This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) governs your use of the Services and is incorporated by reference into Websnoogie’s Terms of Service. Unless otherwise stated, defined terms in this AUP have the meanings provided in the Terms of Service. Websnoogie may modify this AUP at any time without notice.
The Services provided by Websnoogie may only be used for lawful purposes. You agree to comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations in connection with your use of the Services. Websnoogie reserves the right to refuse service to anyone. Any material that in our judgment violates this AUP in any manner may be removed from our servers (or otherwise disabled), with or without notice. Failure to respond to an email from our abuse department within the specified time period in our email to you may result in the suspension or termination of the Services.
Prohibited Uses
Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights.
Using a shared account as a backup/storage device. You may not use a shared hosting account as a backup/storage device with the exception of one cPanel backup of the same account. Please do not take backups of your backups.
Unacceptable Material
Unacceptable material on our servers include without limitation:
Child Pornography Prohibited. Content that is potentially harmful to minors, as determined in Websnoogie’s sole discretion, is strictly forbidden, including but not limited to, child pornography or content perceived to be child pornography. Any website found to host child pornography or linking to child pornography will be suspended immediately without notice.
Other Prohibited Content. We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. Any material that, in our judgment, is obscene, threatening, illegal, questionable, or violates our Terms of Service or this AUP in any manner may be removed from our servers (or otherwise disabled), with or without notice. We also do not allow individuals or SEO companies to use our web hosting for the sole purpose of linking strategies.
Unacceptable Resource Usage
You may not:
iii. Run any type of web spider or indexer (including Google Cash / AdSpy) on shared servers.
vii. Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike, half-life, battlefield1942, etc.
viii. Run cron entries with intervals of less than fifteen (15) minutes.
xii. Use https protocol unless it is necessary; encrypting and decrypting communications is noticeably more CPU-intensive than unencrypted communications.
INODES. The use of more than two hundred and fifty thousand (250, 000) inodes on any shared or reseller account may result in a warning, and if no action is taken to reduce the excessive use of inodes, your account may be suspended. If an account exceeds one hundred thousand (100,000) inodes it will be automatically removed from our backup system to avoid over-usage, however, databases will still be backed up as a courtesy in our sole discretion. Every file (i.e. a webpage, image file, email, etc.) on your account uses up one (1) inode.
User accounts that constantly create and delete large numbers of files on a regular basis, have hundreds of thousands of files, or cause file system damage may be flagged for review and/or suspension. The primary cause of excessive inodes is typically due to Users leaving their catchall address enabled, but never checking their primary account mailbox. Over time, tens of thousands of messages (or more) build up, eventually pushing the account past an acceptable amount of inodes. You may not have more email accounts set up or forwarded that is greater than your account allows. To disable your default mailbox, login to cPanel and choose “Mail”, then “Default Address”, “Set Default Address”, and then type in: “:fail: No such user here”.
Zero Tolerance Spam Policy
We take a zero tolerance stance against the sending of unsolicited e-mail, bulk emailing, and spam. “Safe lists,” purchased lists, and selling of lists will be treated as spam. We may terminate the account of any User who sends out spam with or without notice.
Websites advertised via spam (Spamvertised) may not be hosted on our servers. This provision includes, but is not limited to, spam sent via fax, phone, postal mail, email, instant messaging, or usenet/newsgroups. No organization or entity listed in the ROKSO may be hosted on our servers. Any User account which results in our IP space being blacklisted will be immediately suspended and/or terminated.
Websnoogie reserves the right to require changes or disable as necessary, any website, account, database, or other components that does not comply with our policies or to make any such modifications in an emergency that we deem necessary at our sole discretion.
Websnoogie reserves the right to charge the holder of the account used to send any unsolicited e-mail a clean up fee or any charges incurred for blacklist removal at our sole discretion.
Defamation Policy
Websites hosted on Websnoogie’s servers in the U.S. are regulated by U.S. law. Accordingly, pursuant to Section 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act, Websnoogie’s policy is not to remove allegedly defamatory material from websites hosted on our servers unless the material has been found to be defamatory by a court, as evidenced by a court order. As a web host, Websnoogie is not a publisher of User content and we are not in a position to investigate the veracity of individual defamation claims. We rely on the legal system and the courts to determine whether or not material is indeed defamatory. In any case in which a court order indicates that material is defamatory, libelous, or slanderous in nature, we will disable access to the material. Similarly, in any case in which a U.S. court has placed an injunction against specified content or material being made available, we will comply and remove or disable access to the material in question.
AUP Violations
Resellers. If there is a violation of this AUP by one of a reseller’s client’s account, Websnoogie will suspend the website in question and will notify the reseller so that the reseller can terminate the account. Websnoogie may, but is not obligated to, monitor the account or website for any subsequent violations. The occurrence of additional violations may result in the immediate termination of your reseller account.
Direct customers. Your Services may be terminated with or without notice upon any violation of this AUP. If applicable, violations will be reported to the appropriate law enforcement agency.
A failure to respond to an email from our abuse department within forty-eight (48) hours, or as otherwise specified in the email, may result in the suspension or termination of your Services. All abuse issues must be dealt with via trouble ticket/email and will receive a response within forty-eight (48) hours.
If you feel you have discovered a violation of our AUP please report it to Websnoogie.