General Acceptable Use Policy
Last Updated:
October 17th, 2018.
The following statements pertain to all products and services offered by Secure Foundations, LLC:
Illegal Activity
Customer may only use Secure Foundations Servers for lawful purpose. Transmission of any material in violation of any Country, Federal, State or Local regulation is prohibited. To this effect, child pornography is strictly prohibited as well as housing any copyrighted information (to which the customer does not hold the copyright or an appropriate license) on Secure Foundations Servers. Also, using Secure Foundations servers or network to conspire to commit or support the commission of illegal activities is forbidden as well.
Hacking
The usage of Secure Foundations servers, services or network to access any system, service, or network without the owner's consent is expressly forbidden.
Service Interruptions
Any activity which causes service interruptions to either Secure Foundations network/servers or any outside network. This includes, but is not limited to, the execution of Denial of Service attacks or other maliciously configured software.
Anonymous Proxies
Anonymous proxies are easily abused and often cause a negative impact on both the servers and the network they are connected to. As such, they're prohibited on Secure Foundations network and servers.
Spamming
Customer agrees to not have any content on their site that advocates, sells or in any way makes available tools or methods to send unsolicited e-mail or usenet postings (spam), or to use Secure Foundations Servers for relaying unsolicited e-mail or usenet postings, or to use unsolicited e-mail or usenet postings to advertise for their site hosted at Secure Foundations. Any complaint we receive about a violation of this or the preceding two points will be taken very seriously and will result in immediate account cancellation without a refund. More details about our anti-spam policy can be found here
Personal Information Harvesting
Collecting or using email addresses, screen names or other personal identifiers without the consent of the person identified (including, without limitation, phishing, Internet scamming, password robbery, spidering, and harvesting).
Blacklisting
You agree that if the Secure Foundations IP numbers assigned to your account are listed on an abuse database or blacklist like Spamhaus, you will be in violation of this AUP, and Secure Foundations may take reasonable action to protect its IP numbers, including suspension and/or termination of your service, regardless of whether the IP numbers were listed as a result of your actions.
Spoofing/Impersonation
Usage of the Secure Foundations network to impersonate another person or entity, be it through Email, Internet Forums, or any other means, is strictly prohibited. This includes spoofing email or network packet headers whether or not it is done for malicious purposes.
Spamdexing
Customer agrees to not engage in activities pertaining to Black Hat SEO, Spamdexing, and so-called “Scraper sites.” These can all have a severely detrimental effect on server performance and are not permitted.
Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against Secure Foundations network or website, or Secure Foundations employees, officers or other agents, including engaging in behavior that results in any server being the target of a denial of service attack (DoS).
Personal Storage
With the exception of Secure Foundations Dedicated Servers, the customer agrees to make use of Secure Foundations Web Hosting servers primarily for the purpose of hosting a website, and associated email functions. Data uploaded must be primarily for this purpose.
Secure Foundations Web Hosting services are not intended to be used for data backup or archiving purposes. For example, you are not allowed to import or store personal mail archives. Forwarding all emails from another fully-hosted email address for archival purposes is not allowed. Further, mail accounts cannot be used for file storage, such as for security cameras, storage of emails used to transfer files, etc.
Shared Hosting Addendum
The following statements pertain exclusively to shared web hosting products and services offered by Secure Foundations.
PROHIBITED CONTENT AND ACTIVITIES
Adult Thumbnail Galleries/Banner Exchanges
While we do not discriminate against legal adult content, You agree not to run a banner exchange, FREE adult tgp (thumbnail gallery post), or FREE adult image galleries on your website. Free and public content such as this will likely result in inordinate network activity beyond the scope of our Shared hosting environments. Feel free to contact us to discuss a dedicated server for such purposes.
Abusive Scripts/Processes
Any script/process/etc that adversely affects the ability of any other customer to satisfactorily use their provided services is forbidden. This includes, but is not limited to, CPU-intensive CGI/PHP scripts and websites for which the scale of traffic has exceeded the acceptable limits of a shared hosting environment.
IRC Bots/Bouncers
All IRC bots and “bouncers” (bnc, etc) are forbidden.
BitTorrent software
While we recognize the value in the BitTorrent protocol as a distribution method, it is far too easily (and often accidentally) abused/misused and therefore not allowed on Secure Foundations Shared Hosting services.
Proxy Software
All proxy software, anonymous or otherwise, is forbidden on Secure Foundations Shared Hosting services.
Network Daemons
Any process that opens a network socket to accept connections from external networks is forbidden. Processes are allowed to bind to the local host only, but are held to the limitations placed on all other processes. They must not use up more than their fair share of resources and they must not interfere with any other customers' activities.