Acceptable Use Policy [04/jan/2023]

Offensive Content

You may not publish or transmit via SteadyTurtle's service any content that SteadyTurtle reasonably believes:

• constitutes pornography or child pornography
• is excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence, or contains harassing content or hate speech
• is unfair or deceptive under the consumer protection laws of any jurisdiction, including chain letters and pyramid schemes
• is defamatory or violates a person's privacy
• creates a risk to a person's or the public safety or health, compromises national security, or interferes with a investigation by law enforcement
• improperly exposes trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information of another person
• is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections
• clearly infringes on another person's trade or service mark, patent, or other property right
• promotes illegal drugs, violates export control laws, relates to illegal gambling, or illegal arms trafficking
• is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws applicable to you or to SteadyTurtle
• or is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may result in retaliation against SteadyTurtle by offended viewers

Rage & Harassment

SteadyTurtle does not tolerate any harassment, malice, or abuse towards its employees or subsidiaries. Any form of harassment, cursing, threats, or ill will directed towards SteadyTurtle staff or authorized agents shall not be tolerated. The Customer agrees to conduct themselves in a professional manner regardless of the method of communication with SteadyTurtle. Should the Customer be found in violation of this clause SteadyTurtle reserves the right to suspend or terminate services with or without prior notice and without liability.

Network Abuse

SteadyTurtle does not allow, condone or authorize any forms of network abuse including but not limited to denial-of-service attacks, phishing attempts, port scans, SYN Floods etc. SteadyTurtle reserves full right to determine what constitutes network abuse and take the appropriate action against the Customer with or without prior notification and without liability.

You may not engage in illegal, abusive, or irresponsible behavior, including but not limited to:

• 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 (including those belonging to SteadyTurtle and its customers) without express authorization of the owner of the system or network.
• Monitoring data or traffic on any network or system without the 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.
• Use of an Internet account or computer without the owner's authorization, including, but not limited to internet scanning (tricking other people into releasing their passwords), password robbery, security hole scanning, and port scanning.
• Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting.
• Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against the SteadyTurtle network.
• Use of SteadyTurtle's network in a way that unreasonably interferes with SteadyTurtle's other customers use of the network.

Prohibited Materials and Services

SteadyTurtle does not accept material such as:

• Public proxy, torrents, tor, warez, escrow, high yield investment programs (HYIP), illegal gambling and lottery sites or services.
• Distributed computing software such as SETI@home or coin miners, including but not limited to CHIA miners.
• Run any file sharing, bit torrent or other P2P network services, client or server software.
• Using Shared/Reseller/Wordpress hosting disk as file storage, videos storage, images storage, zip storage purpose.
• The Unlimited disk space on shared hosting environment can not be used for any other purpose or need then hosting your simple website or blog, we do not allow videos,images,file hosting websites on shared environment.

Content "published or transmitted" via SteadyTurtle's service includes Web content, email, bulletin board postings, chat, and any other type of posting or transmission that relies on any service provided by SteadyTurtle. SteadyTurtle can terminate service for any of the above reasons and it's at SteadyTurtle sole discretion to issue a refund

Security

The customer takes full responsibility for maintaining reasonable security precautions for your account. You are responsible for protecting and updating any login account provided to you for SteadyTurtle systems. You must protect the confidentiality of your password, and you should change your password periodically. You are responsible for ensuring all customer provided software installed is updated and patched following industry best practice. SteadyTurtle makes no warranty express or implied for the security and operability of 3rd party software or scripts installed on your server.

Bulk Email

Any kind of bulk emailing is strictly prohibited with shared or reseller hosting. With VPS, cloud or dedicated hosting you must obtain SteadyTurtle's advance approval for any bulk commercial email, which will not be given unless you are able to demonstrate all of the following to SteadyTurtle's reasonable satisfaction:

• SteadyTurtle does not provide servers for the sole purpose of bulk emails. Software such as PMTA is expressly prohibited.
• All bulk emailing must be limited to send no more than 60 emails per minute.
• Your intended recipients have given their consent to receive email via some affirmative means, such as an opt-in procedure.
• Your procedures for soliciting consent include reasonable means to ensure that the person giving consent is the owner of the email address for which the consent is given.
• You retain evidence of the recipient's consent in a form that may be promptly produced on request, and you honor recipient's and SteadyTurtle's requests to produce consent evidence within 72 hours of receipt of the request.
• You have procedures in place that allow a recipient to easily revoke their consent - such as a link in the body of the email, or instructions to reply with the word "Remove" in the subject line. Revocations of consent are honored within 72 hours, and you notify recipients that their revocation of their consent will be honored in 72 hours.
• You must have a privacy policy posted for each domain associated with the mailing.
• You have the means to track anonymous complaints.
• You may not obscure the source of your email in any manner. Your email must include the recipients email address in the body of the message or in the "TO" line of the email. and you otherwise comply with the CAN-SPAM Act and other applicable law.

You may not send any unsolicited email, either in bulk or individually, to any person who has indicated that they do not wish to receive it. You must comply with the rules of any other network you access or participate in using your SteadyTurtle's services.

Material Protected by Copyright

You may not publish, distribute, or otherwise copy in any manner any music, software, art, or other work protected by copyright law