This ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY (hereafter known as "AUP") governs the use of
SGWEBHOST.COM's web hosting service.
Violation of this AUP may result in suspension or termination of your service.
In the event of a dispute between you and SGWEBHOST.COM regarding the
interpretation of this AUP, SGWEBHOST.COM interpretation, in its
reasonable commercial judgment, shall govern. If you have any questions
regarding this AUP, contact us by filling up our feedback
form.
Table of Contents
- Offensive Content
- Security
- Bulk Commercial E-Mail
- Unsolicited E-Mail
- Material Protected by Copyright
- Copyright Infringement Notice
- Internet Abuse
- Newsgroup, Chat Forums, Other Networks
- Other
- Disclaimer
1. Offensive Content
You may not publish or transmit via SGWEBHOST.COM's service any
content that SGWEBHOST.COM reasonably believes:
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constitutes child pornography;
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constitutes pornography;
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is excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence, or contains
harassing content or hate speech;
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is unfair or deceptive under the consumer protection laws of any
jurisdiction, including chain letters and pyramid schemes
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is defamatory or violates a person's privacy;
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creates a risk to a person's safety or health, creates a risk to public
safety or health, compromises national security, or interferes with a
investigation by law enforcement;
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improperly exposes trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary
information of another person;
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is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections;
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clearly infringes on another person's trade or service mark, patent, or
other property right;
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promotes illegal drugs, violates export control laws, relates to illegal
gambling, or illegal arms trafficking;
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is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws
applicable to you or to SGWEBHOST.COM; or
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is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may result in retaliation against
SGWEBHOST.COM by offended viewers.
Content published or transmitted via SGWEBHOST.COM service includes
Web content, e-mail, bulletin board postings, chat, and any other type of
posting or transmission that relies on any Internet service provided by
SGWEBHOST.COM.
2. Security
You must take reasonable security precautions. You must protect the
confidentiality of your password, and you should change your password
periodically.
3. Bulk Commercial E-Mail
You must obtain SGWEBHOST.COM advance approval for any bulk
commercial e-mail, which will not be given unless you are able to demonstrate
all of the following to SGWEBHOST.COM reasonable satisfaction:
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Your intended recipients have given their consent to receive e-mail via
some affirmative means, such as an opt in procedure;
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Your procedures for soliciting consent include reasonable means to ensure
that the person giving consent is the owner of the e-mail address for which
the consent is given;
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You retain evidence of the recipient's consent in a form that may be
promptly produced on request, and you honor recipient's and SGWEBHOST.COM' requests to produce consent evidence within 72 hours of receipt of
the request.
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The body of the e-mail must describe how the e-mail address was obtained,
for example, "You opted in to receive this e-mail promotion from our Web site
or from one of our partner sites," and information on how to request evidence
of the consent, for example, "If you would like to learn more about how we
received your e-mail address please contact us at abuse@yourdomain.com."
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You have procedures in place that allow a recipient to easily revoke their
consent such as a link in the body of the e-mail, or instructions to reply
with the word "Remove" in the subject line. Revocations of consent are
honoured within 72 hours, and you notify recipients that their revocation of
their consent will be honoured in 72 hours;
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You must post an abuse@yourdoman.com e-mail address on the first page of
any Web site associated with the e-mail, you must register that address at
abuse.net, and you must promptly respond to messages sent to that address;
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You must have a Privacy Policy posted for each domain associated with the
mailing;
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You have the means to track anonymous complaints;
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You may not obscure the source of your e-mail in any manner. Your e-mail
must include the recipients e-mail address in the body of the message or in
the TO:line of the e-mail; and
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You otherwise comply with the CAN SPAM Act and other applicable law.
These policies apply to messages sent using your SGWEBHOST.COM
service, or to messages sent from any network by you or any person on your
behalf that directly or indirectly refer the recipient to a site hosted via your
SGWEBHOST.COM service. In addition, you may not use a third party
e-mail service that does not practice similar procedures for all its customers.
SGWEBHOST.COM may test and otherwise monitor your compliance with
its requirements, including requesting opt-in information from a random sample
of your list at any time.
4. Unsolicited E-Mail
You may not send any unsolicited e-mail, either in bulk or individually, to
any person who has indicated that they do not wish to receive it.
You must comply with the rules of any other network you access or participate
in using your SGWEBHOST.COM's services.
5. Material Protected by Copyright
You may not publish, distribute, or otherwise copy in any manner any music,
software, art, or other work protected by copyright law unless:
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you have been expressly authorized by the owner of the copyright for the
work to copy the work in that manner;
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you are otherwise permitted by established United States copyright law to
copy the work in that manner.
SGWEBHOST.COM will terminate the service of repeat copyright
infringers.
6. Copyright Infringement Notice (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
If you believe your copyright is being infringed by a person using the
SGWEBHOST.COM network, please send your notice of copyright
infringement to: abuse@sgwebhost.com
Your notice must include the following:
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A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf
of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
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Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or
if multiple copyrighted words at a single site are covered by a single
notification, a representative list of such works at that site.
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Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be
the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to
which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit
SGWEBHOST.COM to locate the material;
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Information reasonably sufficient to permit SGWEBHOST.COM to
contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an
e-mail address;
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A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in
the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, the
copyright owner's agent, or the law;
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A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and
under penalty of perjury that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner
of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
7. Internet Abuse
You may not engage in illegal, abusive, or irresponsible behaviour, including:
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Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any
attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to
breach security or authentication measures (including those belonging to
SGWEBHOST.COM and its customers) without express authorization of the owner
of the system or network;
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monitoring data or traffic on any network or system without the
authorization of the owner of the system or network;
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Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without
limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system
and broadcast attacks;
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Use of an Internet account or computer without the owner's authorization,
including, but not limited to Internet scanning (tricking other people into
releasing their passwords), password robbery, security hole scanning, and port
scanning;
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Forging of any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information
in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting; or
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Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against the
SGWEBHOST.COM's network.
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Use of SGWEBHOST.COM's network in a way that unreasonably
interferes with SGWEBHOST.COM's other customers use of the network
8. Newsgroup, Chat Forums, Other Networks
You must comply with the rules and conventions for postings to any bulletin
board, chat group or other forum in which you participate, such as IRC and
USENET groups including their rules for content and commercial postings. These
groups usually prohibit the posting of off-topic commercial messages, or mass
postings to multiple forums.
9. Other
You must have valid and current information on file with your domain name
registrar for any domain hosted on the SGWEBHOST.COM network.
10. Disclaimer
SGWEBHOST.COM is under no duty, and does not by this AUP undertake a
duty, to monitor or police our customers' activities and disclaims any
responsibility for any misuse of the SGWEBHOST.COM network.
Inquiries regarding this policy should be directed to our support department
at by filling up our feedback form.
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