By using our hosting services you agree to the following:

VIOLATIONS OF The Toneshosting Network ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

The following constitute violations of this AUP:

1. Illegal use: The Toneshosting Network services may not be used for illegal purposes, or in support of illegal activities. The Toneshosting Network reserves the right to cooperate with legal authorities and/or injured third parties in the investigation of any suspected crime or civil wrongdoing.

2.Harm to minors: Use of the The Toneshosting Network service to harm, or attempt to harm, annoy, harass, intimidate, or degrade minors in any way, including, but not limited to child pornography.

3. Threats: Use of the The Toneshosting Network service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that threatens or encourages any harm or destruction of people or property.

4. Harassment: Use of the The Toneshosting Network service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that harasses another.

5. Fraudulent activity: Use of The Toneshosting Network service to make fraudulent offers to sell or buy products, items, or services, or to advance any type of financial scam such as "pyramid schemes," "ponzi schemes," and "chain letters."

6. Forgery or impersonation: Adding, removing or modifying identifying network header information in an effort to deceive or mislead is prohibited. Attempting to impersonate any person by using forged headers or other identifying information is prohibited. The use of anonymous remailers or nicknames does not constitute impersonation.

7. Unsolicited commercial e-mail / Unsolicited bulk e-mail (SPAM): Use of the The Toneshosting Network service to transmit any unsolicited commercial or unsolicited bulk e-mail is expressly prohibited. Violations of this type will result in the immediate termination of the offending account.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
BEGINNING IMMEDIATELY, anyone hosting websites or services on our server that support spammers or cause any of our IP space to be listed in any of the various Spam Databases will have their account immediately removed from our network.

8. E-mail / News Bombing: Malicious intent to impede another person's use of electronic mail services or news will result in the immediate termination of the offending account.

9. E-mail / Message Forging: Forging any message header, in part or whole, of any electronic transmission, originating or passing through The Toneshosting Network service is in violation of this AUP.

10. Usenet SPAMing: The Toneshosting Network has a zero tolerance policy for the use of its network for the posting of messages or commercial advertisements, which violate the rules, regulations, FAQ or charter of any newsgroups or mailing list. Commercial messages that are appropriate under the rules of a newsgroup or mailing list or that are solicited by the recipients are permitted.

11. Unauthorized access: Use of The Toneshosting Network service to access, or to attempt to access, the accounts of others; or to penetrate, or attempt to penetrate security measures of Toneshosting or another entity's computer software or hardware, electronic communications system, or telecommunications system, whether or not the intrusion results in the corruption or loss of data, is expressly prohibited and the offending account is subject to immediate termination.

12. Copyright or trademark infringement: Use of The Toneshosting Network service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other proprietary rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material, the digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted sources, and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software.

13. Collection of personal data: Use of The Toneshosting Network service to collect, or attempt to collect, personal information about third parties without their knowledge or consent.

14. Network disruptions and unfriendly activity: Use of The Toneshosting Network service for any activity which affects the ability of other people or systems to use The Toneshosting Network Services or the Internet. This includes "denial of service" (DOS) attacks against another network host or individual user. Interference with or disruption of other network users, services or equipment is prohibited. It is the members responsibility to ensure that their network is configured in a secure manner. A subscriber may not, through action or inaction, allow others to use their network for illegal or inappropriate actions. A subscriber may not permit their network, through action or inaction, to be configured in such a way that gives a third party the capability to use their network in an illegal or inappropriate manner. Unauthorized entry and/or use of another company and/or individuals computer system will result in immediate account termination. The Toneshosting Network service will not tolerate any subscriber attempting to access the accounts of others, or penetrate security measures of other systems, whether or not the intrusion results in corruption or loss of data.
15. Fraud: Involves a knowing misrepresentation or misleading statement, writing or activity made with the intent that the person receiving it will act upon it.

16. Infringement of Copyright, Patent, Trademark, Trade Secret, or Intellectual Property Right: Distribution and/or posting of copyrighted or the aforementioned infringements will not be tolerated.

17. Distribution of Viruses: Intentional distributions of software that attempts to and/or causes damage, harassment, or annoyance to persons, data, and/or computer systems are prohibited. Such an offense will result in the immediate termination of the offending account.

18. Inappropriate Use of Software: Use of software or any device that would facilitate a continued connection, i.e. pinging, while using The Toneshosting Network services could result in termination of services.

