Terms and Conditions, Abuse Policy, and Privacy Policy

Terms of Use

• You will not use IP Sharkk for any unlawful or illicit purposes. This includes but is not limited to the transmission or receipt of illegal or dishonest material.
• You will not use IP Sharkk or any part of this service to contact or communicate with minors in a manner prohibited by the law.
• You will not use IP Sharkk to violate any copyrights or to break any other forms of intellectual property law.
• You will not use IP Sharkk to send unsolicited advertising (spam, bulk e-mail, mass news posts, or any other kind of undesired exploitation or misuse of the internet).
• You will not use IP Sharkk to harass, bother or annoy.
• If you have been blocked by the owner of a bulletin board or other service that allows the posting of messages, you will not use IP Sharkk or any part of this service to bypass this blocking.
• Robots/web-crawlers and other non-human browsers may not use IP Sharkk. The above is not a complete list and we reserve the right to deny access to anyone, for any reason.In accordance with our abuse policy described below, we reserve the right to report IP addresses of users who abuse our system to either the appropriate legal authorities, or to the party (or parties) against whom the abuse or maltreatment has been perpetrated. Use of this service constitutes acceptance of the terms of our abuse policy.

YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND CONSENT THAT:

1. This service is provided as-is, and that IP Sharkk disclaims all warrranties of any kind.
2. IP Sharkk makes no warranty that this service will be timely or uninterrupted.
3. All material obtained through this service is done so through your own discretion and at your own risk.
4. YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT IP Sharkk SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES.

By using IP Sharkk or any part of this service, you affirm that you have read the disclaimer, and that you agree to abide by the stated conditions for using this service. You also understand that this service may not provide a 100% guarantee of privacy and anonymity.

Abuse Policy

We have a strict anti-abuse policy. If it can be demonstrated to what we consider a high degree of certainty that abuse has taken place, we reserve the right to turn over any information we have on the abuser to the complainant.

Below are some guidelines for what we consider to be abuse:

• The purpose of this service is to protect your privacy and allow freedom from abuse. The purpose of this service is not to act as a shelter from behind which the user can harass, aggravate or annoy others. Improper usage causes us considerable nuisance and consumes valuable time and resources. As such, those users (or abusers) should not expect protection of their anonymity.
• We consider misuse (or abuse) to be conduct which may be threatening, distressing, harassing, or otherwise consciously bothersome behavior, or spam, or theft of intellectual property, or the planning or execution of unlawful activity.
• If the conduct (i.e., chatboard post) is within the letter of law, we do not consider abuse to have taken place until the chatboard owner or webmaster has warned the offender that the user's posts are not acceptable, and has asked the poster to cease and desist from making any further such posts. This warning may consist of a post in the chatboard itself. Do not use this service to access chatboards where your presence is not wanted!
• If an offending user of a chatboard has been warned, and continues to post to the site against the owner's (or Webmaster’s) wishes, we reserve the right to reveal the offender's IP address to the injured party
• If a chatboard owner is willing to tolerate posts that are otherwise legal, we will not regard such posts as abuse: the chatboard owner is the final authority of what is allowed on their system.
• If a chatboard user feels that another user's otherwise legal posts are abusive towards them, they should contact the chatboard owner, and inform them of the above terms and conditions.
• The "one warning" policy above does not apply to MLM, spam, or posting damaging or illegal content, including viruses.
• If abuse is reported, but cannot be demonstrated, we will either 1) block the complainant's web site, so that no further abuse can be perpetrated by the offending party; OR 2) we will block the suspected abuser's IP address, if it can be determined.

To report abuse, please do the following:

1. Create a detailed report of what abuse took place. Save all records - for example, harassing language on a bulletin board.
2. Note the exact nature of the abuse, or offending post, the web site at which it took place, and the exact time that it occurred. Make sure that you specify your timezone, as relevant server log lines will be of great assistance.
3. Report the abuse following the instructions on our abuse pages. Report the abuse immediately after it takes place, so that we can obtain all relevant logs.
4. If we decide that abuse has taken place, we will turn over the abuser's IP address to you (the offended party), and you can pursue the matter further with the abuser's service provider (ISP). We will also establish blocking to prevent further abuse.

Privacy Policy

We do not collect any personal or individually identifiable information, or email addresses. The only information that we have about our users is a record of their surfing through our service, contained in our proxy logs. In these logs, users are identifiable only
by their IP number (network address). These logs contain a record of web access made to and through our service. These proxy logs are not exposed to anyone outside of our organization, except such small portions that may be needed to verify abuse, and are
deleted on a regular basis. Our rules about revealing IPs are described in our abuse policy above.

We do not share the email address(es) of people who contact us with any third party.

• Our site uses login cookies to store temporary login information. These cookies are not used for tracking purposes; they are used only to keep a login session open. Once a session is over, the login cookies are no longer used. We use non-persistent cookies that automatically expire and are deleted after you exit your browser. These cookies are not connected with individual user identities. These cookies are technically necessary for using our service, and cannot be disabled. You may also choose to store your preferred
  settings in one or more persistent cookies.
• Our site may also set some cookies to control what advertisements are shown. For example, we may use cookies to ensure that we do not repeatedly show you pop-up advertisements. The only information contained in these cookies is what time a particular
  user saw a particular advertisement. These cookies may persist for several days.
• Our site is secure to the best of our abilities. We do our utmost to keep our site safe from unauthorized access, and to minimize the number of people who have access to sensitive information. We cannot absolutely guarantee the security of our site, and cannot
  be responsible for breaches of security.
• All use of our site is confidential. We only reveal information if legally required to do so, or if there is clear evidence of abuse our system, as defined in our abuse policy (above) and terms and conditions (above).
• You should assume that we will comply with all laws, court orders or subpoenas demanding log files entries, as we do not know our users, and therefore cannot mount a legal challenge.
• We keep records of accesses to our site for a short time (several days). We may use these records to pursue people who engage in an abuse of our services. Otherwise, we do not share these records with any third party, and we delete them after a short time
  (several days).
• We may run advertisements on our site, and as such, our advertisers have separate privacy policies. You are exposed to our advertisers at the onset and termination of using our service.