By using our services you agree to be bound by our terms and
conditions below:
1. Web Site Hosting And Email
1.1. We make no representation and give no warranty as to
the accuracy or quality of information received by any person
via the Server and we shall have no liability for any loss
or damage to any data stored on the Server.
1 .2. You shall effect and maintain adequate insurance cover
in respect of any loss or damage to data stored on the Server.
1 .3 You represent, undertake and warrant to us that you will
use the Web Site allocated to you only for lawful purposes.
In particular, you represent, warrant and undertake to us
that:
1 .4 you will not use the Server in any manner which infringes
any law or regulation or which infringes the rights of any
third party, nor will you authorize or permit any other person
to do so.
1.5 you will not post, link to or transmit:
(a) any material which is unlawful, threatening, abusive,
malicious, defamatory, obscene, blasphemous, profane or otherwise
objectionable in any way.
(b) any material containing a virus or other hostile computer
program.
(c) any material which constitutes, or encourages the commission
of, a criminal offence or which infringes any patent, trade
mark, design right, copyright or any other intellectual property
right or similar rights of any person which may subsist under
the laws of any jurisdiction.
1.6 you will not send bulk email whether opt-in or otherwise
from our network. Nor will you promote a site hosted on our
network using bulk email.
1.7 you will not employ programs which consume excessive system
resources, including but not limited to processor cycles and
memory.
1.8 We reserve the right to remove any material which we deem
inappropriate from your web site without notice. We do not
host Warez or illegal MP3 content (i.e. you may only upload
MP3's if you own the copyright).
1.9 You shall keep secure any identification, password and
other confidential information relating to your account and
shall notify us immediately of any known or suspected unauthorized
use of your account or breach of security, including loss,
theft or unauthorized disclosure of your password or other
security information.
1.10 You shall observe the procedures which we may from time
to time prescribe and shall make no use of the Server which
is detrimental to our other customers.
1.11 You shall procure that all mail is sent in accordance
with applicable legislation (including data protection legislation)
and in a secure manner.
1.12 In the case of an individual User, you warrant that you
are at least 18 years of age and if the User is a company,
you warrant that the Services will not be used by anyone under
the age of 18 years.
1.13 Any access to other networks connected to us must comply
with the rules appropriate for those other networks.
1.14 While we will use every reasonable endeavour to ensure
the integrity and security of the Server, we do not guarantee
that the Server will be free from unauthorized users or hackers
and we shall be under no liability for non-receipt or misrouting
of email or for any other failure of email.
1.15 Users that abuse the network, such as mass unsolicited
email (spam), illegal content, fraud, payment invasion, will
have their name, website address, details of the abuse and
ip number posted on our "name and shame" forum to
aid other hosts and our resellers in refusing you future accounts.
Under all circumstances we will inform your ISP of your actions
and if necessary legal and police departments. We will not
tolerate any abuse of our network and abuse will be punished
to the fullest extent allowable under law.
1.16 In relation to clause 1.15, we have the right to charge
a $200 / £150 fine for each abuse case and the abuser
will be liable for any costs incurred by ourselves, our customers
or any other company / business linked to us.
1.17 If you abuse the network or we receive a complaint about
your account we will investigate this and we have the right
to suspend the account if your actions could have a negative
effect on our business or any other business connected to
us. In extreme cases we may terminate your account and end
our business relationship with you immediately. In such circumstances
a refund will not be paid. Attempts to recover any monies
paid in abuse situations will result in legal proceedings
against you to the fullest extent allowable under law.
2. Affiliates
2.1 We reserve the right to remove an affiliate account if
it is found that the said affiliate has conducted any of the
following activities: the sending of unsolicited email (aka
spam/spamming), bulk off-topic advertising / posting to newsgroups,
performed an action that could or has damaged our business
reputation, or the reputation of any companies / businesses
connected with Small Business Web Solutions.
2.2 We reserve the right to increase / decrease commissions
and percentages to our affiliates at any time without reason,
and to remove the affiliate scheme altogether at any time.
2.3 Affiliates commission is calculated in $US (US DOLLARS)
but paid by cheque in £UK (UK POUNDS)
2.4 Affiliates will receive their commission when they have
built up a balance of $100 / £75 or more. When this
amount is reached, their cheque will be posted to them on
the 1st of the month.
2.5 If a commission cheque is returned due to incorrect postage
details then any additional bank / admin charges will be deducted
from the affiliates commission before it is resent to a corrected
address.
2.6 Customers that find our services from the internet via
an affiliate link or search engine may not sign up after joining
the affiliate program and purchasing via their own affiliate
link.
