Acceptable Use Policy

Use and Misuse of the Services

All complaints of abuse and violation and misuse of the Services, whether described here or elsewhere on the web site, shall be investigated promptly. If you are not sure whether your actions will be an abuse, violation, or misuse, please contact us. You agree to use the Services only for lawful purposes, in compliance with all applicable laws. Illegality includes, but is not limited to, drug dealing; attempting without authorization to access a computer system; pirating (distributing copyrighted material in violation of copyright law, specifically MP3s, MPEGs, ROMs, and ROM emulators); gambling; schemes to defraud; trafficking in 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. export restrictions; stalking; or violating other state or federal law, such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or the Economic Espionage Act. Linking to illegal material is also prohibited. When the ONLINE ALANO CLUB becomes aware of possible violations of this Agreement, it may initiate an investigation that may include gathering information from you and the complaining party, if any, and examination of material on the ONLINE ALANO CLUB servers. The ONLINE ALANO CLUB, in its sole discretion, will determine what action will be taken in response to a violation on a case-by-case basis. Violations of this Agreement could subject you to criminal or civil liability.

BY ACCEPTING THIS AGREEMENT, YOU AGREE TO WAIVE AND HOLD THE ONLINE ALANO CLUB HARMLESS FROM ANY CLAIMS RELATING TO ANY ACTION TAKEN BY IT AS PART OF ITS INVESTIGATION OF A SUSPECTED VIOLATION OF THIS AGREEMENT OR AS A RESULT OF ITS CONCLUSION THAT A VIOLATION OF THIS AGREEMENT HAS OCCURRED. THIS MEANS THAT YOU CANNOT SUE OR RECOVER ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER FROM THE ONLINE ALANO CLUB AS A RESULT OF ITS DECISION TO REMOVE MATERIAL FROM ITS SERVERS, WARN YOU, SUSPEND OR TERMINATE YOUR ACCOUNT, OR TAKE ANY OTHER ACTION DURING THE INVESTIGATION OF A SUSPECTED VIOLATION OR AS A RESULT OF THE ONLINE ALANO CLUB’S CONCLUSION THAT A VIOLATION HAS OCCURRED. THIS WAIVER APPLIES TO ALL VIOLATIONS DESCRIBED IN THIS AGREEMENT.

Use and Misuse of Materials

Materials in the public domain (e.g., images, text, and programs) may be downloaded or uploaded using the Services. You may also re-distribute materials in the public domain. You assume all risks regarding the determination of whether the material is in the public domain. You are prohibited from storing, distributing, or transmitting any unlawful material through the Services. Examples of unlawful material include, but are not limited to, threats of physical harm, child pornography, and copyrighted, trademarked, and other proprietary material used without proper authorization. You may not post, upload, or otherwise distribute copyrighted material on ONLINE ALANO CLUB servers without the consent of the copyright holder. Unacceptable uses of web site content also include the presence of the following programs or the activities associated with them, regardless of whether or not any actual intrusion results in the corruption or loss of data: server broadcast messages or any message sent on an intrusive basis to any directly or indirectly attached network; attempts to circumvent any user authentication or security of host, network, or account; accessing data not intended for user; probing the security of any network; spawning dozens of processes; port scans, ping floods, packet spoofing, and forging router information; denial of service attacks, sniffers, flooding, spoofing, ping bombing, smurfs, winnuke, land and teardrop; promulgation of viruses; and IRC bots, such as eggdrop or BitchX. The ONLINE ALANO CLUB supports free speech on the Internet and will not suspend or cancel your membership or services simply because it disagrees with your views. However, examples of unacceptable activities include posting private information about a person without his or her consent, defaming a person or business, and knowingly making available code that will have a deleterious effect on third-party computers. Where there are allegations that your on-line activity has violated the legal rights of a third party, the ONLINE ALANO CLUB will not substitute itself for a court of law in deciding tort claims raised by the third party.

Email Use

Unacceptable affronts to netiquette and unacceptable activities include, but are not limited to, the following: spamming (sending unsolicited advertising to those with which you have no existing relationship and posting off-topic advertising in newsgroups); spoofing (using a return email address that is not the valid reply address of the sender or sending an email message that does not contain enough information to enable the recipient to identify you); passive spamming (promoting a web site or service hosted by the ONLINE ALANO CLUB by spamming from some other source); trolling (posting controversial messages in newsgroups to generate responses); mailbombing (inundating a user with email without any serious intent to correspond or sending large or multiple files to a user); generating a higher volume of outgoing mail than a normal user; propagating chain letters; and subscribing someone else to an electronic mailing list without that person's permission. A message is considered unsolicited if it is posted in violation of a newsgroup charter or sent to a recipient who has not requested the message. Making an email address available to the public does not constitute a request to receive messages. Distribution of mass emailing programs is also prohibited. All recipients on a mailing list must have personally subscribed. Mailing lists may not be used to distribute unsolicited email. If you are repeatedly mailbombed or attract such behavior, the Services will be terminated. You should not send email to any user who does not wish to receive it, either at the ONLINE ALANO CLUB or elsewhere. The ONLINE ALANO CLUB recognizes that email is an informal medium; however, you must refrain from sending further email to a user after receiving a request to stop. You may not alter the headers of email messages to disguise their identity or to prevent users from responding to the messages. The ONLINE ALANO CLUB may disclose the usernames of accounts responsible for forged email messages to system administrators or users requesting the information. Violations of the ONLINE ALANO CLUB policies outlined herein can sometimes result in massive numbers of email responses. If you receive so much email that the ONLINE ALANO CLUB resources are affected, our staff may shut down your mailbox.

System Security

You are prohibited from utilizing the Services to compromise the security of system resources or accounts at the ONLINE ALANO CLUB or at any other site. Use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security or containing viruses or trojans are prohibited. Examples of these tools include, but are not limited to, password guessing programs, cracking tools, or network probing tools. If you are involved in violations of system security, the ONLINE ALANO CLUB reserves the right to release all usernames of users involved in such violations to system administrators at other sites in order to assist them in resolving security incidents. The ONLINE ALANO CLUB will also fully cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating suspected lawbreakers.

System Resources

System abuse includes any use of the ONLINE ALANO CLUB resources that disrupts the normal use of its servers or services for others. Examples of system abuse include running excessive numbers of processes or consuming excessive amounts of CPU time, memory or disk space. Further, running programs in the background on the ONLINE ALANO CLUB servers without its prior written authorization, or running chat rooms, Internet Relay Chat, IRC bots, and the like without prior permission are not acceptable uses of the ONLINE ALANO CLUB servers.