Acceptable Usage Policy for Downstream ISP

Last updated on 14/06/2024

All Bharat Datacenter Leased Line, IP Transit, BGP Access and direct internet connection customers are bound by the following Acceptable Use Policy. This document may be updated from time to time. Please consult this site periodically for the most recent revision of this document.

No Bharat Datacenter customer shall:

• Do anything illegal or anything that adversely affects Bharat Datacenter's legal interests. The following list is non-exclusive, and should not be considered license to commit other illegal activities not specified below. All illegal activity is prohibited, and Bharat Datacenter will cooperate fully with any law enforcement officials and/or agencies investigating and/or prosecuting such activities.
  • Cracking/Hacking: Attempts to access accounts or systems other than the user’s own accounts or systems or an account or system that the user has been explicitly authorized to access is illegal under Indian IT laws.
  • Child pornography: This is strictly prohibited and dealt with quickly and harshly.
  • Harassment: Use of Bharat Datacenter's network to harass or threaten (in the legal sense of those terms) any other person is prohibited. This specifically includes DDoS attacks on others using our infrastructure which is prohibited.
• Do anything that threatens the integrity of Bharat Datacenter's network or the utilization thereof by other persons.
  • Denial of Service (DOS) attacks: No customer will commit a DOS attack against any Bharat Datacenter customer’s host, or any other host on the Internet. Similarly, no Bharat Datacenter customer will willfully or negligently allow incitement of others to attack any host on Bharat Datacenter's network, or any other host on the Internet.
  • Blacklists: No customer shall do anything that could get any portion of Bharat Datacenter's IP space (or address space announced by Bharat Datacenter on behalf of Customer) put on blacklists or other similar organizations, or perform activities that would cause portions of the Internet to block mail or refuse to route traffic to any portion of Bharat Datacenter's IP space (or address space announced by Bharat Datacenter on behalf of Customer).
• Do anything that threatens the Internet or any other network.
  • No customer shall take actions that cause any portion of the Internet, or the Internet as a whole, to become unusable to any other portion of the Internet, or the Internet as a whole.
  • No customer shall take actions that degrade the usefulness of the Internet, or any portion of the Internet, either through network degradation.
• Maintain and enforce on their clients an AUP similar in scope and intent to this document.
• Prevent announcing bogons at all costs. Additionally, ASN spoofing/ASN hijacking or IP spoofing/IP hijacking attempts are strictly prohibited. Such acts can lead to legal action and termination/suspension of network immediately.

Bharat Datacenter reserves the right to terminate or interrupt any network in part or in full without refund for violation of these Acceptable Use Policy. In all but the most extreme or serious cases, good faith attempts will be made to resolve an issue without interruption of service. In cases where service has been terminated or interrupted, resolution will be handled on an individual case basis, at Bharat Datacenter’s sole discretion.

For further explanation of any portion of this document, and the terms set herein, or to determine whether your intended activities are permissible under the terms of this document, contact us at abuse@bharatdatacenter.com or http://noc.bharatdatacenter.com/tickets/.

This document is presented by the Network Operations Center as an outline as to what is prohibited to Downstream ISPs using Bharat Datacenter network as their upstream to announce their Internet resources. For getting detailed and legal document, request your Account Manager for a copy of your Technical Contract specifically the AUP.