It is your responsibility at all times to:

• Use our service and services in a manner which does not violate any applicable laws or regulations
• Respect the conventions of the newsgroups, lists and networks that you use
• Respect the legal protection afforded by copyright, trademarks, license rights and other laws to materials accessible via our service;
• Respect the privacy of others
• Use the service in a manner which does not interfere with or disrupt other network users, services or equipment; and
• Refrain from acts that waste resources or prevent other users from receiving the full benefit of our services
• Ensure your use of our services remains ethical and in accordance with accepted community standards
• Ensure all data is backed up as it may be deleted on account termination, at our sole discretion

You must at all times comply with law. You will be in breach of this policy on violation of state, federal or international laws. Any content held on our/your servers is your responsibility to ensure compliance with this policy. We reserve the right to terminate or suspend any hosting.

It is not acceptable to use our service(s) to:

• Violate copyright or other intellectual property rights;
• Illegally store, use or distribute software; transmit threatening, obscene or offensive materials
• Engage in electronic 'stalking' or other forms of harassment such as using abusive or aggressive language
• Misrepresent or defame others
• Commit fraud
• Gain unauthorised access to any computing, information, or communications devices or resources, including but not limited to any machines accessible via the Internet
• Damage, modify or destroy the files, data, passwords, devices or resources of Aust Domains, other users or third parties
• Engage in misleading or deceptive on-line marketing practices;
• Conduct any business or activity or solicit the performance of any activity that is prohibited by law
• Make an unauthorised transmission of confidential information or material protected by trade secrets
• "Spam" or engage in "spamming" activities as defined in clause 4
• Engage obscene speech or materials, this includes, advertising, transmitting, storing, posting, displaying or otherwise making available; child pornography, offensive sexual content or materials or any other obscene speech or material
• Post or transmit defamatory, harassing, abusive or threatening language
• Create, distribute or provide information/data regarding internet viruses, worms, Trojan horses, pinging, flooding, mail-bombing or denial of service attacks;
• Facilitating a violation of this Acceptable Use Policy
• Perform any other action through utilization of any service which we deem unsatisfactory
• Attempt to do any of the above

You also agree not to attempt any of the following:

• Use 25% or more of system resources for longer than 90 seconds. There are numerous activities that could cause such problems; these include: CGI scripts, scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, Mail, etc
• Run any type of interactive real-time chat applications that require server resources. Remotely-hosted services are fully allowed
• Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD
• Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
• Run any gaming servers/services
• Any activity which causes the server to crash / restart
• Check their email more than every 3 minutes

You agree that we may at our discretion and by order of any law enforcement agency disclose information relating to your account and use of services. We may also report any action we find in breach of this agreement, local, state, federal or international laws and cannot be held liable for any outcome resulting in our actions.

Any breach of our AUP can result in immediate termination of services and loss of all data held on provided services. You release us, our staff and our suppliers of any liability resulting in such instances.

Unlimited bandwidth & Quotas

We do not impose quotas for data transfer on dedicated servers. However if a customer is using an excessively high volume of bandwidth for data transfer Aust Domains reserve the right to revert to its terms and conditions and impose a charge for high usage. We ask customers who intend to use high volumes of bandwidth for data transfer to first discuss their requirement with their dedicated Account Manager.

Unlimited bandwidth where specified on products is bound by this policy. If we deem that any unlimited bandwidth product or service is being abused, causing excessive load/traffic, adversely affecting the performance of other products or services on the network or an excessively high volume of bandwidth is evident we reserve the right to suspend or terminate that service.