ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
Thank you for choosing Empty Tomb Graphics as your business
partner. We have adapted this Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) to help you
use the products and services provided by us (Services), and ensure
that you understand policies and procedures to comply with certain laws
and regulations. All users of the Service must comply with this AUP.
This AUP is made part of our Terms of Service (TOS). Your use and/or
continuation of the Service constitutes your acceptance of this AUP.
It is your responsibility, and contractual obligation, to ensure that
your affiliates, agents, and/or customers (End User(s)) comply with
this AUP.
Empty Tomb Graphics reserves the right to refuse to provide
the Service at our sole discretion. You expressly understand that the
evolving nature of the Internet and on-line commerce makes it necessary
for us to reserve the right to make changes to this AUP at any time,
and without notice. This AUP may not represent all possible ways in
which you or an End User engage in unacceptable behavior. We reserve
the right to determine, in our sole and exclusive judgment, what activities
are unacceptable. The version of this AUP, available here, is the most
recent version.
Notices.
Third parties who seek to inform us of violations of this AUP are required
to read it, abide by its terms, and send notices to the appropriate
address set out in this AUP. Notices sent to the wrong address will
be not be reviewed. We do not review anonymous complaints.
If you believe that our AUP has been violated, and that
the relevant paragraph addressing your concern does not have a particular
notification address in it, you may send your inquiry to: etg@emptytombgraphics.com.
As noted above, we do not review anonymous inquiries. Your notice must
contain, at a minimum, your first and last name, and either a working,
monitored email address, or a working, monitored, telephone number.
Customers and End Users are solely responsible
for content.
We do not review, edit, censor, or take responsibility for any information
customers or End Users may create. Because of this, we cannot, and do
not, accept any responsibility from customers, End Users, or third parties,
resulting from inaccurate, unsuitable, offensive, or illegal content
or transactions. We specifically reserve the right to refuse to provide
the Service to customers or End Users engaged in the dissemination of
material that may cause us to be subject to attacks on our network,
or that while technically legal, run counter to our corporate principles.
This type of content may include, but is not limited to, racist, pornographic,
hateful material or those which create customer service or abuse issues
for us.
Other Acceptable Use Policies may apply to you.
This AUP incorporates policies from other entities who provide products
through us to you. These policies are “passed through” to
you by this AUP. You are strongly encouraged to review these policies
prior to agreeing to be bound by this AUP. We will provide you with
information about these policies on request.
You are required to provide us with accurate information.
Individuals who contact us about this AUP, the behavior of our customers,
or for other purposes, are required to provide us with accurate information
to enable us to contact them and respond to their requests. We do not
respond to anonymous correspondence, and will refer individuals who
deliberately attempt to mislead us regarding their identity, or the
basis for their complaints, to appropriate law enforcement officials.
Use of the Service
The Service may be used for lawful purposes only.
Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material
in violation of any applicable law, regulation, this AUP, or our TOS,
is prohibited. You may not use the Service to directly facilitate the
violation of any law or regulation. We expect you to use good business
judgment in your conduct. The following list is designed to help guide
you in determining if Empty Tomb Graphics is a suitable service provider
for you, and provide you with examples of activities that may fall within
this paragraph. It does not represent all unlawful uses of the Service
by you or End Users:
1. forging, misrepresenting, omitting or deleting message headers, return
mailing information, and/or internet protocol addresses, to conceal
or misidentify the origin of a message;
2. creating or sending Internet viruses, worms or Trojan horses, flood
or mail bombs, or engaging in denial of service attacks;
3. hacking, and/or subverting, or assisting others in subverting, the
security or integrity of our products or systems;
4. soliciting the performance of any illegal activity, even if the activity
itself is not performed; and/or
5. acting in any manner that might subject us to unfavorable regulatory
action, subject us to any liability for any reason, or adversely affect
our public image, reputation or goodwill, as determined by us in our
sole and exclusive discretion.
U.S. Export Controls.
Your, and an End User's, use of the Service is governed by U.S. export
control laws. These laws apply regardless of whether you, or an End
User, actually reside in the United States. More information about U.S.
export laws may be found at: http://www.export.gov/regulation/index.asp.
These laws generally prohibit:
1. selling certain products and services outside the U.S., though you
may be allowed to sell them in the U.S.; and/or
2. doing business with individuals or entities with whom U.S. citizens
may not do business.
Copyright Infringement.
We comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA
provides very specific requirements that must be followed to notify
us that our customers or End Users are engaging in copyright infringement.
These guidelines are here: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#512.
Other Intellectual Property Issues.
You are required to comply with U.S. laws regulating trademarks, patents
and other laws governing the use and dissemination of intellectual property.
You may not send unsolicited commercial e-mail,
or SPAM.
We define unsolicited commercial e-mail as e-mail that has not been
requested by the recipient, is not compliant with the CAN-SPAM Act,
or that, even if requested, or compliant with the CAN-SPAM Act, causes
other entities to block our IP Addresses. You may not use the Service
to host a site that is advertised in SPAM (a spamvertized site), even
if you yourself are not engaged in spamming. If we determine that you
or an End User are spamming, we will suspend or terminate your account,
at our discretion.
We filter your e-mail for SPAM
We use industry standard methods to filter outbound e-mail for SPAM.
We will use commercially reasonable efforts to inform you that your
outbound mail has been marked as SPAM and blocked. Please review your
outbound e-mail to determine whether your e-mail has been blocked. You
have the option of using a SPAM filter to scan inbound e-mail. Please
familiarize yourself with this technology and its use.
Requests for Information about End Users and Privacy
Monitoring products, Cooperation with Law Enforcement and Legal
Documents.
We may disclose information, including information that you consider
confidential, in order to comply with a court order, subpoena, summons,
discovery request, warrant, regulation, or governmental request which
appears to be valid. We may also disclose such information when it is
necessary for us to protect our business, or others, from harm. We assume
no obligation to inform you that we have provided this type of information
unless we have affirmatively agreed to do so. In some cases we may be
prohibited by law from giving such notice.
Law enforcement agencies who seek information about customers,
End Users, and third parties and/or their use of the Service, are required
to submit a subpoena, or other similar document, pursuant to which we
are required by law to produce this information (Subpoena). Unless specifically
required by law and so clearly communicated to us, the Subpoena will
be transmitted to the customer, End User, or third party.
Civil demands for information, such as discovery requests
and similar demands (Civil Demands), must be part of a filed and pending
litigation matter. Responses to Civil Demands are at our discretion.
Responses are subject to a response fee of $275 per hour. We do not
honor requests from civil litigants to limit or to pre-approve response
expenses. Civil litigants are encouraged to contact us prior to serving
Civil Demands in order to minimize their expense.
Privacy Policy
Our privacy policy may be found on our website: http://www.emptytombgraphics.com.
Entities who provide products to us may have privacy policies that differ
from ours. We will provide you with links to their privacy policies
on your written request.
How we administer the network on which the Service
is provided.
It is your obligation to ensure that you have thoroughly considered
how the Service is deployed, and our network configured, prior to using
the Service. In particular, you are responsible for ensuring that any
material you place on our servers, or transmit using our network, does
not adversely impact our ability to provide the Service to other customers.
We reserve the right to suspend and/or terminate the Service, in our
absolute discretion, should your use of them cause instability in our
network or on our servers.
You cannot use IP addresses which were not assigned to
you by us. If it is determined that you are using IPs which were not
officially assigned by us, the Service will be suspended until such
time as the IP address overlap can be corrected. We own the IP numbers
and addresses that may be assigned to you by us. These addresses may
not be assigned or transferred, and are recycled by us on termination
of your use of the Service. We may, in our sole discretion, change these
addresses.
Security
While we are concerned with security, the Internet is no more secure
than other means of communication. You should assume that all on-line
communications are insecure. We are not responsible for the security
of any information posted to, transmitted over, our servers or using
our equipment. We reserve the right to take immediate action to suspend
or terminate your account if, in our sole and exclusive discretion,
you are engaging in activities that jeopardize our security, the security
of other customers, or of the Internet in general. You may not be provided
with advance notice that we are taking such action.
We make tools available to you that are designed to make
your use of the Internet more secure. These tools are provided on an
AS-IS basis and are used at your own risk. You are encouraged to evaluate
other methods of making your Internet transactions more secure.
Suspension and/or Termination of products, and
Credits.
If you violate our AUP, and we suspend or terminate the Service, you
will not receive a refund of any fees paid to us. Your failure to abide
by any of the items set out in this AUP is grounds for suspension or
termination of the Service. Any termination or suspension may be undertaken
with, or without, notice to you. You agree to hold us harmless from
any claims that a suspension or termination of products for this reason
has damaged you.