Acceptable Usage Policy

This AUP governs the use of Aussie Wide Websites’ web hosting service. Violation of this AUP may result in suspension or termination of your service. In the event of a dispute between you and Aussie Wide Websites regarding the interpretation of this AUP, Aussie Wide Websites’ interpretation, in its reasonable commercial judgement, shall govern.

The following is the entire Acceptable User Policy (‘AUP’) agreement between Aussie Wide Websites and the personal or corporate account holder. Aussie Wide Websites provides World Wide Web Hosting, web design and script installation. Aussie Wide Websites has certain legal and ethical responsibilities consisting with the use of its servers and equipment involved in these services. Aussie Wide Websites’s general policy is to act as a provider of Internet presence. Aussie Wide Websites reserves the rights to suspend or cancel a customer’s access to any or all services provided by Aussie Wide Websites when we decide that the account has been inappropriately used.

Aussie Wide Websites is designed to serve the web hosting needs of small, independently owned and operated businesses in a single country. It is not appropriate to use our services to support large enterprises or internationally based businesses with a sustained demand that places undue burden on our systems or negatively impacts use by small, independently owned and operated businesses.

Aussie Wide Websites is a shared web hosting service, which means that a number of customers’ web sites and other email or storage services are hosted from the same server. Aussie Wide Websites uses abuse controls to help ensure that use of our services does not adversely affect the performance of our system or other customers’ sites. It is not appropriate to use an account primarily as an online storage space or for archiving electronic files.

We will NEVER provide your personally identifiable information to any persons other than A law enforcement or regulatory agency at their request, third parties who provide services on our behalf such as payment processing, only if they agree not to miss use this information.

Your personal information is safe with us, your information is safely encrypted using SSI. Our service is not available to anyone under the age of 13, never will we intentionally maintain information about anyone under the age of 13.

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a users computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time much like the cookie used for our affiliate program. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browsers 'help' file. We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you do not have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but you will be asked to enter your username and password again every time you closed your browser or your session has timed out.

If you use your services consistently with the terms of Service and these paragraphs, your site can grow as large as necessary to meet your small business needs, but to ensure a great experience for all, we will place some constraints on how fast you can grow. The vast majority of our customers’ sites grow at rates well within our rules, but our abuse controls may cause a brief delay while we evaluate if expansion is appropriate for your particular plan.

Aussie Wide Websites Customers may not initiate the following (below), if any customer does Aussie Wide Websites may terminate the account with no refund. Depending on the situation there will/won’t be warnings sent.

In most cases, if you use our services consistently with our terms of Service, visitors to your web site will be able to download and view as much content from your site as they like. However, in certain circumstances, our server processing power, server memory, or abuse controls could limit downloads from your site. You will always be able to use as much bandwidth as your account has. For example our Basic Plan comes with 8GB bandwidth which is a huge amount, all of this 8GB can be used. Bandwidth is also reset every month.

You are allocated a monthly bandwidth allowance. This allowance varies depending on the hosting package you purchase. Should your account pass the allocated amount we reserve the right to suspend the account until the start of the next allocation, suspend the account until more bandwidth is purchased at an additional fee, suspend the account until you upgrade to a higher level of package, terminate the account and/or charge you an additional fee for the overages. Unused transfer in one month cannot be carried over to the next month.

You do not have to worry about hitting a storage limit if you use our services consistently with the terms of Service and our acceptable usage policy. Aussie Wide Websites can increase your space along with your appropriate small business needs, but our abuse controls may impact the rate of growth or your folder size, and there may be a short delay while we assess your usage. In some cases, creating additional folders or subfolders will help ensure that the system works well for everyone. You will always be allowed to use as much disk space is applied to your account.

You may have noticed many of our accounts come with unlimited email accounts, sub-domains, FTP accounts and in some cases domains. This is subject to how much disk space your account has. So you can create as many emails, sub-domains etc as you want as long as it’s within your disk space limit.

