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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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