Acceptable Use Guidelines for Mail-Block Corporation Services and the Mail-Block.com Web Site PLEASE READ THESE ACCEPTABLE USE GUIDELINES ("GUIDELINES"), THE MAIL-BLOCK CORPORATION'S SERVICES TERMS AND CONDITIONS ("TERMS AND CONDITIONS"), THE MAIL-BLOCK.COM'S SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT ("LICENSE AGREEMENT") AND THE MAIL-BLOCK.COM'S PRIVACY STATEMENT ("PRIVACY STATEMENT") (COLLECTIVELY, THE "RULES") CAREFULLY BEFORE ACTIVATING AN ACCOUNT WITH Mail-Block.com FOR INTERNET ACCESS SERVICES, THE RELATED SOFTWARE, EMAIL SERVICES AND ANY SERVICES PROVIDED ON ANY WEB SITES MARKETED BY MAIL-BLOCK.COM (COLLECTIVELY THE "Mail-Block.com SERVICE" OR THE "Mail-Block.com SERVICES") OR DOWNLOADING THE SOFTWARE PROVIDED MAIL-BLOCK.COM. BY USING Mail-Block.com SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE RULES. The Terms and Conditions, License Agreement, Guidelines and Privacy Statement may be found at the Mail-Block.com Site: <http://www.Mail-Block.com/> If at any time after activation of your account for Mail-Block.com Services, you do not agree to be bound by the Rules you should immediately end your use of the Mail-Block.com Services and return or destroy all copies of software provided by Mail-Block.com, including third party software distributed by Mail-Block.com. Mail-Block Corporation may change these Rules at any time. Such changes will be posted on the Mail-Block.com Site and such posting will constitute notice to you. You agree to review changes to the Rules prior to any use of the Mail-Block.com Services and if any change is not acceptable to you, you agree to terminate your use of the Mail-Block.com Services. Your continued use of the Mail-Block.com Services or Mail-Block.com Site after the posting of any such change constitutes acceptance of all of the changes. 1.0 General While Mail-Block.com encourages and supports the free flow of information and ideas over the Internet, we expect that our subscribers and users will act legally, responsibly and be considerate of others. Mail-Block.com reserves the right, but does not bear the responsibility, to prohibit or delete any conduct, communication or content which Mail-Block.com, in its sole discretion determines to be unlawful or harmful to others. When you are using the Mail-Block.com Services, you are subject to the Rules. If you use third party software or connect to third party servers, Web sites, works or systems, then you are responsible for complying with the policies and restrictions of those third parties. Mail-Block.com may terminate your Mail-Block.com Services if it determines that you have failed to comply with the Rules. As Mail-Block.com does not monitor in advance the conduct of subscribers and users nor communication or content distributed through the Mail-Block.com Services, you acknowledge Mail-Block.com is unlikely to be aware of violations of law or these Rules or other misconduct by subscribers and users occurring through the Mail-Block.com Services. As the sender of e-mail or poster to a newsgroup, you bear full responsibility for the material you send. As the recipient of e-mail or newsgroup postings, you are responsible for using reasonable efforts to screen unwanted material and reporting any offensive or illegal communications to Mail-Block.com. 2.0 Prohibited Uses of Mail-Block.com Services. Mail-Block.com reserves the right to terminate a subscriber or user's session or access to the Mail-Block.com Services at any time without notice. · Unlawful purposes. Transmission, distribution or storage of material or conduct in violation of any applicable local, state, federal or foreign law or regulation is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, any unauthorized use of material protected by patent, copyright, trademark or other intellectual property right or material that is obscene, constitutes an illegal threat or harassment, or violates export control laws, or is used to commit fraud or any other activity that is prohibited by criminal or civil law. · Unwanted Materials, Offensive Content and Disabling Code. Transmission, distribution or storage of unwanted materials, offensive content and disabling code is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, viruses, Trojan horse programs, logic bombs, worms, messages which include character sequences intended to control the recipient's computer or display screen, make-money fast schemes, pyramid or chain letters, fraudulent offers, threats, harassment, defamation, postings to a newsgroup in violation of its rules, charter or FAQ and unsolicited advertising (whether commercial or informational). · SPAM. All forms of unsolicited commercial e-mail ("SPAM") and all activities that have the effect of facilitating SPAM are strictly prohibited. This includes, without limitation, the use of another Inter service to send SPAM to divert visitors to your site hosted on or through Mail-Block.com's work, whether or not the messages are originated by you, under your direction, or by or under the