I. Introduction

This document is not intended to be an unassailable legal agreement. It is instead intended to provide

as to how KoolIRC works, what we consider to be acceptable and what we do not. As such, we

expect a certain level of common sense and intuition. If you are not sure about anything, please speak

to an IRCop (join the #KoolIRC) or email IRCrazy@koolirc.net with your question.

II. Terms of Use

• NO Harassment of ANY Kind. (Including Flooding, spamming, sexually harassing on a public channel.)

• NO Advertising Or Spam Allowed.

• Only People Over 13 yrs Are Allowed To Use This Network

• Unauthorized access of a nickserv/chanserv account

• Connecting unauthorized servers to the network.

• Knowingly or carelessly running any program that may damage or place excessive load on a server or the network, including flood bots and clone bots.

• NO Illegal Activities e.g. Nuking, Child Porn or Bestiality, Hacking.

• Nick or Channel Chasing is strictly prohibited.

• Attempting to monitor or tamper with another user’s electronic communications, or reading, copying, changing or removing any part of another user’s nickserv/chanserv/memoserv/hostserv/botserv account without the explicit agreement of the owner.

• You may not load to, or control virus/Trojan infected or otherwise compromised IRC clients from, the KoolIRC Network.

• 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 remailers or nicknames does not constitute impersonation.

• Harassment of an admin/ircop to try and incite abuse will not be tolerated.  This will result in 1 week gline or more.  Gline for this will be issued by someone other than the oper being

• harassed to curb “power abuse” complaints.

• Not using any program script/command, or sending messages of any kind, designed to interfere with or to disable, a user's terminal session, via any means, locally or via the Internet.

• Harvesting, the collection of email addresses, credit card information, or other personal information for fraudulent use or sale is prohibited.

• Anyone Seen Promoting another Network Will Be Removed From the Server.

• Network Administration Are Not Liable For Any Violation Of These Rules.

III. Available Services

Services are provided as a convenience to users on the network. The network is not responsible for anything that may occur due to services downtime, outage, or loss of data. Services are provided to without charge and thus come with no warranties, expressed or implied.

a. Nickname Registration

1.      Account names are registered on a first-come, first-serve basis.

2.      If a user is using your nickname when you connect, you may recover your nickname by using

/NickServ RECOVER [nickname] [password].

3.      Mass-registration of nicknames is expressly forbidden and abusers will get their nicks deleted.

Mass registering means registering multiple nicknames.

b. Channel Registration

c. HostServ

Hostserv allows you to use a different Vhost of your choosing while identified and on this network.

Abuse of HostServ, including use of a host to impersonate someone you are not, or to attempt to

entice or otherwise harass users will result in you no longer being allowed to use this service, or access

to Services being denied to you.

d. Other Services

There are other services available to users on the network that are not specifically outlined in this

section. Abuse of any network service will result in denial of access to services, or to the network,

at the networks discretion.

IV. Security

You are responsible for any misuse of your account, even if the inappropriate activity was committed by a friend, family member, guest or employee. Therefore, you must take steps to ensure that others do not gain unauthorized access to your account. In addition, you may not use your account to breach security of another account or attempt to gain unauthorized access to another network or server.

·         Your password provides access to your account. It is your responsibility to keep your password secure.

·         Sharing your password and account access with unauthorized users is prohibited. You should take care to prevent others from using your account since you will be held responsible for such use.

·         Attempting to obtain another user's account password is strictly prohibited, and may result in termination of service.

·         You must adopt adequate security measures to prevent or minimize unauthorized use of your account.

·         You may not attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of any host, network or account. This includes, but is not limited to, accessing data not intended for you, logging into or making use of a server or account you are not expressly authorized to access, or probing the security of other networks. Use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security is prohibited. Examples of these tools include, but are not limited to, password guessing programs, cracking tools or network probing tools.

·         You may not attempt to interfere with service to any user, host or network ("denial of service attacks"). This includes, but is not limited to; "flooding" of networks, deliberate attempts to overload a service, and attempts to "crash" a host.

·         Users who violate systems or network security may incur criminal or civil liability. KoolIRC Administration will cooperate fully with investigations of violations of systems or network security at other sites, including cooperating with law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations.

V. Disclaimers

·        By connecting to any KoolIRC Network, you agree not to bring any legal action against the server administrators, IRC operators, or any user representing the KoolIRC Network.

·        KoolIRC Staff members reserve the right to interpret this “Acceptable Use Policy” in the event there is any judgment calls to be made pertaining to a situation or event which may not be spelled out completely in this document.

·        We reserve the right to deny access to this Network without warning or explanation.

VI. Limitation of Liability

In no event shall KoolIRC Network be Liable to any party for any damages including without limitation, any direct, indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages(including, but not limited to, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of programs or information, loss of profits and saving and the like), or any other damages Arising – in any way, shape or form – out of the availability, use, reliance on, inability to utilize or improper use KoolIRC Services even if  KoolIRC Administration shall have been advised of the possibility of such damages, and regardless of the form of action, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise because some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, the above exclusions of incidental and consequential damages may not apply to you.

VII. Proxy Checks

KoolIRC performs checks for insecure proxies, "Trojan horse" or other harmful software on your computer. These checks may appear in firewall logs as a port scan. Use of KoolIRC services indicates acceptance of these checks. If you do not want this test performed on your system then you may disconnect. If any such software is detected, your computer may be blocked from further use of KoolIRC Services.

VIII. Consequences for Violation

If you violate any rule or regulation stated in this document or on the MOTD of any KoolIRC server, you will be subject to progressive disciplinary action, including but not limited to denial of access to any KoolIRC server or the entire network, or legal action where applicable. Denial of access to a particular KoolIRC server can be made at the server administrator's discretion. Your Internet provider may be denied access to the server or network if you successfully evade a ban.

KoolIRC Network is under no circumstances to be used for illegal activities. Observed and verifiable instances may be reported to the appropriate authorities.

Although the KoolIRC itself is an unmoderated forum, the KoolIRC administration will cooperate fully with any officially recognized law enforcement body to the best of its capability when required to do so by force of law.

IX. Appealing a Violation

If you are banned or denied access to a KoolIRC server or the entire network, you should follow the procedure outlined below. Please note, however, that KoolIRC server administrators are under no obligation to take any further action if you are denied access.

• If you are K:lined (banned from a specific server), contact the server administration

• (/ADMIN will display a contact e-mail address) and request the elimination of the ban, explaining how future incidents can be avoided.

• If you are G:lined (banned from the entire network for a particular length of time), contact abuse@koolirc.net and request that the ban be lifted, explaining how future incidents

• can be avoided.

KoolIRC Administration reserves the right to alter this AUP and any terms and conditions of service

at any time without prior notice.

Created by:

IRCrazy

Services Root Administrator

IRCrazy@koolirc.net

07 June 2005

13/09/05