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Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

Caveat Emptor: We offer general information on this page, not legal advice. Please consult a lawyer if you have questions or concerns of a legal nature. Jethost, Host World Wide (HostWW), GlobalServerHost (GSH), SAFI Design, SAFI Software, and Pay-Per-Click are all divisions of SAFI Technologies Ltd. For the remainder of this document SAFI Technologies Ltd. and all subsidiaries and divisions shall be referred to as "Safitech."

No Safitech customer shall do anything illegal or anything that adversely affects the legal interests of Safitech. The following list is non-exclusive and should not be considered license to commit other illegal activities not specified below. All illegal activity is prohibited and Safitech will cooperate fully with any law enforcement officials and/or agencies investigating and/or prosecuting such activities.

A Safitech customer shall not:

  • Engage in cracking/hacking activities. Attempts to access accounts or systems other than the user’s own accounts or systems, or an account or system that the user has been explicitly authorized to access is illegal under federal and state law.
  • Engage in any activity connected with child pornography as defined by New Zealand, United States, and Canadian law. This is strictly prohibited and dealt with quickly and harshly.
  • Engage in online activities involving Pyramid schemes or fraud.
  • Engage in the theft of online services. Any attempts to utilize services that are not contracted for is considered theft and will be dealt with as such.
  • Use the Safitech network or services to harass or threaten any other person.
  • Do anything that threatens the integrity of the Safitech network or the utilization thereof by other persons.
  • Commit, or be a party to committing, Denial of Service (DOS) attacks against any Safitech customer's host, or any other host on the Internet. Similarly, no Safitech customer will willfully or negligently allow incitement of others to attack any host on the Safitech network, or any other host on the Internet.
  • Do anything that could get any section of Safitech IP space put on the RBL (Realtime Black List) as maintained by SpamCop or other similar organizations, or perform activities that would cause portions of the Internet to refuse to route traffic to any portion of Safitech's IP space.
  • Perform actions that cause unusual load on Safitech servers, which cause slowness or denial of service to other Safitech customers
  • Do anything that threatens the Internet or any other network.
  • Take actions that cause any portion of the Internet, or the Internet as a whole, to become unusable to any other portion of the Internet, or the Internet as a whole.
  • Take actions that degrade the usefulness of the Internet, or any portion of the Internet, either through network degradation, flooding of usenet or email or so on.
  • Send unsolicited commercial email, unsolicited mass mailings, spam or flood usenet newsgroups, or anything of similar nature. If you have questions about what is allowed and what is not, please refer to http://spam.abuse.net, and/or email postmaster.com for clarification.
  • Engage in any activity, or be party to any activity, that would cause spam to originate from Safitech IP space.
  • Advertise sites or services located on Safitech IP space (even if the spam originates elsewhere).
  • Use third party mail servers to relay spam. This is considered a DOS attack on the third party and will be treated as such.
  • Participate in pyramid schemes or email chain letters.

Furthermore, all Safitech customers must:

  • Maintain the following email addresses and respond promptly to all email sent to these addresses:
    - abuse@yourdomain.com
    - postmaster@yourdomain.com
  • Maintain and enforce on their clients an Acceptable Use Policy similar in scope and intent to this document.
  • Maintain a policy requiring proper "From" and/or "Reply-To" headers for email and usenet postings.

Safitech reserves the right to terminate or interrupt any account in part or in full without refund for violation of this Acceptable Use Policy. In all but the most extreme or serious cases, good faith attempts will be made to resolve an issue without interruption of service. In cases where service has been terminated or interrupted, resolution will be handled on an individual case-by-case basis, at the sole discretion of Safitech.

Please consult your attorney if you are unsure of the legal status of your activities.

For further explanation of any portion of this document, and the terms set herein, or to determine whether your intended activities are permissible under the terms of this document, contact us via email at legal@safitech.com. This policy may be modified from time-to-time. Customers should monitor policies page for changes, which become effective immediately upon posting. Variations to this policy are not permitted. Any variation presented by anyone, whether they are an official representative of Safitech or not is invalid. Safitech is not required to send notifications of policy updates.