Burningbulb provides web hosting to thousands of clients, and we have a responsibility to protect each client and to provide the best services available. The following guidelines were designed to ensure these obligations are met. Upon signing up for Burningbulb's services, all customers agree to comply with Burningbulb's Acceptable Uses Policy & Service Guidelines. The spirit of this policy is to ensure our customers are using Burningbulb's services with due regard to the rights of other Internet users and in conformity with the requirements of Burningbulb's network environment.

All services provided by Burningbulb 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 or material protected by trade secret and other statute. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Burningbulb from any claims resulting from the use of the service which damages the subscriber or any other party.

All pornographic content and sex-related merchandising is prohibited on all Burningbulb servers. This @includes sites that may infer sexual content or links to adult content elsewhere. Burningbulb will be the sole arbiter in determining violations of this provision.

Also prohibited are sites that promote any illegal activity or present content that may be damaging to Burningbulb servers or any other server on the Internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited. Burningbulb will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

EXAMPLES OF UNACCEPTABLE CONTENT OR LINKS:
Pirated software
Hacker programs or archives
Warez sites

Violations of system or network security are prohibited and may result in criminal and civil liability. Examples @include but are not limited to the following: unauthorized access, use, probing, or scanning of systems security or authentication measures, data, or traffic; interference with service to any user, host, or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system, broadcast attacks; forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting.

Spamming, or the sending of unsolicited email, from an Burningbulb server or using an email address or domain that is maintained on an Burningbulb machine as reference is STRICTLY prohibited. Customers are also in violation of this provision if they engage in spamming using the service of another ISP or IPP, but reference in the spam a website on a Burningbulb server. Burningbulb will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

We currently do not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers.

Any web site that uses a high amount of server resources (such as, but not limited to, CPU time, memory usage, and network resources) will be given the option to either pay additional fees (which will depend on the resources required), reduce the resources used to an acceptable level, or upgrade its service to a Dedicated Server plan. Burningbulb shall be the sole arbiter of what is considered to be a high server usage level. Any web hosting account deemed to be adversely affecting server performance or network integrity will be shut down without prior notice.

Any scripts that pose a potential security risk or are deemed to be adversely affecting server performance or network integrity will be shut down or will be automatically removed without prior notice.

Burningbulb does not allow customers to install their own chat rooms. Chat rooms tend to require significant system resources and therefore cannot be permitted as an account option. However, Burningbulb will permit accounts holders to link to an associated chat room that is hosted on a non Burningbulb server.

Burningbulb may allow programs to run in the background. These programs will be considered on an individual basis and customers will incur extra charges based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed. To inquire about the use of cron jobs please contact Burningbulb.

Burningbulb's shared web hosting accounts are not configured for the purposes of distributing software and/or multimedia products. If you wish to distribute software a dedicated server solution should be used. Multimedia files are defined as any graphics, audio, and video files. Burningbulb's shared web hosting accounts are not to be used for the purposes of distributing and storing unusual or excessive amounts of multimedia files.

Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server, or customer, of Burningbulb is strictly prohibited. We reserve the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion. All accounts terminated due to a violation of our Terms of Service are subject to a processing fee equal to one (1) month's hosting fee for that account. All Sub-Networks, distributive hosting sites and dedicated servers of Burningbulb must adhere to the above policies.

The failure by a customer to meet or follow any of the above Terms of Use is grounds for account deactivation. Burningbulb will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of the Terms of Use. Burningbulb reserves the right to remove any account without prior notice. Burningbulb reserves the right to add, delete, or modify any provision of its Terms of Use at any time without notice.