TERMS OF USE
Upon signing up for VerityHost.Net's services, you agree to fully
comply with VerityHost.Net's Terms of Use. This is to ensure quality
service for our customers and helps maintain a friendly and secure
environment for everyone. Failure to comply with these terms may
result in termination of your account with no refund at our sole
discretion.
Refund Policy
Customer has 24 hours to do a "trial version" with our
package. In this period the customer has the right to cancel or
demand a full refund if they are not satisfied with the service.
However, after exceeding this 24 hours the customer will not be
entitled for any refund and they will be billed until a cancellation
is incited.
Illegal Use
VerityHost.Net servers may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission,
storage, or distribution of any information, data, or material in
violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This
includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material; trademarks;
trade secrets or other intellectual property rights used without
proper authorization; material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes
an illegal threat, or violates export control laws. Examples of
unacceptable content or links include: pirated software, hacker
programs or archives, Warez sites, MP3.
Adult Content
Due to the special system and network requirements of adult-oriented
sites, pornography and sex-related merchandising are allowed only
after prior permission from VerityHost.net. This includes sites
that may infer sexual content or provide links to adult content
elsewhere. This is also true for sites that promote any illegal
activity or content that may be damaging to our servers or any other
server on the Internet, or provide links to such sites.
Security
Violations of system or network security are prohibited and may
result in criminal and civil liability. Examples include but are
not limited to the following: unauthorized access, use, probing,
or scanning of systems security or authentication measures, data,
or traffic; interference with service to any user, host, or network
including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate
attempts to overload a system, broadcast attacks; forging of any
TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an
email or a newsgroup posting.
Server Resources
Any web site that uses a high amount of server resources
(such as, but not limited to, CPU time, memory usage, and network
resources) will be given the option to either pay additional fees
(which will depend on the resources required), reduce the resources
used to an acceptable level, or upgrade its service to a Dedicated
Server plan. VerityHost.Net shall be the sole arbiter of what is
considered to be a high server usage level.
Any web hosting account deemed to be adversely affecting server
performance or network integrity will be shut down without prior
notice.
UCE (Unsolicited Commerce Email) - SPAM
Spamming, the sending of unsolicited mass email from or through
a VerityHost.Net server or using an email address that is maintained
on a VerityHost.Net machine is STRICTLY prohibited. VerityHost.Net
will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this
provision. Customers are also in violation of this provision if
they engage in spamming using the service of another ISP or IPP,
but channel activities through a VerityHost.Net server as a mail
drop for responses. Violators will be assessed a minimum fine of
$500 and will face immediate suspension.
Server Abuse
Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a VerityHost.Net server
or customer are strictly prohibited.
Inviting/Spamming on IRC is also not tolerated, if found your account
shall be terminated with no refunds.
Service Availability
Our server will maintain a 99.9% uptime, if this uptime is not met,
VerityHost.Net may allow a service refund at our discretion, and
upon client request. VerityHost.net however cannot be held responsible
for network issues between your location and the server.
We shall have the right to suspend the Services at any time and
for any reason without notice, but if such suspension lasts or is
to last for more than 30 days you will be notified of the reason.
The Services provided to you hereunder and your account with us
cannot be transferred or used by anyone other than you. No more
than one login session under any one account may be used at any
time by you. User programs may be run only during login sessions.
If your account is found to have been transferred to another party,
or shows other activity in breach of this sub clause, we shall have
the right to cancel the account and terminate the Services and/or
this Agreement immediately.
VerityHost.Net reserves the right to change/modify their services
at any time without notice.
Server Backups
Most of our servers are provided with backup equipment and automated
procedures. For liability reasons we cannot guarantee these backups
at any given point in time. Backups are typically made on a secondary
hard drive on the same server, therefore cannot be stored off site.
If restoration of files, or database is required, please submit
a support request. Restore request may take more time than most
other support requests.
We offer up to two free, full, or partial restores per client, per
month. Resellers with many customers may be allotted more at VerityHost.Net's
full discretion.
Sub-Accounts and Reseller Accounts
Multi-Domain and Reseller accounts are for all legal purposes synonymous.
A reseller may create sub-accounts within his/her own domain space,
and sub-lease this space. The reseller account becomes the parent
account to the sub-account.
It is the responsibility of the reseller to supply technical support
to their own clients. VerityHost.net and it's agents, will not supply
technical support to the clients of our resellers without prior
arrangements.
A reseller must take full responsibility for their own payments
to VerityHost.net regardless of their payment arrangements with
their own clients.
All users on VerityHost.net servers are required to follow the rules
in this Terms of Service. A reseller may, impose more restrictive
rules on their own clients, but not less restrictive.
Legal
VerityHost.Net expects that its subscribers who provide Internet
services to others will comply fully with all applicable laws concerning
the privacy of on-line communications. A subscriber's failure to
comply with those laws will violate VerityHost.net policy. Finally,
VerityHost.net wishes to emphasize that in signing the service agreement,
subscribers indemnify VerityHost.net for any violation of the service
agreement, law, or VerityHost.net policy that results in loss to
VerityHost.net or the bringing of any claim against VerityHost.net
by any third-party. This means that if VerityHost.net is sued because
of a subscriber's or customer of a subscriber's activity, the subscriber
will pay any damages awarded against VerityHost.net, plus costs
and reasonable attorneys' fees.
Actions Taken by VerityHost.Net
The failure by a customer to meet or follow any of the above Terms
of Use is grounds for account deactivation. VerityHost.Net will
be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of the Terms
of Use. VerityHost.Net reserves the right to remove any account
without prior notice.
When VerityHost.Net becomes aware of an alleged violation of its
Terms of Use, VerityHost.Net will initiate an investigation. During
the investigation, VerityHost.Net may restrict a customer's access
in order to prevent further potentially unauthorized activity. Depending
on the severity of the violation, VerityHost.Net may, at its sole
discretion, restrict, suspend, or terminate a customer's web hosting
account and/or pursue other civil remedies. If such violation is
a criminal offense, VerityHost.Net will notify the appropriate law
enforcement authorities of such violation.
VerityHost.Net does not issue credits for outages incurred through
service disablement resulting from Terms of Use violations.
Limitation Of Liability
VerityHost.Net customers agree to indemnify and hold harmless VerityHost.Net
from any claims resulting from the use of our services that damages
them or any other party. The VerityHost.Net service is provided
on an as is, as available basis without warranties of any kind,
either express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties
of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement.
VerityHost.Net expressly disclaims any representation or warranty
that the VerityHost.Net service will be error-free, secure or uninterrupted.
No oral advice or written information given by VerityHost.Net, its
employees, licensors or the like, will create a warranty; nor may
you rely on any such information or advice. VerityHost.Net and its
partners and suppliers will not be liable for any cost or damage
arising either directly or indirectly from any transaction or use
of the service.
Modification
VerityHost.Net reserves the right to add, delete, or modify any
provision of its Terms of Use at any time without notice.
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