This Agreement is between
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd and the person/persons who use our services. Please
read carefully to ensure you understand our terms before purchasing any
of our products or services.
1.) SERVICES
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd agrees to provide the
services stated for the price agreed at any given time. We do not
mislead customers with hidden costs unlike many other web hosting
companies.
2.) TERMS
To customers who go over the limit of their
account will be sent an e-mail with the option to either upgrade their
account or reduce store and or storage. If customers continue to go over
we will do everything possible to fix the problem. We do hold to right
to ban accounts for continuous problems.
3.) PAYMENTS
Renewal notices are e-mailed few days before
the actual renew date in your account. If you are using a credit card,
you will not have to worry about manual payments. All accounts are set
up on a pre-pay basis Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd reserves the right to change
prices at any time, unless other terms have been agreed upon. Any
account not brought current within a week (7 days) of e-mail notice, or
exceeding this time frame in any way, is subject to suspension. You are
responsible for all fees owed on the account, from the time it was
established to the time that you notify Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd to request
for termination of services are non-refundable if your account does not
follow our terms of service/acceptable usage policy.
4.) CANCELLATION
Customers must acknowledge that the amount of
the services bought is based on customers agreement to pay the fee for
the initial term or renewal term.
5.) SERVER ABUSE
Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a
server or customer of Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd, is strictly prohibited!
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd will strongly react to any
use or attempted use of an Internet account or computer without the
owner's authorization. Such attempts include:
- Internet scamming (tricking other people
into releasing their passwords)
- Password theft
- Security hole scanning, etc.
Any unauthorized use of accounts or computers
by you, whether or not the attacked account or computer belongs to
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd, will result in action against you. Possible actions
include warnings, account suspension or cancelation, as well as civil or
criminal legal action, depending on the seriousness of the attack.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd has the right to discontinue service, or deny access
to anyone who violates our policies or the terms and conditions shown
below without warning or prior notice. No refunds of fees paid will be
made if account termination is due to violation of the terms outlined
below.
5.1.) You may not run IRC, bots or clients
on shared servers. Unacceptable uses also include, but are not limited
to:
- Bulk e-mailing
- Unsolicited e-mailing
- Newsgroup spamming
- Upload scripts (Rappidleach)
- Pornographic content
- Illegal content
- Copyright infringement
- Video Streaming
- Trademark infringement
- Warez sites (including links to/from)
- Cracks
- Software serial numbers
- Proxy-relaying
- Link farming (the act of or by use of
scripts)
- Link grinding
- Link-only sites
- Spamdexing
- FFA (Free-For-All) and/or anything else
determined by Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd to be unacceptable use of our
services, including abuse of server resources.
5.2.) WEB APPLICATIONS AND WEB ACCESSIBLE
SCRIPTS
All web applications that are out-of-date and
actively being exploited will be shut down immediately without prior
notice. You are responsible for and should evaluate YOUR web-based
applications and scripts on a regular basis to ensure their security and
orderliness.
5.3.) Shared hosting accounts may also be
terminated if it includes the following content or have links to the
following content:
- Providing material that is grossly
offensive to the Web community, including blatant expressions of
bigotry
- Racism
- Hatred or profanity
- Promoting or providing instructional
information about illegal activities
- Promoting physical harm or injury
against any group or individual
- Displaying material containing obscene
nudity or pornographic material (not applicable to managed dedicated
servers)
- Displaying material that exploits
children under 18-years of age
- Acts of copyright infringement,
including offering pirated computer programs or links to such
programs
- Information used to circumvent
manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, including serial or
registration numbers for software programs, or any type of cracker
utilities.
6.) DISK SPACE ABUSE
Disk space of the hosting space is intended
for normal use only, and is limited to web files, e-mail and content of
the hosted web sites, not for storage of media, backup files or other
data nor for the sole purpose of mass e-mail/solicitation. Hosting space
may not be used as off site storage for electronic files or for third
party electronic mail or FTP hosts. You are responsible for removing any
files which do not meet these requirements, and for adhering to any
hosting space (disk usage) limits, allocated to your account(s). Failure
to do so may result in removal and deletion of such materials, and/or in
discontinuation of your services or account. Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd reserves
the rights to remove immediately any abusive content without notice that
disturbes the normal function of our servers. Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd will be
the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.
You are reponsable for monitoring your disk space usage. If you need
extra disk space, contact one of our staff and they will be happy to
help out. You can also upgrade your hosting plan from inside your
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd client account.
