POLICY AND SERVICE GUIDELINES

1st Advantage Marketing provides web hosting to thousands of clients, and we have a responsibility to protect each client and provide the best services available. The following guidelines were designed to insure these services.

Content:

All services provided by 1st Advantage Marketing may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any United States Federal, State or City law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material we judge to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade secret and other statue. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless 1st Advantage Marketing from any claims resulting from the use of the service which damages the subscriber or any other party.

Note: Pornography and sex-related merchandising is prohibited on all 1st Advantage Marketing servers. This includes sites that may infer sexual content, or link to adult content elsewhere. This is also true for sites that promote any illegal activity or content that may be damaging to 1st Advantage Marketing servers or any other server on the internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited. 1st Advantage Marketing will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. As such, any violation will result in immediate deactivation of services without refund.

Examples of unacceptable content or links:

• Pirated software
• Hacker's programs or archives
• Warez Sites

1st Advantage Marketing will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Chat Rooms:
We do not allow clients to install their own chat rooms. These tend to be large system hogs and we cannot allow it as an account option. However, we do provide a choice of Java chatrooms for a small extra charge that will more than fill your needs and run without hindering the performance of the machine for others.

Background Running Programs:
We may allow programs to run continually in the background . These are considered on a one-to-one basis and an extra charge will be incurred based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed.

IRC:
We currently do not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers.

Commercial Advertising - Email:
Our servers may not be the source, intermediary, or destination address involved in the transmission of spam, flames, or mail bombs. Your domain may not be referenced as originator, intermediary, or reply-to address in any of the above. We consider spam any mass unsolicited message in the mediums of Newsgroups and Email. If you are found to have spammed, then we will immediately, without warning, disable your domain. We reserve the right to refuse or cancel service to known spammers. Lastly, we reserve the right to determine what violates this policy.

As such, any violation will result in immediate deactivation of services without refund.

Server Abuse:
Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server, or customer, of 1st Advantage Marketing is strictly prohibited.

All Sub-Networks, distributive hosting sites and dedicated servers of 1st Advantage Marketing must adhere to the above policies.

Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation.