Dynamic Creation Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
All Dynamic Creation, LLC (Dynamic Creation) colocation, dedicated server,
or direct internet connection customers are bound by the following Acceptable
Use Policy. This document may be updated from time to time. Please consult
this site periodically for the most recent revision of this document.
No Dynamic Creation customer shall:
- Do anything illegal or anything that adversely affects Dynamic Creation's
legal interests. The following list is non-exclusive, and should not
be considered license to commit other illegal activities not specified
below. All illegal activity is prohibited, and Dynamic Creation will
cooperate fully with any law enforcement officials and/or agencies investigating
and/or prosecuting such activities.
- Cracking/Hacking - attempts to access accounts or systems other
than the user’s own accounts or systems or an account or
system that the user has been explicitly authorized to access is
illegal under federal and state law.
- Child pornography - as defined by U.S. law. This is strictly prohibited
and dealt with quickly and harshly.
- Interstate gambling - because Internet traffic generally ignores
state and country boundaries, any Internet based gambling site
is restricted by Federal Inter-state gambling regulations.
- Pyramid schemes or fraud - are illegal under a number of Federal,
State and Local laws.
- Theft of services - attempts to utilize services that are not
contracted for is considered theft and will be dealt with as such.
- Harassment - use of Dynamic Creation's network to harass or threaten
(in the legal sense of those terms) any other person is prohibited.
Please consult an attorney if you are unsure of the legal status of your
activities.
- Do anything that threatens the integrity of Dynamic Creation's network
or the utilization thereof by other persons.
- Denial of Service (DOS) attacks - no customer will commit a DOS
attack against any Dynamic Creation customer’s host,
or any other host on the Internet. Similarly, no Dynamic
Creation customer will willfully or negligently allow incitement
of others to attack any host on Dynamic Creation's network,
or any other host on the Internet.
- Blacklists - No customer shall do anything that could get any
portion of Dynamic Creation's IP space (or address space
announced by Dynamic Creation on behalf of Customer) put on blacklists
such the RBL (Realtime Black List) as maintained by MAPS (http://www.mail-abuse.com)
or other similar organizations, or perform activities that
would cause portions of the Internet to block mail or refuse
to route traffic to any portion of Dynamic Creation's IP space
(or address space announced by Dynamic Creation on behalf of
Customer).
- Perform actions that cause unusual load on Dynamic Creation servers
(for example, mail servers, web servers, usenet servers,
name servers, etc.), that cause slowness or denial of service to
other Dynamic Creation customers.
- Do anything that threatens the Internet or any other network.
- No customer shall take actions that cause any portion of the Internet,
or the Internet as a whole, to become unusable to any other
portion of the Internet, or the Internet as a whole.
- No customer shall take actions that degrade the usefulness of
the Internet, or any portion of the Internet, either through
network degradation, flooding of usenet or email or so on
- Spam - No customer shall send unsolicited commercial email, unsolicited
mass mailings, spam or flood usenet newsgroups, or anything of that sort.
If you have questions about what is allowed and what is not, please refer
to http://spam.abuse.net, and/or
email abuse@dynamiccreation.com for
clarification.
- No spam may originate from Dynamic Creation IP space.
- No spam may advertise sites or services located on Dynamic Creation
IP space (even if the spam originates elsewhere).
- No Dynamic Creation customer shall use third party mail servers
to relay spam. This is considered a DOS attack on the third party
and will be treated as such.
- No customer shall participate in pyramid schemes or email chain
letters.
- Use of Dynamic Creation facilities to provide software or lists
for mass mailing unsolicited email is prohibited.
- Being listed on the Registry of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO, http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/index.lasso )
will constitute violation of this AUP.
Furthermore, all Dynamic Creation customers must:
- Maintain the following email addresses and respond promptly to all
email sent to these addresses:
- abuse@yourdomain.com
- postmaster@yourdomain.com
- Maintain and enforce on their clients an AUP similar in scope and
intent to this document.
- Maintain a policy requiring proper "From" and/or "Reply-To" headers
for email and usenet postings.
- Maintain proper security on their mail server, to prevent the mail
server from being used as a "spam amplifier" by third parties.
Servers must restrict "email relaying." (Not applicable to
customers who do not maintain a mail server.)
Dynamic Creation reserves the right to terminate or interrupt any account
in part or in full without refund for violation of this Acceptable Use
Policy. In all but the most extreme or serious cases, good faith attempts
will be made to resolve an issue without interruption of service. In cases
where service has been terminated or interrupted, resolution will be handled
on an individual case basis, at Dynamic Creation’s sole discretion.
For further explanation of any portion this document, and the terms set herein,
or to determine whether your intended activities are permissible under the
terms of this document, contact us at abuse@dynamiccreation.com or
via phone at 408-480-8002. |