This page sets forth the principles, guidelines and requirements of the Acceptable Use Policy of SB Hosting Solutions. (Company) governing the use by the Customer (Customer) of the Company's services and products (Services and Products). The Purpose of SB Hosting Solutions' Acceptable Use Policy, hereinafter referred to as the AUP, is to comply with all federal, state, and local laws coupled with protecting the network security, network availability, physical security, Customer privacy, and other factors affecting the services provided by SB Hosting Solutions. SB Hosting Solutions reserves the right to impose reasonable rules and regulations regarding the use of its services provided to all Customers and such rules and regulations are subject to change. Such rules and regulations are located on the Internet at http://www.sbhostingsolutons.com/terms.php. The AUP is not an all inclusive exhaustive list and SB Hosting Solutions reserves the right to modify the AUPs at any time as needed, effective upon either the posting of the modified AUP to http://www.sbhostingsolutons.com/terms.php or notification to the Customer via email. Acceptance and execution of the Master Services Agreement binds all parties to SB Hosting Solutions stated AUP at the time the signup is executed and as modified from time to time. Any violation of the AUP may result in the suspension or termination of your account or such other action as SB Hosting Solutions deems appropriate. No credits or refunds will be issued for any interruption in service resulting from policy violations.

VIOLATION OF ANY SECTION OF THE AUP IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED AND MAY RESULT IN THE IMMEDIATE TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION OF THE SERVICES YOU RECEIVE FROM SB Hosting Solutions.

Customer shall not post, transmit, retransmit or store material on or through any of Services or Products which, in the sole judgment of the Company: (i) is in violation of any local, state, federal or non-United States law or regulation, (ii) threatening, obscene, indecent, defamatory or that otherwise could adversely affect any individual, group or entity (collectively, Persons) or (iii) violates the rights of any person, including rights protected by copyright, trade secret, patent or other intellectual property or similar laws or regulations including, but not limited to, the installation or distribution of pirated or other software products that are not appropriately licensed for use by Customer. Customer shall be responsible for determining what laws or regulations are applicable to its use of the Services and Products.

Each Customer must use reasonable care in keeping each account, server or network device secure, this includes using hard to guess passwords and keeping programs (and scripts) and operating systems patched with the latest security updates. Failure to use reasonable care to protect your account or server may result in a security compromise by outside sources. SB Hosting Solutions is not responsible for Customer account or server level security unless a security administration package, firewall security administration package or fully managed operating system package is contracted for. A compromised server creating network interference will result in immediate Customer notification and will be disconnected from the network immediately so as to not directly affect other Customers. No service credits or refunds will be issued for outages resulting from disconnection due directly to breached server security. The Customer is solely responsible for any breaches of security affecting servers under Customer control. If a Customer intentionally creates a security breach, the cost to resolve any damage to Customer's server or other servers will be charged directly to the Customer. The labor used to resolve such damage is categorized as emergency security breach recovery and is currently charged at $195 USD per hour.

Violations of system or network security are strictly prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability. SB Hosting Solutions investigates all incidents involving such violations and will cooperate with law enforcement if a criminal violation is suspected.

• Introduction of malicious programs into the network or server (example: viruses, worms, Trojan Horses and other executables intended to inflict harm).
• Effecting security breaches or disruptions of Internet communication and/or connectivity. Security breaches include, but are not limited to, accessing data of which the Customer is not an intended recipient or logging into a serve or account that the Customer is not expressly authorized to access. For purposes of this section, disruption includes, but is not limited to port scans, flood pings, email-bombing, packet spoofing, IP spoofing and forged routing information.
• Executing any form of network activity that will intercept data not intended for the Customer's server.
• Circumventing user authentication or security of any host, network or account.
• Interfering with or denying service to any user other than the Customer's host (example: denial of service attack or distributed denial of service attack).
• Using any program script/command, or sending messages of any kind, designed to interfere with or to disable, a user's terminal session, via any means, locally or via the Internet.

