Terms of Service / AUP

DISCLAIMER

1. Wyoming.com is a commercial organization dedicated to improving business, educational, and individual opportunities via the Internet. Accordingly, Wyoming.com's objectives are:

a. To provide Internet access to all businesses, educational users, and individuals.
b. To provide data transport between Wyoming.com users and the rest of the Internet.
c. To allow commercial, educational, and individual users data transport among themselves.
d. To expand the data communication options within the Rocky Mountain West.

Much of the content available on Wyoming.com's service is owned by others. This content is protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. Any content that you upload or download while using Wyoming.com must be authorized. This means you must have the legal right to upload or download the content. Making unauthorized copies of any content found on Wyoming.com can lead to the termination of your Wyoming.com account. This conduct may also subject you to further legal action. Additionally, the unauthorized submission of copyrighted materials or other proprietary content constitutes a breach of Wyoming.com's Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). This type of breach could subject the uploader to criminal prosecution as well as personal liability for damages in a civil suit. Owners of the protected material may take criminal or civil action against you. In that event, you agree to hold harmless Wyoming.com and its subsidiaries, affiliates, related companies, employees, officers, directors and agents.

Users of the Wyoming.com network will:
Remember that they are interacting on a Global network and act appropriately.
Avoid interfering with the work of other users.
Avoid disrupting the network host systems.
Avoid disrupting network services.

Privacy Policy:
Customer information including, without limitation, name, Internet activity or financial history shall be released only on receipt of written permission signed by the person affected or in response to a subpoenna or order from a court of competent jurisdiction .

2. VIOLATIONS OF Wyoming.com'S ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY (AUP)
The following practices constitute violations of the AUP and will not be tolerated. Users found knowingly practicing them may, in the discretion of Wyoming.com, lose their account with Wyoming.com. Should Wyoming.com believe that a criminal statute has been violated, it will immediately inform the proper authorities.

a. ILLEGAL USE. Using the Services to transmit any material (by email, uploading, posting, or otherwise) that, intentionally or unintentionally, violates any applicable local, state, national or international law, or any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder.

b. HARM TO MINORS. Using the Services to harm, or attempt to harm, minors in any way.

c. THREATS. Using the Services to transmit any material (by email, uploading, posting, or otherwise) that threatens or encourages bodily harm or destruction of property.

d. HARRASSMENT. Using the Services to transmit any material (by email, uploading, posting, or otherwise) that harasses another.

e. FRADULENT ACTIVITY. Using the Services to make fraudulent offers to sell or buy products, items, or services or to advance any type of financial scam such as "pyramid schemes," "Ponzi schemes," and "chain letters." Deceptive on-line marketing practices are also considered fraudulent activities. The FTC will bring cases against these types of marketing schemes. For information about what the FTC has done against these types of schemes, please visit the FTC web site here.

f. FORGERY OR IMPERSONATION. Adding, removing or modifying identifying network header information in an effort to deceive or mislead is prohibited. Attempting to impersonate any person by using forged headers or other identifying information is prohibited. The use of anonymous re-mailers or nicknames does not constitute impersonation. Using deliberately misleading headers ("munging" headers) in news postings in order to avoid spam email address collectors is allowed.

g. UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL/UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL. Using the Services to transmit any unsolicited commercial email or unsolicited bulk email. Activities that have the effect of facilitating unsolicited commercial email or unsolicited bulk email whether or not that email is commercial in nature, are prohibited.

h. UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS. Using the Services to access, or to attempt to access, the accounts of others, or to penetrate, or attempt to penetrate, security measures of Wyoming.com's or another entity's computer software or hardware, electronic communications system, or telecommunications system, whether or not the intrusion results in the corruption, theft or loss of data.

i. COPYRIGHT OR TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT. Using the Services to transmit any material (by email, uploading, posting, or otherwise) that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material, the digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted sources, and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software.

j. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA. Using the Services to collect, or attempt to collect, personal information about third parties without their knowledge or consent.

k. RESELLING THE SERVICES. Reselling the Services without Wyoming.com's written authorization. No subscriber shall provide access to the Wyoming.com network to any other person, or shall sell, resell, share, give, or provide, either separately or in conjunction with any other service or amenity, access to any of the services provided by Wyoming.com.

l. NETWORK DISRUPTIONS AND UNFRIENDLY ACTIVITY. Using the Services for any activity which adversely affects the ability of other people or systems to use Wyoming.com services or the Internet. This includes "denial of service" (DoS) attacks, viruses, Trojan horses, worms, and other types of malicious programs against another network host or individual user. Interference with or disruption of other network users, network services or network equipment is prohibited. It is the User's responsibility to ensure that their network is configured in a secure manner. A User may not, through action or inaction, allow others to use their network for illegal or inappropriate actions. A User may not permit their network, through action or inaction, to be configured in such a way that gives a third party the capability to use their network in an illegal or inappropriate manner.

Introducing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, and other types of malicious programs into the Wyoming.com network, and thereby the Internet, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law

m. NEWS. Wyoming.com Users should use their best judgment when posting to any newsgroup. Many groups have charters, published guidelines, FAQs, or "community standards" describing what is and is not considered appropriate. Usenet can be a valuable resource if used properly. The continued posting of off-topic articles is prohibited. Commercial advertisements are off-topic in most newsgroups, especially regional groups not specifically named for such. The presence of such articles in a group is not indicative of the group's "intended" use. Please familiarize yourself with basic Usenet netiquette before posting to a newsgroup.

Wyoming.com Users may not cancel messages other than their own messages. A User may cancel posts forged in that User's name. We may cancel any postings which violate this AUP.

n. MIS-USE OF SERVICES. Using a personal or residential account for commercial use is prohibited. Commercial use is defined as hosting a server of any type using your Wyoming.com service (see next section for information about WEB SITE AND SERVER POLICY). The Services are intended for personal use to include: active use of email, newsgroups, file transfers, Internet chat, games, and browsing the World Wide Web. Users may maintain a dialup connection so long as they are actively using that connection for the above purposes. Users may not use the Services on a standby or inactive basis in order to maintain a dialup connection. Accordingly, Wyoming.com maintains the right to terminate any User's dialup connection following any extended period of inactivity as determined by Wyoming.com.

o. WEB SITE AND SERVER POLICY. Only commercial users are authorized to host appropriate commercial servers, to include web servers, ftp servers, email servers, etc., as part of their Wyoming.com Internet agreement. All materials hosted on such commercial servers must adhere to the items outlined in this AUP. Commercial users are defined as those parties that purchase a Wyoming.com Business Internet service and sign a Wyoming.com Business Services Agreement.

This Acceptable Use Policy is not meant to be a straightjacket on using Wyoming.com or the Internet networks. By simply conforming to this policy, all users create an environment where communication can flow freely and with a minimum of policing.