Fair Usage Policy

General Notice

By accessing this website, or by contracting with us for service, you agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by this policy and the terms and conditions it contains, as well as any other additional terms, conditions, rules or policies which are displayed to you in connection with this service/website. The purpose of this AUP is to comply with the relevant laws of the country; to specify to customers and users of our service/website what activities and online behaviour are considered an unacceptable use of the service/website; to protect the integrity of our network and to specify the consequences that may flow from undertaking such prohibited activities.

This document contains a number of legal obligations which you are presumed to be familiar with. As such, we encourage you to read this document thoroughly and direct any queries to our customer services.

Myewifi respects the rights of our customers and users of our services to freedom of speech and expression; access to information; privacy; human dignity; religion, belief and opinion in accordance with our constitution. We undertake not to interfere with any of those rights unless required to do so by law; unless those rights are exercised for unlawful purposes; or unless the exercise of those rights threatens to cause harm to another person or affect the integrity of our network.

Unlawful Use

 Myewifi services/website may only be used for lawful purposes and activities. We prohibit any use of our website/network including the transmission, storage and distribution of any material or content using our network that violates any law or regulation of the Republic.

This includes:

Any violation of local and international laws prohibiting child pornography; obscenity; discrimination (including racial, gender or religious slurs) and hate speech; or speech designed to incite violence or hatred, or threats to cause bodily harm.

Any activity designed to defame abuse, stalk, harass or physically threaten any individual in the Republic or beyond its borders; including any attempt to link to, post, transmit or otherwise distribute any inappropriate or defamatory material.

Any violation of Intellectual Property laws including materials protected by local and international copyright, trademarks and trade secrets. Moreover Myewifi cannot be held liable if you make any unlawful use of any multimedia content accessed through the search facility provided by Myewifi network, or otherwise available through access to our network, whether for commercial or non-commercial purposes.

Any violation of the individual’s right to privacy, including any effort to collect personal data of third parties without their consent.

Any fraudulent activity whatsoever, including dubious financial practices, such as pyramid schemes; the impersonation of another subscriber without their consent; or any attempt to enter into a transaction with Myewifi  on behalf of another subscriber without their consent.

Any violation of the exchange control laws of the Republic.

Any activity that results in the sale, transmission or distribution of pirated or illegal software.

Failing to respond to a request by a recipient of unsolicited mail to be removed from any mailing or direct marketing list and continuing to send unsolicited mail following such a request for removal.

Where any user resides outside of the country, permanently or temporarily, such user will be subject to the laws of the country in which s/he is currently resident and which apply. On presentation of a legal order to do so, or under obligation through an order for mutual foreign legal assistance,Myewifi will assist foreign law enforcement agencies (LEA) in the investigation and prosecution of a crime committed using  Myewifi resources, including the provisioning of all personal identifiable data.

Prohibited Activities

The following sections outline activities that are considered an unacceptable use of  Myewifi services/network/website and also detail the guidelines for acceptable use of certain facilities/services, as the case may be.

Any activity which in any way threatens the security of the network by knowingly posting, transmitting, linking to or otherwise distributing any information or software which contains a virus; Trojan horse; worm, lock, mail bomb, cancelbot or other harmful, destructive or disruptive component.

Any unauthorised monitoring of data or traffic on the network without Myewifi  explicit, written consent.

Any unsolicited mass mailing activity including direct marketing; spam and chain letters for commercial or other purposes, without the consent of the recipients of those mails.

Public Space and Third Party Content and sites

In reading this AUP or in signing a service contract with Myewifi, you acknowledge that Myewifi  has no power to control the content of the information passing over the Internet and its applications, including e-mail; chat rooms; news groups; or other similar fora, and that Myewifi cannot be held responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any of the above mentioned content, in any way for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of, or in connection with your use of, or reliance on, any such content.

Our services also offer access to numerous third party webpages. You acknowledge that we exercise absolutely no control over such third party content, or sites and in such cases, our network is merely a conduit or means of access and transmission. This includes, but is not limited to, third party content contained on or accessible through the  Myewifi network or sites displayed as search results or contained within a directory of links on the Myewifi network. It remains your responsibility to review and evaluate any such content, and that any and all risk associated with the use of, or reliance on, such content rests with you.

Access to public Internet spaces, such as bulletin boards, Usenet groups, chat rooms and moderated forums is entirely voluntary and at your own risk.

