Common use of Acceptable Use of the Services Clause in Contracts

Acceptable Use of the Services. The Client and its Users may not: (a) use, or encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to use the Services for any illegal, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, indecent, obscene, libelous, menacing, offensive or invasive of another person’s privacy use or to transmit, store, display, distribute or otherwise make available content that is illegal, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, indecent, obscene, libelous, menacing, offensive or invasive of another person’s privacy; (b) use the Services to violate the security or integrity of any network, computer or communications system, software application, or network or computing device; (c) interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Services or misuse the Software by introducing viruses, defects, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material or item which is technologically harmful or destructive in nature; (d) attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Software, the server on which the Software is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to the Cloud Provider; (e) attack the Software via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed or malicious denial-of service attack; (f) remove any legal, copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on materials the Client receives or accesses pursuant to this Agreement; (g) make network connections to any users, hosts, or networks unless the Client has permission to communicate with them; (h) distribute, publish, send or facilitate the sending of unsolicited mass e-mail or other messages, promotions, advertising or solicitations (like ‘spam’), including commercial advertising and informational announcements; and/or (i) use the Services in any way so as to bring the Services, or any part thereof or any third-party related thereto, or the Provider into disrepute. The Provider reserves the right, but does not assume the obligation, to investigate any violation of this Section or misuse of the Services.