Electronic Corporate Pages, Inc.


ELECTRONIC CORPORATE PAGES, INC. ACCEPTABLE USE POLICIES (AUP)

 

 

March 10, 2000

 

Electronic Corporate Pages, Inc. (ECPI) operates a high speed connection to the Internet and offers its available network and computer facilities to ECPI's subscribers for personal, commercial, and research purposes.  During normal usage of ECPI resources, subscribers may utilize portions of the Internet that restrict commercial or other traffic as per its own AUP (Acceptable Use Policies).  All ECPI customers must agree to abide by all AUPs for any networks that they traverse, and always comply with local, state and federal laws.

 

Option 4 Business Account Usage:

 

1) An Option 4 Business Account entitles multiple individuals within an organization to access ECPI, but only one at a time, and only one login session at a time.

 

2) To minimize the busy signals to our customers, all the dial-up ports are set up to be disconnected after the ECPI specified ideal time.  At the time this agreement was written the ideal (inactivity) time was set to 20 minutes.  ECPI reserves the right to change this without any prior notification.

 

3) ECPI offers unlimited interactive usage, which means that as long as you are sitting in front of the computer and using it you can stay connected to ECPI.  Artificial means of keeping sockets connected beyond the timeout period are not permitted.

 

4) Disk usage in excess of the allocated amount will be billed at $0.50 per megabyte per month in 10 megabyte increments. A quota of 10 megabytes is allocated to an Option 4 Business Account.

 

5) Data transfers in excess of the allocated maximum monthly amount will be billed at $0.25 per megabyte in 100 megabyte increments.  A quota of 500 megabytes maximum monthly data transfer is allocated to an Option 4 Business Account.

 

6) Unsolicited commercial mail is forbidden.

 

Billing and Cancellation:

 

1) ECPI subscriber agrees to pay monthly service charge until their account is canceled by signed notification by account holder.

 

2) ECPI customers can pay either by check or credit card, we prefer to take credit card.  If the customers selects to pay by credit card then every month ECPI will charge the monthly fee on the customer's credit card.

 

3) If the customer decides to pay by check then it will be customers responsibility to send the payment by the 1st day of the month.  We will only send customers e-mail reminder, it will be customers responsibility to check their e-mail and send the payment in time.

 

4) Accounts unpaid after the 5th of the month may have their service interrupted and will be assessed a late fee/reactivation fee of $2.00.  Such interruption does not relieve you from the obligation to pay the monthly charge.  Only a written request, signed by the account holder to terminate your service relieves you of the obligation to pay.

 

5) If your check is returned to ECPI unpaid then you will be subject to returned check charge of $10.00.

 

6) If you pay for 1 year in advance and wish to cancel the account then you will be charged at full rate for the time used, plus two months of service charge for early exit fee.

 

 

Terms and Condition:

 

1)  ECPI exercises no control whatsoever over the content of the information passing through ECPI network.  ECPI makes no warranties of any kind, whether expressed or implied, as to the availability, accuracy, or content of the information, products, or services it is providing.  ECPI also disclaims any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.  ECPI will not be responsible for any damage you suffer.  This includes loss of data resulting from delays, nondeliveries, or service interruptions caused by its own negligence or your errors or omissions.  Use of any information obtained via ECPI is at your own risk.  ECPI specifically denies any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through its services and ECPI's systems are expected to change from time to time.  ECPI reserves the right to change any service offered or the features of any service offered or its systems without notice, including changes to access and use procedures, such as idle disconnection's, and systems hardware and software.

 

2) The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) requires we notify you about the privacy of e-mail.  You are so notified.  You should assume that any e-mail or other communications may be seen by others due to possible software problems on the senders, or receivers end.

 

3) Any liability of ECPI, including without limitation any liability for damages caused or allegedly caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction, of or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of records, whether for breach of contract, tortuous behavior, negligence, or under any other cause of action shall be strictly limited to the amount paid by or on behalf of the customer to ECPI for the current month.

 

4) ECPI's network and services may only be used for lawful purposes and consistent with all rights of other parties. Transmission of any material in violation with any US, state or international regulation is prohibited.  This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, trademarks, materials protected by trade secret, right of publicity, privacy right or any other right of any person or entity or for the purpose of transmitting or storing of material which is obscene, libelous or defamatory. Customer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless ECPI from any claims resulting from use of the service which damages the customer or any other party.

 

5) ECPI reserves the right to terminate or refuse service to anyone, at any time for any reason.

 

6) When accessing other Networks connected to ECPI's systems or networks, customer must comply with those Networks' AUPs.

 

7) Resale of ECPI's services is strictly forbidden.

 

8) As a courtesy to subscribers, ECPI has accumulated a library of software which is "shareware".  ECPI is not the author of or otherwise responsible for any of such software or engaged in the sale or licensing of such software.  ECPI makes no warrants of any kind either expressed or implied. with respect to freeware or shareware available to subscribers.  ECPI accepts no liability of any kind with respect to such software or any damages resulting from use thereof.  Subscriber and any other assumes all risk of all kind with respect to such software.  Subscriber and not ECPI must pay all shareware license fees.  No subscriber or user will assert any claim against ECPI with respect to any shareware or freeware obtained through ECPI.

 

9) Use of ECPI's service and systems and the Internet in general is at user's sole risk.  ECPI does not warrant that its services and systems will be uninterrupted or error free nor does ECPI make any warranty as to the results or information obtained from use of its service or systems or the Internet in general.

 

10) These terms and conditions supersede all previous representations, understandings, or agreements and shall prevail notwithstanding any variance with terms and conditions of any order submitted.

 

11) By accessing ECPI computers user implicitly agrees to be bound by stated terms and conditions within this AUP.