These Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policies
(terms and Policies) are an essential part of your relationship with
Sulima Internet. By using your Sulima Internet account, you agree to
all of the Terms and Policies set out in this document.
1. General Terms and Policies. Sulima Internet is
a private company providing a commercial gateway to the Internet.
Sulima Internet equipment and facilities may be used to send
electronic mail to known recipients, conduct commercial
transactions, access the World Wide Web, newsgroups and private
networks, engage in on-line chat sessions, transfer files, enjoy
audio and video programming, and otherwise participate in all legal
aspects of the Internet (these uses are referred to in this document
as the Service), subject to these Terms and Policies.
The Service is provided to authorized persons or
organizations (referred to in this document as Subscriber or you).
Any use of the service is subject to any restrictions listed below.
By using the Service, you agree to be bound by all of theses Terms
and Policies. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms and
Policies, you must cancel your account immediately and may not
thereafter use or attempt to use the Service.
Sulima Internet grants you a non-exclusive right
to access, use and display the Service on any computers or other
electronic display devices of which you are a primary user. You may
not assign sub-license or transfer any rights or obligations of the
Service without the express written consent of Sulima Internet.
2. Coverage. If you are an individual Subscriber,
these Terms and Policies apply to all persons who gain access
through your account. If you are a commercial Subscriber, these
Terms and Policies apply to all your employees, agents and/or
customers. In either instance, you will treat a violation of these
Terms and Policies by anyone using your account as a violation.
3. Prices and Charges. Prices and charges are
posted on pages that describe the service and become due upon
signing up for a service. Any changes to prices and charges become
effective at the next renewal of service contract. All price change
notices are posted in advance at the locations where service
described. It is your responsibility to read service messages.
Charges are due within 10 days of the due date. No
invoice is sent out on month-to-month service. Payments received
after that date will incur a late payment charge of [1.5]% of the
total amount past due.
Any checks returned by the issuing institution
would be charged a processing fee of $28.00 or whatever is charged
at the time by the financial institution. Any billing refused or
charged-back by your credit card company or issuing bank will result
in a handling charge of $28.00.
If you fail to pay for your account for 15 days
after the due date, Sulima Internet may without further notice
terminate your account. Termination does not remove your
responsibility to pay all fees incurred up to the date that Sulima
Internet terminates your account. If Sulima Internet incurs any fees
or costs in collecting any past-due amounts, including costs of
attorneys or a collection bureau, those fees and costs will be added
to the amount you owe.
4. Term. The Service is provided to you on a
month-to-month basis. Sulima Internet must receive written notice of
termination (which may be by first-class mail or by e-mail) from you
at least 15 days prior to end of a month, or the Service will be
provided and charged to you for the following month.
5. Grounds for Suspension and Termination. You
agree to comply with these Terms and Policies, as well as the
applicable rules, regulations and policies of any network, bulletin
board, newsgroup, web site or Internet Service Provider accessed
through the Service. Any violation of either these Terms and
Policies or the other rules, regulations or policies noted above may
serve as cause for Sulima Internet to suspend or terminate your
account. You agree that Sulima Internet has the right, with or
without notice, to suspend or terminate your account upon the first
or subsequent occurrence of any of the following:
a. Using the Service in a way which constitutes
violation of any applicable statute, law, court order, tariff,
regulation, or treaty (including, but not limited to, intellectual
property, communications, privacy, criminal and international law);
b. Using the Service in a manner intended to abuse
or violate the privacy or property rights of others, including but
not limited to sending of unsolicited bulk e-mail (spamming); this
ground for suspension or termination is separate from and in
addition to the fees which will result from such activity;
c. Using the Service in an attempt to break
security, or so as to actually break security of any computer
network (including the Service itself), or to access an account,
message, or file which does not belong to you;
d. Using the Service in such a way as to forge or
miss-represent headers, addresses, or other identification in
electronic mail or USENET postings, or using any other method to
disguise the sender's identity or location;
e. Posting commercial messages to a USENET group
where the specific USENET group in its charter does not approve the
posting;
f. Using the Service to operate server programs,
including, but not limited to mail servers, IRC serves, game
servers, ftp servers, Web servers, or streaming audio/video servers.
g. Using the Service to promote or solicit
competing Internet services;
h. Using the Service for unauthorized relays
through any third party systems;
i. Attempting, in any way, to interfere with or
deny service to any user or any host on the Internet;
j. Using the Service for mail-bombing, which
includes any instance where multiple messages are sent to a specific
destination with the intent to render the recipient and/or the
electronic system serving that recipient dysfunctional;
k. Using the Service to add or attempt to add
addresses to any mailing list (yours or a third party's) without the
explicit positive consent of the addressee(s);
l. Using the Service to forward or post "chain
letters" (multiple forwarding) of any type;
m. Attempting to cancel, supersede, or otherwise
interfere with e-mail or USENET posts other than your own;
n. Engaging in harassment, whether through
language, frequency, or size of messages;
o. Using the Service to engage in flood attacks,
which are defined as overburdening a recipient computer system by
sending a high volume of spurious data which effective impedes or
totally disables functionality of the recipient system(s), or any
other methods of denial-of-service attacks; or,
p. Furnishing false data on your sign-up form,
contract, or online application, including providing fraudulent
credit card or other payment information.
No bill credit will be given for a period of
suspension. In the event of termination of your use of the Service
under this section, Sulima Internet may at its sole discretion
retain any or all amounts you have paid for use of the Service as
liquidated damages for your actions.
