Group NBT Acceptable Use Policy






  


    


  

    

	1. INTRODUCTION


 


1.1 This is the Acceptable Use Policy (“Policy”) of Group NBT Limited and companies within Group NBT Limited (“Group”). The registered office is at Third Floor Prospero House, 241 Borough High Street, London SE1 1GA.

	 


1.2  This Policy is referenced in the Group terms and conditions. By accepting the Group terms and conditions you agree to accept this Policy. We may vary this Policy from time to time as stipulated in the Group terms and conditions.



	2. POLICY

	 


2.1   In this Policy:

	      

	”Data” shall mean without limitation information, documents, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages and other materials of any kind and in any form.

	      

	”Transmit”   shall mean without limitation use, facilitate (e.g. by operating chatroom, discussion groups, FTP sites etc) generate, link to, upload, post, publish, download,  store, disseminate, email, send or receive via or in any way connected with our goods or services.


2.2  We do not actively monitor, censor or directly control any Data generated, stored, transmitted or used in connection with our services including content displayed on websites or material sent by email. It is your responsibility to comply with this Policy. If, however, it comes to our attention that this Policy has been or may be breached, we reserve the right to act in accordance with the Group terms and conditions.


2.3 You must not Transmit any Data which use our products or services or carry out any acts or omissions in any way connected with our products or services (including without limitation registration or use of domain names registered through us, hosted by us or for which we are registrar) in a manner which, we consider in our discretion in any way involves or includes or relates to:


2.3.1 conduct that is unlawful (including breach of any applicable laws, statutes, regulations, standards or codes of conduct whether or not compulsory), harmful, threatening, a nuisance, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, indecent, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, inflammatory, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;


2.3.2  infringement of third party intellectual property or other rights;


2.3.3 viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, damage, destroy or limit the functionality of any software, hardware or Data;


2.3.4  junk-mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes or any similar or fraudulent schemes or any inappropriate form of solicitation or collection of the responses to any such schemes or solicitation;


2.3.5 forging of headers, manipulation of identifiers or otherwise disguising the origin of any Data;


2.3.6  the provision of false or misleading information;


2.3.7 denial of service attacks including (without limit) mail bombing, news bombing, trolling (posting outrageous messages to generate numerous responses), other flooding techniques, deliberate attempts to overload a system, broadcast attacks and any activity designed to degrade service or cause a computer crash;


2.3.8 attempting to or gaining unauthorised access to, or interfering with or damaging, our and / or any third party's computer or Data including (without limit) any attempt to breach authentication or security measures or any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a computer system;


2.3.9  unauthorised monitoring or interception of Data;


2.3.10  potential or actual interference with or disruption to our computers or services to other customers including excessive use of our server resources or other services;


2.3.11  violation of acceptable use or similar policies of other ISPs or connected networks (e.g. sending unsolicited commercial e-mail via our services to the subscribers of any ISP that disallows unsolicited commercial e-mail);


2.3.12  damage to our reputation, including without limitation any damage to our       accreditation status with a regulatory body;

	2.3.13  breach of generally accepted standards of etiquette or norms of the internet community.


2.4   All services must be used in compliance with all relevant Internet Engineering Task Force (“IETF”) standards.


2.5   We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your service (including but not limited to hosting, email and domain names) if we are required to do so by law, or instructed by a regulatory body or authority.


2.6 Your services must not be configured in such a way that others can exploit it to disrupt the Internet. This includes, but is not limited to:


2.6.1 running an open mail relay. i.e. a machine that accepts mail from unauthorised or unknown senders and forwards it to a destination outside your network. We scan our IP address space looking for servers that are vulnerable to unauthorised relaying;


2.6.2 running an open proxy server. i.e. a machine that accepts connections from unauthorised users and forwards their requests to a destination outside of your network;


2.6.3 running a smurf amplifier i.e. a machine/router with directed broadcast enabled.


2.7  You must conform with the Data Protection Act 1998 (as amended from time to time)


2.8 If your website is used for “distance selling”, you must ensure that it conforms to the     requirements of The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 (as amended from time to time) as well as all other applicable legislation.



	 


 


Group NBT Limited Acceptable Use Policy version 1.1 January 2012