This Terms of Service Agreement
states the terms and conditions governing the use
of the services and materials of Rent Hosting. All prices are
stated in United States Dollars (USD). By submitting the order
form below, or by using Rent Hosting's service, the client
agrees to abide by the
terms and conditions outlined below.
Rent Hosting reserves the right to amend or
change this Terms of Service Agreement at any time with due
notice provided to the client. This document was last updated
on:
July 25, 2007.
This document contains
the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP), Privacy Policy and the Billing
Policy as part of its terms.
1. Money Back Guarantee. Our
clients have a 30 day money back guarantee. If for any reason
the client is unsatisfied with the services of Rent Hosting
with the first 30 days of purchase, the company will
refund the client's money. The amount refunded will be the
dollar amount paid to Rent Hosting, less the bandwidth used
with-in the first 30 days of service. Please refer the refunds and account
cancellations sections for more information.
2. 99.9% Uptime
Service Level Agreement (SLA). Should Rent Hosting
fail to reach a monthly 99.9% uptime, a partial or complete
refund, as determined by the extent of the situation, will
be granted upon receipt of the customer's request. Refunds
are given when a service crucial to the operation of the
website, or a combination of the said services are not
available for 99.9% of the month. Between 99.9 and 99.8 at
least a 30% refund is issued; between 99.8 and 99.7 at least
a 50% refund is issued and a full refund would be provided
for any downtime amount below. The company's monitoring logs
are provided upon request. The above policy does not apply
to scheduled downtime when customers are notified in advance.
3. Refunds. The client may cancel
his/her hosting account at any time. After the first 30 days
of service, refunds will be granted for full unused months.
Domain name, SSL certificate, and ClientExec purchases are
non-refundable; should the client receive a free domain during
a promotion, upon early cancellation, the client will be charged
a $10 fee and must transfer the domain away from Rent Hosting
with-in a period of one month.
If after a month, the client does not transfer the domain name,
Rent Hosting cannot be held liable for the domain.
No refunds will be issued if any part of this agreement is
breached; the company's money back policy is also void in this
instance.
4. Account Information / Verification. To
protect our customers, Rent Hosting will log and verify that
the IP of an account holder matches the country he/she indicates
on the order form. If the company is unable to confirm the
above, Rent Hosting reserves the right to call the account
holder's phone number in order to verify that he/she did indeed
order the services of Rent Hosting, or to take any other action
necessary to verify the validity of the order. Should Rent
Hosting determine that information provided by the customer
during the sign-up process is invalid, the company reserves
the right to terminate or suspend the offending account. The
client is responsible for updating his/her contact information.
5. Account Termination. The
client may cancel his/her hosting account at any time. All
account termination requests must be sent to cancellations@rent-hosting.com.
The content of this email must specify the domain name used
by the client during the ordering process and order number
included in the welcome email. Note that by emailing Rent Hosting
the client is requesting an immediate termination of his/her
account. Should the client have purchased a domain with Rent
Hosting, he/she will need to transfer it away from us with-in
a period of one month. Please allow up to a week for Rent Hosting
to cancel an account after a request has been submitted. Rent
Hosting reserves the right to hold the refund, if any is due,
and account termination until we have verified that the cancellation
is by the real owner of the account. If the client purchases
a ClientExec licence with Rent Hosting, after account cancellation,
he/her will no longer have access to the software. Additionally,
Rent Hosting reserves the right to cancel or deny service to
anyone for any reason, including but not limited to the reasons
below:
a. Unsolicited Bulk Email. Rent
Hosting has ZERO-TOLERANCE for unsolicited email. All accounts
caught spamming will be terminated, without permission
to retrieve a backup of files and/or folders on the account.
Should one of our reseller clients be hosting an account
for a spammer, Rent Hosting reserves the right to terminate
the offending account.
b. Illegal Activity. Websites
making available or otherwise contributing to software piracy,
hacking, spamming, denial of service attacks and/or damage
to our or other networks will be terminated without notice.
Free For All (FFA) link sites and IRC servers, chat applets
excluded, are not allowed on the servers of Rent Hosting.
c. Adult Content. Adult content
is prohibited on the servers of Rent Hosting. If adult content
is found on an account, Rent Hosting will contact the owner
of the account and ask him to remove the offending material.
Should this not be carried out with-in three days, the company
will first suspend and later delete the offending account.
If a client's account contains child pornography,
the offending account will be terminated without permission
to retrieve a backup of files and/or folders on the account.
d.
Non-Payment. If the client agreed to the monthly
contract then a payment must be made every month (month
is defined as the number of days in the calendar), and
the client authorizes the company to charge the
payment method each recurring month until cancelled. If
the client signed up for a yearly account, Rent Hosting
will notify him/her prior to the account expiring. If after
three days the company is unable to contact a client, or
the payment has not been made, the account will be suspended.
A $5 re-activation fee will be charged if this occurs more
than once. If after fifteen days, the client does not contact
Rent Hosting or make a full payment, the company reserves
the right to delete the offending account with all its
information.
e. Abusive Behavior. Abusive
behavior towards any of Rent Hosting staff members in any
manner will not be tolerated and is grounds for
account termination. Websites deemed offensive or racially
inappropriate will be terminated.
f.
Excessive Resource Usage. Websites or
accounts using 25 percent or more of the server resources
for longer than 90 seconds will be
suspended without notice. Rent Hosting will contact the
client thereafter and attempt to resolve the problem. If
necessary, the company will ask the client to make arrangements
for semi-dedicated or private servers with Rent Hosting
or other companies.
6. Reseller Customers - Rent
Hosting has the right to terminate and/or suspend accounts
of the company's reseller clients and their customers without
notice for any reason, provided our customers receive a
reason for the action of Rent Hosting staff. Reseller
clients may not use Rent Hosting to provie a free web hosting
service.
7. Shell / SSH Access -
Shell access for the client is available upon request. Reseller
accounts may not give shell access to their customers. A
copy of the front and back of the client's drivers license
is required.
8. Services and Reliability -
The client is responsible for regularly monitoring and creating
backups of the client’s own files and agrees to use
Rent Hosting ’s
resources and infrastructure at the client’s own risk.
Rent Hosting is not liable
to the client or any third party for any damage, direct or
incidental, that could occur as the client uses Rent Hosting’s
services. Rent Hosting is also
not liable for any damages downtime may bring to the client.
Rent Hosting is not responsible for the delivery or quality
of any goods or services sold or advertised through Rent
Hosting network of web sites, its affiliates or through our
client's sites. Rent Hosting does not guarantee that its
security procedures will prevent the loss of, alteration
of, or improper access to the client’s information.
9. Domain Name Policy - Rent
Hosting will
make every effort to register, transfer and/or renew client’s requested
domain name. This is not a guarantee that the client's requested domain name
is available for registration, transfer and/or renewal. The client’s domain
name may go unregistered, untransferred and/or unrenewed, due to circumstances
beyond our control, such as registry, software and other problems or outages,
and will not be grounds for compensation of financial loss. The client is responsible
for monitoring his/her domain expiration date and making sure to renew the domain
before it expires. Rent Hosting reserves the right to use customer information,
entrusted to us, during domain registration and for whois services.
10. Fees
a. Additional or Added Bandwidth Price:
$1.00/GB
b. Additional or Added Space Price:
$1.50/500 MB
c. Late Payment Fee: $5.00 Reactivation
after first occurrence
11. Privacy Policy - Rent Hosting
is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our customers. Rent
Hosting's sole purpose in collecting personal information is
to identify the client, indicate correct domain information
if applicable, as well as to send recent updates and important
announcements via post and/or email. This data is compiled,
analyzed, and used only by Rent Hosting. The
client's
information is used only to send important updates regarding
our services. No
part of the information, the client has
provided will be sold, disclosed, or made accessible by
third-parties or by the public at any time.
12. Liabilities - The client
is solely responsible for the conduct of the client’s
business and all other matters under the client’s control.
IN NO EVENT SHALL Rent Hosting BE LIABLE TO CUSTOMER OR ANY
OTHER PERSON, FIRM OR ENTITY IN ANY RESPECT, INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, FOR ANY DAMAGES, EITHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL,
SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, ACTUAL, PUNITIVE, OR FOR ANY OTHER DAMAGES,
OR FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OF ANY KIND OR NATURE WHATSOEVER, ARISING
OUT OF MISTAKES, NEGLIGENCE, ACCIDENTS, ERRORS, OMISSIONS,
INTERRUPTIONS OR DEFECT IN TRANSMISSION, OR DELAYS, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THOSE WHICH MAY BE CAUSED BY REGULATORY
OR JUDICIAL AUTHORITIES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS
AGREEMENT OR THE OBLIGATIONS OF Rent Hosting PURSUANT TO THIS
AGREEMENT. Rent Hosting MAKES NO WARRANTY, WHETHER EXPRESS,
IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE DESCRIPTION, QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY,
COMPLETENESS OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE FOR THE SERVICE OR
LOCAL ACCESS, OR AS TO ANY OTHER MATTER, ALL OF WHICH WARRANTIES
BY Rent Hosting ARE HEREBY EXCLUDED AND DISCLAIMED.
In jurisdictions not allowing the limitation
or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages,
Rent Hosting's liability shall be limited to the extent permitted
by law.
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