Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) is part of your Terms of Service with LEAD Web Studio Inc., which operates Baseline Web Hosting. It applies to everything you host or do through our service.

01Scope

You are responsible for your account, your content, and anyone you allow to use it. If your visitors, customers or scripts cause a breach of this AUP, that is treated as your breach.

02Prohibited content & activity

You may not use the service to host, link to, transmit or facilitate any of the following:

• Anything illegal under the laws of Canada or of Ontario, or that infringes someone else’s intellectual-property rights.
• Pirated or counterfeit material — unlicensed software, media, keys, or goods.
• Malware — viruses, worms, trojans, ransomware, or code designed to harm or gain unauthorised access to any system.
• Phishing or fraud — pages that impersonate a person or brand to steal credentials, payment details, or money.
• Child sexual abuse material, or content that sexualises minors, in any form. This is reported to authorities without notice.
• Content that promotes violence, terrorism, or hatred against a protected group.
• Cryptocurrency mining, or any activity whose main purpose is to consume computing resources rather than to serve a website.

03Security & network abuse

You may not:

• Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any system, account or data, on our network or elsewhere.
• Scan, probe, or test the vulnerability of a network without authorisation, or defeat any security or authentication measure.
• Launch or participate in a denial-of-service attack, or send traffic designed to disrupt another system.
• Forge headers or identifiers, or impersonate another person or system.
• Run open relays, open proxies, or services that let third parties send traffic anonymously through your account.

04Resource use

Shared hosting is for normal small-business websites. You may not use an account in a way that destabilises a shared server or unfairly degrades service for others — for example, sustained high CPU use, runaway scripts, storing large archives unrelated to a website, or using the account primarily as a file, backup or streaming server. If usage becomes a problem we will contact you; where a server’s stability is at immediate risk we may act first and explain after.

05Messaging & spam

You may not send unsolicited bulk or commercial messages (“spam”) from, or referencing, your account or our network, whether the messages are sent through us or elsewhere. Any commercial email you send must comply with Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), including valid consent, sender identification, and a working unsubscribe. Being listed on a reputable blocklist because of your activity is itself a breach of this AUP.

06Your responsibility

Keeping your site within this AUP is your job. That includes keeping your software patched so it is not used to send spam or serve malware, and removing prohibited content promptly when you become aware of it.

07Enforcement

Where circumstances allow, we will tell you what the problem is and give you a chance to fix it. We are not obliged to monitor content, but we may act on anything we become aware of.

08Reporting abuse

If you believe an account on our network breaches this policy — spam, malware, phishing, or illegal content — tell us at billing@webhostingbaseline.com with the URL and a short description, and we will investigate.

This policy is part of our Terms of Service. It is written in plain language and is not legal advice. Version 1.0 — effective August 21, 2026.