Prohibited and Restricted Uses

Your access to and use of the SimpleLink Services is subject to these Terms and all applicable laws and regulations. We reserve the right, at any time, in our sole discretion, with or without notice, to terminate the accounts of, and block access to the SimpleLink Services to any users who infringe any applicable laws or these Terms.

While using the SimpleLink Services you yourself agree not to, and agree not assist, encourage, or enable others to use the SimpleLink Services:

1) for unlawful, illicit, illegal, criminal or fraudulent activities, including but not limited to port scanning, sending spam, sending opt-in email, scanning for open relays or open proxies, sending unsolicited e-mail or any version or type of email sent in vast quantities even if the email is routed through third-party servers, any pop-up launching, use of stolen credit cards, credit card fraud, financial fraud, cryptocurrency fraud, cloaking, extortion, blackmail, kidnapping, rape, murder, sale of stolen credit cards, sale of stolen goods, offer or sale of prohibited, military and dual use goods, offer or sale of controlled substances, identity theft, hacking, pharming, phishing, scraping in any form or scale, digital piracy, intellectual property infringements and other similar activities;

2) to assault, interfere, gain unauthorized access, deny service in any way or form to any other network, computer or node through SimpleLink Services;

3) to exploit children in any way, including audio, video, photography, digital content, etc.;

4) to upload or distribute in any way files that contain viruses, worms, trojans, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer;

5) to interfere with or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the SimpleLink Services, any transactions being offered in connection with the SimpleLink Services or any other activities conducted by us, disrupt our website or any networks connected to the SimpleLink Services, or bypass any measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the SimpleLink Services;

6) to exploit the SimpleLink Services in any unauthorized way whatsoever, including, but not limited to, by trespass or burdening network capacity;

7) to use any robot, spider, scraper, or other automated means to access our website or SimpleLink Services for any purpose without our prior written permission;

8) to collect or harvest personal information about other users of the SimpleLink Services;

9) to collect or harvest personal data of individuals, without legitimate interest or consent, or in violation of any applicable law;

10) to take any action that imposes or may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;

11) to share any data or other content with any unreasonably large number of persons, including without limitation sending blast communications to a large number of recipients or sharing content with persons you do not know or who do not know you;

12) to represent that you are the representative or agent of any of the SimpleLink Services, including any of its functionality;

13) to incorporate the SimpleLink Services or any portion thereof into any other program or product;

14) to copy or reproduce, in any form or by any means, any part of the SimpleLink Services;

15) to modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or create any derivative works based on the SimpleLink Services, including any of its files or documentation, or any portion thereof, or determine or attempt to determine any source code, algorithms, methods or techniques embodied in the SimpleLink application or any portion thereof;

16) to violate general ethic or moral norms, good customs and fair conduct norms;

17) to violate any third party’s rights, including any breach of confidence, personal data, copyright or any other intellectual property or proprietary right;

18) to threaten, stalk, harm, or harass others, or promote bigotry or discrimination;

19) to attempt to manipulate the SimpleLink name, services or products;

20) to solicit or harvest personal information from or communicate with minors;

21) attempt to gain unauthorized access to the SimpleLink Services, user accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the SimpleLink Services through hacking, password mining, brute force or any other means;

22) to use the SimpleLink Services for any military purpose, including cyberwarfare, weapons development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons;

23) to otherwise infringe or circumvent these Terms.

In addition, for users who make use of the bandwidth to download for a long time, which makes the servers abnormal and affects other users, SimpleLink will limit their speed in order to protect IP from being abused.

For the security of your account, non-customized accounts are limited to personal use. Please do not share your account with others. The loss caused by sharing to others will be borne by you.

We reserve the right to refuse service, suspend accounts or limit access to the SimpleLink Services in our sole discretion. Such suspension or access limitation may be implemented by SimpleLink instantly and without any indication, notice or refund. We may suspend your account for clarification, investigation or request you to explain your actions and provide additional information. If your account has been suspended, you must contact us for further information. We may suspend your user account for a reasonable period of time before we terminate a user account permanently.

We are under no obligation to enforce the Terms against you. We encourage you to let us know about the violation of these Terms by any SimpleLink users; however, in case of such violations we may take appropriate action at our sole discretion.