{"id":569,"date":"2012-01-03T19:38:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T19:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mighty-little-websites.com\/?page_id=569"},"modified":"2022-09-20T11:49:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:49:57","slug":"acceptable-use-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mighty-little-websites.com\/terms-of-service\/acceptable-use-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Acceptable Use Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
These terms are part of, and are incorporated by reference into, the Terms of Service<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Thank you for choosing MightyLittleWebsites.com\u00ae (\u201cMLW\u201d, \u201cwe\u201d, or \u201cus\u201d) to help power your business. We’ve developed this Acceptable Use Policy (\u201cAUP\u201d) to help you use the services provided by us and our third party vendors (\u201cServices\u201d or \u201cthe Service\u201d), and ensure that you understand policies and procedures we have developed to comply with certain laws and regulations. All users of the Service must comply with this AUP. This AUP is made part of our Terms of Service (\u201cTOS\u201d). Your use and\/or continuation of the Service constitutes your acceptance of this AUP. It is your responsibility, and contractual obligation, to ensure that your affiliates, agents, and\/or customers (\u201cEnd User(s)\u201d) comply with this AUP.<\/p>\n MLW reserves the right to refuse to provide the Service at our sole discretion. You expressly understand that the evolving nature of the Internet and online commerce makes it necessary for us to reserve the right to make changes to this AUP at any time, and without notice. This AUP may not represent all possible ways in which you or an End User engage in unacceptable behavior. We reserve the right to determine, in our sole and exclusive judgment, what activities are unacceptable. The version of this AUP, available here, is the most recent version.<\/p>\n 1. Notices<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Third parties who seek to inform us of violations of this AUP are required to read it, abide by its terms, and send notices to the appropriate address set out in this AUP. Notices sent to the wrong address will not be reviewed.\u00a0 Anonymous complaints will not be reviewed.<\/p>\n If you believe that our AUP has been violated, and that the relevant paragraph addressing your concern does not have a particular notification address in it, you may send your inquiry to: reportabuse@mightylittlewebsites.com<\/a>. As noted above, we do not review anonymous inquiries. Your notice must contain, at a minimum, your first and last name, and either a working, monitored e-mail address, or a working, monitored, telephone number.<\/p>\n 2. Customers and End Users are solely responsible for content<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n We do not review, edit, censor, or take responsibility for any information customers or End Users may create. Because of this, we cannot, and do not, accept any responsibility from customers, End Users, or third parties, resulting from inaccurate, unsuitable, offensive, or illegal content or transactions. We specifically reserve the right to refuse to provide Services to customers or End Users engaged in the dissemination of material that may cause us to be subject to attacks on the network, or that while technically legal, run counter to our corporate principles. This type of content may include, but is not limited to, racist, pornographic, hateful material or those which create customer service or abuse issues for us.<\/p>\n 3. You are required to provide us with accurate information<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Individuals who contact us about this AUP, the behavior of our customers, or for other purposes, are required to provide us with accurate information to enable us to contact them and respond to their requests. We do not respond to anonymous correspondence, and will refer individuals who deliberately attempt to mislead us regarding their identity, or the basis for their complaints, to appropriate law enforcement officials.<\/p>\n 4. Use of the Service<\/strong><\/p>\n a. The Service may be used for lawful purposes only<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any applicable law, regulation, this AUP, or our TOS, is prohibited. You may not use the Service to directly facilitate the violation of any law or regulation.