Illegal Activity
Customer may only use KnowledgeGuard's Server for lawful purpose. Transmission of any material in violation of any Country, Federal, State or Local regulation is prohibited. To this effect, child pornography is strictly prohibited as well as housing any copyrighted information (to which the customer does not hold the copyright or an appropriate license) on KnowledgeGuard's Server. Also, using KnowledgeGuard servers or network to conspire to commit or support the commission of illegal activities is forbidden as well.
Hacking
Websites dedicated to the discussion of hacking activities or the distribution of hacking tools are prohibited. Also, the usage of KnowledgeGuard computer systems or network to access any system, service, or network without the owner's consent is expressly forbidden.
Service Interruptions
Any activity which causes service interruptions to either KnowledgeGuard network/servers or any outside network. This includes, but is not limited to, the execution of Denial of Service attacks or other maliciously configured software.
Anonymous Proxies
Anonymous proxies are easily abused and often cause a negative impact on both the servers and the network they are connected to. As such, they're prohibited on KnowledgeGuard network and servers.
Spamming
Customer agrees to not have any content on their site that advocates, sells or in any way makes available tools or methods to send unsolicited e-mail or usenet postings (spam), or to use KnowledgeGuard's Servers for relaying unsolicited e-mail or usenet postings, or to use unsolicited e-mail or usenet postings to advertise for their site hosted at KnowledgeGuard. Any complaint we receive about a violation of this or the preceding two points will be taken very seriously and will result in immediate account cancellation without a refund.
Personal Information Harvesting
Collecting or using email addresses, screen names or other personal identifiers without the consent of the person identified (including, without limitation, phishing, Internet scamming, password robbery, spidering, and harvesting).
Blacklisting
You agree that if the KnowledgeGuard IP numbers assigned to your account are listed on an abuse database or blacklist like Spamhaus, you will be in violation of this AUP, and KnowledgeGuard may take reasonable action to protect its IP numbers, including suspension and/or termination of your service, regardless of whether the IP numbers were listed as a result of your actions.
Investment sites
FOREX, egold exchange, etc.
Spoofing/Impersonation
Usage of the KnowledgeGuard network to impersonate another person or entity, be it through Email, Internet Forums, or any other means, is strictly prohibited. This includes spoofing email or network packet headers whether or not it is done for malicious purposes.
Spamdexing
Customer agrees to not engage in activities pertaining to Black Hat SEO, Spamdexing, and so-called Scraper sites. These can all have a severely detrimental effect on server performance and are not permitted.
Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against KnowledgeGuard network or website, or KnowledgeGuard employees, officers or other agents, including engaging in behavior that results in any server being the target of a denial of service attack (DoS).
Personal Backups
With the exception of KnowledgeGuard Dedicated Server products, the customer agrees to make use of KnowledgeGuard servers primarily for the purpose of hosting a website, and associated email functions. Data uploaded must be primarily for this purpose. KnowledgeGuard servers are not intended as a data backup or archiving service. KnowledgeGuard reserves the right to negotiate additional charges with the Customer and/or the discontinuation of the backups/archives at their discretion. If you exceed your allocated transfer bandwidth for a month, you will be billed at the rate of $1 per additional 10GB.
The following statements pertain exclusively to shared web hosting products and services offered by KnowledgeGuard.
Adult Thumbnail Galleries/Banner Exchanges
You agree not to run a banner exchange, free adult tgp (thumbnail gallery post), or free adult image galleries on your website.
Abusive Scripts/Processes
Any script/process/etc that adversely affects the ability of any other customer to satisfactorily use their provided services is forbidden. This includes, but is not limited to, CPU-intensive CGI/PHP scripts and websites for which the scale of traffic has exceeded the acceptable limits of a shared hosting environment.
IRC Bots/Bouncers
All IRC bots and bouncers (bnc, etc) are forbidden.
BitTorrent software
While we recognize the value in the BitTorrent protocol as a distribution method, it is far too easily (and often accidentally) abused/misused and therefore not allowed on KnowledgeGuard Shared Hosting services.
Proxy Software
All proxy software, anonymous or otherwise, is forbidden on KnowledgeGuard Shared Hosting services.
Network Daemons
Any process that opens a network socket to accept connections from external networks is forbidden. Processes are allowed to bind to the local host only, but are held to the limitations placed on all other processes. They must not use up more than their fair share of resources and they must not interfere with any other customers activities.
