This Acceptable Use Policy represents the complete agreement and understanding between Advanced Network Solutions, Inc.(hereinafter called "ANS") and the account holder (hereinafter called "Customer") and supersedes any other written or oral agreement. Upon 30 day written notice to Customer, ANS may modify these terms and conditions as well as discontinue or change services offered. Furthermore, ANS reserves the right to remove your site(s) and / or email services from our web and / or email servers for lack of payment and or continual late payments.

1. ANS makes no warranties of any kind, whether expressed or implied, for the service it is providing. ANS also disclaims any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. ANS will not be responsible for damages the Customer suffers. This includes loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries, misdeliveries, or service interruptions caused by its own negligence, subscriber's errors or omissions, or due to the fault of third parties.

2. Customer agrees to defend, hold harmless and expeditiously indemnify ANS from any liability, claim, loss, damage or expense arising out of the indemnifying party's breach or violation of any covenant contained in this Policy and resulting from the Customer's use of the hosting and / or email services.

3. ANS hosting services cannot be transferred or used by anyone other than the Customer. Customers may not sell, lease, rent or assign web server resources to any party not named in this Policy.

4. Customer may have FTP access for Customer's web site directory only; Customer may not allow FTP access to non-Customers to ANS's web servers or resources without expressed written permission from ANS. If Customer provides FTP access to non-Customers, Customer violates this Acceptable Use Policy and ANS reserves the right to cancel Customer's hosting service and/or increase billing.

5. Customer may not post or configure database applications, server-side includes (SSI) applications, databases, CGI scripts, COM objects, ODBC data sources, stored procedural calls, search engines, or any third-party applications or code without the expressed written permission from ANS. If Customer violates this provision, ANS reserves the right to cancel Customer's hosting and email services and/or increase billing.

6. Hosting services provided to the Customer by ANS may only be used for lawful purposes. Transmission or publication of any information, data or material in violation of any U.S. Federal or state regulation or law is prohibited. Customer agrees not to transmit, promote, or otherwise make available any software, product or service that is either illegal or designed to violate this Policy. Such software, products or services include, but are not limited to, software or other programs designed to send unsolicited advertisements (i.e. "spamware") and services which send unsolicited advertisements or promotional materials to other network users (SPAM and UCE).

7. Customer shall ensure that its use of ANS's web server resources shall not disrupt ANS, its associated networks or equipment (for example, excessive pinging of the ANS web server to overload system resources.) In instances in which an excessive amount of system resources are utilized by a Customer, ANS reserves the right to place CPU process limits on the Customer's account to prevent disruption of service to other Customers.

8. Customers shall not transmit any communication where the meaning of the message, or its transmission or distribution, would violate any applicable law or regulation or would likely be offensive to the recipient thereof. Use of ANS's web server resources in a manner that is disruptive, damaging, unlawful, offensive, or intrusive as determined by ANS or any third party shall be considered a breach of this Policy and may result in cancellation of hosting and email service. This prohibition extends to sending of unsolicited mass emailings from another service which in any way implicates the use of ANS's hosting service, ANS's equipment or any site hosted on any ANS web server.

9. Customer may not upload, post, publish, transmit, reproduce, or distribute in any way, information, software or other material obtained through the hosting service which is protected by copyright, or other proprietary right, or derivative works with respect thereto, without obtaining permission of the copyright owner or rightholder. Customer further warrants that any material submitted for publication on ANS's web server does not violate or infringe any copyright, trademark, patent, statutory common law or proprietary interest of others or contain anything obscene or libelous. ANS reserves the right to remove any and all materials which infringe on copyright work. Such materials will be removed at any time upon receiving a complaint and or notice of copyright infringement.

10. Customer may not post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, profane, or otherwise objectionable information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law, including without limitation the U.S. export control laws and regulations.

11. Customer may not post or transmit any information or software which contains a virus, cancelbot, trojan horse, worm or other harmful component.

12. Use of ANS's hosting services could involve listing Customer's participation in relevant directories, and Customer expressly grants permission for such listings.

13. Transferring your domain to another provider does not constitute canceling your ANS hosting service. You must notify ANS in writing to formally cancel your hosting service with ANS to avoid further charges. If Customer desires to transfer their web site files to another provider, ANS reserves the right to charge Customer up to $250.00 for the necessary time, labor, and equipment needed to help Customer and or their new hosting provider access said files.

14. On occasion, ANS may have a need to communicate with its Customers through e-mail issues related to billing, as well as changes, additions and modifications to the network. It is the responsibility of the Customer to check e-mail sent to the primary login e-mail address on the account.

15. ANS uses commercially reasonable efforts to provide system backup for Customer's E-mail account(s). However, due to increasing security risks including, but not limited to, viruses, intrusion attempts, disruptions in the Internet and other situations that may destroy transient messages before they can be backed up. ANS shall not be held responsible for any lost E-mail data, email attachments, or any E-mail message contents, regardless of the reasoning for data loss or system causes. Except as otherwise set forth herein, ANS will not share Customers' web site activity and / or historical data to any party for any reason, regarding any system or Internet activity, without the express written request from the Customer.

If you do not understand any of the terms and conditions of this Policy, please forward your questions to security@anscorp.com or call us at (330) 645-4266.