1. INTRODUCTION
Chervon's Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") sets forth the principles
that govern the use by customers of the Web-based products and services
provided by Chervon. All users of Chervon’s Internet services (the
"Services”) must comply with this AUP. Chervon may cooperate
with legal authorities and/or third parties in the investigation of any
suspected or alleged crime or civil wrong. Your violation of this AUP may
result in the suspension or termination of either your access to the Services
and/or your Chervon account or other actions as detailed in Section 3. This
AUP is designed to help protect our customers, and the Internet community,
from irresponsible, abusive or illegal activities.
2. VIOLATIONS OF Chervon’s ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
The following constitute violations of this AUP:
Prohibited Actions: General Terms and Conditions of Use
• Copying/duplicating the Licensed Product or creating subsets or
derivative databases from the Database.
• Assigning, selling or passing along the Licensed Product.
• Publishing or otherwise disseminating the Licensed Product or
creating subsets or derivative databases from the Database for commercial
use or sale.
• Providing services for a fee using the Licensed Product or any
subsets or derivatives thereof.
• Allowing data from the Licensed Product to be made available to
others or downloading the Licensed Product onto any electronic storage
media or distributing or transferring the Database or Search Results in
any form (printed, electronically relayed, posted to public list services
or bulletin boards, or magnetically stored) to, or for the benefit, of
others.
• Unauthorized distribution of passwords and/or access codes is
strictly prohibited.
• Institutional users should contact their Site Administrator regarding
the General Terms and Conditions of their License Agreement.
Prohibited Actions: Impersonation/Forgery
• Adding, removing, or modifying identifying network header information
(aka "spoofing") in an effort to deceive or mislead.
• Attempting to impersonate any person by using forged headers or
other identifying information.
Prohibited Actions: Network unfriendly activity
• Any activities which adversely affect the ability of other people
or systems to use Chervon’s services or the Internet are prohibited.
This includes "denial of service" attacks against the Chervon
servers, network hosts or individual user.
Prohibited Actions: Commercial e-mail
• Sending unsolicited commercial e-mail. Using a Chervon e-mail
or Website address to distribute commercial e-mail is prohibited.
• Sending large volumes of unsolicited e-mail (aka "mail bombing")
is prohibited.
Prohibited Actions: Access control and Authentication
• Attempting to circumvent user authentication or security of any
host, network, or account (aka "cracking") is strictly prohibited.
This includes, but is not limited to, accessing data not intended for
the customer, logging into a server or account the customer is not expressly
authorized to access, or probing the security of Chervon servers and networks.
Prohibited Actions: Proxy Hunters, Spiders, Robots
• Using any program/script/command, or sending messages of any kind,
designed to interfere with a User’s session, by any means, locally
or by the Internet.
Enforcement
Chervon reserves the right to monitor Internet access to the Chervon services
by authorized User(s)/Licensee(s), as part of the normal course of its
business practice. Should Chervon discover User(s) engaged in Prohibited
Actions as outlined above, which create denial of access or impediment
of service, and which adversely affect Chervon’s ability to provide
services, Chervon reserves the right to temporarily suspend User/Licensee
access to the Chervon Host Server and/or Database. Chervon shall make
written/electronic notification to User or Licensee point of contact of
any temporary suspension, and the cause thereof, as soon as reasonably
possible. This temporary suspension will remain in effect until the Prohibited
Actions have ceased.
3. REPORTING VIOLATIONS OF Chervon’s AUP
Chervon requests that anyone who believes that there is a violation of
this AUP direct the information to Director-Abuse Department, at: info@chervonpowertools.com.
If available, please provide the following information:
• The IP address used to commit the alleged violation
• The date and time of the alleged violation, including the time
zone or offset from CST
• Evidence of the alleged violation
Email with full header information provides all of the above, as do syslog
files. Other situations will require different methods of providing the
above information.
Chervon may take anyone or ALL of the following actions in response to
complaints:
• issue warnings: written or verbal
• suspend the Member's newsgroup posting privileges
• suspend the Member's account
• terminate the Member's account
• bill the Member for administrative costs and/or reactivation charges
• bring legal action to enjoin violations and/or to collect damages,
if any, caused by violations.
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