Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

Adeox Acceptable Use Policy

This AUP governs the use of ADEOX's hosting, cloud VPS, colocation, voice, and network services. Violation of this AUP may result in immediate suspension or termination of your service. In the event of a dispute between you and ADEOX Technologies INC. regarding the interpretation of this AUP, ADEOX's interpretation, in its reasonable commercial judgment, shall govern.

1. Prohibited & Offensive Content

You may NOT publish or transmit via ADEOX's service any content (including Web content, e-mail, bulletin board postings, chat, or any other Internet transmission relying on ADEOX services) that ADEOX reasonably believes:

• Constitutes child pornography or 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 safety or health, creates a risk to public safety or health, compromises national security, or interferes with an 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 gambling, or arms trafficking;
• Is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing application such as BitTorrent, Kazaa, eDonkey, WinMX, or any other P2P file sharing software that demands high bandwidth and CPU resources and negatively impacts shared hardware nodes;
• Is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws applicable to you or to ADEOX; or
• Is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may result in retaliation against ADEOX by offended viewers.

2. Account & System Security

Customers must maintain reasonable security hygiene—including protecting password and SSH/RDP credential confidentiality, rotating credentials periodically, and keeping guest operating systems and web applications patched. You may not use ADEOX's service for any of the following:

• 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;
• Monitoring data or traffic on any network or system without authorization of the owner;
• Interference with service to any user, host, or network—including mail bombing, packet flooding, DDoS/broadcast attacks, or deliberate attempts to overload a system;
• Phishing, credential harvesting, password robbery, security hole scanning, or unauthorized port scanning;
• Forging of any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or newsgroup posting;
• Any conduct likely to result in retaliation (such as DDoS attacks or IP blocklisting) against ADEOX's network;
• Use of ADEOX's network in a manner that unreasonably interferes with other customers' use of the network; or
• Attacks, threats, or abusive behavior directed toward ADEOX staff.

3. Unsolicited E-Mail & Bulk Commercial E-Mail

You may not send unsolicited e-mail (SPAM), either individually or in bulk, to any recipient who has not affirmatively consented to receive it. You must obtain ADEOX's advance written approval prior to sending any bulk commercial e-mail, which requires demonstrating all of the following to ADEOX's reasonable satisfaction:

• Affirmative opt-in consent from all intended recipients with verification that the consenting party owns the e-mail address;
• Retention of verifiable opt-in consent records producible within 72 hours of request by a recipient or ADEOX;
• Clear disclosure inside the e-mail body explaining how the recipient's address was obtained and how to request consent evidence;
• Working one-click or reply-based opt-out revocation honored within 72 hours;
• An active abuse@ mailbox published on the homepage of the associated domain, registered at abuse.net, and monitored promptly;
• A published Privacy Policy for each domain associated with the mailing and capability to track anonymous complaints;
• Unobscured headers and accurate TO addressing in full compliance with the US CAN-SPAM Act and applicable international anti-spam laws.

4. Copyright Protection & DMCA Takedown Procedure

You may not publish, distribute, or copy music, software, art, or other copyrighted works unless expressly authorized by the copyright holder or permitted under established United States copyright law. ADEOX terminates the accounts of repeat copyright infringers.

If you believe your copyrighted work is being infringed on the ADEOX network, submit a written Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notification to abuse@adeox.com containing all six statutory elements:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or a representative list if multiple works at a single site are covered);
3. Identification of the allegedly infringing material and information reasonably sufficient (such as exact URLs and IP addresses) to permit ADEOX to locate it;
4. Contact information reasonably sufficient to permit ADEOX to reach the complaining party (postal address, telephone number, and email address);
5. A statement of good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

5. Forums, IRC & External Networks

Customers must comply with the acceptable-use rules and charters of any external network, bulletin board, chat forum, IRC network, or USENET group accessed through ADEOX services.