1. Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property right used without proper authorization, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws.
2. Sending unsolicited mail messages, including the sending of "junk mail" or other advertising material to individuals who did not specifically request such material (e.g., "e-mail spam"). This includes, but is not limited to, bulk-mailing of commercial advertising, informational announcements, and political tracts. It also includes posting the same or similar message to one or more newsgroups (excessive cross-posting or multiple-posting). AFN accounts or services may not be used to collect replies to messages sent from another Internet Service Provider where those messages violate this Policy or that of the other provider.
3. Unauthorized use, or forging, of mail header information (e.g., "spoofing").
4. Unauthorized attempts by a user to gain access to any account or computer resource not belonging to that user (e.g., "cracking").
5. Obtaining or attempting to obtain service by any means or device with intent to avoid payment.
6. Unauthorized access, alteration, destruction, or any attempt thereof, of any information of any AFN customers or end-users by any means or device.
7. Knowingly engage in any activities that will cause a denial-of-service (e.g., synchronized number sequence attacks) to any AFN customers or end-users whether on the AFN network or on another provider's network.
8. Using AFN's Products and Services to interfere with the use of the AFN network by other customers or authorized users.

• Bandwidth use will be monitored at the AFN Headend.

• No reselling of bandwidth services. Web hosting limited to single business site to service the business with the connection.
• Bandwidth use will be monitored at the AFN Headend.

• Dynamically Assigned IP Address
  Use of fixed addresses will be considered a theft of service and service will be disconnected.  Use of a device to clone a MAC address will also be considered a theft of service and will be disconnected.
• No commercial activity of any kind.
• Individual or family personal web serving only.
• No email servers, reflectors or streaming media servers.

The Ashland Fiber Network will maintain the integrity and use of its bandwidth and therefore strictly prohibits the reselling of bandwidth by any of its users as listed above.

Use of Point to Point (P2P) applications may be restricted or prohibited if such use is a detriment to the operation of the AFN Network.

Users must conform to our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP), Federal Communications Commission rules and laws, and in the event AFN determines that any of our users are acting in violation of our AUP, FCC regulations or State or Local law, we will terminate the service immediately.

Your cooperation ensures that AFN users of all levels of service will experience reliable high-speed Internet service.

[1] Measured by averaging usage in 5-minute increments, where use is above the set rate for more than 20% in any single billing cycle.


City of Ashland and the Ashland Fiber Network (AFN) Digital Millennium Copyright Act Policy

AFN is an Online Service Provider under Title II of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. Section 512 ("DMCA"). AFN respects the legitimate rights of copyright owners, and has adopted an efficient notice and takedown procedure as required by the DMCA and described herein. This policy is intended to guide copyright owners in utilizing that procedure, and also to guide webmasters in restoring access to websites that are disabled due to mistake.

Notice to Owners of Copyrighted Works

The DMCA provides a legal procedure by which you can request any Online Service Provider to disable access to a website where your copyrighted work(s) are appearing without your permission. There are two parts to the legal procedure: (1) Writing a Proper DMCA Notice, and (2) Sending the Proper DMCA Notice to AFN's Designated Agent.

How to Write a Proper DMCA Notice

A Proper DMCA Notice will notify AFN of particular facts in a document signed under penalty of perjury. We refer to this as a "Proper DMCA Notice." To Write a Proper DMCA notice, please provide the following information:

1. Identify yourself as either:
   a. The owner of a copyrighted work(s), or
   b. A person "authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."

2. State your contact information, including your TRUE NAME, street address, telephone number, and email address.

3. Identify the copyrighted work that you believe is being infringed, or if a large number of works are appearing at a single website, a representative list of the works.

4. Identify the material that you claim is infringing your copyrighted work, to which you are requesting that AFN disable access over the World Wide Web.

5. Identify the location of the material on the World Wide Web by providing "information reasonably sufficient to permit AFN to locate the material."

6. State that you have "a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agents, or the law."

7. State that the information in the notice is accurate, under penalty of perjury.