TERMS OF SERVICE AND
ACCEPTABLE USE POLICIES
These Terms Of Service And
Acceptable Use Policies ("Terms and Policies") are an essential part
of your relationship with Barlick.Net.
By using your Barlick.Net account, you agree to all of the Terms and Policies
set out in this document.
1.
General Terms and Policies.
BARLICK.NET is a private company providing a commercial gateway to the
Internet. Barlick.Net equipment and
facilities may be used to send electronic mail, conduct commercial
transactions, access the World Wide Web, newsgroups and private networks,
engage in on-line chat sessions, transfer files, enjoy audio and video
programming, and otherwise participate in all legal aspects of the Internet
(these uses are referred to in this document as "the Service"),
subject to these Terms and Policies.
The Service is provided to
authorized persons or organizations (referred to in this document as
"Subscriber" or "you").
Any use of the service is subject to any restrictions listed below. By using the Service, you agree to be bound
by all of theses Terms and Policies. If
you do not agree to be bound by these Terms and Policies, you must cancel your
account immediately and may not thereafter use or attempt to use the Service.
Barlick.Net grants you a non-exclusive
right to access, use and display the Service on any computers or other
electronic display devices of which you are a primary user. You may not assign, sub-license or transfer
any rights or obligations of the Service without the express written consent of
BARLICK.NET.
2.
Coverage. If you are an
individual Subscriber, these Terms and Policies apply to all persons who gain
access through your account. If you are
a commercial Subscriber, these Terms and Policies apply to all your employees,
agents and/or customers. In either
instance, a violation of these Terms and Policies by anyone using your account
will be treated as a violation by you.
3.
Prices and Charges. Barlick.Net
charges are as follows:
Unsolicited Bulk E-mail
("spam") cleanup 5.00+ 0.01p per message sent + 0.05p per
complaint received by Barlick.Net.
--OR— 10.00 per hour spent by Barlick.Net personnel
Charges are due within 30 days of
the date on Barlick.Net invoice.
Payments received after that date will incur a late payment charge of
[1.5]% of the total amount past due.
5.
Grounds for Suspension and Termination.
You agree to comply with these Terms and Policies, as well as the
applicable rules, regulations and policies of any network, bulletin board, news
group, web site or Internet Service Provider accessed through the Service. Any violation of either these Terms and
Policies or the other rules, regulations or policies noted above may serve as
cause for Barlick.Net to suspend or terminate your account. You agree that Barlick.Net has the right,
with or without notice, to suspend or terminate your account upon the first or
subsequent occurrence of any of the following:
a.Using the Service in a way which
constitutes violation of any applicable statute, law, court order, tariff,
regulation, or treaty (including, but not limited to, intellectual property,
communications, privacy, criminal and international law);
b.Using the Service in a manner
intended to abuse or violate the privacy or property rights of others,
including but not limited to sending of unsolicited bulk e-mail
("spamming"); this ground for suspension or termination is separate
from and in addition to the fees which will result from such activity;
c.Using the Service in an attempt
to break security, or so as to actually break security of any computer network
(including the Service itself), or to access an account, message, or file which
does not belong to you;
d.Using the Service in such a way
as to forge or mis-represent headers, addresses, or other identification in
electronic mail or USENET postings, or using any other method to disguise the
sender’s identity or location;
e.Excessively using the Service in
such a way as to limit the bandwidth available to others, including, but not
limited to, download traffic of 100 megabytes or more per day for the
Subscriber’s web page or site, sending e-mail traffic in excess of 10 megabytes
per day, or the use of ping, e-mail check, excessive IRC logging, or any
automated program with the sole intent of creating a continuous connection;
f.Posting commercial messages to a
USENET group where the posting is not approved by the specific USENET group in
its charter;
g.Using the Service to operate
server programs, including, but not limited to mail servers, IRC serves, game servers,
ftp servers, Web servers, or streaming audio/video servers.
