Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) dictates the use of YourSmartHost's web hosting services. Please note that the violation of the below-mentioned points of AUP will result into suspension or termination of your services. In case of any disputes, the appropriate jurisdiction is Surat Courts in India. Do not hesitate to contact legal@yoursmarthost.com in case of any question about AUP. It is a must to comply to AUP for all service users (you, your affiliates, agents). The latest AUP is written below:

Illegal Activity

Customer can only use YourSmartHost web hosting servers for legal purposes. Communication of any material in violation of any country, federal, state or local regulation is strictly forbidden. To this effect, child pornography and general pornography is prohibited, as well as housing any copyright information on YourSmartHost web hosting servers. Using YourSmartHost's servers or network to support the commission of illegal activities is impermissible. Activities below are also not permitted:

• is excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence, or contains harassing content or hate speech;
• creates a risk to a person's safety or health, creates a risk to public safety or health, compromises national security, or interferes with an investigation by law enforcement;
• improperly exposes trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information of another person;
• promotes illegal drugs, violates export control laws, relates to illegal gambling, or illegal arms trafficking;
• is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws applicable to you or to YourSmartHost; or
• is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may result in retaliation against YourSmartHost by offended viewers;

Misuse of Hacking

Websites leading to hacking activities or the distribution of hacking tools are prohibited. Also, the usage of YourSmartHost’s computer systems or network to access any system, service, or network without the owner’s permission is explicitly prohibited.

Anonymous Proxies

Anonymous proxies are easily misused and often cause damage to both the servers and the network they are connected to. Hence, they are forbidden on YourSmartHost's servers & networks. Proxy, VPN, Warez, Escrow, High Yield Investment Programs (HYIP), Illegal Gambling and Lottery sites or services.

Spamming

Customer agrees to not have any content on their site that advocates, sells or in any way makes available tools or methods to send unsolicited e-mail or usenet postings (spam), or to use YourSmartHost web hosting’s servers for relaying unsolicited e-mail or usenet postings, or to use unsolicited e-mail or usenet postings to advertise for their site hosted at YourSmartHost. Any complaint we receive about a violation of this or the preceding two points will be taken very seriously and will result in immediate account cancellation without a refund. You must comply with the rules and conventions for postings to any bulletin board, chat group or other forum in which you participate, such as IRC and USENET groups, including their rules for content and commercial postings. These groups usually prohibit the posting of off-topic commercial messages, or mass postings to multiple forums.

Any kind of bulk emailing is strictly prohibited with shared or reseller hosting. With VPS and dedicated hosting, you must obtain YourSmartHost's advance approval for any bulk commercial e-mail, which will not be given unless you are able to demonstrate all the following to YourSmartHost's reasonable satisfaction:

• Your intended recipients have given their consent to receive e-mail via some affirmative means, such as an opt-in procedure;
• Your procedures for soliciting consent include reasonable means to ensure that the person giving consent is the owner of the e-mail address for which the consent is given;
• You retain evidence of the recipient's consent in a form that may be promptly produced on request, and you honor recipient's and YourSmartHost's requests to produce consent evidence within 72 hours of receipt of the request.
• You have procedures in place that allow a recipient to easily revoke their consent - such as a link in the body of the e-mail, or instructions to reply with the word "Remove" in the subject line. Revocations of consent are honored within 72 hours, and you notify recipients that their revocation of their consent will be honored in 72 hours;
• You must have a Privacy Policy posted for each domain associated with the mailing;
• You have the means to track anonymous complaints;
• You may not obscure the source of your e-mail in any manner. Your e-mail must include the recipient's e-mail address in the body of the message or in the "TO" line of the e-mail; and
• You otherwise comply with the CAN SPAM Act and other applicable law.
• We will regularly monitor such activities, including requesting opt-in information from a random sample of your list at any time.

Personal Data Gathering

Collecting or using email addresses, screen names or other personal symbols without the permission of the person identified.

You may not publish, distribute, or otherwise copy in any manner any music, software, art, or other work protected by copyright law unless:

you have been expressly authorized by the owner of the copyright for the work to copy the work in that manner;

you are otherwise permitted by established law of the country to copy the work in that manner.

YourSmartHost will terminate the service of repeat copyright infringers.

Blacklisting

You accept that if YourSmartHost IP numbers allotted to your account are listed on a maltreatment database or blacklist, you will be in violation of this AUP, and YourSmartHost may take action to defend its IP numbers, that results in termination of your service, regardless of whether the IP numbers were listed as a result of your actions.

Investment sites such as FOREX, Gold Exchanges unfair or deceptive under the consumer protection laws of any jurisdiction, including chain letters and pyramid schemes;

Spoofing/Impersonation

Usage of the YourSmartHost network to mock another person or entity, be it through Email, Forums, Blogs or any other way, is considered illegal.

Spamdexing

Customer agrees not to get engaged in activities pertaining to black hat SEO, spamdexing, link farming, content spamming. These activities can have severe harmful effects on server performance.

Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against YourSmartHost's network or website, or YourSmartHost's employees, officers or other agents, including engaging in behavior that results in any server being the target of a denial of service attack (DDOS).

Security/Copyright

It is your responsibility to undertake security efforts such as protecting the confidentiality of your password and regular change of passwords at regular intervals.

If you have any issue with the site hosted which infringes your copyright, please send us complete details at below address:

Copyright Department

Smartinfosys.net

401, Meridian Tower, Udhana Darwaja

Ring Road, Surat (Gujarat)

INDIA - 395002

The details must include below:

• A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or if multiple copyrighted words at a single site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
• Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit YourSmartHost to locate the material;
• Information reasonably sufficient to permit YourSmartHost to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an e-mail address;
• A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, the copyright owner's agent, or the law;
• A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Others

You must have valid and current information on file with your domain name registrar for any domain hosted on the YourSmartHost network.

Disclaimer

YourSmartHost.com is under no compulsion or duty to monitor or police our customer's activities unless it is brought to notice. We agree to immediately suspend/terminate illegal activities if they come under notice through any means, however we disclaim any responsibility for any misuse of the network.

You can direct your questions regarding AUP to legal@yoursmarthost.com