To reach its goal of providing the best business class web hosting
services to our users, Ozone Web Hosting offers users a full range
of commercial hosting services. Abuse of these services is considered a
violation of our Terms of Service/AUP ("Contract Agreement" You have
executed before the service was started.) One of the most serious abuses
is using your account to send unsolicited commercial e-mail, otherwise
known as "spam." The following are examples of spam and are blatantly
contrary to our TOS/AUP.
- Commercial e-mail: Defined as sending unsolicited
commercial e-mails. This is prohibited. You are not permitted to use
your Ozone Web Hosting account or e-mail alias/account of your
Virtual Server to send unsolicited commercial e-mail. Using an
e-mail address hosted anywhere on Ozone Web Hosting servers to
collect responses from unsolicited commercial e-mail is prohibited.
This includes using a throw-away, free e-mail account to promote
your Ozone Web Hosting account and redirectors for the same
account.
- Mail Bombing: Defined as sending large volumes of
unsolicited e-mail to individuals from your Ozone Web Hosting account. This is strictly prohibited.
- Harassment: Defined as sending threatening or harassing
e-mail after being requested to stop, is prohibited. Extremely
threatening or harassing e-mail never is allowed.
- Newsgroup Spamming: Defined as excessive cross-posting,
or posting the same article to several newsgroups. This is
prohibited. Generally accepted standards allow no more than 15
newsgroups, or cross-postings, for a single article or substantially
similar articles. Such articles may be canceled. You are not allowed
to use your Ozone Web Hosting based mail facilities to SPAM
the newsgroups.
- Off topic or inappropriate postings: There is no
restriction on content, except as defined by each newsgroup.
Continued posting of off-topic articles is prohibited. Please note
that commercial advertisements are off-topic in the vast majority of
newsgroups.
Should you violate Ozone Web Hosting 's SPAM Policies, you WILL be
charged $200 per hour for the time it takes us to "clean-up" your SPAM.
This shall include but not be limited to the time required to answer
e-mail from angry recipients of your SPAM and/or repair of a damaged
server due to the "Mail Bombing" or other actions of the angry
recipients in retaliation of your SPAM. You will also be charged $20 per
gigabyte of data transfer that your SPAM incurred, including bandwidth
used by answers to or complaints about your SPAM. We will invoice this
amount and should it not be paid, we will take legal action against you
in court, and/or we will contact a collection agency to recover the
funds. Please note also that it is now considered a crime to send UCE
(unsolicited commercial e-mail) as it falls into the category of "junk
faxes." Ozone Web Hosting will turn over all names and personal
information to the proper local, state, federal, and international
officials of any person who violates this policy.
We take a very dim view of SPAM. It is one of the most annoying things
encountered on the Internet. Any Ozone Web Hosting client found to
be spamming will have his/her account terminated immediately - no
questions asked (we will investigate the report thoroughly before
terminating any account). There is no warning or second chance. If we
find that you have violated our Acceptable Usage Policy, we will report
you and the incident to the proper local, state and federal authorities
and will prosecute you to the full extent of the law.
We are not attempting to censor, nor are we attempting to curtail the
business of our customers. But as a whole, spamming hurts our members
and us more than it helps the one spammer. Do yourself, and us, a favor:
PLEASE DON'T DO IT.
If you know of any Ozone Web Hosting client that is or might be
violating this policy, please send a message or, if possible, forward
the SPAM or UCE in full (including headers) to
mark [at]o3hosting.com
No
Spam, please !