PRIVACY POLICY
INTRODUCTION
We are committed to complying with the Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act. Accordingly, if you are under the age of 13, you are not authorized
to provide us with personally identifying information, and we will not use any
such information in our database collection activities. We appreciate your cooperation
with this federally mandated requirement.
By using this Internet service ("Service") or by establishing an account,
you agree to be bound by this Agreement and to use the Service in compliance
with this Agreement, our Acceptable Use Policies and all other use policies
(collectively, the "Terms of Service"). If you do not agree to the
Terms of Service, including any future revisions, you may not use the Service,
and if you have an account you must terminate it as provided herein. We, your
Internet service provider (the "ISP"), reserve the right to revise
the Terms of Service and you accept sole responsibility for periodically reviewing
them for any and all changes. Your continued use of this Service following the
posting of any revisions to the Terms of Service constitutes your acceptance
of those revisions.
1. SUBSCRIBER OBLIGATIONS
(A) End users establishing an account with the ISP ("Members") must
be at least 18 years old. Local access dialup numbers may not be available in
all areas. You are solely responsible for determining if use of a particular
dialup number will cause you to incur long-distance, toll, or other charges.
ISP is not responsible for any long-distance, toll or other charges you incur.
(B) Members must (i) provide ISP with accurate and complete billing information
including legal name, address, telephone number, and credit card/billing, and
(ii) report to ISP all changes to this information within 30 days of the change.
Members are responsible for all charges to their account.
(C) Members are billed each month for the basic service and any additional usage
or services. Members are responsible for paying all charges billed to their
account in the manner and method prescribed on their invoice. ISP is not responsible
for any charges or expenses (overdrawn accounts, exceeding credit card limits,
etc.) resulting from charges billed by ISP.
(D) If ISP has failed to pay any underlying service provider all amounts owing
for your account - whether or not you have paid ISP - your account will be subject
to suspension or cancellation until you or ISP has paid all amounts due.
(E) Delinquent accounts may be suspended or canceled at ISP's sole discretion;
however, charges will continue to accrue until the account is canceled. ISP
may bill an additional charge to reinstate a suspended account.
2. A SPECIAL NOTE CONCERNING MINORS
Protecting children's privacy is especially important to us. It is our policy
to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and all
other applicable laws. ISP recommends that children ask a parent for permission
before sending personal information to ISP, or to anyone else online.
3. MEMBER'S ACCOUNT, PASSWORD AND SECURITY
Members receive a user name, password and account designation upon registration.
You and members of your household are the only authorized users of your ISP
account and must comply with this Agreement. You must keep your password confidential
so that no one else may access the Service through your account. You must notify
ISP within 24 hours of discovering any unauthorized use of your account.
Using a personal account for high volume or commercial use (e.g., revenue generation,
advertising, etc.) is prohibited. Email accounts exceeding 10MB in size may,
at ISP's discretion, be transferred to a compressed temporary file or storage.
ISP may delete the temporary file from the server 60 days after notifying you.
Any Member Web site exceeding 5MB of disk space or 250MB of data transfer will
be billed for excess usage. You may establish a commercial or high-volume account
by the ISP.
Usernames, passwords and email addresses are ISP's property and ISP may alter
or replace them at any time.
4. MONITORING THE SERVICE
ISP has no obligation to monitor the Service, but may do so and may disclose
information regarding the use of the Service for any reason if ISP, in its sole
discretion, believes that it is reasonable to do so, including but not limited
to: satisfy laws, regulations, or governmental or legal requests; operate the
Service properly; or protect itself and its Members. Please see our Privacy
Policy. ISP may immediately remove your material or information from ISP's servers,
in whole or in part, which ISP, in its sole and absolute discretion, determines
to infringe another's property rights or to violate our Acceptable Use Policy.
5. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
EXCEPT FOR CERTAIN PRODUCTS AND SERVICE SPECIFICALLY IDENTIFIED AS BEING OFFERED
BY ISP, ISP DOES NOT CONTROL ANY MATERIALS, INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICE
ON THE INTERNET. THE INTERNET CONTAINS UNEDITED MATERIALS, SOME OF WHICH ARE
SEXUALLY EXPLICIT OR MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO YOU. ISP HAS NO CONTROL OVER AND ACCEPTS
NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR SUCH MATERIALS. YOU ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK
FOR USE OF THE SERVICE AND THE INTERNET AND ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR EVALUATING
THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, AND USEFULNESS OF ALL SERVICE, PRODUCTS, AND OTHER
INFORMATION, AND THE QUALITY AND MERCHANTABILITY OF ALL MERCHANDISE PROVIDED
THROUGH THE SERVICE OR THE INTERNET. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS
IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. ISP DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE
WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE OR FREE OF VIRUSES, OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
ISP MAKES NO EXPRESS WARRANTIES AND WAIVES ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY AND
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE REGARDING ANY MERCHANDISE, INFORMATION OR SERVICE
PROVIDED THROUGH ISP OR THE INTERNET GENERALLY. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION GIVEN
BY ISP OR ITS REPRESENTATIVES SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY.
6. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL ISP, EMPLOYEES, SUBSIDIARIES, ITS LICENSORS OR
ANY UNDERLYING SERVICE PROVIDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY COSTS OR DAMAGES ARISING DIRECTLY
OR INDIRECTLY FROM YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE OR THE INTERNET
INCLUDING ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY, MULTIPLE, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE,
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. THIS LIMITATION APPLIES WHETHER THE ALLEGED LIABILITY
IS BASED ONCONTRACT, TOTRT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER BASIS,
EVEN IF ISP HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. BECAUSE SOME
JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, ISP'S LIABILITY IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW.
7. INDEMNIFICATION
Upon a request by ISP, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless ISP
and its subsidiary and other affiliated companies, and their employees, contractors,
officers, and directors from all liabilities, claims, and expenses, including
attorney's fees, that arise from your use or misuse of this site. ISP reserves
the right, at it own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of
any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will
cooperate with ISP in asserting any available defenses.
8. SOFTWARE LICENSE
ISP grants to each Member a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-assignable
license to install and use the ISP access software (including software from
third-party vendors that ISP distributes) (in object code format), its associated
documentation, and any updates thereto ("Licensed Programs") in order
to access and utilize the Service. Each Member agrees to use the Licensed Programs
solely in conjunction with the Service and for no other purpose. ISP may modify
the Licensed Programs at any time, for any reason, and without providing notice
of such modification to a Member.
The Licensed Programs constitute confidential and proprietary information of
ISP and ISP's licensors and embody trade secrets and intellectual property protected
under United States copyright laws, other laws, and international treaty provisions.
All right, title, and interest in and to the Licensed Program, including associated
intellectual property rights, are and shall remain with ISP and ISP's licensors.
Member shall not translate, decompile, reverse engineer, distribute, remarket
or otherwise dispose of the Licensed Program or any part thereof.
You may not download, use or otherwise export or re-export the Licensed Programs
or any underlying information or technology except in full compliance with all
United States and other applicable laws and regulations. By installing or downloading
the Software, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under the
control of or a national or resident of any country on the U.S. Treasury Department's
list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table
of Deny Orders.
9. WEBSITE USAGE and OTHER WEB SITES
The Service may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other World
Wide Web sites or resources. Because ISP has no control over such sites and
resources, you acknowledge and agree that ISP is not responsible for the availability
of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible
or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available
from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that ISP shall
not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss
caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on
any such content, goods or services available on or through any such site or
resource.
Some portions of the Website are made available for the free exchange of ideas
by participants and are not regularly monitored nor moderated by ISP. ISP assumes
no responsibility and makes no warranty that it will undertake to screen or
remove such material. You agree to hold ISP harmless from all claims based upon
the materials posted by others. Also, in exchange for availing yourself of the
opportunity to upload or provide information to this site and any associated
chat rooms or discussion areas, you will indemnify ISP from any claims made
by third parties regarding the material that you provide. Personal information
posted by you to the Website is posted at your own risk. ISP will have no liability
arising from use of that information. You shall not use the Website to distribute
or publish any advertising of goods or services, solicitations for funds, or
other commercial messages. You agree that you will not post, upload or otherwise
introduce a virus or other harmful code onto the Website.
Your posting of material on the Website or providing material to ISP to use
on the Website, will be deemed to be a grant by you to ISP of a perpetual, non-revocable,
worldwide, non-exclusive license to the material to include the material on
the Website and to reproduce, publish, distribute, perform, display, and transmit
the material and to prepare derivative works as reasonably necessary to do so,
and you waive all rights of attribution and integrity with respect to the material.
10. TERM OF AGREEMENT
Continued use of the Service constitutes acceptance of this Agreement and any
future versions. If you are dissatisfied with the Service or any related terms,
conditions, rules, policies, guidelines, or practices, your sole and exclusive
remedy is to discontinue using the Service and, if you are a Member, to terminate
your account.
11. TERMINATION
ISP reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your account, your
password and your use of the Service, with or without notice. You may terminate
your account at any time and for any reason by providing notice of intent to
terminate to ISP by:
· telephone calls directed to Customer Service.
· registered or certified mail, return receipt requested addressed to
ISP.
Email termination of your basic Internet access account will not be accepted.
If your account included space on ISP's servers, anything stored on this space
will be deleted upon termination. Section 2, the third paragraph of Section
3, and Sections 5, 6, 7, 12 and 13 of this Agreement shall survive termination
of this Agreement.
11. THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARY
YOU AGREE THAT ANY UNDERLYING SERVICE PROVIDER OF ISP'S SERVICE IS A THIRD-PARTY
BENEFICIARY OF THIS AGREEMENT AND AS SUCH IS ENTITLED TO ALL THE RIGHTS AND
PROTECTIONS AFFORDED BY THIS AGREEMENT TO ISP DESCRIBED HEREIN.
12. MISCELLANEOUS
This Agreement, the Acceptable Use Policy, the Privacy Policy, and ISP's other
user policies posted on ISP's website constitute the entire agreement between
you and ISP with respect to your use of the Service.
ISP may revise, amend, or modify this Agreement, the Acceptable Use Policy and
any other user policies, at any time and in any manner. Any revision, amendment,
or modification will be effective immediately after ISP posts it at its website.
This Agreement is governed by the law of the state in which
ISP operates its main office without regard to conflict of law provisions. The
federal and state courts located in said state alone have jurisdiction over
all disputes arising out of or related to this Agreement and the Service. You
consent to the personal jurisdiction of such courts sitting in said state with
respect to such matters or otherwise between you and ISP, and waive your rights
to removal or consent to removal.
Ver. 03/2000