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ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
1. This is Verizon's policy on the acceptable use of the Service. It is designed
to help protect the Service, Verizon's customers and the Internet community,
from irresponsible or illegal activities.
2. Verizon reserves the right to deny Service to you, or immediately to
terminate your Service for material breach, if your use of the Service or your
use of an alias or the aliases of additional users on your account, whether
explicitly or implicitly, and in the sole discretion of Verizon: (a) is obscene,
indecent, pornographic, sadistic, cruel or racist in nature, or of a sexually
explicit or graphic nature; (b) espouses, promotes or incites bigotry, hatred or
racism; (c) might be legally actionable for any reason, (d) is objectionable for
any reason, or (e) in any manner violates the terms of this Acceptable Use
Policy.
3. You may NOT use the Service as follows: (a) for any unlawful, improper or
illegal purpose or activity; (b) to post or transmit information or communications
that, whether explicitly stated, implied, or suggested through use of symbols,
are obscene, indecent, pornographic, sadistic, cruel, or racist in content, or of
a sexually explicit or graphic nature; or which espouses, promotes or incites
bigotry, hatred or racism; or which might be legally actionable for any reason;
(c) to access or attempt to access the accounts of others, to spoof or attempt
to spoof the URL or DNS or IP addresses of Verizon or any other entity, or to
attempt to penetrate or penetrate security measures of Verizon or other entities'
systems ("hacking") whether or not the intrusion results in corruption or loss of
data; (d) to bombard individuals or newsgroups or community message boards with
uninvited communications, data or information, or other similar activities,
including but not limited to "spamming", "flaming" or denial or distributed denial
of service attacks; (e) to transmit unsolicited voluminous emails (for example,
spamming) or to intercept, interfere with or redirect email intended for third
parties using the Service; (f) to introduce viruses, worms, harmful code and/or
Trojan horses on the Internet; (g) to post information on newsgroups or community
message boards which is not in the topic area or charter (e.g. off-topic posting)
of the newsgroup or community message board; (h) to interfere with another person's
usage or enjoyment of the Internet or this Service; (i) to post or transmit
information or communications that are defamatory, fraudulent, obscene or deceptive,
including but not limited to scams such as "make-money-fast" schemes or "pyramid/chain"
letters; (j) to damage the name or reputation of Verizon, its parent, affiliates and
subsidiaries, or any third parties; (k) to transmit confidential or proprietary
information, except solely at your own risk; (l) to violate Verizon's or any
third party's copyright, trademark, proprietary or other intellectual property
rights, including trade secret rights; (m) to use more than one IP address
obtained from Verizon; (n) to generate
excessive amounts (as determined by Verizon in its sole discretion) of Internet
traffic, or to disrupt net user groups or email use by others; (o) to engage in
activities designed to or having the effect of degrading or denying Service to
Verizon users or others (including activities that compromise a server, router,
circuit, software or other Internet component; (p) to use any name or mark of
Verizon, its parent, affiliates or subsidiaries, as a hypertext link to any Web
site or in any advertising publicity or other commercial manner; (q) to use the
Service to operate a server in a manner that interferes with the network or
other users' use of the Service; (r) to use the Service or the Internet in a
manner intended to threaten, harass, or intimidate; (s) to cause the screen to
"scroll" faster than other subscribers or users are able to type to it, or any
action that has a similar disruptive effect, on or through the Service; (t) to
use the Service to disrupt the normal flow of online dialogue, (u) to use the
Service to violate any operating rule, policy or guideline of any other online
services provider or interactive service; (v) to attempt to subvert or to aid
third parties to subvert, the security of any computer facility or system
connected to the Internet; (w) to impersonate any Verizon employee or official
or other person or use a false name while using the Service or implying an
association with Verizon; (x) to install "auto-responders," "cancel-bots" or
similar automated or manual routines which generate excessive amounts of net
traffic, or disrupt net user groups or email use by others; (y) to make false or
unverified complaints against any Verizon subscriber, or otherwise abusing any
of Verizon's complaint response procedures; (z) to use software or any other
device that would allow your account to stay logged on while you are not
actively using the Service, unless you are a Broadband customer; (aa) to export
software or any information in violation of US export laws; (bb) to use the
Service in contravention of the limitations of the pricing plan you have chosen;
(cc) for Broadband customers who use static IP address, to use an IP address
other than the one assigned by Verizon; (dd) for customer who have been assigned
a dynamic IP address to use such IP address to circumvent the changing of IP
addresses assigned by the Service or (ee) to open connections to more than one
Verizon Usenet news service at a time.
