Acceptable Use Policy

By submitting an online order form, or by using LFEHosts' service, Customer hereby agrees to the following Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). Customer agrees that it shall comply with this AUP, LFEHosts' Terms of Service (TOS), LFEHosts' No-Spam Policy (NSP), and LFEHosts' Privacy Policy. In this document, the word “Agreement,” with a capital “A,” refers to the TOS, the AUP, the NSP, and the Privacy Policy collectively.

1. Introduction, Purpose, and General Terms.

  • 1.1. This Web site gives you the ability to learn about LFEHosts and its products and services as well as the ability to access our network and services (“LFEHosts Services”). By using this site, and any other sites or services owned, operated, or provided by LFEHosts, you signify your agreement to the terms, conditions and notices of this policy. “You” when used in the Agreement shall mean the Customer of LFEHosts.
  • 1.2. This Acceptable Use Policy is used in conjunction with the terms of service (TOS), the No-Spam Policy (NSP), and the Privacy Policy. Violating any of these policies and agreements grants LFEHostsy to take action to restrict or terminate your access to LFEHosts Services. LFEHosts reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to update or revise this policy, any other policy or statement on any LFEHosts Web site, and any product offerings or programs described on anyLFEHosts Web sites. Please check back periodically to review any changes to this policy.
  • 1.3. This document sets forth the principles, guidelines and requirements of the Acceptable Use Policy of LFEHOSts (“Company”) governing the use by the Customer (“Customer”) of the Company's services and products (“Services and Products”). The purpose of LFEHosts' Acceptable Use Policy (the AUP”) is to comply with all international, federal, state, and local laws and to protect the network security, network availability, physical security, Customer privacy, and other factors affecting the services provided by LFEHosts.
  • 1.4. In order to maintain an informative and valuable service that meets the needs of the users of this site and LFEHosts Services, the rules in this AUP have been established to protect against abuse. The AUP is not an all-inclusive, exhaustive list and LFEHosts reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify the AUP at any time as needed without advanced notice.
  • 1.5. Any violation of the AUP may result in the suspension or termination of your account or such other action, as LFEHosts deems appropriate. No credits will be issued for any interruption in service resulting from violations of the AUP.
  • 1.6. VIOLATION OF ANY SECTION OF THE AUP IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED AND MAY RESULT IN THE IMMEDIATE TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION OF THE SERVICES YOU RECEIVE FROM LFEHOSTS.
  • 1.7. Any questions or comments regarding the AUP should be directed to LFEHosts by e-mail to the following e-mail address
    cs@lfehosts.com, for issues concerning the AUP.

2. General Prohibitions.
You may not use this site or LFEHosts' Services for any purpose that is unlawful or in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the operation of this site, the LFEHosts Network, or LFEHosts' Services, or any other part's use or enjoyment of this site, the LFEHosts Network, or LFEHosts' Services.

  • 2.1. You may not use this site or LFEHosts' Services for any purpose that is unlawful or in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the operation of this site, the LFEHosts Network, or LFEHosts' Services, or any other party's use or enjoyment of this site, the LFEHosts Network, or LFEHosts' Services.
  • 2.2. Adult contents, pornography and child pornography are stricty prohibited.
    • 2.2.1. Adult-oriented sites demand special system, network, and bandwidth requirements. LFEHosts does not accommodate those extraordinarily large requirements in any of its offered hosting plans. Therefore you may not use LFEHosts' Services for adult-oriented and pornography sites. This includes sites that may include sexual content, or links to adult content elsewhere.
    • 2.2.2. Where allowed by applicable law, LFEHosts does not prohibit you from posting a static Web page that meets all of the following criteria:
      • the page merely advertises an adult service and provides information about how to contact the service offline, i.e., by telephone, facsimile, or postal mail and not via a link from a Web site that uses LFEHosts' Services;
      • the page does not display any sexually explicit content and does not link to any Web page or site displaying any sexually explicit content; and
      • the page does not require a user to log in with a username or password to access any of the Web site's content.

If we find any of your sites to be selling any of the prohibited products or services, the offending accounts shall be subject to immediate account termination.

