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DesignHosted
is dedicated to providing an all-round top quality
service. The terms and conditions which follow are
necessary to ensure that we may continue to
provide the best possible service to all of our
customers whilst at the same time satisfying our
legal and ethical responsibilities.
Failure to follow any term or condition will be
grounds for immediate account deactivation without
notice. DesignHosted™ will be the sole arbiter
as to what constitutes a violation of any of these
provisions.
Activity which results in the suspension or
deactivation of an account will result in a
forfeiture of all fees paid. Complaints made
regarding abuses of an account will be
investigated and if found guilty will be grounds
for immediate suspension.
To report suspected abuses or any violations of
these policies, please contact abuse @ Designhosted.com
Illegal Usage
DesignHosted™ 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, 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
software, Hackers programs or archives, Warez
sites, MP3, and IRC bots. The subscriber
to DesignHosted™ service agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless DesignHosted™ from any claims
resulting from the use of the service that damages
the subscriber or any other party.
DesignHosted™ will be the sole arbiter as to
what constitutes a violation of this provision.
Adult Content
Due to special system and network requirements of
adult oriented sites, pornography and sex-related
merchandising are prohibited. This includes sites
that may infer sexual content, or 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. Links to such materials are also
prohibited.
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, probe,
or scan of a 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 and
broadcast attacks. Forging of any TCP-IP packet
header or any part of the header information in an
email or a newsgroup posting.
Server Resource
Any website that uses a high amount of server
resources (such as, but not limited to, CPU time,
memory usage, and network resources) will be given
an option of either paying extra (which depends on
the resource needed) or reducing the resource used
to an acceptable level. DesignHosted™ shall be
the sole arbiter of what is considered to be a
high server usage level.
CGI/PHP/ASP Scripts
Cgi script sharing with domains not hosted by
DesignHosted™.com is not allowed. Any cgi-scripts
deemed to be adversely affecting the server
performance or the network integrity will be shut
down without prior notice. See our Script
usage policy for more details.
Chat Rooms
DesignHosted™ does not allow clients to install
their own chat rooms. Chat rooms tend to be large
system hogs and we cannot permit it as an account
option. DesignHosted™ does provide a choice of
Java chatrooms which should meet most users' needs
and run without hindering the performance of the
machine of our servers.
Background Running Programs and Cron Jobs
DesignHosted™ does not allow background Daemons
such as IRC bots; eggdrop; BitchX; XiRCON; and any
other program that interferes with normal server
operation.
IRC
DesignHosted™ does not allow IRC or IRC bots to
be operated on our servers.
Backups
DesignHosted™ performs daily backups on all
servers to ensure critical files are never lost.
However DesignHosted™ is NOT responsible for
lost data, time, income or any other resource due
to faulty backups or non-existant backups.
Client Responsibility
The client is responsible for all activity
originating from the account unless proven to be a
victim of outside hacking or address forgery. The
client is responsible for securing their
username/password. The client assumes
responsibility for all material on their site that
may be put on by a third party (such as the usage
of Free For All links pages). Use of DesignHosted's
service requires a certain level of knowledge in
the use of Internet languages, protocols, and
software. This level of knowledge varies depending
on the anticipated use and desired content of the
web space by the client. The following examples
are offered: Web Publishing: requires knowledge of
HTML, properly locating and linking documents,
FTPing Web contents, Graphics, text, sound, image
mapping, etc. FrontPage web publishing: knowledge
of the FrontPage tools as well as Telnet and FTP
understanding and capability. CGI-Scripts:
requires a knowledge of the UNIX environment, TAR
& GUNZIP commands, Perl, CShell scripts,
permissions, etc. Mail: a use of mail clients to
receive and send mail, etc. The client agrees that
he or she has the necessary knowledge to create
and maintain their web space. Client agrees that
it is not the responsibility of DesignHosted™ to
provide this knowledge or support outside matter
specific to DesignHosted servers.
UCE (Unsolicited Commerce Email) - SPAM
Spamming, or the sending of mass unsolicited
email, from or through a DesignHosted™ server or
using an email address that is maintained on a
DesignHosted™ machine is STRICTLY prohibited.
DesignHosted™ will be the sole arbiter as to
what constitutes a violation of this provision.
If you engage in any of the foregoing activities
using the service of another ISP or IPP, but
channeling activities through a DesignHosted™
server as a maildrop for responses, you are in
violation. Violators will be assessed a
minimum of $200.00 fine and will face an immediate
suspension. See our NO
SPAM Policy for more details.
Server abuse
Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a
DesignHosted™ server or customer of DesignHosted™
is strictly prohibited.
Any sub-networks of DesignHosted™ and dedicated
servers must adhere to the above policies. The
failure to meet or follow any of the above
guidelines are grounds for account deactivation.
We reserve the right to remove any account without
prior notice.
Software Distribution
DesignHosted.com's shared Web Hosting accounts are
not to be used for the purposes of distributing
software and multimedia products. If you
wish to distribute software and/or multimedia
files, please contact us
for special arrangement.
Multimedia Files
Multimedia files are defined as any graphics,
audio, and video files. Designhosted.com Web
Hosting accounts are not to be used for the
purposes of distributing and storing unusual
amount of multimedia files. Any Web site
whose disk space usage for storing the multimedia
files exceed 70% of its total usage, either in
terms of total size or number of files, will be
deemed to be using unusual amount of multimedia
files.
Domain Names
DesignHosted™ will take necessary steps to
register domain names on behalf of the client when
requested. However, clients are responsible for
renewing their domain names. DesignHosted™ does
not take responsibility for failing to renew
domain names. If your domain name was registered
via our company, you must check and take
appropriate actions to renew a domain that is
about to expire. We do not handle renewals unless
specifically asked for by sending a ticket to our
helpdesk.
Database
Any database stored on Designhosted.com servers
shall be limited in size to 20% of the total disk
space allotted for a particular domain.
Actions Taken by ImHosted™
The failure by a customer to meet or follow any of
the above policies/terms is grounds for account
deactivation. DesignHosted™ will be the sole
arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of the
AUP. DesignHosted™ reserves the right to remove
any account without prior notice.
When DesignHosted™ becomes aware of an alleged
violation of its AUP, DesignHosted™ will
initiate an investigation. During the
investigation, DesignHosted™ may restrict a
customer's access in order to prevent further
potentially unauthorized activity. Depending on
the severity of the violation, DesignHosted™
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, DesignHosted™ will notify
the appropriate law enforcement authorities of
such violation.
DesignHosted™ does not issue credits for outages
incurred through service disablement resulting
from AUP violations.
DesignHosted™ customers agree to indemnify and
hold harmless DesignHosted™ from any claims
resulting from the use of our services that
damages them or any other party. The DesignHosted™
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. DesignHosted™
expressly disclaims any representation or warranty
that the DesignHosted™ service will be
error-free, secure or uninterrupted. No oral
advice or written information given by DesignHosted™,
its employees, licensors or the like, will create
a warranty; nor may you rely on any such
information or advice. DesignHosted™ 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
DesignHosted™ reserves the right to add, delete,
or modify any provision of this Policy at any time
without notice.
Refusal Of Service
We reserve the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend
service at our sole discretion.
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