Acceptable Use Policy

a) to do anything that includes storing, sending, or distributing:

• i. any content or material which is restricted, prohibited or otherwise unlawful under any applicable law (or which is likely to be), including material and/or content which defames, harasses, threatens, abuses, menaces, offends, violates the privacy of, or incites violence or hatred against, any person or class of persons which could give rise to civil or criminal proceedings (or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence or give rise to civil liability);
• ii. confidential information, copyright material, trademarks, trade secrets or other content, which is subject to third party intellectual property rights, unless you have a lawful right to do so, or that in any way breaches a third-party agreement (including but not limited to a non-disclosure agreement) or obligation; and/or
• iii. any content or material, which interferes with other users of any of our Services (or may do so) or restricts or hinders any person from accessing, using or enjoying the internet, our Services, our network or systems (or the networks or systems of our suppliers);

b) to do any other act or thing which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent (or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect) or is otherwise prohibited under any applicable law or which is in breach of any code, standard or content requirement of any other competent authority;

c) to access, monitor or use any data, systems or networks, including another person's private information, without authority or attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of any data, system or network or to violate the privacy, publicity or other personal rights of others or to impair the privacy of communications;

d) to compromise the security, tamper with, hinder the operation of or make unauthorised modifications to the integrity of any network or system including, but not limited to, our network or systems (or our suppliers' network or systems) or to cause technical disturbances to our network or to our suppliers' network);

e) to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware;

f) to forge header information, email source address or other user information or use another person's name, username or password or otherwise attempt to gain access to the account of any other customer;

g) to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam), in breach of the Privacy and Electronic Communication Regulations 2003 or otherwise in any way that:

• i. degrades or interferes with other users' use of any of our Services (or may do so) or disrupts or interferes with our network or Service or causes a host or the network to crash;
• ii. could, in our reasonable opinion, materially affect the quality or operation of any networks or services provided by us or any third party;
• iii. breaches any applicable local, national or international law, regulation or code of practice (including export control laws or regulations);
• iv. contravenes generally accepted standards of internet or other networks conduct and usage, including but not limited to denial-of-service attacks, web page defacement, port or network scanning and unauthorised access to systems;
• v. attempts to avoid incurring charges or to avoid otherwise being required to pay for such usage; and/or
• vi. harms or attempts to harm minors in any way, including but not limited to downloading, possessing or transmitting indecent images of children;

h) to assist, encourage or permit any persons in engaging in any of the activities described in this section in a way which could, in our reasonable opinion, bring our name, or the name of any third party, into disrepute.