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Internet Service Agreement
The Short Version:
No
Unsolicited Commercial Bulk Email to promote your site
No
use of autoresponders for other bulk email
promotions
No
use of Formmail.pl whatsoever.
No
illegal activities that violate state or federal
laws
No
game company or Software distibution Sites
No
Chat Sites , IRC service , gameservers
No
Adult video and/or movie files (*.wmv
files)
Now The Long Version & Fine Print:
This Agreement, is made and entered by VirtualHostingServices.Net
("Provider"), and you, ("User").
Intending to be bound in accordance with the terms hereof, the parties
agrees as follows:
Content
All services provided by Provider may be used for lawful purposes
only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or
material in violation of any United States Federal, State or City law is
prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material,
material we judge to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by
trade secrets and other statute.
The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Provider from any
claims resulting from the use of the service which damages the subscriber
or any other party.
Adult Content Sites that contain
LEGAL material are allowed. .It
is your responsibility that the content is kept legal. If someone
complains to us or our upstream provider, your site might be suspended
and/or shutdown depending on the circumstance and how quickly the material
is removed.
Adult Content Sites must use our
Adult Site hosting Plan.
We do not allow Adult (Porn) sites on our regular hosting plans.
Examples of unacceptable content or links:
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Pirated software.
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Hackers programs or archives.
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Warez Sites.
Provider will be the sole arbiter as to what
constitutes a violation of this provision.
Traffic Allowance
As per the Plan that you have signed up for
Provider reserves the
right, to terminate any site moving large amounts
of data without warning! We reserve this right, to protect our
servers resources .. Provider
will immediately suspend
or terminate any
site causing technical problems due to
large volumes of data transfer.
To maintain the integrity of our service, sites
containing any of the following will have their traffic monitored,
and if it is deemed that they are consuming an excessive proportion of
a servers resouces will be taken suspended untill the matter can be resolved..
Shareware, sound, video, image and multimedia Archives* or
galleries.
Mirror sites.
Distribution points.Any site whose primary purpose is file distribution.
Any game company or Software distibution Sites offering demo downloads
Sites with Adult Content
Misuse
of System Resources:
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You are allowed to freely install cgi applications, we reserve the right
to disable any program or script that may effect normal server operations.
Any site that uses large amounts of these resources may be asked to decrease
activity or upgrade to an alternative hosting package.
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WebAdverts banner rotations are banned from the system for numerous problems
caused. Please be sure to select another author.
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CGI Hit Counters are not allowed - All
sites come with Web Site Statistics
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Any cgi scripts that consume large amounts of CPU usage or memory are also
not allowed. The user will be asked to remove any script that abuses
system resources.
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FORMMAIL.PL IS NOT ALLOWED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES
Chat Rooms
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We do not allow clients to install their own chat rooms. These tend to
be large system hogs and we cannot allow it as a account option.
Background Running Programs and Daemons
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We NOT allow programs to run continually in the background.
IRC:
No IRC related software
is permitted on our servers. This includes servers, bots, bouncers, or
any other software that is used for the purpose of creating, maintaining,
or providing access to IRC servers or channels. Accounts that are found
to have such software uploaded to their web space are subject to immediate
suspension and/or termination without notice.
Commercial Advertising - SPAM Email:
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VirtualHostingServices.Net servers
may not be the source, intermediary, or destination address involved in
the transmission of spam, flames, or mail bombs. Your domain may not be
referenced as originator, intermediary, or reply-to address in any of the
above. The use of spam to advertise sites on other servers which in turn
contain links to a domain on our servers is prohibited. We consider spam
any mass unsolicited message in the mediums of Newsgroups and Email. If
you are found to have spammed, then we will immediately, without warning,
disable your domain. We reserve the right to refuse or cancel service to
known spammers. Lastly, we reserve the right to determine what violates
this policy.
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Spamming (the sending of unsolicited email) is STRICTLY
prohibited. None of the following will be tolerated.
You will be fined $200 for each instance of
spam that gets reported to us and your account will be immediately terminated.
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You may not send any unsolicited email mentioning an email address for
any domain hosted by us
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You may not send any unsolicited email mentioning a domain hosted by us
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You may not send any unsolicited email mentioning an IP address hosted
by us
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You may not post a commercial message in a non-commercial newsgroup
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You may not post references to adult sites to non-adult newsgroups
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You may not post advertisements on IRC chat that result in complaints
Provider will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of
this provision.
