Acceptable Use Policy

ChamberGates has certain legal and ethical responsibilities consisting with the use of its servers and equipment, involved directly or indirectly, as they are used to provide services to ChamberGates' customers. ChamberGates also has specific ethical concerns regarding the use of its equipment detailed below. ChamberGates reserves the right to take corrective action, including but not limited to suspension or cancellation of customer's access to any or all services provided by ChamberGates, when we decide that the account has been inappropriately used.

• Illegal Access - Any attempt to gain unauthorized access to ChamberGates equipment or equipment belonging to another party is expressly forbidden. This also includes other precursor actions including but not limited to port scans, malformed requests, and other forms of information gathering for the purposes of gaining unauthorized access.
• Unauthorized use of other people's accounts or servers - ChamberGates will strongly react to any use or attempted use of an Internet account or computer without the owner's authorization. Such attempts include "Internet scamming" (tricking other people into releasing their passwords), password robbery, security hole scanning etc. Any unauthorized use of accounts or computers by a ChamberGates customer, whether or not the attacked account or computer belongs to ChamberGates, will result in action against the attacker. Possible actions include warnings, account suspension or cancellation, and civil or criminal legal action, depending on the seriousness of the attack.
• Copyright Laws - Engaging in any activity that infringes or misappropriates the intellectual property rights of others, including copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, software piracy, and patents held by individuals, corporations, or other entities is strictly prohibited. Also, engaging in activity that violates privacy, publicity, or other personal rights of others. ChamberGates is required by law to remove or block access to customer content upon receipt of a proper notice of copyright infringement. It is also ChamberGates' policy to terminate the privileges of customers who commit repeat violations of copyright laws.
• Obscene or Lewd Material - ChamberGates expressly forbids anyone from using ChamberGates servers for the propagation, distribution, housing, processing, storing, or otherwise handling in any way lewd, obscene, or pornographic material, or any other material which we deem to be objectionable, including, but not limited to, pornography, hate propaganda, abusive or threatening content and any and all materials of an adult nature. The designation of any materials as such described above is left entirely to the discretion of ChamberGates management.
• Electronic Forgery - The act or attempt to forge any digital transmission in order to deceive others is strictly prohibited. This includes the altering in whole or in part of any of the following: message headers, IP addresses, network packets, or digital signatures. We will assist law enforcement in the capture and prosecution of anyone attempting to defraud others using our services.
• Commercial Emails - You may not under any circumstances send commercial advertisements to email recipients that are currently not your customers or recipients that have not explicitly asked to receive such information using our Network. This action will likely result in account suspension or cancellation.
• Commercial News Groups - You may not under any circumstances send commercial advertisements to news groups that do explicitly allow such behavior using any part of our Network. This action will likely result in account suspension or cancellation.
• Commercial references - You may not advertise a web site hosted with us by sending unsolicited bulk email or posting on non-allowed news groups. This rule applies regardless of whether you used our network to send the messages.
• Viruses and Trojan Horses - ChamberGates expressly forbids anyone from using ChamberGates servers for the propagation, distribution, housing, processing, storing, or otherwise handling in any way source or binary code for viruses, trojan horses, worms, or any other tool that disrupts the use of or interfere with the ability of others to effectively use the network or any connected network, system, service, or equipment.
• Facilitating a Violation of this AUP - Advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available any software, program, product, or service that is designed to violate this AUP, which includes the facilitation of the means to spam, initiation of pinging, flooding, mail bombing, denial of service attacks, and piracy of software.
• Unlawful Acts - ChamberGates is a legal entity of the State of Texas and the United States. Use of any our equipment may not violate any Federal, State, or Local regulation.