Harris Internet Services, Inc. | Terms of Service & Privacy Policy

Content:
All services provided by Harris Internet Services, Inc. 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, material or software which purpose is to spam or otherwise transmit mass emails resulting in spam complaints from the recipient or material protected by trade secret and other statue. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Harris Internet Services, Inc. from any claims resulting from the use of the service which damages the subscriber or any other party.

Examples of non-acceptable content or links

Pirated software
Mass Email Programs
"Illegal MP3's"
Hackers programs or archives
Warez Sites
Child Pornography

Harris Internet Services, Inc. will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Unlimited Traffic/Hits & Server Resource Usage:
Harris Internet Services, Inc. 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. To maintain the integrity of our service the following traffic/usage limitations apply.

Sites with banners, graphics or cgi's running from their domain being used on other domains. (Hotlinking)
Sites with immense graphic archives or galleries.
Sites offering immense download archives, such as .zip, .tar, .rar and .GZ.
Sites running large chat room gatherings.
Sites using more than 20% of system resources

If you do not qualify for unlimited traffic/hits, your account may be required to be upgraded, or, Harris Internet Services, Inc. may move your site to a different server, to reduce the load on the server you are currently residing... Harris Internet Services, Inc. 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 Harris Internet Services, Inc. may move your site to a different server, to reduce the load on the server you are currently residing...

Chat Rooms:
Harris Internet Services, Inc. does allow clients to install their own chat rooms. However, these tend to be large system hogs and may fall into the usage limitations clause. We do provide a html based cgi chat room that runs without hindering the performance of the machine for others. You are free to run your own chat script, as long as it does not hinder server performance.

Background Processes/Programs
Harris Internet Services, Inc. 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.

Multiple Connections:
Multiple telnet and ftp sessions are allowed, on a single hosting account.

Commercial Advertising - Email:
Spamming, or the sending of unsolicited email, from a Harris Internet Services, Inc. server or using an email address that is maintained on a Harris Internet Services, Inc. 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.
Harris Internet Services, Inc. will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. email is acceptable, as long as no SPAM complaints are received. If we receive spam complaints which are found to be the result of mass mailing activity the hosting contract between Harris Internet Services, Inc. and the involved client can be terminated at any time. Please make an effort to limit legitimate 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 Harris Internet Services, Inc. server or customer of Harris Internet Services, Inc. is strictly prohibited. Harris Internet Services, Inc. will pursue legal action to the fullest extent for all abuse of the Harris Internet Services, Inc..™ Network.

Suspension/De-Activation:
If any terms or conditions are failed to be followed it will result in grounds for account suspension or de-activation. Harris Internet Services, Inc. reserves the right to remove any account without prior notice. If Harris Internet Services, Inc. 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. This provision applies specifically for those individuals who attempt to undermine any and all spam provision by claiming that their programs and activities are so called 'opt-in'. Harris Internet Services, Inc. does not tolerate ANY form of questionable commercial email advertising. It is detrimental to our reputation as well as the internet community in general.

Harris Internet Services, Inc. explicitly reserves the right to cancel any and all hosting accounts at the end of a monthly or yearly term.

Privacy Policy
Harris Internet Services, Inc. respects the privacy of every individual who visits our Web sites, responds to our interactive advertisements or sends us e-mail. This Privacy Statement outlines the information how Harris Internet Services, Inc. will collect and use that information. This Statement will also instruct you on what to do if you do not want your personal information collected or shared when you visit Sprint Web sites, respond to our Web-based advertisements or send us email.

All order forms on Harris Internet Services, Inc. utilize a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) protocol to provide "secure sessions" for our visitors. Through the "secure session," information that you input into a Harris Internet Services, Inc. order form will be sent and will arrive privately and unaltered at a Harris Internet Services, Inc. server. This security prohibits other companies and Web users from being able to access your information.

Harris Internet Services, Inc. will not collect any personally-identifiable information about you (that is, your name, address, telephone number, or email address) unless you provide it to us voluntarily.

The following are some examples of when Harris Internet Services, Inc. may require that you provide personally-identifiable information:

to complete an online order for a product or service (if you do not wish to complete an online order form, we will always provide an option for you to complete an order by calling a phone number)
to request more information about new or current Harris Internet Services, Inc. products or services

If you do not want your personally-identifiable information collected, please do not submit it to us. If you have already submitted this information and would like for us to remove it from our records, please contact us at the email address listed at the bottom of this Statement. We will use reasonable efforts to delete your information from our existing files.

When you do provide us with personally-identifiable information, we may use that information in the following ways, unless stated otherwise:

we may store and process that information to better understand all customer needs and how we can improve our products and services for all customers
we may use that information to contact you with new promotions and announcements if you have previously provided your permission and if the promotions and announcements are in your interest
we may contact you if we have questions about your account

Harris Internet Services, Inc. will not sell personally-identifiable information to third parties, unless stated at the time of collection. We may share information with business partners. We are committed to giving you the choice whether or not we use your information for marketing purposes or share information with business partners.

To contact us please use this form.