These are the Acceptable Use Policies (AUP) of Innerplanet. All clients of Innerplanet must abide by these policies. Innerplanet reserves the right to change and update these policies as it sees necessary.

 Introduction 

The primary purpose of Innerplanet is to facilitate communication with the numerous computer networks commonly referred to collectively as "the Internet." It is Innerplanet's intention to allow Innerplanet users complete access to everything the Internet has to offer, with minimal or no interference from Innerplanet.

However, many of the individual networks or portions of the Internet have specific guidelines for use. As the Internet expands, it is increasingly common for an Internet Service Provider, such as Innerplanet, to be blocked from use of another organization's systems due to violations of that system's guidelines. Because Innerplanet runs multi-user systems, actions of one Innerplanet customer can have a severe impact on other customers' ability to use the system(s). This is unfair to all Innerplanet users.

To this end, Innerplanet has developed these Acceptable Use Policies. They are intended to inform Innerplanet's Customers of what Innerplanet considers to be acceptable conduct in relation to the Internet, and to inform Customers what actions Innerplanet may take, with or without notice, in the event that Innerplanet becomes aware of inappropriate use of Innerplanet's service. This AUP will be used to help Innerplanet system administrators deal with complaints from users of Innerplanet or other Internet-connected systems, and to determine when action should be taken. It is expected that all Innerplanet Customers will follow the policies set forth herein. These policies are drawn from applicable law and generally accepted standards of Internet conduct, and are intended to ensure protection of Innerplanet's technical resources, ability to continue to provide high quality service to its customers, and the protection of Innerplanet's reputation as a service provider.

1. Warranties/Disclaimers

Innerplanet Internet service is provided on an "as is, as available" basis. No warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, those of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, are made with respect to Innerplanet or any information or software therein. You release Innerplanet from and Innerplanet shall have no liability or responsibility for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages suffered by you in connection with your use of or inability to use the Innerplanet services including, but not limited to, damages from loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries, mis-deliveries, or service interruptions, or due to inadvertent release or disclosure of information sent by you even if the same is caused by Innerplanet's own negligence. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Innerplanet disclaims to the full extent permitted by applicable law any responsibility for (and under no circumstances shall be liable for) any conduct, content, goods and services available on or through the Internet or the Innerplanet services. In no event shall Innerplanet's aggregate liability exceed the amount paid by you to Innerplanet for the Innerplanet services. Use of any information obtained via Innerplanet's Internet service is at the user's own risk. Innerplanet specifically disclaims any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through its services.

1. 1

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL INNERPLANET BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, UNCONSEQUENTIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR INDIRECT DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, EVEN IF INNERPLANET WAS INFORMED OF OR OTHERWISE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY THEREOF. In no event shall Innerplanet's liability for direct damages incurred for any reason and upon any cause of action arising from or relating to this Agreement or the subject matter hereof exceed the fees paid to Innerplanet by Customer hereunder in said term in which the damages are incurred.

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Innerplanet warrants that the services it performs in maintaining its Internet services will be rendered in a competent, professional manner. Innerplanet does not warrant and specifically disclaims any representations that its Internet service will meet Customer's requirements or that their use will be uninterrupted or error-free. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS PARAGRAPH, INNERPLANET DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER EXPRESSED WARRANTIES AND ALL WARRANTIES, DUTIES AND OBLIGATIONS IMPLIED IN LAW, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Innerplanet's limited warranty set forth herein is in lieu of all liabilities or obligations of Innerplanet for damages arising out of or in connection with its Internet services.

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Innerplanet is not obligated to verify the accuracy of any information contained on customer's page or verify that the information is any other way proper and acceptable, provided, however, that Innerplanet reserves the right to:

·         A.) Modify or delete any information or graphics supplied by Customer in order to comply with current and future technical limitations and business requirements of the Internet service.

·         B.) Modify, delete or suspend dissemination or display of any information or graphics supplied by customer if Innerplanet receives any complaints about customer's information or advertising:

o        (i) being false, deceptive, unfair or inaccurate;

o        (ii) violating another's intellectual property right; or

o        (iii) containing language which defames or libels another or another's works.

·         C.) Suspend dissemination and display of the Customer's Internet page, if customer has not made a payment as required by this Agreement, or if Innerplanet determines that the information on the Customer's Internet page will damage the reputation of Innerplanet.

2. Security

The Customer is responsible for all use of the Customer's account's and confidentiality of passwords), including choosing safe passwords and ensuring file protections are set correctly. Innerplanet will suspend access or change access to Customer's account(s) immediately upon notification by Customer that Customer's password has been lost, stolen or otherwise compromised. Innerplanet is not liable for any usage and or charges prior to Innerplanet making the necessary account alteration. Electronic mail on this system is as private as we can make it. Innerplanet's Customers are reminded that no computer network can ever be considered completely safe from intrusion. E-Mail may pass through many computer systems, and should not be considered a secure means of communication unless encrypted – and even encrypted information is only as secure as the encryption method utilized.

3. Personal Files

Innerplanet is not responsible for any customer's personal files residing on Innerplanet. The customer is responsible for independent backup of the customer's data that is stored on Innerplanet. Innerplanet reserves the right to delete any customer 's personal files after one or both parties terminates the service agreement between Innerplanet and the customer. Innerplanet is not responsible for any loss or deletion of customer's data including database content. Innerplanet will back up data on a daily basis, but customer is ultimately responsible for his/her own data backup.

4. Non-Transferability of Account

5. Network Address Ownership

6. Compliance with all Laws

Customer agrees to use the service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations of the United States of America, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the Customer's locality. Reproduction or transmission of any material in violation of any local, state, U.S., or international law or regulation is prohibited. The Customer agrees that any material to be reproduced or transmitted on Innerplanet's service through Customer 's account(s) does not violate or infringe any copyright, trademark, patent, statutory, common law or proprietary rights of others, or contain anything obscene, libelous or threatening. Software intended to facilitate any such violations or infringements may not be stored on Innerplanet. The Customer shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless Innerplanet from and against any claims, liabilities and expenses, including attorney fees, resulting from any Customer's use of the Innerplanet service or a Customer's account in an unlawful manner or otherwise in violation of or contrary to the Customer's Agreement with Innerplanet or Innerplanet's Acceptable Use Policies. At Innerplanet's discretion, Innerplanet may revoke any Customer's access to Innerplanet services or accounts for inappropriate usage.

Customer represents and warrants to Innerplanet that Customer owns or otherwise has the right to display and disseminate the information and content provided on the Customer's Internet page, and that such information and content does not infringe on the intellectual property rights of any third party. Customer represents and warrants that it has obtained, and currently has, any and all grants of rights from third parties which may be required to display text, graphics or other materials in the information contained on Customer's Internet page.

7. Unacceptable Conduct

The following types of conduct are grounds for immediate suspension of service pending investigation by Innerplanet and may result in termination of the account(s) the investigation determines to have originated or transmitted these types of traffic. In addition, Innerplanet reserves the right, where feasible, to implement technical mechanisms which block multiple postings by a Innerplanet Customer as described in (a) and (b) below before such postings are forwarded:

(a) Posting a single article or substantially similar articles to an excessive number of newsgroups (i.e., more than 20) or continued posting of articles which are off-topic, according to the newsgroup charter, or which provoke complaints from the regular readers of the newsgroup for being inappropriate, including articles used for marketing or promoting a site which resides on the Innerplanet network (Inappropriate Postings).

(b) Sending Unsolicited Business Emails (Spam) from Innerplanet's Network. Spam is defined as 300 or more unsolicited messages sent simultaneously.

(c) Distribution of Viruses either through (but not limited to) email or embed html code. Intentional attempts to causes damage, harassment, or annoyance to persons, data, and/or computer systems are prohibited.

(d) Continued harassment of other individuals on the Internet after being asked to stop by those individuals and/or by Innerplanet.

(e) Mail bombing, i.e., sending large volumes of unsolicited E-Mail to individuals or to individual business accounts.

(f) Impersonating another user or otherwise falsifying one's user name in E-Mail, Usenet postings, on Internet Relay Chat (IRC), or with any other Internet service. (This does not preclude the use of nicknames in IRC or the use of anonymous remailer services.)

(g) Privacy violations: Attempts, whether successful or not, to gain access to any other system or users' private data without express consent of the user.

(h) Use of IRC bots or clonebots on Innerplanet, whether on IRC servers controlled by Innerplanet or by other parties. An IRC bot is a program which runs and is connected to an IRC server 24 hours a day, automatically performing certain actions.

(i) Network unfriendly activity: Attempts to interfere with the regular workings of Innerplanet's systems or network connections or which adversely affect the ability of other people or systems to use Innerplanet services or the Internet, including, but not limited to:

1.       any unauthorized attempts by a user to gain root access or access to any account not belonging to that user on this or any other Innerplanet system;

2.       any use of this or any other Innerplanet system as a staging ground to disable other systems.

(j) Any activity which violates the laws or statutes of the United States.

(k) Engaging in either Inappropriate Postings (a) or Spam (b) from a provider other than Innerplanet for the express purpose of marketing a site which resides on the Innerplanet network, or promoting a site on Innerplanet's network through Spam from a non-related network. These tactics are defined as Spamvertisement.

8. Excess Utilization of System or Network Resources

Innerplanet account descriptions in some cases may specify limits on bandwidth, CPU and disk utilization for certain types of Customers, and use up to these limits is included in the price for that type of Customer. In the event Innerplanet determines that a Customer is exceeding the bandwidth, CPU and/or disk utilization limits, the Customer will be notified by E-Mail. If the excess use continues for more than 48 hours after such notification, the Customer may be requested to upgrade to a web hosting service agreement or to modify the activity creating the excess use. If excessive bandwidth, CPU or disk space utilization is determined by Innerplanet to adversely affect Innerplanet's ability to provide service for all customers, immediate action may be taken to alleviate the problem. In such event, the Customer will be notified by E-mail as soon as practicable.

