1. GENERAL TERMS OF USE
1.1 All WOR and WORTech Designs customers are responsible for reviewing and complying with this Acceptable Use Policy. WOR and WORTech Designs
customers who provide services to their own customers or other end users are responsible for compliance with the terms of this Policy by their
end users and must take steps to ensure compliance by their users with this Policy. For the purposes of this Policy, "Customer" means each WOR
and WORTech Designs customer to whom WOR and WORTech Designs provides services, and all employees, agents, and third parties to whom Customer
makes WOR and WORTech Designs services available. WOR and WORTech Designs reserves the right to deny or terminate service to a Customer based
upon the results of a security/abuse confirmation process used by WOR and WORTech Designs. Such confirmation process uses publicly available
information to primarily examine Customer's history in relation to its prior or current use of services similar to those being provided by WOR
and WORTech Designs and Customer's relationship with previous providers.
1.2 The actions described below are defined by WOR and WORTech Designs as "network abuse" and are strictly prohibited under this Acceptable
Use Policy. The examples named below are not exhaustive and are provided solely for guidance to Customers. If any Customer is unsure of
whether a contemplated use or action is permitted, it is Customer's responsibility to determine whether the use is permitted by contacting WOR
and WORTech Designs via electronic mail. The following activities are expressly prohibited, and WOR and WORTech Designs expressly reserves the
right, at its discretion, to pursue any remedies that it believes are warranted which may include, but are not limited to, the issuance of
written or verbal warnings, filtering, blocking, suspending, or terminating accounts, billing Customer for administrative costs and/or
reactivation charges or bringing legal action to enjoin violations and/or to collect damages, if any, caused by Customer violations. Such
actions may be taken by WOR and WORTech Designs without notice to Customer. In general, WOR and WORTech Designs Customers may not use WOR and
WORTech Designs's network, machines, or services in any manner which:
violates any applicable law, regulation, treaty, or tariff, including but not limited to data privacy laws;
violates the acceptable use policies of any networks, machines, or services which are accessed through WOR and WORTech Designs's network;
infringes on the intellectual property rights of WOR and WORTech Designs or others;
violates the privacy of others;
involves the resale of WOR and WORTech Designs's products or services, unless specifically documented in a separate written agreement or in
the initial Customer contract with WOR and WORTech Designs;
involves deceptive online marketing practices including, without limitation, practices that violate the United States Federal Trade
Commission's guidelines for proper online marketing schemes;
violates any specific instructions given by WOR and WORTech Designs for reasons of health, safety or quality of any other telecommunications
services provided by WOR and WORTech Designs or by reason of the need for technical compatibility of equipment attached to the WOR and WORTech
Designs Network;
materially affects the quality of any telecommunications services provided by WOR and WORTech Designs; or
otherwise violates this Acceptable Use Policy.
1.3 Prohibited activities also include, but are not limited to, the following:
unauthorized use (or attempted unauthorized use) or sabotage of any computers, machines or networks;
attempting to interfere with or denying service to any user or host (e.g. denial of service attacks and/or DNS spoofing attacks);
falsifying user identification information;
introduction of malicious programs into the network or Server (e.g. viruses, worms, Trojan horses, etc.);
scanning the networks of others for vulnerabilities without authorization;
executing any form of network monitoring (e.g. using a packet sniffer) or otherwise engaging in any monitoring or interception of data not
intended for the Customer without authorization;
attempting to circumvent Customer authentication or security of any host, network, or account ("cracking") without authorization;
using any program/script/command, or sending messages of any kind, designed to interfere with a third party customer terminal session, via any
means, locally or via the Internet;
"phishing", that is simulating communications from and/or the website or other service of another entity in order to collect identity
information, authentication credentials, or other information from the legitimate users of that entity's service;
"pharming", that is using malware, DNS cache poisoning or other means to redirect a user to a website or other service that simulates a
service offered by a legitimate entity in order to collect identity information, authentication credentials, or other information from the
legitimate users of that entity's service transmitting or receiving, uploading, using or reusing material which is abusive, indecent,
defamatory, obscene or menacing, or in breach of copyright, confidence, privacy or similar third party rights;
furnishing false or incorrect data on the sign up form; or
attempting to circumvent or alter the process or procedures to measure time, bandwidth utilization, or other methods to document "use" of WOR
and WORTech Designs's products and services.
