Acceptable Use Policy

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This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") governs the use of Nanagram's web site and hosting service. Violation of this AUP may result in suspension or termination of your service. In the event of a dispute between you and Nanagram regarding the interpretation of this AUP, Nanagram's interpretation, in its reasonable commercial judgement, shall govern. If you have any questions regarding this AUP, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Offensive Content

You may not publish or transmit via Nanagram's service any content that Nanagram reasonably believes:

  • constitutes child pornography;
  • constitutes pornography;
  • is excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence, or contains harassing content or hate speech;
  • is unfair or deceptive under the consumer protection laws of any jurisdiction, including chain letters and pyramid schemes;
  • is defamatory or violates a person's privacy;
  • creates a risk to a person's safety or health, creates a risk to public safety or health, compromises national security, or interferes with a investigation by law enforcement;
  • improperly exposes trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information of another person;
  • is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections;
  • clearly infringes on another person's trade or service mark, patent, or other property right;
  • promotes illegal drugs, violates export control laws, relates to illegal gambling, or illegal arms trafficking;
  • is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws applicable to you or to Nanagram; or
  • is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may result in retaliation against Nanagram by offended viewers.

Content "published or transmitted" via Nanagram's service includes Web content, e-mail, bulletin board postings, chat, and any other type of posting or transmission that relies on any Internet service provided by Nanagram.

Security

You must take reasonable security precautions. You must protect the confidentiality of your password, and you should change your password periodically.

Bulk Commercial E-Mail

You must obtain Nanagram's advance approval for any bulk commercial e-mail, which will not be given unless you are able to demonstrate all of the following to Nanagram's reasonable satisfaction:

  •  Your intended recipients have given their consent to receive e-mail via some affirmative means, such as an opt-in procedure;
  • Your procedures for soliciting consent include reasonable means to ensure that the person giving consent is the owner of the e-mail address for which the consent is given;
  • You retain evidence of the recipient's consent in a form that may be promptly produced on request, and you honour recipient's and Nanagram's requests to produce consent evidence within 72 hours of receipt of the request.
  • The body of the e-mail must describe how the e-mail address was obtained, for example, "You opted in to receive this e-mail promotion from our Web site or from one of our partner sites," and information on how to request evidence of the consent, for example, "If you would like to learn more about how we received your e-mail address please contact us at (email address).
  • You have procedures in place that allow a recipient to easily revoke their consent – such as a link in the body of the e-mail, or instructions to reply with the word "Remove" in the subject line. Revocations of consent are honored within 72 hours, and you notify recipients that their revocation of their consent will be honored in 72 hours;
  • You must have a Privacy Policy posted for each domain associated with the mailing;
  • You have the means to track anonymous complaints;
  • You may not obscure the source of your e-mail in any manner. Your e-mail must include the recipients e-mail address in the body of the message or in the "TO" line of the e-mail; You otherwise comply applicable laws governing email.

These policies apply to messages sent using your Nanagram service, or to messages sent from any network by you or any person on your behalf that directly or indirectly refer the recipient to a site hosted via your Nanagram service. In addition, you may not use a third party e-mail service that does not practice similar procedures for all its customers.

Nanagram may test and otherwise monitor your compliance with its requirements, including requesting opt-in information from a random sample of your list at any time.

Unsolicited E-Mail

You may not send any unsolicited e-mail, either in bulk or individually, to any person who has indicated that they do not wish to receive it.

You must comply with the rules of any other network you access or participate in using your Nanagram's services.

Material Protected by Copyright

You may not publish, distribute, or otherwise copy in any manner any music, software, art, or other work protected by copyright law unless:

  • You have been expressly authorized by the owner of the copyright for the work to copy the work in that manner;
  • You are otherwise permitted by established copyright law to copy the work in that manner.
  • Nanagram will terminate the service of copyright infringers.

Copyright Infringement Notice

If you believe your copyright is being infringed by a person using the Nanagram service, please send your written notice of copyright infringement to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Other

You must have valid and current information on file with your domain name registrar for any domain hosted on the Nanagram service.

Disclaimer

Nanagram is under no duty, and does not by this AUP undertake a duty, to monitor or police our customers' activities and disclaims any responsibility for any misuse of the Nanagram service.

Inquiries regarding this policy should be directed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Internet Abuse

You may not engage in illegal, abusive, or irresponsible behaviour, including:

  • Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures (including those belonging to Nanagram and its customers) without express authorization of the owner of the system or network;
  • monitoring data or traffic on any network or system without the authorization of the owner of the system or network;
  • Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks;
  • Use of an Internet account or computer without the owner's authorization, including, but not limited to Internet scanning (tricking other people into releasing their passwords), password robbery, security hole scanning, and port scanning;
  • Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting;
  • Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against Nanagram's network;
  • Using or implementing any IRC, or IRC-like bots, chatrooms, or any tool which allows connections to an IRC-type chat system;
  • Use of Nanagram's network in a way that unreasonably interferes with Nanagram's other customers' use of the network

Consequences

Failure to abide by this policy will result in immediate account suspension or termination.