7.) BANDWIDTH ABUSE
The intention of Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd is to
provide a unlimited bandwidth to transfer web documents, and not an
offsite storage area for electronic files. If you violate this
condition, you will be notified and given 24 hours to remedy the
problem. Failure to do so will result as removing the abusive content,
or etc.
8.) RESOURCE USAGE
User may not:
- Use 25% or more of system resources for
longer then 2 min. There are numerous activities that could cause
such problems (these include: CGI scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP and etc.)
- Run stand-alone, unattended server-side
processes at any point in time on the server (this includes any and
all daemons, such as IRCD)
- Run any type of web spider or indexer
(including Google Cash / AdSpy) on shared servers.
- Run any software that interfaces with an
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
- Run any bit torrent application,
tracker, or client. You may link to legal torrents off-site, but may
not host or store them on our shared servers.
- Participate in any
file-sharing/peer-to-peer(P2P) activities
- Run any gaming servers such as
counter-strike, half-life, battlefield1942 and etc.
- Run cron entries with intervals of less
than 10 minutes.
- Run any MySQL queries longer than 60
seconds. MySQL tables should be indexed appropriately.
- When using PHP include functions for
including a local file, include the local file rather than the URL.
Instead of include("http://yourdomain.com/include.php") use
include("include.php")
- To help reduce usage, do not force html
to handle server-side code (like php and shtml).
- Only use https protocol when necessary;
encrypting and decrypting communications is noticeably more
CPU-intensive than unencrypt`ed communications.
- Use of any kind of distributed computing
software, including but not limited to SETI@home, Node Zero and
Folding@home.
9.) CUSTOMER INFORMATION
Customer represents and warrants to Hostaxis
Network Pvt Ltd that the information he, she or it has provided and will
provide to Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd for purposes of establishing and
maintaining the service is accurate. If Customer is an individual,
Customer represents and warrants to Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd that he or she is
at least 18 years of age. Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd may rely on the
instructions of the person listed as the Primary Customer Contact on the
Order with regard to Customer's account until Customer has provided a
written notice changing the Primary Customer Contract.
10.) UNSOLICITED
MESSAGING, EMAILING & SPAMMING
Unsolicited commercial advertisements
("SPAM") are not allowed. Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd takes a
zero-tolerance approach to SPAM originating from it's servers or for
spam advertising of domains hosted within our network.Your account will
be suspended until you take actions to remove the
violation(spam). If you don't remove it within 48 hours, your account
will be removed.
10.1.) The following activities are not
allowed:
- SPAM, which includes, but is not limited
to, bulk mailing, messaging of commercial advertising, informational
announcements, charity requests, petitions for signatures, and
political or religious tracts (such messages may only be sent to
those who have explicitly requested it from your domain);
- Forging, altering or removing electronic
mail headers - any domain sending stealth spam will be terminated
without warning and without refund. Sending numerous copies of the
same or substantially similar message with the intent to disrupt a
server or account ("mail bombing")
- Spamming Newsgroups: Commercial
advertisements are unwelcome in most Usenet discussion groups and on
most e-mail mailing lists and messeaging platform. Inappropriate posting may result in
account susupension. See the newsgroup or mailing list's charter for
whether advertising is allowed or not. Sending a message to many
different off-topic newsgroups, is particularly unethical and will
be treated as such
- Mails, messages
may not be used to harass or
intimidate others. Harassment, whether through language, frequency
of messages, or size of messages, is prohibited. Sending a single
unwelcome message may be considered harassment. If a recipient asks
to stop receiving e-mail, you must not send that person any further
messages.
NOTE: If YOU use the
services of another provider to promote a website hosted by or through
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd ("spamvertising"), then the provisions of the above
policy shall apply as if the SPAM were sent through our servers.
11.) You agree to defend, indemnify and
hold harmless Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd against liabilities arising of:
- Any injury to person or property caused
by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd's server
- Any material supplied by the customer,
allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party
- Copyright infringement
- Any defective products sold to customer
from Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd's server
12.) DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd does not warrant or
represent that the services will be uninterrupted, error free, or
completely secure. To the extent permitted by applicable law, Hostaxis
Network Pvt Ltd disclaims any and all warranties including the implied
warranties or merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and
non-infringement. To the extent permitted by applicable law all services
are provided on an "As Is" basis.
