For the general guidance of our customers
- Customers must not use the Service for any illegal purpose.
- Customers should be aware that some material is illegal to possess or transmit.
- Customers should also note that unauthorised access to computer systems may be an offence; although many machines connected to the Internet are placed there so that the customer may access them, it does not follow that the customer may access any computer he or she comes across in any manner they choose.
- We are not responsible for the content of external sites.
- Traffic over the Internet may traverse other networks, or use other services, which are not owned or operated by Grain Connect Limited. We expect that our customers will abide by the Fair Usage Policy and other terms and conditions imposed by the operators of those networks and services.
- Customers must not send packets onto the Internet, which have forged addresses or which are deliberately constructed to adversely affect remote machines.
- Customers may not run “scanning” software which accesses remote machines or networks, except with the explicit permission of the owner of those remote machines or networks.
- Customers must ensure that they do not further the sending of unsolicited bulk email or any other form of email or Usenet “abuse”. This applies to both material that originates on your system and also third party material that passes through it.
- Customers must not run an “open mail relay”, viz. a machine which accepts mail from unauthorised or unknown senders and forwards it onward to a destination outside of your machine or network. If your machine does relay mail, on an authorised basis, then it must record its passing through your system by means of an appropriate “received” line.
- Where applicable, customers are required to accept email addressed to “postmaster” at their address. Customers will be deemed to have read any and all such email. We may take action on the basis of this assumption.
- Whilst connected to the internet, your system must conform to all relevant IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standards.
- Customers must not use the Service in any way that is unlawful or illegal or in any way to the detriment of other Internet users. Customers also must not allow anybody using your connection to use the Services in any way that is unlawful or illegal or in any way to the detriment of other Internet users.
Fair Usage Policy – Internet use continued
Customers are prohibited from storing, distributing, transmitting or causing to be published any Prohibited Material through your use of the Services. Examples of “Prohibited Material” shall be determined by us (acting in our sole discretion) and shall include (but are not limited to) material that: is threatening, harassing, invasive of privacy, defamatory, racist, obscene, indecent, offensive, abusive, harmful, malicious; or infringes or breaches any third party’s intellectual property rights (which shall include, but not be limited to copyright, trade mark, design rights, trade secrets, patents, moral rights, paternity rights and performance rights).
- this includes the use, distribution and/ or copying of any material without the express consent of the owner; is in violation of any law or regulation that is enforceable in the United Kingdom; unsolicited promotional or marketing material; chain letters or pyramid selling schemes; and programs containing viruses, hoaxes or any tools designed to compromise the security of other websites and/or systems.
For the avoidance of doubt, the storage upon and/or distribution over our systems by any User of “pirated” software, or any other materials that are not expressly licensed to the User, will constitute a violation of this Fair Usage Policy.
We reserve the right to inform and/ or report the storage, distribution,
transmission, retransmission or publication of Prohibited Material (and/or any other materials which may constitute unlawful conduct by Users) to relevant authorities and/or regulators.