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All services provided by Hostean are to 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 Local law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material that jeopardizes national security, or material protected by trade secret or other laws. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Hostean, from any claims resulting from the subscriber's use of Hostean's services which damages the subscriber or any other party.

Examples of prohibited content or links include (but are not limited to):
- Pirated software
- Warez Sites
- Torrent tracking
- Hacking programs or archives
- Child pornography
- IRC Software
- Distribution of music files or any other material in which the account holder does not own the copyright.

Hostean 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.

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.

Commercial Advertising - Email - Spamming, i.e. the sending of unsolicited email, from any Hostean server or email address that is maintained on a Hostean machine is STRICTLY prohibited. Hostean will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. This also includes Optin Optout mail programs and mail that either directly or indirectly references a domain contained within an account at Hostean.

Server Abuse - Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a Hostean server or subscriber of Hostean is strictly prohibited including, but not limited to:
Logging into a server or account that you are not authorized to access
Accessing data or taking any action to obtain services not intended for you or your use
Attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of any system, subsystem or network
Tampering, hacking, modifying, or otherwise corrupting or breaching security or authentication measures without proper authorization
Transmitting material that contains viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines or engines with the intent or effect of damaging, destroying, disrupting or otherwise impairing a computer's functionality or the operation of the System
Interfering with, intercepting or expropriating any system, data or information
Interfering with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, by means of overloading, "flooding," "mailbombing," or "crashing" any computer system

You will be held responsible for all actions performed by your account whether it be done by you or by others.

Scheduled Maintenance and Downtime
Hostean will use its commercially reasonably efforts to provide services 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Subscriber acknowledges that from time to time the services may be inaccessible or inoperable for various reasons, including periodic maintenance procedures or upgrades ("Scheduled Downtime"); or service malfunctions, and causes beyond Hostean's control or which are not reasonably foreseeable by Hostean, including the interruption or failure of telecommunications or digital transmission links, hostile network attacks, or network congestion or other failures. Hostean has no responsibility for downtime resulting from a user's actions. Any violation of Hostean's Terms of Service Agreement shall result in no refund.