Acceptable Use Policy
This AUP governs the use of DataClub's hosting
service. Violation of this AUP may result in suspension or termination of your
service. In the event of a dispute between you and DataClub
regarding the interpretation of this AUP, DataClub's
interpretation, in its reasonable commercial judgment, shall govern. If you
have any questions regarding this AUP, contact us via our 'contact page' and
using the contact form.
Table of Contents
Offensive Content
Prohibited Content
Data Backup/Archiving and Storage of Disallowed Material
Security
Bulk Commercial E-Mail
Unsolicited E-Mail
Material Protected by Copyright
Copyright Infringement Notice
Other
Disclaimer
Internet Abuse
Newsgroup, Chat Forums, Other Networks
Jurisdiction
Offensive Content
You may not publish or transmit via DataClub's
service any content that DataClub 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 DataClub; or
- is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may result in retaliation against DataClub by offended viewers.
Content "published or transmitted" via DataClub'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 DataClub.
Prohibited Content
Examples of prohibited content or links include (but are not limited to):
- IRC
Software
- Pirated
software
- Hacking
sites, programs or archives
- Warez
Sites
- Distribution
of music files or any other material in which the account holder does not
own the copyright.
- Adult
Sites
- Game
Servers (dedicated game server programs)
DataClub will be the
sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. Content that
does not meet these standards will be removed without prior notice to the
subscriber.
Housing of any of the following files is considered a violation of the
terms of service:
IRC - We currently do not allow IRC, Egg Drops, BNC, or IRC bots to be
operated on our servers or network. Files with references to IRC or any
likeness thereof are prohibited. Also any program that acts like an IRC server
or that provide chat functions that run as background processes are not
allowed.
Proxies - We do not allow proxy servers of any kind, whether for personal
or business use. Files with references to any proxy or likeness thereof are
prohibited.
PortScanning - We do not
allow any kind of portscanning to be done on or from
our servers or network.
Data Backup/Archiving and Storage of Disallowed Material
The customer agrees to make use of our web hosting service for the purpose
of hosting websites, and associated email functions. Data uploaded must be
primarily for this purpose. DataClub servers are not
intended as a data backup or archiving service, including archiving via email.
No warez, serialz, cracks,
disc images, copyrighted material by third-parties, or any other illegal
material is allowed on DataClub servers. DataClub reserves the right to remove all offending data
from the servers at any time. In addition, any account that violates this
policy, regardless of the number of offending files, calls for immediate
de-activation without any refund of payments made thus far.
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 DataClub'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 DataClub'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 DataClub'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@dataclub.biz.
- 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@dataclub.biz 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 DataClub
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 DataClub service. In addition, you may not use a
third party e-mail service that does not practice similar procedures for all
its customers.
DataClub 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 DataClub'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.
DataClub 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 DataClub network, please send your written notice of
copyright infringement to:
DataClub, SA
|
99 Albert Street, Belize City. Belize Phone
number: +442032866577 |
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 DataClub to locate the material;
- Information reasonably sufficient to permit DataClub
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 DataClub
network.
Disclaimer
DataClub 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 DataClub network.
Inquiries regarding this policy should be directed to Abuse Department at
info@dataclub.biz.
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 DataClub 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; or
- Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against the DataClub's network.
- Use of DataClub's network in a way that
unreasonably interferes with DataClub'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.
Jurisdiction
DataClub always
applies the laws of the United States and the State of California to any legal
analysis by our Company. We may also apply the laws of other jurisdictions to a
particular website or issue. Customers must submit to personal jurisdiction in
California, and agree to file all legal claims in the County of Riverside. This
agreement shall be governed in all respects by California law without regard to
the conflict of law provisions thereof.