1.4 Digital Millennium Copyright Act Policy:
It is the policy of WOR and WORTech Designs to respond expeditiously to claims of intellectual property infringement. WOR and WORTech Designs
will promptly process and investigate notices of alleged infringement and will take appropriate actions under the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act ("DMCA") and other applicable intellectual property laws. Upon receipt of notices complying or substantially complying with the DMCA, when
it is under its control, WOR and WORTech Designs will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to any material claimed to be infringing
or claimed to be the subject of infringing activity and will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to any reference or link to
material or activity that is claimed to be infringing. WOR and WORTech Designs will terminate access for Customers who are repeat infringers.
For our IP transit, dedicated Internet access and collocation Customers, you must adopt and implement a Digital Millennium Copyright Act
policy that reserves the necessary rights to remove or disable infringing material. If you believe that a copyrighted work has been copied and
is accessible on our site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, you may notify us by providing our registered copyright agent with
the following information:
electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;
your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
and
a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner
or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
1.5 Notices of claimed infringement should be directed to Contact Us. When WOR and WORTech Designs removes or disables access to any
material claimed to be infringing, WOR and WORTech Designs may attempt to contact the Customer who has posted such material in order to give
that Customer an opportunity to respond to the notification. Any and all counter notifications submitted by the Customer will be furnished to
the complaining party. WOR and WORTech Designs will give the complaining party an opportunity to seek judicial relief in accordance with the
DMCA before WOR and WORTech Designs replaces or restores access to any material as a result of any counter notification.
2. ADDITIONAL TERMS APPLYING TO IP TRANSIT, DEDICATED INTERNET AND IP SERVICES
2.1 In addition to the General Terms of Use above, the terms set out in this section 2 apply to the use of WOR and WORTech Designs IP Transit,
Dedicated Internet Access and IP Services. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to, the following:
falsifying header information or user identification information;
attempted or successful security breaches or disruption of Internet communication including, but not limited to, accessing data of which
Customer is not an intended recipient or logging into a Server or account that Customer is not expressly authorized to access;
hijacking of IP space;
sending unsolicited ("opt-out") bulk email;
maintaining an open mail relay and/or an open proxy; and
collecting email addresses from the Internet for the purpose of sending unsolicited bulk email or to provide collected addresses to others for
that purpose.
2.2 WOR and WORTech Designs IP transit, dedicated Internet access and collocation Customers who provide those services to their own users must
affirmatively and contractually pass on the restrictions of this Acceptable Use Policy to its users, and take steps to ensure compliance by
their users with this Acceptable Use Policy including, without limitation, termination of the user for violations of this policy. WOR and
WORTech Designs IP transit, dedicated Internet access and collocation Customers who provide services to their own users also must maintain
valid postmaster and abuse addresses for their domains, comply with all applicable Internet RFCs, maintain appropriate reverse DNS information
for all hosts receiving connectivity through WOR and WORTech Designs's network for which DNS responsibility has been delegated to the
Customer, maintain accurate contact information with the InterNIC and any other appropriate domain, IP and AS registrars, take reasonable
steps to prevent IP spoofing by their users and downstream customers, provide a 24/7 contact address to WOR and WORTech Designs for dealing
with security and abuse issues, and act promptly to ensure that users are in compliance with WOR and WORTech Designs's Acceptable Use Policy.
Reasonable steps include, but are not limited to, using IP unicast reverse-path forwarding ("uRPF") wherever appropriate and using IP address
filtering wherever appropriate.
2.3 Email Generally
The following actions are prohibited:
using email to engage in harassment, whether through language, frequency, or size of messages. Continuing to send someone email after being
asked to stop is considered harassment;
using email to disrupt (e.g., mail bombing, "flashing," etc.) is prohibited;
originating email with falsified header information;
originating email with falsified or obscured information (e.g., encoded or "obfuscated URLs") designed to hinder identification of the
location of what is advertised;
originating chain letters, pyramid schemes, and hoaxes;
using the WOR and WORTech Designs or Customer account to collect replies to messages sent from another provider which violate these rules or
those of the other provider; and
using WOR and WORTech Designs services in connection with or in support of the running of a mail server in China without an appropriate
license to run such a server.
