Worldhouse Communications

Worldhouse Communications has the following capabilities:

At the present time, Worldhouse Communications provides services to non-profit organizations at no charge. Due to conflict of interest guidelines, we are not able at this time in a position to solicit commercial clients. The purpose of this web page is not to solicit business, but merely to provide information to third parties who want to find out who we are.

For information, contact Alex von Thorn.

Privacy, Security and Abuse Policy

Worldhouse Communications adheres to the laws of Canada and Ontario.

Privacy

worldhouse.com does not share information with any outside party, except as required by law (with court order if necessary) and/or by domain registration authorities for the purpose of registering client domains.

Worldhouse Communications takes no direct responsibility for privacy policies of client sites, except as required by law. However, we reserve the right to terminate services in any situation where a client site shares information about someone with an outside party without the person's consent. We also strongly encourage all sites to adopt privacy policies which protect the rights and interests of their users.

Network Abuse and Spam

Worldhouse Communications is connected to the WorldCom Canada network and as such adheres to WorldCom Canada's Acceptable Use Policy. We will act as quickly as possible in response to any complaint originating from our network or from any domain administered by us. Contact abuse-at-worldhouse-dot-com if you have questions, concerns, or any incident to report.

Worldhouse Communications will take immediate steps to resolve any complaints that arise. Service will be terminated to any organization which fails to take appropriate measures to stop sending mail inadvertently or intentionally to parties who no longer with to deal with them.

However, this policy is offered primarily to reassure external parties. All of the domains hosted here are operated by non-profit organizations providing services to their members. No one here makes any money off these activities, and as such, none have an interest in bothering people who are not members or have expressed interest explicitly in some other way.

Worldhouse Communications also protects client sites and domains. External parties which act repeatedly as sources of unsolicited commercial email ("spam") will be filtered at the router or mail server, such that they will not in future be permitted to send email from any user on their network to any address at any domain under our administration. If you believe we have blacklisted your network without sufficient reason, you may contact abuse-at-worldhouse-dot-com from a non-blacklisted IP, or if you do not have access to any unrestricted address, you may email abuse@wcom.ca and they will pass relevant details onto us.

Security

Worldhouse Communications will respond to denial-of-service, attempts to gain unauthorized access to systems, or other security incidents by referring such to upstream networks and/or legal authorities. WorldCom has the ability to address network security issues immediately and on a global scale, in severe cases by isolating or blackholing entire networks (not just specific protocols or sites) from the global Internet.

Client Sites

Torcon III, the 61st World Science Fiction Convention

The Voyageur, fanzine of the USS Hudson Bay club

Mensa Toronto, the Toronto chapter of the international high-IQ society

Sisters in Crime Toronto, the Toronto chapter of the mystery readers and writers organization

USS Hudson Bay, the Toronto-based media and science fiction fan club

Comments, questions, suggestions welcome. Email me.

user@worldhouse.com user@torcon3.on.ca fredrsmith@worldhouse.com fredrsmith@torcon3.on.ca