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Web Hosting Policies and Service Agreement:
All customers must abide by the following Terms and Conditions of
service:
WEB HOSTING SERVICE
AGREEMENT
This Web Hosting Agreement (this "Agreement") sets forth the terms and
conditions of your use of Glennard Pine Services for web hosting
services. You certify that you are at least 18 years of age. To become
our account holder, you must read and agree to be bound by all terms and
conditions of this Agreement, the fee schedules on the Online Order
forms and any policies that are or may be published by us. This
Agreement will become effective when any account order is placed and
accepted. By posting notice 30 days in advance at a web page available
on our web site we may modify the terms and conditions of this Agreement
or the prices of its services, as well as discontinue or change the
services offered. You will be bound by the modified Agreement, prices
and/or policies if you continue to use the services.
1. Scope of Services and Your Obligations
1.1. This Agreement defines the terms and conditions of our services as
offered by Glennard Pine Services and used by you, including the
provision of web hosting services on our servers and connectivity to the
Internet (the "Services"). We will provide the Services for the amount
of server storage space selected in exchange for payment of fees and
full compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. In
performing the Services, we maintain control and ownership of any and
all Internet protocol ("IP") numbers and addresses that may be assigned
to you and reserves the right to change or remove any and all IP numbers
and addresses at its sole discretion.
1.2. As part of the Services, we will also provide your own web-based
control panel (the "Control Panel") containing links to summaries of the
Services you have chosen, newsletters and other current information.
1.3. You are responsible for producing, electronically uploading and
maintaining HTML files, execution scripts, applets and applications (the
"Upload Materials") to your website, and you hereby warrant that all
Upload Materials shall be owned or properly licensed by you and shall
not adversely impact the Services or violate any rights of any third
parties. You are responsible for ensuring that all Upload Materials will
function properly and as intended. You are responsible for all activity
originating from your website, unless proven to be a victim of outside
hacking or address forgery. You assume responsibility for all material
on your website that may be put on by a third party (such as the usage
of Free For All links pages). Use of the Services requires a certain
level of knowledge in the use of Internet languages, protocols, and
software, which can vary depending on your anticipated use and desired
content of your website, and includes, but is not limited to, the
following: web publishing requires knowledge of HTML, properly locating
and linking documents, FTPing web contents, graphics, text, sound, image
mapping, etc.; FrontPage web publishing requires knowledge of the
FrontPage tools as well as Telnet and FTP understanding and capability;
CGI-scripts requires knowledge of the UNIX environment, tar & gunzip
commands, Perl, CShell scripts, permissions, etc.; and mail requires
knowledge of use of mail clients to receive and send mail, etc. You
acknowledge that you have the necessary knowledge to create, modify and
maintain your website. We assume no responsibility to provide you with
such knowledge.
1.4. In connection with the Services, we may provide for your use
certain tools and software, including, but not limited to, certain
specialty scripting software and/or certain programming language
software for designing websites (collectively, the "Tools"). Access to
these Tools may be accessed via your Control Panel. To the extent that
such Tools are provided to you, you are granted a nonexclusive,
nontransferable license to use the Tools in object-code form only for
your internal use, solely in connection with the Services provided under
this Agreement.
1.5. We reserve the right to monitor our systems electronically and to
access and disclose any information as permitted or required by any law,
regulation or other governmental request to operate its systems
properly, to protect itself or its accountholders or for any other
reason it in good faith deems necessary. We will fully cooperate with
law enforcement authorities in investigating suspected lawbreakers and
reserves the right to report to law enforcement any suspected illegal
activity it becomes aware of. It is not our intention that our Services
or facilities be used in contravention of the Communications Decency Act
of 1996 (the "CDA") or any other applicable law.
1.6. You agree to comply with the requirements of the CDA and the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "DMCA") and acknowledge that we
are a "service provider" under the DMCA and are therefore immune from
liability under the DMCA, including 17 U.S.C. § 512. Consistent with the
DMCA, we will accommodate standard technical measures used to identify
and protect copyrighted works, and, as further described herein, we have
a policy of terminating accountholders who are copyright infringers.
1.7. Websites are unmodified forums containing the personal opinions and
other expressions of the persons who post entries on a wide range of
topics. Neither the content of websites located on our servers nor the
links to other websites are screened, approved, reviewed or endorsed..
We are not a publisher of any of the content of websites, or of any
content that may be available through the links to and from them, and is
acting solely as an Internet web-hosting service provider. The text and
other material on such websites are the opinion of the specific author
and are not our statements of advice, opinion or information.
