Please take a moment to review Edikon’s services agreement. By opening an account with Edikon, you are agreeing to its terms of service.

Policy & Service Guidelines

Edikon provides web hosting to many clients, and Edikon has a responsibility to protect each client and to provide the best services available. The following guidelines were designed to ensure these obligations are met.

Site Usage

All elements of the Edikon web site, including words, images, and photos, are protected by trade dress (look and feel of this site), unfair competition, and other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part. No logo, graphic, sound or image from any Edikon website may be copied or retransmitted unless expressly permitted by Edikon.

Abuse

You may not use Edikon’s network or services to engage in, foster, or promote 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 without express authorization of the owner of the system or network;
• Monitoring data or traffic on any network or system without the express authorization of the owner of the system or network;
• Interference with service to any user of the Edikon or other 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;
• Collecting or using email addresses, screen names or other identifiers without the consent of the person identified (including, without limitation, phishing, Internet scamming, password robbery, spidering, and harvesting);
• Collecting or using information without the consent of the owner of the information;
• Use of any false, misleading, or deceptive TCP-IP packet header information in an email or a newsgroup posting;
• Use of the service to distribute software that covertly gathers information about a user or covertly transmits information about the user;
• Use of the service for distribution of advertisement delivery software unless: (i) the user affirmatively consents to the download and installation of such software based on a clear and conspicuous notice of the nature of the software, and (ii) the software is easily removable by use of standard tools for such purpose included on major operating systems; (such as Microsoft’s “ad/remove” tool); or
• Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against the Edikon network or website, or Edikon’s employees, officers or other agents, including engaging in behavior that results in any server being the target of a denial of service attack (DoS).

Bulk Email

You may not use Edikon’s email service to send bulk mail from our shared hosting plans. You may use your dedicated hosting server to send bulk mail, subject to the restrictions in this Acceptable Use Policy.

Mail Requirements

You must comply with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and other laws and regulations applicable to bulk or commercial email. In addition, your bulk and commercial email must meet the following requirements:

• Your intended recipients have given their consent to receive email from you via some affirmative means, such as an opt-in procedure;
• Your procedures for seeking consent include reasonable means to ensure that the person giving consent is the owner of the email address for which consent is given;
• You retain evidence of each recipient’s consent in a form that can be promptly produced on request, and you honor recipient’s and Edikon’s requests to produce consent evidence within 72 hours of receipt of the request;.
• You have procedures in place that allow a recipient to revoke their consent – such as a link in the body of the email, or instructions to reply with the word “Remove” in the subject line; you honor revocations of consent within 48 hours, and you notify recipients that the revocation of their consent will be implemented in 48 hours;
• You must post an email address for complaints (such as abuse@yourdoman.com) in a conspicuous place on any website associated with the email, 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 email in any manner, such as omitting, forging, or misrepresenting message headers or return addresses. Your email must include the recipients email address in the body of the message or in the “TO” line of the email;
• The subject line of the email must clearly describe the subject matter contained in the email, and the message must include valid contact information; and
• You must not attempt to send any message to an email address if 3 consecutive delivery rejections have occurred and the time between the third rejection and the first rejection is longer than fifteen days.

These policies apply to messages sent using your Edikon services, 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 or an email address hosted via your Edikon service. In addition, you may not use a third party email service that does not practice similar procedures for all its customers. These requirements apply to distribution lists prepared by third parties to the same extent as if the list were created by you.

Edikon may test and otherwise monitor your compliance with its requirements. Edikon may block the transmission of email that violates these provisions. Edikon may, at its discretion, require certain customers to seek advance approval for bulk and commercial email, which approval will not be granted unless the customer can demonstrate that all of the requirements stated above will be met.

Unsolicited Communications

You may not use your service to send email or any other communications to a person who has indicated that they do not wish to receive it. If the communication is bulk mail, then you will not be in violation of this section if you comply with the 48 hour removal requirement described above.

Content

All services provided may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any United States Federal, State or City law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material that Edikon judges to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade secret and other statute. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claims resulting from the use of the service which damages the subscriber or any other party.

Pornography and sex-related merchandising is prohibited on all Edikon servers. This includes sites that may infer sexual content, or links to adult content elsewhere. Edikon will be the sole arbiter in determining violations of this provision.

Also prohibited are sites that promote any illegal activity or present content that may be damaging to Edikon servers or any other server on the internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited.

Examples of unacceptable content or links:

• Pirated software
• Hacker programs or archives
• Warez sites
• Copyrighted music, movies, or media

Edikon will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Background Running Programs

Edikon may allow programs to run continually in the background. These are considered on a case-by-case basis and an extra charge may be incurred based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed.

IRC

Edikon does not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on its servers.

Shared Services

You may not use any shared services provided by Edikon in a way that unnecessarily interferes with the normal operation of the shared service, or that consumes a disproportionate share of the resources of the system. For example, we may prohibit the automated or scripted use of Edikon mail services if it has a negative impact on the mail system, or we may require you to repair coding abnormalities in your hosted code if it unnecessarily conflicts with other customers’ use of the server. You agree that we may quarantine or delete any data stored on a shared system if the data is infected with a virus, or is otherwise corrupted, and has the potential to infect or corrupt the system or other customers’ data that is stored on the same system.

Refusal of Service

Edikon reserves the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at its sole discretion. All Sub-Networks, distributive hosting sites and dedicated servers must adhere to the above policies. Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation.