Service Agreement

1. CornerNet Communications reserves the right to change this agreement at any time. Customers will receive prompt notification of any modifications. Use of CornerNet Communications' Internet Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the terms and conditions outlined in this agreement.

2. Unless under contractual obligation, customers have the right to cancel their account at any time, for any reason. CornerNet Communications also has the right to terminate or suspend your subscription at its discretion, for reasons including, but not limited to; violating its terms and conditions and/or its acceptable use policy, untimely payment or non-payment of charges for service fees and surcharges, repeated incidents of complaints from other network users which CornerNet Communications determines to be valid or inappropriate usage as determined by CornerNet Communications or other relevant authorities. If your account is suspended or interrupted, you are not relieved of the obligation to pay monthly account charges. Only a written notice to cancel this agreement relieves you of future charges. If you send us a written notice via email, we will contact you or your authorized representative by phone to confirm your decision to cancel this agreement.  If your account is suspended, there are no refunds.

3. Dialup accounts are for interactive use. Users must be at their computer while using their account.  The use of email-checkers, ping programs, IRC clients, or other programs or procedures designed to defeat the idle timeout, creating a line camping affect, will result in accounts being upgraded to a dedicated line or the account being terminated. (I.E. downloading for 6 weeks without disconnection is NOT a good reason for being online for 6 weeks straight.)   (Normal use of IRC does not violate this provision.) Dialup accounts each have a time limit and additional usage will be billed at $0.75 an hour. Additional hours will appear on next month's bill. You may not resell this service, or access to this service, in any way unless prior arrangement has been made. Dialup accounts may not be used by a Bulletin Board System (BBS) or other online service.

4. Personal web pages can be used for personal use. At our discretion, we may charge a reasonable fee for additional traffic over 30 megabytes per month. Storage and/or distribution of pornographic materials on CornerNet Communications' servers is prohibited.

5. Your account may be used by yourself, members of your immediate family, or an authorized representative of your company. Use of your account by someone other then yourself, an immediate family member, or an authorized representative of your company may cause your service to be terminated. All customers must be of legal age and may be required to provide proof of age. No users under 18 are permitted without signed permission from a parent or legal guardian. Some materials located on the Internet may be offensive or adult in nature.

6. Only one dial-in per account is allowed at any one time. This means you may not use more than one of CornerNet Communications' modems at the same time. A reasonable number of concurrent telnet sessions to your shell account are permitted. If you are found logged in more than once over a modem connection, we will assume that your password has been compromised and will immediately suspend your account.

7. All accounts will be billed on either a monthly or yearly basis. All invoice payments are due in our office by the due date. All returned checks will be subject to a $25.00 fee for each time they are rejected by your bank. Accounts may be interrupted if a bad check is not paid in 5 days. Any account which goes unpaid for more than 30 days may be suspended without notice.

8. You may have your user name as an alias. You may choose any user name as long as there are no duplicates in the user name list and subject to technical limitations of the system (i.e. up to maximum of 8 characters) . Your user name will always appear in your newsgroup postings and sending of electronic mail. Your user name is your login authorization. Your user name will be shown in system utilities, such as who, which shows the list of current users on-line to the system. Upon request, you can have your real name removed from the comment field, so that only your user name will be shown in your newsgroup postings and sending of electronic mail.

9. It is the responsibility of all Customers and others who have access to CornerNet Communications' Internet Service to use the services provided by CornerNet Communications only as permitted by applicable local, state, and federal laws, respect the privacy of other users and to not intentionally seek information on, obtain copies of or modify files, other data or passwords belonging to other users without permission,
respect the legal protection provided by copyright, trademark, licenses and other laws to programs, data and documents.  You may not upload to CornerNet Communications any data or software that is subject to distribution or copyright limits. You have the sole liability for any data or software uploaded to CornerNet Communications.  Use CornerNet Communications' facilities, services or resources in a manner which does not interfere with or disrupt other network users, services or equipment. Such interference or disruption includes, but is not limited to: (a) wide-scale distribution of messages to inappropriate forums or mailing lists, (b) propagation of computer worms or viruses, (c) use of the network to make unauthorized entry to other computational, information or communications devices or resources. This includes unauthorized security probing activities or other attempts to evaluate the security integrity of a network or host system without permission, (d) use of the network to make threats against another person via email or news or any other electronic media/service we make available and/or (e) use of our system to run IRC bots or clones.

10. CornerNet Communications' services are provided on an as is basis. There are no warranties expressed or implied. The Customer is responsible for the accuracy of data input and output and for maintaining a means external to the CornerNet Communications Internet service for the reconstruction of any lost data. The customer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless CornerNet Communications from any claims resulting from the customer's use of the service.

11. In the event CornerNet Communications should commence any action/s, or otherwise seek to enforce this agreement against any customer, the customer agrees to pay reasonable attorney/s fees, court costs and other expenses incurred by CornerNet Communications, whether or not suit is filed. CornerNet Communications reserves the right to assess legal fees, including attorney and court fees, upon any customer, who by their action or inaction directly or indirectly causes CornerNet Communications to be a defendant, co-defendant or to have to testify in any civil or criminal legal action or arbitration.

12. CornerNet Communications is not responsible for service interruptions beyond its control, including acts of God or service interruptions by its suppliers. From time to time, the system may be down for maintenance. Advance notice will be given when possible.

13. Any access to other networks or systems through CornerNet Communications internet service must comply with applicable rules of that network or system.

14. CornerNet Communications exercises no control over the content of the information passing through or temporarily stored in its system. CornerNet Communications' personnel may occasionally be required to examine files or email as part of their duties and to facilitate operation of the system. All customer data shall be treated in a confidential manner and data access of this nature shall be minimized. Customer data, including account records, on-line files and email will be released only to those individuals authorized by the customer or upon service of a valid court order.

15. The customer agrees to protect and treat all access codes and ID's provided by CornerNet Communications for its systems as confidential. If a customer believes his/her access ID/password has been compromised, immediate email or telephone notification must be provided to CornerNet Communications. The customer may be held responsible for all acts/communications initiated or authorized by that account ID until receipt by CornerNet Communications.

16. Both parties agree to accept electronic mail as legally binding documentation for billing and notification purposes.