Hostni.com - Terms and Conditions
| 1. | Introduction This document sets forth the principles, guidelines and requirements of the Terms of Service of hostni.com (the "Company") governing the use by the customer ("Customer") of Company's services and products ("Services and Products"). These Terms of Service have been created to promote the integrity, security, reliability and privacy of Company's facilities, network, and Customer data contained within. The Company believes it provides the best services in the industry, and provides the following policies in the best interests of the Company and the Company's clients. The Company retains the right to modify these Terms of Service at any time and any such modification shall be automatically effective as to all customers when adopted by Company. Company shall be the sole and final arbiter as the the interpretation of the following. By utilizing the Company's services and products, the Customer agrees to be bound by the terms herein outlined. Questions or comments regarding this document should be forwarded to the Company at the following addresses: support@hostni.com |
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Compliance
With Law |
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Prohibited
Uses of Services and Products |
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3.1 |
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General |
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3.1.1 |
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Unauthorized
resale of Services and Products. |
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3.1.2 |
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Pornography
and pornographic related merchandising are prohibited under all the
Company's services. This includes sites that include links to
pornographic content elsewhere. Further examples of unacceptable content
or links include pirated software, "hacker" programs, archives
of "Warez Sites", game rooms or MUDs, Chat Rooms, IRC Bots,
Egg Drop programs, programs designed to send unsolicited advertisements
(i.e. "spamware"), any kind of illegal software or shareware. |
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Violations
of the rights of any Person protected by copyright, trade secret, patent
or other intellectual property or similar laws or regulations,
including, but not limited to, the installation or distribution of
"pirated" or other software products that are not
appropriately licensed for use by Customer. |
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Actions
that restrict or inhibit any Person, whether a customer of Company or
otherwise, in its use or enjoyment of any of the Company's Services or
Products. |
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3.2 |
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System
and Network |
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3.2.1 |
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Introduction
of malicious programs into the Company's network or server (e.g.,
viruses and worms). |
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Effecting
security breaches or disruptions of Internet communication. Security
breaches include, but are not limited to, accessing data of which
Customer is not an intended recipient or logging into a server or
account that Customer is not expressly authorized to access. For
purposes of this Section 3.2.2., "disruption" includes, but is
not limited to, port scans, flood pings, packet spoofing and forged
routing information. |
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3.2.3 |
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Executing
any form of network monitoring which will intercept data not intended
for the Customer's server. |
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Circumventing
user authentication or security of any host, network or account. |
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3.2.5 |
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Interfering
with or denying service to any user other than Customer's host (for
example, denial of service attack). |
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Using
any program/script/command, or sending messages of any kind, designed to
interfere with, or to disable, a user's terminal session, via any means,
locally or via the Internet. |
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Creating
an "active" full time connection on a Company-provided account
by using artificial means involving software, programming or any other
method. |
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Any
attempt to circumvent or alter monitoring, bandwidth tracking or
utilization reporting, or other actions which have the effect of
complicating the normal operational procedures of the Company, including
but not limited to altering, removing or in any way modifying or
tampering with Company created log files. |
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Any
action which the Company determines, in its own judgment, will reflect
poorly on the Company or negatively impact its operations. |
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3.2.10 |
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Any
action which the Company deems to be an unacceptable use of resources,
business practice or otherwise unacceptable to the Company. |
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3.3 |
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Billing |
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3.3.1 |
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Furnishing
false or incorrect data on the order form, contract or online
application, including fraudulent use of credit card numbers. |
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Attempting
to circumvent or alter the processes any billing procedures or
procedures to measure time, bandwidth utilization, or other methods to
document "use" of the Company's Services and Products. |
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3.4 |
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Mail |
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3.4.1 |
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Sending
unsolicited commercial email messages (UCE), including the sending of
"junk mail" or other advertising material to individuals who
did not specifically request such material, who were not previous
customers of Customer or with whom Customer does not have an existing
business relationship ("email spam"). |
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Sending
UCE referencing an email address for any domain hosted by the Company; |
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Sending
UCE referencing a domain hosted by the Company; |
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3.4.4 |
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Sending
UCE referencing an IP address hosted by the Company; |
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3.4.5 |
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Posting
advertisements on IRC, ICQ, or any other public chat system; |
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Harassment,
whether through language, frequency or size of messages. |
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3.4.7 |
