Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

From ChekMate Security Group

Contents 1 Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) 2 Rules Of Conduct

Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

Any nickname is valid on Our IRC Network with the exception of nicks designed to trick users into believing you are part of the network or its staff, e.g. for the purposes of stealing passwords.

While Our IRC Network is dedicated to security and security related items, any channel is valid on Our IRC Network with the exception of those clearly founded to advertise other networks, or trick users into believing they are official network administration channels. If your channel moves from Our to another network, or you need to advertise another IRC network in your topic, we ask that you lock your channel +s so that its topic does not appear on a channel /list.

In enforcing the above policies we will use common sense. We will not take away someone's channel the first time they put the address of an IRC server in it and we will not ban every "official looking" nickname. If you are in doubt, please let us know in the #Help channel.

We do not monitor the content of conversation or file transfer. We also do not provide any guarantees that our servers will be available to you either for chatting or file transfer. We provide our services on a "best effort" basis, but be assured that we take that duty very seriously.

Rules Of Conduct

• You will not evade bans.
• You will not mass advertise or mass invite.
• You will not place bots on servers that do not allow bots.
• You will not engage in denial of service attacks on users or network infrastructure.
• You will not place Trojan clients (Sub7 bots, etc.) or other hostile bots on our network.
• You will not distribute copyrighted material or pornography
• You are limited to 5 clients per IP. Contact an IRCop if you need more (LAN parties, bots, etc.)
• No racism, nazism, or repeated abuse of others
• You will not allow bots under your control to break any of these rules.

We do not automatically monitor the content of conversation or file transfer in order to enforce these policies, however if we become aware of breaches of our policy then we will take action.

The above actions are subject to warning, /kill or /AKILL. Repetitive abuse will be reported to the Services Team and leads to possible nick or channel suspension/loss. Repetitive abuse will also be reported to the offender's ISP.

Network staff will be there to help you, but if you abuse staff they may well /ignore you, or abuse you right back. Staff who are busy may direct you to #help.