13.) LIMITATION OF DAMAGES
Neither party shall be liable to the other
for any lost profits or any indirect, special incidental, consequential
or punitive loss or damage of any kind, or for damages that could have
been avoided by the use of reasonable diligence, arising in connection
with the agreement, even if the party has been advised or should be
aware of the possibility of such damages.
Notwithstanding anything else in the
agreement to the contrary, the maximum aggregate liability of Hostaxis
Network Pvt Ltd and any of its employees, agents or affiliates, under any
theory of the law (including breach of contract, tort, strict liability
and infringement) shall be a payment of money not to exceed the amount
payable by customer for the three months service.
14.) SUSPENSION OF SERVICES/TERMINATION
Customer agrees that Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd may
suspend services to customer without notice and without liability if:
- Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd reasonably believes
that the services are being used in violation of the our Terms
- Customer fails to cooperate with any
reasonable investigation of any suspected violation of the Terms
- Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd reasonably believes
that the suspension of service is necessary to protect it's network
or it's other customers
- As requested by a law enforcement or
regulatory agency, customer shall pay Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd reasonable
reinstatement fee if service is Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd following 4th
suspension in a row for the same violation of service under this
subsection.
15.1.) The agreement may be terminated by
customer prior to the expiration of the initial term or any renewal term
without further notice and without liability if Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd fails
in a material way to provide the service in accordance with the terms of
the agreement and does not cure the failure within ten (10) days of
customer's written notice describing the failure in reasonable detail.
15.2.) If you break our terms of
service/acceptable usage policy we hold the right to cancel any
services. We will never cancel any services without trying our best to
resolve the issue with you. However in extreme cases such as an account
containing child pornography we hold the right to cancel services
without any prior warning. We do not refund any accounts breaking our
terms of service/acceptable usage policy. For example if we cancel your
hosting account during your first month for breaching copyright, we will
not refund you for the first month. This is to prevent people signing up
for our services with the intention of breaching our terms.
16.) REQUEST FOR CUSTOMER INFORMATION
Customer agrees that Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd may,
without notice to customer
- Report to the appropriate authorities
any conduct by customer or any of customer's customers or end users
that Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd believes violates applicable law
- Provide any information that it has
about customer or any of its customers or end users in response to a
formal or informal request from a law enforcement or regulatory
agency or in response to a formal request in a civil action that on
it's face meets the requirements for such a request
17.) BACK UP COPY
Customer agrees to maintain a current copy of
all content hosted by Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd notwithstanding any agreement
by Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd to provide back up services.
18.) REQUEST FOR RESTORE OF HOSTING
PACKAGE
During any service term, customer may request
up to one free restore for any reason of choice.
19.) CHANGES TO Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd's
NETWORK
Upgrades and other changes in Hostaxis
Network Pvt Ltd's network, including, but not limited to changes in its
software, hardware, and service providers, may affect the display or
operation of customer's hosted content and/or applications. Hostaxis
Network Pvt Ltd reserves the right to change it's network in its commercially
reasonable discretion, and Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd shall not be liable for
any resulting harm to Customer.
20.) NOTICES
Notices to Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd under the
agreement shall be given via electronic mail to the e-mail address
posted for customer support. Notices to customer shall be given via
electronic mail to the individual listed as the Primary Customer Contact
on the Order. Notices are deemed received on the day transmitted, or if
that day is not a business day, on the first business day following the
day delivered. Customer may change his, her or it's notice address by a
notice given in accordance with this Section.
21.) FORCE MAJORED
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd shall not be in default of
any obligation under the agreement if the failure to perform the
obligation is due to any event beyond Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd's control,
including, without limitation, significant failure of a portion of the
power grid, significant failure of the Internet, natural disaster, war,
riot, insurrection, epidemic, strikes or other organized labour action,
terrorist activity, or other events of a magnitude or type for which
precautions are not generally taken in the industry.
22.) GOVERNING/LAW DISPUTES
The agreement shall be governed by the laws
of the India, as applicable.
23.) COPYRIGHT FILES
All files stored on Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd's
servers must be legally-owned and be accompanied with a valid license
and/or copyright. This include and is not limiting to MP3, AVI, MID,
MIDI, MPG, MPEG, MOV, EXE, ISO. Should we discover any unlicensed and/or
illegal files within your account, the files will be subjected to
deletion.
24.) CANCELATION OF SERVICE
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd reserves the right to
cancel a service at any time. All fees paid in advance of cancellation
will be pro-rated and paid by Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd if we institutes our
right of cancelation. Any violation of policies which results in extra
costs billed to you.