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Unauthorized
use, or forging, of mail header information. |
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Solicitations
of mail for any other E-mail address other than that of the poster's
account or service with the intent to harass or to collect replies. |
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Creating
or forwarding "chain letters" or other "pyramid
schemes" of any type. |
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3.4.10 |
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Use
of unsolicited email originating from within the Company's network or
networks of other Internet Service Providers on behalf of, or to
advertise, any service hosted by the Company, or connected via the
Company's network. |
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Harassment,
whether through language, frequency or size of messages. |
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3.4.12 |
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Activities
deemed to be unsolicited marketing efforts or otherwise harassing in any
way. |
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3.5 |
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Usenet
Newsgroups |
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3.5.1 |
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Posting
the same or similar messages to large numbers of Usenet newsgroup
("Newsgroup spams"). |
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Posting
chain letters of any type. |
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3.5.3 |
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Posting
encoded binary files to newsgroups not specifically named for that
purpose. |
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3.5.4 |
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Cancellation
or superseding of posts other than your own. |
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3.5.5 |
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Forging
of header information. |
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3.5.6 |
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Solicitations
of mail for any other E-mail address other than that of the poster's
account or service, with intent to harass or to collect replies. |
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3.5.7 |
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Use
of unsolicited E-mail originating from within the Company's network or
networks of other Internet Service Providers on behalf of, or to
advertise, any service hosted by the Company, or connected via the
Company's network. |
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5. |
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Terms
and Termination |
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5.1 |
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Customer
has 15 days from date of account setup to be eligible for a refund. All
refunds requested with a "valid complaint" will receive a
refund of the charged periods. Specifically from beginning of sign up to
month's end and following charged months if the beginning of the month
and its charge have fallen in the 15 day period. What constitutes a
"valid complaint" shall be determined by the Company in its
sole and absolute discretion. |
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Web
sites which the Company must suspend or cancel due to violation of these
rules are not eligible to receive a refund under the Company's 15 day
money back guarantee, and are subject to charges for bandwidth and usage
of resources. |
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5.3 |
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By
submitting a credit card on the order form, Customer agrees that all
monthly or yearly hosting fees are recurring. The Customer agrees to
authorize all recurring charges to the account and any other balances
incurred due to overages of limits, additions of extras to the account,
service charges and/or any other fees. |
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Customer
will not receive a refund for any setup fees or any fees other than the
monthly or yearly recurring hosting fees. Fees resulting from extra
services or "add-ons" are not classified as monthly or yearly
recurring fees and thus are not refundable. |
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Customer
will not receive a refund for any other reason, including but not
limited to: late cancellation, slow connection caused by Customer's
ISP/network, Customer's ignorance, InterNIC delays, account termination
for violation of policies. |
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5.6 |
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The
Company reserves the right to terminate this agreement, and to delete
the Web site from its hardware, immediately upon the occurrence of any
of the following events: |
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5.6.1 |
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Non
payment of any charges due from Customer; |
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5.6.2 |
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Breach
of any term or condition of this agreement by Customer; |
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5.6.3 |
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Commencement
of any lawsuit or proceeding against Customer arising from or relating
to its use of the Web site, whether or not such suit names the Company
as a party or seeks and recovery from the Company. |
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5.7 |
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Payment
for any charges is due upon the date of the invoice. All payments must
be in Pounds Sterling. Accounts which have balances outstanding shall be
deemed to be in default and subject to termination of service. Any
charge that is not paid within thirty (30) days from the date of the
invoice shall be subject to an interest rate of 1.5% per month, or the
maximum allowed by law. Customer shall be responsible for all costs of
collection, including reasonable attorney's fees and court costs, in
event of a default for nonpayment of any amounts due the Company. |
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Customer
agrees that cancellation of service is not valid or accepted unless
submitted via Company's prescribed method of cancellation, and until
customer is in receipt of confirmation from Company that cancellation is
accepted. Customer agrees that default, non-payment or reversal of
payment does not constitute cancellation of service, nor reduce the
balance due on any amounts outstanding. |
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Indemnification
of Provider/Relationship of Parties |
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7. |
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Security
/ Software |
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8. |
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Violation |
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9. |
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Refusal
of Service |
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10. |
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Disclaimer |
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