These Acceptable Usage Policies form an integral part of our Terms and Conditions.  Violation of any of these Policies constitutes violation of our Terms and Conditions, and may lead to immediate termination of your account and we reserve the right to pursue damages if applicable.

Trusted Proxies prohibits the following kinds of activities on all our servers and services:

• Pornography of any kind (even legal)
• Online Gambling sites
• Spam email of any kind
• Bulk email of any kind (even legal)
• Spamming of websites with comments and/or links
• "Black Hat" marketing of any kind, see below for some examples
• Anything that promotes or enables any illegal or criminal activity, including but not limited to violence, illegal drugs, money laundering, terrorism, harassment, racism or discrimination
• Bittorrent or similar usage
• Sharing or distribution of music, videos, programs or files that you do not own the copyright or rights to

We also strictly prohibit using our Proxy Servers for any form of “Black Hat” SEO or Web Marketing.  Examples are, but not limited to:

• Automated (or multiple manual) “viewing” of clips or downloads on Youtube or download sites to artifically boost the number of “views”/downloads
• Automated (or multiple manual) “clicking” on AdSense or similar adverts
• Automated (or multiple manual) "liking", “digging” or voting for content on Social Media to artificially increase their ratings
• Automated (or multiple manual) posting of Classified Ads on classified ad sites like Craigslist in a way likely to lead to our IP addresses being banned
• Any other form of automated (or multiple manual) posting or clicking or downloading designed to deliberately artificially inflate or influence the popularity of any type of content or site
• Any form of spamming whether by email or automated software or any other means

If you’re not sure whether what you want to do would be considered “Black Hat” and prohibited, the answer is, “If you have to ask, then it’s probably not allowed”.  But you can always ask.

To help you understand where we’re coming from:

We don’t wish to moralise about the legitimacy of one kind of activity or another. Our concern is maintaining the integrity and reliability of our Proxy Servers for all our customers at all times, ensure no laws are broken, ensure our IP addresses do not get blacklisted, and maintain the good name of our company.

The kinds of "Black Hat" activities listed here are actively defended against by ISP and the major website owners who are being targeted (eg Youtube, Craigslist etc) and when they discover it, they will blacklist the our Proxy Servers and IP Addresses, thereby causing problems for our legitimate customers.

So aside from illegality or pornography, the question to ask regarding our policy is “If I did this from my own computer, would my IP addresses get blocked or blacklisted?” If “yes” then it’s not allowed.

Here's some examples to illustrate.  They are for illustration purposes only and do not alter the meaning of our Acceptable Usage Policy or Terms and Conditions:

• You send automated traffic to Google.  If you send the traffic at the correct speed, Google wouln't ban you.  Hence that is an acceptable use of our Proxy Servers.
• You have an offshore worker in your Marketing Department.  They need to post an ad on Craigslist.  If you did it yourself, the Ad would be accepted, hence it is an acceptable use for your worker to use our Proxy Servers to post on your behalf.
• You post mutliple Ads in violation of Craigslist guidelines which would get your IP address banned.  Doing so from our Proxy Servers would get our Proxy Servers banned, so that is NOT an acceptable use.