Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

Introduction

This Acceptable Use Policy applies to all customers of GreatAccess.Com, and is intended to provide a general understanding of GreatAccess.Com's policy on the Acceptable Use of GreatAccess.Com services. It is designed to help protect our service, our customers and the Internet community from irresponsible or illegal activities. GreatAccess.Com expects that common sense and good judgment will guide all of our subscriber's activities on the Internet.

GreatAccess.Com provides data transport and storage services. Information available on GreatAccess.Com's network is the property of GreatAccess.Com, its information providers or other customers. GreatAccess.Com does not accept responsibility for the content of the materials and information published by others, which are accessible through the GreatAccess.Com Internet connection, and does not accept responsibility for the violation of any laws resulting from such publication.

All users of GreatAccess.Com's services are expected to abide by the laws of the state and country in which they reside, including all copyright laws and regulations, tariff regulations, and export controls, treaties and international law.

Use of GreatAccess.Com's services constitutes on the part of such user acceptance of and agreement to abide by all of the policies of GreatAccess.Com, including this AUP, as such policies may be modified by GreatAccess.Com at any time and from time to time, and to use such services for lawful purposes in compliance with all applicable laws. Use of GreatAccess.Com's services is at the risk of the subscriber.

Electronic Communications Privacy Act Notice (18 USC 2701-2711) GREATACCESS.COM MAKES NO GUARANTEE OF CONFIDENTIALITY OR PRIVACY OF ANY COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TRANSMITTED ON ITS NETWORK OR ANY NETWORK ATTACHED TO ITS NEWWORK. GREATACCESS.COM SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR THE PRIVACY OF E-MAIL ADDRESSES, REGISTRATION AND IDENTIFICATION, DISK SPACE, COMMUNICATIONS, CONFIDENTIAL OR TRADE-SECRET INFORMATION, OR ANY OTHER CONTENT STORED ON GREATACCESS.COM'S EQUIPMENT, TRANSMITTED OVER NETWORKS ACCESSED BY GREATACCESS.COM, OR OTHERWISE CONNECTED WITH USE OF THE GREATACCESS.COM NETWORK.

Policies

GreatAccess.Com accounts may be used only by the authorized owners of the accounts, except where specifically authorized by GreatAccess.Com system administrators. Revealing your account username or password to others or allowing use of your account by others is prohibited. At no time can there be simultaneous use of the same account username and password combination.

Resale, trade of transfer any account without express written consent from GreatAccess.Com is prohibited. Attempting to obtain access beyond that for which a customer is authorized will be grounds for immediate termination of such customer's account.

Attempting to defeat identification procedures, gain passwords or encryption codes, penetrate security measures, circumvent user authentication or use of the GreatAccess.Com network to gain unlawful or unauthorized entry to another machine on the Internet; use of an GreatAccess.Com account to or attempt to alter or destroy data belonging to GreatAccess.Com or another user on any computer network; and use of the GreatAccess.Com system as a staging ground to "crack" other systems will be grounds for immediate termination of such customer's account.

Transmission, redistribution, reproduction or commercial exploitation of information available on GreatAccess.Com's network without the permission of its owner or in violation of applicable copyright laws or patents will be grounds for immediate termination of such customer's account. GreatAccess.Com is registered under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.

Abusive or inappropriate use of any GreatAccess.Com service, including any behavior which disrupts the normal use of the system or Internet services of others, inhibits any user form accessing the Internet, interferes with the proper operation of GreatAccess.Com's network or impairs the availability, reliability or quality of GreatAccess.Com service for other customers will be subject to the sanctions described below.

It is also contrary to the specific policies of GreatAccess.Com for any user to effect or participate in any of the following activities:

• exporting software or technical information in violation of U.S. export control laws;
• making fraudulent offers of items, products, or services originating from a customer's account;
• using non-authorized relays through any third party systems, or using or tolerating the use by others of GreatAccess.Com's services as a relay for any use not permitted by this AUP;
• "flooding" or overburdening recipient computer systems by sending a high volume of spurious data which impedes functionality or disables the recipient system, or any other methods of denial of service of another;
• storing or distributing on GreatAccess.Com servers illegally-acquired information, programs containing malicious code, including viruses, trojans or worms or tools to comprise the security of other sites;
• using programs such as packet sniffers, host and/or service monitoring or other similar programs;
• engaging in any of the above activities using the service of another provider but channeling such activities through an GreatAccess.Com account or re-mailer or using a GreatAccess.com account as a mail drop for responses;
• directing commercial advertising to groups in violation of their charters;
• publishing or distributing obscene or defamatory materials;
• willfully violating the posted Acceptable Use Policy of any Internet Service Provider (ISP) or network.

