Intrinsic Technologies is dedicated to providing an all-round top quality service. The terms and conditions which follow are necessary to ensure that we may continue to provide the best possible service to all of our customers whilst at the same time satisfying our legal and ethical responsibilities.
Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation without notice. Intrinsic Technologies will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of any of these provisions.
Activity which results in the suspension or deactivation of an account will result in a forfeiture of all fees paid, this includes any "Money Back Guarantee". Complaints made regarding abuses of an account will be investigated and/or reviewed, and if found guilty will be grounds for immediate suspension and/or termination.
To report suspected abuses or any violations of these policies, please contact
Support
ChoasNetworks strictly abides by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Intrinsic Technologies servers may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or distribution of any information, data or material in violation of any applicable law or regulation, city, state, county, providence, country, or otherwise, is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual and/or creative property right used without proper authorization, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws. Examples of non-acceptable content or links are listed below. The subscriber to Intrinsic Technologies service agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Intrinsic Technologies from any claims resulting from the use of the service that damages the subscriber or any other party. Any account found to contain these types of materials is also in violation of the "Money Back Guarantee", meaning they will not recieve their money back for services paid.
The following are a list of unacceptable content as it pertains to the above paragraph:
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pirated software
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warez
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hacker programs or archives
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viruses
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spam
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BitTorrent files or trackers
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spyware
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any music files or formats
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any video files or formats
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IRC, IRC bots
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logos or trademarks
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shoutcast
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any images
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chat rooms
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online games
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real-time streaming
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The above list is not exact or limited to, and is open to ajustment. The list also encompasses anything related.
Intrinsic Technologies will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.
Intrinsic Technologies does not allow third party chat sessions, scripts, and/or programs.
Legal Adult Content is allowed. Content that is deemed by Intrinsic Technologies to "look" under 18 years of age will be prohibited. The client's city, state, federal, or country laws apply.
Spamming, or the sending of mass unsolicited email, from or through a Intrinsic Technologies server or using an email address that is maintained on a Intrinsic Technologies machine is STRICTLY prohibited. Intrinsic Technologies will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. If you engage in any of the foregoing activities using the service of another ISP or IPP, but channeling activities through a Intrinsic Technologies server as a maildrop for responses, you are in violation. Violators will be assessed a minimum of $200.00 fine and will face an immediate suspension. Intrinsic Technologies does not permit, conduct, or allow any spam.
Multimedia files are defined as any graphics, audio, and video files. Intrinsic Technologies Web Hosting accounts are not to be used for the purposes of distributing and storing unusual amount of multimedia files. Any Web site whose disk space usage for storing the multimedia files exceed 80% of its total usage, either in terms of total size or number of files, may be considered to be using an unusual amount of multimedia files. It may only permited on a case by case basis.
Violations of system or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability. Examples include, but are not limited to the following: Unauthorized access, use, probe, or scan of a systems security or authentication measures, data or traffic. Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks. Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting. Intrinsic Technologies Servers are monitored 24/7 and all activity is loged.
Any website that uses a high amount of server resources (such as, but not limited to, CPU time, memory usage, and network resources) will be given an option of either paying extra for a dedicated server / semi-dedicated server (which depends on the resource needed) or reducing the resource used to an acceptable level. Intrinsic Technologies shall be the sole arbiter of what is considered to be a high server usage level. Initially, an account will be suspended, to ensure the attention needed to resolve the issue. A repeat offense will result in suspension, then account termination, order of which depends on severity of the issue.
Intrinsic Technologies does not allow background Daemons such as IRC bots; eggdrop; BitchX; XiRCON; and any other program that interferes with normal server operation.
Intrinsic Technologies performs daily backups on all servers to ensure critical files are never lost. However Intrinsic Technologies is NOT responsible for lost data, time, income or any other resource due to faulty backups or non-existent backups. Please always backup your own data for Redundancy. The backups conducted by Intrinsic Technologies may only be used as a "last ditch effort" to recover your data, and only permited on a case by case basis.
