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Tuesday, 07 September 2010
Acceptable Use

Acceptable Use Policy for HelpCaster Technologies Inc. Services

This Acceptable Use Policy ("Policy") defines activities and content pertaining to HelpCaster Technologies Inc. ("HelpCaster) hosted services that are prohibited. The examples listed in this Policy are not exhaustive. HelpCaster reserves the right to remove any content or restrict the use of the services for activities or content that, in HelpCaster's reasonable judgment, violate the terms or conditions under which HelpCaster provides the services or violate this Policy. HelpCaster may make reasonable modifications to this Policy from time to time upon notice. The current version of this Policy can be found at http://www.helpcaster.com. Questions about this Policy (e.g., whether any contemplated use is permitted) and reports of violations of this Policy should be directed to Nabil Harfoush.

Prohibited uses include using the service or permitting others to use the service in a manner that, in HelpCaster's reasonable judgment, is a use of the service:

1. to violate any law of any applicable jurisdiction, including, without limitation, laws governing advertising, alcohol, antitrust, child protection, drugs, encryption, exportation, food, financial services, firearms, gambling, importation, information systems, intellectual property, obscenity, privacy, securities, telecommunications and tobacco;

2. to commit a tortuous or otherwise wrongful act, including, without limitation, the posting or communication of libelous, defamatory, scandalous, threatening, harassing, or private information without the permission of the person(s) involved, or posting content that is likely to cause emotional distress, whether through content, frequency, or size;

3. to engage in or to facilitate gambling activities;

4. to post, send, or receive any content that is obscene, pornographic, lewd, lascivious, or excessively violent;

5. to offer, solicit, sell, buy, rent, or license any goods, products, services, or information in, from, or to any location in which such activity is unlawful;

6. to advocate, promote, or otherwise encourage violence against any government, organization, group, individual or property, or to provide instruction, information, or assistance in causing or carrying out such violence.

7. to post, send, receive, display, distribute, or execute any content, including, without limitation, text, graphics, images, music, recordings, computer programs, links, frames, and "meta tags", that violates any copyright, right of publicity, patent, trademark, service mark, trade name, mask work, trade secret or other intellectual property right of others;

8. to delete or alter author attributions, copyright notices, or trademark notices, unless expressly permitted in writing by the owner;

9. to violate the terms of applicable software licensing agreements;

10. to obtain or attempt to obtain unauthorized access, such as attempting to circumvent or circumventing any authentication or other security feature of any system, network, or account. This includes accessing data not intended for the user, logging into a server or account the user is not authorized to access, or probing the security of any system, network, of account;

11. to interfere or attempt to interfere with service to any user, host, or network by use of any program, script, command, or otherwise. This includes "denial of service" attacks, "flooding" of networks, deliberate attempts to overload a service or to burden excessively a service's resources, and attempts to "crash" a host;

12. to introduce viruses, worms, harmful code and/or Trojan horses;

13. to attempt to circumvent the approval process for posting a moderated newsgroup or bulletin board or to attempt to evade spam filters;

14. to cancel or supersede posts other than your own, with the exception of official newsgroup or bulletin board moderators performing their duties;

15. to send or post unsolicited messages or e-mail, whether commercial or not, a) to any recipients who have requested that messages not be sent to them, or b) to a large number of recipients, including users, newsgroups, or bulletin boards, at one time;

16. to send or post a message whose subject or content is unrelated to the subject matter of the newsgroup or bulletin board to which it is posted;

17. to send or post a message or e-mail with deceptive, absent, or forged header or sender identification information;

18. to propagate chain letters and pyramid schemes, whether or not the recipient wishes to receive such mailings;

19. to use Internet Relay Card "bots";

20. to hold HelpCaster, its affiliates, officers, employees and/or shareholders up to public scorn or ridicule; and/or

21. to resell HelpCaster's services, in whole or in part, to any entity or individual, without HelpCaster's prior written consent, or to misrepresent your relationship with HelpCaster.

 
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