FASTEL

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

 

This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) document, including the following list of Prohibited Activities, is an integral part of your Service Agreement with FASTEL. If you engage in any of the activities prohibited by this AUP document FASTEL may suspend or terminate your account.

 

FASTEL’s Acceptable Use Policy (the "Policy") for FASTEL Services is designed to help protect FASTEL, FASTEL's customers and the Internet community in general from irresponsible or, in some cases, illegal activities. The Policy is a non-exclusive list of the actions prohibited by FASTEL. FASTEL reserves the right to modify the Policy at any time.

 

Prohibited Uses of FASTEL Systems and Services:

 

1.     Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property right used without proper authorization, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws.

 

2.     Resell the Service, in whole or in part, charge others for the use of the service, or make available to anyone outside your premises the ability to use the service (including wireless or other methods of networking) or to use it for anything other than your own personal purposes. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree that you will  not use the service for operation as an Internet service provider, a server site for ftp, telnet, rlogin, e-mail  hosting, web hosting or other similar applications and you will not provide any Internet access or any other feature of the service to any third party, will not act as an end-point on a non FASTEL local or wide area network, and will not use the service for any commercial or business purpose whatsoever.

 

3.     Sending Unsolicited Bulk Email ("UBE", "spam"). The sending of any form of Unsolicited Bulk Email through FASTEL's servers is prohibited. Likewise, the sending of UBE from another service provider advertising a web site, email address or utilizing any resource hosted on FASTEL's servers, is prohibited. FASTEL accounts or services may not be used to solicit customers from, or collect replies to, messages sent from another Internet Service Provider where those messages violate this Policy or that of the other provider.

 

4.     Running Unconfirmed Mailing Lists. Subscribing email addresses to any mailing list without the express and verifiable permission of the email address owner is prohibited. All mailing lists run by FASTEL customers must be Closed-loop ("Confirmed Opt-in"). The subscription confirmation message received from each address owner must be kept on file for the duration of the existence of the mailing list. Purchasing lists of email addresses from 3rd parties for mailing to from any FASTEL-hosted domain, or referencing any FASTEL account, is prohibited.

 

5.     Advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available any software, program, product, or service that is designed to violate this AUP or the AUP of any other Internet Service Provider, which includes, but is not limited to, the facilitation of the means to send Unsolicited Bulk Email, initiation of pinging, flooding, mail-bombing, denial of service attacks.

 

6.     Unauthorized attempts by a user to gain access to any account or computer resource not belonging to that user (e.g., "cracking").

 

7.     Obtaining or attempting to obtain service by any means or device with intent to avoid payment.

 

8.     Unauthorized access, alteration, destruction, or any attempt thereof, of any information of any FASTEL customers or end-users by any means or device.

 

9.     Knowingly engage in any activities designed to harass, or that will cause a denial-of-service (e.g., synchronized number sequence attacks) to any other user whether on the FASTEL network or on another provider's network.

 

10. Using FASTEL's Services to interfere with the use of the FASTEL network by other customers or authorized users.

 

Customer Responsibility for Customer's Users

 

Each FASTEL customer is responsible for the activities of its users and, by accepting service from FASTEL, is agreeing to ensure that its customers/representatives or end-users abide by this Policy. Complaints about customers/representatives or end-users of a FASTEL customer will be forwarded to the FASTEL customer's postmaster for action. If violations of the FASTEL Acceptable Use Policy occur, FASTEL reserves the right to terminate services with or take action to stop the offending customer from violating FASTEL's AUP as FASTEL deems appropriate, without notice.