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D3Hosting ("The Company") agrees to furnish
services to the Subscriber, subject to the following TOS (Terms of Service).
Use of D3Hosting Service constitutes acceptance and
agreement to The Company's AUP as well as D3Hosting TOS (Terms of Service).
All provisions of this contract are subject to the TOS
(Terms of Service) of D3Hosting and AUP (Acceptable Use Policy). The AUP may be
changed from time to time at the discretion of the Company. Subscriber understands
that change to the AUP by the Company shall not be grounds for early contract
termination or non-payment.
This Agreement shall be construed in all respects in
accordance with the laws of the United Kingdom and applicable to contracts
enforceable in that country.
1.Disclosure to Law Enforcement: The AUP specifically prohibits the use of our service for illegal
activities. Therefore, Subscriber agrees that the Company may disclose any and
all subscriber information including assigned IP numbers, account history,
account use, etc. to any law enforcement agent who makes a written request
without further consent or notification to the Subscriber. In addition
D3Hosting shall have the right to terminate all service set forth in this
Agreement.
2. Service Rates: Subscriber
acknowledges that the nature of the service furnished and the initial rates and
charges have been communicated to Subscriber. Subscriber is aware that the
Company may prospectively change the specified rates and charges from time to
time. The promotional offer is contingent upon Company achieving and
maintaining its cost of service goals including but not limited to rates
charged to company by its suppliers.
3. Payment: Establishment of
this service is dependent upon receipt by the Company of payment of stated
charges. Subsequent payments are due on the anniversary date of the month for
that month's service. All accounts and services provided by D3Hosting are
subject to the current VAT rate as imposed by the HM Revenue & Customs,
which is currently 15%. The above applies to all accounts and services provided
by D3Hosting.
4. Payments and Fees: Credit
cards that are declined for any reason are subject to a £1.00 declination
fee. Service will be interrupted on accounts that reach 7 days past due.
Service interrupted for nonpayment is subject to a £50 reconnect charge.
Accounts not paid by due date are subject to a £9.95 late fee. Accounts
that are not collectable by D3Hosting may be turned over to an outside
collection agency for collection. If your account is turned over for
collection, you agree to pay the company a "Processing and
Collection" Fee of not less than £50 nor more than £150. If
you desire to cancel your account, please follow the proper procedure to do this
as outlined in this TOS.
5. Refund and Disputes: All
payments to D3Hosting are nonrefundable. This includes the one time setup fee
and subsequent charges regardless of usage. All overcharges or billing disputes
must be reported within 60 days of the time the dispute occurred. If you
dispute a charge to your credit card issuer that, in The Company's sole
discretion is a valid charge under the provisions of the TOS and /or AUP, you
agree to pay D3Hosting an "Administrative Fee" of not less than
£50 and not more than £150.
6. Failure to Pay: The
Company may temporarily deny service or terminate this Agreement upon the
failure of Subscriber to pay charges when due. Such termination or denial will
not relieve Subscriber of responsibility for the payment of all accrued
charges, plus reasonable interest and any collection fees.
7. Account Cancellation:
Requests for canceling accounts may be made in writing with at least 30 days
notice but not more than 60 days prior written notice and sent to:
Ovda Trading Ltd t/a
D3Hosting. Suite 100, 571 Finchley Road, London NW3 7BN
Or you may email admin@d3hosting.com and request that your
account be cancelled. All account information must be included in the
cancellation request.
8. Subscriber acknowledges that the service provided is of
such a nature that service can be interrupted for many reasons other than the
negligence of the company and that damages resulting from any interruption of
service are difficult to ascertain. Therefore, subscriber agrees that the
company shall not be liable for any damages arising from such causes beyond the
direct and exclusive control of the company. Subscriber further acknowledges
that the company's liability for its own negligence may not in any event exceed
an amount equivalent to charges payable by subscriber for services during the
period damages occurred. In no event shall the company be liable for any
special or consequential damages, loss or injury.
9. New Domain Accounts: All
new web hosting accounts involving new domains will be set up and entered into
our DNS servers within 3 to 5 business days. Due to unforeseen complications,
however, this process may sometimes require up to 7 business days. If the new
domain is registered by the account holder, there will be no handling fee. If
the domain is registered by D3Hosting on behalf of the account holder a
handling fee will be incurred.
