Acceptable Use
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Prohibited usage and behavior
It is forbidden to:- Distribute or transmit unsolicited messages, chain letters, unsolicited commercial email or unreasonably large volumes of email on a daily basis. VPSGB, at its sole discretion, may permit you, if you have a legitimate purpose and after written request, to send CAN SPAM-compliant mass mail after receiving our full authorization;
- Disseminate or transmit any material that, to a reasonable person may be abusive, obscene, pornographic, defamatory, harassing, grossly offensive, vulgar, threatening or malicious;
- Disseminate or transmit files, graphics, software or other material, data or work that actually or potentially infringes the copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other intellectual property right of any person;
- Create a false identity or to otherwise attempt to mislead any person as to the identity, source or origin of any communication;
- Interfere, disrupt or attempt to gain unauthorized access to any computer system, server, network or account for which you do not have authorization to access or at a level exceeding your authorization;
- Disseminate or transmit any virus, trojan horse or other malicious, harmful or disabling data, work, code or program;
- Engage in any other activity deemed by VPSGB to be in conflict with the spirit or intent of this agreement or any VPSGB policy;
- Use your server as an “open relay” or similar purposes;
- Violations of system or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability. Examples include, but are not limited to the following: unauthorized access, use, probe, or scan of a systems security or authentication measures, data or traffic. Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks. Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting.
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Enforcement of prohibited usage
When a server is found in breach of the present agreement, enforcement procedures will be executed, depending on the type of prohibited activity detected on the server. If multiple infractions/violations are detected VPSGB, may, at its discretion suspend services.