Internet Usage Policy

1.1. Our Commitment to You

We provide a variety of Internet-related access services to numerous Customers.  This means that we have a responsibility towards each Customer to provide the best service that we can. This policy ensures that these crucial obligations to all our Customers can be met.

1.2. Your Obligations

You must comply with this Policy, any applicable legal requirements and any directives which we sent to you.

2.1. UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES

2.2. Illegal Activities

You must not:

a)    Post, transmit, link to, disseminate or otherwise distribute any        unlawful material (such as child pornography or legally obscene material);

b)    Operate pyramid or other illegal soliciting or fund raising schemes;

c)    Engage in fraudulent activities including forgery, impersonation, or            forging another person’s signature;

d)    Engage in activities which disseminate hate propaganda, contrary to law; or

e)    Intentionally violate any applicable law.

1.2. Co-operation with Law Enforcement Authorities

BPSi reserves the right to report illegal activities to governmental authorities and to assist them in any prosecution.

2.2. Activities which Interfere with the Legal Rights of Others.

You must not:

a)    Disseminate material which violates the copyright, moral rights or other       intellectual property rights of others; or

b)    Defame, abuse, stalk, harass, or threaten others; or

c)    Otherwise violate the contractual, property or civil rights of others,   including rights relating to privacy and publicity.

2.2. UNACCPETABLE USE

1.2. Prohibited Activities

You must not:

a)    Use the Internet Services to send out unsolicited e-mail, whether of          a commercial nature or not, which degrades the performance of the        network;

b)    Send e-mail messages to another individual or another system who        has explicitly asked you to stop;

c)    Distribute chain letters, pyramid schemes, “Ponzi” schemes, or multi-level marketing scams;

d)    Improperly restrict, inhibit or degrade others’ use of the Internet      Services;

e)    Use the Internet Services to breach the security of another user, or            to attempt to gain access to another person’s computer, software or data, without the knowledge and consent of that person or to attempt to circumvent the user authentication or security of any host, network or account, including accessing data not intended for your access, unauthorized logging into or making use of a server or account or probing the security of other networks;

f)      Use of Internet Services to interfere with (or encourage others to    interfere with) computer networking or telecommunication services   to any user, host or network, including denial or service attacks,     flooding of a network, overloading a service, or attempting to crash a host;

g)    Distribute (or encourage others to distribute) spamware, mass e- mailing programs or technologies designed to overburden Internet       operations;

h)    Seize or abuse operator privileges;

i)      Use or distribute tools designed for compromising security, such as        packet sniffers, ping bombers, cracking tools, password guessing programs or network probing tools;

j)      Transmit or disseminate any information or software which contains        a virus, cancelbot, Trojan horse, worm or other harmful or disruptive component; or

k)    Modify, reverse engineer or decompile, disassemble or create       derivative works based on BPSi software;

l)      Breach current bandwidth, data storage or user number restrictions          to the point where such breach degrades network performance;

m)  Improperly restrict, disrupt or degrade our suppliers’ servers’ ability          to maintain the network and deliver the Internet Service, backbone,        network nodes and other network services or components; or

n)    Otherwise overburden our network or affect our ability to provide     services to others.

2.2. Responsibility for Others

The Company is responsible if any third party misuses the Internet Services that The Company has contracted for, even if the misuse was unintentional. The Company will indemnify and save BPSi harmless from any and all claims or actions and resulting costs and damages arising from such misuses.

3.2. The Company’s  Responsibility for Security

BPSi takes responsibility for applying reasonable commercial measures to ensure that its services are secure, and that Customers can use the Internet Services safely and with confidence. Because of the nature of the Internet we cannot guarantee safety and security and remind Customers of their responsibility for security. BPSi accepts no responsibility, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise for any damage you may sustain in using the Internet Services.

18. CONSEQUENCES OF BREACH OF POLICY

18.1. If the Company Breaches its Obligations

The Company must comply with this Internet Usage Policy. If the Company does not comply; BPSi reserves the right to:

a)    Cancel  service to The Company;

b)    Terminate BPSi’s Internet Services agreements with The Company;

c)    Suspend the service;

d)    Require The Company to remove any content that breaches the Policy; or

e)     Remove any such content.