Terms Of Service
Rapid Servers is dedicated to providing an excellent service to all customers. The terms and conditions which follow are necessary to ensure that we may continue to provide the best possible service to all of our customers whilst at the same time satisfying our legal and ethical responsibilities.

Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation without notice. Rapid Servers will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of any of these provisions.

Activity which results in the suspension or deactivation of an account will result in a forfeiture of all fees paid. Complaints made regarding abuses of an account will be investigated and if found guilty will be grounds for immediate suspension.

To report suspected violations of these policies, please contact "abuse-AT-rapidservers-DOT-net".

Illegal Usage
Our servers may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or distribution of any information, data or material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property right used without proper authorisation, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws. Examples of non-acceptable content or links: Pirated software, Hackers programs or archives, Warez sites, MP3, and IRC bots. The subscriber to Rapid Servers service agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Rapid Servers from any claims resulting from the use of the service that damages the subscriber or any other party. Rapid Servers will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Adult Content
We do not allow any adult orientated content to be hosted on our servers.

Security
Violations of system or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability. Examples include, but are not limited to the following: Unauthorised access, use, probe, or scan of a systems security or authentication measures, data or traffic. Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks. Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting.

Server Resource
Any website that uses a high amount of server resources (such as, but not limited to, CPU time, memory usage, and network resources) will be given an option of either paying extra (which depends on the resource needed) or reducing the resource used to an acceptable level. Rapid Servers shall be the sole arbiter of what is considered to be a high server usage level. Any hosting account deemed to be adversely affecting the server performance or the network integrity will be suspended without prior notice.

Chat Rooms
Rapid Servers does not allow clients to install their own chat rooms. Chat rooms tend to be large system hogs and we cannot permit it as an account option. Rapid Servers does allow Java chatrooms which should meet most users' needs and should run without hindering the performance of our servers.

Background Running Programs
Rapid Servers does not allow background Daemons such as IRC bots; eggdrop; BitchX; XiRCON; or any other program.

Client Responsibility
The client is responsible for all activity originating from the account unless proven to be a victim of outside hacking or address forgery. The client is responsible for securing their username/password. The client assumes responsibility for all material on their site that may be put on by a third party (such as the usage of Free For All links pages). Use of Rapid Servers service requires a certain level of knowledge in the use of Internet languages, protocols, and software. This level of knowledge varies depending on the anticipated use and desired content of the web space by the client. The following examples are offered: Web Publishing: requires knowledge of HTML, properly locating and linking documents, FTPing Web contents, Graphics, text, sound, image mapping, etc. FrontPage web publishing: knowledge of the FrontPage tools as well as Telnet and FTP understanding and capability. CGI-Scripts: requires a knowledge of the UNIX environment, TAR & GUNZIP commands, Perl, CShell scripts, permissions, etc. Mail: a use of mail clients to receive and send mail, etc. The client agrees that he or she has the necessary knowledge to create and maintain their web space. Client agrees that it is not the responsibility of Rapid Servers to provide this knowledge or support outside matter specific to the servers.

UCE (Unsolicited Commerce Email) - SPAM
Spamming, or the sending of mass unsolicited email, from or through a Rapid Servers server or using an email address that is maintained on a Rapid Servers machine is STRICTLY prohibited. Rapid Servers will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. If you engage in any of the foregoing activities using the service of another ISP or IPP, but channeling activities through a Rapid Servers server as a maildrop for responses, you are in violation. Violators will be assessed a minimum of $200.00 fine and will face an immediate suspension.

Server Abuse
Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a Rapid Servers server or customer of Rapid Servers is strictly prohibited. Any sub-networks of Rapid Servers and dedicated servers must adhere to the above policies. The failure to meet or follow any of the above guidelines are grounds for account deactivation. We reserve the right to remove any account without prior notice.

Multimedia Files
Multimedia files are defined as any graphics, audio, and video files. Rapid Servers hosting accounts are not to be used for the purposes of distributing and storing an unusual amount of multimedia files. Any Web site whose disk space usage for storing the multimedia files exceed 70% of its total usage, either in terms of total size or number of files, will be deemed to be using unusual amount of multimedia files.

Actions Taken by Rapid Servers
The failure by a customer to meet or follow any of the above policies/terms is grounds for account deactivation. Rapid Servers will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of the AUP. Rapid Servers reserves the right to remove any account without prior notice.

When Rapid Servers becomes aware of an alleged violation of its TOS, Rapid Servers will initiate an investigation. During the investigation, Rapid Servers may restrict a customer's access in order to prevent further potentially unauthorised activity. Depending on the severity of the violation, Rapid Servers may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend, or terminate a customer's web hosting account and/or pursue other civil remedies. If such violation is a criminal offense, Rapid Servers will notify the appropriate law enforcement authorities of such violation.

TOS Violations
Rapid Servers customers agree to indemnify and hold harmless Rapid Servers from any claims resulting from the use of our services that damages them or any other party. The Rapid Servers service is provided on an as is, as available basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Rapid Servers expressly disclaims any representation or warranty that the Rapid Servers service will be error-free, secure or uninterrupted. No oral advice or written information given by Rapid Servers, its employees, licensers or the like, will create a warranty; nor may you rely on any such information or advice. Rapid Servers and its partners and suppliers will not be liable for any cost or damage arising either directly or indirectly from any transaction or use of the service. Rapid Servers does not issue credits for outages incurred through service disablement.

Modification
Rapid Servers reserves the right to add, delete, or modify any provision of this Policy at any time without notice.

Refusal Of Service
We reserve the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion.

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