Illegal or Improper Activities:

You may not use Cat's Claw's services or servers in any manner in violation of any state, local or federal law of the United States of America, or any of its states or which in any manner is in violation of any applicable local or national law of any country. Such violations and activities include, but are not limited to, violations of U.S. or other applicable foreign export laws or restrictions including the U.S. Export Administration Act and accompanying regulations, posting or trafficking in government secrets, providing any information to in any way assist or encourage any terrorist activities, providing any information concerning nuclear or biological weapons or other weapons of mass destruction, posting or trafficking in obscene material, solicitation of a minor or others for illegal acts, dealing drugs, harassment, fraud, stalking, abuse, or other subject matters that are prohibited under applicable federal, state, local or foreign law.

Offensive Subject Matter:

You may not use Cat's Claw's services or servers for transmitting, disseminating, sale, storage or hosting subject matter that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, threatening, hateful, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable. You may not use Cat's Claw's services or servers to conduct any sexually oriented business or disseminate pornographic pictures, videos, banners, text or any similar material. You may not use Cat's Claw's services or servers to threaten bodily harm or destruction of property.

Misuse of System Resources:

You may not engage in any uses or activities that misuse Cat's Claw's services, servers or system resources, including, but not limited to employing or posting programs which consume excessive CPU time or storage space; permitting use of mail services, mail forwarding capabilities, POP accounts, or autoresponders other than for your own account; or resale of access to CGI scripts installed on Cat's Claw's servers.

Cat's Claw Anti-Spam Policy:

Cat's Claw takes a no tolerance approach when dealing with spam and other types of UCE (unsolicited commercial email)

Cat's Claw defines spam as any type of unsolicited email used for any purpose. This includes, but is not limited to:

1. Using a non-existent return email address when sending commercial solicitations.
2. Mail-bombing (sending numerous messages to the same user).
3. Subscribing someone else to a mailing list without that person's permission.
4. Posting the same article to multiple newsgroups.
5. Using another network to send spam that relates in any way to Cat's Claw or any site hosted by Cat's Claw (including your site).

If you are going to have a mailing list or a Free For All links (FFA) page Then you will need to make sure that it is in a Double Opt-in format. That means that when someone subscribes to your list by giving you their email address you will need to send them an email that tells them that you have received a request to have them subscribed to your list. This email should not be an advertisement or it could be considered spam. It should just state that you have received a request to subscribe them to your list. You will also need to tell them in the email that if they want to be subscribed that they will need to reply to that email with subscribe in the subject. And that if they delete the email or just do not reply with subscribe in the subject that they will not be subscribed to the list and will not receive any further emails. If you have any questions about this Double Opt-in format please contact cosupport@catsclaw.net.

If a client is found in violation of the above no-spam policy, the offending account will be terminated without notice and no refund will be issued.