3. Compliance with Law.
Customer shall not use LFEHosts' Service or any other service or network to post, upload, transmit, retransmit, store, distribute or facilitate the distribution of any content, including without limitation text, communications, software, images, sounds, data, or other information that, in LFEHosts' sole discretion:

  • 3.1. violates, attempts to violate, or helps any third party to violate any local, state, federal, international, law, ordinance, or regulation,
  • 3.2. is threatening, obscene, indecent, pornographic, abusive, harassing, libelous, defamatory, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another's privacy, tortious, inaccurate, or that otherwise could adversely affect any individual, group or entity (collectively, “Persons”),
  • 3.3. threatens or encourages bodily harm or destruction of property,
  • 3.4. harms any person,
  • 3.5. victimizes, harasses, degrades, or intimidates an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, sex, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, national origin, immigration status, age, disability, or any other reason,
  • 3.6. is posted in violation of a newsgroup charter,
  • 3.7. contains viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer,
  • 3.8. violates any terms or conditions of any other network access provider or Internet service provider,
  • 3.9. violates the rights of any person, including rights protected by copyright, trade secret, patent or other intellectual property or similar laws or regulations including, but not limited to, the installation or distribution of “pirated” information content or data or other software products that are not appropriately licensed for use by Customer. Customer shall be responsible for determining what laws or regulations are applicable to its use of the Services and Products,
  • 3.10. adds, removes, or modifies identifying network header information in an effort to deceive or mislead any person. Additionally, attempting to impersonate any person by using forged headers or other identifying information is prohibited. However, the use of anonymous remailers or nicknames does not by itself constitute impersonation, unless such use is made with the intent to deceive, defraud, or mislead any person or to violate any applicable laws or regulations,
  • 3.11. collects, attempts to collect, or helps any third party to collect personal information about third parties without their knowledge or consent or in a manner that violates applicable laws concerning privacy,
  • 3.12. has a negative effect on LFEHosts or its network (including, without limitation, overloading servers on the LFEHosts Network; causing portions of the LFEHosts Network to be blocked by other network providers; generating unresolved third party complaints or complaints which, in the discretion of LFEHosts, impose an unreasonable administrative burden on LFEHosts; etc.), or
  • 3.13. violates the prohibition on terrorist content and activities.

4. System and Network Security.
Violations of system or network security are strictly prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability as well as termination of services from LFEHosts. LFEHosts investigates all incidents involving such violations and will cooperate with law enforcement if a violation of the criminal law is suspected.

You are responsible for any misuse of your account, even if a friend, family member, guest, agent, or employee committed the inappropriate activity while using your account. Therefore, you must take steps to ensure that others do not gain unauthorized access to your account. In addition, you may not use your account to breach the security of another LFEhosts account or attempt to gain unauthorized access to another network or server.

Examples of system or network security violations include, without limitation, the following:

  • 4.1. Introduction into the network or server of any malicious program (examples: viruses, worms, Trojan Horses, logic bombs, and other executables intended to inflict harm).
  • 4.2. Introduction into the network or server of any self-extracting file or program containing any malicious program as specified in Section 4.1 of this AUP.
  • 4.3. Introduction into the network or server of any data, parameter, configuration, template, or control files for software applications that contain destructive macros or other malicious code.
  • 4.4. Introduction into the network or server of any encrypted or compressed file or archive such as .zip or .gz files that contains any malicious program as specified in paragraphs 4.1 through 4.3 of this AUP.
  • 4.5. Effecting security breaches or disruptions of Internet communication and/or connectivity. Security breaches include, but are not limited to, accessing data of which the Customer is not an intended recipient, logging into a server or account that the Customer is not expressly authorized to access, or exceeding the access to a server or account that has been granted to the Customer. For purposes of this section, "disruption" includes, but is not limited to port scans, flood pings, email-bombing, packet spoofing, IP spoofing, and forged routing information.
  • 4.6. Executing any form of network activity that will intercept data not intended for the Customer.
  • 4.7. Circumventing user authentication or security of any host, network or account.
  • 4.8. Interfering with or denying service to any user other than users of the Customer's host (examples: denial of service attack or distributed denial of service attack).
  • 4.9. Using any program script/command, or sending messages of any kind such as a punter, designed to interfere with or to disable, a user's terminal session, via any means, locally or via the Internet.
  • 4.10. Attempting to use or gain unauthorized access to data, accounts, hosts, servers, systems or networks of this site, or to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network of this site, any LFEHosts Services or those of any other party.
  • 4.11. Interfering with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail-bombing, flooding, or attempting to overload the system.
  • 4.12. Forging any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting.
  • 4.13. Falsifying address information or otherwise modifying e-mail headers to conceal the sender's or the recipient's identity.

5. Internet Etiquette.
The Customer agrees to observe and abide by reasonable Internet etiquette (Netiquette). The Customer shall comply with the rules appropriate to any network to which LFEHosts may provide access. The Customer should not post, transmit, or permit Internet access to information the Customer desires to keep confidential. The Customer shall not post any material that is illegal, is libelous, is otherwise tortious, indecently depicts children, or is likely to result in retaliation against LFEHosts by offended users. LFEHosts reserves the right to refuse or terminate service at any time for violation of this section. This includes, but is not limited to, advertising services or sites via Internet Relay Chat (IRC) or USENET in clear violation of the policies of the IRC channel or USENET group.