3. If you install formmail.pl for
the purposes of spamming your account will be instantly terminated. You
will be fined $500 which will be charged to your credit card. We may also
pursue additional legal avenues to obtain larger compensation if warranted.
Sever
Abuses:
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Any attempt to undermine or cause harm
to a server, or customer, of VirtualHostingServices.Net
(Novaproducts - Hawaii)
is strictly prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: using programs
that consume excessive CPU time; allowing the use of mail services, mail
forwarding capabilities, or autoresponders other than for the customer's
own account; resale of disk space without an appropriate reseller agreement;
use of servers for backup of files unrelated to the web site of the account;
or resale or remote access to CGI scripts installed on our servers. No
IRC related software is permitted on our servers. This includes servers,
bots, bouncers, or any other software that is used for the purpose of creating,
maintaining, or providing access to IRC servers or channels. Accounts that
are found to have such software uploaded to their web space are subject
to immediate suspension and/or termination without notice.
Payment for Service
Service provided by VirtualHostingServices.Net
Service will commence once payment has been made and approved by
Credit Card, Check or PayPal.
Service may be canceled at any time with no penalty
within the first 30 days.
The Subscriber understands that services are paid for on a 1, 12 , 24
or 36 months period and are subject to severe penalties for early
cancellation. (see below)
The subscriber must certify that he or she is at least 18 years of age.
Term and Termination
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This agreement shall have an initial terms of 1, 12 , 24 or 36 months from
the date of execution hereof, as specified by the sign up request. The
User can cancel any time during the first 30 days for full refund. Cancellation
after the first 30days of signing up or renewal of service the subscriber
will be refunded their payment less the pro-rata monthy hosting rate fee
for the time of service provided less the cost of domain name registration
(if applicable) less a $25.00 handling fee. For Credit card or PayPal payments
a period of 6 months must elapse from the time of payment untill a domain
name can be released to another Registrar.
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Provider reserves the right to terminate this agreement, and to delete
the website from its hardware, immediately upon the occurrence of any of
the following events:
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Non payment of any charges due from User.
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Breach of any term or condition of this agreement by User.
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Commencement of any lawsuit or proceeding against User arising from or
relating to its use of the website, whether or not such suit names Provider
as a party or seeks and recovery from Provider.
Indemnification of Provider/Relationship of Parties
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User agrees to indemnify and hold Provider harmless from any lawsuit, claim,
charge, or expense, including reasonable attorney fees and costs of defense,
for any matter arising from or relating to User's website provided hereunder.
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Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to create a relationship between
the Provider and User in the nature of a partnership, joint venture, editor/publisher
or otherwise. Both parties acknowledge and agree that Provider has no interaction
with the data or substance of User's website, except as necessary to maintain
the website.
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The Provider will not be responsible for any loss of sales revenue due
to a site being unavailable for any reason.
Backup and Storage policy
VirtualHostingServices.Net
backs up all server configurations on a regular basis, which helps in restoring
the existing configurations in case of hardware failure. It
is not possible to restore individual sites or the data for individuals
. Therefore we encourage our customers to back up their web site contents
on a regular basis. VirtualHostingServices.Net
accepts no responsibility or liability for possible permanent data loss.
To maintain the high performance of the servers we need to clean/delete
the stats log files from time to time. Customers are advised to make copies
of the log files regularly and before deletions, as VirtualHostingServices.Net
does not provide an individual log files recording or storage facility.
VirtualHostingServices.Net accepts
no responsibility or liability for loss of log files after deletion of
log files.
VirtualHostingServices.Net
provides access to a real time graphics stats server for each domain. We
encourage our customers to export all the necessary stats records on regular
basis. Due to the involvement of third party components and the complexity
of links between domains and the stats server, neither VirtualHostingServices.Net
nor any third party hold any responsibility or liability for any stats
data loss or corruption (if occurred).
Further more it is strongly advised that you retain a copy of each and
every file or data-type before uploading it on the VirtualHostingServices.Net
servers, as VirtualHostingServices.Net
does not accept any responsibility or liability for permanent loss of data,
in any form.
Governing Law, Arbitration, and Venue
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This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of Hawaii. Any disputes arising under this agreement
will be resolved by binding arbitration, to take place in Honolulu, Hawaii
These Terms and Conditions supersede all previous representations,
understandings or agreements and shall prevail notwithstanding any variance
with terms and conditions of any order submitted. Use of VirtualHostingServices.Net
Service constitutes acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.
Violation of any terms or conditions are grounds
for immediate account deactivation, with no refunds given.
We reserve the right to refuse or cancel service
at our sole discretion.
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