User-Supplied Content
All services may be used for lawful purposes only. Through ProHostingPlans.com's service, you may have access to chat areas, bulletin boards, webpages, email, or other services that enable you to send or post materials ("content") and make that content available to others. You must not submit, publish, or display on the network any defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, infringing, or threatening content. In addition, you may not submit, publish, or display any content that violates any US Federal, State, or Local Law. You are solely responsible for the content you make accessible through the ProHostingPlans.com network. You may not use the service to assist any other person or entity to violate any Federal, State, or Local Laws, Ordinances or Regulations.

ProHostingPlans.com is not obligated to monitor the network to examine available content. You hereby acknowledge that if we are made aware of content that is determined to be, in its sole discretion, unacceptable, undesirable, offensive, indecent, obscene, excessively violent, or otherwise objectionable, ProHostingPlans.com has the right, but not the obligation, to edit, remove, or deny access to such content. ProHostingPlans.com may disclose any content or records concerning a customer's account as required to satisfy any Law, Regulation, Governmental Request, or Court Order.

Pornography and sex-related merchandising are prohibited on all ProHostingPlans.com servers. This includes sites that may infer sexual content, display nudity, or link to adult content elsewhere. This is also true for sites that promote any illegal activity or content that may be damaging to ProHostingPlans.com's servers or any other server on the Internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited. In addition, any site selling or promoting bulk email service is not allowed. Below are some examples of non-acceptable content or links:

All of the following programs/scripts/processes/process types are NOT ALLOWED on our system:
nestea.c
Duy
scrollz
BNC
PsyBNC
IRC (ANY IRC OF ANY KIND)
BitchX
EggDrop
PERSISTENT MYSQL, PERSISTENT CONNECTIONS MYSQL, PERSISTENT MYSQL CONNECTIONS, PERSISTENT CONNECTIONS OF ANY KIND.
Any script using PORTS.
Any sniffer of any kind.
etc.

Network Security
Customers may not use the ProHostingPlans.com network with an attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of any host, network, or account. This includes, but is not limited to, accessing data not intended for the customer, logging into a server or account the customer is not expressly authorized to access, password cracking, probing the security of other networks in search of weakness, or violation of any other organization's Security Policy. Customers may not attempt to interfere or deny service to any user, host or network. This includes, but is not limited to, flooding, mail bombing, or other deliberate attempts to overload or crash a host or network. ProHostingPlans.com will cooperate fully with investigations of violations of systems or network security at other sites, including cooperating with Law Enforcement Authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations. Users who violate system or network security may incur criminal or civil liability..

CGI Scripts
Each ProHostingPlans.com account comes fully equipped with its own pre-configured CGI-Bin. Customers are free to use any CGI-Scripts provided with their account or add any additional ones they require. Any CGI-Scripts deemed to be adversely affecting the server performance or the network integrity may be shut down without prior notice. CGI-Script sharing with domains not hosted by ProHostingPlans.com is not allowed.

Chat Rooms
ProHostingPlans.com prohibits its customers from installing outside chat rooms on their domain, as these tend to be a resource problem. ProHostingPlans.com does provide its customers with a free chat room. This chat room were designed to meet the growing needs of customers and function without hindering the performance of the servers for others.

Server Resources
Any website that uses a high amount of server resources (such as, but not limited to CPU time, memory usage, and network resources) may be shut down without prior notice.

Background Running Programs
Background Daemons are prohibited.

IRC
ProHostingPlans.com prohibits its customers from operating IRC or IRC Bots on any of the servers in the ProHostingPlans.com Network.

Backups / Restores
As a courtesy, ProHostingPlans.com provides a monthly backup service on shared hosting accounts. You can request our administrators to run a backup of your site or any files for a one-time $50 charge. Although ProHostingPlans.com tries to ensure these backups are complete and accurate, we cannot guarantee data integrity. It is possible that a site and/or file may not be able to be restored without our knowledge. ProHostingPlans.com recommends that the customer periodically and frequently backup their site to their local computer. On most accounts there is a backup manager that can assist you in this process. A backup may not be included with a dedicated server type plan. We recommend dedicated server customers can purchase a backup option to protect data.

E-MAIL FORWARDING TO AOL and AOL NETWORKS (AOL / Netscape)
Mohammed Ahmed, Postmaster / Data Analyst at America Online (AOL), told us (over the phone) that when an email is FORWARDED TO AOL (you setup a forwarder to forward all email sent to example@yourdomain.com to your AOL email account), and it HAPPENS to be SPAM (spam sent to your email address from an actual spammer, etc), AOL tags it as SPAM sent by OUR SERVERS. Thus, in order to remain in compliance with the demands of AOL, we had to immediately STOP forwarding ANY AND ALL EMAIL to AOL from our servers. At this time, you can still forward email anywhere else. At this time, you can still use all email services provided by us as normal. The ONLY CHANGE is, we cannot allow EMAIL to be FORWARDED through our system TO AOL, since their system INCORRECTLY tags us as the SPAMMERS.

Commercial Advertising/Mass Mailings
You must not use the ProHostingPlans.com network, ProHostingPlans.com equipment, or any ProHostingPlans.com email address in connection with the transmission of spam, flames, mail bombs, or substantially similar, unsolicited email messages. Your domain may not be referenced as originator, intermediary, or reply-to address in any of the above. This prohibition extends to the sending of unsolicited mass mailings from another service that in any way implicates the use of the ProHostingPlans.com network, ProHostingPlans.com equipment or any ProHostingPlans.com email address. A message is considered unsolicited if it is posted in violation of a newsgroup charter or if it is sent to a recipient who has not requested or invited the message. For purposes of this provision, merely making one's email address accessible to the public will not constitute a request or invitation to receive messages.

If you are found to have spammed, without warning, ProHostingPlans.com reserves the right to disable your domain. In addition, ProHostingPlans.com may impose a $100 penalty for each spam policy violation. ProHostingPlans.com solely reserves the right to refuse or cancel service to known spammers. Lastly, ProHostingPlans.com reserves the right to determine what violates this policy. As such, any violation may result in cancellation of services without refund.

Distribution and/or Transmission of Obscene, Indecent Speech or Materials
Violation of Indecency and Obscenity Laws can result in criminal penalties.

Intellectual Property Rights
Material accessible to you through ProHostingPlans.com's services may be subject to protection under the United States or other copyright laws, or laws protecting trademarks, trade secrets, or proprietary information. Except when expressly permitted by the owner of such rights, you must not use the ProHostingPlans.com service in a manner that would infringe, violate, dilute, or misappropriate any such rights, with respect to any material which you access or receive through the ProHostingPlans.com network. If you use a domain name in connection with the ProHostingPlans.com service or similar service, you must not use that domain name in violation of any trademark, service mark, or similar rights of any third party.

Defamation
Defamatory speech distributed over the Internet can result in civil liability for the defamer.

Fines
Violating ANY OR ALL of the guidelines outlined on this page can result in a fine, not to exceed $100 per incident.

Refusal of Service
ProHostingPlans.com reserves the right at its sole discretion to refuse or cancel service. Violation of any of ProHostingPlans.com's rules and regulations could result in a warning, suspension, or possible account termination. Accounts terminated due to policy violations will not be refunded.