ATLANTIC INTERNET SERVICES(PTY) LTD

STANDARD USE POLICY AND CONDITIONS:

This Acceptable Use Policy specifies the actions prohibited by ATLANTIC INTERNET SERVICES (Pty) Ltd. (ATLANTIC), to users of the ATLANTIC Network. ATLANTIC reserves the right to modify the Policy at any time, effective upon posting of the modified Policy to this URL: http://lantic.net/homepage/fredirect.html?atlantic/usepolicy.php

ILLEGAL USE:

The ATLANTIC Network may be used only for lawful purposes. Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property right used without proper authorisation, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws.

SYSTEM AND NETWORK SECURITY:

Violations of system or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability. ATLANTIC will investigate incidents involving such violations and may involve and will co-operate with law enforcement if a criminal violation is suspected. Examples of system or network security violations include, without limitation, the following:
Unauthorised 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 authorisation of the owner of the system or network. Unauthorised monitoring of data or traffic on any network or system without express authorisation of the owner of the system or network. Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mailbombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks. Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting.
I/We hereby acknowledge that it is my/our responsibility to keep my/our user name and password a secret and acknowledge that I/we have the ability to upgrade above-mentioned contract using this user name and password.

STANDARD DEBIT ORDER AUTHORIZATION:

I/We hereby request you to draw against my/our account, with whichever bank/building society it may be, the amounts required under the above-mentioned Contract or any renewal thereof and I/we authorise my/our bank/building society to DEBIT my/our account with any amounts drawn against it in terms of this Contract.

INTEREST AND TERMINATION:

Interest is payable on all arrear payments at a rate determined by Atlantic from time to time. I/We acknowledge that termination of this contract is not possible within 3 months and agree to give one calendar month's written notice to terminate this contract. I/We understand that Atlantic reserves the right to take ownership of any domain cancelled and not transferred to another ISP.

NOTICES:

ATLANTIC reserve the right to change the configuration, product structure, cost or any other components on all services rendered from time to time and will give 14 days notice of such changes. Every notice or other communication required or permitted hereunder shall be sufficiently given or transmitted if and when it is send by means of electronic transmission (electronic mail message) or displayed on ATLANTIC's web portal (www.lantic.net) for the said period.

INDEMNIFY:

I/We indemnify Atlantic Internet Services against any damage, loss, claims or cost that may result from work being done in connection with the service being rendered and/or removal of the service. Should I/we fail to pay my/our account I/we shall be liable for any collection, tracing and/or legal fees. I/we hereby confirm that above mentioned physical address shall by my/we domicilium citandi et executandi. An administration service fee of R10 will be levied on all non-payments via DEBIT order.

E-MAIL:

Sending unsolicited mail messages, including, without limitation, Make-Money-Fast (MMF) schemes, chain letters, commercial advertising and informational announcements, is explicitly prohibited. A user shall not use another site's mail server to relay mail without the express permission of the site.

USENET:

Posting the same or similar message to one or more newsgroups (excessive cross posting or multiple posting, also known as "SPAM") is explicitly prohibited. A seemingly accepted number of simultaneous postings are a maximum of five (5). The posting of Make-Money-Fast (MMF) schemes is explicitly prohibited.

SIMULTANEOUS LOGINS:

Username/Password combinations supplied by our ATLANTIC are not transferable. It is the sole responsibility of the end-user to keep his Username/Password confidential. Although we have the mechanism to prevent simultaneous logins violating this agreement constitutes an illegal action.

INDIRECT OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS OF THE POLICY, AND ACTUAL OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS BY A THIRD PARTY ON BEHALF OF AN ATLANTIC INTERNET SERVICES CUSTOMER OR A CUSTOMER'S END USER, SHALL BE CONSIDERED VIOLATIONS OF THE POLICY BY SUCH CUSTOMER OR END USER

ATLANTIC does not in any way support SPAM or any form of NETWORK ABUSE and enforces the ATLANTIC Terms and Conditions and Acceptable Use Guidelines on a stringent basis when complaints are made. Enforcement of ATLANTIC Terms and Conditions as well as its Acceptable Use Guidelines for reasons of SPAM or NETWORK ABUSE will result in suspension or termination of account access privileges.

Complaints regarding Illegal Use or System or Network Security issues should be sent to
security@lantic.net

Complaints regarding email abuse should be sent to
fraud@lantic.net

Complaints regarding USENET abuse or SPAM should be sent to
abuse@lantic.net

These policies are directly inline with those provided by our downstream ISP (UUNET).