Terms and Conditions for Dial-up Accounts
Terms and Conditions for Dedicated Business Accounts
General Acceptable Use Policies
Acceptable Use Policies for Web Sites

1. Intro
2. Nudity and Sexual Content
3. Prejudice and Intolerance
4. Terrorism and Violence
5. Computer Viruses
6. Computer Hacking
7. Promotion Using Spam
8. Reselling Web Space
9. Illegal Activities

Acceptable Use Policies for News Groups
Acceptable Use Policies for Web Hosting

Intro
While you can find information over the Internet on nearly any type of topic, there are subject areas that could be deemed inappropriate or objectionable to a number of different audiences.  While US Net does not express an opinion on whether specific information should be or should not be be available over the Internet, we do feel strongly that there are subject areas we do not want to represent through our web service.  As such, the following acceptable use policies have been established for web sites hosted on US Net web servers:

Nudity and Sexual Content.  
Nudity, pornography, and explicit sexual content is prohibited on US Net's web service.  

Prejudice and Intolerance.  
Information that promotes racism, bigotry, religious intolerance, ethnic bias, or social bias is prohibited.  

Terrorism and Violence.  
Any site that promotes terrorism, war, hatred, violence, or murder is prohibited at US Net.  

Computer Viruses.  
Computer viruses cause millions of dollars of damage to computers every year.  Any information or software that promotes or supports the distribution of computer viruses over the Internet is prohibited on US Net's web service.

Computer Hacking.  
Computer hacking is an activity that focuses on breaking into other computers or damaging them in such a way as to render them inoperable.  In severe cases it can result in the complete destruction of the data stored on the computers that have been compromised during the attack.  If the data that is destroyed belongs to a computer that controls one of more networks, then those networks will fail too.  Because hacking can have such a detrimental effect on a large number of users, US Net prohibits web sites on our service that promote software and information used for computer hacking.

Promotion Using Spam.  
You can sell things from your web site, and you are welcome to advertise your web page, but you may not use unsolicited commercial email (spam) or mass posting to news groups to promote your web site over the Internet.  This rule remains in force even of you use a another Internet service (such as Cyberpromo) to distribute your spam.  Many ISPs will block email from sites that are promoted using spam.  US Net will remove web sites that promote themselves using spam.

Reselling Web Space.  
Customers on US Net's web servers may not resell web space to others under their directory.  If you want to resell web space, contact US Net to learn how you can become a reseller.

Illegal Activities.  
You are not allowed to promote activities that are illegal according to United States federal statutes or Maryland statutes.  This includes anything to do with making bombs, manufacturing drugs, hacking phone systems ("phreaking"), breaking into buildings and cars, and other illegal activities.