6. Security. You agree not to access or attempt to
access private areas of the Service. You agree to notify Sulima
Internet as soon as you become aware of an unauthorized use of your
account and/or any breach or attempted breach of security on the
Service.
7. Intellectual Property. Sulima Internet does not
undertake to examine or review messages, files, or other materials,
which are accessible through, pass through, or reside on the
Service. In compliance with the Federal Digital Millennium Copyright
Act, Sulima Internet has designated the administrator as the
individual to receive complaints about alleged copyright
infringement taking place on Sulima Internet facilities. To avail
yourself of the protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
if you believe that your copyrights) is being infringed by means of
material hosted on Sulima Internet facilities, you need to provide a
signed notice in writing to the administrator, continuing a specific
identification of the allegedly infringing material and the
location(s) on Sulima Internet facilities where the materials are to
be found. Upon receipt of such written notice, Sulima Internet will
expeditiously remove or block access to the allegedly infringing
material, and provide notice to the person who had posted that
material. If Sulima Internet receives a notification from that
person indicating that the claim of infringement was based upon
mistake or misidentification, Sulima Internet will send you a copy
of that notification. Unless you notify Sulima Internet of
appropriate court action to restrain the alleged infringement, the
challenged material will then be restored or other wise made
accessible again.
8. Liability. You agree that use of the Service is
at your own risk. Except for information, products, or services
clearly identified as being supplied by Sulima Internet, neither
Sulima Internet nor any of its affiliates controls, provides,
operates, or is in any way responsible for any information,
products, or services accessible through the Service. Sulima
Internet neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy of
third-party material(s), and you agree that Sulima Internet is not
responsible for any loss or damage caused by your use of, or
reliance on, such material(s).
You understand and agree that you have sole
responsibility for your posting of any information or material to
any site or newsgroup on the Internet, including but not limited to
postings to Web sites, whether residing on Sulima Internet equipment
or not, postings to newsgroups, and participation in any on-line
chat sessions. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Sulima
Internet and its officers, directors, employees, and other customers
and subscribers from and against any claims, losses, costs,
liability, damages or expenses arising out of your postings.
You agree that, should you use the Service to send
or receive voice communications, Sulima Internet is not acting as a
telecommunications carrier or telephone company, that there is no
representation made by Sulima Internet as to the suitability of the
Service for such use, and that all risk of connection, transmission
quality, and accuracy of communications is solely on you, and that
Sulima Internet has no liability of any sort for the failure or lack
of quality of such use of the Service.
You agree to be liable for any damages or loss of
service, which results in damages to Sulima Internet as a result of
any spamming, or other violations of Section 5 above. These damages
include, but are not limited to, system shut downs, retaliatory
attacks or data flooding, and loss of peering arrangements. You
agree that Sulima Internet may pursue any such claims against you in
a court of law.
You agree that in no event will Sulima Internet
have financial liability to you in excess of the dollar amount
remaining on your current service period, or $24.95, whichever is
greater.
9. Warranty. Sulima
Internet MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING
WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, REGARDING THE
SERVICE, OR ANY SOFTWARE OR OTHER MATERIAL AVAILABLE THROUGH THE
SERVICE, REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU MAY HAVE TOLD Sulima Internet ABOUT
YOUR INTENDED USE OF THE SERVICE. NO ORAL ADVICE OR INFORMATION
GIVEN BY Sulima Internet OR ITS EMPLOYEES SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY OR
OTHERWISE ALTER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
THE SERVICE AND ANY SOFTWARE PROVIDED TO YOU BY
Sulima Internet ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS, AS AVAILABLE" BASIS;
Sulima Internet DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THEY WILL BE ERROR-FREE AND/OR
UNINTERRUPTED, OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. Sulima Internet
DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE SECURITY OR BACK-UP OF ANY OF YOUR DATA WHICH
MAY BE STORED ON THE SERVICE.
10. Content. You understand and agree that
information and access available through the Service may include
controversial, sexually explicit, or other material that may be
offensive to you or users for whom you are responsible. Sulima
Internet has no responsibility for or control over such materials,
and you take sole responsibility for using any available screening
software or other methods of limiting access (specifically including
the access of minors) to any material you may find objectionable.
11. Dial-up Connection. Sulima Internet may
terminate a dial-up subscriber's connection following 40 minutes of
inactivity as determined by Sulima Internet in its sole discretion.
12. Privacy. Sulima Internet commits to follow the
controlling Federal and state laws respecting Subscriber privacy and
data access. Sulima Internet will not provide names, addresses,
telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, or other personally
identifiable information on any Subscriber to any third party
without prior permission from that Subscriber, or as required under
an appropriate court or administrative directive, including a
facially valid subpoena, or as necessary to render the Service.
Sulima Internet may provide aggregate data on Subscribers to third
parties in the operation of Sulima Internet business.
13. Disputes. You agree that any dispute between
you and Sulima Internet arising out of your use of the Service on in
any way based upon your subscription to and/or use of the Service
which cannot be resolved between you and Sulima Internet will be
submitted by the aggrieved party for binding arbitration under the
auspices of the American Arbitration Association. Any demand for
arbitration under this Section must be filed with the American
Arbitration association office in Burlington County, New Jersey. The
arbitration must be a person with experience in online services
operation.
14. Governing Law. These Terms and Policies are
governed in all respects under the laws of the State of New Jersey.
15. Your continued use of the Service will be
deemed consent to any and all terms and Policies. If you do not wish
to continue to use the Service as a result of any Terms and
Policies, you may provide notice of your wish to terminate your use
of the Service to the administrator, and any unused portion of fees
you have paid for the Service will be returned to you within