10. Transfer of Domains: New
web hosting accounts which involve the transfer of a domain from another
provider to D3Hosting will require a minimum of seven (7) days to be set up and
entered into our DNS servers. In some cases, such transfers may take up to
sixty (60) days. Due to the unpredictable nature of the transfer process, no
guarantees are made regarding the amount of time a specific transfer may take.
If the transfer of the domain is done by D3Hosting on behalf of the account
holder a handling fee will be incurred. If the customer cancels service during
the transfer period for any reason, all charges are considered earned.
11. Support Boundaries:
D3Hosting provides 24 x 7 technical support to our subscribers (except for few
holidays when we close our office). We limit our technical support to our area
of expertise. The following is our guidelines when providing support: D3Hosting
provides support related to your web site's physical functioning. D3Hosting
does not offer tech support for application specific issues such as CGI
programming, HTML or any other such issue. If you can email, we encourage you
to email support@D3Hosting.com for
assistance. If you are able to get online and have other questions, the answers
may be on our support pages accessible via our home page - we encourage you to
check there first. Lastly, the Help files in the program you are using may have
the answer to your question so please do investigate these resources.
12. SPAM and Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE): D3Hosting
takes a zero tolerance approach to the sending of Unsolicited Commercial Email
(UCE) or SPAM over our network. Very simply this means that customers of
D3Hosting may not use or permit others to use our network to transact in UCE.
Resellers, webmasters and web site owners of D3Hosting may not host, or permit
hosting of, sites or information that is advertised by UCE from other networks.
Violations of this policy carry severe penalties, including termination of
service.
a. Violation of D3Hosting's SPAM policy will result in
severe penalties. Upon notification of an alleged violation of our SPAM policy,
D3Hosting will initiate an immediate investigation (within 48 hours of
notification). During the investigation, D3Hosting may restrict customer access
to the network to prevent further violations. If a customer is found to be in
violation of our SPAM policy, D3Hosting may, at its sole discretion, restrict,
suspend or terminate customer's account. Further, D3Hosting reserves the right
to pursue civil remedies for any costs associated with the investigation of a
substantiated policy violation. D3Hosting will notify law enforcement officials
if the violation is believed to be a criminal offense.
b. First violations of this policy will result in an
"Administrative Fee" of £250 and your account will be reviewed
for possible immediate termination. A second violation will result in an
"Administrative Fee" of £500 and immediate termination of your
account. Users who violate this policy agree that in addition to these
"Administrative" penalties, they will pay "Research Fees"
not to exceed £175 per hour that D3Hosting personnel must spend to
investigate the matter. PLEASE, DO NOT SPAM from your account.
c. As our Resellers are ultimately responsible for the
actions of their clients D3Hosting servers, it is advisable that Resellers
develop a similar, or stricter, policy for their clients.
IMPORTANT: Anyone hosting
websites or services on their server that support spammers or cause any of our
IP space to be listed in any of the various Spam Databases will have their
website immediately suspended or removed from our servers. The site will not be
reactivated until such time that you agree to remove ANY and ALL traces of the
offending material immediately upon reactivation and agree to allow us access
to the site to confirm that all material has been COMPLETELY removed. Severe
violations may result in immediate and permanent removal of the site from our
servers without notice to the customer. Any site guilty of a second violation
WILL be immediately and permanently removed from our servers without notice.
13. Network
a. Bandwidth and Disk Usage: Customer agrees that
bandwidth and disk usage shall not exceed the number of megabytes per month for
the Services ordered by Customer on the Order Form (the "Agreed
Usage"). D3Hosting will monitor Customer's bandwidth and disk usage.
D3Hosting shall have the right to take corrective action if Customer's
bandwidth or disk usage exceeds the Agreed Usage. Such corrective action may
include the assessment of additional charges, disconnection or discontinuance
of any and all Services, or termination of this Agreement, which actions may be
taken is in The Company's sole and absolute discretion. If D3Hosting takes any
corrective action under this section, Customer shall not be entitled to a
refund of any fees paid in advance prior to such action. In the event that a
customer exceeds the included allocation, D3Hosting may, at its sole
discretion, collect a deposit, in an amount determined by D3Hosting, against
customer's credit card on file with D3Hosting.
b. System and Network Security: Users are prohibited
from violating or attempting to violate the security of the D3Hosting servers.
Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal
liability. D3Hosting will investigate occurrences, which may involve such
violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in
prosecuting Users who are involved in such violations. These violations
include, without limitation:
i. Accessing data not intended for such User or logging
into a server or account, which such User is not authorized to access.
ii. Attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of
a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without
proper authorization.
iii. Attempting to interfere with service to any user, host
or network, including, without limitation, via means of overloading,
"flooding", "mail bombing" or "crashing".
iv. Forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the
header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting. v. Taking any action in
order to obtain services to which such User is not entitled.
14. Notification of Violation:
a. D3Hosting is under no duty to look at each customer's or
user's activities to determine if a violation of the AUP has occurred, nor do
we assume any responsibility through our AUP to monitor or police
Internet-related activities.
b. First violation: Any User, which D3Hosting determines to
have violated any element of this Acceptable Use Policy, shall receive an
email, warning them of the violation. The service may be subject at The
Company's discretion to a temporary suspension pending a User's agreement in
writing, to refrain from any further violations.
c. Second Violation: Users that D3Hosting determines to
have committed a second violation of any element of this Acceptable Use Policy
shall be subject to immediate suspension or termination of service without
further notice.
d. We reserve the right, to drop the web sites or accounts
involved in Spam or Denial-of-Service complaints if it is clear that the
offending activity is causing great harm to parties on the Internet. In certain
rare cases, we may have to do this before attempting to contact you. If we do
this, we will contact you as soon as is feasible.
15. Suspension of Service or Cancellation: D3Hosting reserves the right to suspend network access to any
customer if in the judgment of the D3Hosting network administrators the
customer's web site is the source or target of the violation of any of the
other terms of the AUP or for any other reason which D3Hosting chooses. If
inappropriate activity is detected, all accounts of the Customer in question
will be deactivated until an investigation is complete. Prior notification to
the Customer is not assured. In extreme cases, law enforcement will be
contacted regarding the activity. The customer will not be credited for the
time the customer's machines were suspended.
16. D3Hosting reserves
the right to amend its policies at any time. All resellers and webmasters
of D3Hosting must adhere to the above policies. Failure to follow any term or
condition will be grounds for immediate Cancellation. You will be held
responsible for the actions of your clients in the matter described on these
Terms and conditions. Therefore, it is in your best interest to implement a
similar or stricter Terms and conditions or otherwise called Acceptable Terms
of use policy.
17. Indemnification:
D3Hosting wishes to emphasize that in agreeing to the D3Hosting Acceptable Use
Policy (AUP) and Terms of Service (ToS), customer indemnifies D3Hosting for any
violation of the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and Terms of Service (ToS) that
results in loss to D3Hosting or the bringing of any claim against D3Hosting by
any third-party. This means that if D3Hosting is sued because of a customer's
or a customer of a customer's activity, the customer will pay any damages
awarded against D3Hosting, plus all costs and attorney's fees.
18. Miscellaneous Provisions: You must provide us with, and
keep current, good contact information for you. E-mail, fax, and telephone
contacts are used, in that order of preference.
a. A waiver by the Company of any breach of any provision
of this Agreement by Subscriber shall not operate as or be construed as a
continuing or subsequent waiver thereof or as a waiver of any breach of any
other provision thereof.
b. Subscriber shall not transfer or assign this Agreement
without the prior written consent of the Company. Company may assign Agreement
at anytime without consent from or notice to Subscriber. Company reserves right
to cancel customers rights under this contract at anytime without further
obligation.
c. D3Hosting takes no responsibility for any material input
by others and not posted to the D3Hosting servers by D3Hosting. D3Hosting is
not responsible for the content of any other websites linked to the D3Hosting
servers and websites; links are provided as Internet navigation tools only.
D3Hosting disclaims any responsibility for any such inappropriate use and any
liability to any person or party for any other person or party's violation of
this policy.
d. D3Hosting is not responsible for any damages your
business may suffer. D3Hosting does not make implied or written warranties for
any of our services. D3Hosting denies any warranty or merchantability for a
specific purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from delays,
non-deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service interruptions caused by
D3Hosting.
e. It is absolutely forbidden to host pornographic content
or IRC servers on D3Hosting websites. Accounts found hosting this material will
be subject to immediate cancellation without refund.
19. Responsibility for Content: You, as The Company's customer, are solely responsible for the
content stored on and served by your D3Hosting website.
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