General
This Service could include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Any action related to these Terms will be governed by Texas law and controlling U.S. federal law. No choice of law rules of any jurisdiction will apply. These Terms provide basic guidelines for your use of the Service, and will be enforced in conjunction with other Terms of Service or Membership Agreement, if any, that govern AT&T products or services that you use or that you have purchased. In the event that any provision of these Terms shall be rendered invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability
shall not invalidate or render unenforceable any other provision of these Terms and these Terms shall continue in full force and effect and be construed as if they did not contain the invalid or unenforceable provision.
Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights
You are prohibited from infringing, publishing, submitting, copying, uploading, downloading, posting, transmitting, reproducing, or distributing software, video or audio content, or any other material that is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, any other type of intellectual property rights, trademark laws (by rights of privacy or publicity) or other proprietary right of any party unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consent to do the same. This prohibition includes the use of any material or information including images or photographs that are made available through an AT&T site or Service(s).
For more information about AT&T’s copyright protection practices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998, and for information on how to contact AT&T’s DMCA agent, please refer to: www.att.net/legal/copyright
ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
The AT&T Acceptable Use Policy is designed to help protect AT&T’s assets, the assets of its Customers, and the Internet community, from irresponsible or illegal activities of AT&T Customers and its Users. These activities may disrupt or degrade AT&T IP Services, pose a threat to AT&T’s assets, expose AT&T (or other providers of IP Services) to claims of civil or criminal liability or other legal sanctions. Moreover, because of various conventions used in the industry (including blocking, filtering and blacklisting) these activities may impair AT&T’s ability to interconnect with other providers of IP Service. These activities may relate to the content stored or transmitted by Customers or its Users or to the nature of the transmissions themselves such as sending large numbers of unsolicited messages (Spam).
Customers are responsible for avoiding the prohibited activities and strictly following the AUP terms set forth herein.
AUP Coverage
The AT&T Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) applies to the services that provide (or include) access to the Internet, services provided over the Internet, and Hosting services (collectively “IP Services”). Customer is responsible for the actions of others who may be using the IP Service(s) under Customer’s account. It is Customer’s obligation to take whatever measures are necessary to protect access to Customer’s account (e.g., to keep the access password secure). If a Customer or its
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