Terms of Service

Content Unlimited Traffic Chat Rooms Background Processes IRC Idle Timeouts Commercial Advertising Server Abuse Penalties

Content
All services provided by WebGeist may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any United States Federal, State or City law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material we judge to be threatening or obscene, unlicensed software or files, or material protected by trade secret and other statue. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless WebGeist from any claims resulting from the use of the service which damages the subscriber or any other party.

Note: Pornography and sex-related merchandising are prohibited on any WebGeist server. This includes sites that may infer sexual content, or links to adult content elsewhere. This is also true for sites that promote any illegal activity or content that may be damaging to WebGeist servers or any other server on the internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited. WebGeist will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Examples of non-acceptable content or links:
Pirated software
"Illegal MP3's"
Hackers programs or archives
Warez Sites
Child Pornography

Unlimited Traffic/Hits & Server Resource Usage:
WebGeist is pleased to offer our clients unlimited traffic/hits, and server usage. Unlimited Traffic/Hits refers to the number of visitors to your website, NOT the amount of bandwidth/data transfer. Your account is still limited to the allotted bandwidth/data transfer included with your selected package.

If you do not qualify for unlimited traffic/hits, your account may be required to be upgraded, or, WebGeist may move your site to a different server, to reduce the load on the server you are currently residing... WebGeist will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of usage limitations. Bandwidth/data transfer will go unmonitored until you reach your account limit, then normal over-usage data transfer costs will apply. At any time WebGeist may move your site to a different server, to reduce the load on the server you are currently residing.

Chat Rooms:
WebGeist does allow clients to install their own chat rooms. You are free to run your own chat script, as long as it does not hinder server performance.

Background Processes/Programs
WebGeist may allow programs to run continually in the background, these are considered on a one to one basis and a extra charge may be incurred based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed.

IRC:
WebGeist currently does not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers.

Idle Timeouts:
WebGeist may disconnect any idle connection to the network.
Average timeouts are:
FTP - 300 seconds
Telnet - 2 hours

Commercial Advertising - Email:
Spamming, or the sending of unsolicited email, from a WebGeist server or using an email address that is maintained on a WebGeist machine is STRICTLY prohibited. For general reference, we consider spam any email that is sent to more than 10 people at a time that did not ask for it to be sent to them. WebGeist will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. Opt-In email is acceptable, as long as Opt-Out/Removal request are fully honored. Please make an effort to limit outgoing mail on your account to no more than 1000 pieces per hour. Large mailings are preferred to be sent from the hours of 12AM - 8AM EST

Server Abuse:
Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a WebGeist server or customer of WebGeist is strictly prohibited. WebGeist will pursue legal action to the fullest extent for all abuse of the WebGeist Network.

Penalties:
If any terms or conditions are failed to be followed it will result in grounds for account suspension or de-activation. WebGeist reserves the right to remove any account without prior notice. If WebGeist deactivates your account(s) for violating policy, your will forfeit your rights to a refund...and none will be given. No refunds for advance payments, on de-activated accounts. Normal policy is a warning first, and account de-activation the second offense. Serious offenses may cause immediate de-activation.