Usenet Policy and Posting Restrictions: Usenet comprises a system of bulletin
boards called newsgroups. Usenet access is provided to Internet access customers
of Verizon through the Verizon network. Verizon Usenet may not be accessed via
any other network. You may open no more than five simultaneous connections to
newsgroups at any one time. You may not rapidly open and close or create
connections for users other than yourself (our Subscriber). Verizon will carry
newsgroups at their sole discretion. Requests to add a newsgroup, from any
source, will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, and added at Verizon sole
discretion. You must familiarize yourself with the subjects and established
guidelines and restrictions of any newsgroup in which you participate and we
reserve the right, in our sole discretion to terminate your Service in the event
you violate newsgroup guidelines or restrictions.
4. Copyright Infringement/Repeat Infringer Policy. Verizon respects the
intellectual property rights of third parties, including those granted under
the US copyright laws, and the interests of its subscribers and content
providers on the Internet. You may not store material of any type or in any
format on, or disseminate such material over, Verizon's systems or servers in
any manner that constitutes an infringement of third party intellectual property
rights, including rights granted under the US copyright laws. In accordance with
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and other applicable law, it is the
policy of Verizon to terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the Service
provided to any subscriber or account holder who is deemed to infringe third
party intellectual property rights, including repeat infringers. Appropriate
circumstances may exist where (i) a Subscriber or account holder has been found
by a court of competent jurisdiction to have infringed the copyrights of a third
party on two or more occasions, i.e., a repeat infringer, (ii) Subscriber or
account holder has entered into an agreement acknowledging wrongdoing to settle
a claim of copyright infringement and subsequently uses Verizon's service to
violate the terms of that agreement by engaging in copyright infringement or to
otherwise engage in conduct that is found by a court of competent jurisdiction
to constitute copyright infringement, (iii) where a valid, effective and
uncontested notice has been provided to Verizon alleging facts which are a
violation by the Subscriber or account holder of Verizon's Copyright Policy
prohibiting infringing activity involving Verizon systems or servers, or (iv) in
other cases of repeated flagrant abuse of access to the Internet (e.g., willful
commercial piracy or malicious attempts to destroy the value of copyrighted
works). In addition, Verizon expressly reserves the right to terminate or
suspend the Service of any Subscriber or account holder if Verizon, in its sole
judgment, believes that circumstances relating to the infringement of third
party intellectual property rights warrant such action. These policies are in
addition to and do not affect or modify any other rights Verizon may have under
law or contract. If you believe that copyrighted material has been used in
violation of this policy or otherwise been made available on the Service in a
manner that is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law,
please follow the instructions for contacting Verizon's designated Copyright
Agent as set forth in Verizon's Copyright Policy located at
http://www.verizon.com/copy.html.
5. You shall comply with all applicable local, state, national and international
laws and regulations, including those related to data privacy, international
communications, and exportation or technical or personal data. You represent
that you are not a specifically designated individual or entity under any US
embargo or otherwise the subject, either directly or indirectly (by affiliation,
or any other connection with another party) to any order issued by any agency of
the US Government limiting, barring, revoking or denying, in whole or in part
your US export privileges. You agree to notify Verizon if you become subject to
any such order.
6. You shall not delete any proprietary designations, legal notices or other
identifiers belonging to third parties from any information obtained or sent
using the Service and shall not impersonate any person or use a false name while
using the Service. You agree to obtain all required permissions if you use the
Service to receive, upload, download, display, distribute, or execute Software
or perform other works protected by intellectual property laws including
copyright, trademark, trade secret and patent laws. You agree to cooperate with
Verizon and provide requested information in connection with all security and
use matters. You agree to notify Verizon promptly if you suspect unauthorized
use of the Service or of your UserID. You remain liable for unauthorized use
until your notification to Verizon at security@verizon.net. You agree that your
name, UserID, and other identifying information may be placed in our user
directory.
7. Verizon reserves the right to cooperate with legal authorities and/or injured
third parties in the investigation of any suspected crime or civil wrong. Such
cooperation may include, but not be limited to, provision of account or user
information or email as well as monitoring of the Verizon network.
8. Verizon may, but is not required to monitor your compliance, or the
compliance of other subscribers, with the terms, conditions or policies of this
Agreement.
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