25.) PROMOTIONAL RATES & SPECIAL OFFERS
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd may offer subsequent
promotional rates or special offers, the terms of which may or may not
be more favorable than the terms and conditions for your services. Any
such promotions or modifications shall not effect yourobligations under
this agreement. Promotional fees may be subject to additional terms and
conditions which, to the extent they conflict with the terms of this
agreement, shall govern. Different promotional fees and special offers
may not be combined together.
26.) NETWORK SECURITY
Customers may not use the Hostaxis Network
Pvt Ltd
network with an attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of
any host, network, or account. This includes, but is not limited to,
accessing data not intended for you, logging into a server or account
you are not expressly authorized to access, password cracking, probing
the security of other networks in search of weakness, or violation of
any other organization's security policy. you may not attempt to
interfere or deny service to any user, host, or network. This includes,
but is not limited to, flooding, mail bombing, or other deliberate
attempts to overload or crash a host or network. Hostaxis Network Pvt
Ltd will
cooperate fully with investigations for violations of systems or network
security at other sites, including cooperating with law enforcement
authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations. Users
who violate system or network security may incur criminal or civil
liability.
27.) STATIC & DYNAMIC CONTENT CACHING
You expressly:
- Grant to Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd a license to
cache the entirety of your website, including content supplied by
third parties, hosted by Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd under this agreement
- Agree that such caching is not an
infringement of any of your intellectual property rights or any
third party's intellectual property rights
28.) IP ADDRESS OWNERSHIP
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd shall maintain and control
ownership of all IP numbers and addresses that may be assigned to you by
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd. Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd reserves, in it's sole
discretion, the right to change or remove any and all such IP numbers
and addresses.
29.) DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION
You agree to pay Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd prior to
the effectiveness of the desired domain name registration, the
then-current amount set forth in the Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd price schedule
for the initial registration of the domain name and, should you choose
to renew the registration, subsequent renewals of the registration. All
fees are non-refundable, in whole or in part, even if your domain name
registration is suspended, canceled or transferred prior to the end of
your then current registration term.You must have valid and current
information on file with your domain name registrar for any domain
hosted on the Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd network.
29.1.) TRANSFER DOMAIN REGISTRAR TO
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd
You agree to pay Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd prior to
the effectiveness of the desired domain name transfer request, the
then-current amount set forth in the Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd price schedule
for the initial transfer request of the domain name. You agree and
acknowledge that the domain name transfer will fail, and all fees are
non-refundable, for the following reasons, but not limited to:
- No response from the Registered Name
Holder or Administrative Contact
- Domain name in Registrar Lock Status
- Domain name registration period time
expires or other constraints, other than during the first 60 days of
initial registration or during the first 60 days after a registrar
transfer
NOTE: Hostaxis
Network Pvt Ltd reserves the right to change fees, surcharges, renewal fees or
to institute new fees at any time, for any reason, at it's sole
discretion. Your requested domain name will not be registered unless and
until we receive actual payment of the registration fee, and have
confirmed your registration in an e-mail from Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd to the
e-mail address indicated in your registration application. In the event
of a chargeback by a credit card company (or similar action by another
payment provider allowed by Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd) in connection with the
payments of the registration fee for your domain name registration, you
agrees and acknowledges that the domain name registration shall be
transferred to Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd as the paying entity for that
registration to the registry and that we reserve all rights regarding
such domain name including, without limitation, the right to make the
domain name available to other parties for purchase. Hostaxis Network
Pvt Ltd
will reinstate your domain name registration solely at Hostaxis Network
Pvt Ltd discretion, and subject to our receipt of the initial
registration or renewal fee and our then-current reinstatement fee.
29.2.) Transfer domain away from Hostaxis
Network Pvt Ltd
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd reserves all rights,
without limitation, to reject the domain name transfer request for the
following reasons, but not limited to:
- No response from the Registered Name
Holder or Administrative Contact
- Domain name in Registrar Lock Status and
there is no request from Registered Name Holder or Administrative
Contact for the status change
- Domain name registration period time
will be expiring in less than 60 days or other constraints, other
than during the first 60 days of initial registration or during the
first 60 days after a registrar transfer
NOTE: You agree and
acknowledge that the failure or success of a domain name transfer will
be his/her sole responsibility, and Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd will not be held
liable for the failure of a domain name transfer for any reason. Domain
registrations are non-refundable. Please do not purchase the domain name
until you are certain that it is exactly what you would like to buy.
