ADThosting.com agrees to furnish
services to the Subscriber, subject to the following TOS (Terms
of Service).
Use of ADThosting's Service constitutes acceptance and agreement
to ADThosting's AUP as well as ADThosting's TOS
(Terms of Service).
All provisions of this contract are subject to the TOS (Terms
of Service) of ADThosting, 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 state of MS, county of Hancock applicable
to contracts enforceable in that state. Venue will be Hancock,
MS.
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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 ADThosting
shall have the right to terminate all service set forth
in this Agreement.
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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.
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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.
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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 10 days past due. Service interrupted for nonpayment
is subject to a $200 reconnect charge. Accounts not paid
by due date are subject to a $10.95 late fee. Accounts
that are not collectable by ADThosting 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.
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Refund and Disputes: All payments
to ADThosting 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 ADThosting's
sole discretion is a valid charge under the provisions
of the TOS and /or AUP, you agree to pay ADThosting an
"Administrative Fee" of not less than $50 and not more
than $100. Refunds may be granted on a case by case basis
only.
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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.
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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.
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New Domain Accounts: All new webhosting
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 ADThosting,
on behalf of the account holder a handling fee will be
incurred.
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Transfer of Domains: New webhosting
accounts which involve the transfer of a domain from another
provider to ADThosting will require a minimum of three
(3) 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 ADThosting 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.
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Support Boundaries: ADThosting,
provides 24 x 7 technical support to our subscribers (except
for few holidays and short company meetings when we close
our center.) We limit our technical support to our area
of expertise. The following is our guidelines when providing
support: ADThosting provides support related to your server
or virtual site physical functioning. ADThosting does
not offer tech support for application specific issues
such as cgi programming, html or any other such issue.
ADThosting does not provide technical support for YOUR
customers. If you can email, we encourage you to email
support@ADThosting.com
for assistance. If you are able to get online and have
other questions, the answers may be on our home page at
http://www.ADThosting.com
- 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
before calling tech support.
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SPAM and Unsolicited Commercial Email
(UCE), Mass Emails: ADThosting 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 ADThosting may not use or permit others
to use our network to transact in UCE. Customers of ADThosting
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.
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Violation of ADThosting's SPAM policy
will result in severe penalties. Upon notification
of an alleged violation of our SPAM policy, ADThosting
will initiate an immediate investigation (within 48
hours of notification). During the investigation,
ADThosting may restrict customer access to the network
to prevent further violations. If a customer is found
to be in violation of our SPAM policy, ADThosting
may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend or
terminate customer's account. Further, ADThosting
reserves the right to pursue civil remedies for any
costs associated with the investigation of a substantiated
policy violation. ADThosting will notify law enforcement
officials if the violation is believed to be a criminal
offense.
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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 ADThosting
personnel must spend to investigate the matter. PLEASE,
DO NOT SPAM from your account.
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As our Customers are ultimately responsible
for the actions of their clients over the ADThosting
network, it is advisable that Customers develop a
similar, or stricter, policy for their clients.
- ADThosting servers have been configured to NOT allow
very large e-mails to be sent. In fact to send e-mail
you should still use your current e-mail account that
you have with your dialup ISP.
ADThosting does NOT allow mass mailing as this creates
unwanted traffic, unreasonable load on our servers
and is generally frowned upon by the Internet community.
If you receive or are aware of SPAM originating from
any of ADThosting's servers, it would be very much
appreciated if you would forward the email with all
header information to abuse@adthosting.com.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
BEGINNING IMMEDIATELY, 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 server immediately removed from
our network. The server will not be reconnected until such
time that you agree to remove ANY and ALL
traces of the offending material immediately upon reconnection
and agree to allow us access to the server to confirm that
all material has been COMPLETELY removed. Severe
violations may result in immediate and permanent removal
of the server from our network without notice to the customer.
Any server guilty of a second violation WILL be immediately
and permanently removed from our network without notice.
