N.E.Technologies' Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is designed to provide a clear understanding of the rules, regulations and restrictions regarding the use of N.E.Technologies' services.

From time to time N.E.Technologies may impose reasonable rules and regulations regarding the use of its services. The AUP's are not exhaustive and N.E.Technologies reserves the right to modify the AUP's at any time, effective upon either the posting of the modified AUP's to www.NETechnologies.net or notification of the modified AUP's.

By registering for and using the services, and thereby accepting the terms and conditions of the Terms of Service Agreement or its equivalent, you agree to abide by the AUP's as modified from time to time. Any violation of the AUP's may result in the suspension or termination of your account or such other action as N.E.Technologies deems appropriate. An unlisted activity may also be a violation of the AUP's if it is illegal, irresponsible, or disruptive use of the Internet. No credits will be issued for any interruption in service resulting from policy violations.

VIOLATION OF ANY AUP IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED AND MAY RESULT IN THE IMMEDIATE TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION OF THE SERVICES YOU RECEIVE FROM N.E.Technologies. YOU SHALL REMAIN SOLELY LIABLE AND RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES AND ANY AND ALL CONTENT THAT YOU DISPLAY, UPLOAD, DOWNLOAD OR TRANSMIT THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICES. "CONTENT" INCLUDES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, YOUR E-MAIL, WEB PAGES, PERSONAL HOME PAGES, AND DOMAIN NAMES. IT IS N.E.Technologies' POLICY TO TERMINATE REPEAT INFRINGES. N.E.Technologies RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE TO ANYONE AT ANY TIME FOR ANY REASON

Customer Security Responsibilities
The customer is solely responsible for any breaches of security affecting servers under customer control. If a customer's server is involved in an attack on another server or system, it will be shut down and an immediate investigation will be launched to determine the cause/source of the attack. In such event, the customer is responsible for the cost to rectify any damage done to the customer's server and any other requirement affected by the security breach. The labor used to rectify any such damage is categorized as emergency security breach recovery and is currently charged at $250 USD per hour. Enquiries regarding security matters may be directed to abuse@netechnologies.net

System And Network Security Violations of system or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability. N.E.Technologies may investigate incidents involving such violations and may involve and will cooperate with law enforcement if a criminal violation is suspected. Examples of system or network security violations include, without limitation, the following:

Violators of the policy are responsible, without limitations, for the cost of labor to clean up and correct any damage done to the operation of the network and business operations supported by the network, and to respond to complaints incurred by N.E.Technologies. Such labor is categorized as emergency security breach recovery and is currently charged at $250 USD per hour required. Enquiries regarding security matters may be directed to abuse@netechnologies.net. N.E.Technologies is concerned with the privacy of online communications and web sites. In general, the Internet is neither more nor less secure than other means of communication, including mail, facsimile, and voice telephone service, all of which can be intercepted and otherwise compromised. As a matter of prudence , however, N.E.Technologies urges its customers to assume that all of their online communications are insecure. N.E.Technologies cannot take responsibility for the security of information transmitted over N.E.Technologies' facilities.

Incoming DDoS and other attacks may result in loss of network performance. We reserve the right to disable, shutdown, or remove any server from our network temporarily until the attack subsides.

Password Protection
The customer is responsible for protecting customer's password and for any authorized or unauthorized use made of customer's password. The customer will not use or permit anyone to use N.E.Technologies' service to guess passwords or to access other systems or networks without authorization. N.E.Technologies will fully cooperate with law enforcement authorities in the detection and prosecution of illegal activity.

Contact Information
Customers are responsible for maintaining their contact information with N.E.Technologies such that the email address is always reachable even in the event of their N.E.Technologies server('s) being shut down.

Internet Etiquette
The customer is expected to be familiar with and to practice good Internet etiquette. The customer will comply with the rules appropriate to any network to which N.E.Technologies 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, tortuous, indecently depicts children or is likely to result in retaliation against N.E.Technologies by offended users. N.E.Technologies 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.

Copyright Infringement - Software Piracy Policy
The N.E.Technologies network 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. Making unauthorized copies of software is a violation of the law, no matter how many copies you are making. If you copy, distribute or install the software in ways that the license does not allow, you are violating federal copyright law. If caught with pirated software, you or your company may be liable under both civil and criminal law, and you may be fined up to $250,000 and/or receive up to 5 years in jail. In compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "DMCA"), please send DMCA notifications of claimed copyright infringements to abuse@netechnologies.net. N.E.Technologies will cooperate fully with any civil and/or criminal litigation arising from the violation of this policy.

