Sancharnet is a country wide Internet Access Network of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, India. It offers Dedicated and Dialup (PSTN & ISDN) Internet Access Services across all the major cities in India
Acceptable user policy for Sancharnet's users
This acceptable user policy (AUP) specifies the actions permitted by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to its users of Sancharnet Internet Services, including leased line, dial up and other services which may be introduced in future.. BSNL reserve right to modify the policy at any time. All subscribers of Sancharnet Services, directly or indirectly are required to engage in acceptable use only as per this policy as modified from time to time.
a. Illegal use
Sancharnet network may be used only for lawful purposes. 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 authorisation, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, violates export control laws or anti national.
b. Subscriber conduct
Subscriber shall use Sancharnet services for lawful purposes only. Subscriber shall not post or transmit using Sancharnet services any material which violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane or otherwise objectionable, which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give right to civil liability or otherwise violate any law, or which, without the BSNL's express prior approval, contains advertising or any solicitation with respect to products or services. Any conduct by a Subscriber that in the BSNL's discretion restricts or inhibits any other Subscriber from using or enjoying Sancharnet services will not be permitted. Subscriber shall not use Sancharnet services to advertise or perform any commercial solicitation, including, but not limited to, the solicitation of users to become subscribers of other on-line information services competitive with the Sancharnet services .
Subscriber shall not upload, post or otherwise make available using Sancharnet services any material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of the copyright, trademark or other proprietary right and the burden of determining that any material is not protected by copyright rests with subscriber. Subscriber shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from such a submission.
c. System and Network Security
Violation of system or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and Civil Liability. The BSNL will investigate incidents involving such violations and may involve/will cooperate with law enforcement agencies if a criminal violation is suspected. Examples of system or network security violations include, without limitation, the following:
Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without express authorization of the owner of the system or network.
Unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic on any network or system without express authorization of the owner of the system or network.
Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mailbombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks.
Forgery of any identification or obscuring of hostnames, usernames, IP addresses, or any message header information in any data.
Harassing or threatening transmissions.
Probing for means of gaining unauthorized access to computers or networks.
Introducing or causing to be introduce any computer contaminant or computer viruses into system or network.
Introducing or causing to introduce any pornography material, e-mail etc.
Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without express authorization of the owner of the system or network.
