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Universal Website Services
Terms of Service
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| By submitting the online order form,
or by using Universal Website Services’s service,
Customer hereby agrees to Universal Website Services’s
Terms of Service (TOS), Acceptable Use Policy (AUP),
and the No Spam Policy (NSP).
Unless otherwise specified, in this TOS, the
AUP, and the NSP, the usage of “us”,
“we”, “our”, and “ours”
shall refer to Universal Website Services, and
all its parents, subsidiaries, successors, and
assigns. The usage of “you”, “your”,
“they”, and “them” shall
refer to the Customer of Universal Website Services,
Inc.
Moreover, in this TOS, the AUP, and the NSP,
“Universal Website Services” shall
refer to Universal Website Services, and all its
parents, subsidiaries, successors, and assigns;
unless otherwise specified, “Universal Website
Services” and “Universal Website Services.”
shall have the same meaning and shall be interchangeable.
Customer agrees that it shall comply with this
TOS, Universal Website Services’s Acceptable
Use Policy (AUP), and Universal Website Services’s
No-Spam Policy (NSP). In this document, the word
“Agreement,” with a capital “A,”
refers to the TOS, the AUP, and the NSP, collectively. |
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| 1. General Terms. |
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In consideration of hosting services
to be delivered, Customer agrees to be bound by the following
terms and conditions: |
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Customer agrees to pay, in advance of each monthly
service term, for hosting services to be rendered. |
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Customer agrees to be bound by the service term
selected on the online order form or via applicable promotional
codes that may require Customer to order Universal Website Services’s
service for a certain minimum period of time. |
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Customer agrees to a no-refund policy in advance.
Setup fees and monthly web hosting service fees are non-refundable. |
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Non-Payment of services shall result in a 14-day
notice of disconnection. All payment failures must be cured
within 14 days of notice. |
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1.5. |
Universal Website Services is not and shall not responsible
for data integrity for any accounts that are terminated, disconnected,
or interrupted because of Customer’s failure to pay for
Universal Website Services’s services. |
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Customers agree to pay all taxes applicable to
your account. |
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| 2. Agreement for Services. |
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2.1. |
Universal Website Services will provide, and Customer will purchase
and pay for, the Web hosting services (the “Services”),
according to the service fees specified in the Order for the
applicable Service Description. Customer acknowledges that the
service, and service fees have been communicated to the Customer,
and that Customer is aware of all applicable charges as per
the Agreement. Customer also understands that no promotional
offers will apply to their individual service unless said promotional
offers are specified in this Agreement. |
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In connection with any Hosting Services, if Customer’s
actual bandwidth usage in any month exceeds the allotted amount
specified in Customer’s contract, Customer will pay Universal Website Services any additional fees as specified in the Service Description,
subject to Universal Website Services’s “rollover bandwidth”
policy as stated above in section 2.2 of this TOS document. |
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| 3. Payment. |
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3.1. |
Establishment and provision of service is contingent
upon receipt of payment from Customer to Universal Website Services. |
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Customer must pay in full for the Services before Universal Website Services begins to provide the Services to Customer. |
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Setup fees will be charged and are due at the
time of the Customer’s initial request of the Services
requiring setup. |
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Payment is due on the defined monthly recurring
billing date of each month. All returned checks will be charged
a $20.00 service fee. Service will be interrupted on accounts
that reach 14 days past due. Accounts that are not collectable
by Universal Website Services will be turned over to an outside agency for
collection. If your account is turned over for collection, you
agree to pay to Universal Website Services a “Processing and Collection”
Fee of not less than Fifty ($50.00) Dollars nor more than One
Hundred Fifty ($150.00) Dollars. |
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| 4. Delinquent Accounts. |
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Universal Website Services may temporarily deny
service or terminate this Agreement upon failure of Customer
to pay charges when due. Such termination or denial will not
relieve Customer of responsibility for the payment of all accrued
service fees, and any collection fees to which Universal Website Services
may be entitled under this Agreement or under applicable law.
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| 5. Account Cancellation. |
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Customers may voluntarily cancel
their account at any time, for any reason or for no reason,
by filling out the “Cancellation Request Form”
which is provided on the Universal Website Services Web site. You can find
the “Cancellation Request Form” at the following
Web page:
http://www.universalwebsiteservices.com/cancel.html
Once a Customer has cancelled their account, no more charges
will be billed to the account.
Customer can terminate their account for any reason or for
no reason. However, Customer understands and agrees that Universal Website Services does not provide pro-rated or any other kinds of refunds
on cancellations. All fees Customer has paid shall be nonrefundable. |
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| 6. Refunds and Disputes. |
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: EXCEPT
AS EXPLICITLY PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION 6, ALL PAYMENTS TO
UNIVERSAL WEBSITE SERVICES ARE NONREFUNDABLE.
