Each subscriber account is limited to one single dial-up connection at any one time, unless other arrangements have been made with Complete Internet Access. It is the responsibility of the subscriber to keep their password secure. Legitimate passwords are between 6 and 8 characters in length, in all lowercase and should not be part of any recognizable word found in any dictionary.

Standard Subscriber Account is allowed unlimited, on-demand access to Complete Internet Access's systems or service. Any Standard Subscriber Account that is consistently connected to Complete Internet Access's system for periods of 10 hours or more shall be subject to having its account placed under suspension and/or terminated. Dedicated Line Subsciber Accounts are not subject to this restriction.

Subscriber is responsible for all use or misuse, with or without subscriber's knowledge or consent, of their Complete Internet Access account.

Electronic mail passes through multiple mail servers on the Internet as it passes from source to destination. One can never be guaranteed privacy from every possible mail server; therefore, someone seeking total privacy should use some encryption scheme to render their messages unreadable by eavesdroppers.

Complete Internet Access treats e-mail messages as private. Exceptions are those permitted by law, including under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (the "ECPA"). The ECPA permits Complete Internet Access limited ability to intercept and/or disclose electronic messages, including, for example (i) as necessary to operate the system or protect Complete Internet Access's rights or property, (ii) upon legal demand (court orders, warrants, subpoenas) or (iii) where Complete Internet Access receives information inadvertently which appears to pertain to the commission of a crime. Users should be aware that electronic messages may be intercepted lawfully or unlawfully outside of Complete Internet Access's system. In addition, although Complete Internet Access has implemented certain security measures, Complete Internet Access cannot guaranty that its system or stored data of a subscriber will be free from unauthorized intrusion or otherwise guaranty the privacy of information of any user.

Complete Internet Access provides as an added benefit to its dial-up users limited access to certain Complete Internet Access server computers. This benefit typically consists of email access, World Wide Web page hosting and telnet access to a wide range of applications.

Complete Internet Access users are subject to a limit of disk space for all their disk usage, including incoming mail files and personal web pages. Complete Internet Access reserves the right to remove files that exceed this limit. All Accounts have a 10 MB disk space limit by default. The customer is responsible for keeping backups of customer files stored on Complete Internet Access computers.

Complete Internet Access hosted web sites are limited to 400MB of transfer per month. Transfer refers to the amount of data your web site sends to the browser. Excess transfer costs are 25 cents per megabyte. We reserve the right to either remove your web site or bill for excess data transfer.

Complete Internet Access will strongly react to any use or attempted use of an Internet account or computer without the owner's authorization. Such attempts include "social engineering" (tricking other people into releasing their passwords), password cracking, security hole scanning and the like.

Any unauthorized use of accounts or computers by a Complete Internet Access customer, whether or not the attacked account or computer belongs to Complete Internet Access, will result in action against the attacker. Possible actions include warnings, account suspension or cancellation, and legal action, according to the seriousness of the attack.

Commercial advertising is an accepted and welcome use of the Internet. However, there are appropriate and inappropriate places for Internet advertising.

Unsolicited commercial advertisements are not allowed in email, and will likely result in account suspension or cancellation. If a subscriber is found to have sent out unsolicited e-mail (also known as "spam"), Complete Internet Access will charge subscriber's account $1 for each message sent out due to subscriber's reckless use of system resources.

Commercial advertisements are unwelcome in most Usenet discussion groups and on most email mailing lists. Inappropriate posting may result in account suspension or cancellation. See the newsgroup or mailing list's charter for whether advertising is allowed or not. "Spamming," or sending a message to many different off-topic newsgroups, is particularly unethical and will be treated as such.

Sending a message, especially an advertisement, to more than five or six recipients, is by itself spamming unless the individuals have specifically requested to be added to a mailing list on that topic. E-mail is a person-to-person medium, not a broadcast medium.

Complete Internet Access bears certain legal liabilities for the use of its computer network and equipment. As such Complete Internet Access must require that its customers do not use Complete Internet Access's network for illegal purposes.

When presented with a search warrant, Complete Internet Access is obligated to release any information named therein, and will cooperate with the authorities in any criminal investigation of inappropriate Internet usage.

However, Complete Internet Access recognizes that the legal status of the Internet has not yet been resolved satisfactorily, either through legislation or court precedent. Therefore Complete Internet Access must make certain decisions regarding the illegality of various specific actions. Among the actions Complete Internet Access considers illegal and therefore not allowed on its network are: unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material; exploitation of minors; and unauthorized use of computer resources.

Complete Internet Access believes that the First Amendment rights of free speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of association apply to the Internet to the same degree as they do to print media, and that any attempt to infringe upon those rights is void of legitimacy.

Harassment or abusive use of email and other Internet services is a rare but serious misuse of Internet resources. Complete Internet Access, in its sole discretion, will handle incidents of harassment on a case-by-case basis, consulting with all parties involved.

Complete Internet Access provides web pages to dial-up customers and virtual hosting also. In both cases the web pages reside on Complete Internet Access's computer equipment, giving Complete Internet Access some ethical responsibility for the content of such pages.

Complete Internet Access will handle potentially inappropriate web pages on a case-by-case basis. Examples of inappropriate information include downloadable virus code and obscenity.

Dial-up accounts are for personal, interactive use only. They may not be kept connected with a keep-alive of any sort, such as setting an email program to check mail periodically unattended.

With the use of a Unix shell account: This account is only to be used interactively while dialed in. It may not be used to run processes unattended or while not dialed in, including, but not limited to, any IRCbot, cron job or screen.