To ensure the best and most reliable service for all of our customers, HavenCo may impose reasonable rules and regulations regarding the use of its services. Such rules and regulations constitute the HavenCo Acceptable Use Policy and the most current version can always be found at http://www.havenco.com/legal/aup.html. This document may change from time to time. Changes go into effect and are applied to all customers from the time that they are posted to the above URL.

Servers hosted with the HavenCo network may be open to the public. The customer is solely responsible for usage of the HavenCo network and any data made publicly available on servers hosted within the HavenCo network may be deemed a "publication" of the information entered.

Unacceptable use of the network includes, but is not limited to:

1. Bulk or regular unsolicited communications through email or other Internet protocol. (commonly called "spam") Hosting web content which is knowingly advertised by spam is also prohibited. Mailing lists must comply with the MAPS Mailing List Management Guidelines; they must be opt-in, provide confirmation protection against accidental or malicious subscription, terms of use of address use must be fully disclosed, and unsubscription methods must be provided.

2. Attempts to use HavenCo services to compromise the security or tamper with system resources or accounts on computers at HavenCo or at any other site ("hacking"). Examples of these attempts are port scanning, ping flooding, password guessing, sniffing network segments containing machines other than your own, or exploiting "backdoors"/security vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access to accounts, resources, or machines.

1. Material that is unlawful in the jurisdiction of the server. For instance, if a customer's machine is hosted on Sealand by HavenCo, content which is illegal in Sealand may not be published or housed on that server. Sealand's laws prohibit child pornography. Sealand currently has no regulations regarding copyright, patents, libel, restrictions on political speech, non-disclosure agreements, cryptography, restrictions on maintaining customer records, tax or mandatory licensing, DMCA, music sharing services, or other issues; child pornography is the only content explicitly prohibited. At the present time, child pornography is not precisely defined; HavenCo is obeying rules similar to those of the United States, specifically a prohibition on any depiction of those under 18 in a sexual context.

HavenCo will not necessarily attempt to police or monitor the use of the network, or the content of publications originating from our customers servers. However, should we become aware of network usage or publication of content that violates our policies, we may suspend or terminate service to the customer. It is our policy to notify customers of such violations and give them a reasonable period to comply before taking any action, however, in the case of flagrant or repeated violations we may choose to suspend or terminate services immediately without any advanced notification.

In the event a customer is believed to have violated this AUP, HavenCo reserves the right to suspend the customer's network traffic at the router level while HavenCo conducts an investigation into the believed AUP violation.

If a customer is found to have violated the AUP, HavenCo reserves the right to take appropriate action, possibly including permanent filters on a customer's network connection (inbound/outbound mail and web), disconnection, and recovery of costs related to the AUP investigation from the customer prior to return of customer equipment or remaining credit balance. HavenCo also may turn over the results of an AUP violation investigation to law enforcement, other network administrators, or others.