2. Limited Warranty; Limitation of Liability; Indemnification
2.1. Limited Warranty. You acknowledge that the Services are provided
"as is." Neither we, nor any of our employees or agents, warrants that
the Services will be uninterrupted, error free or free from viruses or
other harmful components. We are not responsible for and hereby
disclaims any warranties, either expressed or implied, regarding the
quality, accuracy, or validity of the data and/or completeness,
noninfringement, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose of
information available on its servers or residing on or passing through
its interconnecting networks. Use of information obtained from or
through the Services is at your risk. Under no circumstances will we be
liable to you or any other person for any loss or damage caused by your
reliance on information available on its servers or obtained through the
Services.
2.2. Limitation of Liability. IN NO EVENT SHALL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY
INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
(INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS AND DAMAGES RELATED TO
CORRUPTION OR DELETION OF WEBSITE CONTENTS) ARISING OUT OF OR IN
RELATION TO THIS AGREEMENT OR YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE OUR SERVICES
(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, INOPERABILITY OF OUR SERVERS),
REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING
NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR MAXIMUM LIABILITY
EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO US FOR THE SERVICES DURING THE
PRIOR TWELVE (12) MONTHS. TO THE EXTENT APPLICABLE STATE LAW DOES NOT
ALLOW THE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL
DAMAGES, OUR LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
2.3. Indemnification. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us and our
affiliates, directors, officers, employees and agents harmless from and
against any liabilities, losses, damages or costs, including reasonable
attorneys' fees, resulting from any third-party claim, action, dispute
or demand related to your use of the Services, your violation of any of
the provisions of this Agreement or from your placement or transmission
of any materials or content onto our servers. Such liabilities may
include, but are not limited to, those arising from the following: (a)
with respect to your business, (i) infringement or misappropriation of
any intellectual property rights; (ii) defamation, libel, slander,
obscenity, pornography, or violation of the rights of privacy or
publicity; or (iii) spamming, or any other offensive, harassing or
illegal conduct or violation of the acceptable uses described herein or
anti-spam policy; (b) any damage or destruction to our equipment or to
any other accountholder, which damage is caused by or otherwise results
from acts or omissions by you, your representative(s) or your designees;
(c) any personal injury or property damage arising out of your
activities related to the Services, unless such injury or property
damage is caused solely by our gross negligence or willful misconduct;
and (d) any other damage arising from your equipment or your business.
3. Payment of Fees
3.1. We will publish a notice of fee increases 30 days before such
increases take effect on the web site.
3.2. You agree to provide us with accurate and complete billing
information, including your legal name, address, telephone number,
e-mail address and applicable payment date and to update this
information immediately if any change occurs. Payments must be submitted
in advance of receiving the Services.
3.3. You acknowledge responsibility for your account until payment in
full is made.
4. Acceptable Uses
4.1. Use and Misuse of the Services. All complaints of abuse, violation
and misuse of the Services, whether described in this Section 4 or
otherwise, shall be investigated promptly. If you are not sure if your
actions will be an abuse, violation or misuse, please ask first.
You are responsible for all use of your website, with or without your
knowledge or consent.
You agree to use the Services only for lawful purposes, in compliance
with all applicable laws. Illegality includes, but is not limited to,
drug dealing; attempting without authorization to access a computer
system; pirating (distributing copyrighted material in violation of
copyright law, specifically MP3s, MPEGs, ROMs, and ROM emulators);
gambling; schemes to defraud; trafficking in obscene material; sending a
message or having content that is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or
indecent with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another
person; threatening bodily harm or damage to individuals or groups;
violating U.S. export restrictions; stalking; or violating other state
or federal law, such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or the Economic Espionage Act. Linking to
illegal material is also prohibited.
When we becomes aware of possible violations of this Agreement, we may
initiate an investigation that may include gathering information from
you and the complaining party, if any, and examination of material on
our servers. We in our sole discretion, will determine what action will
be taken in response to a violation on a case-by-case basis. Violations
of this Agreement could subject you to criminal or civil liability.
BY ACCEPTING THIS
AGREEMENT, YOU AGREE TO WAIVE AND HOLD US HARMLESS FROM ANY CLAIMS
RELATING TO ANY ACTION TAKEN BY US AS PART OF ITS INVESTIGATION OF A
SUSPECTED VIOLATION OF THIS AGREEMENT OR AS A RESULT OF ITS CONCLUSION
THAT A VIOLATION OF THIS AGREEMENT HAS OCCURRED. THIS MEANS THAT YOU
CANNOT SUE OR RECOVER ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER FROM US AS A RESULT OF OUR
DECISION TO REMOVE MATERIAL FROM ITS SERVERS, WARN YOU, SUSPEND OR
TERMINATE YOUR ACCOUNT, OR TAKE ANY OTHER ACTION DURING THE
INVESTIGATION OF A SUSPECTED VIOLATION OR AS A RESULT OF OUR CONCLUSION
THAT A VIOLATION HAS OCCURRED. THIS WAIVER APPLIES TO ALL VIOLATIONS
DESCRIBED IN THIS AGREEMENT.
