Acceptable and Fair Use Policy

Date last revised: 23rd February 2016

1. ABOUT OUR ACCEPTABLE and FAIR USE POLICY

1.1 To ensure the availability of our Services to eligible customers, we have an Acceptable Use Policy to make sure everyone gets a fair go. We have designed our products to be generous, but we do not want those generous terms abused.

1.2 We may exercise our rights under our CRA including to suspend, cancel or restrict the supply of the Service to you if you use the Service, in any way which breaches this Policy.

1.3 References in this document to “You” include the Customer who made the application for Service and any other person accesses or uses the Service whether or not that person is authorised to do so.

2. PROHIBITED USE

2.1 You must not use, or attempt to use, the Service:

(a) For illegal purposes or practices;
(b) For any purpose if we advised you that such purpose was prohibited in your
Application or the relevant Service Description;
(c) In any way which damages or interferes (or threatens to damage or interfere) with the operation of a Service or with the efficiency of our Network or a Supplier’s Network (including as a result of attempts by you to increase the capacity or performance of your system or Your Equipment);
(d) In any way which makes the Service unsafe or which may damage any property or injure or kill any person;
(e) To transmit, publish or communicate any material or engage in any conduct which is defamatory, abusive, menacing or harassing;
(f) To engage in abusive behaviour toward our employees, contractors or agents;
(g) To make inappropriate contact with minors;
(h) To access, store, reproduce, distribute, publish or commercially exploit any information or material of any kind that infringes any copyright, patent, trade mark, design or other intellectual property right;
(i) To send, relay or distribute any electronic data, the contents or properties of which have been manipulated for the purpose of maliciously or illegally impersonating or obscuring the original source of that data. This does not include the use of Virtual Private Networks or similar concepts in circumstances where this is legal and otherwise complies with this Policy;
(j) To access, monitor, use or control any other person’s equipment, systems, networks or data (including usernames and passwords) or to otherwise probe, scan or test the vulnerability of any other person’s equipment, networks, systems or data, without that person’s consent;
(k) To access, or attempt to access, the accounts or private information of others, or to penetrate, or attempt to penetrate, our or a third party’s security measures, computer software or hardware, electronic communications system or telecommunications system, whether or not the intrusion results in the corruption or loss of data. This does not include conducting network security testing specifically requested by the owner of the targeted network or system;
(l) To use or distribute software (such as password guessing programs, keyboard loggers, viruses or Trojans) with the intent of compromising the security of any network or system;
(m) To make fraudulent offers to sell or buy goods, or services or to advance any type of financial scam such as ‘pyramid schemes’, ‘Ponzi schemes’, and ‘chain letters’;
(n) To engage in any unreasonable activity which impairs the ability of other people or systems to use our Services or the Internet. This includes any malicious activity resulting in an adverse effect such as denial of service attacks against another network host or individual user, flooding of a network, overloading a service, improper seizing or abuse of operator privileges, and attempts to harm a system or network. For the avoidance of doubt, this clause does not capture an activity solely because it unintentionally contributes to network congestion;
(o) To access, store, reproduce, distribute or publish any content which is prohibited or unlawful under any Commonwealth, State or Territory law or Classification system, or to provide unrestricted access to material that is unsuitable for minors;
(p) For resale or as a Carriage Service Provider.

2.2 Due to Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirements, You must not use, or attempt to use, our web-hosting Services to store credit card data without our express consent in writing.

3. SPAM

3.1 Without limiting the generality of clause 2.1 of this Policy you must not use or attempt to use the Service to:

(a) Send, or assist in sending commercial electronic messages (as defined in the Spam Act) in breach of the Spam Act;
(b) To supply or offer to supply address-harvesting software, or a right to use address-harvesting software or a harvested-address list or a right to use a harvested-address list in breach of the Spam Act.
(c) To acquire or attempt to acquire address-harvesting software or a right to use address-harvesting software or a harvested-address list or a right to use a harvested-address list in breach of the Spam Act; or
(d) To use address-harvesting software or a harvested address list in breach of the Spam Act;
(e) Otherwise undertake or attempt to undertake any act which is breach of the Spam Act.

3.2 The Spam Act means the Spam Act 2003 and all regulations and amendments to that Act in any statute passed in substitution for that Act or incorporating any of its provisions to the extent that they are incorporated.

4. GENERAL

4.1 You must use reasonable endeavours to secure any device or network within your control against being used in breach of this Policy by third parties, including where appropriate:

(a) The installation and maintenance of antivirus and firewall software;
(b) The application of operating system and application software patches and updates;
(c) Protecting your account information and password and taking all reasonable care to prevent unauthorised access to your service, including taking reasonable steps to secure any Wi-Fi network that your operate;
(d) For residential users, requiring any persons (for example, other members of your household) that you allow to use your Service from time to time to also comply with this Policy; and
(e) For business and government users, maintaining and enforcing appropriate workplace and guest user policies that are consistent with the requirements of this Policy.

4.2 Unless otherwise stated, our rights to suspend, cancel or restrict the supply of the Service to you applies regardless of whether the breach or suspected breach was committed intentionally, or by means not authorised by you (such as through Trojan horses, viruses or other security breaches).