This Acceptable Use Policy specifies certain actions prohibited by GFI for users of GFIs’ services. GFI reserves the right to modify this Policy at any time to stay in compliance with any laws, regulations and security requirements. By using GFI services, any customer, employee or third party unconditionally accepts the terms of this policy.

ILLEGAL USE

GFI may be used only for lawful purposes. Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation coming to or from any unauthorized network or system is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights used without proper authorization; government and military data protected by law and national security; university and academic data protected by public policy; and material that, in GFI’s sole discretion, is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws. Any violation of the above which compromises the integrity of the GFI or any other network is strictly prohibited.

NETWORK AND MACHINE RESOURCES

GFI reserves the right to monitor and allocate network and machine resources. IP addresses are allocated per server and according to virtual server specifications. Cgi resources are allocated one per domain (a virtual host is required for each cgi-bin and is considered a virtual host). GFI in its sole discretion and upon reasonable notice to customer reserves the right to discontinue any hosting account and/or any script which causes excessive server load and/or uses excessive server and network resources.

To protect Internet, network, and machine resources on behalf of the entire GFI customer base, no individual customer may do the following:

1. Resell or give away web space under a domain name, or create "sub-domain" web sites on behalf of other companies, groups, or individuals (Customers interested in reselling GFI’s web hosting services should utilize the GFI Reseller Program.);

2. Use their web site to store web pages, files, or data for other IP addresses or domain names, or as a repository for files, data, or "Warez group" download transfer;

3. Use their web site for data transfer from any database server, or for streaming audio and/or video downloads; or use their web site as a storage area for files that are not linked to the customer’s web pages hosted on the same web site on GFI's or its partners servers;

4. Offer adult content, mp3 downloads, or software downloads; or

6. Utilize CGI/PERL chat, JAVA chat, or any other chat scripts in a manner that adversely affects the operations or performance of other GFI customers, or of the GFI system or network or its partners system or network. The adverse effect of such use shall be determined by GFI in its sole discretion.

GFI may immediately suspend service without prior notice to any web site that violates these rules. In the event of any dispute regarding these rules, GFI may determine violations of these rules in its sole discretion.

Customers utilizing bandwidth in excess of plan limitations, or in violation of these rules, will owe GFI compensation therefor at the applicable rate for excess bandwidth.

SYSTEM AND NETWORK SECURITY

Violations of system or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability. GFI will investigate incidents involving such violations and may involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities if a criminal violation is suspected. GFI respects the privacy of customer data and vigilantly protects that data and ALL customers who host with GFI. If any violation of the law or this AUP is suspected, GFI reserves the right to investigate. Use of the GFI network constitutes consent to monitoring. Examples of unlawful acts, system, or network security violations include, without limitation, the following: Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, damage, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without express authorization of the owner of the system or network. Unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic on any network or system without express authorization of the owner of the system or network. Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mailbombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks. Unauthorized access to any data, system, or network from an unauthorized system or network for any purpose which is not lawful or which is intended to do harm. Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting. Electronic forging of any kind to include but not limited to IP addresses, domains, business names, etc.

EMAIL

Sending unsolicited email messages, including, without limitation, unwanted advertising and informational announcements, is explicitly prohibited, whether sent in bulk or not, and whether commercial in nature or not. The use of GFI resources to sell or enable the sale of "bulk" and/or "stealth" email software (to include so-called "spoof" software) is strictly forbidden. The use of GFI resources to sell or enable the sale of software designed to "harvest" email addresses is also categorically prohibited. A user shall not use another site's mail server to relay mail without the express permission of the site owner. Legitimate mailing lists and subscriber lists are acceptable. Otherwise, it is spam.

USENET

Posting the same messages to multiple newsgroups (excessive cross-posting or multiple-posting, also known as "SPAM") is expressly prohibited.

INDIRECT OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS OF THE POLICY, AND ACTUAL OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS BY A THIRD PARTY ON BEHALF OF AN GFI CUSTOMER OR A CUSTOMER'S END USER, SHALL BE CONSIDERED VIOLATIONS OF THE POLICY BY SUCH CUSTOMER OR END USER.

For Example: If you are hosting a bulk email site on GFI servers or its partner servers and you use another ISP to SPAM from in order to reference your GFI site by IP address or domain name, you are violating GFI policy and possibly the law. If you have been granted telnet access to GFI servers or its partners servers, multiple telnet log-ons are strictly prohibited and you must come from a valid IP address. Forgery is against the law. Any type of denial of service attack from valid or invalid addresses is a violation of GFI security policy and against the law. If you have been granted password privileges for FTP or telnet, sharing your password with an unauthorized user or third party is strictly prohibited. Complaints regarding illegal Use or System or Network Security issues should be sent to admin@1gfi.net. Complaints regarding email abuse should be sent to admin@1gfi.net. Complaints regarding USENET abuse or SPAM should be sent to admin@1gfi.net.

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides limitations for service provider liability relating to material online with regard to information residing, at the discretion of the user, on a system or network that the service provider controls or operates. GFI must be notified immediately of any potential or suspected copywrite infringements. GFI does not tolerate any pornographic material or spamming and both infringements will result in an investigation and possible termination and removal of the site and/or virtual server without a refund. GFI prides itself as a responsible member of the Internet community and is committed to protecting the data of and providing quality service to all GFI customers all of the time.

INTERACTION WITH GFI STAFF