Acceptable Use Policy

This page reproduces, without alteration, the acceptable-use provisions of our terms of service — condition 4.3 (prohibited activity) and condition 5 (high resource usage). Those terms remain the binding agreement between us. Nothing on this page adds to, or reduces, your obligations under them.

Prohibited activity (condition 4.3)

• 4.3 You agree that you will not:
  • 4.3.1 perform any action that will reduce performance of our servers to the detriment of other users;
  • 4.3.2 upload any virus to the Web Site which could infect our server or other equipment;
  • 4.3.3 allow a virus to enter the Internet by allowing Internet users to download files containing viruses or (knowingly or otherwise) from their web space which is on our server;
  • 4.3.4 upload any material which infringes the intellectual property rights of any other party. We accept no responsibility for your actions in either uploading material to the Internet or in your transferral of any material to other Web Sites (or vice versa);
  • 4.3.5 upload any material which may be considered to be contrary to public decency and morality including (but not limited to) pornographic, barbaric and overtly tasteless material. We reserve the right to randomly inspect the Web Site and in the event that any unauthorised material has been uploaded to that Web Site, we reserve the right to inform the relevant authorities and to terminate this Contact forthwith;
  • 4.3.6 cause or permit or in any way assist in any unauthorised publication or any dissemination of defamatory material or any material which could be considered to be in breach of the civil or criminal laws of Colorado;
  • 4.3.7 commit any act whereby access is gained by you to any information or resources of any person, body corporate individual, partnership, government agency, national institution, charity or recognised organisation without first having obtained authority from those persons or institutions;
  • 4.3.8 use our servers or network to send unsolicited or spam e-mail to other Internet users regardless of whether we are referred to or not either directly or indirectly in such postings. Failure to meet this obligation would result in the termination of this Contract without refund;
  • 4.3.9 not to use our servers or network either directly or indirectly in a way that would have a detrimental effect on network performance;
  • 4.3.10 do any act or omission the result of which would have the effect of bringing us into disrepute.

High resource usage (condition 5)

• 5.1 Where we do not operate a bandwidth capping policy we maintain high ratios of bandwidth per Web Site. In the rare circumstances that a user utilizes our server resources to such an extent that it may jeopardize server performance and resources for other users then we reserve the right to implement the following High Resource User Policy at our sole discretion: Where a service is delivered with bandwidth restrictions and/or limitations we reserve the right at our sole discretion to charge you for excess bandwidth used however caused at the rate of 45 pence per gigabyte or part thereof.
  • 5.1.1 Resources are defined as bandwidth, processor utilization or disk space;
  • 5.1.2 We reserve the right to suspend or terminate any Web Site immediately in order to prevent the misuse of our servers and to maintain maximum availability for other users. You may be offered alternate hosting options including us hosting the Web Site for an additional fee.

Reporting abuse

Reports of activity that breaches this policy can be sent to [email protected]. Include the IP address or hostname concerned, the timestamps involved and, where relevant, log excerpts — that is what lets us act on a report quickly.

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Reproduced from the terms of service, in force unamended since 17 June 2015.