Important Note: This document is updated
often. Please make a habit of reviewing it from time to time to stay abreast of
acceptable as well as inappropriate uses of your KJV Gods Word Internet
Services account. Reports of activity in violation of this policy may be sent
via e-mail to abuse@kjvgodsword.com
This document is divided into the following
sections:
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Security
Introduction
When you open your KJV Gods Word hosting
account, you join two communities. First is the community formed by our network
and our customers; the second community is the one made up of all networks and
users connected to each other to form the Internet. Becoming a member of these
communities gives you certain rights and privileges, but also imposes certain
duties and responsibilities. KJV Gods Word has established an Acceptable Use
Policy in order to make these duties and responsibilities more clear. This
document is intended to provide a general understanding of KJV Gods Word's
Acceptable Use Policy. The following factors guide the establishment and
enforcement of KJV Gods Word's usage policies:
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Ensure reliable service to our customers
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Ensure security and privacy of our systems and network, as well
as the networks and systems of others
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Comply with existing laws
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Maintain our reputation as a responsible service provider
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Encourage responsible use of the Internet and discourage
activities which reduce the usability and value of Internet services
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Preserve the value of Internet resources as a conduit for free
expression and exchange of information
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Preserve the privacy and security of individual users
KJV Gods Word intends to provide its customers
access to everything the Internet has to offer. While KJV Gods Word is firmly
committed to the principles of free speech, certain activities are damaging to
the resources of both KJV Gods Word and the Internet and cannot be permitted
under the guise of free speech. The resources of KJV Gods Word and the Internet
are limited, and abuse of these resources by one user has a negative impact on
the entire community.
We do not routinely monitor the activity of
accounts except for measurements of system utilization and the preparation of
billing records. However, in our efforts to promote good citizenship within the
Internet community, we will respond appropriately if we become aware of
inappropriate use of our service.
If a KJV Gods Word Hosting account is used to
violate the Acceptable Use Policy, we reserve the right to terminate your
service without notice and you agree to indemnify KJV Gods Word and its
affiliates against any claims threatened or brought by third parties as a
result of your violation of this Acceptable Use Policy and/or the content of
your website. We prefer to advise customers of inappropriate behavior and any
necessary corrective action. However, flagrant violations of the Acceptable Use
Policy will result in immediate termination of service. Our failure to enforce
this policy, for whatever reason, shall not be construed as a waiver of our
right to do so at any time.
If you have any questions regarding this
policy, please contact us at abuse@kjvgodsword.com
General Information
KJV Gods Word Hosting customers are prohibited from transmitting
on or through any of KJV Gods Word's services, any material that is, in KJV
Gods Word's sole discretion, unlawful, obscene, threatening, abusive,
defamatory, libelous, or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal
offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any local, state,
federal or international law.
In general, you may NOT use your KJV
Gods Word Hosting account:
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In a manner which violates any law, regulation, treaty or
tariff;
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In a manner which violates the rules, regulations and policies
of any network, server, web site, database or service provider that you access
through your KJV Gods Word account;
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In a manner which is defamatory, fraudulent, indecent, offensive
or deceptive;
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To threaten, harass, abuse or intimidate others;
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To damage the name or reputation of KJV Gods Word, its parent,
affiliates and subsidiaries;
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To break security on any computer network, or to access an
account which does not belong to you; or
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In a manner which interferes with other customers' use and enjoyment
of the services provided by KJV Gods Word.
KJV Gods Word's services may only be used for
lawful purposes. Transmission, distribution, or storage of any information,
data or material in violation of United States or state regulation or law, or
by the common law, is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to,
material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, or any other statute.
KJV Gods Word's reserves the right to remove such illegal material from its
servers or to immediately terminate your services.
The customer is responsible for keeping his
billing data with KJV Gods Word up-to-date and accurate. Furnishing false data
on any contract or application, including fraudulent use of credit card
numbers, is grounds for immediate termination, and may subject the offender to
civil or criminal liability.
KJV Gods Word reserves sole discretion to
determine whether any use of the service is a violation of this policy.