h.Using the Service to promote or
solicit competing Internet services;
i.Using the Service for
unauthorized relays through any third party systems;
j.Attempting, in any way, to
interfere with or deny service to any user or any host on the Internet;
k.Using the Service for
mail-bombing, which includes any instance where multiple messages are sent to a
specific destination with the intent to render the recipient and/or the
electronic system serving that recipient dysfunctional;
l.Using the Service to add or
attempt to add addresses to any mailing list (yours or a third party’s) without
the explicit positive consent of the addressee(s);
m.Using the Service to forward or
post "chain letters" (multiple forwarding) of any type;
n.Attempting to cancel, supersede,
or otherwise interfere with e-mail or
USENET posts other than your own;
o.Engaging in harassment, whether
through language, frequency, or size of
messages;
p.Using the Service to engage in syn flood attacks, which are defined as
overburdening a recipient computer system by sending a high volume of spurious
data which effective impedes or totally disables functionality of the recipient
system(s), or any other methods of denial-of-service attacks; or,
q.Furnishing false data on your
sign-up form, contract, or online application, including providing fraudulent
credit card or other payment information.
No bill credit will be given for a
period of suspension. In the event of
termination of your use of the Service under this section, Barlick.Net may at
its sole discretion retain any or all amounts you have paid for use of the
Service as liquidated damages for your actions.
6.
Security. You agree not to
access or attempt to access private areas of the Service. You agree to notify Barlick.Net as soon as
you become aware of an unauthorized use of your account and/or any breach or
attempted breach of security on the Service.
7.
Intellectual Property.
Barlick.Net does not undertake to examine or review messages, files, or
other materials which are accessible through, pass through, or reside on the
Service. In compliance with the Federal
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Barlick.Net has designated Jon Eaves as the
individual to receive complaints about alleged copyright infringement taking
place on Barlick.Net’s facilities. To avail yourself of the protections of the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, if you believe that your copyright(s) is
being infringed by means of material hosted on
Barlick.Net’s facilities, you need to provide a signed notice in writing
to jon@barlick.net, continuing a specific identification of the allegedly
infringing material and the location(s) on Barlick.Net’s facilities where the
materials are to be found. Upon receipt of such written notice, Barlick.Net
will expeditiously remove or block access to the allegedly infringing material,
and provide notice to the person who had posted that material. If Barlick.Net receives a notification from
that person indicating that the claim of infringement was based upon mistake or
misidentification, Barlick.Net will send you a copy of that notification. Unless you notify BARLICK.NET of appropriate
court action to restrain the alleged infringement, the challenged material will
then be restored or other wise made accessible again.
8.
Liability. You agree that use of
the Service is at your own risk. Except
for information, products, or services clearly identified as being supplied by
Barlick.Net, neither Barlick.Net nor any of its affiliates controls, provides,
operates, or is in any way responsible for any information, products, or
services accessible through the Service. BARLICK.NET neither endorses nor is
responsible for the accuracy of third-party material(s), and you agree that
Barlick.Net is not responsible for any loss or damage caused by your use of, or
reliance on, such material(s).
You understand and agree that you
have sole responsibility for your posting of any information or material to any
site or newsgroup on the Internet, including but not limited to postings to Web
sites, whether residing on BARLICK.NET’s equipment or not, postings to
newsgroups, and participation in any on-line chat sessions. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless
BARLICK.NET and its officers, directors, employees, and other customers and
subscribers from and against any claims, losses, costs, liability, damages or
expenses arising out of your postings.
You agree that, should you use the
Service to send or receive voice communications, BARLICK.NET is not acting as a
telecommunications carrier or telephone company, that there is no
representation made by BARLICK.NET as
to the suitability of the Service for such use, and that all risk of connection,
transmission quality, and accuracy of communications is solely on you, and
that Barlick.Net has no liability of
any sort for the failure or lack of quality of such use of the Service.
You agree to be liable for any
damages or loss of service which results in damages to BARLICK.NET as a result
of any spamming or other violations of Section 5 above. These damages include, but are not limited
to, system shut downs, retaliatory attacks or data flooding, and loss of
peering arrangements. You agree that
Barlick.Net may pursue any such claims against you in District Court.