direction of a third party. · Unauthorized Trademark Use. You are also prohibited from incorporating a third party's trademark within an e-mail address without the permission of the trademark owner. · Extended Use and Inactivity. Use of Mail-Block.com Services on a standby or inactive basis in order to maintain a connection is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, taking any action to defeat Mail-Block.com's idle timeout or similar mechanism. · Mail-Block.com Services and Mail-Block.com Site Functionality. Any action to defeat or disable, or conduct that facilitates defeating or disabling, any functionality of the Mail-Block.com Services or alters the look, feel or functionality of the Mail-Block.com Site or user interface is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, altering or blocking the display of any advertisement, banner or other promotional materials appearing on the Mail-Block.com Site or through the use of Mail-Block.com Services. · System and work Security. Any violations of Mail-Block.com's system or work security are strictly prohibited. Security violations include, without limitation: (i) attempts to compromise the security of any Inter account or website; (ii) altering the header information of e-mail or Use postings or other activity that conceals your e-mail address or prevents recipients from responding to email messages you send; (iii) interference with service to any user, hosting or work provider (including, without limitation, mail-bombing or news-bombing, flooding, overloading a system, broadcast attacks, disrupting Inter relay chat channels or Use newsgroups, placing false bids on auction sites); (iv) use or distribution of tools designed to compromise security (including without limitation cracking tools, banner blockers, work probing tools, and password or credit card probes and decryption devices, and other guessing programs) of any computer system or work; (v) transferring excessive amounts of data through Mail-Block.com's work; (vi) misuse or abuse of account access and passwords; and (vii) reselling any aspect of the Mail-Block.com Services or Mail-Block.com Site. 3.0 Enforcement In order for Mail-Block.com to comply with applicable laws, including without limitation the Electronic Communications Privacy Act 18 U.S.C. 2701 et seq., to comply with appropriate government requests, to operate Mail-Block.com's systems properly, or to protect Mail-Block.com or its customers, Mail-Block.com may access and disclose any information, including, without limitation, the personal identifying information of Mail-Block.com account holders, the contents of any personal electronic communications passing through its work, and any other information it considers necessary or appropriate without notice to you. Mail-Block.com will cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating suspected violations of the Rules and any other illegal activity. Mail-Block.com reserves the right to report to law enforcement authorities any suspected illegal activity of which it becomes aware. If Mail-Block.com receives a complaint or otherwise becomes aware of any possible violation of the Rules, Mail-Block.com may, in its sole discretion, initiate an investigation. This investigation may include gathering information from and about Mail-Block.com account holders and examining the content of personal electronic communications or other information on Mail-Block.com's servers. During any investigation, Mail-Block.com may suspend Mail-Block.com Services and access to the Mail-Block.com Site and/or remove materials from its servers. You agree to cooperate with any such investigation. If Mail-Block.com determines, in its sole discretion, that a violation of the Rules has occurred, Mail-Block.com may, but will not be obligated, to take any or all of the following actions in addition to legal remedies it may have available: temporarily or permanently remove material from Mail-Block.com servers, discontinue access to Use newsgroups, cancel newsgroup postings, move posts to a more appropriate forum (if any), warn the account holder(s) involved, remove e-mail sent by you, suspend or terminate account(s), remove or deny access to the Mail-Block.com Service, Site or servers, publicly disclose the originating address, subject matter and/or URL of the Web-site or other account information associated with a prohibited transmission and to charge a handling fee associated with taking such action and take other responsive action at any time and for any reason. If Mail-Block.com believes that you have used the services to commit trademark or copyright infringement, it will terminate your account privileges. Violations of the Rules could also subject you to criminal or civil liability. 4.0 How to Contact Us A list of ways to contact Mail-Block.com is also available at <http://www.mail-block.com/support/supportSubmit.htm> © Copyright 1998-2003 Mail-Block.com a division of Mail-Block Corporation.

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