Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) provides an overview of the terms and actions that are prohibited while utilizing the services of Bermuda Cablevision (Cablevision), or its infrastructure. While utilizing the Bermuda Cablevision network(s), the conditions which this policy sets remain in effect at all times. This agreement is in effect for all users of the Cablevision networks inclusive of users without a direct agreement with Cablevision. Any user who is not in agreement with these policies should discontinue use of the services provided by Cablevision and its subsidiaries.

Security

The Cablevision network is a resource made available to Cablevision customers for commercial and entertainment purposes. As a customer of Cablevision, you are solely responsible for any misuse of the services provided to you via the Cablevision infrastructure. This is inclusive of and not limited to:

• Denial of Service Attacks sourced from addresses provided by Cablevision.
• Attempts to circumvent, ?Hack?, attack or disrupt the services provided to Cablevision customers or any other service providers.
• Port scanning, SNMP scanning, network probes.
• Trojan attacks or vulnerability scans.
• Use or distribution of password cracking programs.
• Use or distribution of packet sniffers.
• Execution of an attack using a known vulnerability.
• Theft, or attempted theft, of personal information or violation of personal privacy.
• Any act that explicitly tries to gather information on a particular, host, network, or end-user without previous authorization.

In order to mitigate against any potential threats, you must take the appropriate measures to safeguard your use of Cablevision provided services, and your systems, from misuse or attack from hackers on the Internet. Cablevision will investigate any issue related to security violations that are reported to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Cablevision will cooperate with any ISP in identifying any violations sourced from Cablevision provided IP address space. Cablevision reserves the right to investigate all security incidents. This may involve network monitoring of individual host, or network traffic flows to identify the source of any violations. Any subscribers involved in any activity that violates or attempts to violate the security of another subscriber or Internet host risks termination of their services and possible legal action.

Illegal Activity

It is strictly prohibited to utilize the services of Cablevision in any way that is in contradiction of local Bermudian or International Laws. This is inclusive of and not limited to:

• Violation of residential or commercial service agreements.
• Publishing of unlawful content as determined by local Bermudian or International Law.
• Reproduction, plagiarism, or theft of intellectual property. It is the responsibility of the end-user to identify any material that may be copyrighted or owned by another party. The end-user assumes all risks in this regard.
• Hoaxes, Pyramid schemes, chain letters, or electronic threats of any form.
• Intentional forgery or theft of identity.

Cablevision will cooperate fully with Law Enforcement Agencies to identify any violations.

Inappropriate Content

The Internet is a free and open medium with no individual or watch group governing its use or content. Cablevision provides as a service, a network that may provide access to published content that may be deemed to be inappropriate in a personal, cultural, and legal context. Cablevision assumes no risk or liability as to the appropriateness of any particular content as it relates to any legal, personal or cultural contexts. In cases where content is sourced from the Cablevision Network and is in direct violation of Local or International laws, Cablevision reserves the right to terminate services without remediation to the subscriber. Further to which, all service fees assessed to the subscriber for use of the Cablevision network up to the time of service termination are due and payable to Cablevision.

Electronic Mail

Cablevision has a Zero-Tolerance policy for, and not limited to, Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail (UCE), SPAM mail, e-mail harassment or e-mail threats. Additional examples of prohibited practices are:

• Bulk mailing from non-commercial accounts.
• Utilizing a Cablevision owned domain e-mail address, or operating from Cablevision assigned address space, as the respond-to address of UCE, or any other mailing practice that could be characterized as SPAM mail.
• Bulk mailing to any individual or group whom have not specifically, and verifiably, requested to be included in such mailings.
• Propagation of known e-mail viruses via electronic mail originating from or destined to any Cablevision user, host or address.
• Operating open SMTP relays or forwarding e-mail to bulk recipients on behalf of other domains.
• Referencing in the e-mail body or headers, a domain name, e-mail address, IP address, or host, belonging to Cablevision in any unsolicited e-mail regardless of source origination.
• Provided bulk mailings from a Cablevision commercial service with no valid return address. All commercial bulk mailings sourced from Cablevision address space must have a valid respond-to e-mail address of the originating domain and host.
• Sending any unsolicited electronic mail that may invoke complaints.
• Any electronic mail sourced from a Cablevision Address Space that is in violation of another service provider or ISP?s AUP.

Cablevision will advise subscribers of any e-mail complaints that are in violation of this AUP. Cablevision will determine, at its sole discretion, whether or not the e-mail in question is in violation of this AUP. If in violation of this AUP the subscriber must respond in writing that the violating bulk mailing has been terminated. Newsgroups

Customers are prohibited from engaging in improper use of newsgroups. Before posting to a particular newsgroup it is the user?s responsibility to determine the policies of that newsgroup and ensure strict compliance. Prohibited actions include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Excessive cross-posting, or posting the same articles to several newsgroups.
• Attempting to abuse the Internet and hinder normal newsgroup discussion by way of newsgroup SPAM, which includes:
• Posting a large number of messages with no substantive content.
• Posting multiple messages with no text.
• Posting multiple follow-ups to messages that contain no text.
• Posting advertisements and other commercial messages in newsgroups whose charters clearly prohibit such messages.
• The posting of binary files to non-binary news groups.
• Messenger/IRC

Cablevision services may be used to participate in on-line ?chat? discussions provided that they are in compliance with the AUP of the chat server. This service should not be used maliciously. Therefore the following activities are prohibited:

• Sending messages, or files, which may disrupt another internet user?s equipment including software, hardware and user display.
• Sending messages to a user who has indicated that they do not wish to receive such messages.
• A customer may not use Cablevision services to connect to a chat server from which they have been previously banned.
• Manipulating a chat server in order to harass or disconnect other Internet users, or to gain unauthorized privileges.
• Violation of AUP

If Cablevision is advised, or in the course of network capacity monitoring, identifies any practice that in any way violates any part of this AUP it will reserve the right to take any action it feels appropriate to stop the activity in contradiction of the policies set forth, including and not limited to:

• Blocking of a single, or multiple, TCP port(s) traffic originating from an address belonging to Cablevision.
• Blocking of IP port traffic destined for the Cablevision network in violation of this AUP.
• If the offending practice is continued, Cablevision reserves the right to:
• Block all IP traffic destined to or from a host in violation of this AUP.
• Suspend services of a customer in violation of this AUP without remediation.
• At its sole discretion Cablevision reserves the right to terminate the account of repeat Cablevision AUP offenders without remediation.

This AUP is subject to change and will be updated on this website.