Acceptable Usage Policy

This AUP governs the use of America First Hosting’s web hosting service. Violation of this AUP may result in suspension or termination of your service. In the event of a dispute between you and America First Hosting regarding the interpretation of this AUP, America First Hosting’s interpretation, in its reasonable commercial judgment, shall govern.

The following is the entire Acceptable User Policy (“AUP”) agreement between America First Hosting and the personal or corporate account holder. America First Hosting provides Domain Name Registration, World Wide Web Hosting, web design, script installation and social media services. America First Hosting has certain legal and ethical responsibilities consisting with the use of its servers and equipment involved in these services. America First Hosting’s general policy is to act as a provider of Internet presence. America First Hosting reserves the right to suspend or cancel a customer’s access to any or all services provided by America First Hosting when we decide that the account has been inappropriately used.

America First Hosting is a shared web hosting service, which means that a number of customers’ web sites and other email or storage services are hosted from the same server(s). America First Hosting uses abuse controls to help ensure that use of our services does not adversely affect the performance of our system or other customers’ sites. It is not permitted to use an account primarily as an online storage space or for archiving electronic files.

Bandwidth

In most cases, if you use our services consistently with our Terms of Service, visitors to your website will be able to download and view as much content from your site as they like. However, in certain circumstances, our server processing power, server memory, or abuse controls could limit downloads from your site. You will always be able to use as much bandwidth as your account has. Bandwidth is reset every month.

You are allocated a monthly bandwidth allowance. This allowance varies depending on the hosting package you purchase. Should your account pass the allocated amount we reserve the right to suspend the account until the start of the next allocation, suspend the account until more bandwidth is purchased at an additional fee, suspend the account until you upgrade to a higher level of package, terminate the account and/or charge you an additional fee for the overages. Unused transfer in one month cannot be carried over to the next month.

Email Storage

You do not have to worry about hitting a storage limit if you use our services consistently with the Terms of Service and our Acceptable Usage Policy. America First Hosting will increase your space along with your appropriate small business needs, but our abuse controls may impact the rate of growth or your folder size, and there may be a short delay while we assess your usage. In some cases, creating additional folders or subfolders will help ensure that the system works well for everyone. You will always be allowed to use as much disk space is applied to your account.

Unlimited

You may have noticed some of our accounts come with unlimited email accounts, sub-domains, FTP accounts and in some cases domains. This is subject to how much disk space your account has. You can create as many emails, sub-domains etc., as you want as long as it’s within your disk space limit.

Offensive Content

You may not publish or transmit via America First Hosting’s service any content that America First Hosting reasonably believes:

a) constitutes child pornography;

b) constitutes pornography;

c) is excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence, or contains harassing content or hate speech;

d) is unfair or deceptive under the consumer protection laws of any jurisdiction, including chain letters and pyramid schemes;

e) is defamatory or violates a person’s privacy;

f) 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;

g) improperly exposes trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information of another person;

h) is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections;

i) clearly infringes on another person’s trade or service mark, patent, or other property right;

j) promotes illegal drugs, violates export control laws, relates to illegal gambling, or illegal arms trafficking;

k) is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws applicable to you or to America First Hosting;

l) is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may result in retaliation against America First Hosting by offended viewers;

America First Hosting does not accept material such as:

a) Proxy, Warez, Escrow, High Yield Investment Programs (HYIP), illegal Gambling and Lottery sites.

b) Content “published or transmitted” via America First Hosting’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 America First Hosting.

* America First Hosting can terminate service for any of the above reasons and it’s at America First Hosting’s sole discretion to issue a refund.

Security

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

Bulk Commercial Email

Bulk commercial email, mailing lists and email reflectors are allowed on America First Hosting’s servers and we allow a maximum of 200 emails per hour per account.

For any emails sent from your America First Hosting account you must adhere to the following rules:

a) Your intended recipients have given their consent to receive e-mail via some affirmative means, such as an opt-in procedure;

b) 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;

c) You may not obscure the source of your e-mail in any manner.

d) You otherwise comply with the CAN SPAM Act and other applicable law.

These policies apply to messages sent using your America First Hosting 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 America First Hosting service. In addition, you may not use a third party e-mail service that does not practice similar procedures for all its customers.

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 America First Hosting’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:

a) you have been expressly authorized by the owner of the copyright for the work to copy the work in that manner.

b) you are otherwise permitted by established United States copyright law to copy the work in that manner.

America First Hosting will terminate the service of repeat copyright infringers.

Other

You must have valid and current information on file with your domain name registrar for any domain hosted on the America First Hosting network.

Disclaimer

America First Hosting 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 America First Hosting network.

Internet Abuse

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

a) 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 America First Hosting and its customers) without express authorization of the owner of the system or network;

b) monitoring data or traffic on any network or system without the authorization of the owner of the system or network;

c) Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks;

d) 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;

e) Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting; or

f) Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against the America First Hosting network.

g) Use of America First Hosting’s network in a way that unreasonably interferes with America First Hosting’s other customers use of the network.

Newsgroup, Chat Forums, Other Networks

You must comply with the rules and conventions for postings to any bulletin board, chat group or other forum in which you participate, such as IRC and USENET groups including their rules for content and commercial postings. These groups usually prohibit the posting of off-topic commercial messages, or mass postings to multiple forums.