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Acceptable Use Policy, please click here. This
Acceptable Use Policy is used in conjunction with the terms of your
Service Agreement. Any Customer who does not agree to be bound by these
terms should immediately stop use of Southern Light Services and notify
Southern Light Account Management so that the Customer's Service can be
cancelled. Violating any of these policies grants Southern Light the
authority to take action to restrict or terminate your access to
Southern Light Services. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to
update or revise this policy, any other policy or statement on any
Southern Light website, and any product offerings or programs described
on any Southern Light website. Please check back periodically to review
any changes to this policy.
Southern Light disclaims, to the maximum extent permitted by law, all
warranties, representations or other endorsements, express or implied,
with regard to the information accessed from, or through, Southern
Light's Services, the systems which provide it and the Internet,
including all warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular
use, or non-infringement of any third-party rights. Southern Light does
not assume any liability for the completeness, accuracy or usefulness
of any information disclosed or materials accessed. In no event shall
Southern Light (or any persons or entities related thereto) be liable
for any special, indirect, or consequential damages associated with or
arising from use of this service in any way, including any loss of use,
data or profits, regardless of the form of action. Any failure by
Southern Light to enforce this policy in every instance in which it
might have application does not amount to a waiver of Southern Light's
rights. You
must use this site and the Southern Light Services in accordance with
the terms of this policy and your Southern Light Service Agreement, and
in accordance with all federal, state and local laws, ordinances, and
regulations. In
order to maintain an informative and valuable service that meets the
needs of the users of this site and Southern Light Services, the
following rules have been established to protect against abuse.
Use of this site or Southern Light Services for any purpose that is
unlawful or in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden or
impair the operation of this site, the Southern Light Network or
Southern Light Services or any other party's use or enjoyment of this
site, the Southern Light Network or Southern Light Services, is
strictly prohibited. Specifically, you may not: - Attempt
to use or gain unauthorized access to data, accounts, hosts, servers,
systems or networks of this site, or to probe, scan or test the
vulnerability of a system or network of this site, any Southern Light
Services or those of any other party
- Interfere
with service to any user, host or network including, without
limitation, mail-bombing, flooding, or attempting to overload the system
- Forge any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting
- Falsify
address information or otherwise modify e-mail headers to conceal the
sender's or the recipient's identity
- Use
this site or Southern Light Services to engage in activities that
violate any terms or conditions of any other network access provider or
Internet service provider
- Additionally,
you may not, by use of any Southern Light Service or another service,
upload, post or otherwise distribute or facilitate distribution of any
content, including text, communications, software, images, sounds,
data, or other information that, in Southern Light's discretion:
Infringes the intellectual property rights of any entity or individual
Victimizes, harasses, degrades, or intimidates an individual or group
of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation,
race, ethnicity, age, disability or any other reason Is posted in violation of a newsgroup charter
Contains viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or
programs that may damage the operation of another's computer
Has a negative effect on Southern Light or its network (including,
without limitation, overloading servers on the Southern Light Network;
causing portions of the Southern Light Network to be blocked by other
network providers; generating unresolved third party complaints or
complaints which, in the discretion of Southern Light, impose an
unreasonable administrative burden on the company; etc). Constitutes unsolicited duplicative e-mail (commercial or otherwise)
This prohibition extends to the sending of unsolicited and/or mass
e-mailings from any Southern Light account, or via another service
which in any way (i) implicates the use of this site or Southern Light
Services, Southern Light equipment or any Southern Light e-mail
address; (ii) that is relayed from any Southern Light or third party's
mail servers without permission; (iii) which employs techniques to hide
or obscure the source of the e-mail; (iv) which are sent, or caused to
be sent, to or through the Southern Light Network that makes use of or
contains invalid or forged headers, invalid or non-existent domain
names or other means of deceptive addressing may be deemed to be
counterfeit. A communication may be
unsolicited if: (1) recipients' email addresses were not obtained
through a personal or customer relationship between recipient and
sender, (2) recipients did not affirmatively consent to receive
communications from sender, or (3) recipients have opted out of
receiving communications from sender when given notice of the
opportunity to do so. Senders should: (i) confirm that the actual owner
of each email address, particularly email that are part of a list,
agreed to receive email and/or bulk email from the sender; (ii) include
their email and/or physical address in any bulk mailings; and (iii)
provide recipients with an effective means of removing their email from
lists. Please Note: The
transmission of unsolicited bulk e-mail, including the transmission of
counterfeit e-mail, may result in civil and criminal penalties against
the sender, including those provided by the federal Controlling the
Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act ("CAN-SPAM")
(P.L. 108-187) or Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. § 1030 et
seq.); and any other applicable statutes and regulations.
Southern Light reserves the right to take all legal and technical steps
available to prevent unsolicited bulk e-mail or other unauthorized
e-mail from being sent from or transmitted through the Southern Light
Network, including the right, without prior notice, to perform
vulnerability tests on systems residing on IP address space belonging
to Southern Light which may be allocated for Customer use. The purpose
of such testing includes, but is not limited to, testing of mail
servers or proxy servers for unrestricted third party relaying.