All payments to Universal Website Services are nonrefundable. This includes
any setup fees and monthly fees regardless of usage. All billing
disputes must be reported within thirty (30) days of the time
the dispute occurred. Disputed charges to your credit card
issuer, also known as chargebacks, which, in Universal Website Services’s
sole discretion, are invalid under the terms and conditions
of this Agreement, will result in service interruption, and
reconnection fees to restore the desired service.
Without waiving any of its other rights under
this Agreement, Universal Website Services offers
to its Customers a 30-day money-back guarantee
on fees for hosting services only
(the "30-Day Guarantee"). If for any
reason you cancel your account by filling in the
account cancellation form and submitting it to
Universal Website Services, within thirty (30)
days of the beginning of your service, Universal
Website Services will refund your money with no
questions asked; provided, however, that you have
never previously obtained a refund under the 30-Day
Guarantee. If you have ever previously obtained
a refund under the 30-Day Guarantee, your account
will be canceled, but no money will be refunded
to you.
Please note that the amount refunded to you will be the amount
you paid for hosting services only, and will not include any
of the following fees:
- Setup fees,
- Fees for domain name registrations,
- Fees charged for exceeding your allotted disk storage
space or bandwidth,
- SSL certificate fees,
- Web design fees,
- Web site marketing fees, and
- Any other fees for services involving a third party.
The 30-Day Guarantee
is subject to all of the following limitations:
- You are entitled to a maximum of one (1) 30-Day Guarantee.
- If you do not cancel your account within thirty (30)
days of the beginning of your service, your right to the
30-Day Guarantee shall expire forever and may not be revived
under any circumstances, without the prior express written
approval of Universal Website Services.
- You may not transfer or assign the 30-Day Guarantee
to any third party.
- You agree that you will not circumvent the restrictions
on the 30-Day Guarantee described in this document, or
attempt to circumvent those restrictions by any means,
including, but not limited to, the following actions:
- Creating multiple accounts, using the same customer
name or different customer names;
- Canceling your account for the sole purpose of obtaining
a refund and then registering for a new account;
- Organizing multiple business entities or using assumed
business names for the purpose of circumventing these
restrictions;
- Knowingly providing false or misleading information
when you register for your account; or
- Requesting a refund under the 30-Day Guarantee at
any time after you have already received a refund under
that guarantee.
- If you violate any provision of any of the following
policies of Universal Website Services, you will not be eligible for
the 30-Day Guarantee:
- Terms of Service (TOS);
- Acceptable Use Policy (AUP); or
- No-Spam Policy (NSP).
Changes to your service, including, but not limited to, adding
new services, removing services, or changing the type of hosting
plan you have do NOT make you eligible for an additional 30-Day
Guarantee. The 30-Day Guarantee applies to your first order
of Web hosting services from Universal Website Services and does not apply
to any changes to your service at any time. |
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Customer agrees not to engage in
any activity that violates any international, foreign, federal,
state, or local laws applicable to the service terms described
in this Agreement. |
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Universal Website Services reserves the right
to discontinue service to any Customer it deems, in its sole
discretion, violates any condition of service including, but
not limited to, the following: |
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8.1. |
the Acceptable
Use Policy, or |
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the No-Spam
Policy. |
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Customer agrees to defend, indemnify,
and hold harmless Universal Website Services, and the parents, subsidiaries,
successors, assigns, employees and agents of Universal Website Services against
any losses, claims, damages, liabilities, penalties, actions,
proceedings or judgments (collectively, “Losses”)
to which an indemnified party may become subject and which Losses
arise out of, or relate to this Agreement or Customer’s
use of the Services, and to reimburse an indemnified party for
all legal and other expenses, including reasonable attorneys’
fees incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating,
defending, or settling any Loss whether or not in connection
with pending or threatened litigation in which such indemnified
party is a party. |
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| 10. UNIVERSAL WEBSITE SERVICES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE UNDER ANY
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10.1. |
ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS,
LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF USE, OR LOSS OF DATA RESULTING FROM
THE USE OF UNIVERSAL WEBSITE SERVICES’S SERVICES BY CUSTOMER OR ANY
THIRD PARTIES, REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION OR THEORY OF
LIABILITY, OR |
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10.2. |
ANY LOSS OF DATA RESULTING FROM DELAYS, NONDELIVERIES,
MISDELIVERIES OR SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS. |
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UNIVERSAL WEBSITE SERVICES PROVIDES THE SERVICES
AND PRODUCTS AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED. UNIVERSAL WEBSITE SERVICES DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT
OF ANY THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS, AND DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. CUSTOMER SHALL BE SOLELY
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SELECTION, USE, AND SUITABILITY OF THE SERVICES
AND UNIVERSAL WEBSITE SERVICES SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY THEREFOR. |
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TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED
BY LAW, UNIVERSAL WEBSITE SERVICES DISCLAIMS, ALL WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS
OR OTHER ENDORSEMENTS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH REGARD TO THE
INFORMATION ACCESSED FROM, OR THROUGH, THIS SERVICE, THE SYSTEMS
WHICH PROVIDE IT, AND THE INTERNET, INCLUDING ALL WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT
OF ANY THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS. |
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UNIVERSAL WEBSITE SERVICES DOES NOT ASSUME ANY
LIABILITY FOR THE COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY, OR USEFULNESS OF ANY
INFORMATION DISCLOSED OR MATERIALS ACCESSED THROUGH ITS SERVICES,
ITS SYSTEMS, ITS NETWORKS, OR THE INTERNET. |
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| 14.No Waiver of Rights by Universal Website Services. |
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Any failure by Universal Website Services to enforce
this Agreement in every instance in which it might apply does
not amount to a waiver of any of Universal Website Services’s rights. |
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| 15. Arbitration. |
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ANY CONTROVERSY OR CLAIM ARISING
OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS CONTACT OR ANY BREACH THEREOF IN
EXCESS OF $250.00 SHALL BE SETTLED BY ARBITRATION IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION RULES OF THE AMERICAN ARBITRATION
ASSOCIATION, AND JUDGMENT UPON THE AWARD RENDERED BY THE ARBITRATOR
MAY BE ENTERED IN ANY COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION. |
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| 16. Notices. |
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16.1. |
From Universal Website Services to Customer. |
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Universal Website Services will notify you by e-mail
of any notices that Universal Website Services is required to provide to you
under this Agreement, at the most current e-mail address you
have provided to Universal Website Services.
By entering this Agreement, you consent to receive notices by
e-mail. You are solely responsible for ensuring that Universal Website Services has your most current e-mail address, and Universal Website Services
shall not be responsible for any lost, misdirected, bounced,
forwarded, or undeliverable e-mail that Universal Website Services sends to
the most current e-mail address you have provided to Universal Website Services. |
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From Customer to Universal Website Services. |
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Unless otherwise specified in this Agreement,
notices to Universal Website Services shall be sent to the following address:
Universal Website Services
Attention: Legal Notices
3333 Vincent Road, Suite# 150
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 |
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| 17. Governing Law. |
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This Agreement shall
be governed by and construed in accordance with
the laws of the State of California, without regard
to choice of law or conflicts of law provisions
that would cause the application of the law of another
jurisdiction. |
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| 18. Currency. |
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All monetary amounts to which this
Agreement refers shall be in United States dollars. |
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| 19. Entire Agreement. |
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This Agreement, including all of
its component parts, comprises the entire agreement between
you (the Customer) and Universal Website Services, and supersedes any prior
or previous agreements between you and Universal Website Services with respect
to the subject matter of this Agreement; provided, however,
that you agree that you shall be subject to any additional terms
and conditions of which Universal Website Services notifies you from time
to time, pursuant to this Agreement. |
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| 20. No Oral Modification of this
Agreement. |
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This Agreement may not be modified
orally. |
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| 21. Assignment. |
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21.1 |
Customer shall not assign or attempt to assign
its obligations under this Agreement without Universal Website Services’s
prior and express written consent to such assignment. |
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Universal Website Services may assign any or all of its rights
and obligations under this Agreement at any time without prior
notice to or consent of Customer. |
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| 22. Consent to Jurisdiction; Venue. |
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Jurisdiction and venue for arbitration
or litigation of any dispute, controversy, or claim arising
out of, in connection with, or in relation to this Agreement,
or the breach thereof shall be proper only in a venue determined
Universal Website Services. |
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| 23. Choice of Law. |
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For all purposes, this
Agreement shall be deemed to have been made within
the State of California, United States of America.