You may not publish or transmit via Aussie Wide Websites’s service any content that Aussie Wide Websites reasonably believes:

Aussie Wide Websites does not accept material such as:

* Aussie Wide Websites can terminate service for any of the above reasons and it’s at Aussie Wide Websites’s sole discretion to issue a refund

You must take reasonable security precautions. You must protect the confidentiality of your password, and you should change your password periodically.

Bulk commercial email, mailing lists and email reflectors are allowed on Aussie Wide Websites’s servers, we do however allow a maximum of 500 emails per hour per account. For any emails sent from your Aussie Wide Websites account you must adhere to the following rules:

These policies apply to messages sent using your Aussie Wide Websites service, or to messages sent from any network by you or any person on your behalf that directly or indirectly refer the recipient to a site hosted via your Aussie Wide Websites service. In addition, you may not use a third party e-mail service that does not practice similar procedures for all its customers.

You may not send any unsolicited e-mail, either in bulk or individually, to any person who has indicated that they do not wish to receive it. You must comply with the rules of any other network you access or participate in using your Aussie Wide Websites’s services.

You may not publish, distribute, or otherwise copy in any manner any music, software, art, or other work protected by copyright law unless:

Aussie Wide Websites will terminate the service of repeat copyright infringers.

Upon using our free services, you may be requested to participate in our periodic internal surveys that are conducted by Aussie Wide Websites to determine your personal interests. These surveys are strictly voluntary. The data collected through these surveys will only be used to improve our products and services and will never be sold to any third parties.

When we receive email, we use return email addresses to reply with the information requested. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties. When supplying contact information to Aussie Wide Websites you can indicate your preference if you would like to be contacted to receive information and updates about our services by logging in to your Aussie Wide Websites account, going to your member profile page and choose not to receive any further notification emails from us or other information pertaining to Aussie Wide Websites. Information you submit to us will not be used for this purpose unless you indicate this as your preference. When supplying contact information to Aussie Wide Websites you can indicate your preference on your members profile page to participate in the Aussie Wide Websites newsletter. You will receive a confirmation email from us when placing an order on our site.

We provide you the opportunity to 'opt-in' and 'opt-out' of our newsletter at any time. Our newsletter is sent at random intervals so it will certainly contain a lot of useful information and any offers we may have. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them at any time.

We collect information from our website visitors using Google Analytics. We use this information to better design our Web site and services. This information is never shared with any third party. We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.

Aussie Wide Websites does not share, sell, rent, or trade personally identifiable information with third parties. We never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described within this privacy policy without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect by logging into your password-protected Aussie Wide Websites account and selecting to update your 'My Details' We use this procedure to better safeguard your information. You can also correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows error. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

Aussie Wide Websites considers email transmitted via our service to be the private correspondence between the sender and recipient. We will not monitor, edit or disclose the contents of a user`s private communications, except as required by law, to comply with legal process, if necessary to enforce the Service Agreement, to respond to claims that such contents violate the rights of third-parties, or to protect the rights or property of Aussie Wide Websites. By using the service you agree that technical processing of email communications is and may be required to send and receive messages, to conform to the technical requirements of connecting networks, to conform to the limitations of the Service, or to conform to other, similar technical requirements. By using the service you acknowledge and agree that Aussie Wide Websites do not endorse the content of any user communications and are not responsible or liable for any unlawful, harassing, libellous, privacy invading, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, tortuous, or otherwise objectionable content, or content that infringes or may infringe the intellectual property or other rights of another.

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however we have taken every step possible to make your information safe. This website is protected by Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to protect your information. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Aussie Wide Websites. Please be aware that we, Aussie Wide Websites are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

If we decide to change our Acceptable Use Policy (UAP), we will post those changes to this Acceptable Use Policy, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this Acceptable Use Policyt at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page. For more information please do not hesitate to send your questions via our contact page.

Aussie Wide Websites is under no duty, and does not by this AUP undertake a duty, to monitor or police our customers’ activities and disclaims any responsibility for any misuse of the Aussie Wide Websites network.