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Acceptable Use
Policy
ListMGT.com, its subsidiaries,
divisions and related web sites
(hereinafter collectively referred to as “Company”) Acceptable
Use Policy ("AUP") describes the proper kinds of conduct
and prohibited uses of Company’s services (the "Services"),
as described and subscribed to pursuant to the applicable Terms and
Conditions Agreement (“Agreement”) of which this policy is
incorporated. The AUP is not exhaustive and Company reserves the
right to modify the AUP at any time, effective upon posting of the
modified AUP to the Web Site. By registering for and using the
Services, and thereby accepting the terms and conditions of the
Agreement, you agree to abide by the AUP as modified from time to
time. Any violation of the AUP may result in the suspension or
termination of your account and such other action as Company deems
appropriate.
VIOLATION
OF ANY OF THESE GUIDELINES IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED AND MAY RESULT IN
THE IMMEDIATE TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION OF THE SERVICES YOU RECEIVE
FROM COMPANY. YOU WILL REMAIN SOLELY LIABLE AND RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR
USE OF THE SERVICES AND ANY AND ALL CONTENT THAT YOU DISPLAY, UPLOAD,
DOWNLOAD OR TRANSMIT THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICES. "CONTENT"
INCLUDES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, YOUR E-MAIL, WEB PAGES, PERSONAL HOME
PAGES, AND DOMAIN NAMES.
INDIRECT
OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS OF THE AUP, AND ACTUAL OR ATTEMPTED
VIOLATIONS BY A THIRD PARTY ON YOUR BEHALF, WILL BE CONSIDERED
VIOLATIONS OF THE AUP BY YOU.
1. YOUR
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES.
The
Services enable you to develop and/or display a Web Site and Online
Marketing tools through which you can interact with users of the
Internet and retrieve and send vast amounts of information. Company
provides the Services with the goals of: (a) ensuring security,
reliability and privacy of the Services and the users of the
Services, (b) maintaining an image and reputation of Company as a
responsible provider of the Services, (c) preserving the value of
Internet resources as a conduit for free expression, (d) encouraging
the responsible use of Internet resources and discouraging degrading,
libelous or illegal uses of such resources. Consequently, Company
expects you, and all other users of the Services, to take
responsibility in using the Internet with courtesy and
responsibility, and be familiar with and to practice good Internet
etiquette, in furtherance of the above stated goals.
2. Prohibited
Conduct.
You
may use the Services only for lawful purposes. Transmission,
distribution, sale, or storage of any material in violation of any
applicable law, regulation, or the AUP is prohibited. The following
non-exhaustive list details the kinds of illegal or harmful conduct
that are prohibited. Company reserves the rights to restrict or
prohibit any and all uses of the Services or content on your Web
Site(s) and to remove such materials from its servers, which Company
determines in its sole discretion is harmful to its servers, systems,
network, reputation, good will, other Company customers, or any third
party.
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Defamation. You
agree not to post or transmit any content in violation of any
applicable law of libel or defamation in the United States or
elsewhere.
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False
advertising. You agree not to post or transmit
on or though any services any advertising or promotional materials that
contain false, deceptive or misleading statements, claims, or
representations.
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Copyright/Trademark
Infringement. You agree not to post or transmit
on or through the services any content that infringes on the
intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights including,
without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, patent,
trade secret, or other intellectual property right of another person or
entity or use the same without proper authorization. Infringement may
result from, among other activities, the unauthorized copying and
posting of pictures, logos, software, articles, musical works, and
videos.
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Offensive
Materials. You agree not to transmit,
disseminate, sell, store or host material that is unlawful, libelous,
defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, harassing,
threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive,
inflammatory or otherwise objectionable.
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Export
Violations. You agree not to post or send
software or technical information in violation of U.S. export laws,
including, without limitation, the Export Administration Act and the
Export Administration Regulations maintained by the Department of
Commerce.
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Harmful
Content. You agree not to disseminate or
host harmful content including, without limitation, viruses, Trojan
horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or any other computer programming
routines that may damage, interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or
expropriate any system, program, data or personal information.