30.) LAWFUL PURPOSE
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd reserves the right to
refuse service to anyone. You may only use Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd server for
lawful purposes and our services may not be used for illegal purposes or
in support of illegal activities. We reserve the right to cooperate with
legal authorities and/or injured third parties in the investigation of
any suspected crime or civil wrongdoing. If anything is not legal in
India, it is not permitted to reside on our servers. Transmission,
distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable
law or regulation is prohibited. This includes but not limiting material
protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual
property right used without proper authorization, and material that is
obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export
control laws. Examples of non-acceptable content or links: "Pirated
Warez", OGG, AVI, MPEG, ISO, "Hacker programs or archives", "Copyrighted
Digital Movie Copies (DIVX)" and "Unlicensed MP3". The designation of
any materials as such described above is left entirely to the discretion
of Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd management.
If illegal content or usage is found, the
account will be suspended and/or terminated. You agree that Hostaxis
Network Pvt Ltd may disclose any and all your 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.
31.) PRIVACY STATEMENT
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd follows the strict
guidelines of our customer privacy statement. Please make sure you
understand this statement fully.
32.) What is Appropriate Usage?
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd is designed to serve the
web hosting needs of small, independently owned and operated businesses
in a single country. It is not appropriate to use our services to
support large enterprises or internationally based businesses with a
sustained demand that places undue burden on our systems or negatively
impacts use by small, independently owned and operated businesses.
shared web hosting service, which means that
a number of customer's web sites and other e-mail or storage services
are hosted from the same server. Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd uses abuse controls
to help ensure that use of our services does not adversely affect the
performance of our system or other customer's sites. It is not
appropriate to use an account primarily as an online storage space or
for archiving electronic files.
32.1.) OFFENSIVE CONTENT
You may not publish or transmit via Hostaxis
Network Pvt Ltd's service any content that Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd reasonably
believes:
- Constitutes child pornography
- Constitutes pornography
- Is excessively violent, incites
violence, threatens violence, or contains harassing content or hate
speech
- Is unfair or deceptive under the
consumer protection laws of any jurisdiction, including chain
letters and pyramid schemes
- Is defamatory or violates a person's
privacy
- Creates a risk to a person's safety or
health, creates a risk to public safety or health, compromises
national security, or interferes with a investigation by law
enforcement
- Improperly exposes trade secrets or
other confidential or proprietary information of another person
- Is intended to assist others in
defeating technical copyright protections
- Clearly infringes on another person's
trade or service mark, patent, or other property right
- Promotes illegal drugs, violates export
control laws, relates to illegal gambling, or illegal arms
trafficking
- Is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct
that is illegal under laws applicable to you or to Hostaxis Network
Pvt Ltd
- Is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or
may result in retaliation against Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd by offended
viewers
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd does not accept material
such as:
- Proxy, Warez, Escrow, High Yield
Investment Programs (HYIP), illegal gambling and lottery sites
- Content "published or transmitted" via
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd's service includes web content, e-mail,
bulletin board postings, chat, and any other type of posting or
transmission that relies on any internet service provided by
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd
NOTE: Hostaxis
Network Pvt Ltd can terminate service for any of the above reasons and it's at
Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd's sole discretion to issue a refund
32.2) SECURITY
You must take reasonable security
precautions. You must protect the confidentiality of your password, and
you should change your password periodically. In order to improve your
password security, we recommend your password to apply the following
policy:
- Must be at least 6 characters
- Must contain at least one capital letter
- Must contain at least one special
character (!@#$%^&)
- Must contain at least one digit
32.3.) BULK COMMERICAL E-MAIL
Bulk commercial e-mail, mailing lists and
e-mail reflectors are allowed on Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd's servers, we do
however allow a maximum of 300 e-mails per hour per account. For any
e-mails sent from your Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd account you must adhere to the
following rules:
- Your intended recipients have given
their consent to receive e-mail via some affirmative means, such as
an opt-in procedure
- Your procedures for soliciting consent
include reasonable means to ensure that the person giving consent is
the owner of the e-mail address for which the consent is given
- You may not obscure the source of your
e-mail in any manner
- You otherwise comply with the CAN SPAM
Act and other applicable law
These policies apply to messages sent using
your Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd service, or to messages sent from any network by
you or any person on your behalf that directly or indirectly refer the
recipient to a site hosted via your Hostaxis Network Pvt Ltd service. In
addition, you may not use a third party e-mail service that does not
practice similar procedures for all it's customers