2.4 Bulk Email: WOR and WORTech Designs does not honor or approve or allow Can-Spam Act. It is an illegal Act and just because retarded
crooked Politicians approve of such criminal activities does not make it acceptable use. Therefore any Bulk Emailing must be done under strict
guidelines with a closed-loop Double Opt-in mechanism and allow for the unsubscribe of such list.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=931381
http://www.optinnews.com/opt_in_email.html
http://email.about.com/library/glossary/bldef_double_opt-in.htm
Customers sending bulk email, using WOR and WORTech Designs services, may only engage in such activity through the use of "closed-loop Double
opt-in" lists. Such Customers who send bulk email through "closed-loop Double opt-in" lists must have a method of confirmation or verification
of subscriptions and be able to show evidence of subscription for users who complain about receiving unsolicited email. Sending unsolicited
("opt-out") bulk email is prohibited and is grounds for termination of those services to Customers who engage in the practice. Sending
"opt-out" bulk email from another provider advertising or implicating, directly or indirectly, the use of any service hosted or provided by
WOR and WORTech Designs, including without limitation, email, web, FTP, and DNS services, is prohibited. Customers may not advertise,
distribute, or use software intended to facilitate sending "opt-out" email or harvest email addresses from the Internet for that purpose. In
addition, Customers may not sell or distribute lists of harvested email addresses for the purpose of "opt-out" email. Customers who provide or
make use of a service employing referral IDs will be considered responsible for unsolicited bulk email sent by members of the referral ID
service that makes reference to services hosted by WOR and WORTech Designs. Customers who engage in the practice of unsolicited bulk email, as
set forth above, from WOR and WORTech Designs accounts will be charged the cost of labor to respond to complaints, with a minimum charge of
$200. Customers listed on an industry recognized spam abuse list, will be deemed to be in violation of this Policy.
2.5 Usenet newsgroups:
Customers should be familiar with the workings of Usenet by reading FAQs regarding Usenet at http://www before becoming
active participants. WOR and WORTech Designs places the following restrictions on newsgroup postings by its Customers:
no illegal content, including pyramid/Ponzi schemes, infringing materials, or child pornography, is permitted;
all postings should conform to the various conventions, guidelines and local culture found in each respective newsgroup and Usenet as a whole;
commercial advertising is typically off-topic and/or a violation of charter in most Usenet newsgroups. Information about advertising on Usenet
can be found in Joel Furr's "Advertising on Usenet FAQ" www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/advertising/how-to/part1/. For more information on "spam,"
see the FAQ on "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/spam-faq/ which is regularly posted to the
news.admin.net-abuse.misc newsgroup by Chris Lewis, or visit spam.abuse.net/;
posting 20 or more copies of the same article in a 45-day period ("spamming") or continued posting of off-topic articles after being warned is
prohibited. Customers who engage in spamming using WOR and WORTech Designs accounts will be charged the cost of labor to issue cancellations
and respond to complaints, with a minimum charge of $200. Customers who engage in spamming from another provider advertising or implicating,
directly or indirectly, the use of any service hosted or provided by WOR and WORTech Designs, including without limitation email, web, FTP,
and DNS services, is prohibited and is grounds for termination of those services to those users;
excessive cross-posting (Breidbart Index of 20 or greater in a 45-day period) is prohibited. The Breidbart Index (BI) is calculated by taking
the sum of the square roots of the number of newsgroups each copy of an article is cross-posted to. If two articles are posted, one cross-posted
to 9 newsgroups and the other cross-posted to 16 newsgroups, the BI = sqrt(9)+sqrt(16)=3+4=7. Cross-posting articles to newsgroups where they
are off-topic is prohibited; a good rule of thumb is that if you are cross-posting to more than five newsgroups, it's likely to be off-topic on
at least one of them; and
posting articles with falsified header information is prohibited. "Munging" header information to foil email address harvesting by "spammers"
is acceptable provided that a reasonable means of replying to the message originator is given. Use of anonymous re-mailers is acceptable, so
long as the use is not otherwise a violation of this Acceptable Use Policy.
Customers may not issue cancellations for postings except those which they have posted themselves, those which have headers falsified so as to
appear to come from them, or in newsgroups where they are the official moderator.
2.6 The World Wide Web and FTP:
The web space and public FTP space included with a dial-up account may not be resold or used for adult-oriented material. WOR and WORTech
Designs reserves the right to require that sites using web or FTP space which receive high amounts of traffic be moved to other servers. Web
pages and FTP files may not contain any material, text, or images, whether hosted on WOR and WORTech Designs servers or "transclusioned"
(images from another site displayed on the page) which violate or infringe any copyright, trademark, patent, statutory, common law, or
proprietary rights of others. Web pages and FTP files may not contain links that initiate downloads of copyright-infringing or other illegal
material.
