The following constitute violations of this AUP:
a. Illegal use. Using the Services to transmit any material (by email,
uploading, posting, or otherwise) that, intentionally or
unintentionally, violates any applicable local, state, national or
international law, or any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder.
b. Harm to minors. Using the Services to harm, or attempt to harm,
minors in any way.
c. Threats. Using the Services to transmit any material (by email,
uploading, posting, or otherwise) that threatens or encourages bodily
harm or destruction of property.
d. Harassment. Using the Services to transmit any material (by email,
uploading, posting, or otherwise) that harasses another.
e. Fraudulent activity. Using the Services to make fraudulent offers
to sell or buy products, items, or services or to advance any type of
financial scam such as "pyramid schemes," "Ponzi schemes," and "chain
letters."
f. Forgery or impersonation. Adding, removing or modifying identifying
network header information in an effort to deceive or mislead is
prohibited. Attempting to impersonate any person by using forged headers
or other identifying information is prohibited. The use of anonymous
remailers or nicknames does not constitute impersonation. Using
deliberately misleading headers ("munging" headers) in news postings in
order to avoid spam email address collectors is allowed.
g. Unsolicited commercial email/Unsolicited bulk email. Using the
Services to transmit any unsolicited commercial email or unsolicited
bulk email. Activities that have the effect of facilitating unsolicited
commercial email or unsolicited bulk email whether or not that email is
commercial in nature, are prohibited.
h. Unauthorized access. Using the Services to access, or to attempt to
access, the accounts of others, or to penetrate, or attempt to
penetrate, security measures of SohoPortal.com's or another entity's
computer software or hardware, electronic communications system, or
telecommunications system, whether or not the intrusion results in the
corruption or loss of data is prohibited.
i. Copyright or trademark infringement. Using the Services to transmit
any material (by email, uploading, posting, or otherwise) that infringes
any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary
rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, the
unauthorized copying of copyrighted material, the digitization and
distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted
sources, and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software.
SohoPortal.com is registered under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
of 1998.
j. Collection of personal data. Using the Services to collect, or
attempt to collect, personal information about third parties without
their knowledge or consent.
k. Reselling the services. Reselling the Services without
SohoPortal.com's authorization.
l. Network disruptions and unfriendly activity. Using the Services for
any activity which adversely affects the ability of other people or
systems to use SohoPortal.com Services or the Internet. This includes "denial of service" (DoS) attacks against another network host or
individual user. Interference with or disruption of other network users,
network services or network equipment is prohibited. It is the Member's
responsibility to ensure that their network is configured in a secure
manner. A Member may not, through action or inaction, allow others to
use their network for illegal or inappropriate actions. A Member may not
permit their network, through action or inaction, to be configured in
such a way that gives a third party the capability to use their network
in an illegal or inappropriate manner.
m. News. SohoPortal.com Members should use their best judgment when
posting to any newsgroup. Many groups have charters, published
guidelines, FAQs, or "community standards" describing what is and is not
considered appropriate. Usenet can be a valuable resource if used
properly. The continued posting of off-topic articles is prohibited.
Commercial advertisements are off-topic in most newsgroups, especially
regional groups not specifically named for such. The presence of such
articles in a group is not indicative of the group's "intended" use.
Please familiarize yourself with basic Usenet netiquette before posting
to a newsgroup.
n. Exceeding Web Site Size and Traffic Limitations: All
SohoPortal.com Members receive allotted, based on the users subscribed
plan, disk space and transfer bandwidth for use with their
SohoPortal.com web hosting account. Each member's web hosting account is
allocated a certain amount of traffic per month (traffic is calculated
on a formula multiplying the number of hits that your site receives by
the size of your files). If a site exceeds its maximum monthly allotment
of traffic, the site may become unavailable until the beginning of the
next calendar month. A site that exceeds the SohoPortal.com Member's
maximum allotment in size may also become unavailable. Unavailability
includes but may not be limited to the inability to access the site
publicly or to publish to or modify the site's contents via certain Web
creation tools.
