You indicate acceptance of these terms and
conditions of service by placing an order with Profit Builder Club Hosting.
These terms and conditions will not be varied for individual customers.
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 "Profit Builder Club Hosting" means Profit
Builder Club Hosting 1.1.4 "IP address" stands for internet protocol
address which is the numeric address for the server; 1.1.5 "ISP" stands
for internet service provider; 1.1.6 "server" means the computer server
equipment operated by Heart Internet in connection with the provision
of the Services; 1.1.7 "the Services" means web hosting, domain name
registration, email and any other services or facilities provided by
Profit Builder Club Hosting. 1.1.8 "spam" means sending unsolicited
and/or bulk emails; 1.1.9 "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 user's files or creates a nuisance or annoyance to the
user and includes without limitation computer programs commonly referred
to as "worms" or "trojan horses"; 1.1.10 "visitor" means a third party
who has accessed the Website; 1.2 Product specifications and details
may be found at www.computhings.co.uk. 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 Profit
Builder Club Hosting with data that will be hosted on Profit Builder Club
Hosting's servers and made accessible via the Internet. 2.2 Profit Builder
Club Hosting provides web hosting services and has agreed to host the Customer's
data upon the following terms and conditions.
3 DUTIES 3.1 Profit Builder Club Hosting shall provide
to the Customer the Services specified in their order subject to the
following terms and conditions. 3.2 The Customer shall deliver to Profit
Builder Club Hosting the Website and the software used in the Website
which is owned by the Customer, or licensed to him by a third party or
Profit Builder Club Hosting ("the Customer Software), in a format specified
by Profit Builder Club Hosting.
4 CHARGES ,PAYMENT AND MONEY BACK GUARANTEE 4.1 Payment
methods are via paypal, e-gold or Google check-out only. 4.2 Profit Builder
Club Hosting do not accept cheques, bank transfers, postal orders, cash
or any other form of payment other than those outlined in 4.1 4.3 The
Charges are inclusive of VAT. 4.4 Profit Builder Club Hosting 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 8% per annum
above the base rate of the Bank of England from time to time in force.
4.5 Profit Builder Club Hosting do not provide credit facilities. 4.6
From time to time Profit Builder Club Hosting may make enquiries on the
Customers company, proprietor or directors of the Customers company with
credit reference agencies. These agencies may record that a search has
been made and share this information with other businesses. 4.7 Profit
Builder Club Hosting provide "Money Back Guarantees" on certain products.
Should your product qualify for this guarantee please send an email to
sales@computhings.co.uk within 14 days of placing your order for a full
refund. This guarantee excludes domain names which may not be cancelled
once ordered. 4.8 Pro-rata refunds will not be issued for yearly services
that are cancelled before then end of the year.
5 IP ADDRESSES 5.1 Profit Builder Club Hosting 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 Profit Builder Club
Hosting changes or removes any IP address it shall use its reasonable endeavours
to avoid any disruption to the Customer.
6 SOFTWARE LICENCE AND RIGHTS 6.1 If the Customer requires
use of software owned by or licensed to Profit Builder Club Hosting ("Profit
Builder Club Hosting's software") in order to use the Services, Profit
Builder Club Hosting 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 Profit Builder Club Hosting 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 Profit Builder
Club Hosting Software. 6.2 In relation to Profit Builder Club Hosting's
obligations under this Agreement in connection with the provision of the
Services, the Customer grants to Profit Builder Club Hosting 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 Profit Builder Club
Hosting any right, title, interest or intellectual property rights in
the Customer Software or the Content. 6.3 The Customer undertakes that
he will not himself or through any third party, sell, lease, license
or sublicense Profit Builder Club Hosting Software. 6.4 Profit Builder
Club Hosting 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, Heart
Internet shall destroy all such copies of the Content and other materials
provided by the Customer as and when requested by the Customer.
7 SERVICE LEVELS AND DATA BACKUP 7.1 Profit Builder Club Hosting
shall use its reasonable endeavours to make the server and the Services
available to the Customer 100% of the time but because the Services are
provided by means of computer and telecommunications systems, Profit
Builder Club Hosting makes no warranties or representations that the
Service will be uninterrupted or error-free and Profit Builder Club Hosting
shall not, in any event, be liable for interruptions of Service or downtime
of the server. 7.2 Profit Builder Club Hosting carries out data backups
for use by Profit Builder Club Hosting in the event of systems failure.
Profit Builder Club Hosting do not provide data restoration facilities
for individual customers. Even though every effort is made to ensure
data is backed up correctly Profit Builder Club Hosting accepts no responsibility
for data loss or corruption.
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", 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 (for the avoidance of doubt this includes licensed software
distributed as Warez), 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 Profit Builder Club
Hosting's network or the Services which are identified as restricted
or confidential. This includes leaving your home directory whilst using
SSH access to servers. 8.1.8 operate or attempt to operate IRC bots or
other permanent server processes. 8.2 The Customer has full responsibility
for the content of the Website. For the avoidance of doubt, Profit Builder
Club Hosting 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 Profit Builder Club Hosting shall be entitled to withdraw
the Services and terminate the Customer's account without notice.
9 ALTERATIONS AND UPDATES All alterations and updates
to the Website shall be made by the Customer using the online account management
facility, FTP access or SSH access where available. 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 Profit Builder Club Hosting and the password
will be changed.
10 WARRANTIES 10.1 The Customer warrants and represents
to Profit Builder Club Hosting that Profit Builder Club Hosting's 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 Profit Builder Club Hosting 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, Profit Builder Club Hosting 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
Profit Builder Club Hosting 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 Profit Builder
Club Hosting 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 Profit Builder Club Hosting's liability
for death or personal injury resulting from Profit Builder Club Hosting's
negligence or that of its employees, agents or sub-contractors. 12.2 The
entire liability of Profit Builder Club Hosting 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 Profit Builder Club Hosting 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 Profit Builder Club
Hosting 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 on the date the service is ordered and shall continue until terminated
by either party in writing of its intention to terminate the Agreement.
13.2 Profit Builder Club Hosting 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 30 days 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. 13.5 On termination
all data held in the customers account will be deleted.
14 ASSIGNMENT 14.1 Profit Builder Club Hosting 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
Profit Builder Club Hosting's prior written consent.
15 FORCE MAJEURE Neither 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 AGREEMENT This 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. This Agreement may be updated without notice.
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.
20 DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION 20.1 Domain names are not
deemed to be successfully registered until they appear in the relevant
whois database of the top level domain name registrar. In the event that
a domain name is unavailable when we attempt to register it Profit Builder
Club Hosting will provide a full refund for that domain name. 20.2 Please
return to the main terms and conditions area of this website to view terms
and conditions for individual domain name registrars.
21 SCRIPTING Profit Builder Club Hosting are not responsible
for customer programming issues other than ensuring that programming laungages
such as Perl, PHP and ASP are installed and functioning on the web hosting
system.
22 PRIVACY To protect your privacy we will not distribute
your details to third parties, unless required to do so by law.
23 DATA TRANSFER 23.1 Web hosting accounts include a certain
amount of data transfer, if you exceed this amount in any one month your
account will be deactivated until you have upgraded to an account that
has more data transfer included. 23.2 Web hosting accounts are prohibited
from hosting file distribution websites, adult content orientated websites,
hosting banners, graphics or cgi scripts for other websites, storing pages,
files or data as a repository for other websites, reselling or giving away
web space under a domain, sub domain or directory.
24 SERVER USUAGE Should your account use more than 10%
of the servers processing power and as a result have a detrimental effect
on other customers we will discuss with you alternative solutions for your
hosting requirements. All files stored should relate to the website you
are hosting with us ie. No banner linking sites or data linked for another
website
26 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Profit Builder Club Hosting communicates
with it's customers via email and as such you agree to receive by email
our regular newsletter which contains amongst other things changes to
our terms and conditions, notification of major outages, updates to our
products & features
and special offers.
27 Any clients found to be hosting sites with content
which is against our terms will have their account suspended immediately.
In extreme circumstances we may terminate the account with no refund for
the remaining period.
28 No Adult content will be tolerated on our servers
or streaming of multimedia files, cracked software, or anything considered
to be illegal. Also IRC bots are strictly forbidden. If these type
of files are found on any customer account section 27 will apply