2.7 Routing Protocols and Route Exchange:
In the event WOR and WORTech Designs identifies the Customer is sending excessive or unnecessary route publications, WOR and WORTech Designs
reserves the right to limit the number or routes that will be accepted.
2.8 Internet Relay Chat:
Using IRC bots is prohibited. Flooding, cloning, spoofing, harassment, or otherwise hindering the ability of others to properly use IRC is
prohibited. Impersonating other users, advertising, and spamming via IRC is prohibited. IRC services which are serving as command and control
channels for bots are prohibited and any violation shall subject Customer to filtering and blocking by WOR and WORTech Designs within 24 hours
of WOR and WORTech Designs learning of such violation. WOR and WORTech Designs is not obligated to provide notice of such action to Customer.
2.9 Servers and Proxies:
Customers may not run on WOR and WORTech Designs servers any program which makes a service or resource available to others, including but not
limited to, port redirectors, proxy servers, chat servers, MUDs, file servers, and IRC bots. Customers may not run such programs on their own
machines connected through a WOR and WORTech Designs dialup account in order to make such services or resources available to others; a
dedicated access account is required for such purposes. Customers are responsible for the security of their own networks and machines. WOR and
WORTech Designs will assume neither responsibility nor accountability for failures or breach of Customer-imposed protective measures, whether
implied or actual. Abuse that occurs as a result of a compromised Customer's system or account may result in suspension of services or account
access by WOR and WORTech Designs, for example, if a system is abused after becoming infected with a worm or trojan horse program as a result
of an Internet download or executing an email attachment. (See www.microsoft.com/security/articles/virus101.asp) Any programs, scripts, or
processes which generate excessive server load on WOR and WORTech Designs servers are prohibited and WOR and WORTech Designs reserves the
right to terminate or suspend any such program, script, or process.
2.10 Dialup Connections:
Customers may not run programs or configure machines in such a way as to keep a dialup connection active when not in use or otherwise bypass
automatic disconnection for inactivity, unless they have a dedicated Internet access account. Customers may not have multiple simultaneous
connections with a single dialup account. WOR and WORTech Designs reserves the right to impose restrictions on or terminate accounts deemed to
be in violation of these conditions. WOR and WORTech Designs's dialup access servers will disconnect after 30 minutes of inactivity and after
12 hours of continuous access.
2.11 Storing Files:
The storage of any program, utility or file on WOR and WORTech Designs's servers, the use of which would constitute a violation of this
Acceptable Use Policy, is prohibited. For example, it is a violation to store hacker scripts, IRC bots, or spamming software on WOR and
WORTech Designs's servers.
3. VIOLATIONS AND CONTACT DETAILS
3.1 Violations:
WOR and WORTech Designs has absolute discretion in determining whether a Customer's activities or use of WOR and WORTech Designs services are
in violation of this Policy. WOR and WORTech Designs reserves the right to suspend or terminate the provision of a WOR and WORTech Designs
service or services for Customer's breach of, or failure to comply with the Policy, which suspension or termination (i) may be immediate and
(ii) may have a fixed or indefinite duration. Before taking such action, WOR and WORTech Designs shall notify Customer in writing and afford
Customer a reasonable opportunity to remedy the alleged failure to comply with the Policy, provided only that no cure or notice period shall
be required where the failure to so comply represents, in WOR and WORTech Designs's reasonable opinion, an immediate and material threat to
the integrity or security of the WOR and WORTech Designs Network or to the services WOR and WORTech Designs provides to others using its
Network. In such circumstances, WOR and WORTech Designs shall provide Customer with notice of the service suspension at the same time as such
suspension, or as soon afterwards as is reasonably practical. WOR and WORTech Designs agrees that any suspension of services pursuant to this
paragraph will be as narrow in scope and duration as reasonably necessary for WOR and WORTech Designs to protect its Network, rights,
property, personnel and other customers.
3.2 Information Accuracy:
This Policy is subject to change with notice by publication on this web site; Customers are responsible for monitoring this web site for
changes. This Policy was last updated on Feb 28, 2007. While WOR and WORTech Designs uses reasonable efforts to provide accurate and
up-to-date information on this Web site, WOR and WORTech Designs makes no warranty or representation as to its accuracy. Moreover, information
that may have been accurate at the time of posting may have changed and therefore may no longer be accurate or in effect. WOR and WORTech
Designs undertakes no duty to update such information.
3.3 How to Contact Us:
To contact us with questions or comments regarding this Policy, please Contact Us . To contact us regarding claimed
violations of this Policy, please Contact Us .