This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of
the United States of America and the laws of the
State of California, without regard to Californias’
choice of law and conflicts of law rules, and Universal
Website Services and Customer each submit to the
exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Contra Costa
County, California, or to the United States District
Court for the Northern District of California, should
any claim or question arise under Federal law or
federal jurisdiction based upon diversity of citizenship. |
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| 24. Force Majeure. |
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Universal Website Services shall not be liable
or deemed to be in default for any delay or failure in performance
under this Agreement or interruption of service resulting directly
or indirectly from acts of God, civil or military authority,
acts of public enemy, war, terrorism, riots, civil disturbances,
insurrections, accidents, fire, explosions, earthquakes, floods,
the elements, strikes, labor disputes, shortages of suitable
parts, materials, labor or transportation, magnetic interference,
interruptions of electrical power or other utility service,
unavailability of any telecommunications or wireless service
or connection to any telecommunications or wireless service,
or any cause beyond the reasonable control of Universal Website Services. |
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| 25. Severability of Terms of this
Agreement. |
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In the event that any portion of
this Agreement is held to be unenforceable, the unenforceable
portion shall be construed in accordance with applicable law
as nearly as possible to reflect the original intentions of
the parties hereto, and the remainder of the provisions shall
remain in full force and effect. |
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| 26. Limitation of Actions Arising
Under this Agreement. |
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Any cause of action you may have
with respect to Universal Website Services’s performance or alleged
non-performance of this Agreement must be commenced within one
(1) year after the claim or cause of action arises or such claim
or cause of action is forever barred. |
Acceptable Use Policy
| By submitting an online order form, or by using
Universal Website Services’s service, Customer hereby
agrees to the following Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). Customer
agrees that it shall comply with and require its end users to
comply with this AUP, Universal Website Services’s Terms
of Service (TOS), and Universal Website Services’s No-Spam
Policy (NSP). In this document, the word “Agreement,”
with a capital “A,” refers to the TOS, the AUP,
and the NSP collectively. |
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| 1. Introduction, Purpose, and
General Terms. |
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This Web site gives you the ability to learn about
Universal Website Services and its products and services as
well as the ability to access our network and services (“Universal
Website Services Services”). By using this site, and any
other sites or services owned, operated, or provided by Universal
Website Services, you signify your agreement to the terms, conditions
and notices of this policy. “You” when used in the
Agreement shall mean the Universal Website Services Customer
of record and that Universal Website Services Customer’s
end users. |
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This Acceptable Use Policy is used in conjunction
with the terms of service (TOS), and the No-Spam Policy (NSP).
Violating any of these policies and agreements grants Universal
Website Services the authority to take action to restrict or
terminate your access to Universal Website Services Services.
Universal Website Services reserves the right, at its sole discretion,
to update or revise this policy, any other policy or statement
on any Universal Website Services Web site, and any product
offerings or programs described on any Universal Website Services
Web site. Please check back periodically to review any changes
to this policy. |
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This document sets forth the
principles, guidelines and requirements of the Acceptable
Use Policy of Universal Website Services (“Company”)
governing the use by the Customer (“Customer”)
of the Company’s services and products (“Services
and Products”). The purpose of Universal Website Services’s
Acceptable Use Policy (the AUP”) is to comply with all
international, federal, state, and local laws and to protect
the network security, network availability, physical security,
Customer privacy, and other factors affecting the services
provided by Universal Website Services. Universal Website
Services reserves the right to impose reasonable rules and
regulations regarding the use of its services provided to
all Customers and such rules and regulations are subject to
change. Such rules and regulations are located on the Internet
at
http://www.universalwebsiteservices.com/tos.html |
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In order to maintain an informative and valuable
service that meets the needs of the users of this site and
Universal Website Services Services, the rules in this AUP
have been established to protect against abuse. The AUP is
not an all-inclusive, exhaustive list and Universal Website
Services reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify the
AUP at any time as needed, effective upon either the posting
of the revised, amended, or modified AUP to
http://www.universalwebsiteservices.com/tos.html
or notification to the Customer via e-mail to the e-mail
address of Customer as set forth in the Service Descriptions. |
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Any violation of the AUP may result in the suspension
or termination of your account or such other action, as Universal
Website Services deems appropriate. No credits will be issued
for any interruption in service resulting from violations of
the AUP. |
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VIOLATION OF ANY SECTION OF THE AUP IS STRICTLY
PROHIBITED AND MAY RESULT IN THE IMMEDIATE TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION
OF THE SERVICES YOU RECEIVE FROM UNIVERSAL WEBSITE SERVICES. |
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Any questions or comments regarding the AUP should
be directed to Universal Website Services by e-mail to the following
e-mail address
webmaster@universalwebsiteservices.com, for issues concerning
the AUP. |
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| 2. General Prohibitions. |
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| You may not use this site or Universal Website
Services’s Services for any purpose that is unlawful or
in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair
the operation of this site, the Universal Website Services Network,
or Universal Website Services’s Services, or any other
party’s use or enjoyment of this site, the Universal Website
Services Network, or Universal Website Services’s Services. |
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| 3. Compliance with Law. |
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| Customer shall not use Universal Website Services’s
Service or any other service or network to post, upload, transmit,
retransmit, store, distribute or facilitate the distribution
of any content, including without limitation text, communications,
software, images, sounds, data, or other information that, in
Universal Website Services’s sole discretion: |
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Violates, attempts to violate, or helps any third
party to violate any local, state, federal, international, or
non-United States law, ordinance, or regulation, |
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Is threatening, obscene, indecent, pornographic,
abusive, harassing, libelous, defamatory, deceptive, fraudulent,
invasive of another’s privacy, tortious, inaccurate, or
that otherwise could adversely affect any individual, group
or entity (collectively, “Persons”), |
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Threatens or encourages bodily harm or destruction
of property, |
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Harms any person, |
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Victimizes, harasses, degrades, or intimidates
an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion,
sex, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, national origin, immigration
status, age, disability, or any other reason, |
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Is posted in violation of a newsgroup charter, |
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Contains viruses, corrupted files, or any other
similar software or programs that may damage the operation of
another’s computer, |
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Violates any terms or conditions of any other
network access provider or Internet service provider, |
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Violates the rights of any person, including rights
protected by copyright, trade secret, patent or other intellectual
property or similar laws or regulations including, but not limited
to, the installation or distribution of “pirated”
information content or data or other software products that
are not appropriately licensed for use by Customer. Customer
shall be responsible for determining what laws or regulations
are applicable to its use of the Services and Products, |
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Adds, removes, or modifies identifying network
header information in an effort to deceive or mislead any person.
