Acceptable Use Policy

BT's editors periodically attempt to review every site and attempt to exclude listings for pornographic or violent sites. However, we do not accept any responsibility for the content of web sites listed, as it is the nature of the Internet that they may change quickly and without notice. Nor do we accept any responsibility for links from sites listed on oceanfree's directory or search engine.

Good practice in the internet service provision industry requires service providers to formulate and adapt usage policies for their customers. The information superhighway is a challenging and valuable resource which is however capable of abuse. BT has adopted as the cornerstone of its Acceptable Usage Policy the core principle that no customer shall use the services for any activity which contravenes the laws of Ireland or any other applicable jurisdiction, or to create, host or transmit offensive or obscene material.

Accordingly customers may not use BT's services to engage in activities
which:-
infringe the proprietary rights of software;
compromise the privacy of others;
would destroy the integrity of computer based information.

BT reserves the right to take such action as it deems in its absolute discretion to be appropriate against customers who violate any conditions of the BT Acceptable Usage Policy. Such actions may include the suspension, interruption, restriction or termination of service as considered appropriate by BT. In such circumstances, BT will take such steps which at its sole discretion it considers reasonable and appropriate.

The BT Acceptable Use Policy has been formulated with the following goals in mind:

Ensure the security, reliability and privacy of BT's systems and network, and the networks and systems of others Avoid situations that may cause BT to incur civil liability Maintain the image and reputation of BT as a responsible provider Preserve the value of Internet resources as a conduit for free expression Encourage the responsible use of net resources, discouraging practices which degrade the usability of network resources and thus the value of Internet services Preserve the privacy and security of individuals

The following rules apply while using the Oceanfree.net service

1. The use of any BT service for illegal purposes (or to solicit any illegal act) is strictly prohibited including, without limitation the regulations promulgated by the Irish Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange. Customer agrees not to use the Oceanfree.net Service to interfere or disrupt networks connected to the Service.

2. Pornographic, obscene, nude, graphically violent, and other inappropriate images are strictly prohibited.

3. Defamatory, libelous, hateful, pornographic, profane or obscene language is strictly prohibited.

4. Offensive and indecent Customer names, screen names, or handles are not allowed and will be prohibited. In the event any such misleading Customer profiles, Customer names, screen names, or handles appear on the service, they will be immediately revoked.

5. Solicitation of gambling is prohibited.

6. Do not disrupt the flow of a discussion by repeatedly posting the same message or image or posting excessively large images.

7. Parental permission is required for children 12 years of age and under to use any community applications (e.g. chat, email)

8. Impersonation of others, including but not limited to, a BT employee or representative or another BT Customer is forbidden. Customer names or handles that impersonate may be blocked.

9. BT may elect at its sole discretion to monitor some, all, or no areas of oceanfree.net for adherence to these rules or other BT rules that may be published from time to time. You acknowledge that by providing you with the ability to distribute your content, BT is acting as a passive conduit for such distribution and BT is not undertaking any obligation or liability relating to any content or activities in community applications as described in more detail in BT's Disclaimer.

10. It is BT's policy to respect the privacy of its Customers. Users
acknowledge that BT may disclose certain registration information in the aggregate to 3rd parties as described in our Privacy Policy. BT reserves the right to edit or disclose the contents of your private communications to law enforcement authorities, if in BT's good faith belief that such action is reasonably necessary to: (i) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on BT; (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of BT; or (iii) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of BT's Customers or the public.

11. BT is not responsible for any user generated content. We reserve the right to remove any homepages or other user generated content that are in violation of the Terms and Conditions or this Acceptable Usage Policy. Customers are legally responsible for the content of their Personal Homepages including, but not limited to, use of copyrighted material, or posting material
considered indecent for minors.

12. You and any person who has access to your Account must evaluate, and bear the risk associated with, the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message, information, text, data or other materials ("Content"). BT reserves the right to remove Content which is deemed in BT's sole discretion unlawful, harmful, defamatory, hateful, offensive, or otherwise objectionable in violation of the House Rules or any rules or policies BT has in place at the time. Customer agrees not to use BT for chain letters, junk mail, unsolicited bulk mail, or any type of Spam[13].

13. Customer access will be revoked if any of the following activities occur:

- making available copyrighted software which has been "cracked" (e.g., copyright protection for the software has been removed) - - making available serial numbers for software which can be used to illegally validate or register software - - making available tools which can be used for no purpose other than "cracking" software. - - commercial use or reselling of the Oceanfree.net Service. The Oceanfree.net Service is for individual use only.