9. Compliance with Rules of Other Networks

Any access to other networks connected to Innerplanet's Internet service must comply with the rules for that other network as well as with Innerplanet's rules.

10. Monitoring/Privacy

Innerplanet reserves the right to monitor any and all communications through or with Innerplanet facilities. Customer agrees that Innerplanet is not considered a secure communications medium for the purposes of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and that no expectation of privacy is afforded. It may become necessary for Innerplanet employees to examine system accounting logs and other records to determine if privacy violations or other network unfriendly activities have occurred. Innerplanet also reserves the right to access a Customer's mailbox or other files stored on Innerplanet systems to resolve system problems or mail system errors.

11. Cooperation with Authorities

Innerplanet reserves the right to cooperate with law enforcement and other authorities in investigating claims of illegal activity including, but not limited to, illegal transfer or availability of copyrighted material, postings or e-mail containing threats of violence or other illegal activity.

12. Confidentiality of Personal Subscriber Information

Innerplanet will not release a Customer's personal subscriber information, nor a Customer's billing information, to any third party except upon presentation of a valid court order of a government or entity within our jurisdiction. Customer agrees that Innerplanet's judgment as to the validity of any court order of subpoena shall be considered proper and final.

13. Innerplanet's Right to Suspend or Cancel Account

Innerplanet reserves the right to suspend or cancel service to a Customer at any time and without notice, for any reason, including, but not limited to, refusal or failure to pay for services provided or by sole judgment of Innerplanet that the Customer may be performing activities harmful to Innerplanet or its Customers, employees, vendors, business relationships or any other users of the Internet.

14. Right to Damages

Innerplanet reserves the right to collect damages (software, hardware and man hours) if any harm is done to Innerplanet which requires repair or reconfiguration of any kind.

15. Other Remedies/Non-Waiver

Nothing contained in these policies shall be construed to limit action Innerplanet may take or remedies available to Innerplanet in any way with respect to any of the described conduct. Innerplanet reserves the right to take any additional actions Innerplanet may consider appropriate with respect to such conduct, including without limitation taking action to recover the costs and expenses of identifying offenders and removing them from the Innerplanet service, and levying cancellation charges to cover Innerplanet's costs in the event of disconnection of dedicated access for the causes outlined above. In addition, Innerplanet reserves at all times all rights and remedies available to Innerplanet with respect to such conduct at law or in equity. Non-enforcement of any policy or rule herein does not constitute consent or waiver, and Innerplanet reserves the right to enforce such policy or rule at its sole discretion.

16. Innerplanet's Right to Change Service

Innerplanet reserves to right to change without notice the Innerplanet service, including, but not limited to, access procedures, hours of operation, menu structures, commands, documentation, vendors and services offered.

17. Innerplanet's Right to Modify its Acceptable Use Policies

Innerplanet may modify its Acceptable Use Policies upon notice published online via Innerplanet. Customer's use of Innerplanet services after such notice shall constitute Customer's acceptance of the modifications to these policies.

18. Indemnifications

Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Innerplanet and its owners, officers, shareholders, directors, employees, affiliates and subsidiaries from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities, proceedings, damages, injuries, losses, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to:

·         A.) Any acts or omissions by Customer undertaken in connection with the Internet page, including, without limitation, those arising out of or related to any branch of:

o        (i) any Customer warranties, representations, or covenants hereunder;

o        (ii) inaccuracy of any information, including false advertising claims and unfair competition claims;

o        (iii) claims and investigations made by any Federal or State agency arising out of information contained on the Customer's Internet page.

·         B.) Violations of any third-party intellectual property rights, or any claim of infringement, misappropriation or violation of a right of a third party (including, without limitation, a trade secret claim, a defamation or libel claim, or an obscenity claim).

19. Miscellaneous Provisions

19.1 - Prevention of Performance

The parties shall not be liable for any delay or failure of performance of this Agreement if such failure is caused by acts of God, war, governmental decree, power failure, judgment or order, strike, communications failure, equipment of software malfunction, or other circumstances, whether or not similar to the foregoing, which are beyond the reasonable control of such party.

19.2 - Entire Agreement

This instrument embodies the whole agreement between the contracting parties. There are no promises, representations, conditions, or terms other than those contained herein.

19.3 - Severability

The provisions of this Agreement are severable. If any provision is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction or a governmental regulatory entity to be invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, that provision shall be construed or limited in such a way as to make it enforceable, consistent with the manifest intentions of the parties. If such a construction or limitation is not possible, the unenforceable provision will be stricken, and the remaining provisions of this Agreement will remain valid and enforceable.

19.4 - Amendments

No modification, change, or alteration of this Agreement shall be effective unless in writing and signed by the parties hereto.

19.5 - Waiver

Failure by either party to insist upon the strictest performance or observance of any provision of this Agreement or to exercise any right or remedy arising out of this Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of any right or remedy with respect to any existing or subsequent breach or default.

19.6 - Notices

Any and all written notices, communications, or payments shall be made to the respective parties at their addresses indicated in the first paragraph of this Agreement or at such other address as a party may indicate in a written notice to the other party to this Agreement.

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