CSU Productions Terms of Use

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All services provided by CSU Productions may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any United States (or any other country) law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material that is threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade secrets and other statue. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless CSU Productions from any claims resulting from the use of the service which damages the subscriber or any other party.

Examples of Non-Acceptable Contents or Links

Pirated software
Hacking programs or archives
Warez Sites
Illegal MP3's
Spamming Software
Vip Poster
Hyip
Proxys (including proxy link websites)

Background Running Programs

We do not allow background-running programs. This includes any IRC related software such as bouncers and bots. In certain cases we may allow programs to run continually in the background, these are considered on a one to one basis and an extra charge will be incurred based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed.

Banned Scripts

You are free to use any scripts you wish provided they do not affect the normal operations of the server and they are not mentioned specifically below. Scripts that are commonly known for causing server disruption include large cgi-based message forums, chat programs, auctions, and banner exchanges. In the event a script affects normal server and/or administrative operations, CSU Productions reserves the right to disable the account pending client cooperation and resolution.

Violation of indecency and obscenity laws can result in criminal penalties.

Intellectual Property Rights

Material accessible to you through CSU Productions' Services may be subject to protection under the United States of America (or any other country) copyright laws, or laws protecting trademarks, trade secrets or proprietary information. Except when expressly permitted by the owner of such rights, you must not use the CSU Productions Service in a manner that would infringe, violate, dilute or misappropriate any such rights, with respect to any material, which you access or receive through the CSU Productions Network. If you use a domain name in connection with the CSU Productions Service or similar service, you must not use that domain name in violation of any trademark, service mark, or similar rights of any third party.

Defamation

Defamatory speech distributed over the Internet can result in civil liability for the defamer.

Refusal of Service

CSU Productions reserves the right at its sole discretion to refuse or cancel service. Violation of any of CSU Productions' Rules and Regulations could result in a warning, suspension, or possible account termination. Accounts terminated due to policy violations will not be refunded. Free domains which have been granted for customers paying annually are released to the customer at the end of there hosting period. Domains terminated due to policy violations will not be released to the customer.

Spam or Unsolicited E-Mail

You must not use the CSU Productions Network, CSU Productions equipment or any CSU Productions email address in connection with the transmission of spam, flames, mail bombs, or substantially similar, unsolicited email messages. Your domain may not be referenced as originator, intermediary, or reply-to address in any of the above. This prohibition extends to the sending of unsolicited mass mailings from another service that in any way implicates the use of the CSU Productions Network, CSU Productions equipment or any CSU Productions email address. A message is considered unsolicited if it is posted in violation of a newsgroup charter or if it is sent to a recipient who has not requested or invited the message. For purposes of this provision, merely making one's email address accessible to the public will not constitute a request or invitation to receive messages.

If you are found to have spammed, CSU Productions reserves the right to disable your domain without warning. In addition, CSU Productions may impose a $50 penalty for each spam policy violation. CSU Productions solely reserves the right to refuse or cancel service to known spammers. Lastly, CSU Productions reserves the right to determine what violates this policy. As such, any violation may result in cancellation of services without refund.

Abuse

Any attempts to undermine, slander, libel, threaten, or cause harm to a CSU Productions server, customer, employee, or the company directly is strictly prohibited and is grounds for immediate termination without refund. In addition, we will pursue all attempts to the fullest extent of the law.

Indemnification

Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold CSU Productions (or it's employee's/owners) harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable legal fees asserted against CSU Productions, its agents, its customers, officers and employees, that may arise or result from any service provided or performed or agreed to be performed or any product sold by customer, it's agents, employees or assigns. Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless CSU Productions against liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with CSU Productions server; (2) any material supplied by customer infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party and (3) copyright infringement. Customer agrees to limit the liability of CSU Productions to the amount paid for service.

Disclaimer

CSU Productions will not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer. CSU Productions makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services we provide. CSU Productions disclaims any warranty or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service interruptions caused by CSU Productions and its employees. CSU Productions makes a 99.9% Uptime guarantee.

CSU Productions keeps daily backups of their servers. CSU Productions can accept no responsibility for any loss of data or consequences arising from this. CSU Productions always advises clients to back up their site data regularly for its own protection.

CSU Productions furthermore expects that its customers who provide hosting services to others will ensure its customers fully comply with all applicable laws concerning the privacy of online communications and any other policy of CSU Productions. A customer's failure to comply with those laws will violate this policy.

If a customer provides hosting services to others and decides to cancel their reseller hosting account with CSU Productions then CSU Productions will not be responsible for maintaining hosting for the resellers customers.

Finally, CSU Productions wishes to emphasize that in accepting services, customers indemnify CSU Productions for the violation of any law or CSU Productions policy, that results in loss to CSU Productions or the bringing of any claim against CSU Productions. This means that if CSU Productions is sued because of activities of the customer that violate any law, or this policy, the customer will pay any damages awarded against CSU Productions, plus costs and reasonable legal fees.

Failure to comply with any of our terms & conditions will result in grounds for immediate account deactivation.

CSU Productions reserves the right to change, edit, or update the policies contained in this document, along with the content on our website at any time for any reason without notice.