ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY: ESPER HOSTING, INC.

1. USE AND MISUSE OF RESOURCES

As the resources of The Cooperative are shared among all members, at no time shall any member abuse or misuse the resources of The Cooperative. Specifically, no member shall use more than his share of the the resources as allocated in the account; and any member whose use of services negatively effects other members' use of resources may have his account and services suspended and/or terminated.

The Cooperative will not tolerate the use of its servers for unsolicited bulk email (commonly referred to as spam.) Using The Cooperative's services and/or resources for the receipt of replies to unsolicited mass email sent from another network is prohibited. Forgery of email headers is prohibited. Running a mail server that accepts messages for sending without user identification or authentication (open relays) is prohibited.

IRC connections are not permitted.


2. SECURITY & ILLEGAL ACTIVITY

All members must make a reasonable attempt to keep all resources and/or services updated and patched with the latest security errata. The Cooperative is not responsible for the security of members' resources and/or services. Any compromised services will be disconnected from the network immediately to minimize security threats to other members and protect member data. No credits will be issued for outages resulting from disconnection due to compromised security.

Violations of system or network security are strictly prohibited, and may result in criminal and/or civil liability. The Cooperative will cooperate with law enforcement if a criminal violation is suspected.

No member shall use services rendered by The Cooperative to engage in any unlawful activity.


3. FRAUD, IP ADDRESS USE, AND RESALES

Members must provide contact and payment information to Esper Hosting and member must be authorized to use the payment method. Commitment of fraud or attempting to obtain services by any means with intent to avoid payment is prohibited.

The Cooperative may allocate IP addresses to specific members. Members shall not use IP addresses that were not assigned to them by The Cooperative. Any account utilizing IP addresses outside of its assigned range will be suspended until the IP address overlap can be corrected. The use of an unauthorized IP address will result in a penalty of $100.

Resellers are responsible for the conduct of their customers and agree that their customers will follow the Acceptable Use Policy. Resellers agree to make their customers aware of the Acceptable Use Policy.