Each Customer is expected execute reasonable Internet etiquette (Netiquette). The Customer will comply with the rules appropriate to any network to which SB Hosting Solutions may provide access. The Customer should not post, transmit, or permit Internet access to information the Customer desires to keep confidential. The Customer is not permitted to post any material that is illegal, libelous, and tortuous, indecently depicts children or is likely to result in retaliation against SB Hosting Solutions by offended users. SB Hosting Solutions reserves the right to refuse or terminate service at any time for violation of this section. This includes advertising services or sites via IRC or USENET in clear violation of the policies of the IRC channel or USENET group.

Adult material is not permitted on any server or service offered by SB Hosting Solutions.

SB Hosting Solutions will cooperate fully with any criminal investigation into a Customer's violation of the Child Protection Act of 1984 concerning child pornography. Customers are ultimately responsible for the actions of their clients over SB Hosting Solutions networks and servers, and will be liable for illegal material posted by their clients.

According to the Child Protection Act, child pornography includes photographs, films, video or any other type of visual presentation that shows a person who is or is depicted as being under the age of eighteen years and is engaged in or is depicted as engaged in explicit sexual activity, or the dominant characteristic of which is the depiction, for a sexual purpose, of a sexual organ or the anal region of a person under the age of eighteen years or any written material or visual representation that advocates or counsels sexual activity with a person under the age of eighteen years.

Violations of the Child Protection Act may be reported to the U.S. Customs Agency at 1-800-BEALERT

Mass Mailings. SB Hosting Solutions has a zero stance policy on SPAM, Junk E-mail or UCE. Spam, Junk-mail and UCE are defined as: the sending of the same, or substantially similar, unsolicited electronic mail messages, whether commercial or not, to more than one recipient. 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. UCE also includes e-mail with forged headers, compromised mail server relays, and false contact information. This prohibition extends to the sending of unsolicited mass mailings from another service, which in any way implicates the use of SB Hosting Solutions whether or not the message actually originated from our network.

Mailing Lists: SB Hosting Solutions' mass mailing rules also apply to mailing lists, list servs, or mailing services you may contract with. The policy is stated as follows: An acceptable mailing list will be focused at a targeted audience that has voluntarily signed up for your e-mail information or that has made their e-mail address available for distribution of information from you. The list must also allow for automatic removal by all end Customers with non-distribution in the future.

SB Hosting Solutions reserves the right to determine in its sole discretion what constitutes UCE based on the information available.

SB Hosting Solutions services including network, leased hardware, co-location services, and other hardware may only be used for lawful purposes. Transmission, distribution, or storage of any information, data or material in violation of United States or state regulation or law, or by the common law, is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, or other intellectual property rights.

Creative, utilizing, or distributing unauthorized copies of software are a violation of federal and state law. If you copy, distribute or install the software in ways that the license does not allow, you are violating federal copyright law. SB Hosting Solutions will cooperate with all law enforcement agencies in relation to alleged copyright infringement housed in our datacenters.

IRC Servers are not allowed.

Customer agrees to use the resources that has been signed up for. This includes game server user slots, web hosting disk space, bandwidth, etc. If a customer goes over the services paid for they may occur over usage fees.

Customer acknowledges that some services are provided on a shared server and agrees not to engage in any activity that could overwhelm the server with heavy CPU usage or that requires a disproportionate amount of the resources of the server, including without limitation, use of highly active CGI scripts or chat scripts.

SB Hosting Solutions reserves the right to suspend service to any Customer for violation of the AUP. SB Hosting Solutions will use reasonable care in notifying the Customer and in resolving the problem in a method resulting in the least amount of service interference as reasonably possible. SB Hosting Solutions reserves the right to terminate service without notice for continued and repeated violations of the AUP. Continued violations of the AUP resulting in cancellation of services will also result in a fee in the amount of $500 and contract acceleration for all amounts outstanding under the contract term.