The purpose of this policy is to set forth an acceptable use policy by which Customer will abide while accessing and using the Hosted Service. Notwithstanding any term of the Agreement, Customer assumes responsibility for the compliance of all Users permitted by Customer to use Orbis products and services.

1.	Criminal Offences

While using the Hosted Service, Customer is prohibited from, in Orbis' sole judgment, posting, uploading, reproducing, distributing or otherwise transmitting information or materials where such activity constitutes a criminal offence or from otherwise engaging in or assisting others to engage in any criminal offence including, but not limited to, those offences listed below:

(a)	communicating hatred;
(b)	pyramid selling;
(c)	unauthorized use of a computer;
(d)	mischief in relation to data;
(e)	fraud;
(f)	defamatory libel;
(g)	obscenity;
(h)	child pornography;
(i)	harassment/stalking; and/or
(j)	uttering threats.

2.	Civil Offences and Violations of the Rights of Others

While using the Hosted Service, Customer is prohibited from, in Orbis' sole judgment, posting, uploading, reproducing, distributing or otherwise transmitting information or materials where such activity gives rise to civil liability or from otherwise violating the rights or assisting others to violate the rights of Orbis or any third party, including, but not limited to, the violations listed below:

(a)	copyright infringement;
(b)	trademark infringement;
(c)	patent infringement;
(d)	misappropriation of trade secrets; and/or
(e)	defamation.

3.	Other Prohibited Activities 

While using the Hosted Service, Customer is prohibited from engaging in or assisting others to engage in any activity that, in Orbis' sole judgment, (1) violates applicable policies, rules or guidelines of Orbis or other on-line service providers, (2) disrupts or threatens the integrity, operation or security of any Communication Service or any computer or Internet system, (3) elicits complaints from other Internet users or Internet service providers, (4) is contrary to any law or regulation, or (5) is otherwise objectionable. Examples of such prohibited activity include, but are not limited to:

(a)	posting content or programs that consume excessive CPU time, server memory, or storage space; 
(b)	posting, or hyper-linking to, pirated software, hackers’ programs or archives, Warez, game mods or patches, Internet relay chat bots, chat websites or servers, pornography and other adult content, TGP, or any other file or media deemed by Orbis to be illegal or for which Customer Users do not have the legal right to use, post, or otherwise store on Orbis servers;
(c)	permitting the use of mail services, mail forwarding capability, POP accounts, or auto-responders other than for Customer’s own account;
(d)	scanning or probing another computer system;
(e)	obstructing or bypassing computer identification or security procedures;
(f)	engaging in unauthorized computer or network trespass;
(g)	maintaining a relay service open to the general public;
(h)	interfering with computer networking or telecommunications service to or from any Internet user, host, provider or network, including, without limitation, denying service attacks, overloading a service, improperly seizing or abusing operator;
(i)	disrupt any backbone network nodes or network service, or otherwise restrict, inhibit, disrupt or impede our ability to monitor or deliver the Hosted Service or  any transmissions or data;
(j)	posting to any Unsenet or other newsgroup, forum, email mailing list or other similar group or list articles with the intent to engage in commercial advertising or informational announcements;
(k)	posting, uploading, reproducing, distributing or otherwise transmitting any data, information or software that constitutes a virus, trojan horse, worm or other harmful or disruptive component;
(l)	exporting equipment, software, or data outside of Canada or the U.S. in contravention of applicable export control legislation;
(m)	falsifying address information, modifying message headers to conceal Customer's identity or impersonating others, for the purpose of circumventing this AUP;
(n)	posting, uploading, reproducing, distributing, otherwise transmitting, or collecting responses from unauthorized or unsolicited duplicative e-mail messages, junk or bulk e-mail messages, chain letters, newsgroup postings or other "spam" (Orbis reserves the right to determine, in its sole discretion, whether a message constitutes "spam"); and/or
(o)	engaging in any conduct that directly or indirectly encourages, facilitates, promotes, relies upon or permits the foregoing prohibited activities including, without limitation, failing to implement reasonable technical or administrative measures to prevent spam, viruses and worms.