3.Web Site Hosting Service Availability
3.1 We shall use our reasonable endeavours to make available
to you at all times the Server and the Services but we shall
not, in any event, be liable for interruptions of Service
or down-time of the Server.
3.2 We shall have the right to suspend the Services at any
time and for any reason, generally without notice, but if
such suspension lasts or is to last for more than 7 days you
will be notified of the reason.
3.3 The Services provided to you hereunder and your account
with us cannot be transferred or used by anyone other than
you. No more than one log-in session under any one account
may be used at any time by you. If you have multiple accounts,
you are limited to one login session per system account at
any time; user programs may be run only during log-in sessions.
If your account is found to have been transferred to another
party, or shows other activity in breach of this sub clause,
we shall have the right to cancel the account and terminate
the Services and/or this Agreement immediately.
3.4 Uptime guarantees do not include downtime required to
upgrade / service hardware or problems caused by your equipment
or 3rd parties, for example but not limited to, your ISP (internet
service provider).
4. Payments
4.1 All charges payable by you for the Services shall be
in accordance with the scale of charges and rates published
from time to time by us on our web site and shall be due and
payable in advance of our service provision. We reserve the
right to change pricing at any time although all pricing is
guaranteed for the period of pre payment.
4.2 Payment is due each month or year until closure notice
is given. If you choose to pay by credit or debit card you
authorize our credit card / debit card processing (WorldPay)
to debit your account renewal fees from your card.
4.3 All payments must be in either $US (US dollars), £UK
(UK pounds) or Euro.
4.4 Without prejudice to our other rights and remedies under
this Agreement, if any sum payable is not paid on or before
the due date, we shall be entitled forthwith to suspend the
provision of Services to you.
4. 5 Orders submitted using free email accounts may be subject
to a telephone call to confirm the order prior to the account
being set up.
4.6 From time to time security checks are performed and new
customers may be telephoned prior to any service commencing.
4.7 If unpaid monies are owned to us for one or more services
we reserve the right to suspend / terminate all services you
hold within our network and it's sister websites.
4.8 If monies are owned to us are not received in full within
30 days of our final request it will be considered as fraud
and our fraud policy, as detailed on our website, will be
used to collect such monies without exception.
5. Web Site Hosting Termination
5.1 If you fail to pay any sums due to us as they fall due,
we may suspend the Services and/or terminate this Agreement
forthwith without notice to you.
5.2 If you break any of these terms and conditions we may
suspend the Services and/or terminate this Agreement forthwith
without notice to you.
5.3 If you are a company and you go into insolvent liquidation
or suffer the appointment of an administrator or administrative
receiver or enter into a voluntary arrangement with your creditors,
we shall be entitled to suspend the Services and/or terminate
this Agreement forthwith without notice to you.
5.4 Refunds will be given at the discretion of the Company
Management including refunding of upfront yearly fees
5.5 We reserve the right to suspend the Services and/or terminate
this Agreement / your account at any time with no notice or
reason.
5.6 You may cancel the Services at any time. Cancelling payments
(FuturePay) to us on monthly paid plans will result in the
immediate suspension of the service(s). For annually paid
plans the account will be suspended at the end of the 12 month
period. Partial refunds will only be given on annual plans.
5.7 On termination of this Agreement or suspension of the
Services we shall be entitled immediately to block your Web
Site and to remove all data located on it.
5.8 When an account termination request is received it will
only be actioned if it contains enough proof that we know
it came from the authorized account holder. Such information
required is: account number, username, password.
5.9 When a valid account termination request is received it
will be terminated immediately. We do not accept termination
requests that request closure at a future date.
5.10 Accounts closed in error by the customer will not be
reopened unless we receive new payment equivalent to one months
service which must then be cancelled by the customer at the
correct time of closure.
6. Resellers
6.1 Additional reseller resources are only available in units,
as per our website.
6.2The reseller will be responsible for their customers and
must ensure that their customers do not break any parts of
our terms and conditions.
6.3 If a resellers customer is found to be sending small amounts
of unsolicited email (aka spam) the reseller must warn the
customer that if this is repeated their account must be terminated.
If a reseller allows such actions to continue, we have the
right to remove the resellers account.
6.4 We have the right to suspend / terminate any website,
including resellers customer websites is mass spamming, abuse
occurs.
6.5 If a reseller fails to pays for any reseller unit we reserve
the right to suspend the resellers account and stop their
customers from using our resources.
6.6 We will not be held liable for the actions of our resellers.
6.7 Resellers must act in a professional business manner at
all times.
