Acceptable Use Policy

Abusive or Illegal Usage

The Customer is not entitled to use the Services for purposes which Astrec Data deems to be illegal, offensive, abusive or promote and foster such irresponsible behaviour as well as actions contrary to accepted Internet norms or behaviour that threatens Astrec Data’s infrastructure.

This includes but is not limited to:

• Storage or transfer of illegal material, including material which it is illegal to transmit over a public telecommunications network;
• Involvement in fraudulent activities;
• Use of the Services in connection with fraudulent activities
  Unauthorised access to systems, networks and data including attempts to identify vulnerabilities in systems and networks without the express permission of the system or network owner;
• Storage or transfer of, or linking to, content that violates trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, patents, or other intellectual property rights, or contributes to the said violations;
• Storage or transfer of, or linking to, content that is harassing or excessively violent, inciting to hate or violence, or threatening with violence;
• Use of an Internet account or computing without the owners’ authorisation;
• Monitoring of data and network traffic without the owners’ authorisation;
• Collection of user information (including financial information) and email addresses without the consent of the person identified;
• Interference with service to other users of computer systems or networks, including denial of service attacks;
• Publishing of websites or other material which are advertised by techniques (including but not limited to spam) which we would classify as abusive if they were carried out by Astrec Data;
• Use of Astrec Data services to distribute software that covertly transmits user information and advertising delivery software (unless said software includes user consent and easy removal using standard established methods); and
• Any other misuse of our or other computer systems.