Terms and Conditions


Terms of Service


This agreement is by and between tycom.net, LLC duly authorized and existing under the laws of the State of Mississippi with its main office at 205 Creekmore Drive, Bruce, Mississippi, and you, the customer, for the provision by tycom.net or its subcontractors of certain electronic communications services. All new and current users are required to read the following paragraphs. If you are unwilling to abide by the terms of this agreement, then you must stop using this service. By using this system, you are showing your acknowledgement that you have read and agreed to the terms and conditions described in this bulletin. This is a private system of tycom.net. You are only allowed access to this service if you understand and agree to the conditions of access, which are listed below.

Electronic mail:

E-mail may be exchanged with users on the Internet and other networks accessible through the Internet.

Internet access:

Many sites on the public Internet make their resources available to everyone. Tycom.net provides a means for you to access such systems. You may also access private internetworking systems, providing that you have been granted explicit permission, to do so by that system's administrator.

Activation of service from tycom.net

This constitutes acceptance of these terms of service of use, which shall supersede all previous representations, understandings or agreements and shall prevail notwithstanding any variance with terms and conditions of any order. Tycom.net reserves the right to modify these Terms of Service and change pricing or services at any time without notice. The laws of the state of Mississippi govern all contracts.

Security

You may not use our system for anything that you know is illegal or suspect to be illegal. If you do not know whether or not a particular action is legal, please discuss it with us before you proceed. If we tell you we do not want you to pursue your plans on our system, please respect our decision. Noncompliance may result in suspension or termination of your account. In the event that you use your account with us to commit any illegal act, you expressly agree to indemnify and hold harmless tycom.net for any actions or liability that might arise out of such act. Respect the security of our system and the security of any system you may access via our system. Do not attempt to gain access to areas private to tycom.net or other users. Attempts to violate the security of this or any other system will result in immediate and permanent termination of your account that accesses our system. Accounts terminated for this reason may not be eligible for reinstatement. Many different networks around the world may be accessed via this system. Many of these networks have in place their own acceptable use policies. You are required to abide by these policies where applicable. Do not conduct acts that may be deemed by others as malicious or hostile. Attempts at creating an annoying or hostile environment for other users anywhere on tycom.net systems, or networks to which they are connected, will not be tolerated. This includes sending unwelcome, unsolicited, or harassing communications to other users. A Violation may result in the suspension or termination of your account. Tycom.net has an expressly stated policy prohibiting the use of our systems to transmit Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE), also commonly referred to as "junk Email" or "Spam Email".  Violation of this policy may result in sanctions being imposed against you, ranging from warning to account termination. The running of 'IRCBots' on any tycom.net server is strictly prohibited. Violation of this policy may result in sanctions being imposed against you, ranging from warning to account termination.  We, as system operators, may need to look at your electronic mail if we believe it is necessary to protect ourselves or other users from injury or damage, or in the routine performance of our necessary duties to keep our systems functioning properly for all users. We will not deliberately disclose your private electronic mail to other users. In the event that we believe certain electronic mail or files are connected with illegal activities, we may disclose them to the appropriate authorities to protect our system, ourselves, and other users. Remember that the person to whom you send electronic mail does not necessarily need to keep it private. The sender or receiver of electronic mail has the right to make it public. Therefore you should never send communications via electronic mail that are of a highly sensitive or confidential nature or any message that you would not want to be made public. Also remember that sending network mail to users on systems other than those operated by tycom.net utilizes systems subject to other organizations' policies, over which tycom.net has no control. Internet mail should never be considered private in any way, or in any form. In the unlikely event that the authorities ever search or seize our system, they may gain access to your electronic mail. Should that occur, we are unable to guarantee that they will not review it. Remember that you have personal rights to privacy that even the government cannot legally violate, though you may have to go to court to enforce those rights. We will not hand over any information to any authority without a valid proper warrant or subpoena for such information that has been issued by a court of law. You shall retain all rights to all original messages you write. Likewise, you must respect the ownership rights of others in their own messages.  All users shall accept responsibility for their own acts, and shall accept that acts by another user, either on this system or on a connected network, which damages them, must not be blamed on tycom.net, but on the other user.

You agree that tycom.net and its operators will not be held responsible to you for any indirect, consequential, special, or punitive damages or losses you may incur in connection with our system or any of the data or other materials transmitted through, accessed via, or residing on our system even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damage or loss. You also agree that tycom.net and its operators will not be held responsible for any indirect, consequential, special, or punitive damages or losses you may incur due to your ability or inability to transfer information via this system. You agree that network outages can, and do, occur and that tycom.net and its operators will not be held responsible for any loss due to such outages, regardless of reason or fault. In addition, you agree to defend and indemnify us and hold us harmless from and against any claims, proceedings, damages, injuries, liabilities, losses, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys fees) relating to any acts by you or materials or information transmitted or received by you in connection with our system, leading wholly or partially to claims against us or our system by other users or third parties. Remember that the Internet may contain materials and images, which may be offensive to some or even sexually explicit or adult-oriented in nature. Please remember that the Internet is a global network, and that laws governing its content vary widely from place to place. For that reason, we strongly recommend that if you will be allowing minors to access your account that it is done with adult supervision or with the use of monitoring software. Tycom.net cannot be held responsible for content provided by entities other than our own company. Each of these places has a different set of laws. Since we cannot keep track of all laws and their requirements, you agree that the law of our own state, Mississippi, will apply to all matters relating to this Agreement and to our online service. In addition, you agree and consent that if you ever take legal action against us, the courts of our own state, Mississippi, will have exclusive jurisdiction over any such legal actions. In the event that any part of this agreement is ever nullified or modified by any action of law, all other provisions of this agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

