Our Policy

ILLEGAL USE

The MinnesotaShopper.com Network may be used only for lawful purposes. Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation coming to or from any unauthorized network or system is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights used without proper authorization; government and military data protected by law and national security; university and academic data protected by public policy; and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws. Any violation of the above which compromises the integrity of the MinnesotaShopper.com Network or any other network is strictly prohibited.

NETWORK AND MACHINE RESOURCES

MinnesotaShopper.com reserves the right to monitor and allocate network and machine resources. MinnesotaShopper.com reserves the right to discontinue any script which may cause excessive server load.

SYSTEM AND NETWORK SECURITY

Violations of system or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability. MinnesotaShopper.com will investigate incidents involving such violations and may involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities if a criminal violation is suspected. MinnesotaShopper.com respects the privacy of customer data and vigilantly protects that data and ALL customers who host with MinnesotaShopper.com. If any violation of the law or this AUP is suspected, MinnesotaShopper.com reserves the right to investigate. Use of the MinnesotaShopper.com network constitutes consent to monitoring. Examples of unlawful acts, system, or network security violations include, without limitation, the following:

Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, damage, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without express authorization of the owner of the system or network. Unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic on any network or system without express authorization of the owner of the system or network. Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mailbombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks. Unauthorized access to any data, system, or network from an unauthorized system or network for any purpose which is not lawful or which is intended to do harm. Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting. Electronic forging of any kind to include but not limited to IP addresses, domains, business names, etc.

EMAIL

Sending unsolicited mail messages, including, without limitation, commercial advertising and informational announcements, is explicitly prohibited. A user shall not use another site's mail server to relay mail without the express permission of the site owner.

USENET

Posting the same or similar message to one or more newsgroups (excessive cross-posting or multiple-posting, also known as "SPAM") is expressly prohibited.

INDIRECT OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS OF THE POLICY, AND ACTUAL OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATIONS BY A THIRD PARTY ON BEHALF OF A MINNESOTASHOPPER.COM CUSTOMER OR A CUSTOMER'S END USER, SHALL BE CONSIDERED VIOLATIONS OF THE POLICY BY SUCH CUSTOMER OR END USER.

For Example:

If you are hosting a bulk email site on MinnesotaShopper.com servers and you use another ISP to SPAM from in order to reference your MinnesotaShopper.com site by IP address or domain name, you are violating MinnesotaShopper.com policy and possibly the law.

If you have been granted telnet access to MinnesotaShopper.com servers, multiple telnet log-ons are strictly prohibited and you must come from a valid IP address. Forgery is against the law.

Any type of denial of service attack from valid or invalid addresses is a violation of MinnesotaShopper.com security policy and against the law.

If you have been granted password privileges for FTP or telnet, sharing your password with an unauthorized user or third party is strictly prohibited.

Complaints regarding illegal Use or System or Network Security issues should be sent to legal@minnesotashopper.com.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides limitations for service provider liability relating to material online with regard to information residing, at the discretion of the user, on a system or network that the service provider controls or operates. 17. U.S. 512(c).

MinnesotaShopper.com will also not tolerate any adult material or spamming and both infringements shall result in immediate termination and removal of the site without a refund. MinnesotaShopper.com prides itself as a responsible member of the Internet community and is committed to protecting the data of and providing quality service to all MinnesotaShopper.com customers all of the time.

INTERACTION WITH MINNESOTASHOPPER.COM STAFF

Any threat, vulgar language or harrassment directed at any MinnesotaShopper.com staff member through phone or email may result in immediate termination of an account. Any violation of this policy by any employee, contractor or third party programmer of MinnesotaShopper.com should be reported immediately.