Terms and Policy

	POLICY AND SERVICE GUIDELINES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hot-webhosting.com has a responsibility to ensure that each of our clients is provided with the best services we have available. While we back up files continuously, we are in no way responsible for the archiving of a site. It is the sole responsibility of the site creator to copy, back-up or archive all files that constitute a web site. The following guidelines also apply: Content: All services provided by hot-webhosting.com 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 statute. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless hot-webhosting.com from any claims resulting from the use of the service, which damages the subscriber or any other party. Pornography and sex-related merchandising is prohibited on all hot-webhosting.com servers. This includes sites that may infer sexual content or links to adult content elsewhere. hot-webhosting.com will be the sole arbiter in determining violations of this provision. Also prohibited are sites that promote any illegal activity or present content that may be damaging to hot-webhosting.com servers or any other server on the Internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited. Examples of unacceptable content or links: - Pirated software - Hacker programs or archives - Warez sites hot-webhosting.com will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. Commercial Advertising - Email: Spamming, or the sending of unsolicited email, from a hot-webhosting.com server or using an email address or domain that is maintained on a hot-webhosting.com machine as reference is STRICTLY prohibited. Hot-webhosting.com 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 a large drain on system resources and we cannot allow it as an account option Background Running Programs We may allow programs to run continually in the background. These are considered on a case-by-case 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. Domain Pointing Domain pointers are to be used for the purpose of having more than one way to find the same site, not for the purposes of sharing an account among multiple sites. A domain pointer may not be set up to reference a subdirectory within an existing Web hosting account served by hot-webhosting.com or any other provider. Server Abuse: Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server, or customer, of hot-webhosting.com is strictly prohibited, and will result in immediate termination or prosecution. Refusal of Service: We reserve the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion. All Sub-Networks, distributive hosting sites and dedicated servers of hot-webhosting.com must adhere to the above policies. Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation.