1. Web hosting accounts sole purposes is to host web sites and e-mail ONLY. Any account found running a game server, an IRC server, or an IRC bot, will be terminated immediately. Any fees paid will be forfeited.

2. The person that signs up for an account is the person responsible for it. If you no longer wish to be responsible for payments, contact Shoreline Web Developers immediately. Accounts are NOT transferable without specific permission from Shoreline Web Developers.

3. Any account which exceeds its data transfer level, will be automatically upgraded to the appropriate bandwidth level. Thus, when an account's disk space usage full, uploading will simply fail to work until the user upgrades their account level.

Similarly, accounts which place a great level of stress on a machine through excessive CPU usage will be asked to upgrade to a higher level package. We reserve the right to kill any process which uses considerable amounts of CPU time and RAM. Refusal to upgrade or to bring system usage within account parameters may result in the termination of the offending account.

4. Accounts cannot be used for any of the following purposes: Spamming (sending UCE - unsolicited commercial e-mail), supporting spam (such as selling e-mail harvesting software or mass-emailing services), software piracy, distribution of illegal pornography, hacking, or attempting to use machine or network resources for unlawful purposes. Any account violating these rules will be terminated immediately and no refunds will be issued. Accounts used for spam will be charged $100 per complaint received plus any expenses incurred in cleaning up after the spam.

5. Shoreline Web Developers will not be held responsible for any content on its client's sites which others may find offensive.

6. For new clients only, accounts canceled within the first 30 days of service will receive a full refund. Refunds will be made in the same form as the original payment. You must explicitly notify us via E-MAIL (phone requests will not be accepted without credit card verification for your own protection) if you wish to cancel your account. Accounts are still considered active and will be charged even if you do not log in and use them. Your billing period starts the day your account is activated, whether or not you are actively publicizing a site.

7. Personal or business checks are accepted by mail. A returned check will incur a $25 service charge, and subsequent payments must be made by money order.

8. You are responsible for keeping Shoreline Web Developers informed of any changes to your name, mailing address, phone number, or e-mail address.

9. Reactivation of a suspended account will incur a $25 fee.

10. General system support is available free of charge by telephone or e-mail. Support for Advanced UNIX topics, and HTML, when available, will incur a charge of $65 and $50 per hour, respectively.

11. If you do not see a utility or program on our servers that you require, please inquire about it. We can obtain and install nearly any utility that you may need. However, there may be circumstances where we cannot fulfill every request or where we must charge a fee for the service.

12. All Shoreline Web Developers non-dedicated servers run the Slackware distribution of Linux, with a recent kernel version. Please do not ask for installs of other operating systems (including, but not limited to, Red Hat Linux) unless you are paying for a dedicated server.

13. Services are provided on an 'as is' basis. Shoreline Web Developers cannot and will not be held liable for any damages that may occur, whether indirect, incidental, or consequential that may arise out of use of Shoreline Web Developers' services. Please remember to always keep a local backup copy of your work on your own personal computer.

14. Shoreline Web Developers reserves the right to alter, amend, or change these policies at any time. All accounts are required to comply with any changes made to these policies while their accounts are active. Notification of any major changes to the policies will be e-mailed to all accounts.

bot (short for "robot") is a program that operates as an agent for a user or another program or simulates a human activity. On the Internet, the most ubiquitous bots are the programs, also called spider or crawler, that access Web sites and gather their content for search engine indexes.

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a system for chatting that involves a set of rules and conventions and client/server software. On the Web, certain sites such as Talk City or IRC networks such as the Undernet provide server and help you download an IRC client to your PC. Talk City also offers an IRC client applet that it downloads for you as part of their home page so that you can start chatting right away.