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Fraudulent
Conduct. Your agree not to offer or
disseminate fraudulent goods, services, schemes, or promotions (i.e.,
make money fast schemes, chain letters, pyramid schemes), or furnishing
false data on any signup form, contract or online application or
registration, or the fraudulent use of any information obtained through
the use of the Services, including without limitation, use of credit
card numbers.
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False
Pretenses. You agree not to use the services
to impersonate any person or communicate under a false name or a name
that you are not entitled or authorized to use in all forms of online
communication. False domain registration is strictly prohibited.
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Failure
to Abide by Third-Party Web Site Policies. You
agree not to violate the rules, regulations, or policies that apply to
any third-party network, server computer database, or Web Site that you
access by or through the services.
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Child
Pornography. You agree not to violate the
Federal child exploitation statutes to possess, produce, receive,
transport or distribute by any means, including computer, visual
depictions of “sexual intercourse” and/or “sexually explicit conduct”
involving children.
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Distribution
of Viruses, Trojans and Dictionary Attacks. You
agree not to intentionally distribute any software that attempts to
and/or causes damage or annoyance to persons, data, and/or computer
systems including but not limited to Trojans and/or Dictionary Attacks.
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Facilitating
a Violation of this AUP. You agree not to advertise,
transmit, or otherwise make available any software, program, product,
or service that is designed to violate this AUP which includes, but is
not limited to, spam, pinging, flooding, mail-bombing, denial of
service attacks or piracy of software.
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Unauthorized
access. Using the Services to access, or
to attempt to access, the accounts of others, or to penetrate, or
attempt to penetrate, security measures of another entity's computer
software or hardware, electronic communications system, or
telecommunications system, whether or not the intrusion results in the
corruption or loss of data.
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Collection
of personal data. Using the Services to collect, or
attempt to collect, personal information about third parties without
their knowledge or consent.
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Reselling
the services. Reselling the Services without
Company's express written consent.
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Network
disruptions and unfriendly activity.
Using the Services for any activity which adversely affects the ability
of other people or systems to use Company's Services or the Internet.
This includes "denial of service" (DoS) attacks against another network
host or individual user. Interference with or disruption of other
network users, network services or network equipment is prohibited. It
is your responsibility to ensure that your network is configured in a
secure manner. You may not, through action or inaction, allow others to
use your network for illegal or inappropriate actions. You may not
permit your network, through action or inaction, to be configured in
such a way that gives a third party the capability to use your network
in an illegal or inappropriate manner.
3. SYSTEM
AND NETWORK SECURITY AND INTEGRITY.
Violations
of Company's or any third party's server, system or network security
through the use of the Services are prohibited, and may result in
criminal and civil liability. Company may investigate incidents
involving such violations. Company may involve and cooperate with
law enforcement if a criminal violation is suspected. Examples of
server, system or network security violations include, without
limitation, the following:
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Hacking.
Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems, servers or networks,
including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a
system, server or network or to breach security or authentication
measures without express authorization of the owner of the system,
server or network.
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Interception.
Unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic on any network, server, or
system without express authorization of the owner of the system,
server, or network.
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Intentional
Interference. Interference with service to any
user, host or network including, without limitation, mail-bombing, news
bombing, other flooding techniques, deliberate attempts to overload a
system, broadcast attacks and any activity resulting in the crash of a
host. Intentional interference also means the use of any kind of
program/script/command, or sends messages of any kind, designed to
interfere with a user's terminal session, via any means, locally or by
the Internet.
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Falsification
of Origin or Routing Information.
Forging of any TCP-IP packet header, e-mail header or any part of a
message header. Using, selling, or distributing, in conjunction with
services, any computer program designed to conceal the source or
routing information of electronic mail messages in a manner that
falsifies an internet domain, header information, date or time stamp,
originating email address or other identifier.
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Avoiding
System Restrictions. Using manual or electronic means
to avoid any use limitations placed on the Services such as timing out.