Additionally, attempting to impersonate any person by using
forged headers or other identifying information is prohibited.
However, the use of anonymous remailers or nicknames does not
by itself constitute impersonation, unless such use is made
with the intent to deceive, defraud, or mislead any person or
to violate any applicable laws or regulations, |
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Collects, attempts to collect, or helps any third
party to collect personal information about third parties without
their knowledge or consent or in a manner that violates applicable
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Has a negative effect on Universal Website Services
or its network (including, without limitation, overloading servers
on the Universal Website Services Network; causing portions
of the Universal Website Services Network to be blocked by other
network providers; generating unresolved third party complaints
or complaints which, in the discretion of Universal Website
Services, impose an unreasonable administrative burden on Universal
Website Services; etc). |
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Violations of system or network security are
strictly prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil
liability as well as termination of services from Universal
Website Services. Universal Website Services investigates
all incidents involving such violations and will cooperate
with law enforcement if a violation of the criminal law is
suspected.
You are responsible for any misuse of your account, even
if a friend, family member, guest, agent, or employee committed
the inappropriate activity while using your account. Therefore,
you must take steps to ensure that others do not gain unauthorized
access to your account. In addition, you may not use your
account to breach the security of another Universal Website
Services account or attempt to gain unauthorized access to
another network or server.
Examples of system or network security violations include,
without limitation, the following: |
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Introduction into the network or server of any
malicious program (examples: viruses, worms, Trojan Horses,
logic bombs, and other executables intended to inflict harm).
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Introduction into the network or server of any
self-extracting file or program containing any malicious program
as specified in Section 4.1 of this AUP. |
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Introduction into the network or server of any
data, parameter, configuration, template, or control files for
software applications that contain destructive macros or other
malicious code. |
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Introduction into the network or server of any
encrypted or compressed file or archive such as .zip or .gz
files that contains any malicious program as specified in paragraphs
4.1 through 4.3 of this AUP. |
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Effecting security breaches or disruptions of
Internet communication and/or connectivity. Security breaches
include, but are not limited to, accessing data of which the
Customer is not an intended recipient, logging into a server
or account that the Customer is not expressly authorized to
access, or exceeding the access to a server or account that
has been granted to the Customer. For purposes of this section,
“disruption” includes, but is not limited to port
scans, flood pings, email-bombing, packet spoofing, IP spoofing,
and forged routing information. |
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Executing any form of network activity that will
intercept data not intended for the Customer. |
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Circumventing user authentication or security
of any host, network or account. |
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Interfering with or denying service to any user
other than users of the Customer’s host (examples: denial
of service attack or distributed denial of service attack). |
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Using any program script/command, or sending messages
of any kind such as a punter, designed to interfere with or
to disable, a user’s terminal session, via any means,
locally or via the Internet. |
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Attempting to use or gain unauthorized access
to data, accounts, hosts, servers, systems or networks of this
site, or to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system
or network of this site, any Universal Website Services Services
or those of any other party. |
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Interfering with service to any user, host or
network including, without limitation, mail-bombing, flooding,
or attempting to overload the system. |
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Forging any TCP-IP packet header or any part of
the header information in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting. |
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Falsifying address information or otherwise modifying
e-mail headers to conceal the sender’s or the recipient’s
identity. |
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| The Customer agrees to observe and abide by reasonable
Internet etiquette (Netiquette). The Customer shall comply with
the rules appropriate to any network to which Universal Website
Services may provide access. The Customer should not post, transmit,
or permit Internet access to information the Customer desires
to keep confidential. The Customer shall not post any material
that is illegal, is libelous, is otherwise tortious, indecently
depicts children, or is likely to result in retaliation against
Universal Website Services by offended users. Universal Website
Services reserves the right to refuse or terminate service at
any time for violation of this section. This includes, but is
not limited to, advertising services or sites via Internet Relay
Chat (IRC) or USENET in clear violation of the policies of the
IRC channel or USENET group. |
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Universal Website Services will cooperate fully
with any criminal investigation into a Customer’s violation
of the Child Protection Act of 1984 concerning child pornography,
or any other applicable international, federal, state, or
local law that prohibits child pornography. Customers are
ultimately responsible for the actions of their clients over
Universal Website Services network, and shall be liable for
illegal material posted by their clients.
