Acceptable Use Policy
Last updated June 30th, 2022
1. Refund policy
(a) We accept refunds for all Game Servers, VPS Servers. We do
not accept refunds for Dedicated Servers.
(b) If you forget
to cancel your subscription one day after your payment has been made on
your second month or after, we will refund 100% of your payment.
(c) If your server performance drops for a minimum of 4
hours, you're entitled to a 15% refund or credit. If your performance
drops over a 1 day period, you'll be entitled to a 50% refund.
(d)
If we see any large performance heavy plugins or applications that may
be causing your server to lag or to become slower than usual we won't
refund you.
(e) If your service is doing any illegal activity
such as DDoS, spamming, or any other illegal activity, we will not
refund you. We will suspend your service and you will be banned from
all of our services.
2. Unlimited Storage on Game Servers
(a) We do not put any restrictions on the amount of storage space
a server may use.
(b) Unlimited storage applies to the
world files of the game server you are hosting. MySQL storage is truely
unlimited as is not measured. (Log files are limited to 10GB per server.
Plugin files are limited to 50GB per server. Backups are limited to the
amount of backups you have available to use.)
(c)
When any of these restrictions are hit, we will contact the server owner
to determine the best solution to the utilization of storage used by
plugins and/or logs files.
3. Unthrottled CPU Game Servers
(a) CPU usage is unrestricted meaning you have access to all of
the servers core amount. Any game server that utilizes more than 50% for
a long period of time will be automatically throttled. (The server owner
will be notified when the changes are made.)
(b)
You are required to utilize the servers resources responsibly and to
make sure that the server doesn't affect the performance of any other
servers on the node. Server resources are shared across all servers in
the chosen location.
4. Unacceptable Use on Game Servers
(a) Game servers may only be used for the purpose they were
intended to be used. Any third party software not related to the chosen
Game server will be removed automatically. We will not be responsible
for any third party software that may interfere with the servers
functionality.
(b) Any unauthorized usage such as tampering
with Pterodactyl Panel and/or Wings will result in the immediate
suspension and removal of your services.
(c)
Any attempt to bypass the hard limit of your server will result in the
immediate suspension of your service. This includes tampering with the
RAM limits.
5. Acceptable Use Policy for Dedicated Servers
(a) Maintain Network Security. You are required and obligated to
maintain all security on your servers. Any and all additional charges
that are incurred due to the Customer's lack of monitoring or security
are the responsibility of the Customer.
(b) In case of Security Breach.
If your Service (server) security is compromised, the account holder is
responsible for all violations of this Terms of Service and the
Acceptable Use Policy, including SPAM, and all disconnect and reconnect
fees associated with violations. You will ensure that all End Users
comply with this Terms of Service. If you become aware of a violation of
this Terms of Service by an End User, you agree to immediately terminate
such End User's access to your content and the Service.
(c) No Network Abuse.
All Customers are allowed access to the public and private network;
however misuse of the network in any way, including interference, will
result in a violation of this AUP. All violations of this AUP shall be
subject to review by Us, and an appropriate course of action shall be
taken as determined by Us in its sole discretion. Proper use of Our
public network must comply with all local, state, and federal laws. All
Customers assume full liability for all content which they place on the
server. Forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header
information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting is deemed a violation of
this AUP.
(d) No Sabotage. Any type of sabotage, regardless
of intention, shall be grounds for termination the Service. This
includes, but is not limited to, abuse of the remote reboot system by
using it multiple times in a very short amount of time for improper
reasons.
(e) Monitoring Policy. Platinum Host does not
actively monitor the content on its servers. Content on Dedicated Server
Services will only be reviewed upon complaint. Content that does not
violate local, state and federal law or this AUP or the Terms of Service
is deemed in compliance and shall remain intact. If content is deemed to
be in violation of this AUP or the Terms of Service, it shall be
reviewed by Us, and a course of action shall be taken to correct the
problem, which may result in termination of the Account or Service.
