Background
Shearar.Net Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is designed to provide a clear understanding of the rules,
regulations and restrictions regarding the use of Shearar.Net services. From time to time Shearar.Net
may impose reasonable rules and regulations regarding the use of its services. The AUPs are not
exhaustive and Shearar.Net reserves the right to modify the AUPs at any time, effective upon either
the posting of the modified AUPs to www.shearar.net or notification of the modified AUPs.

By registering for and using the services, and thereby accepting the terms and conditions of the Terms
of Service Agreement or its equivalent, you agree to abide by the AUPs as modified from time to time.
Any violation of the AUPs may result in the suspension or termination of your account or such other
action as Shearar.Net deems appropriate. An unlisted activity may also be a violation of the AUPs if it is
illegal, irresponsible, or disruptive use of the Internet. No credits will be issued for any interruption in
service resulting from policy violations.

VIOLATION OF ANY AUP IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED AND MAY RESULT IN THE IMMEDIATE TERMINATION
 OR SUSPENSION OF THE SERVICES YOU RECEIVE FROM Shearar.Net. YOU SHALL REMAIN SOLELY
LIABLE AND RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES AND ANY AND ALL CONTENT THAT YOU
DISPLAY, UPLOAD, DOWNLOAD OR TRANSMIT THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICES. "CONTENT"
INCLUDES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, YOUR E-MAIL, WEB PAGES, PERSONAL HOME PAGES, AND DOMAIN
NAMES. IT IS Shearar.Net'S POLICY TO TERMINATE REPEAT INFRINGERS. Shearar.Net RESERVES THE
RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE TO ANYONE AT ANY TIME.

Customer Security Responsibilities
The customer is solely responsible for any breaches of security affecting servers under customer
control. If a customer's server is involved in an attack on another server or system, it will be shut down
and an immediate investigation will be launched to determine the cause/source of the attack. In such
event, the customer is responsible for the cost to rectify any damage done to the customer's server and
 any other requirement affected by the security breach. The labor used to rectify any such damage is
categorized as emergency security breach recovery and is currently charged at $195 USD per hour.
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System And Network Security Violations of system or network security are prohibited, and may result in
criminal and civil liability. Shearar.Net may investigate incidents involving such violations and may involve
and will cooperate with law enforcement if a criminal violation is suspected. Examples of system or
network security violations include, without limitation, the following:

Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or
test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without
express authorization of the owner of the system or network.

Unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic on any network or system without express authorization of
the owner of the system or network.

Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing,
flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks.

Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or a newsgroup
posting.

High-risk services, which are services which tend to attract denial of service attacks, are strictly
prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, IRC related services and selling of shell accounts.

Violators of the policy are responsible, without limitations, for the cost of labor to clean up and correct
any damage done to the operation of the network and business operations supported by the network,
and to respond to complaints incurred by Shearar.Net. Such labor is categorized as emergency security
breach recovery and is currently charged at $195 USD per hour required. Enquiries regarding security
matters may be directed to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Shearar.Net is concerned with the privacy of online
communications and web sites. In general, the Internet is neither more nor less secure than other means
 of communication, including mail, facsimile, and voice telephone service, all of which can be intercepted
and otherwise compromised. As a matter of prudence, however, Shearar.Net urges its customers to
assume that all of their online communications are insecure. Shearar.Net cannot take responsibility for
the security of information transmitted over Shearar.Net facilities.

Password Protection
The customer is responsible for protecting customer's password and for any authorized or unauthorized
use made of customer's password. The customer will not use or permit anyone to use Shearar.Net
service to guess passwords or to access other systems or networks without authorization. Shearar.Net
will fully cooperate with law enforcement authorities in the detection and prosecution of illegal activity.

Contact Information
Customers are responsible for maintaining their contact information in the ticketing system such that the
email address is always reachable even in the event of their Shearar.Net servers being shut down.

Internet Etiquette
The customer is expected to be familiar with and to practice good Internet etiquette (Netiquette). The
customer will comply with the rules appropriate to any network to which Shearar.Net may provide
access. The customer should not post, transmit, or permit Internet access to information the customer
desires to keep confidential. The customer is not permitted to post any material that is illegal, libelous,
and tortuous, indecently depicts children or is likely to result in retaliation against Shearar.Net by
offended users. Shearar.Net reserves the right to refuse or terminate service at any time for violation
of this section. This includes advertising services or sites via IRC or USENET in clear violation of the
policies of the IRC channel or USENET group.

Copyright Infringement - Software Piracy Policy
The Shearar.Net network may only be used for lawful purposes. Transmission, distribution, or storage of
 any information, data or material in violation of United States or state regulation or law, or by the
common law, is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, material protected by copyright,
trademark, trade secret, or other intellectual property rights. Making unauthorized copies of software is
a violation of the law, no matter how many copies you are making. If you copy, distribute or install the
software in ways that the license does not allow, you are violating federal copyright law. If caught with
pirated software, you or your company may be liable under both civil and criminal law, and you may be
fined up to $250,000 and/or receive up to 5 years in jail. In compliance with the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (the "DMCA"), please send DMCA notifications of claimed copyright infringements to
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Network Responsibility
Customers have a responsibility to use the Shearar.Net network responsibly. This includes respecting
the other customers of Shearar.Net. Shearar.Net reserves the right to suspend and or cancel service
with any Customer who uses the Shearar.Net network in such a way that adversely affects other
Shearar.Net customers. This includes but is not limited to:

Attacking or attempting to gain unauthorized access to servers and services that belong to Shearar.Net
or its customers (i.e. computer hacking), and/or

Participating in behavior which results in reprisals that adversely affect the Shearar.Net network or
other customers' access to the Shearar.Net network.

Shearar.Net will react strongly to any use or attempted use of an Internet account or computer without
the owner's authorization. Such attempts include, but are not limited to, "Internet Scanning" (tricking
other people into releasing their passwords), password robbery, and security hole scanning, port
scanning, etc. Any unauthorized use of accounts or computers by a Shearar.Net customer, whether or
not the attacked account or computer belongs to Shearar.Net, will result in severe action taken against
the attacker. Possible actions include warnings, account suspension or cancellation, and civil or criminal
legal action, depending on the seriousness of the attack. Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a
server, or customer, of Shearar.Net is strictly prohibited.

Violations of this policy may be reported directly to the FBI's Infrastructure Protection & Computer
Intrusion Squad at http://www.fbi.gov/programs/ipcis/ipcis.htm. Shearar.Net will cooperate fully with
any civil and/or criminal litigation arising from the violation of this policy.

Lawful Purpose
All services may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any
information, data or material in violation of any applicable law, regulation, or AUP is prohibited. This
includes, but is not limited to:

Copyrighted material or material protected by trade secret and other statute ordissemination of harmful
or fraudulent content.

Using any Shearar.Net service or product for the purpose of participating in any activity dealing with
subject matters that are prohibited under applicable law is prohibited.

Any conduct that constitutes harassment, fraud, stalking, abuse, or a violation of federal export
restriction in connection with use of Shearar.Net services or products is prohibited. Using the
Shearar.Net network to solicit the performance of any illegal activity is also prohibited, even if the
activity itself is not performed. In addition, knowingly receiving or downloading a file that cannot be
legally distributed, even without the act of distribution, is prohibited.

Servers hosted within Shearar.Net network are open to the public. You are solely responsible for your
usage of the Shearar.Net network and servers and any statement you make on servers hosted within
the Shearar.Net network may be deemed "publication" of the information entered. Acknowledging the
foregoing, you specifically agree not to use our service in any manner that is illegal or libelous.

Child Pornography on the Internet
Our policy on child pornography is zero tolerance. Shearar.Net will cooperate fully with any criminal
investigation into a Customer's violation of the Child Protection Act of 1984 concerning child
pornography. Customers are ultimately responsible for the actions of their clients over the Shearar.Net
network, and will be liable for illegal material posted by their clients.

According to the Child Protection Act, child pornography includes photographs, films, video or any other
type of visual presentation that shows a person who is or is depicted as being under the age of eighteen
 years and is engaged in or is depicted as engaged in explicit sexual activity, or the dominant
characteristic of which is the depiction, for a sexual purpose, of a sexual organ or the anal region of a
person under the age of eighteen years or any written material or visual representation that advocates
or counsels sexual activity with a person under the age of eighteen years.

Violations of the Child Protection Act may be reported to the U.S. Customs Agency at 1-800-BEALERT

Adult Content on the Internet
Shearar.Net will provide notification and will inform any customers in writing of improper materials on our
servers. Shearar.Net reserves the right to disconnect any customers immediately.

Commercial Advertisements with E-mail
Shearar.Net takes a zero tolerance approach to the sending of Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE) or
SPAM over our network. Very simply, this means that customers of Shearar.Net may not use or permit
others to use our network to transact in UCE. Customers of Shearar.Net may not host, or permit hosting
 of, sites or information that is advertised by UCE from other networks. Violations of this policy carry
severe penalties, including termination of service.

Sending a message, especially an advertisement, to more than five recipients, is by itself spamming
unless the individuals have specifically requested to be added to a mailing list on that topic. This includes
commercial advertisements and informational messages sent to recipients via electronic mail (email) as
well as off-topic messages posted in Usenet discussion groups where the recipient has not requested or
invited the message. Mailing lists must be true opt-in mailing lists. Before sending any email to a listed
user, a confirmation email, with a tracking number, must be sent to the new subscriber, to which they
must respond with a confirmation that they wish to be added to the list. You must keep these
confirmations on file, so that in the case that a spam complaint is made against you, you have proof that
the user did indeed opt-in. In addition, you must provide at least one easy way to opt out; see the
MAPS guidelines (http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/manage.html) for details. Opt-out requests must be honored
immediately.

E-mail is a person-to-person medium, not a broadcast medium.

Customers of Shearar.Net are strictly prohibited from using or permitting others to use UCE or SPAM
over our network. As our Customers are ultimately responsible for the actions of their clients over the
Shearar.Net network, it is advisable that Customers develop a similar, or stricter, policy for their clients.

