Privacy Policy

Terms of Service

1. Users accept and acknowledge that various aspects of system usage is logged. Such logs of activity will be provided to lawful requests from enforcement agencies if so requested.
2. Users will not use the system for any illegal activities including but not limited storing copyright materials that the user does not have the copyright to, or using the system as a springboard to attack other systems.
3. Service is provided AS-IS and no warranty or guarantee is implied. I strive for high 99% uptime, but such uptime is not guaranteed.
4. User is ultimately responsible for the backup of their information. While Silvertree is backed up by various processes, the availability of such data is also not guaranteed to be available. However, the backup processes are very rigorous.
5. System administrators can delete accounts at any time with or without cause.
6. Background processes are not allowed unless specifically authorized. At no time can any distributed computing projects be ran by the user (such as Folding@Home, SETI@Home, etc). The only exception is for IRC robots, and only so long as such robots are used for lawful purposes (i.e. channel supervision) and not for the assistance in obtaining illegal content.
7. Users who are authorized for a SSH tunnel cannot use the tunnel to send UCE (spam), at any time. Any user doing so will be immediately deleted from the system.
8. Users can compile their own programs within their shell account, provided such programs do not present a security risk to the system. At no time will the user attempt to install the binary to a world readable location. If a user wishes to have a particular application installed as world readable, then a request can be made to the administrator.