Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) document, including the following list of Prohibited Activities, is an integral part of your service agreement with Office Pizzazz. If you engage in any of the activities prohibited by this AUP, Office Pizzazz may suspend or terminate your account and services.

Furthermore, should your account be terminated because of the Acceptable Use Policy, you shall be liable for any damages caused by customer's activity in breach of this policy, and shall be disqualified for any refund of any type.

Office Pizzazz's AUP is to protect Office Pizzazz, Office Pizzazz's customers, and the Internet community from irresponsible or, in some cases, illegal activities.

Customer Responsibility:

Each Office Pizzazz customer is responsible for the activities of its users and, by accepting service from Office Pizzazz, is agreeing to ensure that its customers/representatives or end-users abide by this Policy.

Complaints about customers/representatives or end-users of an Office Pizzazz customer will be forwarded to the Office Pizzazz Management for action. If violations of the Office Pizzazz’ AUP occur, Office Pizzazz reserves the right to terminate services with or take action to stop the offending customer from violating Office Pizzazz's AUP as Office Pizzazz deems appropriate, without notice.

This policy is a non-exclusive list of the actions prohibited by Office Pizzazz. Office Pizzazz reserves the right to modify this policy at any time.

Prohibited Uses of Office Pizzazz Systems and Services:

Pirating:

1. Using any data, documents, email correspondence, and programs contained on Office Pizzazz systems for anything which they do not have authorization to use.
2. Using any non-standard shareware or freeware software without the appropriate Office Pizzazz Management approval.
3. Using any unauthorized copies of copyrighted or Office Pizzazz software or systems.
4. The downloading, copying and use of Office Pizzazz’ content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party.

UBE: Sending Unsolicited Bulk Email ("UBE", "spam"):

1. The sending of any form of Unsolicited Bulk Email through Office Pizzazz's servers is prohibited. Likewise, the sending of UBE from another service provider advertising a web site, email address or utilizing any resource hosted on Office Pizzazz's servers, is prohibited. Office Pizzazz 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.
2. Advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available any software, program, product, or service that is designed to violate this AUP 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.
3. Office Pizzazz systems may not be used for political activity, unsolicited advertising, and unauthorized fundraising or for the solicitation of performance of any activity that is prohibited by any local, state or federal law.

Purchased or Unconfirmed eMailing Lists:

1. Purchasing lists of email addresses from 3rd parties without the distribution and/or management of said list by Office Pizzazz for  any type of emailing is prohibited.
2. Running Unconfirmed Mailing Lists is prohibited. 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 Office Pizzazz customers or their clients 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.
3. Not including an easy, highly visible one-click unsubscribe link on any mass mailing sent. All mass mailing, regardless of volume, must allow the recipients to opt-out and not receive any further emails.

Resellling:

1. Operating an account on behalf of, or in connection with another, or reselling any service to another persons or firms.
2. Using Office Pizzazz's Services to interface with others in the Office Pizzazz networks and their customers outside of explicit tools provided.
3. 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.

Pornography:

1. 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 other intellectual property right used without proper authorization, and material that is obscene, vulgar, and pornographic or of an adult-only, sexually provocative or suggestive nature, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws.
2. Using any activity that may harass, threaten or abuse others or intentionally access, create, store or transmit material which Office Pizzazz may deem to be offensive, indecent or obscene, or that is illegal according to local, state or federal law.

Security:

1. 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 Office Pizzazz network or on another provider's network.
2. Obtaining or attempting to obtain service by any means or device with intent to avoid payment.
3. Unauthorized access, alteration, destruction, or any attempt thereof, of any information of any Office Pizzazz customer or end-user by any means or device.
4. Unauthorized attempts by a user to gain access to any account or computer resource not belonging to that user (e.g., "cracking").
5. Using any download, install or run security programs or utilities such as password cracking programs, packet sniffers, or port scanners that reveal or exploit weaknesses in the security of an Office Pizzazz computer resource unless approved by Office Pizzazz’s Management.
6. Using any activity that may degrade the performance of Office Pizzazz; deprive an authorized user access to Office Pizzazz resources; obtain extra resources beyond those allocated; or circumvent Office Pizzazz computer security measures.