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Failure
to Safeguard Accounts. Failing to prevent unauthorized
access to accounts, including any account passwords.
4. E-MAIL.
The
Services may be used to transmit Commercial E-mail that complies with
all United States state and federal laws including, but not limited
to the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. However, you may not distribute,
publish, or send any of the following types of e-mail:
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Unsolicited
promotions, advertising or solicitations (commonly referred to as
"spam") that is not compliant with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, including,
without limitation, commercial advertising and informational
announcements to those e-mail addresses who have requested that their
email addresses be opted out.
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Commercial
promotions, advertising, solicitations, or informational announcements
that contain false or misleading information in any form.
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Harassing
e-mail, whether through language, image, frequency, or size of messages.
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Chain
letters.
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Malicious
e-mail, including without limitation "mail-bombing" (flooding a user or
Web site with very large or numerous pieces of mail) or "trolling"
(posting outrageous messages to generate numerous responses).
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E-mails
containing forged or falsified information in the header (including
sender name and routing information), or any other forged or falsified
information.
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Third
Party Links. Links to third party web sites should not be inserted in
e-mails without the direct or indirect permission of the third party,
and your e-mail should conspicuously notify the recipient that the link
is to a third party over which you have no control or operation.
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In
addition, you may not use Company's mail server or another Web site's
mail server to relay mail without the express permission of the account
holder or the Web site. Posting the same or similar message to one or
more newsgroups, message boards, blogs, Company discussion groups,
etc., (excessive cross-posting or multiple-posting) also is explicitly
prohibited.
5. INSTANT
MESSAGING and CHAT Services.
Inappropriate
use or misuse of instant messaging or chat applications on the
Company network is not acceptable. Examples include: Sending
instant messages that contain threatening, abusive, illegal or
libelous material.
6. LINKS
TO THIRD-PARTY SITES.
The
Web Site may contain links to other Web Sites that are maintained by
third parties over which Company has no control. These links are
provided for convenience only. Use of these links will cause you to
leave this Site and use of third-party Web Sites is entirely at your
own risk. Company makes no representation or warranty concerning any
other site or the information, products or services offered or
appearing on or through these sites. Company does not sponsor or
endorse the operators of the sites or the content, products or
services they provide, and Company is not responsible or liable for
the conduct of the sites' operators, the content, availability,
accuracy, quality, advertising, products, services or other materials
offered at the sites.
7. MODIFICATION
OF THE POLICY AND AGREEMENT.
We
reserve the right to modify this Policy and Agreement at any time,
effective upon its posting, as modified. Each time you use the Web
Site, you agree to the currently posted policies and Agreements by
accessing or using our Web Site, products or services.
8. PRIVACY
POLICY.
Company
respects the privacy of visitors to our site. Please take a few
minutes to review our Privacy Policy.
9. REPORTING
VIOLATIONS OF AUP
Company
requests that anyone who believes that there is a violation of this
AUP to direct the information to its legal department at:
legal@listmgt.com
In
making this report, please provide the following information if it is
available: (1) the IP address used to commit the alleged violation;
(2) the date and time of the alleged violation; (3) evidence of the
alleged violation.
In
response to any complaint, Company may take any one or more of the
following actions: (1) issue written or verbal warnings; (2) suspend
services; (3) terminate services without notice; (4) bring legal
action to enjoin violations and/or to collect damages, if any caused
by the violation; (5) such other actions in the sole discretion of
Company.
10. MISCELLANEOUS.
Any
failure to insist upon or enforce performance of any provision in
this Policy will not be construed as a waiver of any provision or
right. Neither the course of conduct between the parties nor trade
practice will act to modify any provision in this Policy and
Agreement. Company may assign its rights and duties under these
terms to any party at any time without notice to you. If any
provision of this Agreement is deemed unlawful, void, or for any
reason unenforceable, then that provision will be deemed severable
from these terms and conditions so that it does not affect the
validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Any
questions regarding this AUP should be directed to
legal@listmgt.com.
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