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Feb 2010 - Version 3.0
Please read the following carefully.
The following is the myhosting® (“We”, “Our”, “myhosting” or “myhosting.com”) Acceptable Use Policy (the “AUP”). The AUP defines the terms and conditions that you (“You”, “Your” or “Customer”) agree to when You register and subscribe for Services with myhosting.com. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using the Services. BY CONTINUING TO USE THE SERVICES, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO BE BOUND BY THE AUP, AND ALL RELATED POLICIES AND GUIDELINES OF MYHOSTING.COM, IF ANY, AS INDICATED IN THIS AUP ARE INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE.
myhosting.com reserves the exclusive right to revise, change or amend any portion of the AUP, or any other policies or guidelines governing the Services, at any time, in its sole discretion and without advance notice to You. You agree to comply with all policies regarding permitted and prohibited uses of the Services that may be posted by myhosting.com on the myhosting.com website (the “Site”). Any changes will be effective upon posting of the revisions on the Site. Your use of the Services will be subject to the most current version of the AUP posted on the Site at the time of such use. You may view the most current version of this policy at (myhosting.com/privacy-policy/aup.aspx). YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE SERVICES FOLLOWING OUR POSTING OF ANY CHANGES WILL CONSTITUTE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF SUCH CHANGES OR MODIFICATIONS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ANY CHANGES TO THE AUP, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY DISCONTINUE USE OF THE SERVICES.
At the sole discretion of myhosting.com, a Customer in violation of the AUP may have the Services cancelled without refund and/or, if appropriate, be subject to a civil action and/or criminal prosecution.
In this AUP, capitalized
terms shall have the meanings set out in this Section 1:
“AUP” means this acceptable use policy and the terms and conditions contained herein in respect of use of the Services, as the same may be amended or replaced from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this AUP;
“Charges” means the relevant and appropriate fees and charges payable by You for using the Services as outlined in the registration process and that appear on the Site at myhosting.com/web-hosting/, as the same may be amended from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this AUP;
“Claims” means any claim, demand, liability, damage, loss, suit, action, or cause of action and all related costs and expenses, including legal fees, if any;
“Content” includes information made available, displayed or transmitted in connection with the Services including but not limited to all trade-marks, domain names, contents of any bulletin boards or chat rooms or forums, information made available by means of an HTML “hyper link”, a third party posting or similar means and all updates, upgrades, modifications and other versions of any of the foregoing;
“Initial Term” means the initial term during which You receive the Services from myhosting.com, as specified in the registration process when You register and subscribe for Services with myhosting.com. The Initial Term shall be no less than one (1) month, but not longer than thirty six (36) months, unless otherwise stated in any fully executed Service Order You have with myhosting;
“Services” means the web hosting, application hosting, server hosting, virtual private server hosting (VS), domain registration, and/or dial-up Internet access services, subject to this AUP, provided to You by myhosting.com;
“Spam” means unsolicited e-mails, including without limitation, commercial advertising and informational announcements;
“Spamming” means sending spam; and
“Term”
means any additional term subsequent to the Initial Term, including any renewal term(s).
2. INTERPRETATION
The provisions contained in this AUP are intended to be guidelines for You as it relates to acceptable behaviour and conduct in connection with Your use of the Services. THESE PROVISIONS ARE NOT MEANT TO BE EXHAUSTIVE. In general, any conduct that violates any laws, regulations, or any of the generally accepted norms of the Internet community, whether or not expressly mentioned in this AUP, is prohibited. myhosting.com reserves the exclusive right, at any and all times, to prohibit any of Your activities, in connection with Your use of the Services, that in any way damage the commercial reputation and goodwill of myhosting.com.
Unless otherwise specified, words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa and words importing gender include all genders.
3. SYSTEM AND NETWORK SECURITY
In connection with Your use of the Services, You are strictly prohibited from engaging in the following activities:
4. E-MAIL
In connection with Your use of the services, You are strictly prohibited from engaging in the following activities:
myhosting.com reserves the sole right to block, without notice to You, any e-mail messages to You that, in myhosting.com’s sole and absolute discretion, are considered Spam.
5. BILLING
In connection with the use of the Services, You agree to the following:
Note: Canadian Customers will be charged GST in respect of these Charges.
You agree to the Charges, as they may be amended from time to time. Notice to You of any such amendments shall be made by myhosting.com updating the Site or sending notification thereof by e-mail or regular mail. By agreeing to this AUP, You authorize myhosting.com to charge any amounts payable by You, in connection with Your use of the Services, automatically to the credit card You provided in the registration process or such credit card number that You provide thereafter, regardless of the status of Your account with myhosting.com and subject only to the terms and conditions of the agreement between You and Your credit card issuer. Your right to use the Services is subject to any limits established by Your credit card issuer.
6. SSL CERTIFICATES
Customers of Our SSL Certificates must abide by these additional terms and conditions:
7. VIRTUAL SERVER
Customers of Our Virtual Server (VS) must abide by these additional terms and conditions:
8. "UNLIMITED" USAGE POLICIES AND DEFINITIONS
Definition of "Unlimited". myhosting.com does not set any limits on the amount of resources a single Subscriber can use. In good faith and subject to these Terms, myhosting.com makes every commercially reasonable effort to provide its Subscribers with all the disk space and file transfer resources necessary to operate their web sites successfully, as long as the Subscriber's use of the hosting service is in accordance with these Terms.
9. DISCLAIMER
10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
11. GENERAL
You agree to abide by the following general provisions:
i. encumber the CPU;
ii. require resource intensive processes, including the usage of resource intensive software applications or server-side scripts;
iii. require significant bandwidth; and/or
iv. require significant disk space.
12. POLICY ENFORCEMENT
myhosting.com does not routinely monitor Your activity for violation of this AUP. However, in Our efforts to promote good citizenship within the Internet community, we will respond appropriately if We become aware of inappropriate use of Our Services. Although myhosting.com has no obligation to monitor the Services and/or the network, myhosting.com, its affiliates, suppliers and agents reserve the right to monitor and investigate usage and content from time to time to operate the Services; to identify violations of this AUP; and/or to protect the network and Our subscribers.
When myhosting.com becomes aware of any alleged violation of this AUP, myhosting.com will immediately initiate an investigation. myhosting.com, may at its own discretion anytime during an investigation, restrict Your access to the Services in order to prevent any further possible unauthorized activity. Depending on the severity of the violation, myhosting.com may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend, or terminate Your account and/or pursue other legal remedies. If such violation is a criminal offense, myhosting.com will promptly notify the appropriate law enforcement officials of such violation. You hereby authorize myhosting.com, its affiliates, suppliers and agents to cooperate with: (i) law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations; and (ii) system administrators at other Internet service providers or other network or computing facilities in order to enforce this AUP. Such cooperation may include myhosting.com providing the username, IP address or other identifying information about a subscriber.
Notwithstanding any of the above, myhosting.com reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to terminate Your access to any Services, at any time. Any fees that have been paid in advance of cancellation will be pro-rated and refunded to You if cancellation is initiated without cause by myhosting.com. If cancellation of Services is a result of a violation of this AUP that causes myhosting.com to incur any additional costs (i.e. network traffic, disk space, licensing charges, etc), You acknowledge Your responsibility to reimburse myhosting.com from fees paid in advance and/or future billing. Upon termination of the Services, myhosting.com is authorized to delete any files, programs and data associated with Your account.
13. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
14. CONTENT
The following are examples of non-acceptable content or links:
myhosting.com will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.
15. REPORTING ABUSE OF THIS POLICY
Any party seeking to report any violations of this policy may send an e-mail to: abuse@myhosting.com
16. APPLICABLE LAW
You agree that all matters relating to the use of the Site, the Services and the Content shall be governed, controlled, interpreted and defined by and under the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws. You also agree that any action at law or in equity arising out of or relating to this AUP or Your use of the Site, the Services or the Content will be filed only in a court located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and You hereby irrevocably and unconditionally consent and submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of any such action.
17. ENTIRE AGREEMENT
This AUP constitutes the entire agreement between You and myhosting.com relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any prior understandings or agreements (whether oral or written), claims, representations, and understandings of the parties regarding such subject matter and this AUP may not be amended or modified except in writing or by making such amendments or modifications available on the Site.
18. NO AGENCY; THIRD-PARTY BENEFICIARY
myhosting.com is not Your agent, fiduciary, trustee, or other representative. Nothing expressed or mentioned in or implied from this AUP is intended or will be construed to give to any person other than the parties hereto any legal or equitable right, remedy, or claim under or in respect to this AUP. This AUP and all of the representations, warranties, covenants, conditions, and provisions hereof are intended to be and are for the sole and exclusive benefit of myhosting.com and You.
19. ASSIGNMENT
You may not assign, convey, subcontract or delegate any of Your rights, duties or obligations hereunder.
20. SEVERABILITY
If any provision of the AUP is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavour to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the AUP remain in full force and effect.
21. LIMITATION
You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any Claim arising out of or related to use of the Services or the AUP must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
22. NO WAIVER
myhosting.com will not be considered to have waived any of its rights or remedies described in this AUP unless the waiver is in writing and signed by myhosting.com. No delay or omission by myhosting.com in exercising its rights or remedies will impair or be construed as a waiver. Any single or partial exercise of a right or remedy will not preclude further exercise of any other right or remedy. myhosting.com's failure to enforce the strict performance of any provision of the terms and conditions herein will not constitute a waiver of myhosting.com's right to subsequently enforce such provision or any other provisions of the AUP.
23. HEADINGS
The headings used in this AUP are included for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.
myhosting® is a registered trademark and brand owned by Softcom Inc.