As an Eneksis Solutions customer, you agree to operate within the guidelines set by the Rackspace Cloud Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) outlined below.
Your services may be suspended or terminated for violation of this AUP in accordance with the Rackspace Cloud Terms of Service.
Capitalized terms used in this AUP shall have the meaning given in the Terms ofService.
Inquiries regarding this policy should be directed to abuse@rackspacecloud.com.
Abuse
You may not use the Rackspace Cloud's network or Services to engage in, foster,
or promote illegal, abusive, or irresponsible behavior, including:
- 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 without express authorization of the owner of the system
or network;
- Monitoring data or traffic on any network or system without the express authorization
of the owner of the system or network;
- Interference with service to any user of the Rackspace Cloud or other 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;
- Collecting or using email addresses, screen names or other identifiers without the
consent of the person identified (including, without limitation, phishing, Internet
scamming, password robbery, spidering, and harvesting);
- Collecting or using information without the consent of the owner of the information;
- Use of any false, misleading, or deceptive TCP-IP packet header information in an
email or a newsgroup posting;
- Use of the service to distribute software that covertly gathers information about
a user or covertly transmits information about the user;
- Use of the service for distribution of advertisement delivery software unless: (i)
the user affirmatively consents to the download and installation of such software
based on a clear and conspicuous notice of the nature of the software, and (ii)
the software is easily removable by use of standard tools for such purpose included
on major operating systems; (such as Microsoft's "ad/remove" tool); or
- Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against the Rackspace Cloud
network or website, or the Rackspace Cloud's employees, officers or other agents,
including engaging in behavior that results in any server being the target of a
denial of service attack (DoS).
Excessive Use of System Resources
You may not use your Service in a way that unnecessarily interferes with the normal
operation of the Rackspace Cloud services generally. In such circumstances, we may
require you to repair abnormalities in your code if the operation of the code unnecessary
conflicts with other customers' use of their services.
Bulk or Commercial E-Mail
You must obtain the Rackspace Cloud's advance approval for any bulk or commercial
e-mail, which will not be given unless you are able to demonstrate, at a minimum,
that:
- your intended recipients have given their consent to receive e-mail 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 e-mail 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 the recipient's and the Rackspace Cloud's requests to
produce consent evidence within 72 hours of receipt of the request;
- You have procedures in place that allow a recipient to 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; you honor revocations of consent within
48 hours, and you notify recipients that the revocation of their consent will be
implemented in 48 hours;
- You must post an email address for complaints (such as abuse@yourdoman.com) in a
conspicuous place on any website associated with the email, you must register that
address at abuse.net, and you must promptly respond to messages sent to that address;
- You must have a Privacy Policy posted for each domain associated with the mailing;
- You have the means to track anonymous complaints;
- You must not obscure the source of your e-mail in any manner. Your e-mail must include
the recipient's e-mail address in the body of the message or in the "TO"
line of the e-mail;
- You must not attempt to send any message to an email address if 3 consecutive delivery
rejections have occurred and the time between the third rejection and the first
rejection is longer than fifteen days.
- These policies apply to messages sent using the Services, or to messages sent from
any network by you or any person on your behalf that directly or indirectly refer
the recipient to a site hosted via the Services. In addition, you may not use a
third party e-mail service that does not practice similar procedures for all its
customers. These requirements apply to distribution lists created by third parties
to the same extent as if the list were created by you.
- The Rackspace Cloud may test and otherwise monitor your compliance with its requirements,
including requesting opt-in information from a random sample of your list at any
time. In addition, the Rackspace Cloud may block the transmission of email that
violates these provisions.
Authenticated SMTP Policy
In addition to the requirements above, you may not send email messages of similar
content through the Rackspace Cloud's SMTP servers to more than two-hundred and
fifty (250) recipients. Attempts to circumvent this restriction by breaking up bulk
email over time, using multiple accounts, or other means will be a violation of
this restriction.
The Rackspace Cloud may block mail that violates this AUP. In addition, your mail
services may be suspended or terminated for violation of this AUP in accordance
with the Terms of Service.
Mail Relays
Generally, we do not allow bulk or commercial e-mail to be sent to more than five-thousand
(5,000) users per day at a rate of 250 messages every 20 minutes. If you would like
to send more than 5,000 messages per day, please contact a member of our support
team for additional information.
Vulnerability Testing
You may not attempt to probe, scan, penetrate or test the vulnerability of a Rackspace
Cloud system or network or to breach the Rackspace Cloud's security or authentication
measures, whether by passive or intrusive techniques, without the Rackspace Cloud's
express written consent.
Newsgroup, Chat Forums, Other Networks
You must comply with the rules and conventions for postings to any bulletin board,
chat group or other forum in which you participate, such as IRC and USENET groups
including their rules for content and commercial postings. These groups usually
prohibit the posting of off-topic commercial messages, or mass postings to multiple
forums.
You must comply with the rules of any other network you access or participate in
using your the Rackspace Cloud services.
Offensive Content
You may not publish, transmit or store on or via the Rackspace Cloud's network and
equipment any content or links to any content that the Rackspace Cloud reasonably
believes:
- Constitutes, depicts, fosters, promotes or relates in any manner to child pornography,
bestiality, or non-consensual sex acts;
- 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 safety or health, creates a risk to 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;
- infringes on another person's copyright, 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 the Rackspace Cloud; or
- is otherwise malicious, fraudulent or may result in retaliation against the Rackspace
Cloud by offended viewers.
- Content "published or transmitted" via the Rackspace Cloud's network or
equipment includes Web content, email, bulletin board postings, chat and any other
type of posting or transmission that relies on the Internet.
Copyrighted Material
You may not use the Rackspace Cloud's network or Services to download, publish,
distribute, or otherwise copy or use in any manner any text, music, software, art,
image or other work protected by copyright law unless:
- you have been expressly authorized by the owner of the copyright for the work to
copy the work in that manner; or
- you are otherwise permitted by established copyright law to copy the work in that
manner.
It is the Rackspace Cloud's policy to terminate in appropriate circumstances the
services of customers who are repeat infringers.
Other
You must have valid and current information on file with your domain name registrar
for any domain hosted on the Rackspace Cloud network.
- You may only use IP addresses assigned to you by the Rackspace Cloud in connection
with your the Rackspace Cloud services.
- You agree that if the Rackspace Cloud IP numbers assigned to your account are listed
on an abuse database like Spamhaus, you will be in violation of this AUP, and the
Rackspace Cloud may take reasonable action to protect its IP numbers, including
suspension and/or termination of your service, regardless of whether the IP numbers
were listed as a result of your actions;
- You agree that we may quarantine or delete any data stored on a shared system if
the data is infected with a virus, or is otherwise corrupted, and has the potential
to infect or corrupt the system or other customers' data that is stored on the same
system.
SLA
No credit will be available under your the Rackspace Cloud Service Level Agreement
for interruptions of service resulting from AUP violations.
MAY 21, 2009