Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

You agree to comply with these Terms and Policies, as well as the applicable rules, regulations and policies of any network, bulletin board, newsgroup, web site or Internet Service Provider accessed through the Service. Any violation of these Terms and Policies or the other rules, regulations or policies noted above may serve as cause for Paratus to suspend or terminate your account. You agree that Paratus has the right, with or without notice, to suspend or terminate your account upon the first or subsequent occurrence of any of the following:

1. Using the Service in a way which constitutes violation of any applicable statute, law, court order, tariff, regulation, or treaty (including, but not limited to, intellectual property, communications, privacy, criminal and international law)
2. Using the Service in a manner intended to abuse or violate the privacy or property rights of others, including but not limited to sending of unsolicited bulk email (“spamming”); this ground for suspension or termination and is separate from any additional fees which will result from such activity
3. Using the Service in an attempt to break security, or so as to actually break security of any computer network (including the Service itself), or to access an account, message, or file which does not belong to you
4. Using the Service in such a way as to forge or misrepresent headers, addresses, or other identification in electronic mail or USENET postings, or using any other method to disguise the sender/s identity or location
5. Excessively using the Service in such a way as to limit the bandwidth available to others, including, but not limited to sending email traffic, or the use of ping, e-mail check, excessive IRC logging, or any automated program with the sole intent of creating a continuous connection
6. Posting commercial messages to a USENET group where the posting is not approved by the specific USENET group in its charter
7. Using the Service to operate server programs, including, but not limited to IRC servers, game servers, ftp servers, Web servers, or streaming audio/video servers. You may run an email server. Paratus will monitor the usage in accordance with clause e.
8. Using the Service to promote or solicit competing Internet services
9. Using the Service for unauthorised relays through any third-party systems
10. Attempting, in any way, to interfere with or deny service to any user or any host on the Internet
11. Using the Service for mail-bombing, which includes any instance where multiple messages are sent to a specific destination with the intent to render the recipient and/or the electronic system serving the recipient dysfunctional
12. Using the Service to add or attempt to add addresses to any mailing list (yours or a third party/ies) without the explicit positive consent of the addressee(s)
13. Using the Service to forward or post “chain letters” (multiple forwarding) of any type
14. Attempting to cancel, supersede, or otherwise interfere with e-mail or USENET posts other than your own
15. Engaging in harassment, whether through language, frequency, or size of messages
16. Using the Service to engage in sync flood attacks, which are defined as overburdening a recipient computer system by sending a high volume of spurious data which effective impedes or totally disables functionality of the recipient system(s), or any other methods of denial-of-service attacks
17. Furnishing false data on your sign-up form, contract, or online application, including providing fraudulent credit card or other payment information
18. Using the Service in a manner which is harmful to the business reputation or interests of Paratus and it Partners.