The client is responsible for all activity originating from the account. The client is responsible for securing their username/password. The client assumes responsibility for all material on their site that may be put on by a third party (such as the usage of Free For All links pages). Use of Intrinsic Technologies service requires a certain level of knowledge in the use of Internet languages, protocols, and software. This level of knowledge varies depending on the anticipated use and desired content of the web space by the client. The following examples are offered: Web Publishing: requires knowledge of HTML, properly locating and linking documents, FTPing Web contents, Graphics, text, sound, image mapping, etc. FrontPage web publishing: knowledge of the FrontPage tools as well as Telnet and FTP understanding and capability. CGI-Scripts: requires a knowledge of the UNIX environment, TAR & GUNZIP commands, Perl, CShell scripts, permissions, etc. Mail: a use of mail clients to receive and send mail, etc. The client agrees that he or she has the necessary knowledge to create and maintain their web space. Client agrees that it is not the responsibility of Intrinsic Technologies to provide this knowledge or support outside matter specific to Intrinsic Technologies servers.
Intrinsic Technologies Reseller Packages must abide by the package limitations. No additional bandwidth and/or storage space is permited unless stated in the package. The reseller storage space and bandwidth is included in the package. Overselling is not allowed. Resellers have complete responsibility of their clients and or those hosted within their reseller program. This includes, but is not limited to, payments, support, pricing, and/or client related packages. In the case that the reseller clients contact Intrinsic Technologies for support issues, suspension/termination the client will be refered to the reseller, so that the reseller is the middle arbitrary. Third party payment/invoice processing is allowed, a couple of these types of online programs are available via Fantasico. All clients of the reseller program must abide by the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and the Service Level Agreement (SLA). Intrinsic Technologies reserves the right to suspend and/or terminate either the reseller or client at any time, with or without notice, due to violation(s) on the AUP or SLA. Currently there are no discounts for multiple resellers and/or clients.
Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a Intrinsic Technologies server or customer of Intrinsic Technologies is strictly prohibited.
Any sub-networks of Intrinsic Technologies and dedicated servers must adhere to the above policies. The failure to meet or follow any of the above guidelines are grounds for account deactivation. We reserve the right to remove any account without prior notice.
Intrinsic Technologies will take necessary steps to register domain names on behalf of the client when requested. However, clients are responsible for renewing their domain names. Intrinsic Technologies does not take responsibility for failing to renew domain names. If your domain name was registered via our company, you must check and take appropriate actions to renew a domain that is about to expire. We do not handle renewals unless specifically asked for by sending a ticket to our helpdesk. All domains are governed by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (
ICANN).
The failure by a customer to meet or follow any of the above policies/terms is grounds for account deactivation. Intrinsic Technologies will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of the AUP or SLA. Intrinsic Technologies reserves the right to remove any account without prior notice.
When Intrinsic Technologies becomes aware of an alleged violation of its AUP, Intrinsic Technologies will initiate an investigation. During the investigation, Intrinsic Technologies may restrict a customer's access in order to prevent further potentially unauthorized activity. Depending on the severity of the violation, Intrinsic Technologies may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend, or terminate a customer's web hosting account and/or pursue other civil remedies. If such violation is a criminal offense, Intrinsic Technologies will notify the appropriate law enforcement authorities of such violation.
Intrinsic Technologies does not issue credits for outages incurred through service disablement resulting from AUP violations. Any account found in violation, forfeits their "Money Back Guarantee", meaning they will not receive their money back for services paid regardless of duration.
Intrinsic Technologies customers agree to indemnify and hold harmless Intrinsic Technologies from any claims resulting from the use of our services that damages them or any other party. The Intrinsic Technologies service is provided on an as is, as available basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Intrinsic Technologies expressly disclaims any representation or warranty that the Intrinsic Technologies service will be error-free, secure or uninterrupted. No oral advice or written information given by Intrinsic Technologies, its employees, licensors or the like, will create a warranty; nor may you rely on any such information or advice. Intrinsic Technologies and its partners and suppliers will not be liable for any cost or damage arising either directly or indirectly from any transaction or use of the service.
Intrinsic Technologies reserves the right to add, delete, or modify any provision of this Policy at any time without notice.
We reserve the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion within human reason.
