Acceptable Usage Policy

HostZorba’s Acceptable Use Policy (the "Policy") for HostZorba is designed to help protect HostZorba, HostZorba’s customers, and the Internet community in general from irresponsible or, in some cases, illegal activities. The Policy, including the following list of prohibited activities, is an integral part of your Hosting Agreement with HostZorba. If you engage in any of the activities prohibited by the Policy, HostZorba reserves the right to suspend or terminate your account.

The Policy includes a non-exclusive list of the actions prohibited by HostZorba and we reserve the right to modify the Policy at any time, effective upon posting at
https://www.HostZorba.com/acceptable-usage-policy

Prohibited Uses of HostZorba Systems and Services:
Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or intellectual property right used without proper authorization, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws
Unacceptable practices include but are not limited to the following:
Drug dealing
Piracy/Pirating
Violation of copyright law
Illegal gambling/Lottery sites
Illegal arms trafficking
Child Pornography
Stalking or violating state or federal law
Attempting without authorization to access a computer system
Schemes to defraud, sending a message or having content that is indecent according to Indian & American laws with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person
Threatening bodily harm or damage to individual(s) or group(s)
Violating Australia’s & US’ and international export restrictions
Interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service
HostZorba does not actively monitor dedicated server content for review due to the limitations of the service.
HostZorba believes in the free dissemination of information via our services and dedicated server content will only be reviewed upon complaint by a verified third party. Content that does not violate local, state and federal law or the AUP is deemed in compliance and shall remain intact.
Legal adult content is only allowed on HostZorba’s Dedicated Servers according to the law of US & India.

Customers from Countries where Adult content is illegal, will be not allowed to use HostZorba’s Dedicated Servers for hosting adult content. Eg; Countries Like India.
Sending Unsolicited Bulk Email. The sending of any form of Unsolicited Bulk Email ("UBE", "spam") through HostZorba‘s servers is prohibited. Likewise, the sending of UBE from another service provider advertising a web site, email address or utilizing any resource hosted on HostZorba‘s servers, is prohibited. HostZorba accounts or services may not be used to solicit customers from, or collect replies to, messages sent from another Internet Service Provider where those messages violate this Policy or that of the other provider. ANY form of spamming activity (e.g. mail spam, Usenet spam, pop-up spam, selling/buying spamware, etc.) conducted ANYWHERE on the Internet (i.e. whether through our facilities or not), will be:
Grounds for instant, permanent termination of all services with no prior warning; Grounds for forfeit of all funds paid.
Running Unconfirmed Mailing Lists. Subscribing email addresses to any mailing list without the express and verifiable permission of the email address owner is prohibited. HostZorba allow‘s legal emailing. All mailing lists run by HostZorba customers must be closed loop ("confirmed opt-in"). The subscription confirmation message received from each address owner must be kept on file for the duration of the existence of the mailing list. Purchase lists of email addresses from third parties for mailing to and/or from any HostZorba hosted domain, or referencing any HostZorba account, is prohibited.
Advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available any software, program, product, or service that is designed to violate this AUP or any AUP of any other Internet Service Provider, which includes, but is not limited to, the facilitation of the means to send Unsolicited Bulk Email, initiation of pinging, flooding, mail-bombing, denial of service attacks
Operating an account on behalf of, or in connection with, or reselling any service to, persons or firms listed in the Spamhaus Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database at www.spamhaus.org/rokso
Unauthorized attempts by a user to gain access to any account or computer resource not belonging to that user (e.g., "cracking"). HostZorba reserves the right to report such illegal activities to any and all regulatory, administrative, and/or governmental authorities for prosecution. If you have any questions regarding this abuse policy please feel free to contact HostZorba at [email protected]
Obtaining or attempting to obtain service by any means or device with intent to avoid payment,
Unauthorized access, alteration, destruction, or any attempt thereof, of any information of any HostZorba customers or end-users by any means or device
Knowingly engaging in any activities designed to harass, or that will cause a denial-of-service (e.g., synchronized number sequence attacks) to any other user whether on the HostZorba network or on another provider‘s network
Using HostZorba‘s Services to interfere with the use of the HostZorba network by other customers or authorized users

Unacceptable practices include but are not limited to the following:
Drug dealing
Piracy/Pirating
Violation of copyright law
Illegal gambling/Lottery sites
Illegal arms trafficking
Child Pornography
Stalking or violating state or federal law
Attempting without authorization to access a computer system
Schemes to defraud, sending a message or having content that is indecent according to Australian & American laws with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person
Threatening bodily harm or damage to individual(s) or group(s)
Violating Australian & U.S. and international export restrictions
Interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service.

Customer Responsibility for Customer’s Users
Each HostZorba customer is responsible for the activities of its users and, by accepting service from HostZorba, is agreeing to ensure that its customers/representatives or end-users abide by this Policy. Complaints about customers/representatives or end-users of a HostZorba customer will be forwarded to the HostZorba customer‘s postmaster for action. If violations of the HostZorba‘s Acceptable Use Policy occur, HostZorba reserves the right to terminate services with or take action to stop the offending customer from violating HostZorba‘s AUP as HostZorba deems appropriate, without notice.
Refusal of Service

We reserve the right to refuse, cancel or suspend service at our sole discretion. All sub-networks, distributive hosting sites and dedicated servers of HostZorba must adhere to the above policies. Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation without refund. If you have any questions regarding this abuse policy please feel free to contact HostZorba at [email protected]