By subscribing to the residential high-speed internet service (the “Internet Service”) of Ultra Internet Communications, LLC, and its applicable operating subsidiary that owns and/or operates the cable
television system in your area (“Ultra Internet Communicatins LLC”), you agree not to use the Internet Service for
any unlawful purpose and to comply with all policies and terms of this Acceptable Use Policy. Atlantic
Broadband posts this policy on its website at www.ultiro.net (“Website”). Ultra Internet Communicatins LLC may
change this policy from time to time without notice to you by posting updated versions at this website or
another website about which you have been notified. You and other users of the Internet Service should
periodically review the Acceptable Use Policy to conform to the most recent version. Revisions are effective
immediately upon posting. The Acceptable Use Policy, as it may be changed and updated over time,
is incorporated into your Residential Subscriber Agreement. If you, and/or any user of your Internet
Service, fail to abide by any of the terms of the Acceptable Use Policy, as updated, Ultra Internet Communicatins LLC
may suspend or terminate the provision of the Internet Service to you as further detailed below in the
paragraph entitled “Violation of the Acceptable Use Policy”. Additionally, Ultra Internet Communicatins LLC reserves
the right to charge you for any direct or indirect costs Ultra Internet Communicatins LLC may incur in connection with
your failure to abide by the Acceptable Use Policy.
Multiple Users:
The Internet Service and cable modem Ultra Internet Communicatins LLC provides shall be used only by you and by
members of your immediate household living with you at the same address. The Residential Subscriber
Agreement binds you and all persons who use your Internet Service. You shall have sole responsibility
for ensuring that all other users understand and comply with the terms and conditions of this
Acceptable Use Policy, as it may be updated or changed from time to time.
Security:
You are responsible for any misuse of your Internet Service, even if the inappropriate activity was committed
by a friend, family member, guest, employee, or any other person with access to the Internet
Service. Therefore, you must take steps to ensure that others do not gain unauthorized access to the
Internet Service, for instance by strictly maintaining the confidentiality of your passwords or by appropriately
protecting the use of your computer or any wireless devices you use in connection with the
Internet Service. You are solely responsible for the security of any device you choose to connect to the
Internet Service, including any data stored on that device. Ultra Internet Communicatins LLC recommends against
enabling file or printer sharing of any sort and recommends that any files or services.
Unlawful Use and Prohibited Activities:
The use of the Internet Service for any activity that violates any local, state, federal or international law,
order or regulation is a violation of this Acceptable Use Policy. Prohibited activities include, but are not
limited to the following:
(i) posting or disseminating material which is unlawful (such as child pornography or obscene
material);
(ii) disseminating material which violates the copyright or other intellectual property
rights of others;
(iii) pyramid or other illegal soliciting schemes;
(iv) any fraudulent activities, including impersonating any person or entity or forging anyone
else’s digital or manual signature; and
(v) destructive activities.
You assume all risks regarding the determination of whether material is in the public domain. You must
use the Internet Service in a manner that is ethical and in conformance with prevailing community standards.
Ultra Internet Communicatins LLC shall have the sole right to determine whether your use violates this standard.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, prohibited uses include but are not limited to using
the Internet Service or any equipment provided to you by Ultra Internet Communicatins LLC to directly or indirectly
a.) access the Internet via the Internet Service using an IP address other than the dynamic IP address(es)
assigned to you by us;
b.) invade another person’s privacy, collect or attempt to collect personal information about third
parties without their consent;
c.) unlawfully use, possess, store, post, transmit or disseminate obscene, profane or pornographic
material; post, store, transmit, distribute or disseminate content that is unlawful, threatening,
abusive, libelous, slanderous, defamatory or otherwise offensive or objectionable; unlawfully
promote or incite hatred; post, transmit or disseminate objectionable information, including,
without limitation, any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute
a criminal offense, gives rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any local, state, federal or
international law, order or regulation;
d.) access any other person’s computer, computer system, software, data, or any confidential,
copyright protected or patent protected material of any other person, without the knowledge
and consent of such person;
e.) use or distribute tools designed or used for compromising security, such as password guessing
systems, “packet sniffers” encryption circumvention devices or Trojan Horse programs (Unauthorized
port scanning is prohibited);
f.) upload, post, publish, deface, modify, transmit, reproduce, create derivative works of, or distribute
in any way, information, software or other material that is protected by copyright, or
other proprietary right, or related derivative works, without obtaining permission of the copyright
owner or right-holder;
g.) copy, distribute or sublicense any software Ultra Internet Communicatins LLC provide or make available to
you, except that you may make one copy of each software program for back-up or archival
purposes only;
h.) alter, modify or tamper with any cable modem that Ultra Internet Communicatins LLC provides or other feature
of the Internet Service;
i.) restrict, inhibit or otherwise interfere with the ability of any other person to use or enjoy the
Internet, any cable modem or other feature of the Internet Service, including, without limitation:
posting or transmitting any information or software that contains a virus, lock, key, bomb,
worm, Trojan horse or other harmful or debilitating feature; distributing mass or unsolicited
email; or otherwise generating levels of traffic sufficient to impede others’ ability to send or
retrieve information;
j.) restrict, inhibit or otherwise interfere with or otherwise disrupt or cause a performance degradation,
regardless of intent or knowledge, to the Internet Service, any backbone network nodes or network service used by Ultra Internet Communications LLC or its suppliers; otherwise restrict, inhibit,
disrupt, or impede Ultra Internet Communicatins LLC’s ability to monitor or deliver any feature of the Internet
Service; or create an unusually large burden on Ultra Internet Communicatins LLC’s network;
k.) interfere with computer networking or telecommunications service to or from any Internet
user, host or network, including but not limited to denial of service attacks, overloading a service,
improper seizure or abuse of operator privileges (“hacking”) or attempting to “crash” a
host;
l.) resell the Internet Service, in whole or in part, charge others for the use of the Internet Service,
or make available to anyone outside your premises the ability to use the Internet Service (including
wireless or other methods of networking) or to use it for anything other than your own
personal purposes;
m.) operate a server in connection with the Internet Service including but not limited to mail, news,
file, gopher, telnet, chat, Web, or host configuration servers, multimedia streamers, or multiuser
interactive forums or run programs, equipment or servers from your premises to which the
Internet Service is provided that provide network content to anyone outside of those premises,
commonly known as public services or servers;
n.) port scan any computer or any other person, without the knowledge and consent of such person,
nor use any tools designed to facilitate such scans; or
o.) transmit unsolicited bulk or commercial messages, or “spam.”
Without limiting the foregoing, you agree that you will not use the Internet Service for operation as an
Internet service provider, a server site for ftp, telnet, rlogin, email hosting, web hosting or other similar
applications and you will not provide any Internet access or any other feature of the Internet Service to
any third party, will not act as an end-point on a non-Ultra Internet Communicatins LLC local or wide area network, and
will not use the Internet Service for any commercial or business purpose whatsoever.