Network Responsibility
Customers have a responsibility to use the N.E.Technologies network responsibly. This includes respecting the other customers of N.E.Technologies. N.E.Technologies reserves the right to suspend and or cancel service with any Customer who uses the N.E.Technologies network in such a way that adversely affects other N.E.Technologies customers. This includes but is not limited to:

N.E.Technologies will react strongly to any use or attempted use of an Internet account or computer without the owner's authorization. Such attempts include, but are not limited to, "Internet Scanning" (tricking other people into releasing their passwords), password robbery, security hole scanning, port scanning, etc. Any unauthorized use of accounts or computers by a N.E.Technologies customer, whether or not the attacked account or computer belongs to N.E.Technologies, will result in severe action taken against the attacker. Possible actions include warnings, account suspension or cancellation, and civil or criminal legal action, depending on the seriousness of the attack. Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server, or customer, of N.E.Technologies is strictly prohibited.

Violations of this policy may be reported directly to the FBI's Infrastructure Protection & Computer Intrusion Squad at http://www.fbi.gov/programs/ipcis/ipcis.htm. N.E.Technologies will cooperate fully with any civil and/or criminal litigation arising from the violation of this policy.

Lawful Purpose
All services may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any applicable law, regulation, or AUP is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to:

Servers hosted within N.E.Technologies network are open to the public. You are solely responsible for your usage of the N.E.Technologies network and servers and any statement you make on servers hosted within the N.E.Technologies network may be deemed "publication" of the information entered. Acknowledging the foregoing, you specifically agree not to use our service in any manner that is illegal or libelous.

Child Pornography on the Internet
Our policy on child pornography is zero tolerance. N.E.Technologies 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 the N.E.Technologies network, 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

Adult Content on the Internet
N.E.Technologies will provide notification and will inform any customers in writing of improper materials on our servers. However, N.E.Technologies reserves the right to disconnect any customers immediately.

Commercial Advertisements with E-mail
N.E.Technologies takes a zero tolerance approach to the sending of Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE) or SPAM over our network. Very simply, this This means that customers of N.E.Technologies may not use or permit others to use our network to transact in UCE. Customers of N.E.Technologies may not host, or permit hosting of, sites or information that is advertised by UCE from other networks. Violations of this policy carry severe penalties, including termination of service.

Sending a message, especially an advertisement, to more than five recipients, is by itself spamming unless the individuals have specifically requested to be added to a mailing list on that topic. This includes both commercial advertisements and informational messages sent to recipients via electronic mail (email) as well as off-topic messages posted in Usenet discussion groups where the recipient has not requested or invited the message. Mailing lists must be true opt-in mailing lists. Before sending any email to a listed user, a confirmation email, with a tracking number, must be sent to the new subscriber, to which they must respond with a confirmation that they wish to be added to the list. You must keep these confirmations on file, so that in the case that a Spam complaint is made against you, you have proof that the user did indeed opt-in. In addition, you must provide at least one easy way to opt out; see the MAPS guidelines (http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/manage.html) for details. Opt-out requests must be honored immediately.

E-mail is a person-to-person medium, not a broadcast medium.

Customers of N.E.Technologies are strictly prohibited from using or permitting others to use UCE or SPAM over our network. As our Customers are ultimately responsible for the actions of their clients over the N.E.Technologies network, it is advisable that Customers develop a similar, or stricter, policy for their clients.

Violation of N.E.Technologies' SPAM policy will result in severe penalties. Upon notification of an alleged violation of our SPAM policy, N.E.Technologies will initiate an immediate investigation (within 48 hours of notification). During the investigation, N.E.Technologies may restrict customer access to the network to prevent further violations. If a customer is found to be in violation of our SPAM policy, N.E.Technologies may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend or terminate customer's account. Further, N.E.Technologies reserves the right to pursue civil remedies for any costs associated with the investigation of a substantiated policy violation. N.E.Technologies will notify law enforcement officials if the violation is believed to be a criminal offense.

Violation of N.E.Technologies' SPAM policy may be reported to abuse@netechnologies.net

IP Address Overlap
N.E.Technologies administers the network on which customer servers reside. The customer cannot use IP addresses which were not assigned to them by N.E.Technologies staff. Any server found using IP's which were not officially assigned will be suspended from network access until such time as the IP addresses overlap can be corrected.

