We have a responsibility to protect each client and to provide the best services available.
The following guidelines were designed to ensure these obligations are met.

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY. All elements of ODE web site, including words, images, and photos, are protected by trade dress (look and feel of this site), unfair competition, and other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part. No logo, graphic, sound or image from any ODE website may be copied or retransmitted unless expressly permitted by ODE.

CONTENT. All services provided may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any United States Federal, State or City law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material we judge to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade secret and other statute. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claims resulting from the use of the service which damages the subscriber or any other party. Pornography and sex-related merchandising is prohibited on all our servers. This includes sites that may infer sexual content, or links to adult content elsewhere. We will be the sole arbiter in determining violations of this provision. Also prohibited are sites that promote any illegal activity or present content that may be damaging to our servers or any other server on the internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited. Examples of unacceptable content or links: Pirated software Hacker programs or archives Warez sites We will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. Commercial Advertising - Email Spamming, or the sending of unsolicited email, from our server or using an email address or domain that is maintained on our machine as reference is STRICTLY prohibited. We will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

BACKGROUND RUNNING PROGRAMS. We may allow programs to run continually in the background. These are considered on a case-by-case basis and an extra charge will be incurred based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed. IRC We currently do not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers. Server Abuse Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server, or customer is strictly prohibited.

REFUSAL OF SERVICE. We reserve the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion. All Sub-Networks, distributive hosting sites and dedicated servers must adhere to the above policies. Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation.