Legal Notice

B2B Advantage is a provider of Internet World Wide Web Services, which invests it with certain legal and ethical responsibilities as to the use of those Services and the equipment that supports its Service offerings. B2B Advantage has developed a policy of on-line conduct, or Acceptable Usage Policy (AUP), that is supplemental to each Customer's subscription services agreement and expands upon certain terms and conditions contained therein. By using B2B Advantage's Services, our Customers, as well as Customer's users and/or customers, if applicable, agree to comply with the AUP. B2B Advantage's Customers are expected to take the necessary steps to insure, to the best of their ability, that these guidelines are routinely followed by their customers or users, if applicable, to help insure the continuing availability and overall success of the Internet as a source of virtually unlimited private, public, commercial and non-commercial information and products. B2B Advantage expressly reserves the right to suspend or terminate a Customer's access to the Services if, in its judgment, a Customer has inappropriately used the Services or engaged in illegal or prohibited activities.

The Customer agrees to use B2B Advantage's Services only for lawful purposes, and only in a lawful manner. Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a B2B Advantage's server or to another's server or account is strictly prohibited. Any attempt to harm or deactivate a server can result in immediate suspension of Services and account deactivation. Any attempt to use another's account or computer equipment without the owner's authorization is strictly prohibited, and includes such activities as security measures scanning, vulnerability probing, password or credit card theft, password scamming (fooling or tricking another into revealing their password), or misrepresenting your identity. Such conduct can result in account suspension and/or termination, as well as civil and/or criminal legal action, depending on the nature of the act.

Customer acknowledges and understands that B2B Advantage exercises no control over the content of the information passing through our system or through Customer's Website. Customer acknowledges and understands that B2B Advantage does not monitor, review, edit or take responsibility for any information that Customer or its users create, access or disseminate, that it is the sole responsibility of Customer to insure that any information it and its users receive and/or send is in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and this AUP. Customer will not engage in, nor will it permit any persons using Customer's on-line facilities and/or services to engage in, illegal or prohibited activities. Specific activities that are prohibited include, but are not limited to:

• Threatening harm to people or property, or otherwise using the Services to employ, post or transmit defamatory, malicious, obscene, harassing, or abusive language.
• Violating the U.S. export control laws for technical information or software.
• Misrepresenting products and/or services.
• Violating the Intellectual Property rights of others, to include copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, service marks, and patents.
• Forging or misrepresenting message headers, return mailing and Internet protocol addresses to mask the identity or contact information of the sender.
• Violating the privacy rights of others, including, without limitation, the unauthorized collection and distribution of personal information not permitted by law.
• Assisting persons engaging in any of the prohibited activities referenced herein. If Customer becomes aware of Prohibited Activities, Customer will use its best efforts to correct the Prohibited Activity immediately, including, if necessary, limiting or terminating a user's access to Customer's Website.
  

Use of Material:

The Customer is expected to use its site and access to the Internet properly and responsibly. Due to the special system controls, requirements and procedures associated with adult oriented sites, B2B Advantage prohibits websites that contain what is commonly acknowledged as adult graphic content, or pornographic materials, to include child pornography, links or distribution of passwords to adult websites, banners advertising adult websites, and sex-related merchandise. Customers in violation of this policy may be terminated without notice.

It is the sole responsibility of the Customer to ensure that any and all information appearing on, or disseminated by their Website are either materials found within the public domain (having lost or never had copyright protection) or works of Customer's own creation. Copyrighted materials include works of art, photographic images, video, music, computer software and any other works fixed in a tangible medium, and may not be used for commercial or non-personal use in any way whatsoever, without the authority of the owner of copyright. Customer assumes all risks in determining whether any information is or is not material to be found in the public domain. Upon receipt of a proper notice that Customer's materials are a copyright infringement, B2B Advantage will require that the offending materials be removed immediately, or access will be blocked to that portion of Customer's content that infringes another's copyright. Repeated violations of copyright laws may result in the termination of Services.

In the course of providing the Services to its Customers, B2B Advantage may acquire, store and transmit Customer information that may be regarded as private or confidential. Excluding business information, any Customer information that B2B Advantage may collect, to include, without limitation, Customer's personal name, personal address, private telephone numbers, credit card information and numbers, status of accounts, the choice of Services, and account logs, may be done only for the purposes of initiating an account, billing, customer service and management of those services, or to fashion offers of additional services. B2B Advantage will not share or disclose personal Customer information, if given, with any company, individual, organization, or agency unrelated to B2B Advantage, without the prior written consent of the Customer in question, except as may be required by law. B2B Advantage will, however, cooperate with law enforcement agencies, but only to the extent required under law, in claims or investigations of illegal activities. All information normally relating to the business account and made a part of the Customer's Website, as well as any personal information that Customer places on its Website, is done at its own risk, is not considered private and confidential, and is therefore excluded from the above considerations. B2B Advantage shall not knowingly collect information on individuals under the age of eighteen years.

The Internet community does not appreciate unsolicited e-mail from any source. This is the electronic equivalent of "junk mail," and is also referred to as SPAM. Spamming is the sending of unsolicited e-mail to people or entities unknown to the sender. If you do not know the recipient, or do not have the prior consent of recipient to send the message, then you are spamming. Spamming also includes sending unsolicited advertising or commercial messages in bulk, which can quickly disrupt the services of a Host. For this reason, spamming is strictly prohibited, as is the provision of any software that facilitates or enables SPAM. Other related and equally prohibited activities include: Mailbombing, the sending of multiple messages to the same e-mail address with the same basic contents; Trolling, posting messages designed to elicit numerous responses; unauthorized subscription of another's name to mailing lists of any kind; storing, using or distributing tools that collect e-mail addresses for the purposes of bulk mailing, or that contain viruses, worms, Trojan Horses, and other means that otherwise compromise the integrity and security of another's equipment, system, or service.

Complaints regarding violations of this Acceptable Use Policy should be directed to Customer Care at B2B Advantage.