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All customers must abide by the following Terms and Conditions of
service:
WebhostBD WEB HOSTING SERVICE AGREEMENT
This Web Hosting Agreement (this "Agreement") sets forth
the terms and conditions of your use of WebhostBD for web hosting. 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, and is accepted
all users upon account signup. By posting notice 30 day in advance at a
page available on our web site we may modify the terms and conditions of
this Agreement or the prices of its service, as well as discontinue or
change the services offered. During this 30-day period you have the
option to discontinue your account if you do not agree with any new
policies. 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 WebhostBD and used by you, including the provision of web
hosting services on our servers and connectivity to the Internet (the
"Services"). Domain registration agreements are available on
our site. We will provide the Services for the amount of server storage
apace 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 your
payment history, 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 Upload
Materials will 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 message forums, file uploads, etc). Use of our 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 FTP understanding and
capability; CGI-scripts requires knowledge of the UNIX environment, tar
& gunzip commands, Perl, php, CShell script, permissions, etc.; and
mail requires knowledge of use of mail clients to receive and send mail,
setup, etc. You acknowledge that you have the necessary knowledge to
create, modify and maintain your website. While we will make every
attempt to assist you, we assume no responsibility to provide you with
such knowledge.
1.4. We reserve the right to monitor our system electronically and to
access and disclose any information as permitted or require 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
reserve 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.
1.5. 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; Limited 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
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,
non-infringement, 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 on 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 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 use 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, Refund & Upgrade:
3.1. To provide a quality service, we collect the payment from the
customers on a prepaid basis, although for several packages there is the
option to pay with installments in case of cheque payments, services are
provided only after the realization of the cheque. You acknowledge
responsibility for your account until payment in full is made. 3.2.
WebhostBD provides a 10-day unconditional full money back guarantee with
every hosting package. However, if the customer violets the terms of the
services by any mean, WebhostBD reserves the right to suspend the
account and no money-back will be entertained. 3.3. When the hosting
account expires, the customer himself is responsible for the renewal.
WebhostBD will start sending payment reminder from 15 days before the
expiration. And if no renewal payments were made within 3 days of
account expiration, WebhostBD reserves the right to suspend the hosting
account. 3.4. If a customer has more than one account under his name,
WebhostBD reserves the right to suspend all the account due to a
non-payment of one or more accounts till all the payments are cleared.
3.5. In case of any account suspension, there would be a mandatory
reactivation charge of Tk. 1,000/= or 25% of the existing hosting
schemes price whichever is higher. 3.6. WebhostBD reserves the right to
increase the price of the services at any time. In that case we will
publish a notice of fee increases 30 days before such increases take
effect on the web site. 3.7. By default over-usage of your account
resource is on. In case of over usage of space and bandwidth, the client
will be automatically billed for the add-on charge on monthly basis. If
the client doesn't want over-usage, he/she has to notify us before
over-usage occurs.
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 asks 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 materials 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 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 use 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 less 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; spawing 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 attact
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 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 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 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.
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 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 takedown provisions of the DMCA and
to seek injunctive, declaratory, interpleaded or other judicial or
equitable relief (and, pending such action, to suspend all access to
your website) if any third-party claim is 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 its 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 from 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 identify and hold us harmless from any claims
resulting from the use of the service, which damages the subscriber or
any other party.
Pornography Site: 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
arbiters 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 We
will be the sole arbiters as to what constitutes a violation of this
provision.
Download Site: Sites offering download files. (this is site
where 20% or more of their monthly traffic is from file downloads)
System Resource: Sites using more than 20% of system
resources. We will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a
violation of this provision.
Commercial Advertisement-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 arbiters as to what constitutes a violation of this
provision.
Chat Room: 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 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 refund.
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