Acceptable Use Policy and Terms Of Service

SiSHCO provides World Wide Web hosting, Marketing, and Development solutions. SiSHCO has certain legal and ethical responsibilities consisting with the use of its server and equipment involved in these services.

Server Abuse

Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server, or customer, of SiSHCO is strictly prohibited.

SiSHCO will take serious action for any kind of unauthorized use of accounts and computers. Such attempts include "Internet scamming" (tricking other people into releasing their passwords), password robbery, security hole scanning etc.

Possible actions include warnings, account suspension or cancellation, and civil or criminal legal action, depending on the seriousness of the attack.

Hosting accounts may be terminated that include the following content or which have links to the following content: Promoting or providing instructional information about illegal activities, or promoting physical harm or injury against any group or individual displaying material containing obscene nudity or pornographic must move to an adult server. Contact sales for more information. Acts of copyright infringement including offering pirated computer programs or links to such programs, information used to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, including serial or registration numbers for software programs, or any type of cracker utilities programs which put high loads on shared servers are not allowed. This includes Forums (IKONBOARD), Message Boards, IRC Chats and any program or script in any language which performs a high load on the CPU.

Unsolicited Email (Spam)

Unsolicited commercial advertisements (spam) are not allowed in e-mail, and will likely result in account cancellation. Such as: Unsolicited bulk or commercial messages ("spam"). This includes, but is not limited to, bulk mailing of commercial advertising, informational announcements, charity requests, petitions for signatures, and political or religious tracts. Such messages may only be sent to those who have explicitly requested it from your domain. Forging, altering or removing electronic mail headers is prohibited. Any domain sending stealth spam will be terminated without warning and without refund. Sending numerous copies of the same or substantially similar message with the intent to disrupt a server or account ("mail bombing"). Spamming Newsgroups: Commercial advertisements are unwelcome in most Usenet discussion groups and on most e-mail mailing lists. Mail may not be used to harass or intimidate others. Harassment, whether through language, frequency of messages, or size of messages, is prohibited.

Payment Policies

All accounts are billed and charged according to the agreement between SiSHCO and the Customer. Costumers will get billed on arranged cycles automatically. You have the right to cancel your account at any time for any reason. To cancel your account you can email sales@sishco.com. In situations where the card number on file is declined SiSHCO will immediately suspend the facility to purchase services on-line until the outstanding charge is processed successfully. In addition, SiSHCO reserves the right to suspend other services until the outstanding debt is cleared. The client is responsible for all money owed on the account from the time it was established to the time that the client sends an cancellation request.

All invoices will be sent directly to clients via email shortly after the online purchase has been made. You could also use our online accounting system to view all your billing information and invoices and change them how ever you want.

Disk And Bandwidth Overages

All SiSHCO accounts come with specified disk space and bandwidth. If you wish to Upgrade your Web Space or bandwidth it is possible through our Add-Ons. Contact our sales department for more information. sales@sishco.com

Intellectual Property Rights

Material accessible to you through SiSHCO's services may be subject to protection under the United States or other copyright laws, or laws protecting trademarks, trade secrets or proprietary information. Except when expressly permitted by the owner of such rights, you must not use SiSHCO or its servers and network in a manner that would infringe, violate, dilute or misappropriate any such rights, with respect to any material, which you access or receive through the SiSHCO network. If you use a domain name in connection with SiSHCO or similar service, you must not use that domain name in violation of any trademark, service mark, or similar rights of any third party.

Network Security

Customers may not use the SiSHCO network with an attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of any host, network, or account. 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, password cracking, probing the security of other networks in search of weakness, or violation of any other organization's security policy. Customers may not attempt to interfere or deny service to any user, host, or network. This includes, but is not limited to, flooding, mail bombing, or other deliberate attempts to overload or crash a host or network. SiSHCO will cooperate fully with investigations of violations of systems or network security at other sites, including cooperating with law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations. Users who violate system or network security may incur criminal or civil liability.

Lawful Purpose

Customers may only use SiSHCO server for lawful purpose. Transmission of any material in violation of any Federal, State or Local regulation is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to copyrighted material, material legally judged to be threatening or obscene, and material protected by trade secrets. The designation of any materials as such described above is left entirely to the discretion of SiSHCO management. Regardless of the place of signing this agreement, the client agrees that for purposes of venue this contract was entered into in Alameda County, California, and any dispute will be litigated or arbitrated in Alameda County, Fremont. Defendants further waive all objections to venue and acknowledge that venue in any such litigation will be held in Alameda County courts.

Note: SiSHCO has the authority to discontinue or suspend your account whenever necessary according to its internal or external policies.