According to the Child Protection Act, child pornography
includes photographs, films, video, or any other type of visual
presentation that shows a person who is or is depicted as
being under the age of eighteen years and is engaged in or
is depicted as engaged in explicit sexual activity, or the
dominant characteristic of which is the depiction, for a sexual
purpose, of a sexual organ or the anal region of a person
under the age of eighteen years or any written material or
visual representation that advocates or counsels sexual activity
with a person under the age of eighteen years.
Violations of the Child Protection Act may be reported to
the U.S. Customs Agency at 1-800-BEALERT |
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| 7. Universal Website Services
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Customer shall comply with all the terms and conditions
of Universal Website Services’s No-Spam Policy (NSP) as
described in this Section 7. Violation of the NSP shall be deemed
a violation of this AUP and of the Customer’s Agreement
with Universal Website Services. |
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7.2. |
At Universal Website Services, we are committed
to providing valuable hosting services to our valued customers.
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An important part of Universal Website Services’s
mission is to be a respected and responsible member of the business
and Internet communities. We take seriously our role in protecting
our customers and the general public from nuisances such as
“spam.” This section describes our NO-SPAM Policy.
Please read it carefully, because it contains important information
and because it is a material part of your Agreement with Universal
Website Services. |
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7.4. |
To report any spam you receive that
identifies itself as coming from the universalwebsiteservices.com
servers or claims to be related to Universal Website
Services in any way, please send an e-mail message
to us at cs@universalwebsiteservices.com. In your
message to us, please include a complete and accurate
copy of the message that you consider to be spam,
along with full message headers and routing information
for e-mail, a message board provided by a Web site
or an online service, Usenet, interactive chat message,
or instant message service, as the case may be. |
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Definition of Spam. |
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Unsolicited commercial e-mail
and electronic messages are colloquially referred to as “spam.”
Other common names for spam include “spam e-mail,”
“junk e-mail,” “bulk e-mail,” “direct
e-mail,” and “mass e-mail.” Spam is the
electronic equivalent of the direct mail you receive in your
postal mailbox frequently.
In its most general terms, and as used in this NO-SPAM Policy
(the “Policy”), spam is: |
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a commercial e-mail message or other electronic
message, including, but not limited to, messages that are: |
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posted to an electronic mailing list (other than
an “opt-in” e-mail list as described below), |
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posted on an online bulletin board system or Web-based message
board system or “guest book”, |
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posted to a Usenet newsgroup, |
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posted to the common area of an online community, group, or
club, |
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posted in a chat room, |
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posted in a message board of a commercial online service (such
as America Online), |
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posted to a Weblog (“blog”), |
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sent via an instant message system (such as ICQ, Yahoo! Pager,
Yahoo! Instant Messenger, or AOL Instant Messenger), |
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sent through e-mail or another Internet means of communication
when the message’s ultimate destination is a facsimile
(“fax”) machine, cellular or wireless telephone,
or wireless device, |
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a commercial e-mail message or other electronic
message that is addressed to one or more recipients with whom
you do not have an preexisting business or personal relationship, |
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a commercial e-mail message or other electronic
message that is sent to a mailing list of addresses that you
purchased or that were otherwise distributed, or any list of
e-mail addresses whose owners did not sign up for your specific
mailing list, including without limitation lists commonly known
as “affiliate lists,” |
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a commercial e-mail message or other electronic
message that is not sent at the request of, or with the express
consent of, the recipient(s), |
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a commercial e-mail message or other electronic
message that is sent to a recipient who has opted out of receiving
further commercial electronic messages from you, or |
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a commercial e-mail message or other electronic
message that contains forged headers, compromised mail server
relays, or false contact information. |
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For purposes of this Policy, spam
also includes any e-mail or other electronic message that is
sent in violation of any applicable Federal, state, or local
law regulating unsolicited commercial e-mail, unsolicited fax
transmissions, or any other type of unsolicited commercial electronic
message, regardless of whether that message fits the definition
of “spam” provided above. |
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“Opt-in” E-mail Lists. |
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Please note: messages sent to “opt-in”
e-mail lists are not spam, for purposes of this Policy, provided
that those messages meet all of the following criteria: |
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the messages are sent to an “opt-in”
e-mail list in which ALL subscribers have VOLUNTARILY agreed
to receive announcements and advertisements about products and
services; |
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the messages STRICTLY COMPLY with ALL the requirements
and regulations of the “opt-in” e-mail list; and |
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upon request of any subscriber to the “opt-in”
e-mail list, you immediately stop sending that subscriber any
e-mail regarding your products and services. |
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If you choose to use an “opt-in”
e-mail list, please be aware that Universal Website Services
will consider ANY violation of the requirements or regulations
of such any third party provider of software or services for
such a list to be a violation of this NO SPAM Policy.