Myewifi employees do not moderate any of these services, or your communications, transmissions or use of these services. We do not undertake any responsibility for any content contained therein, or for any breaches of your right to privacy that you may experience as a result of accessing such spaces.

Unsolicited, Spam and Junk Mail

Spam and unsolicited bulk mail are highly problematic practices. They affect the use and enjoyment of services by others and often compromise network security.  Myewifi will take swift and firm action against any user engaging in any of the following unacceptable practices:

 Myewifi reserves the right to examine incoming or outgoing mail to the extent necessary to determine if it is classified as spam.

Protection of minors Myewifi prohibits customers from using Myewifi ’ service to harm or attempt to harm a minor, including, but not limited to, by hosting, possessing, disseminating, distributing or transmitting material that is unlawful, including child pornography.

Privacy and Confidentiality

 Myewifi respects the privacy and confidentiality of our customers and users of our service.

User Responsibilities

Customers are responsible for any misuse of Myewifi   services that occurs through the customer’s account. It is the customer’s responsibility to ensure that unauthorised persons do not gain access to or misuse  Myewifi service.

 Myewifi urges customers not to reply to unsolicited mail or “spam”, not to click on any suggested links provided in the unsolicited mail. Doing so remains the sole responsibility of the customer and  Myewifi cannot be held liable for the Customer being placed on any bulk mailing lists as a result.

Where the customer has authorised a minor to use any of the Myewifi  services or access its websites, you accept that as the parent/legal guardian of that minor, you are fully responsible for: the online conduct of such minor; controlling the minor’s access to and use of any services or websites; and the consequences of any misuse by the minor, including but not limited to transactions entered into by the minor using such access.

 Myewifi cannot be held liable for any business dealings you have with any third parties on the Internet, including any vendors, or advertisers found on, or through, the Myewifi  network. Further,  Myewifi assumes no responsibility whatsoever for any charges you or any user of your account incurs when making purchases or other transactions in this manner. Further, the responsibility for ensuring compliance with all applicable customs and exchange control laws in connection with any such transactions shall be the customer’s.

Uncapped Fair Usage Policy

To ensure the quality and availability of our Internet services  Myewifi have a sophisticated method of ensuring fair usage on all Biz/Home and uncapped Internet products. Myewifi does not make use of bandwidth throttling to slow down Internet speeds. Where a customer’s behaviour is determined to be affecting the user experience of other customers on Myewifi network we will implement measures after discussing with particular individual.

Customer behaviour which may cause an Internet service to be throttled includes using bandwidth intensive protocols such as peer-to-peer or performing unattended downloads of large files. Throttling may also occur when a customer downloads at near 100% of the line capacity for approximately 1 hour. The throttling is then automatically removed after the excessive usage has stopped for a similar period of time. In the event of such customer behaviour being detected,  Myewifi reserves the right to terminate the account of a customer whose usage is continuously affecting Myewifi network. It is the responsibility of the customer to ensure they have the appropriate package for their type of use.

Myewifi reserves the right to amend or alter this policy at any time, and without notice to you.  Myewifi reserves the right to take action against any individuals, companies or organizations that violate any of the prohibited activities set out herein, or engage in any illegal or unlawful activity while accessing our services, to the fullest extent of the law.

Myewifi reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to act against other types of abuse not listed in this document and to investigate or prevent illegal activities being committed over our network. Myewifi reserves the right to monitor user and network traffic for site security purposes and prevent any unauthorised attempts to tamper with our site or cause damage to our property.

Myewifi reserves the right to suspend, revoke or cancel Myewifi services to the customer/user if the safety and integrity of Myewifi resources are placed at risk in continuing to provide service to the subscriber/user.

 Myewifi reserves the right to remove any information or materials in whole or in part, that, in Myewifi sole discretion, is deemed to be offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable.

 Myewifi does not undertake to guarantee the security of any data passing through its networks. Although  Myewifi will provide a “best effort” service, including regular updates on computer viruses and other threats to security of data, it is the responsibility of the communicating parties to safeguard their data, and Myewifi cannot be held liable for any loss or damage arising as result of the failure to do so.

 Myewifi  does not waive its right to enforcement of this AUP at any time, or prejudice its right to take subsequent action, should Myewifi fail, neglect or elect not to enforce a breach of the AUP at any time.