Acceptable Use Policy

1. Copyright infringement upon any of Laurel Hosting images, files and or sites is not permitted and will result in your account termination.

2. Laurel Hosting reserves the right to suspend or cancel a customer's access to any or all services provided by Laurel Hosting, where Laurel Hosting decides that the account has been inappropriately used. Laurel Hosting reserves the right to refuse service and/or access to its network to anyone.

3. Laurel Hosting offer large amounts and unlimited disk space and bandwidth with some account types. By this, we mean unlimited disk space for legitimate web site content and bandwidth for visitors to view it. All files on a domain must be part of the active website and linked to the site. Web sites should not contain any backups, or other non-web based content. We will treat all password protected archives (e.g. zip and rar) files as unacceptable. Non web files including, but not limited to exe, mp3, avi, wmf are not permitted on our servers. Storage of non website files is only permitted on our file server as part of our File Hosting Service.

4. Scripts and web applications on the web site must be designed to produce web-based content, and not to use the server as an application server. Scripts and web applications should not attempt to manipulate the timeouts on servers. These are set at the present values to ensure the reliability of the server. Sites that reset these do so because they are resource intensive, and adversely affect server performance and are therefore not allowed. Scripts and web applications that are designed to provide proxy services, anonymous or otherwise, are not allowed.

5. Scripts and web applications that use excessive resources such as memory or CPU are not permitted on our servers.

6. The Laurel Hosting FTP servers may not be used by persons outside of the account holders organization to transfer files to our servers. The use of web cam applications which maintain a constant FTP connection uploading an image at regular intervals is forbidden.

7. Laurel Hosting will disable any web site and domain that fails to adhere to the following criteria as soon as we are made aware, in line with current working practices: -

7.1. The primary purpose of any web site must be to provide web-based content to viewers. Files on the site must be linked to the web site.

7.2. The primary purpose of any script or web application must be to produce a web page. Scripts and web applications that send a single email based upon user entered information, or update a database are acceptable. Scripts and web applications that send bulk email or perform processor intensive database processes are not allowed.

7.3. Database services are for the exclusive use of storing the data of web sites hosted on our network and can not be used to store non web site data.

7.4. Web sites must not contain Warez, copyright or other illegal material. The onus is on you the customer to prove that you own the rights to publish material, not for Laurel Hosting to prove that you do not.

7.5. Web sites must not contain pornographic or other lewd material. Adult Material includes all pornography, erotic images, or otherwise lewd or obscene content. The designation of "adult material" is left entirely to the discretion of Laurel Hosting.

7.6. Web sites must not use excessive amounts of server resources. These include bandwidth, processor utilization and / or disk space.

7.7. Web sites must not contain scripts and web applications that attempt to access privileged server resources, or other sites on the same server.

7.8. FTP servers are for the exclusive use of our customers and may not be used for anonymous or pubic FTP access.

8. If you require the storage of non website files then this is ONLY permitted using our File Hosting Service. Files stored in the File Hosting Service must be legal under US law. If you are found to have illegal files stored on our systems then your account will be suspended and all files removed without warning.The designation of "illegal files" is left entirely to the discretion of Laurel Hosting.