<\/p>\n We expect you to use good business judgment in your conduct. The following list is designed to help guide you in determining if MLW is a suitable service provider for you, and to provide you with examples of activities that may fall within this paragraph. It does not represent an exhaustive list of all unlawful uses of the Service by you or End Users:<\/p>\n b. U.S. Export Controls<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Your, and an End User’s, use of the Service is governed by U.S. export control laws. These laws apply regardless of whether you, or an End User, actually reside in the United States. More information about U.S. export laws may be found at: http:\/\/www.export.gov\/regulation\/index.asp<\/a>. These laws generally prohibit:<\/p>\n c. Copyright Infringement<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n MLW complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA provides very specific requirements that must be followed to notify us that our customers or End Users are engaging in copyright infringement. These guidelines are here: http:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/title17\/92chap5.html#512<\/a>. Our designated agent for receipt of DMCA complaints is:<\/p>\n George W. Moxon II 591 Boston Mills Road You are required to comply with U.S. laws regulating trademarks, patents and other laws governing the use and dissemination of intellectual property. Patents, Trademarks, service marks, logos, and copyrighted works (Intellectual Property) appearing on the MLW site are property of MLW or the party that provided the Intellectual Property to MLW.\u00a0 MLW and any party that provided Intellectual Property to MLW retain all rights in their intellectual property appearing in this site.\u00a0 Any violations or unauthorized use of such Intellectual Property will be considered a violation of this AUP.\u00a0 Complaints about abuse of intellectual property rights, other than copyright, may be directed to reportabuse@mightylittlewebsites.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n e. You <\/strong>may<\/strong> not send unsolicited commercial e-mail, or SPAM<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n We define unsolicited commercial e-mail as e-mail that has not been requested by the recipient, is not compliant with the current version of the CAN-SPAM Act, or that, even if requested, or compliant with the CAN-SPAM Act, causes other entities to block our IP Addresses. You may not use the Service to host a site that is advertised in SPAM (a spamvertized site), even if you yourself are not engaged in spamming. If we determine that you or an End User are spamming, or facilitating spamming, we will suspend or terminate your account, at our discretion. To report violations of this paragraph, please send an e-mail to: reportabuse@mightylittlewebsites.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n f. We filter your e-mail for SPAM<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n We use industry standard methods to filter outbound e-mail for SPAM. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to inform you should your outbound mail\u00a0 be marked as SPAM and blocked, including but not limited to, marking outbound mail as SPAM and returning mail back to you. Please review your outbound e-mail to determine whether your e-mail has been blocked. You have the option of using a SPAM filter to scan inbound e-mail. Please familiarize yourself with this technology and its use.<\/p>\n 5. Requests for Information about End Users and Privacy, Monitoring products<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n a. Cooperation with Law Enforcement and Legal Documents<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n We may disclose information, including information that you consider confidential, in order to comply with a court order, subpoena, summons, discovery request, warrant, regulation, or governmental request which appears to be valid. We may also disclose such information when it is necessary for us to protect our business, or others, from harm. We assume no obligation to inform you that we have provided this type of information unless we have affirmatively agreed to do so. In some cases we may be prohibited by law from giving such notice.<\/p>\n Law enforcement agencies who seek information about customers, End Users, and third parties and\/or their use of the Service, are required to submit a subpoena, or other similar document, pursuant to which we are required by law to produce this information (Subpoena). MLW can provide a copy of such subpoenas upon customer\u2019s written request (See TOS, Section 13.1, Notices), unless MLW is prohibited by law from doing so.<\/p>\n Civil demands for information, such as discovery requests and similar demands (Civil Demands), must be part of a filed and pending litigation matter. Responses to Civil Demands are at our discretion. Responses are subject to a response fee of $250 per hour, said hours including those incurred by our third-party vendors. We do not honor requests from civil litigants to limit or to pre-approve response expenses. Civil litigants are encouraged to contact us prior to serving Civil Demands in order to minimize their expense.<\/p>\n Address for Subpoenas and Civil Demands:<\/p>\n\n
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\nAttention: MLW Copyright Infringement<\/p>\n
\nSuite 300
\nHudson, Ohio 44236
\nPhone: 330-653-3113
\nFax: 330-656-2755
\nEmail: mlwnotices@moxonlaw.com<\/a><\/p>\n
\nd. Other Intellectual Property Issues<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n