9.
Warranty. BARLICK.NET MAKES NO
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT,
AND WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
REGARDING THE SERVICE, OR ANY SOFTWARE OR OTHER MATERIAL AVAILABLE THROUGH THE
SERVICE, REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU MAY HAVE TOLD Barlick.Net ABOUT YOUR INTENDED
USE OF THE SERVICE. NO ORAL ADVICE OR
INFORMATION GIVEN BY BARLICK.NET OR ITS EMPLOYEES SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY OR
OTHERWISE ALTER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
THE SERVICE AND ANY SOFTWARE
PROVIDED TO YOU BY Barlick.Net ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS, AS
AVAILABLE" BASIS; BARLICK.NET DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THEY WILL BE
ERROR-FREE AND/OR UNINTERRUPTED, OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. Barlick.Net DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE SECURITY
OR BACK-UP OF ANY OF YOUR DATA WHICH MAY BE STORED ON THE SERVICE.
10. Content. You understand
and agree that information and access available through the Service may include
controversial, sexually explicit, or other material that may be offensive to
you or users for whom you are responsible.
BARLICK.NET has no responsibility for or control over such materials,
and you take sole responsibility for using any available screening software or
other methods of limiting access (specifically including the access of minors)
to any material you may find objectionable.
11. Dial-up Connection.
Barlick.Net may terminate a dial-up Subscriber’s connection following 60
days of inactivity or as determined by Barlick.Net in its sole discretion.
12. Privacy. Barlick.Net
commits to follow the controlling Federal and state laws respecting Subscriber
privacy and data access. Barlick.Net
will not provide names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, or
other personally identifiable information on any Subscriber to any third party
without prior permission from that Subscriber, or as required under an
appropriate court or administrative directive, including a facially valid
subpoena, or as necessary to render the Service. Barlick.Net may provide aggregate data on Subscribers to third
parties in the operation of Barlick.Net’s business.
14. Governing
Law. These Terms and Policies are
governed in all respects under English
laws.
15.
Amendments. These Terms and Policies may be amended in
any respect at any time by BARLICK.NET
upon the posting of the amended Terms and Policies on the signup section of the
Service. Your continued use of the
Service will be deemed consent to any such amended Terms and Policies. If you do not wish to continue to use the
Service as a result of any such amended Terms and Policies, you may provide
notice of your wish to terminate your use of the Service to
webmaster@barlick.net.
NOTICE
This system is the private property
of Barlick.net and is provided solely for the use of subscribers and of third
parties who are accessing materials posted by subscribers for access on this
system.
By providing services to
subscribers, Barlick.net does not intend to and does not hold itself out as a
service for the use or accommodation of the public generally, and Barlick.Net
does not undertake to provide service, information, or support to any persons
who are not subscribers. Access to this
service may be suspended, withdrawn, limited, or terminated by Barlick.Net at
any time without prior notice.
All information which may be
accessed on this system is copyrighted.
To the extent that materials do not bear an explicit copyright legend,
you should act under the presumption that copyright is held by the posting
subscriber, by Barlick.Net or by a third party. Unless materials are explicitly so labelled, no materials on this
system are in the public domain. The
design and presentation of this system is copyrighted by Barlick.Net, with all
rights reserved; no portion of this system may be copied, duplicated, or
downloaded without the specific written prior permission of Barlick.Net. You
may request permission by contacting Jon Eaves, jon@eaves.co.uk.
You may not use the facilities of
this system to send, relay, forward, bounce, reply, or otherwise route
electronic messages to (a) subscribers on this system other than as needed to
complete the delivery of individual electronic messages from the subscribers
correspondent(s), or (b) third parties who are not subscribers on this system
without the prior written permission of Barlick.Net. You may contact Jon Eaves, jon@eaves.co.uk.
with questions about these policies.
Permission will not be given to send, relay, forward, bounce, reply, or
otherwise route unsolicited commercial email, and you may not use this system
in any way to send, relay, forward, bounce, reply, or otherwise route
unsolicited commercial email to subscribers or to third parties.