Violation of Shearar.Net SPAM policy will result in severe penalties. Upon notification of an alleged
violation of our SPAM policy, Shearar.Net will initiate an immediate investigation (within 48 hours of
notification). During the investigation, Shearar.Net may restrict customer access to the network to
prevent further violations. If a customer is found to be in violation of our SPAM policy, Shearar.Net may,
at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend or terminate customer's account. Further, Shearar.Net reserves
the right to pursue civil remedies for any costs associated with the investigation of a substantiated policy
violation. Shearar.Net will notify law enforcement officials if the violation is believed to be a criminal
offense.

USENET
Posting the same messages to multiple newsgroups (excessive cross-posting or multiple-posting, also
known as "SPAM") is expressly prohibited.

INDIRECT OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS OF THE POLICY, AND ACTUAL OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS BY
A THIRD PARTY ON BEHALF OF AN Shearar.Net CUSTOMER OR A CUSTOMER'S END USER, SHALL BE
CONSIDERED VIOLATIONS OF THE POLICY BY SUCH CUSTOMER OR END USER. WE RESERVE THE
RIGHT TO LEVY FINES OF $500 to $5000 US$ PER INCIDENCE OF ANY VIOLATION OF OUR POLICIES

For Example: If you are hosting a bulk email site on Shearar.Net servers and you use another ISP to
SPAM from in order to reference your Shearar.Net site by IP address or domain name, you are violating
Shearar.Net policy and possibly the law. If you have been granted telnet access to Shearar.Net
servers, multiple telnet log-ons are strictly prohibited and you must come from a valid IP address.
Forgery is against the law. Any type of denial of service attack from valid or invalid addresses is a
violation of Shearar.Net security policy and against the law. If you have been granted password
privileges for FTP or telnet, sharing your password with an unauthorized user or third party is strictly
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IP Address Overlap
Shearar.Net administers the network on which customer servers reside. The customer cannot use IP
addresses which were not assigned to them by Shearar.Net staff. Any server found using IPs which
were not officially assigned will be suspended from network access until such time as the IP addresses
overlap can be corrected.

IRC
Shearar.Net does not allow the use of IRC on the Shearar.Net network. This includes, but is not limited
to, the use of IRC clients, server software, bots or anything related to IRC. Violators' servers will be
suspended.

Network Performance
Shearar.Net accounts operate on shared resources. Excessive use or abuse of these shared network
resources by one customer may have a negative impact on all other customers. Misuse of network
resources in a manner which impairs network performance is prohibited by this policy and may result in
termination of your account.
You may not use network-intensive programs, such as peer-to-peer or audio/video streaming
applications, which negatively impact other customers or the performance of Shearar.Net systems or
networks. Shearar.Net reserves the right to terminate or limit such activities.

Billing
The customer understands that the customer is responsible for paying for any network resources that
are used to connect the customer's server to the Internet. The customer may request that the
customer's server be disconnected from the Internet, but the customer will still be responsible for paying
for any network resources used up to the point of suspension or cancellation.

Suspension
Shearar.Net reserves the right to suspend network access to any customer if, in the judgment of the
Shearar.Net network administrators, the customer's server is the source or target of the violation of any
of the other terms of the AUPs or for any other reason which Shearar.Net chooses. If inappropriate
activity is detected, all accounts of the Customer in question will be deactivated until an investigation is
complete. Prior notification to the Customer is not assured. In extreme cases, law enforcement will be
contacting regarding the activity. The customer will not be credited for the time the customer's machines
were suspended. The Customer will be credited on a prorated basis based on the monthly fees the
Customer pays for the servers that are suspended for the time the Customer's machines were
suspended.

Cancellation
Shearar.Net reserves the right to cancel service at any time. If inappropriate activity is detected, all
accounts of the customer in question will be deactivated until an investigation is complete. Prior
notification to the Customer is not assured. In extreme cases, law enforcement will be contacting
regarding the activity. All fees paid in advance of cancellation are non-refundable if Shearar.Net
institutes its right of cancellation. Any violation of policies which results in extra costs will be billed to the
customer (i.e. transfer, space etc.).

Indemnification
The customer acknowledges its indemnification obligations under the Shearar.Net Terms of Service.
Violations of this AUP may result in significant civil and criminal liability of customer.

Disclaimer of Responsibility
Shearar.Net is under no duty to look at each customer's or user's activities to determine if a violation of
the AUPs has occurred, nor do we assume any responsibility through our AUPs to monitor or police
Internet-related activities. Shearar.Net disclaims any responsibility for any such inappropriate use and
any liability to any person or party for any other person's or party's violation of this policy.
All Sub-Networks, resellers and managed servers of Shearar.Net must adhere to the above policies.
Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate Cancellation.
INDIRECT OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS OF THE AUPs AND ACTUAL OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS BY A
THIRD PARTY ON YOUR BEHALF SHALL BE CONSIDERED VIOLATIONS OF THESE AUPs BY YOU.