Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

This AUP governs the use of Olliver I.T. Enterprises' web hosting service. Violation of this AUP may result in suspension or termination of your service. In the event of a dispute between you and Olliver I.T. Enterprises regarding the interpretation of this AUP, Olliver I.T. Enterprises' interpretation shall govern.

General Abuse

Any attempt to cause harm or undermine Olliver I.T. Enterprises servers, computers, network or customers is prohibited. Use of the Services to carry out any activity that is illegal under NZ, US and International laws is also prohibited.

Prohibited uses of the Services also include, but are not restricted to:

  • Use of IRC, bots or clients
  • Unsolicited Bulk Emailing
  • Newsgroup spamming
  • Hosting, promoting or linking to pornographic content
  • Illegal Content
  • Copyright infringement
  • Trademark infringement
  • Hosting and linking to pirated computer software and music
  • Hosting/linking to software or information that may help any individual to obtain copyrighted software or music illegally
  • Hosting or linking to computer software that may be used for spamming
  • Providing/Promoting material that is grossly offensive to Internet Users which includes blatant expressions of bigotry, racism or hatred
  • Providing/Promoting material about illegal activities or promoting physical injury or harm against any group or individual
  • Providing/Promoting material about exploitation of children under the age of 18
  • Running anonymous proxies, cookie hiding proxies, email proxies, and any other form of proxy
  • Running tools to check MSN blocked status, Yahoo blocked status, AOL Blocked status, ICQ blocked status, or any other IM network user blocking

Email Abuse

The following activities are considered as email abuse and are prohibited

  • Unsolicited bulk emailing. This includes, but not limited to commercial advertising, informational announcements, charity requests, petitions for signatures, and political or religious tracts. Such emails may only be sent if the receiver explicitly requested such information directly from you
  • Stealth Emailing. This includes forging, altering or removing email headers
  • Mail Bombing. This includes sending a large number of emails to disrupt or compromise any server, system or network
  • Emailing that may harass or intimidate others. This includes harassment or intimidation through frequency of emails, size of emails and the language of emails. If the recipient asks you to stop, you must discontinue sending any further emails
  • Newsgroup Spamming. This includes unwelcome commercial advertising and posting that may be against the rules of a Usenet discussion group or mailing list

Such activities carried out from servers/systems not managed by Olliver I.T. Enterprises are also prohibited if they link to websites, content or material hosted on Olliver I.T. Enterprises servers and/or systems

Server abuse

Server abuse includes any process or service usage that affects normal server/system operation, resources or connectivity, and which causes a server/system to become overloaded. Such abuse includes, but is not limited to:

  • Excessive CPU, hard disk and memory usage
  • Excessive number of concurrent processes
  • excessive number of concurrent port or database connections
  • excessive bandwidth usage

Possible causes for server abuse include, but are not limited to, the excessive use of: CGI, Perl, Sendmail, mySQL, MSSQL, PHP, ASP, COLDFUSION, HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP.