BROADNET STANDARDS OF USE

Any person or entity using the Broadnet Services (a “User”) will not use, or permit any third party to use, the Broadnet Services for any purpose or in any manner that: (i) is in violation of any applicable local, state, federal or foreign laws, rules, regulations, opinions and orders, including, but not limited to, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and all opinions, orders, rules and regulations promulgated by the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission; (ii) is prohibited by the User Agreement or these Broadnet Standards of Use; or (iii) interferes in any way with Broadnet’s or any other user’s use and enjoyment of the Broadnet Services. Broadnet retains the right to suspend or immediately terminate User’s access to the Broadnet Services if User’s conduct is found by Broadnet in its sole discretion to be inconsistent with the letter and spirit of the User Agreement or these Broadnet Standards of Use.

Without limiting the foregoing, User agrees, represents and warrants to Broadnet that:

  • User will not use, or attempt to use, the Broadnet Services to transmit any information that may be considered unlawful, harassing, defamatory, threatening, obscene, hateful, offensive, inappropriate, undesirable or invasive of another person’s safety, privacy or proprietary rights;
  • User will not offer for sale, advertise, promote or encourage the purchase or rental of any goods or services or otherwise conduct telemarketing or telephone solicitations through or in connection with the use of the Broadnet Services;
  • User will not conduct any lotteries, contests or sweepstakes through or in connection with the use of the Broadnet Services;
  • User will not use, or attempt to use, the Broadnet Services to initiate a call (or instruct Broadnet to initiate a call on User’s behalf) to any phone number for which User has not obtained any and all necessary and required consent of the call recipient to call her or him at that phone number;
  • User will not engage in activity that could damage, disable or overburden the Broadnet Services or place spyware, adware, malware, computer viruses or other programs, files or code designed to interrupt, destroy, gain access to or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment onto the Broadnet website or which distributes such malware through the Broadnet website, services or products to others;
  • User will not transmit, or attempt to transmit, any material that may infringe the contractual, confidentiality, proprietary, intellectual property or other rights of third parties, including trademark, copyright, trade secret, privacy or proprietary rights;
  • User will not impersonate, or attempt to impersonate, any other person, falsify contact information, engage in fraudulent spoofing, misrepresent a relationship with any person or entity, including misrepresenting a relationship with Broadnet, or otherwise attempt to mislead others as to the identity of the sender or the origin of a message;
  • User will not use the Broadnet Services to commit fraud, commit or encourage the commission of any criminal offense, or make any false representations of facts or circumstances, misstatements or in any way mislead others;
  • User will not resell or distribute, or attempt to resell or distribute, the use of the Broadnet Services without the prior written consent of Broadnet;
  • User will not interfere with, or attempt to interfere with, or disrupt connections to the Broadnet Services or violate the regulations, policies or procedures of such connections;
  • User will not redistribute any content of the Broadnet website or the Broadnet Services in any manner whatsoever including by means of printed publication, fax, web pages, e-mail or any other electronic or paper-based methods. The foregoing prohibitions expressly include screen scraping or any other practice or activity whose purpose is to obtain lists of data or content, portions of data or databases or other lists or information from the website or the Broadnet Services in any manner not specifically authorized in writing by Broadnet;
  • User will not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Broadnet Services, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the Broadnet Services; and User has retained legal counsel to advise User regarding compliance with all applicable local, state and federal laws, rules and regulations;
  • User will not remove, alter, or cover any copyright notices or other proprietary rights notices placed or embedded on or in any part of the Broadnet Services.