14. If BT becomes aware of the presence of copyright infringing material on its server either in the course of its ordinary and reasonable business activities or by notification from a third party, the BT Customer responsible for the page with the infringing material will, at BT's sole discretion, have the offending home page deleted and Customer's account revoked.

15. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO TERMINATE ANY CUSTOMER FOR ANY REASON OR NO REASON
AT ALL.
Customers must accept individual responsibility for their account. We expect customers will adhere to reasonable security standards. For example, customers should not share passwords, leave passwords lying around in plain text, or otherwise compromise the security of their account. Our dialup and broadband accounts are all single user only. Unless we have reason to believe an account was broken into by means beyond the customers' control, we have to hold the customer responsible for policy violations stemming from said
account.

The Customer hereby agrees to indemnify and hold BT harmless from any claim,
costs, damages, loss or expenses of whatsoever nature arising out of claims
by any third parties alleging that use of the BT network and/or the BT
connection through use of the customer's account has infringed any
intellectual property or right of any kind or any applicable Irish or
international legislation or regulation. The Customer shall defend and pay
all costs, damages, awards, fees (including reasonable legal fees) and
judgements incurred by BT. The customer shall provide BT with notice of any
claims of such nature which come to its attention without limitation to the
foregoing.

The Customer acknowledges that BT is unable to exercise control over the
content of the information passing over the BT connection and/or the BT
network and BT hereby excludes all liability of any kind for the transmission
or reception of infringing information of whatever nature. Specifically, customers may not:

1. Share your password with anyone or allow anyone else to use your personal
use account except in your immediate presence.

2. Tamper with other accounts, or commit unauthorised intrusion into any part
of BT's system or use any of BT's machines, files or services to intrude
without authorisation into any other system (cracking).

3. Use BT services not included in the Oceanfree.net email service or devise ways to
circumvent security so you have access to services you have not paid for
(theft of services).

4. Use the system willfully or negligently in a manner that encumbers disk
space, processors or other system resources so as to interfere with others'
normal use of services on BT or on other systems (a "denial of services"
attack).

5. Create or participate in chain letters or pyramid schemes.

6. Harass users (on BT or elsewhere). Examples of harassment include sending
email or real-time messages to a user who has asked explicitly and
unambiguously that you not do this. Publishing someone's real-world data
(phone number, address etc.) in a news group or on the web, etc. in such a
way as to cause the person trouble or to incite others to do so (even if you
do not do it yourself) is also forbidden. Establishing that the information
you published is available, say, in a phone book somewhere does not
constitute a defence of this kind of harassment. In some cases, an harassing
user may be warned against engaging in similar behaviour with other users as
well.

7. Abuse the services of a remote server, or violate a remote system's terms
of service while connected to that service from your BT account.

8. Send unsolicited mass mailings or unsolicited subscriptions with a
"negative option" for continuation. (The negative option is one where you
invite people who do not wish to receive further mailings to reply to you.)

9. Run daemons , MUDs , BOTs , or other background processes.

10. Run a server from your non-dedicated Slip/PPP dialup account .

11. Send mail messages without either a valid and correct "From:" or
"Reply-to:" header, as per RFC 822 .
Electronic mail passes through multiple mail servers on the Internet as it passes from source to destination. One can never be guaranteed privacy from every possible mail server; therefore, someone seeking total privacy should use some encryption scheme to render their messages unreadable by eavesdroppers.

With regards to BT's mail servers, BT places a high value on privacy. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for in-depth details. It is BT's policy to only examine users' mail when absolutely necessary. However, BT must reserve the right to examine users mail where BT considers this to be necessary. Such situations include, but are not limited to troubleshooting email delivery problems, or whenever required to by law.

The following rules pertain specifically to Usenet[12] postings. If you never use Usenet , they do not apply to you.

1. Spam the net with commercial or non-commercial postings.

2. Willfully or negligently flood Usenet[12] news groups.

3. Post Usenet[12] articles without either a valid "From:"[9] or
"Reply-to:"[10] header, as per RFC 822[11].

4. Post binary messages to a non-binary Usenet[12] newsgroup.

We reserve the right to terminate any account for other kinds of nontrivial misbehaviour, or for any breach of the terms of this acceptable usage policy. In all of these matters, decisions by BT's staff are final.

We reserve the right to change this agreement without prior notice. The latest version is available at www.Oceanfree.net

Customers who find any of the following terms and explanations inadequate in aiding their comprehension can contact BT's customer service department for an in depth description. The BT customer services department can be contacted by phone at 1550 926 100. Calls are charged at Eur0.72 per minute or at the following postal address:

Grand Canal Plaza, Upper Grand Canal Street, Dublin 4.

Please also refer to BT's Advertising Policy