6.8 A reseller may sell their customers to us at a price we
set.
6.9 Resellers must not create web hosting packages that contain
features that we do not offer, however resellers may offer
hosting packages from other providers with additional / different
features than those we offer.
6.10 Resellers must make their customers aware of our terms
and conditions and our privacy policy, however they do not
have to disclose that we are their service provider.
6.11 Our "qualified reseller" program that entitles
resellers to discounts on certain products / services is only
available to resellers that have held a live reseller account
for 3 or more consecutive months with a clean payment history.
6.12 The "qualified reseller" discounts can not
be back dated if a reseller fails to apply for the discount.
Resellers should apply for any discounts by contacting us
via email. Proof of their reseller account, such as username,
password, account number will be required for all discounts.
6.13 Qualified reseller status may be removed from a reseller
at the discretion of ourselves.
6.14 Qualified reseller discounts do not automatically apply
to special deals. Any special deals will include a QRD (qualified
reseller discount) percentage.
6.15 When an account termination request is received it will
only be actioned if it contains enough proof that we know
it came from the authorized account holder. Such information
required is: account number, username, password.
6.16 When an account termination request is received it will
be terminated immediately. We do not accept termination requests
that request closure at a future date. All termination requests
must be made via cancellations@smallbusinesswebsolutions.co.uk
6.17 Accounts closed in error by the customer will not be
reopened unless we receive new payment equivalent to one months
service which must then be cancelled by the customer at the
correct time of closure.
7. Adult Website Hosting
7.1 We do not under any circumstances allow adult content.
Violating this will cause procecution in both the US and UK to the full extent that the law will allow.
8. Secure Certs
8.1 Secure certificate fees are non refundable
8.2 We require proof of authority to use the domain name for
which the certificate is applied for, and proof of identity
before we will issue your certificate. Proof must be faxed
to us via the fax numbers on our website.
8.3 For business application we may also require proof of
business trading.
8.4 The certificate is for a 12 month period only. You may
renew your certificate before it expires for continuous service.
8.5 If the renewal payment is not received at the end of the
12 month service period your certificate will be suspended.
9. Dedicated servers
9.1 Our dedicated server packages have a minimum contract
of 3 months after which you may cancel at anytime.
9.2 Set up fees are non refundable
9.3 Software support is not covered by our managed policy
unless the software is DirectAdmin's control panel software.
9.4 You are free to install any legal software on our dedicated
servers, this includes but is not limited to: perl modules,
apache systems, php modules, php / perl based systems.
9.5 You must make any person(s) that may use the dedicated
server aware of our terms and conditions and our privacy policy,
however you do not have to disclose that we are your service
provider.
9.6 If you intend to resell services to other individuals
via your dedicated server then you must comply with our reseller
terms as above.
9.7 Service will not commence until we have received as signed
and dated copy of our dedicated server application form.
9.8 Our management service applies to server uptime, bandwidth
uptime, DirectAdmin software issues, firewall management (if
applicable), reboots, hardware issues, security management
and general support questions. It does not include the installation
of additional systems, including modules, scripts, 3rd party
systems, system recompiles. Dedicated server customers are
free to install these themselves or we can install them as
per our hourly rate as below.
9.9 Work conducted outside of our management service is charged
at $100/£75 per hour. We will require your confirmation
of work to be completed and fee's payable for this before
we will action the request.
10.10 Dedicated customers must also comply with section 1.
Web Site Hosting And Email and section 3.Web Site Hosting
Service Availability, as above.
10. Credit / Debit Card Chargebacks
10.1 If a services have been used and the customer requests
their bank to recall the payments made (sometimes called a
chargeback) then legal action will be taken against the customer
to recover such payments in all circumstances.
10.2 All actions of fraud are automatically reported to the
police and dealt with according to our fraud policy as detailed
on our website without exception.
10.3 Any cases of porn on our servers will automatically be
reported to the police in the UK and the US and we will work with such bodies to
ensure that legal action is taken against you. We will never
tolerate such actions.
11. Law
11.1 This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with US law and you hereby submit to the non-exclusive
jurisdiction of the US courts.
12. Headings
12.1 Headings are included in this Agreement for convenience
only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation
of this Agreement.
13. This Agreement
13.1. By performing any transactions on this web site you
agree to these terms and conditions, our acceptable use policy
(AUP), fraud policy, spam policy and also agree to make any
person(s) who use our services aware of our terms and conditions.
Last modified on 10 Feb 2007
- Minor textual fixes
- Updated jurisdiction with US
- Updated fines to reflect current fines we would have to pay
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