THIS AGREEMENT
is made between Techno-Web Ltd, t/a 4SureHosting, whose registered office is at
21 St. Thomas Street, Bristol, Avon, BS1 6JS, with company registration number
4114416 ("the Supplier") and the individual, company, business and/or
organisation applying for our services ("the Customer") .
1
DEFINITIONS 1.1 In this Agreement the following words and
expressions shall have the following meanings:
1.1.1 "downtime" means
any service interruption in the availability to visitors of the Website;
1.1.2 "intellectual property rights" means patents, trade marks, design
rights, applications for any of the foregoing, copyright, topography rights,
database rights, rights in know-how, trade or business names and other similar
rights or obligations, whether registrable or not in any country;
1.1.3
"IP address" stands for internet protocol address which is the numeric address
for the server or for a website;
1.1.4 "ISP" stands for internet
service provider;
1.1.5 "server" means the computer server equipment
operated by the Supplier in connection with the provision of the Services;
1.1.6 "the Services" means web hosting, email and any other services or
facilities provided by the Supplier as outlined in Schedule 1 and within our
websites to this Agreement;
1.1.7 "spam" means sending unsolicited
and/or bulk emails;
1.1.8 "virus" means a computer programme that copies
itself or is copied to other storage media, including without limitation
magnetic tape cassettes, memory chips, electronic cartridges, optical discs and
magnetic discs, and destroys, alters or corrupts data, causes damage to the
users files or creates a nuisance or annoyance to the user and includes
without limitation computer programs commonly referred to as "worms" or "trojan
horses";
1.1.9 "visitor" means a third party who has accessed the
Website;
1.1.10 "the Website" means the whole content loaded by the
customer into the hosting provision provided by the supplier.
1.2 The
Schedules form part of the operative provisions of this Agreement and
references to this Agreement shall, unless the context otherwise requires,
include references to the Schedules.
1.3 Words denoting the singular
shall include the plural and vice versa and words denoting any gender shall
include all genders.
1.4 The headings of the paragraphs of this
Agreement are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not intended
to be part of or to affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.
2 INTRODUCTION 2.1 The Customer wishes to provide the
Supplier with data that will be hosted on the Suppliers servers and made
accessible via the Internet.
2.2 The Supplier provides web hosting
services and has agreed to host the Customers data upon the following
terms and conditions.
3 DUTIES 3.1 The Supplier shall
provide to the Customer the Services specified in Schedule 1 to this Agreement
subject to the following terms and conditions.
3.2 The Customer shall
deliver to the Supplier the Website and the software used in the Website which
is owned by the Customer, or licensed to him by a third party or the Supplier
("the Customer Software), in a format specified by the Supplier.
4
CHARGES AND PAYMENT4.1 The Customer shall pay the Charges for the
Services in accordance with the Terms of Payment as specified in Schedule 2 and
within our websites to this Agreement.
4.2 The Charges are exclusive of
VAT, which shall be paid by the Customer.
4.3 The Supplier shall be
entitled to charge interest in respect of late payment of any sum due under
this Agreement, which shall accrue from the date when payment becomes due from
day to day until the date of payment at a rate of 2.00% per annum above the
base rate of HSBC from time to time in force.
5 IP ADDRESSES
5.1 The Supplier shall maintain control and ownership of the IP
address that is assigned to the Customer as part of the Services and reserves
the right in its sole discretion to change or remove any and all IP addresses.
5.2 Where the Supplier changes or removes any IP address it shall use
its reasonable endeavours to avoid any disruption to the Customer, but some
disruption is inevitable.
6 SOFTWARE LICENCE AND RIGHTS
6.1 If the Customer requires use of software owned by or licensed
to the Supplier ("the Suppliers software") in order to use the Services,
the Supplier grants to the Customer and its employees, agents and third party
consultants and contractors, a royalty-free, world-wide, non-transferable,
non-exclusive licence to use the Supplier Software in object code form only, in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, this
Agreement does not transfer or grant to the Customer any right, title, interest
or intellectual property rights in the Supplier Software.
6.2 In
relation to the Suppliers obligations under this Agreement in connection
with the provision of the Services, the Customer grants to the Supplier a
royalty-free, world-wide, non-exclusive licence to use the Customer Software
and all text, graphics, logos, photographs, images, moving images, sound,
illustrations and other material and related documentation featured, displayed
or used in or in relation to the Website ("the Content"). For the avoidance of
doubt, this Agreement does not transfer or grant to the Supplier any right,
title, interest or intellectual property rights in the Customer Software or the
Content.
6.3 The Customer undertakes that he/she will not himself or
through any third party, sell, lease, license or sublicense the Supplier
Software. If the Customer is permitted under this Agreement or by law to make
any copies of the Supplier Software, the Customer must reproduce all
proprietary notices of the Supplier, if any, on the copies.
6.4 The
Supplier may make such copies of the Customer Content as may be necessary to
perform its obligations under this Agreement, including back up copies of the
Content. Upon termination or expiration of this Agreement, the Supplier shall
destroy all such copies of the Content and other materials provided by the
Customer as and when termination or expirey is deemed.