Southern Light will use commercial reasonable efforts to ensure that
such testing will not adversely affect Service provided to Customer or
compromise the security of Customer's network. Customer may be required
to correct any system vulnerability upon notification and/or suspend or
terminate operations of a known compromised system.
Your participation in online communication or use of any Southern Light
service is not edited, censored or otherwise controlled by Southern
Light. However, Southern Light reserves the right to monitor content on
this site and any Southern Light Services and to remove content,
disable sites, or suspend or terminate services if Southern Light, in
its discretion, determines such content or user practices are harmful,
offensive, or otherwise in violation of this Acceptable Use Policy. If
Customer allows others (end users) to use the Service, Customer is
responsible for ensuring that end users comply with this AUP. Southern
Light may disconnect Service if an end user violates this AUP. The
Customer must also make contact information publicly available, and
must respond promptly to any complaints. Complaints regarding the
Customer's end users shall apply to the Customer. Southern
Light's IP address policy is based on RFC 2050 and the American
Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) guidelines for Internet service
providers; provided, however, that Southern Light may allocate IP
addresses in any manner in which Southern Light determines, in its sole
discretion, is reasonable for the operation of its internet business.
Please contact Southern Light for any questions regarding IP address
rules and policies. Southern Light will allocate IP addresses to
customer according to InterNIC guidelines. All IP addresses assigned by
Southern Light must be relinquished by Customer upon the expiration,
termination or cancellation of Services Agreement. Southern Light may
require an ARIN organizational ID from the customer to complete IP
requests. If requested, the organizational ID must be provided. A
customer may call ARIN at 703-227-0660 to obtain an ID. Southern
Light makes no representation that materials available on this site or
any or through any Southern Light service are appropriate or available
for use in locations outside the United States, and accessing them from
territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. Those who
access this site or any site hosted by Southern Light from other
locations are responsible for compliance with local law. You
acknowledge and agree that copyrights, trademarks, service marks,
patents, trade secrets, and other proprietary rights and laws protect
all content and materials available through any Southern Light service.
Nothing on any Southern Light website shall be interpreted or implied
in such as way as conferring any license or right to any intellectual
property rights or license to any intellectual property, content,
technology, system, process, or related material belonging to Southern
Light by virtue of it being displayed or made accessible on any
Southern Light website. Except as expressly authorized, you agree not
to use this site or any Southern Light Services in any manner that
would infringe, violate, dilute or misappropriate any such rights, with
respect to any material, which you may access, receive or make
available through this site or any Southern Light Services.
If you use a domain name or content in connection with the Southern
Light web hosting, or any other web hosting service, you must not use
that domain name or content in any way which violates any trademark,
service mark, or similar rights of any third party. You
must not use any programs that may or will interfere with another's use
of this site or Southern Light Services. You must not run any Internet
Relay Chat ("IRC") robot on any IRC server which might interfere with
the Services or otherwise violate this AUP. When logged into any IRC
server, you must comply with the rules and policies established by that
IRC's service administrator. This
Authorized Use Policy is subject to, and shall be construed and
enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Alabama without
regard to its choice of law principles. The
Southern Light Service Agreement and Acceptable Use Policy prohibit
acts of copyright and trademark infringement and other unlawful
behavior by Southern Light subscribers. Southern Light takes subscriber
violations seriously and will investigate complaints and, where
appropriate, may remove content, disable sites, suspend or terminate
services, or take other action as necessary. Southern Light assumes no
responsibility for costs incurred for defending or asserting a
violation of the Southern Light Service Agreement or Acceptable Use
Policy. General Complaints: Please send reports of any activity in violation of this Acceptable Use Policy to abuse@southernlight.com.
Southern Light will reasonably investigate incidents involving such
violations. Southern Light may involve and will cooperate with law
enforcement officials if any criminal activity is suspected. Violations
may result in criminal and civil liability. Copyright/Trademark Infringement Complaints: If
you believe that your copyright or trademark has been used by a
Southern Light subscriber without permission, such that the use may
constitute infringement of your intellectual property rights, please
send a report to abuse@southernlight.com. Fraud Complaints:
Southern Light recognizes that acts of fraud can be and are committed
over the Internet. Southern Light encourages all Customers and Internet
users to be vigilant about protecting their personal information,
account numbers, id's, passwords, etc. As with non-Internet fraud,
fraud complaints are best and most appropriately made to law
enforcement authorities. If you believe you have been the victim of
Internet fraud (either via the web or through email), Southern Light
encourages you to contact your local or state consumer protection
authority, or one among several U.S. agencies that handle complaints
about Internet fraud, including:
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Complaints about consumer fraud (e.g.
related to retail, banking and other on line activity) can be filed
with the FTC at https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01;
Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) is a joint effort of the FBI and
the National White Collar Crime Center; complaints about Internet fraud
may be filed with the IFCC at http://www.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp;
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) complaints related to buying
and selling of securities, and related on line activity, can be filed
with the SEC Enforcement Division Complaint Center at http://www.sec.gov/complaint.shtml,
as well as, your state securities regulators (to locate your state
securities regulator, go to http://www.nasaa.org/QuickLinks/ContactYourRegulator.cfm). |
