Terms of Service

Allowable Content

White Cane Media does not allow storage and/or display of the following material on its servers. This includes uploading to web sites, or transmitting by any material (by email, uploading, posting or otherwise):

  • Adult Sites: We prohibit any adult (pornographic) websites on our servers, including pedophile sites, sites linking to pornographic sites (outside links) and even pornographic advertisements on your own site.
  • Illegal use: White Cane Media services may not be used for illegal purposes, or in support of illegal activities
  • Copyright or trademark infringement: Use of the White Cane Media service to transmit any material (by email, uploading, posting, hot linking, directly linking or otherwise) that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other proprietary rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material, the digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted sources, and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software.
  • Distribution of Viruses: Intentional distributions of software that attempts to and/or causes damage, harassment, or annoyance to persons, data, and/or computer systems are prohibited. Such an offense will result in the immediate termination of the offending account.

Spamming

Spamming (sending unsolicited commercial or bulk emails) using our servers is strictly not allowed. DO NOT SEND SPAM EMAIL FROM OUR SERVERS. Sending spam emails which include links to a web site hosted on one of our servers is also forbidden. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate any site that is linked to from spam emails. To protect our servers we may impose limits on the number of emails sent within a particular time frame from our servers. Usenet Spamming: We have a zero tolerance policy for the use of our network for the posting of messages or commercial advertisements, which violate the rules, regulations, FAQ or charter of any newsgroups or mailing list. Commercial messages that are appropriate under the rules of a newsgroup or mailing list or that are solicited by the recipients are permitted.

Server Use

We want to allow our customers to use our servers the best way, but in order to protect other users, we may, temporarily or not, suspend a site if this site slows down our servers or uses too much server resource. In this case, we will try to find a solution together with the customer. You may not use your site to publish material, which White Cane Media determines, at its sole discretion, to be unlawful, indecent or objectionable. For purposes of this policy, "material" refers to all forms of communications including narrative descriptions, graphics (including photographs, illustrations, images, drawings, logos), executable programs, video recordings, and audio recordings. You must take resonable steps to protect the security of our servers. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • keeping all passwords to White Cane Media systems secure. You must not reveal your passwords to third parties.
  • ensuring that any scripts that are installed on your site cannot be exploited to compromise the security or the server.

The following constitute violations of Site Republic terms and conditions:

  • Illegal use : White Cane Media services may not be used for illegal purposes, or in support of illegal activities. White Cane Media reserves the right to cooperate with legal authorities and/or injured third parties in the investigation of any suspected crime or civil wrongdoing.
  • Harm to minors : Use of the White Cane Media service to harm, or attempt to harm, minors in any way, including, but not limited to child pornography.
  • Threats : Use of the White Cane Media service to transmit any material (by email, uploading, posting or otherwise) that threatens or encourages bodily harm or destruction of property.
  • Harassment : Use of the White Cane Media service to transmit any material (by email, uploading, posting or otherwise) that harasses another.
  • Fraudulent activity : Use of the White Cane Media service to make fraudulent offers to sell or buy products, items, or services, or to advance any type of financial scam such as "pyramid schemes," "ponzi schemes," and "chain letters."
  • Forgery or impersonation : Adding, removing or modifying identifying network header information in an effort to deceive or mislead is prohibited. Attempting to impersonate any person by using forged headers or other identifying information is prohibited. The use of anonymous remailers or nicknames does not constitute impersonation.
  • Unsolicited commercial email / Unsolicited bulk email (SPAM) : Use of the White Cane Media service to transmit any unsolicited commercial or unsolicited bulk email is expressly prohibited. Violations of this type will result in the immediate termination of the offending White Cane Media account.
  • Unauthorized access : Use of the White Cane Media service to access, or to attempt to access, the accounts of others, or to penetrate, or attempt to penetrate, security measures of Site Republic's or another entity's computer software or hardware, electronic communications system, or telecommunications system, whether or not the intrusion results in the corruption or loss of data, is expressly prohibited and the offending account is subject to immediate termination.

Scripts

You are responsible for ensuring that any scripts that you install do not compromise the security of our servers. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • ensuring that it is not possible to abuse such scripts to gain access to the file system of the server.
  • ensuring that it is not possible to abuse such scripts to send emails to third parties.
  • ensuring that you update any installed scripts with the latest releases, which often contain security fixes.

Where we provide an automatic script installer we may update installed scripts to the latest releases.

Server Maintenance

We might have, from time to time, to upgrade our servers or replace an old server with a new one. We reserve the right to suspend access to such server during the required time to do the upgrade or exchange the server, for no more than 4 hours. In this event, the users are sent an email at least 24 hours before the due date and time for upgrade.

Technical Support

White Cane Media provides technical support to our customers via email. We limit our technical support to our area of expertise. White Cane Media provides support related to your web site physical functioning. White Cane Media does not offer technical support for application specific issues such as PHP or cgi programming, html, script installation or any other such issue. There are links in the members area to other web sites that can help with such issues.

Modification

We may modify any of these terms and conditions contained, at any time and in our sole discretion, by posting a change notice or a new agreement on our site. Your continued participation now, or within thirty (30) days following the posting notice of any changes in these terms and conditions, will constitute a binding acceptance by you of such rules, changes or modifications. If any modification is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to terminate your account(s). In this case, a pro-rata repayment of web hosting costs will be made.

Termination and Suspension

You may terminate your hosting at any time by advising us via email that you wish to do so. We may terminate or suspend (temporarily or indefinitely) your hosting if you violate any of our terms and conditions. We may suspend your hosting where we have reason to suspect a violation of our terms and conditions whilst we investigate the suspected violation. We may suspend your hosting where we have reason to suspect that a script installed on your site is being abused whilst we investigate the suspected abuse.

Link Exchange

We encourage you to create a link for us below your main page. If you consider placing a link us to on your site please put "Web Hosting by White Cane Media".

Disclaimer

White Cane Media cannot be held responsible for any damage caused to your business or yourself, even if the damage is directly caused by one of our employees. White Cane Media cannot be held responsible for any loss of data or service interruption, but will do its best to help the customer. You, as a White Cane Media customer, are solely responsible for the content stored on and served by your web site. You must maintain adequate backups of your content.