Furthermore, Universal Website Services reserves the right
to prohibit “opt-in” e-mail lists in the future
if such a prohibition is reasonably necessary to keep its
hosting service operating efficiently for all users. |
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7.7. |
Zero Tolerance for Spam. |
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Universal Website Services will
not tolerate any spamming by any of its Customers. This prohibition
of spam extends to the sending of unsolicited mass mailings
from another service, which in any way implicates the use
of Universal Website Services’s services whether or
not the message actually originated from our network.
Violation of this NO-SPAM policy will result in Universal
Website Services taking one or more of the following actions:
A warning via e-mail or telephone,
Removal of DNS for the advertised/originating site, or
Temporarily blocking outgoing mail from your site.
Repeated violation of this NO-SPAM policy will result in
immediate disconnection of service with no re-activation.
Universal Website Services reserves the right to take all
legal and technical steps available to prevent unsolicited
bulk e-mail or other unauthorized e-mail from being sent from
or transmitted through the Universal Website Services Network.
PLEASE NOTE: The transmission of spam, including the transmission
of counterfeit e-mail, may result in civil and criminal penalties
against the sender, under various federal, state, and local
laws and regulations, including the federal CAN-SPAM Act of
2003. |
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7.8 |
Indemnification of Universal Website Services. |
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You agree to defend, hold harmless,
and indemnify Universal Website Services from any harm or damages
whatsoever resulting directly or indirectly from your engaging
in any spamming practices or from your violation of any of the
terms of this NO SPAM Policy. |
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| 8. No Editing, Censoring, or Control
of Communications; Reservation of Rights. |
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| Your participation in online communication or
use of any Universal Website Services service is not edited,
censored, or otherwise controlled by Universal Website Services.
However, Universal Website Services reserves the right to monitor
content on this site and on any Universal Website Services servers,
networks, or systems and to remove content, disable sites, or
suspend or terminate services if Universal Website Services,
in its sole discretion, determines such content or user practices
are harmful, offensive, or otherwise in violation of this Acceptable
Use Policy. |
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| 9. Export Control Laws. |
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Exporting encryption software over the Internet
from the United States of America to countries other than
the United States of America and Canada violates United States
law, unless you have a license to do so from the Bureau of
Industry and Security in the United States Department of Commerce.
You are solely responsible for determining whether any of
your software or other information contains encryption software
and whether you require a license to export your software
or information. You are also solely responsible for complying
with all applicable laws governing the export of encryption
products. For additional information, you may wish to visit
the Bureau of Industry and Security’s Web site at:
http://www.bis.doc.gov/encryption/ |
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| 10. International Use. |
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| Universal Website Services makes no representation
that materials available on this site or any or through any
Universal Website Services service are appropriate or available
for use in locations outside the United States, and accessing
them or using them from territories where their contents are
illegal is prohibited. Customers and their users who access
this site or any site hosted by Universal Website Services from
locations outside the United States of America are solely responsible
for compliance with all applicable local laws and regulations.
Moreover, to the extent allowed by law, Customers agree to defend,
indemnify, and hold harmless Universal Website Services, its
parents, subsidiaries, partners, joint venturers, employees
and agents, and all their respective heirs, successors, and
assigns for any acts of Customer or Customer’s users that
may violate any applicable law. |
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| 11. Intellectual Property Rights. |
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11.1. |
All Universal Website Services Web site design,
text, graphics and the selection and arrangement thereof are
the copyrighted work of Universal Website Services, © 2005.
All rights reserved. If any page, information, or content is
copied, it may only be copied for non-commercial uses that are
explicitly allowed under the Customer’s Agreement with
Universal Website Services or by law, and Universal Website
Services shall, in any event, retain all copyright and other
proprietary interests in said page, information, or content.
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11.2. |
You acknowledge and agree that copyrights, trademarks,
service marks, patents, trade secrets, and other proprietary
rights and laws protect all content and materials available
on this site or through any Universal Website Services service.
