Network Acceptable Use Policies
At WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions, we value our customers and wish to provide them with a positive experience. To offer you the
best service possible, all customers need to follow the same rules and guidelines. These policies are
intended to make WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions's Service available to all our customers as consistently and efficiently as
possible.
User-Supplied Content
All services may be used for lawful purposes only. Through WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions's Service, you may have access to
chat areas, bulletin boards, web pages, email, or other services that enable you to send or post
materials ("content") and make that content available to others. You must not submit, publish, or
display on the Network any defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, infringing, or threatening
content. In addition, you may not submit, publish, or display any content that violates any US
Federal, State, or Local law. You are solely responsible for the content you make accessible through
the WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions Network. You may not use the Service to assist any other person or entity to violate any
Federal, State, or Local laws, ordinances, or regulations.
WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions is not obligated to monitor the network to examine available content. You hereby acknowledge
that if we are made aware of content that is determined to be, in its sole discretion, unacceptable,
undesirable, offensive, indecent, obscene, excessively violent or otherwise objectionable, WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions has
the right, but not the obligation, to edit, remove or deny access to such content. WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions may disclose
any content or records concerning customer's account as required to satisfy any law, regulation,
governmental request or court order.
Sites that
promote any illegal activity or content that may be damaging to WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions's servers or any other server
on the Internet are strictly prohibited. Links to such materials are also prohibited. In addition, any site selling or
promoting bulk email service is not allowed. Below are some examples of non-acceptable content
or links:
- Pirated Software (Warez) - Any software that is copyrighted and not freely available for distribution without cost; i.e. ROMs, ROM Emulators and MPEG Layer 3 files (MP3).
- Copyright Violations - Violation of copyrights held by individuals and corporations or other entities can result in civil and criminal liability for the infringer.
- Hacking/Phreaking - Includes sites with material, links, or resources for hacking, phreaking, viruses, anarchy, or any type of site that promotes or participates in willful harm to Internet sites or providers.
Network Security
Customers may not use the WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions Network with an attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of
any host, network, or account. This includes, but is not limited to, accessing data not intended for
the customer, logging into a server or account the customer is not expressly authorized to access,
password cracking, probing the security of other networks in search of weakness, or violation of any
other organization's security policy. Customers may not attempt to interfere or deny service to any
user, host, or network. This includes, but is not limited to, flooding, mail bombing, or other
deliberate attempts to overload or crash a host or network. WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions will cooperate fully with investigations
of violations of systems or network security at other sites, including cooperating with law
enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations. Users who violate
system or network security may incur criminal or civil liability.
CGI Scripts
Each WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions account comes fully equipped with its own pre-configured CGI-Bin. Customers are free to use
any CGI-scripts provided with their account or add any additional ones they require. Any CGI-scripts
deemed to be adversely affecting the server performance or the network integrity may be shut down
without prior notice. CGI-script sharing with domains not hosted by WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions is not allowed.
Chat Rooms
WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions prohibits its customers from installing outside chat rooms on their domain, as these tend to be
a resource problem. WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions does provide its customers a choice of Java chat rooms to choose from for a
nominal monthly charge. These chat rooms were designed to meet the growing needs of customers and
function without hindering the performance of the servers for others.
Server Resources
Any web site that uses a high amount of server resources (such as, but not limited to CPU time,
memory usage, and network resources) will be given an option of either upgrading their service
level or reducing the resource used to an acceptable level.
Background Running Programs
Background daemons in general are prohibited. WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions will consider requests on a per-application basis.
If allowed, extra charges will be assessed based on resource requirements for system maintenance.
IRC
WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions currently prohibits its customers from operating IRC or IRC Bots on any of the servers in the
WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions Network.
Commercial Advertising/Mass Mailings/UCE/SPAM
You must not use the WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions Network, WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions equipment or any WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions email address in connection with the
transmission of spam, flames, mail bombs, or substantially similar, unsolicited email messages.
Your domain may not be referenced as originator, intermediary, or reply-to address in any of the
above. This prohibition extends to the sending of unsolicited mass mailings from another service
that in any way implicates the use of the WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions Network, WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions equipment or any WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions email address. A
message is considered unsolicited if it is posted in violation of a newsgroup charter or if it
is sent to a recipient who has not requested or invited the message. For purposes of this provision,
merely making one's email address accessible to the public will not constitute a request or
invitation to receive messages.
