Cherokee Telephone Company [END USER ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY]

END USER ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

Cherokee Telephone Company user accounts are for individual users and the account holder therefore agrees not to share the password of the account. The account holder acknowledges that Cherokee Telephone Company may terminate the account after appropriate notification if the account holder does not comply.

Personal dialup unlimited accounts are for the unlimited usage of ONE person only, with reasonable unlimited use. Reasonable unlimited use is defined as one person sitting at a computer using the service for a period of up to three hours per session. Reasonable unlimited use does NOT include leaving systems idle for excessive periods of time, leaving systems online for others' use as file servers, etc. Cherokee Telephone Company reserves the right to disconnect users if the reasonable use time periods have been exceeded.

Cherokee Telephone Company user web pages are for personal use only. They may not be used for the advertising or promotion of a product, good, service, or company.

Any use of Cherokee Telephone Company resources that disrupts the normal use of the system for other users is deemed to be unacceptable. Such unacceptable uses include, but are not limited to, the following:

Using Cherokee Telephone Company for illegal purposes.

Using Cherokee Telephone Company to transmit threatening, obscene or harassing materials.

Using Cherokee Telephone Company to interfere with or to disrupt network user, services or equipment. Disruptions include, but are not limited to, distribution of unsolicited advertising, propagation of computer viruses or worms, and using the network to make unauthorized entry to any other machine accessible via the network.

Using Cherokee Telephone Company to post a single article or advertisement to more than ten (10) Usenet or other newsgroups, forums, email mailing lists or other similar group or lists; to post to any Usenet or other newsgroup, forum, email mailing list or other similar group or list articles which are off-topic according to the charter or other owner-published FAQ or description of the group or list; or to send unsolicited mass emailings to more than twenty-five (25) email users, if such unsolicited emailings provoke complaints from recipients.

Using Cherokee Telephone Company to transmit any material in violation of any U.S., state, or local regulation which may include but is not limited to copyrighted material, threatening, obscene, libelous, or defamatory material, or material protected by trade secret.