Acceptable Usage Policy

Effective date: 31 January 2022

Lunar Racks Acceptable Use Policy (the “Policy”) for Lunar Racks is designed to help protect Lunar Racks, Lunar Racks customers, and the Internet community in general from irresponsible or, in some cases, illegal activities. The Policy, including the following list of prohibited activities, is an integral part of your Hosting Agreement with Lunar Racks. If you engage in any of the activities prohibited by the Policy, Lunar Racks reserves the right to suspend or terminate your account.

The Policy includes a non-exclusive list of the actions prohibited by Lunar Racks and we reserve the right to modify the Policy at any time, effective upon posting at https://lunarracks.com/legal/aup.

Prohibited Uses of Lunar Racks Systems and Services:

Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or intellectual property right used without proper authorization, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws.

Unacceptable practices include but are not limited to the following:

• Drug dealing
• Piracy/Pirating
• Violation of copyright law
• Illegal gambling/Lottery sites
• Illegal arms trafficking
• Stalking or violating state or federal law
• Attempting without authorization to access a computer system
• Schemes to defraud, sending a message or having content that is indecent according to American laws with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person
• Threatening bodily harm or damage to individual(s) or group(s)
• Violating U.S. and international export restrictions
• Interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service
• Activities related to Chia mining

Lunar Racks does not actively monitor dedicated server content for review. Lunar Racks believes in the free dissemination of information via our services and content will only be reviewed upon complaint by a verified third party. Content that does not violate local, state and federal law or the AUP is deemed in compliance and shall remain intact. Legal adult content is allowed on Lunar Racks servers.

Sending Unsolicited Bulk Email 

The sending of any form of Unsolicited Bulk Email (“UBE”, “spam”) through Lunar Racks servers is prohibited. Likewise, the sending of UBE from another service provider advertising a web site, email address or utilizing any resource hosted on Lunar Racks, is prohibited. Lunar Racks accounts or services may not be used to solicit customers from, or collect replies to, messages sent from another Internet Service Provider where those messages violate this Policy or that of the other provider. ANY form of spamming activity (e.g. mail spam, Usenet spam, pop-up spam, selling/buying spamware, etc.) conducted ANYWHERE on the Internet (i.e. whether through our facilities or not), will be:

• Grounds for instant, permanent termination of all services with no prior warning;
• Grounds for forfeit of all funds paid;
• Will result in a demand for payment of a fine in the amount of $500 for each incident, which must be paid within twenty-four (24) hours or it will be referred to a collection agency

Running Unconfirmed Mailing Lists

Subscribing email addresses to any mailing list without the express and verifiable permission of the email address owner is prohibited. All mailing lists run by Lunar Racks customers must be closed loop (“confirmed opt-in”). The subscription confirmation message received from each address owner must be kept on file for the duration of the existence of the mailing list. Purchase lists of email addresses from third parties for mailing to and/or from any Lunar Racks hosted domain or services, or referencing any Lunar Racks account, is prohibited.
Advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available any software, program, product, or service that is designed to violate this AUBP or the AUP of any other Internet Service Provider, which includes, but is not limited to, the facilitation of the means to send Unsolicited Bulk Email, initiation of pinging, flooding, mail-bombing, denial of service attacks.

Operating an account on behalf of, or in connection with, or reselling any service to, persons or firms listed in the Spamhaus Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database at www.spamhaus.org/rokso

Unauthorized attempts by a user to gain access to any account or computer resource not belonging to that user (e.g., “cracking”). Lunar Racks reserves the right to report illegal activities to any and all regulatory, administrative, and/or governmental authorities for prosecution. If you have any question regarding this abuse policy please feel free to contact Lunar Racks at abuse@lunarracks.com.

Obtaining or attempting to obtain service by any means or device with intent to avoid payment

Unauthorized access, alteration, destruction, or any attempt thereof, of any information of any Lunar Racks customers or end-users by any means or device.
Knowingly engaging in any activities designed to harass, or that will cause a denial-of-service (e.g., synchronized number sequence attacks) to any other user whether on the Lunar Racks network or on another provider’s network
Using Lunar Racks Services to interfere with the use of the Lunar Racks network by other customers or authorized users
Server Resources (This applies to shared hosting plans only.): Running programs in the background on a Lunar Racks shared server without prior written authorization, or running chat rooms, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) or IRC Bots, more than one thousand (1,000) emails a day and the like are not acceptable uses of Lunar Racks shared servers. Further, any usage of fifteen percent (15%) or greater of our system resources is an undue burden on our shared systems and is regarded as unacceptable. If your usage ever exceeds fifteen percent (15%) of shared system resources, your account may be terminated immediately and without prior notice. In addition, any domain that exceeds ten (10) gigabytes of bandwidth in a short span can be terminated without prior notice. Usage of scripts or other utilities to direct pointed domain names to subdirectories is not permitted and is grounds for termination of the account. Lunar Racks shared services may be used for lawful purposes only.

Unacceptable practices include but are not limited to the following:

• Drug dealing
• Piracy/Pirating
• Violation of copyright law
• Illegal gambling/Lottery sites
• Illegal arms trafficking
• Stalking or violating state or federal law
• Attempting without authorization to access a computer system
• Schemes to defraud, sending a message or having content that is indecent according to American laws with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person
• Threatening bodily harm or damage to individual(s) or group(s)
• Violating U.S. and international export restrictions
• Interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service
• Activities related to Chia mining

Customer Responsibility for Customer’s Users

Each Lunar Racks customer is responsible for the activities of its users and, by accepting service from Lunar Racks, is agreeing to ensure that its customers/representatives or end-users abide by this Policy. Complaints about customers/representatives or end-users of a Lunar Racks customer will be forwarded to the Lunar Racks customer’s postmaster for action. If violations of the Lunar Racks Acceptable Use Policy occur, Lunar Racks reserves the right to terminate services with or take action to stop the offending customer from violating Lunar Racks AUP as Lunar Racks deems appropriate, without notice.

Refusal of Service

We reserve the right to refuse, cancel or suspend service at our sole discretion. All sub-networks, distributive hosting sites and dedicated servers of Lunar Racks must adhere to the above policies. Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation without refund. If you have any questions regarding this abuse policy please feel free to contact Lunar Racks at abuse@lunarracks.com.