Guidelines for using your account follows. This information is only a guideline,
and is not intended to be all-inclusive.
Shell Account Policies
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Shell accounts may not be used to do any type of compilation of
any sort from C, C++ programs.
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IRC are not permitted on any of the accounts given.
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Hacking attempts, scanning will result a termination of your
account.
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High load average during your shell session will not be
permitted or tolerated.
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Bouncers, BNC are not permitted on shell accounts given.
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Snooping through system files or directories is consider a
"hacking" attempt and will result in account termination.
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Shell access is a priviledge to use and should not be abused,
suspension of shell will result if abused.
Electronic Mail
Certain KJV Gods Word accounts give you the
ability to send and receive electronic mail. Misuse of electronic mail may
result in termination of service. The following examples are non-exclusive and
are provided for your guidance.
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You may not use your account to send unsolicited bulk or
commercial messages ("spam"). This includes, but is not limited to,
bulk mailing of commercial advertising, informational announcements, charity
requests, petitions for signatures, and political or religious tracts. Such
messages may only be sent to those who have explicitly requested it.
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You may not use your account to collect responses from
unsolicited bulk or commercial e-mail sent from accounts with other providers.
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Forging, altering or removing electronic mail headers is
prohibited.
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You may not send numerous copies of the same or substantially
similar message, nor may you send very large messages or files to a recipient,
with the intent to disrupt a server or account ("mail bombing").
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You may not use electronic mail to harass or intimidate others.
Harassment, whether through language, frequency of messages, or size of
messages, is prohibited. Sending a single unwelcome message may be considered
harassment. If a recipient asks to stop receiving e-mail, you must not send
that person any further messages.
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You may not forward or otherwise propagate chain letters, whether
or not such messages solicit money or other items of value, and whether or not
the recipient wishes to receive such mailings.
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KJV Gods Word accounts may not be used to collect replies to
messages sent from another Internet service provider if those messages violate
this Acceptable Use Policy or the acceptable use policy of the other service
provider.
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If you use the services of another provider to promote a web
site hosted by or through KJV Gods Word, then the provisions of this Acceptable
Use Policy shall apply to the methods used to promote such site.
Web Sites
KJV Gods Word provides storage space and
access for web sites through its Web Hosting services. In addition, dedicated
accounts may provide for the hosting of web sites. KJV Gods Word will not
routinely monitor the contents of your web sites.
You are solely responsible for any information
contained on your web site. However, if complaints are received regarding
language, content or graphics contained on your web site, KJV Gods Word may, at
its sole discretion, remove the web site hosted on KJV Gods Word servers and
terminate your Web Hosting service. You agree to promptly reimburse KJV Gods
Word for any reasonable expenses it incurs (including attorney's fees) in
defending itself form third party claims relating to any of the content
(whether created by you, your customers or your users) contained on your
website.
You may not use your web site to publish
material which KJV Gods Word determines, at its sole discretion, to be
unlawful, indecent or objectionable. For purposes of this policy,
"material" refers to all forms of communications including narrative
descriptions, graphics (including photographs, illustrations, images, drawings,
logos), executable programs, video recordings, and audio recordings.
Unlawful content is that which violates
any law, statute, treaty, regulation, or lawful order. This includes, but is
not limited to: obscene material; defamatory, fraudulent or deceptive
statements; threatening, intimidating or harassing statements, or material
which violates the privacy rights or property rights of others (copyrights or
trademarks, for example).
Objectionable content is otherwise legal
content with which KJV Gods Word concludes, in its sole discretion, it does not
want to be associated in order to protect its reputation and brand image, or to
protect its employees, shareholders and affiliates.
Examples of prohibited web site content:
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Materials which hold KJV Gods Word including its affiliates,
employees or shareholders up to public scorn or ridicule.
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Materials which encourage the commission of a crime; or which
tends to incite violence; or which tends to degrade any person or group based
on sex, nationality, religion, color, age, marital status, sexual orientation,
disability or political affiliation.
