The Rural Municipality of St.
Francois Xavier’s Fibre Optics Network
Acceptable Usage Guidelines
1.
Usage
Guidelines and Prohibited Activities: If it is determined that the Customer is in violation of the Rural
Municipality of St. Francois Xavier’s ("St. Francois Xavier”) Acceptable Usage
Guidelines, the Customer will be reported to the appropriate local, provincial
and federal authorities. Abuse of Internet access and e-mail account services
(the "Services”) is considered a violation of our usage Guidelines and Terms of
Service. The Customer agrees to not engage in prohibited activities such as,
but not limited to, those listed below:
·
Commercial e-mail: Defined as sending
unsolicited commercial e-mails. The Customer is not permitted to use St.
Francois Xavier’s Service or e-mail alias/account to send unsolicited
commercial. Using an e-mail address hosted anywhere on St. Francois
Xavier’s Service to collect responses from unsolicited commercial e-mail is
prohibited.
·
Mail bombing: Defined as sending large volumes
of unsolicited e-mails.
·
Harassment: Defined as sending threatening or
harassing e-mail after being requested to stop.
·
Fraud: Defined as incorporating a false subject
line, false return address or false transmission path into any e-mail sent.
·
Engage in any activity that compromises or
threatens the ability of St. Francois Xavier to provide the Service in a
reasonable and efficient manner.
·
Running servers for mail, http, ftp, irc, and
multi-user interactive forums,
·
Providing Internet access to others through a
dial-up connection, multi-user interactive forums, or any other means.
·
Use the Service for commercial purposes unless
otherwise agreed to in writing by St. Francois Xavier, resell, share or otherwise
distribute the Service or any portion thereof to any third party; or provide
network services to others via the Service;
·
Improperly restrict, inhibit, or degrade any
other member's use of the Service, or restrict, inhibit, disrupt, degrade or
impede the ability of St. Francois Xavier to deliver the Service and monitor
its delivery of the Service.
·
Install automated search and retrieve programs
or similar automated and manual routines, which generate excessive amounts of
net traffic.
·
Violating any system or network security
measures including but not limited to engaging in unauthorized access or use of
St. Francois Xavier’s or a third party's network, data or information.
·
Monitoring data, systems or network traffic of
St. Francois Xavier or any third party.
·
Interfering with the provision of Service to
any user, host or network by any means including without limitation, mail
bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast
attacks.
·
Forging any TCP-IP packet header or any part of
the header information in an e-mail or newsgroup posting.
·
Using the Service in breach of any local,
provincial, or federal privacy laws.
·
Using the Service in the breaching any local,
provincial, or federal statute, law, by-law or regulation.
·
Engage in any other activity which is in
violation of law, or threatens the integrity of any computer system, or
violates generally accepted standards of Internet conduct and usage, including
but not limited to denial of service attacks, web page defacement, port and network
scanning and unauthorized system penetrations.
· Engage in
any activity that compromises or threatens the ability of St. Francois Xavier
to provide the Service in a reasonable and efficient manner.
·
Running
servers for mail, http, ftp, irc, and multi-user interactive forums.
· Resell,
share or otherwise distribute the Service or any portion thereof to any third
party; or provide network services to others via the Service.
· Interfering
with the provision of Service to any user, host or network by any means
including without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to
overload a system and broadcast attacks.
· Forging any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or newsgroup posting.
2.
No Resale or
Redistribution of the Service: Re-sale or redistribution of the
Service in any form to a third party is prohibited unless agreed to in writing
by St. Francois Xavier. The Customer agrees to not distribute the Service to
any third party by any means. The Customer shall keep and use the Equipment
only at the location shown on the Service Agreement and agrees that the
Equipment cannot be moved without advance written permission from St. Francois Xavier.
The R.M. of St.
Francois Xavier reserves the right to update this policy as necessary.