Any message(s) you send to
subscribers on this system must accurately identify the originating sender of
the message(s). A message with a
misleading, disguised, or otherwise false originating address will be treated
as unsolicited commercial email and disposed of accordingly.
Barlick.Net specifically denies all
persons who are not subscribers on this system the right, privilege, license,
or sufferance to use the facilities of this system for any purpose other than
those stated above. Any use or attempted
use of the facilities of this system for commercial purposes by third parties
not subscribers on this system will be treated as trespass and theft, and will
be referred to the appropriate law enforcement officials for prosecution under
state and Federal law barring the unauthorized use of computer systems.
NOTICE
This system is the private property
of Barlick.Net and is provided solely for the use of subscribers and of third
parties who are accessing materials posted by subscribers for access on this
system.
By providing services to
subscribers, Barlick.Net does not intend to and does not hold itself out as a
service for the use or accommodation of the public generally, and Barlick.Net
does not undertake to provide service, information, or support to any persons
who are not subscribers. Access to this
service may be suspended, withdrawn, limited, or terminated by Barlick.Net at
any time without prior notice.
All information which may be
accessed on this system is copyrighted.
To the extent that materials do not bear an explicit copyright legend,
you should act under the presumption that copyright is held by the posting
subscriber, by Barlick.Net, or by a third party. Unless materials are explicitly so labelled, no materials on this
system are in the public domain. The
design and presentation of this system is copyrighted by Barlick.Net, with all
rights reserved; no portion of this system may be copied, duplicated, or
downloaded without the specific written prior permission of Barlick.Net. You may request permission by contacting Jon
Eaves, jon@eaves.co.uk.
You may not use the facilities of
this system to send, relay, forward, bounce, reply, or otherwise route
electronic messages to (a) subscribers on this system other than as needed to
complete the delivery of individual electronic messages from the subscribers
correspondent(s), or (b) third parties who are not subscribers on this system
without the prior written permission of Barlick.Net. You may contact Jon Eaves, jon@eaves.co.uk.
with questions about these policies.
Permission will not be given to send, relay, forward, bounce, reply, or
otherwise route unsolicited commercial email, and you may not use this system
in any way to send, relay, forward, bounce, reply, or otherwise route
unsolicited commercial email to subscribers or to third parties.
Any message(s) you send to
subscribers on this system must accurately identify the originating sender of
the message(s). A message with a
misleading, disguised, or otherwise false originating address will be treated
as unsolicited commercial email and disposed of accordingly.
Barlick.Net specifically denies all
persons who are not subscribers on this system the right, privilege, license,
or sufferance to use the facilities of this system for any purpose other than
those stated above. Any use or
attempted use of the facilities of this system for commercial purposes by third
parties not subscribers on this system will be treated as trespass and theft,
and will be referred to the appropriate law enforcement officials for
prosecution under state and Federal law barring the unauthorized use of
computer systems. Barlick.Net reserves
the right to pursue parties who are not subscribers on this system for all
costs and damages arising from or related to their unauthorized use or
attempted use of this system, and to block transmission of messages from any
person, address, domain, company, or other entity which in Barlick.Net’s sole
discretion is causing harm to or may cause harm to this system.
These policies may be changed at
any time by Barlick.Net.
Dated: 28 March 2000.
Barlick.Net
Privacy of Information. Information which you provide to Barlick.Net
as part of your use of this site will be used by Barlick.Net only to process
your order, and Barlick.Net will not, without your permission, distribute,
sell, or rent your name or information about you to any third party. Barlick.Net may share information about you
with its corporate affiliates as needed to process your order and any
associated credit billing. Barlick.Net may
utilize various methods of data storage and retrieval (including ‘cookies’) to
assist in processing your orders efficiently Barlick.Net may provide third
parties with aggregate information about the use of this site which does not
reveal details of any particular purchaser without your specific
permission. To the extent that you give
your permission, Barlick.Net may use personal information about you for other
business purposes at any time.