19. Third Party Accountability: The Toneshosting Network service subscribers will be held responsible and accountable for any activity by third parties using their account, that violates guidelines created within the Acceptable Use Policy.

20. Violation Of The Toneshosting Network Virtual Accounts: It is absolutely forbidden to host pornographic content or IRC servers on Virtual Server Accounts. Virtual Server Accounts found hosting this material will be subject to immediate termination.

21. Shared Hosting Clients - Streaming Video and Audio: Streaming Video and Audio is not permitted on our servers. You must zip the content to prevent this if you wish to have it hosted. And as with all other regulations, this content must be legal content and can not have someone else's copyright or trademark.

22. Egg Drop: Egg Drop Scripts are Not allowed! These are grounds for immediate account termination.

23. IRC: IRC Client or Server in any form is not permitted on our network.

24. Legal: Our server resides in the United States of America/
If it is not legal in the USA, it is not permitted on our server. If any site is found to be violating US laws it will be terminated.

25. Legal Adult Material: Adult Content is allowed on all servers.

26. Shared Hosting Clients - Chinese Forums: Chinese Forums are not allowed on our network. If they are found on any server we will suspend them, and charge an administrative fee if they are the cause of a CPU overload. Administrative charges are $25 Per Hour.

27. Shared Hosting Clients - ANIME: Anime Sites are welcome on our shared servers as well as our dedicated servers. HOWEVER, if it affects the use of others on Shared, it will be immediately suspended and you will be required to go dedicated in order to use your account again.

28. Shared Hosting Clients - Remote MySQL Access: Accessing Your MySQL Databases from another server or linking to them is prohibited. We provide hosting not MySQL server database space. If your databases are accessed via other servers the account will be terminated.


29. Data Backups: We DO NOT back up clients websites and are not responsible for any loss of data due to any server problems. It is your responsibility to make backups of your
website and to store them locally. You can however purchase separate online storage space and backup services from The Toneshosting Network Service.

30: Security: You are responsible for any misuse of your account, even if the inappropriate activity was committed by a friend, family member, guest or employee. Therefore, you must take steps to ensure that others do not gain unauthorized access to your account. In addition, you may not use your account to breach security of another account or in an attempt to gain unauthorized access to another network or server.
• Your password provides access to your account. It is your responsibility to keep your password secure.
• Sharing your password and account access with unauthorized users is prohibited. You should take care to prevent others from using your account since you will be held responsible for all use.
• Attempting to obtain another user's account password is strictly prohibited, and may result in termination of service.
• You must adopt adequate security measures to prevent or minimize unauthorized use of your account.
• You may not 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 you, logging into or making use of a server or account you are not expressly authorized to access, or probing the security of other networks. Use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security is prohibited. Examples of these tools include, but are not limited to, password guessing programs, cracking tools or network probing tools.
• You may not attempt to interfere with service to any user, host or network ("denial of service attacks"). This includes, but is not limited to, "flooding" of networks, deliberate attempts to overload a service, and attempts to "crash" a host.
• Users who violate systems or network security may incur criminal or civil penalties. The Toneshosting Network service 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.

Network Performance: The Toneshosting Network accounts operate on shared resources. Excessive use or abuse of these shared network resources by one customer may have a negative impact on all other customers. Misuse of network resources in a manner which impairs network performance is prohibited by this policy and may result in termination of your account.

You are prohibited from excessive consumption of resources, including CPU time, memory, disk space and session time. You may not use resource-intensive programs which negatively impact other customers or the performances of The Toneshosting Network systems or networks. The Toneshosting Network reserves the right to terminate or limit such activities.

REVISIONS TO THIS ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

The Toneshosting Network service reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this AUP, our TOS (Terms of Service) and our other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner. Notice of any revision, amendment, or modification may be posted in accordance with our TOS (Terms of Service).
Failing to comply with the terms will result in an instant account suspension and/or termination with ABSOLUTELY NO refunds. You are warned. To get your account back intact you must pay a fine of $50.
We reserve the right to modify the TOS (Terms of Service) at anytime, with or without notification to the users.


Privacy Practices :

The following statement describes the privacy practices for toneshosting.com.

* IP addresses are logged for aggregate statistics and diagnosis.
* We do not collect any personal information from our users.
* We only share aggregated statistics with our parent company.