6. LFEHosts No-Spam Policy (NSP).

  • 6.1. Customer shall comply with all the terms and conditions of LFEHosts' No-Spam Policy (NSP) as described in this Section 6. Violation of the NSP shall be deemed a violation of this AUP and of the Customer's Agreement with LFEHosts.
  • 6.2. Definition of Spam.

Unsolicited commercial e-mail and electronic messages are colloquially referred to as "spam." Other common names for spam include "spam e-mail," "junk e-mail," "bulk e-mail," "direct e-mail," and "mass e-mail." Spam is the electronic equivalent of the direct mail you receive in your postal mailbox frequently.

In its most general terms, and as used in this NO-SPAM Policy (the "Policy"), spam is:

  • a commercial e-mail message or other electronic message, including, but not limited to, messages that are:
  • posted to an electronic mailing list (other than an "opt-in" e-mail list as described below),
  • posted on an online bulletin board system or Web-based message board system or "guest book",
  • posted to a Usenet newsgroup,
  • posted to the common area of an online community, group, or club,
  • posted in a chat room,
  • posted in a message board of a commercial online service (such as America Online),
  • posted to a Weblog ("blog"),
  • sent via an instant message system (such as ICQ, Yahoo! Pager, Yahoo! Instant Messenger, or AOL Instant Messenger),
  • sent through e-mail or another Internet means of communication when the message's ultimate destination is a facsimile ("fax") machine, cellular or wireless telephone, or wireless device,
  • a commercial e-mail message or other electronic message that is addressed to one or more recipients with whom you do not have an preexisting business or personal relationship,
  • a commercial e-mail message or other electronic message that is sent to a mailing list of addresses that you purchased or that were otherwise distributed, or any list of e-mail addresses whose owners did not sign up for your specific mailing list, including without limitation lists commonly known as "affiliate lists,"
  • a commercial e-mail message or other electronic message that is not sent at the request of, or with the express consent of, the recipient(s),
  • a commercial e-mail message or other electronic message that is sent to a recipient who has opted out of receiving further commercial electronic messages from you, or
  • a commercial e-mail message or other electronic message that contains forged headers, compromised mail server relays, or false contact information.

For purposes of this Policy, spam also includes any e-mail or other electronic message that is sent in violation of any applicable International, Federal, state, or local law regulating unsolicited commercial e-mail, unsolicited fax transmissions, or any other type of unsolicited commercial electronic message, regardless of whether that message fits the definition of "spam" provided above.

6.3. "Opt-in" E-mail Lists.
Please note: messages sent to "opt-in" e-mail lists are not spam, for purposes of this Policy, provided that those messages meet all of the following criteria:

  • the messages are sent to an "opt-in" e-mail list in which ALL subscribers have VOLUNTARILY agreed to receive announcements and advertisements about products and services;
  • the messages STRICTLY COMPLY with ALL the requirements and regulations of the "opt-in" e-mail list; and
  • upon request of any subscriber to the "opt-in" e-mail list, you immediately stop sending that subscriber any e-mail regarding your products and services.

If you choose to use an "opt-in" e-mail list, please be aware that LFEHosts will consider ANY violation of the requirements or regulations of such any third party provider of software or services for such a list to be a violation of this NO SPAM Policy.

Furthermore, LFEHosts reserves the right to prohibit "opt-in" e-mail lists in the future if such a prohibition is reasonably necessary to keep its hosting service operating efficiently for all users.

6.4. Zero Tolerance for Spam.
LFEHosts will not tolerate any spamming by any of its Customers. This prohibition of spam extends to the sending of unsolicited mass mailings from another service, which in any way implicates the use of LFEHosts' services whether or not the message actually originated from our network.

Violation of this NO-SPAM policy will result in LFEHosts taking one or more of the following actions:

  • A warning via e-mail,
  • Suspension of your site until furthur notice,
  • Removal of DNS for the advertised/originating site, or
  • Temporarily blocking outgoing mail from your site.
  • Repeated violation of this NO-SPAM policy will result in immediate disconnection of service with no re-activation.
  • LFEHosts reserves the right to take all technical steps available to prevent unsolicited bulk e-mail or other unauthorized e-mail from being sent from or transmitted through the LFEHosts Network.

6.5. Indemnification of LFEHosts.
You agree to defend, hold harmless, and indemnify LFEHosts from any harm or damages whatsoever resulting directly or indirectly from your engaging in any spamming practices or from your violation of any of the terms of this NO SPAM Policy.