Security
You are responsible for any misuse of your
account, even if the inappropriate activity was committed by a friend, family
member, guest or employee. Therefore, you must take steps to ensure that others
do not gain access to your account. In addition, you may not use your account
to breach security of another account or attempt to gain unauthorized access to
another network or server.
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You must adopt adequate security measures to prevent or minimize
unauthorized use of your account.
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You may not attempt to circumvent user authentication or
security of any host, network or account ("cracking"). This includes,
but is not limited to, accessing data not intended for you, logging into or
making use of a server or account you are not expressly authorized to access,
or probing the security of other networks. Use or distribution of tools
designed for compromising security is prohibited. Examples of these tools
include, but are not limited to, password guessing programs, cracking tools or network
probing tools.
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You may not attempt to interfere with service to any user, host,
or network ("denial of service attacks"). This includes, but is not
limited to, "flooding" of networks, deliberate attempts to overload a
service, and attempts to "crash" a host.
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Users who violate systems or network security may incur criminal
or civil liability. KJV Gods Word 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.
Network Management
You are responsible for ensuring that the
services obtained from KJV Gods Word are used in an appropriate manner by your
customers and users. Therefore, you must take steps to manage the use of the
services obtained from KJV Gods Word in such a way that network abuse is
minimized. You must also make information publicly available about how to
contact you, and you must respond in a timely manner to complaints concerning misuse
of the services obtained from KJV Gods Word. Failure to responsibly manage the
use of the services obtained from KJV Gods Word may be cause for termination of
services to you.
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You must designate one or more individuals
("Contacts") to be responsible for every host, IP network or subnet
connected to the Internet through the use of the services. You must provide
Contact names, phone numbers, and postal and e-mail addresses ("Contact
Information") to any and all appropriate Domain Name Registrars prior to
the initial network connection of your service. You must keep Contact
Information updated and accurate at all times. Changes in the Contact
Information must be sent to the appropriate Domain Name Registrars in a timely
manner.
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Contacts must have the authority, access and tools necessary to
configure, operate and control access to your systems. For important
timesharing hosts, primary domain name servers and mail relays or gateways,
Contacts must be accessible to KJV Gods Word via telephone 24 hours a day, 7
days a week.
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Every customer who allows third party access to the services
provided by KJV Gods Word, whether such third parties are employees, users or
customers, must maintain a postmaster address for the receipt of complaints by
e-mail. Messages delivered to the postmaster address must be reviewed and
handled in a timely manner.
Network Performance
KJV Gods Word accounts operate on shared
resources. Excessive use or abuse of these shared network resources by one
customer may have a negative impact on all other customers. Misuse of network
resources in a manner which impairs network performance is prohibited by this
policy and may result in termination of your account.
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You are prohibited from excessive consumption of resources,
including CPU time, memory, disk space and session time. You may not use
resource-intensive programs which negatively impact other customers or the
performance of KJV Gods Word systems or networks. KJV Gods Word reserves the
right to terminate or limit such activities.
Illegal Activity
Any activity on our network that is a
violation of any state or federal law is a violation of this policy and will
result in immediate termination of service. Prohibited activities include, but
are not limited to:
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Transmitting obscene materials or child pornography
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Intentionally spreading or threatening to spread computer
viruses
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Gaining or attempting to gain unauthorized access to any
network, including KJV Gods Word's private network infrastructure
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Accessing or attempting to access information not intended for
you
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Transmitting pirated software
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Conducting or participating in illegal gambling
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Soliciting for pyramid and other illegal schemes.
KJV Gods Word does not permit any site that
contains: (i) images (including on banner ads) of nude models (in KJV Gods
Word's sole judgment), (ii) sexually explicit images (including on banner
ads) or (iii) sites containing
language promoting child pornography together with any sexually explicit or
nude images. As required by federal law in the United States, KJV Gods Word
will forward all offenders of this policy to the appropriate federal agency.
Privacy Statement
KJV Gods Word has a policy to respect and
protect the privacy of its customers and their information that is stored with
KJV Gods Word. KJV Gods Word will only access and disclose information as
necessary to comply with applicable laws and government requests, to provide
the KJV Gods Word Services, to operate or maintain its systems or to protect
itself or its customers.