(f) Blacklist Policy. If any Customer uses Platinum Host
Services, network, or its physical infrastructure in a manner that
causes Platinum Host, or any IP addresses issued by Platinum Host to be
"blacklisted" or "blocked", We reserve the right to suspend or terminate
Services of the Customer and/or suspend or terminate the access to
Services, network, and/or its physical infrastructure. Operating
Platinum Host Services on behalf of, or in connection with or reselling
any Service to persons or firms listed in the Spamhaus Register of Known
Spam Operations database at www.spamhaus.org shall constitute a
violation of this AUP.
(g) IRC/Bittorrent/P2P.
IRC Usage shall be allowed unless such usage is abused or creates or
enhances any type of problem(s) with Our services or network. It is also
deemed a violation of this AUP if it is determined that IRC is the cause
or root of a service interruption to other Customers. Customers may not
operate and maintain IRC servers which connect to global IRC networks
such as Undernet, EFnet and DALnet. Use of IRC plug-ins, scripts,
add-ons, clones or other software designed to disrupt or deny service to
other users is prohibited. If a Customer's IRC servers are frequently
compromised or attract DoS or DDoS attacks that disrupt service to other
Customers, then We may null-route, filter, suspend, or terminate that
Customer's Service. We allow the use of both Peer to Peer as well as Bit
Torrent, but We do not permit the transfer of illegal content.
6. Acceptable Use Policy for VPS Servers
(a) You must not use our services for the transmission of illegal
content. You consent to abstain from sending or getting any materials
which might be considered to be offensive, hostile, obscene, menacing or
generally disallowed by current and future statutues in force.
(b)
You must not use our services to gain or attempt to gian access to any
other computer system for any purpose. Actions may lead to criminal
prosecution under the Computer Misuse Act.
(c) You may not
use our services to running 'Port Scanning', 'DDoS Attacks', 'MySQL
Injections' or any other software designed to harm or test the
vulnerability of or access remote networks except where the enduser has
given permission for the actions to take place. If we find these actions
to have taken place, we will ask for evidence of such permission.
(d) You may only create one Tor Service on our services.
You may not create more than one Tor Service on our services. Failure to
do so will result in the immediate suspension of your account and your
service.
(e) You may not use our services to run any type
of open relay and you must not participate in any actions such as
Unsolicited Bulk Emails or Torrenting.
(f) You may not use
our services to run any type of Tor Relay unless given permission to do
so. (We have designed plans to run Tor Relays. We only allow
Tor Relays and
Tor Bridges)
(g)
If your VPS Server is found to be running any illegal content such as DDoS Attacks,
Spamming, Hacking, etc. then your VPS Server will be suspended and your
account will be terminated. You will
not receive a
refund for your VPS Server/s.
7. Emails
(a) You may not use our services to send
emails that might cause annoyance, inconvenience,
anxiety to a recipient or to send
emails that may cause
distress or any material that may be considered to be offensive,
hostile, obscene, menacing or generally disallowed by current and future
statutues in force.
(b) You must not use any email
addresses that you do not have permission to use for the purpose of
sending emails.
(c) You must not use our mail services to
alter the header of messages in a way to conceal the identity of the
sender.
(d) You must not use our services to sent spam in
any manner.
(e) Any DMCA, spam, abuse complaints we recieve
will be investigated and will forward all reports to the Customer. If no
action has been taken by the Customer to resolve the complaint, we will
suspend the Customer's Service.
We reserve the right to suspend or terminate Services of the Customer
and/or suspend or terminate the access to Services, network, and/or
its physical infrastructure if we determine that the Customer has
broken this policy or is sending spam.
8. Enforcement
We reserve the right, but do not assume the obligation, to investigate
any violation of this Acceptable Use Policy or misuse of the Service or
Website. We may investigate violations or misuse of the Service or
Website; or suspend Service without warning; or remove, disable access
to, or modify any content or resource; or examine the contents of any
account at any time that violates the Acceptable Use Policy or any other
agreement we have with you for use of the Services or the Website. We
reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to refuse new Services to any
individual, group, or business, for violation of this AUP.
9. Abuse Complaints
Any Claim that is being submitted by a third party must include the name
and contact information of the complaining party, the IP address from
which the alleged complaint originated, and a description of the
violation.
Abuse Complaints may be sent to the email address:
abuse@platinumhost.io