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Introduction |
| 1.1 |
If you have an agreement
with VillageMall for a service ("Service") that
includes or incorporates this Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP"),
you must comply with this AUP when you use that Service. |
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A reference to "you"
in this AUP includes a reference to your officers, employees,
contractors, agents and anyone else (other than VillageMall or its
representatives) who uses the Service. |
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2 |
What you cannot use the Service for |
| 2.1 |
You must not use the
Service, attempt to use the Service or allow the Service to be used in
any way:
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Breach of law |
| (a) |
which results in you
or VillageMall breaching, or being involved in a breach of a law,
order or regulation (including a foreign law, order or regulation),
a mandatory code of conduct; or a voluntary code of conduct that you
have agreed to comply with; |
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Damage to property or people |
| (b) |
which results, or
could result, in damage to property or injury to any person; |
| (c) |
to harass, menace or
stalk people; |
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Protection of minors |
| (d) |
which enables a minor
to access material inappropriate for a minor or to establish (or try
to establish) contact with a minor not otherwise known to you; |
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Discrimination |
| (e) |
which incites
discrimination, hate or violence towards one person or group because
of their race, religion, gender or nationality; |
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Obscene, defamatory, offensive, abusive |
| (f) |
to send, display or be
otherwise involved in material which is obscene or defamatory; |
| (g) |
which is, or which
would be considered by a reasonable person to be, offensive or
abusive; |
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Illegal business practices and gambling |
| (h) |
to engage in any
misleading or deceptive business or marketing practice; |
| (i) |
that involves
providing or promoting illegal pyramid selling schemes or unlawful
gambling or gaming activities; |
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The rights of others |
| (j) |
which infringes
VillageMall's or any other person's rights (including intellectual
property rights and moral rights); |
| (k) |
which constitutes a
misuse of VillageMall's or any other person's confidential
information; or |
| (l) |
which results in a
breach by you of any obligation that you owe to any person; |
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Use of third party information |
| (m) |
Any third party
information, including but not limited to security price
information, is accessed by VillageMall as your Agent, and is for
your personal use. Any price information may be delayed by at least
20 minutes.
Disclaimer
The content accuracy and
completeness of any third party information cannot be guaranteed.
Those acting upon such information do so entirely at their own risk. |
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What you cannot use the service to do |
| 3.1 |
You are not authorised to
access VillageMall's computer systems or networks for any purpose other
than to use the Service in accordance with this AUP and your agreement
with VillageMall for supply of the Service. |
| 3.2 |
You must not:
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Interfering with services and systems |
| (a) |
interfere with the
proper operation of the Service or any other part of VillageMall's
network or systems. |
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Newsgroups, forums and chat room |
| (b) |
use the Service to
contribute to, or participate in, a Newsgroup, forum or chat room in
a way that has an adverse effect on the proper operation of those
Newsgroups, forums and chat rooms. |
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| 3.3 |
You must not use the
Service, attempt to use the Service or allow the Service to be used:
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SPAM |
| (a) |
to send, cause the
sending of or otherwise be involved in the sending of, SPAM;
SPAM means unsolicited electronic messages, as
defined within the SPAM ACT 2003.
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Virus, denial of service attacks |
| (b) |
in connection with any
program (including a virus, Trojan horse, worm, time
bomb), or activity (including a Denial of Service attack), that is
designed to provide or allow any form of unauthorised control of, or
result in an adverse effect on, a computer, a network or data
(whether the computer, network or data is VillageMall's or anyone
else's); |
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Open relay and port probing |
| (c) |
to access or use
VillageMall's or anyone else's systems, networks or data (including
through open relay, port probing and the use of packet sniffers)
without consent, regardless of whether or not such access or use has
any adverse effect on the system, network or data; |
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Spoofing |
| (d) |
to create, send or
alter in any way and by any means (including spoofing and use of
third party mail servers), the contents of an electronic message for
the purpose of hiding, obscuring or deleting the source of the
message or making the message appear to come from someone other than
you; or |
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Usage limits |
| (e) |
to manipulate or
bypass VillageMall's content, or storage usage limits. |
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4 |
Other obligations related to SPAM |
| 4.1 |
You must not benefit from
SPAM (which includes causing or requesting any of your
details to appear in SPAM and/or receiving responses to
SPAM). |
| 4.2 |
You must not purchase,
create, use, distribute, sell or otherwise be involved in software,
services or lists of sites, addresses, numbers or other identifiers of
any kind (including email addresses and phone numbers) that are used to
promote, send, or assist with the sending of, SPAM. |
| 4.3 |
If you send unsolicited
electronic messages, then:
| (a) |
you must include in
each message, an operational email address, telephone number, or facsimile number
or mailing address (owned by or operated on behalf of you) that can be used to notify you that the recipient
no longer wishes to receive such messages from you ("Opt Out
Notice"); and |
| (b) |
if you are sent an Opt
Out Notice, then you must immediately comply with the notice. |
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