Transmission of any material in violation of a US or state law, rule or regulation is prohibited. This includes but is not limited to copyrighted material, material legally judged to be threatening or obscene by local community standards or material protected by trade secret. In addition you may not post or transmit any information or software which contains a virus, cancel bot, trojan horse, worm or other harmful component. You are responsible for the protection of your account and data. You are advised that the Internet is not a secure system.
Data can be and often is viewed by third parties.
Information of a private or confidential nature should not be placed on the system or if it is you should take steps to protect it using encryption technologies. SMI specifically denies any responsibility for the security of your account and the data stored in SMI facilities. SMI is not a storage facility and customers wishing to safeguard their data should make backups and store them in a secure place. It is SMI policy to cooperate fully with any and all Law Enforcement Agencies and upon lawful request will make available to said agencies any and all information contained in the SMI computer systems. Dialup accounts are not intended to be full-time dedicated connections and we reserve the right to disconnect a user for inactivity or for using what we consider an excessive amount of time online .