4.2. Use and Misuse of Materials. Materials in the public domain (e.g.,
images, text, and programs) may be downloaded or uploaded using the
Services. You may also re-distribute materials in the public domain. You
assume all risks regarding the determination of whether the material is
in the public domain.
You are prohibited from storing, distributing or transmitting any
unlawful material through the Services. Examples of unlawful material
include, but are not limited to, threats of physical harm, child
pornography, and copyrighted, trademarked and other proprietary material
used without proper authorization. Pornography and sex-related
merchandising, or links to such material, even if legal, are not
acceptable uses of our servers. You may not post, upload or otherwise
distribute copyrighted material on our servers without the consent of
the copyright holder.
Unacceptable uses of website content also include the presence of the
following programs or the activities associated with them, regardless of
whether or not any actual intrusion results in the corruption or loss of
data: server broadcast messages or any message sent on an intrusive
basis to any directly or indirectly attached network; attempts to
circumvent any user authentication or security of host, network, or
account; accessing data not intended for user; probing the security of
any network; spawning dozens of processes; port scans, ping floods,
packet spoofing, and forging router information; denial of service
attacks, sniffers, flooding, spoofing, ping bombing, smurfs, winnuke,
land and teardrop; promulgation of viruses; and IRC bots, such as
eggdrop or BitchX.
We support free speech on the Internet and will not suspend or cancel
your account simply because it disagrees with your views expressed at
your website. However, examples of unacceptable activities include
posting private information about a person without his or her consent,
defaming a person or business, and knowingly making available code that
will have a deleterious effect on third-party computers. Where there are
allegations that your on-line activity has violated the legal rights of
a third party, we will not substitute itself for a court of law in
deciding tort claims raised by the third party.
4.3. Email Use. Unacceptable affronts to netiquette and unacceptable
activities include, but are not limited to, the following: spamming
(sending unsolicited advertising to those with which you have no
existing business relationship and posting off-topic advertising in
newsgroups); spoofing (using a return email address that is not the
valid reply address of the sender or sending an email message that does
not contain enough information to enable the recipient to identify you);
passive spamming (promoting a website hosted by us by spamming from some
other source); trolling (posting controversial messages in newsgroups to
generate responses); mailbombing (inundating a user with email without
any serious intent to correspond or sending large or multiple files to a
user); generating a higher volume of outgoing mail than a normal user
(over 10% of available system resources); propagating chain letters; and
subscribing someone else to an electronic mailing list without that
person's permission. A message is considered unsolicited if it is posted
in violation of a newsgroup charter or sent to a recipient who has not
requested the message. Making an email address available to the public
does not constitute a request to receive messages. Distribution of mass
emailing programs is also prohibited. All recipients on a mailing list
must have personally subscribed. Mailing lists may not be used to
distribute unsolicited email. If you are repeatedly mailbombed or
attract such behavior, the Services will be terminated.
You should not send email to any user who does not wish to receive it,
either here or elsewhere. We recognize that email is an informal medium;
however, you must refrain from sending further email to a user after
receiving a request to stop.
You may not alter the headers of email messages to disguise their
identity or to prevent users from responding to the messages. We may
disclose the usernames of accounts responsible for forged email messages
to system administrators or users requesting the information.
Violations of our policies outlined herein can sometimes result in
massive numbers of email responses. If you receive so much email that
our resources are affected, our staff may shut down your mailbox.
4.4. System Security. You are prohibited from utilizing the Services to
compromise the security of system resources or accounts on our servers
or at any other site. Use or distribution of tools designed for
compromising security or containing viruses or trojans are prohibited.
Examples of these tools include, but are not limited to, password
guessing programs, cracking tools or network probing tools.
If you are involved in violations of system security, we reserve the
right to release all usernames of users involved in such violations to
system administrators at other sites in order to assist them in
resolving security incidents. We will also fully cooperate with law
enforcement authorities in investigating suspected lawbreakers.
4.5. System Resources. System abuse includes any use of our resources
that disrupts the normal use of its servers or services for others.
