Terms of Service for e271.net 1) e271.net is a limited shared service. Some sites are hosted for a small fee and some are hosted gratis. e271.net reserves the right to remove sites that may cause service degradation due to traffic or attacks. (In other words, if you get into an internet battle we may or may not defend your site and may remove the site to preserve the service for others.) (The same holds for any other high traffic situation. If you expect high traffic or attacks, talk to us but we reserve the right to decline any high profile or controversial sites.) High Traffic is defined as traffic that generates a significant load on any e271 servers in the sole opinion of e271.com management. (for example - more than 30 hits/minute or expected hacking attempts.) 1a) IF AN AGREEMENT IS MADE TO HOST A HIGH TRAFFIC SITE ON A TEMPORARY BASIS, THE ADDITIONAL COST WILL BE BORNE BY THE SITE OWNER AT MARKET RATES with market rate system administration fees. 2) The Legal Jurisdiction for disputes arising due to use of this service is Orleans County VT. 3) Hate speech of any sort that involves e271.net servers directly or indirectly is grounds for immediate removal. 3a) Hate speech includes but is not limited to any slurs, harrassment or advocacy of violence against people due to the real or percieved race, religion, ethnic/national origin, sex, creed, socioeconomic status, language, housing status, disabled status, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity/expression, in the sole opinion of e271.net management. 3b) Content offensive to the e271.net management is not permitted. We reserve the right to remove sites within 8 hours after attempting to notify the site owner. (It's our service) 3c) Use of this service in areas that prevent normal content moderation is forbidden. 3d) Use of this service to promote or distribute misinformation that is potentially harmful to living beings is forbidden. (IE anti-vax conspiracy theories, panics over dog breeds that lead to dogs being destroyed, panics over cats hurting kids that might lead to cats being destroyed. Anti-mask theories. etc, etc) 4) Free sites are hosted as an at will service to the community and to businesses at e271 discression. We reserve the right to remove sites within 8 hours after attempting to notify the site owner. 4a) We reserve the right to charge market rates for system administration for site removal. 5) E271.net will take some measures to prevent data loss but you hold e271.net harmless for any loss of data or service or business. (Keep your own good backups) 6) Maximum value for any loss of data or service will be the pro-rated time of fees already paid your service is unavailable limited to 6 months hosting fees. ( If your free site is down for 6 months, we owe you the money you paid us for hosting your site. If your pay site is down for 3 months we owe you 1/2 of the total 6 month fee.). This applies to sites on shared servers, hosts managed by e271.net and any other service. 7) e271.net may in the course of administration access your data, logs and connection information. This information is used for normal administration of e271.net systems. We will comply with any valid legal request for data from the authorities. 7a) You agree to remove email from our service as you retrieve it. We do not want any email long term storage on our servers. (If you store email on our servers long term we may attempt to contact you before removing the data.) Long term storage is storing email for more than 30 days from receipt. If you use e271.net email services and expect to be away for more than 1 month please contact us to make arrangements to handle your mail. 7b) You agree that you will use high grade encryption for any email that must remain private. E271 SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR LOSS OF ANY KIND DUE TO THIRD PARTY HACKING INTO THE SITE. You understand that unencrypted email is not secure and may be seen by outside parties. 7d) You will not disclose login information for email, ftp, ssh, mysql or any other service to third parties who are not specifically authorized by e271.net to access our services. 8) We reserve the right, retroactively to publish any harassing or threatening correspondence. (If you get nasty, expect to have your threats published for public amusement, education and entertainment.) 8a) We reserve the right to IMMEDIATELY remove any services from anyone sending threats of any sort or harassing correspondence. 9) You agree not to host any illegal or harrassing content on our service. Sites that do this will be removed. 9.1) If you want to publish private information on public figures or members of hate groups on our service - you agree to discuss this with the management first. Information like this is likely to draw attacks and excessive bandwidth usage. We will most likely assist you in setting up a separate server. 9a) You agree not to use e271.net to send unsolicited messages - spam. You agree not to use spam to promote a site hosted on e271.net. 9b) Costs for spam cleanup will be borne by the sender billed at market rates for system administration. 9c) You agree not to use e271.net services for copyright violations. We will comply with valid DMCA copyright violation complaints and you will bear the cost of our work which is market rates for system administration. 9d) Use of e271 systems in territories that make normal content moderation illegal is forbidden. Use of e271 systems in areas where it is illegal is forbidden. 10) We reserve the right to enforce or waive these terms with the exception of Term 9. 10a) You are responsible for knowing these terms and keeping up with any changes in these terms posted at http://e271.net/tos.txt. 11) If you do not agree with these terms of service or if you do not understand them, remove your data from our services and do not connect to them or cause connections to them by third parties. 11a) If you do not agree with or understand all these terms of service you agree to contact the management for clarification. 11b) By using e271.net services in any way, you are agreeing with these terms of service. If any of these terms are FOUND BY A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION TO BE not Enforceable, they are severable AND THE REMAINING TERMS SHALL BE FULLY IN EFFECT.