Valid Email Collector

Valid Email Collector

Acceptable Use Policy

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Acceptable Use Policy

Valid Email Collector employs an Acceptable Usage Policy to maintain the performance and integrity of our computer equipment. Breach of this policy may result in account suspension or termination without a refund.

1. General List of Violations of AUP

  • Child Pornography: Hosting, distributing, or linking to pornography involving a person under legal age.
  • Copyright Infringement: Hosting, distributing, or linking to copyright-infringed materials.
  • CPU/Memory/Resource Abuse: Consuming excessive server resources and causing server performance issues.
  • DoS Source: Being the source of a denial-of-service attack.
  • DoS Target: Being the target of a denial-of-service attack.
  • Forgery: Faking an IP address, hostname, email address, or header.
  • Fraud Site: Hosting or linking to a website intended to deceive the public.
  • HYIP: Hosting or linking to a high-yield investment program website.
  • Identity Theft: Hosting, distributing, or linking to stolen account identification information.
  • Infection: Hosting, distributing, or linking to exploits, trojans, viruses, or worms.
  • IRC: Hosting an internet relay chat server not authorized by Valid Email Collector.
  • Mass Storage: Storing mass amounts of backups, archives, videos, or similar files.
  • Phishing: Identity theft by email under false pretense.
  • Bulk Email: No more than 500 emails of similar content, with opt-in permission.
  • Spam Email: Unsolicited commercial email or unsolicited bulk email.
  • Spam List: Hosting, distributing, or linking to email address lists for spam.
  • Spam Site: A site advertised by spam email or spam web activity.
  • Spam Ware: Hosting, distributing, or linking to software designed for spamming.
  • Spam Web: Unsolicited, bulk, or forged site advertising in web logs, forums, or guestbooks.
  • Spamhaus/RBL: Spam causing an IP blacklist at Spamhaus/RBL for malicious activity.
  • Terrorist Site: Hosting or linking to a site advocating terrorism.
  • Toolz: Hosting, distributing, or linking to hacking, cracking, or other illegal activity tools or instructions.
  • Trademark: Hosting, distributing, or linking to trademark-infringed materials.
  • Warez: Hosting, distributing, or linking to cracks, hacks, key generators, serials, or pirated software.
  • Any other material Valid Email Collector judges to be threatening or obscene.

2. Virtual Private Server and Dedicated Server Customers Only

These provisions also apply to all VPS and dedicated server customers. You are solely responsible for breaches of security affecting servers under your control. If your server is involved in an attack on another server or system, it will be shut down and investigated.

You are responsible for the cost of rectifying damage caused by a security breach. You may not monitor internet traffic other than your own, including our traffic or the traffic of another entity.

DMCA Copyright Infringement Information

In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we may suspend or terminate accounts of website owners found to be repeat copyright infringers. We respect the intellectual property of others and ask you to do the same.

If you believe your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, provide our Copyright Agent with:

  1. An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act for the copyright owner.
  2. A description of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed.
  3. A description of where the infringing material is located on the site.
  4. Your address, telephone number, and email address.
  5. A good-faith statement that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, agent, or law.
  6. A statement under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act for the owner.