Examples of system abuse include running excessive numbers of processes
or consuming excessive amounts of CPU time, memory or disk space.
Any usage of 10% or more of our system resources is an undue burden on
our system and is unacceptable. If your usage ever exceeds 10% of system
resources, your account may be terminated immediately and without prior
notice.
Further, running programs in the background on one of our servers
without our prior written authorization, or running chat rooms, Internet
Relay Chat, IRC bots, more then 1,000 emails a day and the like are not
acceptable uses of our servers.
5. Right to Terminate Agreement
(a) We reserve the right to suspend or terminate the Services to you and
remove or prevent access to any material from your website at any time,
without prior notice or liability, for any conduct that we, in our sole
discretion, believes violates this Agreement or is otherwise harmful to
our interests or the interests of other accountholders. (b) We also
reserve the right to comply with the take-down provisions of the DMCA
and to seek injunctive, declaratory, interpleader or other judicial or
equitable relief (and, pending such action, to suspend all access to
your website) if any third-party claim is made that your website content
or use violates any of the acceptable uses or your obligations or
representations described in this Agreement.
6. Miscellaneous
You may not assign your rights and obligations under this Agreement
without the prior written consent from us, which may be withheld at our
discretion. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed as
creating any agency, partnership, or other form of joint enterprise
between the parties. Our failure to require your performance of any
provision hereof shall not affect the right to require such performance
thereafter; nor shall the waiver by us of a breach of any provision
hereof be taken or held to be a waiver of the provision itself. Any
action for any claim arising under, or in connection with, this
Agreement must be commenced by you within one year after the alleged
cause of action has accrued or after the date of termination of this
Agreement, whichever is earlier. In the event that any provision of this
Agreement is deemed unenforceable or invalid, such unenforceability or
invalidity shall not affect the remainder of this Agreement. Such
provision may be amended or replaced with one that is valid and
enforceable and which achieves, to the extent possible, the original
objectives and intent of the parties as reflected in the original
provision. No provision of this Agreement may be amended or modified by
you except by means of a written document signed or expressly assented
to by us. All terms and conditions of this Agreement that should by
their nature survive termination of this Agreement shall so survive.
This Agreement and the order form, together with all amendments or
modifications to any of them, constitute the complete and exclusive
agreement between you and us and supersede and govern all prior
proposals, agreements, or other communications.
We have a responsibility to ensure that each of our clients is provided
with the best services we have available. While we back up files
continuously, we are in no way responsible for the archiving of a site.
It is the sole responsibility of the site creator to copy, back-up or
archive all files that constitute a web site.
The following guidelines also apply:
Content:
All services provided by us 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 secret and other statute. The subscriber agrees to
indemnify and hold us harmless from any claims resulting from the use of
the service, which damages the subscriber or any other party.
Pornography and sex-related merchandising is prohibited on all our
servers. This includes sites that may infer sexual content or links to
adult content elsewhere. We will be the sole arbiter in determining
violations of this provision.
Also prohibited are
sites that promote any illegal activity or present content that may be
damaging to our servers or any other server on the Internet. Links to
such materials are also prohibited.
Examples of unacceptable content or links:
- Pirated software
- Hacker programs or archives
- Warez sites
- Sites offering download files. (This is any site where 20% or
more of their monthly traffic is from file downloads)
- Sites using more than 20% of system resources.
We will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this
provision
Commercial Advertising - Email:
Spamming, or the sending of unsolicited email, from our server or using
an email address or domain that is maintained on our machine as
reference is STRICTLY prohibited. We will be the sole arbiter as to what
constitutes a violation of this provision.
Chat Rooms
We do not allow clients to install their own chat rooms. These tend to
be a large drain on system resources and we cannot allow it as an
account option
Background Running Programs
We may allow programs to run continually in the background. These are
considered on a case-by-case basis and an extra charge will be incurred
based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed.
IRC
We currently do not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers.
Domain Pointing
Domain pointers are to be used for the purpose of having more than one
way to find the same site, not for the purposes of sharing an account
among multiple sites. A domain pointer may not be set up to reference a
subdirectory within an existing Web hosting account served by us or any
other provider.
Server Abuse:
Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server, or customer of ours
is strictly prohibited, and will result in immediate termination or
prosecution. By ordering service from us, you agree to be bound by and
to comply with this Agreement just as if you had signed it - the legal
equivalent of your signature on a written contract.
Refusal of Service:
We reserve the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole
discretion.
All Sub-Networks, distributive hosting sites and dedicated servers we
operate must adhere to the above policies. Failure to follow any term or
condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation without
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