Acceptable Use Policy

All customers agree to comply with Titan's Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") which is designed to help safeguard the rights of other customers and internet users in conformity with the requirements of Titan's network environment. This AUP is not exhaustive and Titan reserves the right to make alternations or additions at any time, effective upon publication.

The failure by any customer to meet or follow the AUP is grounds for service suspension. Titan will be the sole arbiter in deciding what constitutes a violation of the AUP. Titan reserves the right to remove or suspend any services without prior notice.

When Titan becomes aware of an alleged violation of the AUP an investigation will be initiated. During such investigation customer access may be restricted in order to prevent further potentially unauthorised activity.

Depending on the outcome of the investigation Titan may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend or terminate a customers services and/or pursue other civil remedies. If any violation of the AUP is deemed to be a criminal offence, Titan will notify law enforcement agencies.

Any claims under SLA will not be met through service suspension as a result of AUP violation.

1. Customer Responsibility

Customers are required to use the Titan network responsibly. This includes respecting other customers of Titan. Titan reserves the right to suspend, cancel service or take action with any customer who uses the Titan network in such a way that adversely affects other Titan customers. While Titan monitors its service electronically to determine that its facilities are operating satisfactorily, as a general practice, Titan does not monitor its customers' communications or activities to determine whether they are in compliance with the AUP. However, when Titan becomes aware of any violation of the AUP or other user agreements, Titan may take any action to stop or correct such violation, including, but not limited to, denying access to Titan's services and equipment or to the Internet. In addition, Titan may take action against a customer or a customer of such customer because of the activities of such customer. Titan anticipates that customers who offer Internet services will cooperate with Titan in any corrective or preventive action that Titan deems necessary. Failure to cooperate with such corrective or preventive measures is a violation of Titan policy and Titan reserves the right to take any such action even though such action may affect other customers of the Titan customer.

1.1 Illegal Use

Titan's servers and network may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage or distribution of any information, data or material in violation of any applicable law or regulation, or that may directly facilitate the violation of any particular law or regulation, is strictly prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material; trademarks; trade secrets or other intellectual property rights used without proper authorisation; material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws. Examples of unacceptable content or links include: pirated software, hacker programs or archives, Warez sites, MP3, and IRC bots.

1.2 Systems and Network Abuse

Abuse of Titan's systems or network is strictly prohibited and may result in criminal and civil liability. Examples of system or network abuse include, without limitation the following: unauthorised access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without express authorization of the owner of the system or network; interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks; forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting.

1.3 Security / Vulnerability Testing

Security or Vulnerability scans, either from a customer or third party, whether by passive or intrusive techniques, are strictly prohibited without Titan's written consent.

1.4 Viruses and Other Destructive Activities

Use of Titan’s services or equipment for creating or sending Internet viruses, worms or Trojan horses, or for pinging, flooding or mail bombing, or engaging in denial of service attacks is strictly prohibited. It is also prohibited for any customer to engage in other activity that is intended to disrupt or interfere with, or that results in the disruption of or interference with, the ability of others to effectively use Titan’s services and equipment (or any connected network, system, service or equipment) or conduct their business over the Internet.

1.5 Domain Name Usage

Titan reserves the right to immediately suspend, terminate, transfer, or modify your domain name registration for reasons including:

• Your breach of this AUP
• Your use of the domain name registration services in a manner that is in contradiction of applicable laws or customarily acceptable usage policies of the Internet industry, including sending mass unsolicited commercial advertisements or otherwise spamming, making or sending threats, harassments or obscenities
• Your use of the domain name registration services in connection with unethical activity
• Titan's receipt of an order from a court of competent jurisdiction or an arbitration award
• Any other grounds that impose a legal risk to Titan as determined at its sole reasonable discretion

You agree that you shall not receive any refund whatsoever for any such suspension, termination, transfer, or modification to your domain name registration.

1.6 UCE (Unsolicited Commerce Email) - SPAM

Spamming, the sending of unsolicited mass email from or through a Titan system or using an email address that is maintained on a Titan machine is strictly prohibited. Titan will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. Customers are also in violation of this provision if they engage in spamming using the service of another ISP or IPP, but reference in the spam a website hosted on an Titan server, or if they sell or distribute software on their website that facilitates spamming. In addition, any bulk or commercial email must meet the following requirements:

• Recipients have given their consent to receive email from you via an opt-in procedure;
• Any opt-in procedures used include reasonable means to ensure the person giving consent is the owner of the email address for which consent is given;
• You retain evidence of each recipient's opt-in that can be promptly produced on request, and you honour the recipient's and Titan's requests to produce consent evidence within 72 hours of receipt of any request for such evidence;
• You have procedures in place that allow a recipient to opt-out, such as a link or instructions in the body of the email; you honour opt-outs promptly;
• You must post an email address for complaints (such as abuse@yourdoman.com) in a conspicuous place on any website associated with the email, you must register that address at abuse.net, and you must promptly respond to messages sent to that address;
• You must have a Privacy Policy posted for each domain associated with the mailing;
• You may not obscure the source of your email in any manner. Your email must include the recipients email address in the body of the message or in the "TO" line of the email
• Customers using third party email services must still comply with the above.

Any violations will result in immediate service suspension and possible administration charges.

Please report any instances of spamming from Titan specific servers/IP's to support@titaninternet.co.uk, detailing as much information as possible, clearly identifying the source of the unsolicited email. This will then be investigated, dealt with and replied to promptly.

1.7 Customer Server Responsibilities

The customer is solely responsible for any breaches of security affecting servers under customer control. If a customer's server is involved in an attack on another server or system, it will be shut down and an immediate investigation will be launched to determine the cause/source of the attack. In such event, the customer is responsible for the cost to rectify any damage done to the customer's server and any other requirement affected by the security breach.

2. Content

2.1 Child Pornography

The use of Titan's services to store, post, display, transmit, advertise or otherwise make available child pornography is strictly prohibited. If Titan becomes aware of the presence or transmission of any child pornography it will notify law enforcement agencies and terminate any corresponding services.

2.2 Racial or Religious Content

The use of Titan's services to store, post, display, transmit, advertise or otherwise make available extreme religious or racial views is strictly prohibited. If Titan becomes aware of the presence or transmission of such content it will notify law enforcement agencies and terminate any corresponding services.

2.3 Copyright Violation

Customers accept sole liability for any material which is subject to copyright or is judged to be of an unlawful nature or is judged to be in violation of UK or international law or regulation and as such agree to pay to Titan any costs incurred in the defence by Titan of any action brought against them by a third party arising from such claims.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") sets forth the requirements for valid copyright infringement notification. If you would like to notify Titan of an infringement of your copyright, the DMCA requires that you:

Send your notification to us by either;

• Email to support@titaninternet.co.uk
• Fax to 0845 625 1001
• Mail to Cottis House, Locks Hill, Rochford, Essex. SS4 1BB.

Include in your notification the following information:

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorised to act on the copyright owner's behalf (the "Claimant")
• Identification of the copyrighted work(s) claimed to have been infringed
• Identification of the material claimed to infringe the copyright(s), and enough information for Titan to locate it
• The Claimant's name, address, and telephone number(s)
• A statement that the Claimant has a good faith belief that use of the disputed material is not authorised by the copyright owner or his agent
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification of copyright infringement is accurate and that the Claimant is authorised to act on behalf of the copyright owner

If Titan is made aware of copyright violation it will notify law enforcement agencies and terminate any corresponding services.

2.4 Defamatory Content

Customers accept sole liability for any material which is judged to be defamatory or in violation of UK or international law or regulation and as such agree to pay to Titan any costs incurred in the defence by Titan of any action brought against them by a third party arising from such claims.

If Titan is made aware of defamatory content the content will be removed and Titan will terminate any corresponding services.

3. Resource Usage

3.1 Server Resources

Any shared website customer that uses a high amount of server resource (such as, but not limited to, CPU time, memory usage, or network resource) will be given the option to upgrade to a more appropriate service or reduce the resources used to an acceptable level. Titan shall be the sole arbiter of what is considered to be a high server usage level. Any web hosting account deemed to be adversely affecting server performance or integrity will be shut down without prior notice.

3.2 Software Distribution

Titan's shared web hosting accounts are not configured for the purposes of distributing software and/or multimedia products. Titan's shared web hosting accounts are not to be used for the purposes of distributing and storing unusual amounts of multimedia files. If you wish to distribute software and/or multimedia files, please contact sales@titaninternet.co.uk for a more suitable service.

3.3 Scheduled Tasks and Cron Jobs

Upon request Titan may permit scheduled tasks and/or cron jobs to allow background processing. However if such tasks are deemed to adversely affect server performance the tasks may be suspended or altered to run at an alternative frequency.

3.4 CGI Scripts

CGI script sharing with domains not hosted by Titan is not permitted. Any CGI scripts deemed to be adversely affecting server performance or network integrity will be shut down without prior notice.

3.5 Databases

Any databases stored on Titan's servers shall be limited in size (diskspace) according to that particular domain's plan/web hosting account. Any customer exceeding acceptable size or resources will be given the option to upgrade to a more appropriate service or reduce the resources used to an acceptable level.

3.6 Email Distribution

Any email accounts stored on Titan's servers shall be limited in size (diskspace) according to that particular domain's plan/web hosting account. Any customer exceeding acceptable size or resources will be given the option to upgrade to a more appropriate service or reduce the resources used to an acceptable level.

3.7 IRC

Titan does not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers. Titan allows customers with their own servers the use of IRC inside the Titan network as long as the use of IRC on a Titan server does not violate any of the other terms of this AUP.

3.8 Traffic/Bandwidth Overage

Bandwidth allocations will be calculated as an average across a calendar month, unless alternative (eg 95th percentile) calculations have been agreed. If customers exceed their agreed monthly bandwidth allocation they may be liable for additional charges. Any customer continually exceeding bandwidth allocation will be given the option to upgrade to a more appropriate allocation or reduce the bandwidth used to an acceptable level.