ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY v1.0

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These Policies are not exhaustive and Re-invent Technologies LLC reserves the right to modify these Policies at any time, effective upon posting of the modified Policies to
www.re-invent.com.

As a provider web site hosting and other Internet-related services, Re-invent Technologies LLC offers its customers (also known as subscribers), and their customers and users, the means to acquire and disseminate a wealth of public, private, commercial, and non-commercial information. Re-invent Technologies LLC respects that the Internet provides a forum for free and open discussion and dissemination of information, however, when there are competing interests at issue, Re-invent Technologies LLC reserves the right to take certain preventative or corrective actions. In order to protect these competing interests, Re-invent Technologies LLC has developed an Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP"), which supplements and explains certain terms of each customer's respective service agreement and is intended as a guide to the customer's rights and obligations when utilizing Re-invent Technologies LLC services. This AUP will be revised from time to time. A customer's use of Re-invent Technologies LLC services after changes to the AUP are posted on Re-invent Technologies LLC web site, www.re-invent.com, will constitute the customer's acceptance of any new or additional terms of the AUP that result from those changes.

One important aspect of the Internet is that no one party owns or controls it. This fact accounts for much of the Internet's openness and value, but it also places a high premium on the judgment and responsibility of those who use the Internet, both in the information they acquire and in the information they disseminate to others. When subscribers obtain information through the Internet, they must keep in mind that Re-invent Technologies LLC cannot monitor, verify, warrant, or vouch for the accuracy and quality of the information that subscribers may acquire. For this reason, the subscriber must exercise his or her best judgment in relying on information obtained from the Internet, and also should be aware that some material posted to the Internet is sexually explicit or otherwise offensive. Because Re-invent Technologies LLC cannot monitor or censor the Internet, and will not attempt to do so, Re-invent Technologies LLC cannot accept any responsibility for injury to its subscribers that results from inaccurate, unsuitable, offensive, or illegal Internet communications.

When subscribers disseminate information through the Internet, they also must keep in mind that Re-invent Technologies LLC does not review, edit, censor, or take responsibility for any information its subscribers may create. When users place information on the Internet, they have the same liability as other authors for copyright infringement, defamation, and other harmful speech. Also, because the information they create is carried over Re-invent Technologies LLC network and may reach a large number of people, including both subscribers and non-subscribers of Re-invent Technologies LLC, subscribers' postings to the Internet may affect other subscribers and may harm Re-invent Technologies LLC goodwill, business reputation, and operations. For these reasons, subscribers violate Re-invent Technologies LLC policy and the service agreement when they, their customers, affiliates, or subsidiaries engage in the following prohibited activities:

Spamming -- Re-invent Technologies LLC does not allow the use of their services for mass mailings. This includes all mailing lists, legitimate opt-in or not. Email usage in excess of 500 emails per account per 24 hours is not allowed and could result in suspension of email services, account suspension, and/or account termination. For these types of mass mailings, a third party mass email service should be used.

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Intellectual Property Violations -- Engaging in any activity that infringes or misappropriates the intellectual property rights of others, including copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, software piracy, and patents held by individuals, corporations, or other entities. Also, engaging in activity that violates privacy, publicity, or other personal rights of others. Re-invent Technologies LLC is required by law to remove or block access to customer content upon receipt of a proper notice of copyright infringement. It is also Re-invent Technologies LLC policy to terminate the privileges of customers who commit repeat violations of copyright laws.

Obscene Speech or Materials -- Using Re-invent Technologies LLC network to advertise, transmit, store, post, display, or otherwise make available child pornography or obscene speech or material. Re-invent Technologies LLC is required by law to notify law enforcement agencies when it becomes aware of the presence of child pornography on or being transmitted through Re-invent Technologies LLC network.

Defamatory or Abusive Language -- Using Re-invent Technologies LLC network as a means to transmit or post defamatory, harassing, abusive, or threatening language.

Forging of Headers -- Forging or misrepresenting message headers, whether in whole or in part, to mask the originator of the message.

Illegal or Unauthorized Access to Other Computers or Networks -- Accessing illegally or without authorization computers, accounts, or networks belonging to another party, or attempting to penetrate security measures of another individual's system (often known as "hacking"). Also, any activity that might be used as a precursor to an attempted system penetration (i.e. port scan, stealth scan, or other information gathering activity).

Distribution of Internet Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses, or Other Destructive Activities -- Distributing information regarding the creation of and sending Internet viruses, worms, Trojan horses, pinging, flooding, mailbombing, or denial of service attacks. Also, activities that disrupt the use of or interfere with the ability of others to effectively use the network or any connected network, system, service, or equipment.

Facilitating a Violation of this AUP -- Advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available any software, program, product, or service that is designed to violate this AUP, which includes the facilitation of the means to spam, initiation of pinging, flooding, mailbombing, denial of service attacks, and piracy of software.

Export Control Violations -- Exporting encryption software over the Internet or otherwise, to points outside the United States.

Usenet Groups -- Re-invent Technologies LLC reserves the right not to accept postings from newsgroups where we have actual knowledge that the content of the newsgroup violates the AUP.

Other Illegal Activities -- Engaging in activities that are determined to be illegal, including advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, fraudulently charging credit cards, phishing scams / schemes, and pirating software.

Other Activities -- Engaging in activities, whether lawful or unlawful, that Re-invent Technologies LLC determines to be harmful to its subscribers, operations, reputation, goodwill, or customer relations.

* Violations of the above will be billed to the customer at a rate of $85/hour for us to research and identify the offending web site.  Additional fees may also be assessed for bandwidth overage, disk space overage and a termination fee of $125.  No exceptions! This billing is not all inclusive as to other action we may take against the offending customer. No refunds will be issued to accounts terminated for violation of this policy.   Violations of the above of serious and illegal matters and if appropriate we will contact the appropriate law enforcement agencies.

As we have pointed out, the responsibility for avoiding the harmful activities just described rests primarily with the subscriber. Re-invent Technologies LLC will not, as an ordinary practice, monitor the communications of its subscribers to ensure that they comply with Re-invent Technologies LLC policy or applicable law. When Re-invent Technologies LLC becomes aware of harmful activities, however, it may take any action to stop the harmful activity, including but not limited to, removing information, shutting down a web site, implementing screening software designed to block offending transmissions, denying access to the Internet, or take any other action it deems appropriate.

Re-invent Technologies LLC also is aware that many of its subscribers are, themselves, providers of Internet services, and that information reaching Re-invent Technologies LLC facilities from those subscribers may have originated from a customer of the subscriber or from another third-party. Re-invent Technologies LLC does not require its subscribers who offer Internet services to monitor or censor transmissions or web sites created by customers of its subscribers. Re-invent Technologies LLC has the right to directly take action against a customer of a subscriber. Also, Re-invent Technologies LLC may take action against the Re-invent Technologies LLC subscriber because of activities of a customer of the subscriber, even though the action may effect other customers of the subscriber. Similarly, Re-invent Technologies LLC anticipates that subscribers who offer Internet services will cooperate with Re-invent Technologies LLC in any corrective or preventive action that Re-invent Technologies LLC deems necessary. Failure to cooperate with such corrective or preventive measures is a violation of Re-invent Technologies LLC policy.

Re-invent Technologies LLC also is concerned with the privacy of on-line communications and web sites. In general, the Internet is neither more nor less secure than other means of communication, including mail, facsimile, and voice telephone service, all of which can be intercepted and otherwise compromised. As a matter of prudence, however, Re-invent Technologies LLC urges its subscribers to assume that all of their on-line communications are insecure. Re-invent Technologies LLC cannot take any responsibility for the security of information transmitted over Re-invent Technologies LLC facilities.

Re-invent Technologies LLC will not intentionally monitor private electronic mail messages sent or received by its subscribers unless required to do so by law, governmental authority, or when public safety is at stake. Re-invent Technologies LLC may, however, monitor its service electronically to determine that its facilities are operating satisfactorily. Also, Re-invent Technologies LLC may disclose information, including but not limited to, information concerning a subscriber, a transmission made using our network, or a web site, in order to comply with a court order, subpoena, summons, discovery request, warrant, statute, regulation, or governmental request. Re-invent Technologies LLC assumes no obligation to inform the subscriber that subscriber information has been provided and in some cases may be prohibited by law from giving such notice. Finally, Re-invent Technologies LLC may disclose subscriber information or information transmitted over its network where necessary to protect Re-invent Technologies LLC and others from harm, or where such disclosure is necessary to the proper operation of the system.

Re-invent Technologies LLC expects that its subscribers who provide Internet services to others will comply fully with all applicable laws concerning the privacy of on-line communications. A subscriber's failure to comply with those laws will violate Re-invent Technologies LLC policy. Finally, Re-invent Technologies LLC wishes to emphasize that in signing the service agreement, subscribers indemnify Re-invent Technologies LLC for any violation of the service agreement, law, or Re-invent Technologies LLC policy, that results in loss to Re-invent Technologies LLC or the bringing of any claim against Re-invent Technologies LLC by any third-party. This means that if Re-invent Technologies LLC is sued because of a subscriber's or customer of a subscriber's activity, the subscriber will pay any damages awarded against Re-invent Technologies LLC, plus costs and reasonable attorneys' fees.

Server Usage

• Re-invent Technologies LLC prohibits any Subscriber Content or activities that use excessive server resources, or may adversely affect any other Customers.
   
• Customer understands that they share server resources with other Customers. In order to provide a stable and reliable hosting environment, server resources are limited for each account, which may include CPU and memory usage, number of concurrent processes, number of concurrent port or database connections, total bandwidth usage and disk space allocation.

We hope this AUP is helpful in clarifying the obligations of Internet users, including Re-invent Technologies LLC and its subscribers, as responsible members of the Internet. Any complaints about a subscriber's violation of this AUP should be sent to:

abuse@re-invent.com