We encourage all customers of WCRI to use our Services respectfully and responsibly. Any abuse or misuse of our Services, WCRI Equipment or our networks is a serious matter and can result in the suspension of Services or the termination of your Agreement with WCRI, and could lead to criminal or civil liability. WCRI may take necessary measures to protect our network and its users.

 

1. Share files via Peer to Peer (P2P) networks. This includes, but is not limited to eMule, eDonkey, Kazaa, BitTorrent, Grokster, Gnutella and PeerCast. The transfer of any copyrighted materials will result in immediate termination.

2. Use automated tools to transmit or receive amounts of data exceeding what is typically considered reasonable for the Service, regardless of intent, purpose or knowledge.

3. Undertake or accomplish any unlawful purpose. This includes, but is not limited to, posting, storing, transmitting or disseminating information, data or material which is libelous, obscene, unlawful, threatening, defamatory, or which infringes the intellectual property rights of any person or entity, or which in any way constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any local, state, federal or international law, order or regulation.

4. Restrict, inhibit, or otherwise interfere with the ability of any other person, regardless of intent, purpose or knowledge, to use or enjoy the Service, including, without limitation, posting or transmitting any information or software which contains a worm, virus, or other harmful feature, or generating levels of traffic sufficient to impede others' ability to send or retrieve information.

5. Resell the Service or otherwise make available to anyone outside the premises the ability to use the Service (i.e. Wi-Fi, or other methods of networking), in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, or on a bundled or unbundled basis.

6. Transmit bulk messages, commercial messages or "spam." This includes, but is not limited to, solicited or unsolicited advertising, promotional materials or other solicitation material, bulk mailing of commercial advertising, chain mail, informational announcements, charity requests, and petitions for signatures.

7. Improperly restrict, inhibit, or degrade any other person’s use of the Services, or restrict, inhibit, disrupt, degrade or impede WCRI’s ability to deliver the Services and monitor its delivery of the Services;

8. Engage in any other activity which is in violation of law, or threatens the integrity of any computer system, or violates generally accepted standards of Internet conduct and usage, including but not limited to denial of service attacks, web page defacement, port and network scanning and unauthorized system penetrations, installation of any computer program on a computer system without lawful authorization, causing a computer system to send any electronic message without lawful authorization, or aiding, inducing, procuring or causing any of the foregoing.

 

WCRI reserves the right to take such action as may be necessary to protect the integrity of our network and systems and our users, including, but not limited to, limiting the amount of emails that can be sent in specific time periods, regular system monitoring, as well as port scanning and shutting down of ports affected by viruses, worms, cyber-attacks or other malicious code and disclose any information concerning users necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or lawful request. Excessive data transfer can result in restricted bandwidth