1.1.5.  Acceptable Usage Policy

Policy

IVYCOM provides web hosting services to thousands of clients and thus has a responsibility to protect each client and to provide the best service possible. The following guidelines were designed to insure these services.

Content

All services provided by IVYCOM may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any United States Federal, State or City law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material we judge to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade secrets and other statues. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless IVYCOM from any claims resulting from the use of the service that damages the subscriber or any other party.

NOTE: Pornography and sex-related merchandising are not allowed on following Web hosting plans: Value Plan, Gold Plan, Platinum Plan, and CommercePak. This includes sites that may infer sexual content, or links to adult content elsewhere. This is also true for sites that promote any illegal activity or content that may be damaging to our servers or any other server on the Internet. Links to such materials are also not allowed.  If you wish to host such contents and materials, please contact us for special plans.

Following materials are strictly prohibited from our network.

pirated software
Hackers programs or archives
Warez sites
MP3
IRC

IVYCOM will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. If you are found to be in violation our policy, ivycom.com reservers the right to terminate your account immediately.

Server Resource

Any website or database that uses a high amount of server resources (such as, but not limited to CPU) will be given an option of either paying extra (which depends on the resource needed) or reducing the resource needed to an acceptable level. IVYCOM shall be the sole arbiter of what is considered to be a high server usage level.

CGi Scripts

Cgi script sharing with domains not hosted by ivycom.com is not allowed.

Chat Rooms

IVYCOM does not allow clients to install their own chat rooms. Chat rooms tend to be large system hogs and we cannot permit it as an account option. IVYCOM does provide a choice of Java chatrooms for a small extra charge that should meet most users' needs and run without hindering the performance of the machine of our servers.

Background Running Programs

IVYCOM may allow programs to run continually in the background , these programs will be considered on an individual basis and extra charge will be incurred based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed. If you wish to run background programs please contact us at support@ivycom.com before doing so.

IRC

IVYCOM does not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers.

Commercial Advertising - Email

Spamming, or the sending of mass unsolicited email, from a IVYCOM server or using an email address that is maintained on a IVYCOM machine is STRICTLY prohibited. IVYCOM will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Server Abuse
Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a IVYCOM server or IVYCOM customer is strictly prohibited.

Any sub-networks of IVYCOM and dedicated servers must adhere to the above policies. The failure to meet or follow any of the above guidelines are grounds for account deactivation. We reserve the right to remove any account with 15 days prior notice.