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Acceptable Use Policy

ITMaine cannot accept any responsibility for injury; financial, physical or psychological that may result from inaccurate, unsuitable, offensive, or illegal Internet communications.

Because the information our clients create is carried over ITMaine's network and may reach a large number of people, including both clients and non-clients of ITMaine, clients’ postings to the Internet may negatively affect other and may harm ITMaine 's goodwill, business reputation, and operations. For these reasons, clients violate ITMaine Acceptable Use Policy when they, their employees, consultants, customers, affiliates, or subsidiaries engage in any of the following prohibited activities:

Spamming -- Sending unsolicited bulk and/or commercial messages over the Internet (known as "spamming"). It is not only harmful because of its negative impact on toward ITMaine, but also because it can overload ITMaine's network, equipment and disrupt service to ITMaine clients. Also, maintaining an open SMTP relay is prohibited. When a complaint is received, ITMaine has the discretion to determine from all of the evidence whether the email recipients were from an "opt-in" email list.

Intellectual Property Violations -- Engaging in any activity that infringes or misappropriates the intellectual property rights of others, including copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, software piracy, and patents held by individuals, corporations, or other entities. Also, engaging in activity that violates privacy, publicity, or other personal rights of others. ITMaine is required by law to remove or block access to customer content upon receipt of a proper notice of copyright infringement. It is also ITMaine's policy to terminate the privileges of customers who commit repeat violations of copyright laws.

Obscene Speech or Materials -- Using ITMaine's network to advertise, transmit, store, post, display, or otherwise make available child pornography or obscene or hate speech or material. ITMaine is required by law to notify law enforcement agencies when it becomes aware of the presence of child pornography on or being transmitted through ITMaine's network.

Defamatory or Abusive Language -- Using ITMaine's network as a means to transmit or post defamatory, harassing, abusive, hate, or threatening language.

Forging of Headers -- Forging or misrepresenting message headers, whether in whole or in part, to mask the originator of the message.

Illegal or Unauthorized Access to Other Computers or Networks -- Accessing illegally or without authorization computers, accounts, or networks belonging to another party, or attempting to penetrate security measures of another individual's system (often known as "hacking"). Also, any activity that might be used as a precursor to an attempted system penetration (i.e. port scan, stealth scan, or other information gathering activity).

Distribution of Internet Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses, or Other Destructive Activities -- Distributing information regarding the creation of and sending Internet viruses, worms, Trojan horses, pinging, flooding, mail bombing, or denial of service attacks. Also, activities that disrupt the use of or interfere with the ability of others to effectively use the network or any connected network, system, service, or equipment.

Facilitating a Violation of this AUP -- Advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available any software, program, product, or service that is designed to violate this AUP, which includes the facilitation of the means to spam, initiation of pinging, flooding, mail bombing, denial of service attacks, and piracy of software.

Export Control Violations -- Exporting encryption software over the Internet or otherwise, to points outside the United States.

Usenet Groups -- ITMaine reserves the right not to accept postings from newsgroups where we have actual knowledge that the content of the newsgroup violates the AUP.

Other Illegal Activities -- Engaging in activities that are determined to be illegal, including advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, fraudulently charging credit cards, and pirating software.

Other Activities -- Engaging in activities, whether lawful or unlawful, that ITMaine determines to be harmful to its clients, operations, reputation, goodwill, or customer relations.