This AUP governs the use of commonAcre’s web hosting service. Violation of this
AUP may result in suspension or termination of your service. In the event of
a dispute between you and commonAcre regarding the interpretation of this AUP,
commonAcre’s interpretation, in its reasonable commercial judgment, shall govern.
If you have any questions regarding this AUP, contact info@commonAcre.com.
Offensive Content
You may not publish or transmit via commonAcre’s service any content that commonAcre
reasonably believes:
constitutes child pornography;
constitutes pornography;
is excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence, or contains
harassing content or hate speech;
is unfair or deceptive under the consumer protection laws of any jurisdiction,
including chain letters and pyramid schemes;
is defamatory or violates a person’s privacy;
creates a risk to a person’s safety or health, creates a risk to public
safety or health, compromises national security, or interferes with a investigation
by law enforcement;
improperly exposes trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information
of another person;
is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections;
clearly infringes on another person’s trade or service mark, patent, or
other property right;
promotes illegal drugs, violates export control laws, relates to illegal
gambling, or illegal arms trafficking;
is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws applicable
to you or to commonAcre;
or is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may result in retaliation against
commonAcre by offended viewers.
Content “published or transmitted” via commonAcre’s service includes Web content,
e-mail, bulletin board postings, chat, and any other type of posting or transmission
that relies on any Internet service provided by commonAcre.
Security
You must take reasonable security precautions. You must protect the confidentiality
of your password, and you should change your password periodically.
Bulk Commercial E-Mail
You must obtain commonAcre’s advance approval for any bulk commercial e-mail,
which will not be given unless you are able to demonstrate all of the following
to commonAcre’s reasonable satisfaction:
Your intended recipients have given their consent to receive e-mail via
some affirmative means, such as an opt-in procedure;
Your procedures for soliciting consent include reasonable means to ensure
that the person giving consent is the owner of the e-mail address for which
the consent is given;
You retain evidence of the recipient’s consent in a form that may be promptly
produced on request, and you honor recipient’s and commonAcre’s requests
to produce consent evidence within 72 hours of receipt of the request;
The body of the e-mail must describe how the e-mail address was obtained,
for example, “You opted in to receive this e-mail promotion from our Web
site or from one of our partner sites,” and information on how to request
evidence of the consent, for example, “If you would like to learn more about
how we received your e-mail address please contact us at abuse@yourdomain.com.”;
You have procedures in place that allow a recipient to easily revoke their
consent – such as a link in the body of the e-mail, or instructions to reply
with the word “Remove” in the subject line. Revocations of consent are honored
within 72 hours, and you notify recipients that their revocation of their
consent will be honored in 72 hours;
You must post an abuse@yourdomain.com e-mail address on the first page
of any Web site associated with the e-mail, you must register that address
at abuse.net, and you must promptly respond to messages sent to that address;
You must have a Privacy Policy posted for each domain associated with the
mailing;
You have the means to track anonymous complaints;
You may not obscure the source of your e-mail in any manner. Your e-mail
must include the recipients e-mail address in the body of the message or
in the “TO” line of the e-mail;
and You otherwise comply with the CAN SPAM Act and other applicable law.
These policies apply to messages sent using your commonAcre service, or to messages
sent from any network by you or any person on your behalf that directly or indirectly
refer the recipient to a site hosted via your commonAcre service. In addition,
you may not use a third party e-mail service that does not practice similar procedures
for all its customers.
commonAcre may test and otherwise monitor your compliance with its requirements,
including requesting opt-in information from a random sample of your list at
any time.
Unsolicited E-Mail
You may not send any unsolicited e-mail, either in bulk or individually, to any
person who has indicated that they do not wish to receive it.
You must comply with the rules of any other network you access or participate
in using your commonAcre’s services.
Material Protected by Copyright
You may not publish, distribute, or otherwise copy in any manner any music, software,
art, or other work protected by copyright law unless:
you have been expressly authorized by the owner of the copyright for the
work to copy the work in that manner;
you are otherwise permitted by established United States copyright law
to copy the work in that manner.
commonAcre will terminate the service of repeat copyright infringers.
Copyright Infringement Notice (Digital Millennium Copyright
Act)
If you believe your copyright is being infringed by a person using the commonAcre
network, please send your written notice of copyright infringement to:
Please contact abuse@commonAcre.com for instructions.
Your notice must include the following:
A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf
of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed,
or if multiple copyrighted words at a single site are covered by a single
notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be
the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to
which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit
commonAcre to locate the material;
Information reasonably sufficient to permit commonAcre to contact you,
such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an e-mail address;
A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material
in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, the
copyright owner’s agent, or the law;
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under
penalty of perjury that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner
of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Other
You must have valid and current information on file with your domain name registrar
for any domain hosted on the commonAcre network.
Disclaimer
commonAcre is under no duty, and does not by this AUP undertake a duty, to monitor
or police our customers’ activities and disclaims any responsibility for any
misuse of the commonAcre network.
Inquiries regarding this policy should be directed to commonAcre at info@commonAcre.com.
Internet Abuse
You may not engage in illegal, abusive, or irresponsible behavior, including:
Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any
attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or
to breach security or authentication measures (including those belonging
to commonAcre and its customers) without express authorization of the owner
of the system or network;
monitoring data or traffic on any network or system without the authorization
of the owner of the system or network;
Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without
limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system
and broadcast attacks;
Use of an Internet account or computer without the owner’s authorization,
including, but not limited to Internet scanning (tricking other people into
releasing their passwords), password robbery, security hole scanning, and
port scanning;
Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information
in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting;
Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against the commonAcre’s
network.
Use of commonAcre’s network in a way that unreasonably interferes with
commonAcre’s other customers use of the network
Newsgroup, Chat Forums, Other Networks
You must comply with the rules and conventions for postings to any bulletin board,
chat group or other forum in which you participate, such as IRC and USENET groups
including their rules for content and commercial postings. These groups usually
prohibit the posting of off-topic commercial messages, or mass postings to multiple
forums.
