ADnD.COM General Policy

By opening an account with ADnD.COM, you agree to abide by all policies of ADnD.COM These policies apply to all users of ADnD.COM without exception; failure to adhere to the stated policies may result in termination of the account at the discretion of ADnD.COM

ADnD.COM reserves the right to change policies, services, and pricing. Your continued use of an account signifies acceptance of any and all policies and policy changes, and you may cancel if you do not agree with changes in policy, service, or pricing.

ADnD.COM reserves the right to refuse to provide service to anyone.

Disclaimers

ADnD.COM makes no warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, for the service it is providing. ADnD.COM will not be held responsible for any damage you suffer from use of an account or service provided by ADnD.COM, unless otherwise agreed to in writing. This includes- but is not limited to- equipment damage, failure or loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries, or service interruptions caused by the company's negligence or your negligence or misuse.

Privacy

ADnD.COM is committed to preserving the privacy of its customers and protecting their personal data. ADnD.COM keeps information about its customers such as names, addresses, telephone numbers and details about ADnD.COM services used by the customer. While some of this information may be made available to our immediate affiliates in the course of providing services our customers have requested, ADnD.COM will not otherwise disclose any information about its customers to any other third party without a court order or other legitimate legal proceedings. In particular ADnD.COM will not release any customer email addresses to any third party.

Acceptable Use Policy

Any prohibited or illegal activity that affects ADnD.COM, its agents, equipment or customers is punishable to the full extent of the law, and ADnD.COM will hold you responsible for any damage caused by your actions, whether intentional or unintentional. You are strictly prohibited from using your account other than as outlined in this Acceptable Use Policy and ADnD.COM will fully co-operate with any and all Law enforcment and other investigative agencies to ensure that you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law if you do so illegally (see Enforcement section). ADnD.COM makes no exceptions in enforcing this policy.

ADnD.COM, functions as a common carrier; our standard policy is to not monitor or interrupt our users' activities, exert editorial control over their content, or censor them or their content. To protect the interests of ADnD.COM and in the best interests of our customers, exceptions to this policy may be made under certain specific circumstances including but not limited to the following:

Illegal activities: The law requires ADnD.COM to report any criminal activity that it becomes aware of to the appropriate authorities. It is the responsibility of the account owner to be familiar with current laws and regulations.

Email: Email accounts are for personal or business correspondence only. Unsolicited Commercial Email (otherwise known as UCE - or spam) is strictly prohibited and violators will have their accounts terminated immediately. Sending unsolicited email to one or more addresses regardless of how the addresses were obtained may be considered spamming and is grounds for account termination. Use of a ADnD.COM address or any address of a domain hosted by ADnD.COM as a return address for replies to spam is similarly prohibited.

ADnD.COM may at its discretion employ filtering techniques to block inbound email from known sources of spam and email abuse, and may also filter incoming email for known viruses.

Chat: The IRC chat server is provided as a service for the use of all, and all users must familiarise themselves with, and abide by, the rules that are posted from time to time on this website, and within the server messages.

ADnD.COM may at its discretion employ Administrators, and IRC Opers to act as helpers and enforcers. Whilst such people will act with the full authority and backing of ADnD.COM. Any views expressed by them that are not also published on the website, or in the server messages, are not necessarily the views of ADnD.COM or any of it's proprietors.

At no time will ADnD.COM tolerate any of the following abuses to the chat system by any members, or other users of the system.

• Users will immediately dessist from attempting to contact or follow around the channels any other user that has expressed a desire to discontinue contact with that user. Failure to do so may constitute an offence in some jurisdictions.
• Users will ensure at all times that their activities remain within reasonable bounds of common decency. This is not an adult themed server, and whilst ADnD.COM can hold no responsibility for the subject matter or content of any chat activity, we will take action if we deem your activities to constitute a moral or other threat to any minors that may be an inadvertent audience. Be aware that exposing a minor to moral danger is an offence in most jurisdictions.
• The Opers act at all times with the full authority of ADnD.COM and any rulings given are final and must be obeyed.
• Users will not employ scripts that contain Trojans, or Backdoors. Nor will they employ scripts that are designed to cause distress to other users, or the server. ADnD.COM reserves the right to refuse access to such scripts should they be detected.
• Users will not connect to the chat server using an open proxy. Connecting to the chat server is implicit acceptance of this rule and ADnD.COM uses a port scanner only for the purpose of determining whether or not a user is employing such a proxy.
• Opers are not here to help police Chat Rooms. We feel that there are sufficient tools within the Pseudo Clients NickServ, and ChanServ to adequately protect your rooms. However they can be called upon to assist with any other aspect of the Chat server, or with any abuse of the server policy.
• Users will not set up bots or rooms for the purposes of distributing Warez, MP3s, Porn, or any copyrighted material without the author's written permission.
• ADnD.COM reserve the right to terminate without notice, the connection of any client in breach of this AUP.