Email is a person-to-person medium and not a broadcast medium. Harassing others by "mail-bombing" or "spamming", which constitutes sending the same or substantially similar unsolicited electronic mail messages to a large number of recipients, or more than ten (10) similar mail messages to the same email address, is grounds for termination of a customer's account. Threatening bodily harm or property damage to individuals or groups, for example, making terrorist threats, is also strictly prohibited and is grounds for termination.

The following activities are specifically prohibited by GreatAccess.Com in connection with the use of email services:

• distributing malicious software which contributes to or assists in "mail-bombing" or "spamming";
• sending unsolicited, junk or chain letter email for the purpose of advertising or soliciting, or using GreatAccess.Com's email address to collect responses from unsolicited email;
• attempting to impersonate any person, using forged email headers or other identifying information;
• installing "auto-responders" or similar automated or manual routines which generate excessive amounts of net traffic, or disrupt email use by others;

Users of GreatAccess.Com's hosting services, not GreatAccess.Com under any circumstances whatsoever, are responsible for the content of their sites and obtaining all required legal permissions for the use of such content. Each such user must accept responsibility for the publication of any defamatory, pornographic, confidential, secret or proprietary material. GreatAccess.Com reserves the right to remove any material from any site without notice.

Any account barred access to a web site may be suspended.

The use of spam, whether originated from your GreatAccess.Com account, or an account with another ISP, to advertise any Web site that is hosted by GreatAccess.Com is prohibited

Subscriber's Responsibilities

All GreatAccess.Com customers and advertisers who publish materials and information which are accessible through the GreatAccess.Com Internet connection are solely responsible for the content of such materials and information and are solely responsible for compliance with all laws applicable to the publication of such materials and information.

Each account holder is responsible for charges incurred by others to whom the account holder has given its username and/or password, and for charges incurred by a person who has obtained such account holder's username and/or password prior to such account holder's notification to GreatAccess.Com of such fact.

Any permitted customers of GreatAccess.Com's customers are bound by same restrictions as GreatAccess.Com's customers, including this AUP.

GreatAccess.Com customers are solely responsible for all traffic emanating from their networks.

Actions by GreatAccess.Com for Noncompliance or Violation

Certain of the activities set forth above cause alarms that could require GreatAccess.Com to take action. Account holders should be aware, however, that normal use and software will not set off such alarms.

Use of an GreatAccess.Com account or service in an illegal manner is grounds for immediate termination of such account. Users should be aware that GreatAccess.Com views such activities very seriously and may disclose prohibited activities to law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with whom GreatAccess.Com will fully cooperate. GreatAccess.Com will cooperate with appropriate law enforcement agencies involved in investigating instances that may be reported to such authorities by subscribers or other users who believe they are being subjected to potentially unlawful harassment.

GreatAccess.Com reserves the right to conduct its own investigation of suspected violations of this AUP.

Untimely payment of any and all amounts due may result in account cancellation and the incurrence of additional charges. In the event that an account is temporarily inactivated as a result of any prohibited activities, the account may be subject to reactivation charges and/or deposit requirements to be determined by GreatAccess.Com.

Each account holder understands and acknowledges that GreatAccess.Com has the right to terminate any account for any reason that GreatAccess.Com interprets as an abuse of the account and such account holder will be liable for any and all costs incurred by GreatAccess.Com as result of such abuse. The sole remedy for such termination is the return of the amount of any prepaid but unused services.

GreatAccess.Com will review alleged violations of this AUP on a case-by-case basis. Violations, which are not promptly remedied, may result in disciplinary action, including referral to appropriate authorities for civil or criminal prosecution. GreatAccess.Com's decisions in all such matters are final. GreatAccess.Com does not assume any liability to any account holders, users or others for its failure to enforce this AUP.

Nothing herein is to be construed to limit GreatAccess.Com's remedies in any way, to recover costs, identify and remove offenders, levy cancellation charges or pursue any other remedies at law or in equity.

Contacts

If you have any questions with respect to this AUP, please contact GreatAccess.Com at the contract addresses found at http://www.greataccess.com which is GreatAccess.Com's homepage.