terms and conditions
Acceptable Use Policy
Interpretation
The following policy is intended to be a guideline to Biscit's stance against violations of the accepted norms of the internet community
and is not intended to be exhaustive. We reserve the right at all times to protect our reputation and goodwill.
Refunds
Refunds will be given at the discretion of the Company Management.
Web Space
1) The customer is restricted to the web space allocated depending on the account type, or as varied for time to time. It is the customer's
responsibility to ensure that his/her disk usage does not go over this limit.
2) The customer must not disclose his/her password to any third party.
3) The customer is not permitted to use any server-side cgi or other program other than those placed by Biscit into the main cgi-bin
directory.
4) The customer is responsible for keeping backups of all his/her own data. Biscit will not be responsible for loss
of customer's data for any reason.
5) The customer is responsible for ensuring that the data offered in their web space does not break any UK law or any law in the home
country of the customer.
6) Biscit reserves the right to remove a site under any of the following circumstances:
a) The material is suspected to be illegal;
b) The site gets an abnormally high number of hits;
c) The customer closes their account or the customer's account is suspended;
d) The presence of the site adversely affects in any way the ability of Biscit to provide its services to other customers.
7) The customer must not resell his/her free web space.
8 ) The use of a third party's products or services, including providing commercial links or adult verification systems, is prohibited.
9) The customer must not promote his/her web space in such a way that he/she would breach this Policy, whether through Biscit or an alternative Internet Service Provider.
10) Any content of an adult nature must contain a warning page as to the content of the site which should be displayed prior to the
viewing of any such adult content.
Email and Usenet
The customer must not use Biscit's service for any of the following purposes:
a) Initiating or propagating 'chain' email or 'pyramid' emails;
b) Sending bulk or unsolicited emails, especially of a commercial nature;
c) Using their Biscit account as a maildrop for responses for any of the above;
d) Sending emails purporting to come from another party.
11) The customer must not email a person after they have specifically requested that you do not mail them. This applies to
any automated mail system you employ, and includes Spam, though not exclusively.
12) The customer must not send email or post articles with headers modified in such a way as to disguise the true source of such
mail or article. It is the customer's responsibility to ensure that a real email address is present and obvious to a person.
13) The customer must not post articles of a commercial nature to groups which are inappropriate to the subject of the article. This
covers 'spamming'.
14) The customer must not use the service to post articles which contravene the charter of the group to which the posts are made.
This includes binary attachments being posted to non-binary newsgroups.
15) The customer must ensure that his or her equipment cannot be used to relay mail for a third party.
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
16) It is the customer's responsibility to respect and obey the rules of the IRC server to which they are connected. The policies
of the server can usually be found by typing /motd while connected to the server.
Peer to Peer (P2P)
17) It is the customer's responsibility to ensure that their connection is not used to acquire or make available any material that
is subject to copyright, without the copyright holder's explicit consent. Biscit shall not be responsible for such illicit use, and the
customer shall be liable to such copyright holders, and will indemnify Biscit against any claims with respect to such illegal use. Notwithstanding
the Data Protection Act, Biscit will comply with relevant authorities with regard to any such complaints or copyright infringements,
and if required, will supply further details to such authorities.
18) Biscit reserves the right to require a customer to sign a disclaimer concerning use of Peer to Peer software, which
the customer must not unreasonably refuse to complete.
Miscellaneous
19) The customer must not use their account for the purpose of obtaining unauthorised access to any computer or service.
20) The customer is responsible at all times for use of the account, whether through the customer or through third parties
21) Biscit reserves the right to remove any Usenet articles or web sites which might be held to be defamatory at it's
sole discretion
Breaches
22) Following a breach of these terms and conditions, Biscit will take any action it considers to be appropriate up
to and including closure of the account without notice. All breaches will be reviewed on a case by case basis.
23) Following suspension of a customer's account, the customer must send a letter to Biscit undertaking not to breach
this Policy on a subsequent occasion before the account will be reinstated.
24) Biscit does not allow credits or refunds for any outages resulting from a suspension or deletion of an account
under this Policy.
25) Biscit reserves the right to modify or amend this Policy at any time
Any breaches of this Policy should be reported to abuse@Biscithome.com and the entire posting,
together with the full headers, should be forwarded. Although it is not always possible to respond to each abuse report, all complaints will be investigated
thoroughly.