Network abuse: Use of ADnD.COM accounts or services for orchestration of or participation in any abuse of the ADnD.COM or any other network, system or service is expressly forbidden and is grounds for account termination and possible legal action. ADnD.COM retains at all times the right to determine what constitutes network abuse. Examples include but are not limited to:

• Attempts to hack the ADnD.COM network or any other network or systems
• Port scanning
• Use of 'cracking' software or techniques
• Intentional dissemination of viruses
• Intentional provocation of attacks on the ADnD.COM network or any other network
• Flooding ADnD.COM or any other network with traffic for the purpose of disrupting service
• Mail bombing

ADnD.COM customers must also comply with the acceptable use policies of our upstream providers, Sonic.net, (http://www.sonic.net), UUNET (http://www.uu.net) and Cable and Wireless ( http://www.cw.com)

Access to content: ADnD.COM functions as a common carrier and does not censor. Material can be found on the Internet or in Usenet news groups, etc., that some viewers may find objectionable; ADnD.COM is not responsible for any content available via ADnD.COM accounts or services. Any limitation of access to content is at all times the responsibility of the account holder and ADnD.COM shall not be held responsible for access to material that an account holder deems inappropriate. We suggest that minors be supervised.

Use of copyrighted material: ADnD.COM is obligated to comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA). All web pages are subject to copyright law, and members are responsible for the content in their file space. Use of the World Wide Web, FTP, Newsgroups,IRC or any other services provided by ADnD.COM to transfer copyrighted material in violation of applicable laws is prohibited and may result in termination of your ADnD.COM account.

Ownership of submitted material:

Accountability

The owner of any type of ADnD.COM account or service will be held responsible for any abuse of that account or service, regardless of whether the owner was the actual initiator of the abuse. This includes for example but is not limited to: abuse of an email account or dialup add-on which is part of a customer's account but which is used by a third party or abuse of a colocated server or colocation services by a third party, with or without the account owner's permission.

Enforcement and remedy:

Violation of any terms set forth in this Acceptable Use Policy may result in one or more of the following, at the discretion of ADnD.COM:

• Issuance of a warning
• Temporary suspension of service
• Billing to defray administrative costs incurred
• Termination of your services, account or accounts
• Seeking the co-operation of your service providers, or your ISP's upstream providers to terminate service to you or your ISP, using the standard mechanisms for such as provided by all major ISPs.
• Legal action

If any activities or security problems involving a ADnD.COM account or ADnD.COM customer's services cause network outages, the owner of the account or service will be billed for network down-time. In instances where it is necessary to terminate a customer's account for violation of the terms set forth in this Acceptable Use Policy, an administrative disconnect fee may be applied.

ADnD.COM will normally attempt to contact any user in violation of this Acceptable Use Policy before taking action, but depending on the circumstances or the severity of the violation action may be taken without prior notification. In this case, the user will be notified as soon as it is practicable.

No limitation

This acceptable use policy in no way limits the rights and remedies of ADnD.COM At its discretion ADnD.COM may take other actions it deems necessary to protect the integrity of its or other's networks or to recover the costs of operation as pertain to identifying and removing violators of this acceptable use policy.

Advertising On ADnD.COM

ADnD.COM Is a banner free site, we do not want to have banners on our site. We do have site buttons on our side bar, if you wish to have your site added to our sidebar please e-mail sales@adnd.com include an image of your button and the URL to your site. We will take a look at your site and if it fits the theme of ADnD.COM we will add it. We do require that you return the favor by adding our button to your site.