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Policy guidelines

Ninthfloor.org offers a technical service to people interested in it. First of all, you're asked to make an intelligent and responsible use of what is offered to you. If you think before acting and ask when in doubt, you'll find find yourself following these points in a fully natural way. Anyway, please read, understand and bear in mind them.

Policy violations are actively monitored and will result in account removal.

When asking for an account, you agree to receive a very low traffic, plaintext newsletter from ninthfloor.org containing important technical information, project status updates and financial information.

(Un)acceptable use policy

Ninthfloor.org provides personal account for noncommercial use.

Ninthfloor.org does not tolerate any malicious, abusive or illegal behavior by its users. In particular, the following activities constitute a policy violation:

Cracking or performing denial of service attacks against the ninthfloor.org's infrastructure or against other entities on the Internet;
Interfering with other users or with the ninthfloor.org's infrastructure;
Sending unsolicited or bulk email messages (spam);
Hosting illegal material;
Hosting of fraudulent web pages (e.g. phishing).

Network scanners (such as nmap), scanners for security vulnerabilities or exploits are proscribed regardless of their intended purpose. If you want to use our servers to perform specific security audits against your own equipment, you must contact us about it.

Undesired activity

There are other activities that are not strictly illegal or abusive, but still are not desired on ninthfloor.org. These are not wanted for reasons of system or network performance or simply because they are not withing the intended purpose of this project. These activities include:

Commercial use of your account;
Hosting material that promotes racism, discrimination or intolerance;
Hosting of pornography;
Running IRC bots or bouncers (or IRC clients that act as bots);
Unnecessary intensive use of CPU, memory or network;
Unnecessarily frequent or demanding cronjobs;
Use of the system as a transparent proxy.

Privacy policy

User privacy is considered important and is respected. Your activities and data are your own business, in particular:

We will never sell or pass user data on to third parties, except where required by law or where there is clear evidence of abuse;
Apart from spam detection programs, we don't read or search your incoming or outgoing mail.

Unfortunately providing an open environment also attracts people who intend to misuse and abuse the system, so we can't provide anonymity for users. This means that quite a few things are logged, and that if this use policy is violated, logs and user data may be used as evidence of incident.

Remember that privacy should not be delegated, so it's ultimately your duty to protect your data and your communications. Encryption tools and anonymity networks are at your disposal.

Service guarantee

Ninthfloor.org can't guarantee any level of availability, reliability or data protection. However, efforts are made to provide quality service, making our best to provide a robust, secure and stable system.