6.6 Mailing Limit
All hosting plans may not send more than 400 emails per hour per domain.

7. Resource Usage.
You agree to not use excessive amounts of resources. Any violations may result in us taking corrective action in order maintain server stability by killing any processes, disabling and/or suspending your account.

All hosting accounts may not may not run more than 16 simultaneous processes per user or allow any process to run for longer than 30 CPU seconds. Databases are limited to 16 max user connections.

LFEHosts reserves the right to make adjustments to these limits at our sole discretion. If LFEHosts takes corrrective action Customer shall not be entitled to a refund of any fees paid in advanced.

8. No Editing, Censoring, or Control of Communications; Reservation of Rights.
Your participation in online communication or use of any LFEHosts service is not edited, censored, or otherwise controlled by LFEHosts. However, LFEHosts reserves the right to monitor content on this site and on any LFEHosts servers, networks, or systems and to remove content, disable sites, or suspend or terminate services if LFEHosts, in its sole discretion, determines such content or user practices are harmful, offensive, or otherwise in violation of this Acceptable Use Policy.

9. Customer's Grant of Limited License to LFEHosts; Warranties on Content.
By posting or submitting content to any LFEHosts Web site or server, you:

  • 9.1. GrantLFEHosts a limited license to transmit, copy, store, back up, and retrieve the content, solely for the purpose of providing you with the services you are purchasing under your Agreement with LFEHosts;
  • 9.2. Acknowledge that you are placing data on servers, networks, and systems that reside physically in the United States. Such servers, networks, and systems are governed by United States law and not by the laws of other jurisdiction. As such, your rights to privacy are governed by United States law and the LFEHosts privacy policy. By ordering or using LFEHosts' services, you explicitly consent to this provision regarding privacy.

    WHILE LFEHOSTS WILL MAKE REASONABLE EFFORTS TO PROTECT THE PRIVACY OF YOUR INFORMATION AND TO COMPLY WITH UNITED STATES LAW, PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS AVAILABLE UNDER UNITED STATES LAW AND THE LFEHOSTS PRIVACY POLICY MAY BE LESS THAN THOSE GUARANTEED BY THE LAWS OF THE COUNTRY WHERE YOU RESIDE.
  • 9.3. Warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content and that public posting and use of your content by LFEHosts does not and will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party; and
  • 13.4. Agree to defend, hold harmless, and indemnify LFEHosts for any claims of any third party resulting from the public posting or use of your content.

10. Restrictions on Use of LFEHosts Services.

  • 10.1. You may not operate Internet Relay Chat ("IRC") servers using LFEHosts' services.
  • 10.2. You may not run any IRC robot on any IRC server that might interfere with the Services or otherwise violate this AUP. When logged into any IRC server, you must comply with the rules and policies established by that IRC's service administrator.
  • 10.3. You must not use any programs that may or will interfere with another's use of this site or any LFEHosts Services.
  • 10.4. You may not run any background processes on the LFEHosts servers, networks, or systems without prior written authorization from LFEHosts.
  • 10.5. You may not use any LFEHosts services to send denial-of-service (DOS) attacks to any computer or network, or to "flood" any computer or network.
  • 10.6. You may not host any type of HYIP, autosurf, proxy, or bit torrent on LFEHosts servers.
  • 10.7. You may not use any LFEHosts services to make available to third parties for any use other than normal access to that account's Web site.
  • 10.8. LFEHosts reserves the right to add further restrictions to Customers'use of the LFEHosts Services if such further restrictions are reasonably necessary to keep its hosting service operating efficiently for all users.

11. Suspension and Cancellation.
LFEHosts reserves the right to suspend service to any Customer or who is using our network or services for violation of the AUP, the NSP, the Privacy Policy, or the TOS. LFEHosts will use reasonable care in notifying the Customer and in resolving the problem in a method resulting in the least amount of service interference as reasonably possible. LFEHosts reserves the right to terminate service without notice for continued and repeated violations of the AUP, the NSP, the Privacy Policy, or the TOS.

12. Notices Regarding Violations of AUP

  • 12.1. LFEHosts takes Customer violations seriously and will investigate complaints and, where appropriate, may remove content, disable sites, suspend or terminate services, or take other action as necessary.
  • 12.2. General Complaints: Please send reports of any activity in violation of this Acceptable Use Policy to cs@lfehosts.com. If possible, please provide the IP address used to commit the violation, the date and time of the violation, and evidence of the violation. LFEHosts will reasonably investigate incidents involving such alleged violations. LFEHosts may involve and will cooperate with law enforcement officials if any criminal activity is suspected. Violations may result in criminal and civil liability.