- Network
- IP Address Ownership: If ADThosting assigns
Customer an Internet Protocol address for Customer's
use, the right to use that Internet Protocol address
shall belong only to ADThosting, and Customer shall
have no right to use that Internet Protocol address
except as permitted by ADThosting in its sole discretion
in connection with the Services, during the term of
this Agreement. ADThosting shall maintain and control
ownership of all Internet Protocol numbers and addresses
that may be assigned to Customer by ADThosting, and
ADThosting reserves the right to change or remove any
and all such Internet Protocol numbers and addresses,
in its sole and absolute discretion. Our allocation
of IP addresses is limited by ARIN's new policies. These
new policies state that use of IP addresses for IP based
virtual hosts will not be accepted as justification
for new IP addresses. What this means to you is that
you MUST use name-based hosting where possible.
We will periodically review IP address usage, and if
we find that clients are using IP addresses where name-based
hosting could be used, we will revoke authorization
to use those IP addresses that could be used with name-based
hosting.
- 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"). ADThosting will
monitor Customer's bandwidth and disk usage. ADThosting
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 ADThosting's sole and absolute
discretion. If ADThosting 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,
ADThosting may, at its sole discretion, collect a deposit,
in an amount determined by ADThosting.
- System and Network Security: Users are prohibited
from violating or attempting to violate the security
of the ADThosting Network. Violations of system or network
security may result in civil or criminal liability.
ADThosting 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:
- Accessing data not intended for such User or logging
into a server or account, which such User is not
authorized to access.
- Attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability
of a system or network or to breach security or
authentication measures without proper authorization.
- Attempting to interfere with service to any user,
host or network, including, without limitation,
via means of overloading, "flooding", "mail bombing"
or "crashing".
- Forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of
the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup
posting.
- Taking any action in order to obtain services
to which such User is not entitled.
- Notification of Violation:
- ADThosting 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.
- First violation: Any User, which ADThosting 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 ADThosting's
discretion to a temporary suspension pending a User's
agreement in writing, to refrain from any further violations.
- Second Violation: Users that ADThosting 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.
- We reserve the right, to drop the section of IP space
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 particular, if open
relays are on your network or a customer's network,
or if denial of service attacks are originating from
your network. 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.
- Suspension of Service or Cancellation: ADThosting
reserves the right to suspend network access to any customer
if in the judgment of the ADThosting network administrators
the customer's server is the source or target of the violation
of any of the other terms of the AUP
or for any other reason which ADThosting 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.
- ADThosting reserves the right to amend its policies at
any time. All Sub-Networks, resellers and managed servers
of ADThosting 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.
- Indemnification: ADThosting wishes to emphasize
that in agreeing to the ADThosting Acceptable
Use Policy (AUP) and Terms of Service (ToS), customer
indemnifies ADThosting for any violation of the Acceptable
Use Policy (AUP) and Terms of Service (ToS) that results
in loss to ADThosting or the bringing of any claim against
ADThosting by any third-party. This means that if ADThosting
is sued because of a customer's or a customer of a customer's
activity, the customer will pay any damages awarded against
ADThosting, plus all costs and attorney's fees.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- ADThosting takes no responsibility for any material
input by others and not posted to the ADThosting Network
by ADThosting. ADThosting is not responsible for the
content of any other websites linked to the ADThosting
Network; links are provided as Internet navigation tools
only. ADThosting 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.
- ADThosting is not responsible for any damages your
business may suffer. ADThosting does not make implied
or written warranties for any of our services. ADThosting
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 ADThosting.
- It is absolutely forbidden to host pornographic content
IRC servers or Gaming sites on Virtual Server Accounts.
Virtual Server Accounts found hosting this material
will be subject to immediate cancellation without refund.
- Responsability for Content: You, as ADThosting's
customer, are solely responsible for the content stored
on and served by your ADThosting server.
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