Acceptable Use Policy

Website Content

The Cheeky Monkey Hosting servers may be used only for lawful purposes. Users may not use Cheeky Monkey Hosting's Network in order to transmit, distribute or store material

1. in violation of any applicable law,

2. in a manner that will infringe the copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights of others or the privacy, publicity or other personal rights of others, or

3. that is obscene, threatening, abusive or hateful.

Note: Pornography and sex-related merchandising are prohibited on all servers. This includes sites that may infer sexual content, or link to adult content elsewhere. This is also true for sites that promote any illegal activity or content that may be damaging to our servers or any other server on the Internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited.

In addition any site selling or promoting Bulk email services is not allowed.

Examples of non-acceptable content or links:

• Pirated software

• Hackers programs or archives

• Warez Sites

• Irc Bots

• Media Files, e.g. MP3, MPEG, wav, ogg, quicktime. (Exemption: Files for which you own the copyright, or have express permission of the copyright owner, or are in the public domain, or which have been obtained under a copyleft license such as Creative Commons or GFDL.

We will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Server Abuse

Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a server is strictly prohibited.

CGI Scripts

Customers are free to use any CGI-Scripts provided with their account or add any additional ones they require.

Any CGI-Scripts deemed to be adversely affecting the Server performance or the Network integrity may be shut down without prior notice. For the purpose of this clause, "CGI script" includes any script which processes on the server regardless of scripting language.

CGI-Script sharing with Domains not hosted by Cheeky Monkey Hosting is not allowed.

Background Running Programs

Background Daemons in general are prohibited.

Commercial Advertising — Email:

Cheeky Monkey Hosting's servers may not be the source, intermediary, or destination address involved in the transmission of spam (unsolicited email), flames, or mail bombs. Your domain may not be referenced as originator, intermediary, or reply-to address in any of the above.

We consider spam any mass unsolicited message in the mediums of:

• Newsgroups (including usenet, google groups, yahoo groups)

• Email

• Instant Messaging (including but not limited to ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo messenger, Skype, Jabber)

• any similar communication technologies which may emerge.

• "Comment spam": off-topic comments on web-logs or web forums which link to your website.

If you are found to have spammed, then we will immediately, without warning, disable your domain. We reserve the right to refuse or cancel service to known spammers.

You are permitted to operate bulk mailing lists so long as they use an opt-in process with a clear audit trail and so long as unsubscription requests are honoured promptly.

General

Lastly, we reserve the right to determine what violates this policy.

As such, any violation may result in immediate deactivation of services without refund.

This policy was last updated on July 13th 2006