If you are found to have spammed, without warning, WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions reserves the right to disable your domain/terminate your account.
In addition, WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions may impose a $100 penalty for each spam policy violation. WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions solely reserves
the right to refuse or cancel service to known spammers. Lastly, WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions reserves the right to determine
what violates this policy. As such, any violation may result in cancellation of services without refund.
Distribution and/or Transmission of Obscene or Indecent Speech or Materials
Violation of indecency and obscenity laws can result in criminal penalties.
Technical Support Boundaries
WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions does provide 24/7/365 Technical Support to all its Resellers and direct clients. However, we do not provide support to your clients or your resellers. WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions does not provide Technical Support or help with programming, HTML code, custom programming and 3rd Party Software, whether installed or pre-installed on your computer or our server.
Intellectual Property Rights
Material accessible to you through WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions's Services may be subject to protection under the United States
or other copyright laws, or laws protecting trademarks, trade secrets or proprietary information. Except
when expressly permitted by the owner of such rights, you must not use the WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions Service in a manner that
would infringe, violate, dilute or misappropriate any such rights, with respect to any material, which
you access or receive through the WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions Network. If you use a domain name in connection with the WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions
Service or similar service, you must not use that domain name in violation of any trademark, service
mark, or similar rights of any third party.
Defamation
Defamatory speech distributed over the Internet can result in civil liability for the defamer.
Refusal of Service
WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions reserves the right at its sole discretion to refuse or cancel service. Violation of any of WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions's
Rules and Regulations could result in a warning, suspension, or possible account termination. Accounts
terminated due to policy violations will not be refunded.
Indemnification
Customer agrees that it will protect, indemnify, save and hold WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions harmless from any and all
stipulations, liabilities, losses, expenses and claims, as well as reasonable attorney's fees assessed
against WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions, its agents, customers, officers, employees and administration that may arise or
result from any service provided or performed or agreed to be performed or any product sold by it's
customers, agents, employees or assigns. Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions
harmless against liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to person or property caused by any
products sold or distributed in association with WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions's Services; (2) any material furnished by
customer infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party; (3) copyright
violation and any defective products sold to a customer from WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions's Services.
Satisfaction Guaranteed:
WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions offers a 30 day money back guarantee on our web hosting services. If you are not completely satisfied with our web hosting services within the first 30 days of your contract, you will be given a
full refund of the hosting amount excluding setup fees, domain registration fees and overages.
Disclaimer
WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions will not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer. WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions makes no warranties
of any kind, expressed or implied for services we provide. WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions disclaims any warranty or
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from delays,
non-deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service interruptions caused by WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions and its
employees. WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions reserves the right to amend or update these policies without notice. Failure to
follow any terms and conditions may result in account deactivation.
WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions furthermore expects that its customers who provide Internet services to others will fully comply
with all applicable laws concerning the privacy of online communications. A customer's failure to
comply with those laws will violate this policy. Finally, WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions wishes to emphasize that in accepting
services, customers indemnify WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions for the violation of any law or WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions policy, that results in loss
to WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions or the bringing of any claim against WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions. This means that if WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions is sued because of activities
of the customer that violate any law, or this policy, the customer will pay any damages awarded
against WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions, plus costs and reasonable attorneys' fees.
Confidentiality Statement
We at WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions insure that all personal information submitted to us in processing your order and
for billing purposes, etc., including but not limited credit card information, will be kept
strictly confidential and used solely by WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions, its representatives and employees, for the
purposes for which it was intended, for the benefit of the subscriber. We agree not to share
or release such information to any individual, entity, or third party, without the consent of
the subscriber, except as required by law, regulation or governmental authority. All information
provided to us by the subscriber is properly stored and handled at all times by authorized WorldWide Business Products, Inc. dba Coast Internet Solutions
staff members only.
If any terms or conditions are failed to be followed it will result in grounds for immediate account deactivation.
This agreement, user account, and billing will automatically renew unless cancelled in writing 15 days or more prior to the renewal date. If applicable, a cancellation fee equal to one month's web hosting fee will apply.