Acceptable Use Policy

Please take a moment to review MAPHosting's services agreement. By opening an account with MAPHosting, you are agreeing to its terms of service.

Policy & Service Guidelines
MAPHosting provides web hosting to many clients, and MAPHosting has a responsibility to protect each client and to provide the best services available. The following guidelines were designed to ensure these obligations are met.

Acceptable Use Policy
All elements of MAPHosting.com web site, including words, images, and photos, are protected by trade dress (look and feel of this site), unfair competition, and other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part. No logo, graphic, sound or image from any MAPHosting.net website may be copied or retransmitted unless expressly permitted by MAPHosting.com.

Content
All services provided may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any United States Federal, State or City law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material that MAPHosting judges to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade secret and other statute. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claims resulting from the use of the service which damages the subscriber or any other party.

Pornography and sex-related merchandising is prohibited on all MAPHosting servers. This includes sites that may infer sexual content, or links to adult content elsewhere. MAPHosting will be the sole arbiter in determining violations of this provision.

Also prohibited are sites that promote any illegal activity or present content that may be damaging to MAPHosting's servers or any other server on the internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited.

Examples of unacceptable content or links:
• Pirated software
• Hacker programs or archives
• Warez sites

MAPHosting will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Commercial Advertising - Email
Spamming, or the sending of unsolicited email, from MAPHosting servers or using an email address or domain that is maintained on MAPHosting machines as reference is STRICTLY prohibited. MAPHosting will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. A $10 penalty will be assessed for each unsolicited email sent from MAPHosting servers.

Background Running Programs
MAPHosting may allow programs to run continually in the background. These are considered on a case-by-case basis and an extra charge may be incurred based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed.

IRC
MAPHosting does not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on its servers.

Forum Software
Only one instance of an online forum should be run from a single hosting account. Forum software supported and recommended includes vBulletin and phpBB. Forum software using flat-file databases (e.g. UltimateBB, YaBB, IkonBoard flat-file version) are strongly discouraged and may result in the suspension of the affected account.

Server Abuse
Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server, or customer is strictly prohibited.

Refusal of Service
MAPHosting reserves the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at its sole discretion. All Sub-Networks, distributive hosting sites and dedicated servers must adhere to the above policies. Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation.