Acceptable Use Policy

Deceptive on-line marketing practices.

Violations of the rights of any Person protected by copyright, trade secret, patent or other intellectual property or similar laws or regulations, including, but not limited to, the installation or distribution of "pirated" or other software products that are not appropriately licensed for use by Customer.

Actions that restrict or inhibit any Person, whether a customer of Cozahost or otherwise, in its use or enjoyment of any of the Cozahost Services or Products.

3.2.1.

Introduction of malicious programs into the network or server (e.g., viruses and worms) or any attempt do degrade, destabilize or otherwise harm the Cozahost network, servers or any other component of the Internet.
(Note that automated procedures will summarily and without warning delete any file containing known malware immediately upon detection - for any Cozahost server: including email, ftp and web servers)

3.2.2.

Effecting security breaches or disruptions of Internet communication. Security breaches include, but are not limited to, accessing data of which the Customer is not an intended recipient or logging into a server or account that the Customer is not expressly authorized to access. For purposes of this Section 3.2.2., "disruption" includes, but is not limited to, port scans, flood pings, packet spoofing and forged routing information.

3.2.3.

Executing any form of network monitoring which will intercept data not intended for the Customer.

3.2.4.

Circumventing user authentication or security of any host, network or account.

3.2.5.

Interfering with or denying service to any user other than the Customer’s host (for example, denial of service attack).

3.2.6.

Using any program/script/command, or sending messages of any kind, designed to interfere with, or- 2 - to disable, a user's session, via any means, locally or via the Internet.

3.3.1.

Sending unsolicited mail messages, including the sending of "junk mail" (spam) or other advertising material to individuals who did not specifically request such material, who were not previous customers of the Customer or with whom the Customer does not have an existing business relationship ("E-mail spam").

3.3.2.

Using the email system to send large volumes of email (in terms of message size and/or number of recipients) in such a way that it a) interferes with the normal and efficient functioning of the email system, b) causes mail delivery delays to other clients or c) degrades the response time of the email system.

3.3.3.

Harassment, whether through language, frequency or size of messages.

3.3.4.

Unauthorized use, or forging, of mail header information.

3.3.5.

Solicitations of mail for any other E-mail address other than that of the poster's account or service with the intent to harass or to collect replies.

3.3.6.

Creating or forwarding "chain letters" or other "pyramid schemes" of any type, or habitually sending large volumes of email to multiple recipients in such a way that it impacts the Cozahost network or recipient networks adversely.

3.3.7.

Use of unsolicited E-mail originating from within the Company’s network or networks of other Internet Service Providers on behalf of, or to advertise, any service hosted by the Company, or connected via the Company’s network.

3.4.2.

Internet access accounts (ie analog dialup, ISDN dialup or ADSL access accounts) are provided on a per-device basis.  Only one device (modem or adaptor) may connect to the network using the provided access account at any one time.

3.4.3.

Where duplicate use have been detected (as in 3.4.1) the account will be deactivated.  When 3 deactivates occurred in a three month period, the user will be issued with (and billed for) an additional access account.