computer viruses.
- Gaining or attempting to gain
unauthorized access to any network, including WingsSoftPros private network
infrastructure
- Accessing or attempting to
access information not intended for you.
- Transmitting pirated software.
- Conducting or participating in
illegal gambling.
- Soliciting for pyramid and other
illegal schemes.
9. Privacy Statement
WingsSoftPro does not permit any site that contains:
- images (including on banner ads)
of nude models that appear to be under the age of 18 (in WingsSoftPros sole
judgment),
- sexually explicit images
(including on banner ads) of models that appear to be under the age of 18
(in WingsSoftPros sole judgment); or
- sites containing language
promoting child pornography together with any sexually explicit or nude
images. As required by federal law in the United States, WingsSoftPro will
forward all offenders of this policy to the appropriate federal agency.