ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

Acceptable Use Policy Terms

Service Contract for All Customers, Subscribers, Clients, Resellers, and Business Associates Preliminaries: Host Greeks ("Host Greeks.com"), is a Web Presence Provider. The purpose of this Service Agreement / Service Contract "the Agreement", "AUP" "Service Contract", or "Terms of Service" is to specify the terms, conditions, and obligations which a customer agrees to accept by his, her or its conduct of using the Services of www.hostgreeks.com for the registration and renewal of the registration of a domain name, or by opening an account for any of the entire range of services available with www.hostgreeks.com for such purpose.
The following statements pertain to all products and services offered by Host Greeks, including Webhosting and VPS hosting:

Illegal Activity

Customer may only use Host Greeks Web Hosting&rsquo's Server for lawful purposes. Transmission of any material in violation of any Country, Federal, State, or Local regulation is prohibited. To this effect, child and other pornography are strictly prohibited as well as housing any copyrighted information (to which the customer does not hold the copyright or an appropriate license) on Host Greeks Web Hosting&rsquo's Server. Also, using Host Greeks Hosting&rsquo's servers or networks to conspire to commit or support the commission of illegal activities is forbidden as well.

Hacking

Websites dedicated to the discussion of hacking activities or the distribution of hacking tools are prohibited. Also, the usage of Host Greeks Hosting&rsquo's computer systems or network to access any system, service, or network without the owner’s consent is expressly forbidden.

Service Interruptions

Any activity which causes service interruptions to either Host Greeks Hosting&rsquo's network/servers or any outside network. This includes, but is not limited to, the execution of Denial of Service attacks or other maliciously configured software.

Anonymous Proxies

Anonymous proxies are easily abused and often cause a negative impact on both the servers and the network they are connected to. As such, they’ are prohibited on Host Greeks Hosting&rsquo's network and servers.

Spamming

Customer agrees to not have any content on their site that advocates, sells, or in any way makes available tools or methods to send unsolicited e-mail or Usenet postings (spam) or to use Host Greeks Web Hosting&rsquo's Servers for relaying unsolicited e-mail or Usenet postings, or to use unsolicited e-mail or Usenet postings to advertise for their site hosted at Host Greeks Hosting. Any complaint we receive about a violation of this or the preceding two points will be taken very seriously and will result in immediate account cancellation without a refund.

Personal Information Harvesting

Collecting or using email addresses, screen names, or other personal identifiers without the consent of the person identified (including, without limitation, phishing, Internet scamming, password robbery, spidering, and harvesting).

Blacklisting

You agree that if the Host Greeks Hosting IP numbers assigned to your account are listed on an abuse database or blacklist like Spamhaus, you will be in violation of this AUP, and Host Greeks Hosting may take reasonable action to protect its IP numbers, including suspension and/or termination of your service, regardless of whether the IP numbers were listed as a result of your actions.

Spoofing/Impersonation

Usage of the Host Greeks Hosting network to impersonate another person or entity, be it through Email, Internet Forums, or any other means, is strictly prohibited. This includes spoofing email or network packet headers whether or not it is done for malicious purposes.

Spamdexing

Customer agrees to not engage in activities pertaining to Black Hat SEO, Spamdexing, and so-called “ Scraper sites.” These can all have a severely detrimental effect on server performance and are not permitted.

Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against Host Greeks Hosting&rsquo's network or website, or Host Greeks Hosting&rsquo's employees, officers, or other agents, including engaging in behavior that results in any server being the target of a denial of service attack (DoS).

Shared Hosting Addendum

Adult Thumbnail Galleries/Banner Exchanges
You agree not to run a banner exchange, free adult tgp (thumbnail gallery post), or free adult image galleries on your website.

Abusive Scripts/Processes

Any script/process/etc that adversely affects the ability of any other customer to satisfactorily use their provided services is forbidden. This includes, but is not limited to, CPU-intensive CGI/PHP scripts and websites for which the scale of traffic has exceeded the acceptable limits of a shared hosting environment.

IRC Bots/Bouncers

All IRC bots and “bouncers” (bnc, etc) are forbidden.

BitTorrent Software

While we recognize the value in the BitTorrent protocol as a distribution method, it is far too easily (and often accidentally) abused/misused and therefore not allowed on Host Greeks Shared Hosting services.

Proxy Software

All proxy software, anonymous or otherwise, is forbidden on Host Greeks Shared Hosting services.

Network Daemons

Any process that opens a network socket to accept connections from external networks is forbidden. Processes are allowed to bind to the local host only but are held to the limitations placed on all other processes. They must not use up more than their fair share of resources and they must not interfere with any other customers’ activities.