EVCHosting Acceptable Use Policy

Payment of your hosting charges and any subsequent billing acknowledges your acceptance of these terms. These terms are subject to change without prior notice. It is your responsibility to periodically check this page for any updates or changes to the AUP.

To report violations of the AUP, please contact

1. Under no circumstances will the action of SPAMMING be tolerated. You are expressly prohibited from sending unsolicited bulk mail messages ("junk mail" or "spam"). 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. Violators will have all services immediately terminated and no refunds will be issued. To report this type of violation please forward EMail with full headers to
   
2. All content that you upload to this server will be considered to be your own intellectual property. EVCHosting.com will hold no copyright claims to your electronic files.
   
3. You may not post, publish, illustrate or upload any material that violates or infringes on the copyright, intellectual property rights or trademark rights of any individual or organization. This includes, but is not limited to, all sound and video files/formats, images, and text media. This also applies to linking directly to illegal files or other sites that offer any illegal material.
   
4. You may not post, publish, illustrate or upload any material that is grossly offensive to the general on-line community, including but not limited to, exploitation of children, blatant expressions of bigotry, hatred, harassment, defamation, invasion of privacy. This includes material that defames, abuses, harasses or threatens any person or group.
   
5. EVCHosting.com reserves the right to remove material(s) from the server(s) that are in violation of these terms and discontinue service to any person(s) in violation of these terms.
   
6. You are solely and fully responsible for the contents of your web space and backing up those contents on a regular basis. Any and all repercussions will be born solely by you as the account holder. EVCHosting.com will not be held responsible or accountable for any materials published, stored or otherwise held in your web folder.
   
7. EVCHosting.com makes no guarantee of availability of service and reserves the right to change, withdraw, suspend, or discontinue any functionality or feature of the hosting service.
   
8. EVCHosting.com will not be held liable for any damages, including, without limitation, direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of the use of or inability to use Mirror Images service(s) or any content thereon.
   
9. Users are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the servers. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. EVCHosting.com will investigate occurrences, which may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting Users who are involved in such violations. These violations include, without limitation:
   1. Accessing data not intended for such User or logging into a server or account, which such User is not authorized to access.
   2. Attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization.
   3. Attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of overloading, "flooding", "mail bombing" or "crashing".
   4. Forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting.
   5. Taking any action in order to obtain services to which such User is not entitled.
   6. Shell and Telnet access are disabled on ALL servers. The use of an external script (CGI, PHP or other) to enable shell access is forbidden.
      
10. This disclaimer applies, without limitation, to any damages or injury, whether for breach of contract, tort, or otherwise, caused by any failure of performance; error; omission; interruption; deletion; defect; delay in operation or transmission; computer virus; file corruption; communication line failure; network or system outage; or theft, destruction, unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of any record.
    
11. EVCHosting.com reserves the right to change or amend this Acceptable Use Policy at any time and without prior notice. It is your responsibility to be familiar with these guidelines in the event that they change at any future time.
    
12. Suspension of Service or Cancellation: EVCHosting.com reserves the right to suspend network access to any customer if in the judgment of the EVCHosting.com network administrators the customer's server is the source or target of the violation of any of the other terms of the AUP or for any other reason which EVCHosting.com chooses. If inappropriate activity is detected, all accounts of the Customer in question will be deactivated until an investigation is complete. Prior notification to the Customer is not assured. In extreme cases, law enforcement will be contacted regarding the activity. The customer will not be credited for the time the customer's machines were suspended