SWARMCAST ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

All Swarmcast, Inc (Swarmcast) content distribution customers are bound by the following Acceptable Use Policy. This document may be updated from time to time. Please consult http://www.swarmcast.com/aup periodically for the most recent revision of this document.

No Swarmcast customer shall:

1. Do anything illegal or anything that adversely affects Swarmcast's legal interests. The following list is non-exclusive, and should not be considered license to commit other illegal activities not specified below. All illegal activity is prohibited, and Swarmcast will cooperate fully with any law enforcement officials and/or agencies investigating and/or prosecuting such activities.
   
   
   1. Cracking/Hacking - attempts to access accounts or systems other than the user's own accounts or systems or an account or system that the user has been explicitly authorized to access is illegal under federal and state law.
   
   
   2. Child pornography - as defined by U.S. law. This is strictly prohibited and dealt with quickly and harshly.
   
   
   3. Theft of services - attempts to utilize services that are not contracted for is considered theft and will be dealt with as such.
   
   
2. Do anything that threatens the integrity of Swarmcast's network or the utilization thereof by other persons.
   
   
   1. Denial of Service (DOS) attacks - no customer will commit a DOS attack against any Swarmcast customer's host, or any other host on the Internet. Similarly, no Swarmcast customer will willfully or negligently allow incitement of others to attack any host on Swarmcast's network, or any other host on the Internet.
   
   
   2. Perform actions that cause unusual load on Swarmcast servers that cause slowness or denial of service to other Swarmcast customers.
   
   
3. Do anything that threatens the Internet or any other network.
   
   
   1. No customer shall take actions that cause any portion of the Internet, or the Internet as a whole, to become unusable to any other portion of the Internet, or the Internet as a whole.
   
   
   2. No customer shall take actions that degrade the usefulness of the Internet, or any portion of the Internet.

Swarmcast reserves the right to terminate or interrupt any account in part or in full without refund for violation of these Acceptable Use Policy. In all but the most extreme or serious cases, good faith attempts will be made to resolve an issue without interruption of service. In cases where service has been terminated or interrupted, resolution will be handled on an individual case basis, at Swarmcast's discretion.

For further explanation of any portion this document, and the terms set herein, or to determine whether your intended activities are permissible under the terms of this document, contact us at abuse@swarmcast.com or via phone at 651-340-8787.