Acceptable Use Policy

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY OF j2 GLOBAL IRELAND LIMITED AND ITS AFFILIATES AS LISTED BELOW (J2)

Customer agrees to use, and to cause its Users to use, the Services in a courteous and cooperative manner, and so as not to abuse the Services or the custom and user etiquette in place from time to time respecting the use of the Internet, and so as not to violate or affect the rights of others.

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Customer agrees not to use the Services so as to violate the law, or to misuse the proprietary information or property of others for his or her own purposes or otherwise, and not to make publications which are threatening or defamatory or otherwise injurious to the safety, business or reputation of others.

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Customer shall not do any of the following or permit any of Customer’s Users, or other third parties to do any of the following:

  1. disclose private communications without permission to parties other than the intended recipient, or disclose confidential information;
  2. post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or profane information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any local, provincial, state, national or international law, including without limitation, export control laws and regulations;
  3. post or transmit any information or software that Customer is aware contains a virus, worm, or other harmful component;
  4. upload, post, publish, transmit, reproduce, or distribute in any way, information, software or other material obtained through the Internet which is protected by copyright or other proprietary right, without obtaining the permission of the copyright owner or right holder;
  5. falsify User information provided to J2 or to other users of the Services in connection with the use of a J2 Service;
  6. share accounts, including without limitation, letting third parties use your account and password;
  7. spam or other advertising that is objectionable to J2 in its sole discretion, including without limitation, sending unsolicited mass emailings to more than twenty-five (25) email users if such unsolicited emailings provoke complaints from the recipients, posting a single article or advertisement to more than ten (10) Usenet or other news groups, forums, email mailing lists or other similar groups or lists, and posting to any Usenet or other news group, forum, email mailing lists or other similar group or list articles which are off-topic according to the charter or other published FAQ or description of the group or list; and
  8. engage in any of the foregoing activities using the service of another provider, but channeling such activities through a J2 account or remailer, or using a J2 account as a mail drop for responses.
  9. operate any open relay (a mail server that accepts and transmits mail for one or more 3rd party domains) that is connected or can connect to J2 servers or networks.
  10. use the Services to store (a) any “protected health information” (as such term is used in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-191) unless Customer is using CypherSmart, or (b) any other type of information that imposes independent obligations upon J2.

J2 reserves the right to implement without notice on a Customer wide basis technical measures to block excessive load, whether intentional or unintentional, caused by repeated or excessive transmission of data over J2 servers and networks that J2 considers in its sole discretion would cause degradation to any service or network.

J2 considers the above practices to constitute abuse of J2’s Services and of the recipients of such unsolicited mailings or postings or both, who often bear the expense. Engaging in one or more of these practices will result in termination of the Services.

J2 reserves the right to implement without notice on a Customer-wide basis technical mechanisms which block multiple postings as described above, including without limitation incoming and outgoing unsolicited advertising or spam mail.

Nothing contained in this policy shall be construed to limit J2’s actions or remedies in any way with respect to any of the foregoing activities, and J2 reserves the right to take any and all additional actions it may deem appropriate with respect to such activities, including without limitation, all rights and remedies available to it at law or in equity.

Affiliates of j2 Global Ireland Limited include The Electric Mail Company, VIPRE Security Limited (formerly Fusemail UK Limited) , j2 Global Norway AS, j2 Global Sweden AB (formerly Stay Secure Sweden AB), WeCloud AB, Stay Secure Denmark ApS, and j2 Global Denmark A/S.

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