7 SERVICE
LEVELS The Supplier shall use its reasonable endeavours to make the
server and the Services available to the Customer 99.00% of the time but
because the Services are provided by means of computer and telecommunications
systems, the Supplier makes no warranties or representations that the Service
will be uninterrupted or error-free and the Supplier shall not, in any event,
be liable for interruptions of Service or downtime of the server.
8
ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY 8.1 The Website and use of the Services may
be used for lawful purposes only and the Customer may not submit, publish or
display any content that breaches any law, statute or regulation. In particular
the Customer agrees not to:
8.1.1 use the Services or the Website in
any way to send unsolicited commercial email or "spam", send emails without
a valid return address, send bulk emails without a valid opt-in
log (opt-out is not acceptable) or any similar abuse of the Services;
8.1.2 send email or any type of electronic message with
the intention or result of affecting the performance of any computer
facilities;
8.1.3 publish, post, distribute or disseminate defamatory,
obscene, indecent or other unlawful material or information, or any material or
information which infringes any intellectual property rights, via the Services
or on the Website;
8.1.4 threaten, abuse, disrupt or otherwise violate
the rights (including rights of privacy and publicity) of others;
8.1.5
engage in illegal or unlawful activities through the Services or via the
Website;
8.1.6 make available or upload files to the Website or to the
Services that the Customer knows contain a virus, worm, trojan or corrupt data;
or
8.1.7 obtain or attempt to obtain access, through whatever means, to
areas of the Suppliers network or the Services which are identified as
restricted or confidential.
8.1.8 shell access is a restricted service and not granted on any
server or service. Customer is not permitted access to shell either directly
or indirectly through the use of any means regardless of motive or need.
8.2 The Customer has full responsibility
for the content of the Website. For the avoidance of doubt, the Supplier is not
obliged to monitor, and will have no liability for, the content of any
communications transmitted by virtue of the Services.
8.1.9 customer is not permitted to operate IRC client or server software, distribution
networks for warez or non licenced data files and programs, operate an FTP distribution server unless (legal FTP) under explicit
acceptance in writing from Techno-Web Ltd.
8.2 The Customer has full responsibility
for the content of the Website. For the avoidance of doubt, the Supplier is not
obliged to monitor, and will have no liability for, the content of any
communications transmitted by virtue of the Services.
8.3 If the
Customer fails to comply with the Acceptable Use Policy outlined in Clause 8.1
the Supplier shall be entitled to withdraw the Services and terminate the
Customers account.
9 ALTERATIONS AND UPDATES All
alterations and updates to the Website shall be made by the Customer using
appropriate self procured software utilities and with the online account
management facility. The Customer will be issued with a user name and password
in order to access the account. The Customer must take all reasonable steps to
maintain the confidentiality of this user name and password. If the Customer
reasonably believes that this information has become known to any unauthorised
person, the Customer agrees to immediately inform the Supplier and either
change the password or request the supplier to change the password.
10 WARRANTIES 10.1 The Customer warrants and represents
to the Supplier that the Suppliers use of the Content or the Customer
Software in accordance with this Agreement will not infringe the intellectual
property rights of any third party and that the Customer has the authority to
license the Content and the Customer Software to the Supplier as set out in
Clause 6.2.
10.2 All conditions, terms, representations and warranties
that are not expressly stated in this Agreement, whether oral or in writing or
whether imposed by statute or operation of law or otherwise, including, without
limitation, the implied warranty of satisfactory quality and fitness for a
particular purpose are hereby excluded. In particular and without prejudice to
that generality, the Supplier shall not be liable to the Customer as a result
of any viruses introduced or passed on to the Customer.
11 INDEMNITY
The Customer agrees to indemnify and hold the Supplier and its
employees and agents harmless from and against all liabilities, legal fees,
damages, losses, costs and other expenses in relation to any claims or actions
brought against the Supplier arising out of any breach by the Customer of the
terms of this Agreement or other liabilities arising out of or relating to the
Website.
12 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY 12.1 Nothing in
these terms and conditions shall exclude or limit the Suppliers liability
for death or personal injury resulting from the Suppliers negligence or
that of its employees, agents or sub-contractors.
12.2 The entire
liability of the Supplier to the Customer in respect of any claim whatsoever or
breach of this Agreement, whether or not arising out of negligence, shall be
limited to the charges paid for the Services under this Agreement in respect of
which the breach has arisen.
12.3 In no event shall the Supplier be
liable to the Customer for any loss of business, loss of opportunity or loss of
profits or for any other indirect or consequential loss or damage whatsoever.
This shall apply even where such a loss was reasonably foreseeable or the
Supplier had been made aware of the possibility of the Customer incurring such
a loss.
13 TERM AND TERMINATION 13.1 This Agreement will
become effective from payment for the service and shall continue for a period
of not less than 1, 3, 6 or 12 months, dependant on payment plan facilities and
thereafter shall continue until terminated by either party by giving at least 1
days notice in writing of its intention to terminate the Agreement, with no
termination earlier than the initial period.
13.2 The Supplier shall
have the right to terminate this Agreement with immediate effect by notice in
writing to the Customer if the Customer fails to make any payment when it
becomes due.
13.3 Either party may terminate this Agreement forthwith
by notice in writing to the other if:
13.3.1 the other party commits a
material breach of this Agreement and, in the case of a breach capable of being
remedied, fails to remedy it within a reasonable time of being given written
notice from the other party to do so; or
13.3.2 the other party commits
a material breach of this Agreement which cannot be remedied under any
circumstances; or
13.3.3 the other party passes a resolution for
winding up (other than for the purpose of solvent amalgamation or
reconstruction), or a court of competent jurisdiction makes an order to that
effect; or
13.3.4 the other party ceases to carry on its business or
substantially the whole of its business; or
13.3.5 the other party is
declared insolvent, or convenes a meeting of or makes or proposes to make any
arrangement or composition with its creditors; or a liquidator, receiver,
administrative receiver, manager, trustee or similar officer is appointed over
any of its assets.
13.4 Any rights to terminate this Agreement shall be
without prejudice to any other accrued rights and liabilities of the parties
arising in any way out of this Agreement as at the date of termination.
14 ASSIGNMENT 14.1 The Supplier may assign or otherwise
transfer this Agreement at any time.
14.2 The Customer may not assign
or otherwise transfer this Agreement or any part of it without the
Suppliers prior written consent.
15 FORCE
MAJEURENeither party shall be liable for any delay or failure to
perform any of its obligations if the delay or failure results from events or
circumstances outside its reasonable control, including but not limited to acts
of God, strikes, lock outs, accidents, war, fire, the act or omission of
government, highway authorities or any telecommunications carrier, operator or
administration or other competent authority, the act or omission of any
Internet Service Provider, or the delay or failure in manufacture, production,
or supply by third parties of equipment or services, and the party shall be
entitled to a reasonable extension of its obligations after notifying the other
party of the nature and extent of such events.
16 SEVERANCE
If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, illegal or
unenforceable for any reason by any Court of competent jurisdiction such
provision shall be severed and the remainder of the provisions hereof shall
continue in full force and effect as if this Agreement had been agreed with the
invalid illegal or unenforceable provision eliminated.
17 NOTICES
Any notice to be given by either party to the other may be sent by
either email, fax or recorded delivery to the address of the other party as
appearing in this Agreement or such other address as such party may from time
to time have communicated to the other in writing, and if sent by email shall
unless the contrary is proved be deemed to be received on the day it was sent
or if sent by fax shall be deemed to be served on receipt of an error free
transmission report, or if sent by recorded delivery shall be deemed to be
served 2 days following the date of posting.
18 ENTIRE
AGREEMENTThis Agreement contains the entire Agreement between the
parties relating to the subject matter and supersedes any previous agreements,
arrangements, undertakings or proposals, oral or written. Unless expressly
provided elsewhere in this Agreement, this Agreement may be varied only by a
document signed by both parties.
19 GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION:
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the
law of England and the parties hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of
the English courts.
SCHEDULE 1
THE SERVICES
The Supplier shall provide the following services and facilities to
the Customer:
Webspace: As provided within the ordered service
plan within our website.
Domain Name Registrations: For domain
name extentions listed as being registered through us within our site. Requests
for registration of a domain name deems acceptance of the
Nominet and/or
INWW
terms & conditions. You accept that once registered a domain name can not
be cancelled and as such is not covered under the distance selling regulations
covering a 7 day cooling off period.
Email facility: As provided
within the ordered service plan within our website.
Security:
Password control to access mail account set up, file management and account
management.
Upload: Upload facilities via File Transfer Protocol
(FTP).
Statistics: Online statistics for monitoring website use,
page tracking, search terms, visitor numbers.
Uptime:
Performance of 99.00% is to be expected by the customer.
Upgrades: Server software to be maintained with upgrades as
appropriate by the supplier.
Bandwidth: As provided within the
ordered service plan within our website.
SCHEDULE 2
CHARGES AND
TERMS OF PAYMENT Monthly Fee: As provided within the ordered
service plan within our website.
Overusage Fees: As provided within the ordered
service plan. Full details of over usage rates and fees can be reviewed
during ordering by clicking upon the 'customize' button. Rates
start from 0.10 per MB of over used data storage and 0.0025 per
MB of over used data transfer. Discounts are applied to prescribed
increases in data storage and data transfer allowances, eg: over
usage of data transfer to a total of 5GB would cost £12.50 + VAT, but on
a prescribed upgrade basis costs £7.20 + VAT for professional and enterprise
level customers.
Terms of payment: As provided
within the ordered service plan within our website or 14 days on
transmission of an electronic renewal invoice.
Reactivation Fees: In the event that an account or service is suspended due to non payment for
services, then a suspension reversal fee of £25 + VAT per service reactivation is required in addition to
any outstanding amounts prior to reactivation.