DTI’s Acceptable Use Policy
1. INTRODUCTION
DTI's Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") sets forth the principles that govern the use by customers of the Web-based products and services provided by DTI. All users of DTI’s Internet services (the "Services”), as well as those who pay a monthly service fee to subscribe to the Services ("Members")-must comply with this AUP. DTI may cooperate with legal authorities and/or third parties in the investigation of any suspected or alleged crime or civil wrong. Your violation of this AUP may result in the suspension or termination of either your access to the Services and/or your DTI account or other actions as detailed in Section 3. This AUP is designed to help protect our customers, and the Internet community, from irresponsible, abusive or illegal activities.
2. VIOLATIONS OF DTI’S ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
The following constitute violations of this AUP:
Prohibited Actions: General Terms and Conditions of Use
- Copying/duplicating the Licensed Product or creating subsets or derivative databases from the Database.
- Assigning, selling or passing along the Licensed Product.
- Publishing or otherwise disseminating the Licensed Product or creating subsets or derivative databases from the Database for commercial use or sale.
- Providing services for a fee using the Licensed Product or any subsets or derivatives thereof.
- Allowing data from the Licensed Product to be made available to others or downloading the Licensed Product onto any electronic storage media or distributing or transferring the Database or Search Results in any form (printed, electronically relayed, posted to public list services or bulletin boards, or magnetically stored) to, or for the benefit, of others.
- Unauthorized distribution of passwords and/or access codes
is strictly prohibited.
- Institutional users should contact their Site Administrator
regarding the General
Terms and Conditions of their License Agreement.
Prohibited Actions: Impersonation/Forgery
Adding, removing, or modifying identifying network header information (aka "spoofing") in an effort to deceive or mislead.
Attempting to impersonate any person by using forged headers or other identifying information.
Prohibited Actions: Network unfriendly activity
Any activities which adversely affect the ability of other people or systems to use DTI’s services or the Internet are prohibited. This includes "denial of service" attacks against the DTI servers, network hosts or individual user.
Prohibited Actions: Commercial e-mail
- Sending unsolicited commercial e-mail. Using a DTI e-mail or Website address to distribute commercial e-mail is prohibited.
- Sending large volumes of unsolicited e-mail (aka "mail bombing") is prohibited. Prohibited Actions: Access control and Authentication
- Attempting to circumvent user authentication or security of any host, network, or account (aka "cracking") is strictly prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, accessing data not intended for the customer, logging into a server or account the customer is not expressly authorized to access, or probing the security of DTI servers and networks.
Prohibited Actions: Proxy Hunters, Spiders, Robots
Using any program/script/command, or sending messages of any kind, designed to interfere with a User’s session, by any means, locally or by the Internet. Enforcement
DTI reserves the right to monitor Internet access to the DTI services by authorized User(s)/Licensee(s), as part of the normal course of its business practice. Should DTI discover User(s) engaged in Prohibited Actions as outlined above, which create denial of access or impediment of service, and which adversely affect DTI’s ability to provide services, DTI reserves the right to temporarily suspend User/Licensee access to the DTI Host Server and/or Database. DTI shall make written/electronic notification to User or Licensee point of contact of any temporary suspension, and the cause thereof, as soon as reasonably possible. This temporary suspension will remain in effect until the Prohibited Actions have ceased.
3.REPORTING VIOLATIONS OF DTI’s AUP
DTI requests that anyone who believes that there is a violation of this AUP direct the information to Director-Abuse Department, at: info@dtitrader.com. If available, please provide the following information:
The IP address used to commit the alleged violation
The date and time of the alleged violation, including the time zone or offset from CST
Evidence of the alleged violation Email with full header information provides all of the above, as do syslog files. Other situations will require different methods of providing the above information. DTI may take anyone or ALL of the following actions in response to complaints:
- issue warnings: written or verbal
- suspend the Member's newsgroup posting privileges
- suspend the Member's account
- terminate the Member's account
- bill the Member for administrative costs and/or reactivation charges
- bring legal action to enjoin violations and/or to collect damages, if any, caused by violations.
Rev. 01/30/2004
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