IRC
N.E.Technologies does not allow the use of IRC on the N.E.Technologies Primary network. This includes, but is not limited to, the use of IRC clients, server software, bots or anything related to IRC. Violators' servers will be suspended. N.E.Technologies has developed a secondary network for IRC servers. Special pricing may apply.

Network Performance
N.E.Technologies accounts operate on shared resources. Excessive use or abuse of these shared network resources by one customer may have a negative impact on all other customers. Misuse of network resources in a manner which impairs network performance is prohibited by this policy and may result in termination of your account.
You may not use network-intensive programs, such as peer-to-peer, audio/video streaming of any kind, file servers, which negatively impact other customers or the performance of N.E.Technologies systems or networks. N.E.Technologies reserves the right to terminate or limit such activities. N.E.Technologies also reserves the right to determine what is and what is not network-intensive at any time weather it be written or not. All traffic on Dedicated Servers must come from standard content, such as HTML pages being accessed, no more then 15% of all bandwidth usage from a server may be used for downloads. This is to ensure everyone has fair access to available bandwidth. 3 Megabits Un-Metered bandwidth is Shared between ALL dedicated customers. However, each server will be connected to our network via 10 or 100 megabit Ethernet port. Speed out to the net will be no faster then 3 megabits.

Billing
The customer understands that the customer is responsible for paying for any network resources that are used to connect the customer's server to the Internet. The customer may request that the customer's server be disconnected from the Internet, but the customer will still be responsible for paying for any network resources used up to the point of suspension or cancellation.

Suspension
N.E.Technologies reserves the right to suspend network access to any customer if, in the judgment of the N.E.Technologies network administrators, the customer's server is the source or target of the violation of any of the other terms of the AUP's or for any other reason which N.E.Technologies chooses. If inappropriate activity is detected, all accounts of the Customer in question will be deactivated until an investigation is complete. Prior notification to the Customer is not assured. In extreme cases, law enforcement will be contacting regarding the activity. The customer will not be credited for the time the customer's machines were suspended. The Customer will be credited on a prorated basis based on the monthly fees the Customer pays for the servers that are suspended for the time the Customer's machines were suspended.

Cancellation
N.E.Technologies reserves the right to cancel service at any time. If inappropriate activity is detected, all accounts of the customer in question will be deactivated until an investigation is complete. Prior notification to the Customer is not assured. In extreme cases, law enforcement will be contacting regarding the activity. All fees paid in advance of cancellation are non-refundable if N.E.Technologies institutes its right of cancellation. Any violation of policies which results in extra costs will be billed to the customer (i.e. transfer, space etc.). All cancellation notices must be provided in WRITTEN form either by Fax or my Post to N.E.Technologies 1 week or earlier before date of next payment. If Customer is Paying Via PayPal, Customer is responsible for canceling their own paypal subscription. Account will be IMMEDIATELY DEACTIVATED upon PayPal Subscription being canceled, either by N.E.Technologies, or Customer. N.E.Technologies is not responsible for payments sent due to customers not canceling their PayPal subscription, and as such, payments will NOT be refunded.
If customer does not meet this requirement, any fees paid will not be refunded. Depending on circumstances, customer may be issued credit with N.E.Technologies.

Indemnification
N.E.Technologies wishes to emphasize that in agreeing to Master Services Agreement or its equivalent, customer indemnifies N.E.Technologies for any violation of the Master Services Agreement or its equivalent, law or AUP that results in loss to N.E.Technologies or the bringing of any claim against N.E.Technologies by any third-party. This means that if N.E.Technologies is sued because of a customer's or a customer of a customer's activity, the customer will pay any damages awarded against N.E.Technologies, plus costs and all attorney's fees.

Disclaimer of Responsibility
N.E.Technologies is under no duty to look at each customer's or user's activities to determine if a violation of the AUP's has occurred, nor do we assume any responsibility through our AUP's to monitor or police Internet-related activities. N.E.Technologies disclaims any responsibility for any such inappropriate use and any liability to any person or party for any other person's or party's violation of this policy.

All Sub-Networks, resellers and managed servers of N.E.Technologies must adhere to the above policies. Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate Cancellation.

INDIRECT OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS OF THE AUP's AND ACTUAL OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS BY A THIRD PARTY ON YOUR BEHALF, SHALL BE CONSIDERED VIOLATIONS OF THESE AUP's BY YOU.

Policies stated above have been adopted from our service provider "Global Data Centers" TOS/AUP but are put into action by N.E.Technologies. All N.E.Technologies Web Data Services and Network are hosted by Global Data Centers.