Acceptable Use Policy

Landshark Hosting services may be used for lawful purposes only. Unacceptable practices include but are not limited to: drug dealing; attempting without authorization to access a computer system; pirating, violating copyright law, gambling; schemes to defraud; obscene material; sending a message or having content that is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person; threatening bodily harm or damage to individuals or groups; violating U.S. and International Export restrictions; stalking; or violating other state or federal law.  Landshark Hosting reserves the right to check system files, email, and other data on our servers for illegal content and materials, or for any other reasons deemed necessary.

Unacceptable activities in this regard include posting private information about a person without their consent, infringing intellectual property rights, defaming a person or business, and knowingly making available code which will have a deleterious effect on third party computers. Landshark Hosting supports free speech on the Internet, and will not suspend or cancel a customer’s account simply because it disagrees with the views expressed by the customer. Where there are allegations that a customer’s on-line activity has violated the legal rights of a third party, Landshark Hosting will not substitute itself for a court of law in deciding tort claims raised by the third party.

This paragraph refers to shared hosting only. Running programs in the background on a Landshark Hosting server without prior written authorization, or running chat rooms, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) or IRC Bots, more then 1000 emails a day and the like are not acceptable uses of Landshark Hosting servers. Further, any usage of fifteen percent (15%) or more of our system resources is an undue burden on our system and is unacceptable. If your usage ever exceeds fifteen percent (15%) of system resources, your account may be terminated immediately and without prior notice. In addition any domain that exceeds ten gigabytes of bandwidth traffic can be terminated without prior notice. Usage of scripts or other utilities to direct pointed domain names to subdirectories is not permitted and is grounds for termination of the account.
Hacking/Cracking: Landshark Hosting reserves the right to report illegal activities to any and all regulatory, administrative, and/or governmental authorities for prosecution. If you have any question regarding this abuse policy please feel free to contact Landshark Hosting at abuse@landsharkhosting.com.
Landshark Hosting Acceptable Uses Policy and Service Guidelines: Landshark Hosting provides web hosting services internationally and has a responsibility to ensure security and provide the highest quality of web hosting available. The following information and guidelines was designed to ensure the safety and security of our entire hosting network, servers and clientele.
Content: All services provided by Landshark Hosting may be used for lawful purposes only.
Transmission, storage or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any US Federal Law, or International Law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, material we judge to be threatening or obscene or material protected by trade secret, copyrighted material or other statute. The client agrees to indemnify and hold Landshark Hosting harmless from any claims resulting from the use of the service that damages the client or any other party. The client is responsible for all backups of personal data, including but not limited to websites, databases, email, and all other data stored on Landshark Hosting Servers or resources.

LandShark Hosting is in no way responsible for loss of, or damage to, any data that may reside on any equipment owned or maintained by LandShark Hosting. LandShark Hosting is not responsible for any loss of use and makes no guarantee to the amount of time it may take to make an evaluation for repair.

ANY form of spamming activity (e.g. mail spam, Usenet spam, pop-up spam, selling/buying spamware, and so on) 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.
• will be grounds for seizure of all on-premises equipment and data.
• will be grounds for forfeit of all funds paid.
• will result in a demand for payment of a fine (to cover damage to our reputation)
• $500/incident/spam clean-up fee, all of which is payable within 24 hours or will be referred to a collection agency.
• Landshark Hosting will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server or customer of Landshark Hosting is strictly prohibited.
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 Landshark Hosting must adhere to the above policies.

Failure to follow any term or conditions will be grounds for immediate account deactivation without refund.
If you have any question regarding this abuse policy please feel free to contact Landshark Hosting at billing@landsharkhosting.com