USE OF SERVICE & RESTRICTIONS

 PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS AND CANCELLATION POLICY

All accounts are due to be paid by the 10th of each month.  Accounts not paid by the next business day following the 10th will incur a late fee.  Accounts terminated for non-payment may be reinstated upon payment of any outstanding charges. There will be a $30 administration fee to reinstate a terminated DSL account. Accounts terminated for unacceptable use may not be reinstated. Interruption of service due to termination of an account, does not relieve you from past due charges.  If your checking account debit, or credit card charge is declined for any reason, then your account is in default and may incur a returned item fee.

       BILLING DISPUTES.

       It is your responsibility to request corrections to any processing fees each month within 60 days after receiving your credit card/bank statement.  No charges will be reviewed after 60 days.

YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION

You certify that YOU ARE AT LEAST EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OLD. You agree to provide tycom.net with accurate, complete, and updated registration information. Failure to do this constitutes a breach of this agreement and unauthorized access to tycom.net could result in immediate termination of your account and subject you to civil and criminal liability. By registering as a customer, you will receive a password, an account and choice of an associated sign-on name, and the ability to have additional email accounts; provided that you select a unique username that is currently available, a name not in violation of a third party's property rights, or a sign-on name that tycom.net deems not offensive or otherwise inappropriate. Tycom.net owns all sign-on names and licenses them to you. Additionally, you may not use your sign-on name in violation of the terms of service or in ways tycom.net deems inappropriate, including but not limited to, sending or causing to be sent mass e-mail solicitations. Tycom.net reserves the right to delete any such sign-on name or to request deletion. You are entirely liable for all activities conducted through your account. A customer may permit another individual, including a minor, to use the customers account subject to customer supervision and with customers assumption of all resulting liabilities. Because tycom.net sends important notices about your service to the account holder, you agree to check the account regularly and bear the risk of failing to do so. Customers who have had their tycom.net service terminated may not access our service without prior express written permission, nor may you allow a former customer or other agent whose service has been terminated to use their account.

INDEMNIFICATION

The Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold tycom.net and tycom.net directors, officers, employees, affiliated companies, telecommunications providers, and ISPs harmless from and against any and all damages, liabilities, losses, costs and expenses, including attorney's fees, arising out of or related to Customer use of the Internet or customer's breach of terms of service by use of, or in connection with, the transmission of any content on any of tycom.net services.

 

Tycom.net Internet reserves the right to protect its Customers from offensive e-mail communication, including, but not limited to, the right to block mass e-mail solicitations, or "junk e-mail", or "Spam". "Spamming" is sending unsolicited Email - whether "mass" or ostensibly targeted - to people who have not asked for such Email. You may not use tycom.net Internet as a 'drop off' address for replies to Spam mail or Spam posts sent from other networks. We encourage the appropriate use of Email and we do not censor for content. Threatening email will result in immediate termination of service and cooperation with any law enforcement agency will be certain if requested.

Hacking is any attempt, whether successful or not, to gain access to or retrieve information from any computer system, tycom.net or any other.  Hacking will result in immediate termination of service and possible prosecution.

Tycom.net is an Internet Service Provider that allows access to the Internet, but is not the Internet. Tycom.net does not control the content, services, or areas available through the Internet, with minor exceptions, such as the tycom.net web site. Providers of Internet sites or services have separate data and privacy practices independent of tycom.net. The Internet is not owned, operated, or managed by tycom.net or any of its affiliates, or your local phone provider. You agree that your Internet use is solely at your own risk and is subject to all applicable local, state, national, international and foreign laws and regulations. Neither tycom.net, its affiliates, nor telecommunications providers for tycom.net, shall be held responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any loss or damage caused or alleged to have been caused by your use of or reliance on any content, goods or services available through the Internet, or your inability to access the Internet or any of its sites.

We exercise no control over the content of the information passing through our systems, we only provide access.  You must take responsibility for your actions on our system and the systems you access through us.   You must comply with whatever rules or acceptable usage policies are appropriate for the systems you access.  If you are offended by information you find on those systems, your responsibility is to avoid whatever you find offensive.  You must take responsibility for the statements you make in e-mail, chat or discussion forums, and web pages.  If you act irresponsibly or your actions endanger our system, we may suspend your access at any time.

Tycom.net's policy provides for only one (1) dialup user per account.  Your account is for your exclusive and individual use only; multiple concurrent logins of the same account are not allowed.   Beyond the fact that allowing others to use your account is prohibited, consider that you become responsible for the charges incurred by someone else you have allowed to use your account.  For this reason you should protect your account and password as you would any other personal resource such as your telephone or credit card.  Violations will be logged by the system administrator.  Continual violations could result in interruption of service, additional charges, and/or account termination.