Terms, Conditions and
Acceptable Use Policy

Arbor Internet provides Internet World Wide Web page hosting, Marketing, and Development. Arbor Internet has certain legal and ethical responsibilities consisting with the use of its server and equipment involved in these services.

Arbor Internet general policy is to act as a provider of internet presence. Arbor Internet has specific ethical concerns regarding the use of its computers detailed below. Arbor Internet reserves the right to suspend or cancel a customer's access to any or all services provided by Arbor Internet when we decide that the account has been inappropriately used.

Specific Acceptable Use Policies (dedicated server policies may vary)

Server abuse
Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server, or customer, of Arbor Internet is strictly prohibited.
Unauthorized use of other people's accounts or computers
Arbor Internet will strongly react to any use or attempted use of an Internet account or computer without the owner's authorization. Such attempts include "internet scamming" (tricking other people into releasing their passwords), password robbery, security hole scanning etc.

Any unauthorized use of accounts or computers by a Arbor Internet customer, whether or not the attacked account or computer belongs to Arbor Internet, will result in action against the attacker. Possible actions include warnings, account suspension or cancellation, and civil or criminal legal action, depending on the seriousness of the attack.


Abuse of Traffic and/or Storage
Arbor Internet 's customers are privileged to be offered flexible traffic and storage limits for their web sites. The intention of Arbor Internet is to provide a large space to serve web documents, not an offsite storage area for electronic files. All (90%) of your web pages (html) must be 'linked' with files (.GIF, .JPEG, etc.) stored on Arbor Internet 's server. Web sites that are found to contain either/or no html documents, a large number of unlinked files are subject to warning, suspension or cancellation at the discretion of Arbor Internet management. Any customer who violates Arbor Internet 's Policies in abusing either space/site transfer will be notified and given 5 days to remedy the problem. If the problem is not resolved within the alloted 5 day period, the client will be billed for the overages.
To maintain the integrity of our service the following limitations apply:
Excess of normal data transfer may be charged $50.00/1GB/month additional.
Arbor Internet will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision
Commercial advertisements with e-mail
Unsolicited commercial advertisements are not allowed in e-mail, and will likely result in account suspension or cancellation.

Commercial advertisements are unwelcome in most Usenet discussion groups and on most e-mail mailing lists. Inappropriate posting may result in account suspension or cancellation. See the newsgroup or mailing list's charter for whether advertising is allowed or not. "Spamming," or sending a message to many different off-topic newsgroups, is particularly unethical and will be treated as such.

Sending a message, especially an advertisement, to more than five or six recipients, is by itself spamming unless the individuals have specifically requested to be added to a mailing list on that topic. E-mail is a person-to-person medium, not a broadcast medium.
Unsolicited Electronic Mail
Sending unsolicited bulk mail messages ("junk mail" or "spam") is expressly prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, bulk-mailing of commercial advertising, information announcements, and political tracts. Such material may only be sent to those who have specifically requested it. Malicious or threatening email is also prohibited. Although we will make reasonable efforts to alert you to such activities and allow you an opportunity to cure them within a 12-hour period after discovery, we reserve the right to immediately deactivate your use of our service if we discover such activity. Further, you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim resulting from your use or distribution of electronic mail services through the service provided.
Chat Rooms
We do not allow clients to install their own chat rooms, without approving it with Arbor Internet. Most chat rooms tend to be large system hogs and we cannot allow it as an account option. However, we do provide a choice of Java chat rooms for a small extra charge that will more than fill your needs and run without hindering the performance of the machine for others.
Background Running Programs
We may allow programs to run continually in the background. These are considered on a one-to-one basis and an extra charge will be incurred based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed.
IRC
We currently do not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers.

Payment Policies
All accounts are set up on a pre-pay basis. Registration with Internic is free, however there will be a $70.00 charge from InterNIC for the usage of the domain for a term of 2 years. Each year after will result in an additional $35.00 charge billed directly to the customer. Setup fees are charged for all new accounts and major account changes and are non-refundable. All pricing is guaranteed for the term of pre-payment. Arbor Internet reserves the right to change prices at any time, unless other terms have been agreed upon. Any account not brought current within a week (7 days) of e-mail notice or exceeding this time frame in any way is subject to suspension. The customer is responsible for all money owed on the account from the time it was established to the time that the customer notifies Arbor Internet in writing for a request for termination of services. All payment is in U.S. currency.

Cancellation
Arbor Internet reserves the right to cancel service at any time. All fees paid in advance of cancellation will be pro-rated and paid by Arbor Internet if Arbor Internet institutes it's right of cancellation. Any violation of policies which results in extra costs will be billed to the customer (i.e. transfer, space etc.)

Customers can cancel service by providing written notice one month in advance. Due to security concerns, all account cancellations must be done in writing via US mail or fax with a valid signature of the primary contact of the account, account name, reason for cancellation. If payment was made by check or bank transfer, the zip/postal code of the primary contact. Payment will be made by company check within 15 days of receipt of cancellation.

Lawful Purpose
Arbor Internet reserves the right to refuse service to anyone. Customers may only use Arbor Internet server for lawful purpose. Transmission of any material in violation of any Federal, State or Local regulation is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to copyrighted material, material legally judged to be threatening or obscene, and material protected by trade secrets. Arbor Internet expressly forbids anyone from using Arbor Internet servers for the propagation, distribution, housing, processing, storing, or otherwise handling in any way lewd, obscene, or pornographic material, or any other material which we deem to be objectionable, including, but not limited to, pornography, satanic materials, and any and all materials of an adult nature. The designation of any materials as such described above is left entirely to the discretion of Arbor Internet management.

Indemnification
Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold Arbor Internet harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney's fees asserted against Arbor Internet , its agents, its customers, officers and employees, that may arise or result from any service provided or performed or agreed to be performed or any product sold by customer, it's agents, employees or assigns. Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Arbor Internet against liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with Arbor Internet 's server; (2) any material supplied by customer infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party; (3) copyright infringement and (4) any defective products sold to customer from Arbor Internet 's server.

Disclaimer
Arbor Internet will not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer. Arbor Internet makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services we provide. Arbor Internet disclaims any warranty or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The includes loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service interruptions caused by Arbor Internet and its employees. Arbor Internet reserves the right to revise its policies at any time.

All Sub-Networks, resellers and dedicated servers of Arbor Internet must adhere to the above policies.

Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation.