Web Hosting Terms
This Agreement sets forth the Standard Terms and
Conditions that apply to the use of our ISP network
hosting services.
YOUR USE OF THE NETWORK HOSTING SERVICES INDICATES YOUR
AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF SERVICE. THIS
TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY TO ALL NETWORK CLIENTS WHETHER
THE RELEVANT WEBSITE DISPLAYING THIS TERMS AND CONDITIONS
ARE OWNED BY SA INTERNET NEWS GROUP CC OR NOT.
Terms and Conditions
You agree to familiarize yourself with these terms, and
abide by them if you choose to use the services to which
such terms apply.
User Conduct
You agree to abide by all applicable local, state,
national and international laws and regulations regarding
your use of our service.
User Eligibility
You represent and warrant that you, as the person legally
responsible for all use of this account, are at least 18
years of age. If you are under 18 years of age, you must
have parental consent in order to sign up, and the account
must be ordered by a parent or legal guardian, in their
own name. You agree to supply us with a current and
truthful name, postal address and telephone number for our
records, and you have a continued obligation to keep this
information current.
Contents of Messages
You are solely responsible for the contents of your
messages and your website and the consequences thereof,
including, but not limited to, backup, maintenance and
operation. You agree not to do anything which would
restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying
the Internet. You further agree not to use the Network to
send any messages or material that are unlawful,
harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, harmful,
vulgar, obscene or otherwise constitute a criminal
offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise
objectionable material of any kind or nature or that
encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal
offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate
any applicable local, state, national or international law
or regulation. We reserves the right to terminate your
account with or without prior warning if we becomes aware
and determines, in its sole discretion, that you are
violating any of the foregoing guidelines.
Unlawful of Prohibited Use
As a condition of your use of the ISP Network Hosting
Service you warrant that you will not use the Network
Service for any unlawful purpose. Transmission,
distribution, or storage of any information, data or
material in violation of South Africa regulations or law,
or by common law, is prohibited. This includes, but is not
limited to, material protected by copyright, trademark,
trade secret, or any other statute. We reserve the right
to remove such illegal material from the ISP Network
servers immediately.
Terms of Payment
You agree to pay in time the appropriate payment for the
services received from the ISP Hosting Network, in advance
of the time period during which such services are
provided. Payment may be made by Cash Deposit, Bank
Transfer or Credit Card payment. You further agree that
until and unless you notify us via e-mail or in writing
your desire to cancel any or all services received, those
services will be billed on a recurring basis.
If an account is not paid on the due date the account will
be placed in suspension until payment is received. Such
account will incur a R65 (Sixty five rand) late payment
admin fee and we will not unsuspend the account until all
outstanding invoices was paid. If no payment was made
within 21 (twenty one) days we will terminate such account
without further notice and reserve the right to hand the
account over for collection. You agree herewith that you
will be solely responsible for all collection and legal
costs that might be added to the account until the account
is paid in full.
Such terminated account can only be restored from the most
recent backup upon receipt of all outstanding amounts as
well as a hundred and fifty (R150.00) Rand re-activation
fee.
No receipts will be sent by regular mail.
Monies already paid will always first being utilized
against administration fees, services fees, hosting fees
and then domain registration or renewal fees, in that
order.
We also reserve the right to change prices at any time.
Web Site Content
Full back-ups are made weekly, and back-ups of new/changed
data are made nightly. No guarantees are made of any kind,
either expressed or implied, as to the integrity of these
back-ups. Back-ups are made for server restoration
purposes only. You are responsible for keeping a copy of
your most current web site files as backup on a remote
system. We are not responsible for any lost files,
information, or data. However, if any loss of data occurs
due to an error at the ISP Hosting Network, we will use
all reasonable efforts to recover the data at no charge to
you. If data loss occurs due to your negligence in
securing your account or due to an action on your part, we
will use all reasonable efforts to recover the data from
the most recent archive for a hundred and fifty (R150.00)
Rand fee.
User Responsibilities
You may not initiate sites that provide any of the
following of the following content or links on the Domain
host Network servers:
* Pirated Software (Warez) or any software that is
copyrighted and not freely available for distribution
without cost.
* Hacking, phreaking, viruses, anarchy, etc.
* IRC Bots, Spamware.
* Archives (music, video and program archives)
* Sexually explicit, obscene or pornographic content
(whether in text or graphics)
* Speech or images that are offensive, profane, hateful,
threatening, harmful, defamatory, libelous, harassing,
discriminatory (whether based on race, ethnicity, creed,
religion, gender, sexual orientation, physical disability
or otherwise) or that promote any illegal activity.
* Graphic violence.
You agree not to interfere with the operation of the
system. You further agree not to interfere with the proper
operation of other systems reachable through the Internet,
including any attempt at unauthorized access. You agree to
adhere to system policies as published herewith, including
restrictions on services available with each service type,
restrictions on certain features, and all other policies.
You agree to abide by any and all future policy decisions
and we reserve the right to terminate any account that
does not conform to these requirements.
Zero Tolerance Spam Policy
We takes a zero tolerance stance against sending of
unsolicited e-mail, commonly known as spam. Any user who
sends out spam will have their account terminated without
notice, and may be charged a one time administration fine
of one hundred (R100) Rand if we can show proof that the
user sent the e-mail from our servers or network. We
reserves the right to require changes or disable as
necessary any web site, account, database, or other
component that does not comply with this policy, at its
sole discretion. We also reserve the right to make any
such modifications in an emergency at our sole discretion.
Hosting Service Provider's Rights
You agree that we has the right to monitor the service
electronically from time to time and to disclose any
information as necessary to satisfy the law, or to protect
itself or its subscribers. We reserves the right to refuse
to post or to remove any information or materials, in
whole or in part, that, in its sole discretion, are
unacceptable, undesirable, or in violation of this
agreement. We also reserve the right to refuse refunds in
cases where the user is in breach of this agreement.
Uptime Guarantee
We guarantees the service will be available 99% of the
time for a "99% Uptime Guarantee" to any of our
customers in good financial standing. If we fail to meet
the 99% Uptime Guarantee, the following credits will apply
to those who qualify:
* 95% to 99% - We will credit back 25% of the monthly fee.
* 90% to 94% - We will credit back 50% of the monthly fee.
* 89% or below - We will credit back 75% of the monthly
fee.
Customers must request such credit within seven (7) days
after invoice date. We will calculate Network
Unavailability in a calendar month. Credits will not be
provided to customers in the event that the Network
Unavailability was due to
(i) scheduled maintenance as posted from time to time on
our websites,(ii) customer's behavior or the performance
or failure of customer's own website, applications or
script or
(iii) circumstances beyond our reasonable control,
including, without limitation, acts of any governmental
body, war, insurrection, sabotage, embargo, fire, flood,
strike or other labor disturbance, interruption of or
delay in transportation, unavailability or interruption or
delay in telecommunications or third party services
(including DNS propagation), failure of third part
software or hardware or inability to obtain raw materials,
supplies, or power used in or equipment needed for
provision of your web site.
Sharing of Account Space & Resale Restrictions
You represent and warrant that the account you purchase is
purchased either for yourself or on behalf of a client.
You agree that you are the individual solely responsible
for the account whether it's on behalf of a client or not.
Refund Policy
We will refund payments for the service within thirty (30)
days of account activation, with the exception of setup
fees, domain registration fees and additional charges. No
refunds will be issued after thirty (30) days, whether in
full or prorata. All refunds will be made by company check
within thirty (30) days of receipt of cancellation.
Accounts terminated for violation of the Terms of Service
do not qualify for the 30-day money back guarantee.
The refund policy only applies to new clients that tried
our hosting services for one month and are not satisfied
with the results. After one month 30 days notice is
required to terminate an account.
Termination
We may terminate this agreement and your access to any or
all Network related services at any time, with or without
cause, effective immediately, if an user is in breach of
this agreement or if we are forced to do so due to
unforeseen circumstances out of our control. You may
terminate this Agreement at any time by notify us via
e-mail with 30 days notice period. You may not terminate
the account by simply stop paying for your account.
We must receive all termination requests before the end of
the current billing period in order to avoid paying for
the next term's service. Account cancellations for
accounts with a negative balance will be passed on to
collections, and all services rendered to the party with
the negative balance, including domain registrations, will
be terminated with or without any further notice.
Relationship of the Parties
Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed as
creating any agency, legal representative, partnership, or
other form of joint enterprise between the parties.
Neither party shall have authority to contract for or bind
the other in any manner whatsoever.
Disclaimer of Warranties / Limitation of Liability
THE ISP HOSTING NETWORK HOSTING SERVICE PROVIDED 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. WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY REPRESENTATION
OR WARRANTY THAT THE ISP HOSTING NETWORK SERVICE WILL BE
ERROR-FREE, TIMELY, SECURE OR UNINTERRUPTED. NO ORAL
ADVICE OR WRITTEN INFORMATION GIVEN BY OURSELVES, ITS
EMPLOYEES, LICENSORS OR AGENTS WILL CREATE A WARRANTY; NOR
MAY YOU RELY ON ANY SUCH INFORMATION OR ADVICE.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, WILL WE, OR
OUR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT
FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE ISP NETWORK
SERVICE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO RELIANCE ON ANY
INFORMATION OBTAINED ON THE DOMAINHOST NETWORK SERVICE; OR
THAT RESULT FROM MISTAKES, OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS,
DELETION OF FILES OR E-MAIL, LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO DATA,
ERRORS, DEFECTS, VIRUSES, DELAYS IN OPERATION, OR
TRANSMISSION, OR ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, WHETHER OR
NOT LIMITED TO ACTS OF GOD, COMMUNICATION FAILURE, THEFT,
DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO THE NETWORK RECORDS,
PROGRAMS OR SERVICES. YOU HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS
PROVISION WILL APPLY WHETHER OR NOT WE WAS GIVEN NOTICE OF
THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND THAT THIS PROVISION
WILL APPLY TO ALL SERVICES AVAILABLE FROM OUR ISP HOSTING
NETWORK AND ITS AFFILIATES.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT,
SHALL DAMAGES INCLUDE LOSS OF BUSINESS, OR LOSS OF PROFITS
WHETHER BASED ON BREACH OF AGREEMENT, BREACH OF WARRANTY,
TORT, PRODUCT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE.
THE TERMS OF THIS SECTION SHALL SURVIVE THE TERMINATION OF
THIS AGREEMENT FOR WHATEVER REASON.
Copyright and Trademarks
All contents of the website are proprietary to SA Internet
News Group cc and are protected under Copyright. All
rights are reserved. SA Internet News Group cc, its
Network and/or suppliers reserves any rights not expressly
granted herein. Furthermore, SA Internet News Group cc
and/or suppliers retain all rights to the web design
provided to you through the ISP Network Services.
Force Majeure
If by reason of failures of telecommunications or internet
service providers, labor disputes, riots, inability to
obtain labor or materials, earthquake, fire or other
action of the elements, accidents, governmental
restrictions or other causes beyond our control, we are
unable to perform in whole or in part its obligations as
set forth in this Agreement, then we shall be relieved of
those obligations to the extent it is so unable to perform
and such inability to perform shall not make SA Internet
News Group cc liable to the User.
Governing Law
South African law shall govern this Agreement, and any
dispute arising from the relationship between the parties
to this Agreement, excluding any laws that direct the
application of another jurisdiction's laws. In any
litigation, arbitration, or other proceeding by which one
party either seeks to enforce its rights under this
Agreement (whether in contract, tort, or both) or seeks a
declaration of any rights or obligations under this
Agreement, the prevailing party shall be awarded its
reasonable attorney fees, and cost and expenses incurred,
subject to the Limitation of Liabilities clause. The
parties consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of
the courts of the South African Government.
Severability
If any provisions of this Agreement shall be held to be
invalid or unenforceable for any reason, the remaining
provisions shall continue to be valid and enforceable. If
a court finds that any provision of this Agreement is
invalid or unenforceable, but that by limiting such
provision it would become valid or enforceable, then such
provision shall be deemed to be written, construed, and
enforced as so limited.
Survivability
The terms of this Agreement apply to those obligations
that survive any cancellation, termination, or rescission,
namely - warranty, indemnification, liability and limits
thereon, rights and obligations upon and following
termination and assignment.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless SA
Internet News Group cc against any and all claims, losses,
penalties, causes of action, damages, liability, costs,
expenses (including but not limited to reasonable
attorneys' fees) or claims caused by or resulting
indirectly from your use of the ISP Network Service,
without limitation or exception, including your violation
of any third-party's rights, (including, without
limitation, infringement of any copyright trademark,
service mark, trade secrets, right of privacy or publicity
or any other third party right). The terms of this section
shall survive the termination of your relationship with.
Remedy
You agree that your sole and exclusive remedy to any
issues relating to the ISP Network Service is to
discontinue using the Service.
Assignment
In the event of a merger or consolidation, the surviving
or new corporation and any subsidiaries are similarly
subject to the rights and obligations of this Agreement.
Entire Agreement
Unless otherwise specified herein, this Agreement
constitutes the complete and exclusive statement of the
Agreement between the parties regarding the products and
services provided hereunder, and supersedes any prior
Agreements between the parties with respect thereto.
Waiver
The failure to enforce a provision of this Agreement shall
not be construed as a waiver or limitation of our right to
subsequently enforce and compel strict compliance with
every provision of this Agreement.
Modification of Terms
We reserves the right to modify this policy at any time
and without advance notice, effective upon making the
modified provisions available on the Web Site. You are
responsible for regularly reviewing these documents.
Continued use of the ISP Network Services after any such
changes shall constitute your consent to such changes. We
do not and will not assume any obligation to notify you of
any changes to these Terms. |