Nothing on any Universal Website Services Web site shall be
interpreted or implied in such a way as conferring any license
or right to any intellectual property rights or license to any
intellectual property, content, technology, system, process,
or related material belonging to Universal Website Services
by virtue of it being displayed or made accessible on any Universal
Website Services Web site. Except as expressly authorized, you
agree not to use this site or any Universal Website Services
Services in any manner that would infringe, violate, dilute
or misappropriate any such rights, with respect to any material,
which you may access, receive or make available through this
site or any Universal Website Services Services. |
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11.3. |
If you use a domain name or content in connection
with the Universal Website Services Web hosting, or any other
Web hosting service, you agree not to use that domain name or
content in any way which violates any trademark, service mark,
or similar rights of any third party. Specifically, and without
limitation, you agree that you will not engage in, attempt to
engage in, or conspire with others or solicit others to engage
in any cybersquatting or domain name hijacking, |
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Universal Website Services’s data center
infrastructure including all hardware, software, and telecommunications
facilities located in its data center may only be used for lawful
purposes. Transmission, distribution, or storage of any information,
data or material in violation of any United States or state
regulation or law or the common law, or any applicable foreign
or international law is prohibited. This includes, but is not
limited to, material protected by copyright, trademark, patent,
trade secret, or other intellectual property rights. |
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11.5. |
Creating, utilizing, or distributing unauthorized
copies of software or other information content is a violation
of international, federal, and state law. If you copy, distribute,
or install software or other information content in ways that
the license to use that content does not allow, you are violating
federal copyright law and international copyright law. Universal
Website Services will cooperate with all law enforcement agencies
in relation to alleged copyright infringement based on content
housed in our data centers. |
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11.6. |
Please see Copyright Infringement Reporting on
the Universal Website Services Web site for procedures on disclosing
alleged copyright infringement. |
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| 12. Customer’s Grant of
Limited License to Universal Website Services; Warranties on
Content. |
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| By posting or submitting content to any Universal
Website Services Web site or server, you: |
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Grant Universal Website Services a limited license
to transmit, copy, store, back up, and retrieve the content,
solely for the purpose of providing you with the services you
are purchasing under your Agreement with Universal Website Services; |
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12.2. |
Acknowledge that you are placing data on servers,
networks, and systems that reside physically in
the United States. Such servers, networks, and
systems are governed by United States law and
not by the laws of other jurisdiction. As such,
your rights to privacy are governed by United
States law. By ordering or using Universal Website
Services’s services, you explicitly consent
to this provision regarding privacy.
WHILE UNIVERSAL WEBSITE SERVICES WILL MAKE REASONABLE EFFORTS
TO PROTECT THE PRIVACY OF YOUR INFORMATION AND TO COMPLY WITH
UNITED STATES LAW, PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
AVAILABLE UNDER UNITED STATES LAW AND THE UNIVERSAL WEBSITE
SERVICES PRIVACY POLICY MAY BE LESS THAN THOSE GUARANTEED
BY THE LAWS OF THE COUNTRY WHERE YOU RESIDE. |
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Warrant and represent that you own or otherwise
control all of the rights to the content and that public posting
and use of your content by Universal Website Services does not
and will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party;
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Agree to defend, hold harmless, and indemnify
Universal Website Services for any claims of any third party
resulting from the public posting or use of your content. |
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| 13. IP Allocation. |
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| Universal Website Services administers an Internet
network on which multiple Customer servers reside. Customers
shall NOT use Internet protocol (IP) addresses that were not
assigned to them by Universal Website Services staff or network
administrators. |
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| 14. Restrictions on Use of Universal
Website Services Services. |
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14.1 |
You may not operate Internet Relay Chat (“IRC”)
servers using Universal Website Services’s services. |
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You may not run any IRC robot on any IRC server
that might interfere with the Services or otherwise violate
this AUP. When logged into any IRC server, you must comply with
the rules and policies established by that IRC’s service
administrator. |
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14.3. |
You must not use any programs that may or will
interfere with another’s use of this site or any Universal
Website Services Services. |
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14.4. |
You may not run any background processes on the
Universal Website Services servers, networks, or systems without
prior written authorization from Universal Website Services. |
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14.5. |
You may not use any Universal Website Services
services to send denial-of-service (DOS) attacks to any computer
or network, or to “flood” any computer or network. |
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14.6. |
Universal Website Services reserves the right
to add further restrictions to Customers’use of the Universal
Website Services Services if such further restrictions are reasonably
necessary to keep its hosting service operating efficiently
for all users. |
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14.7 |
You may not host any adult websites on Universal
Website Services's servers. |
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| 15. Suspension and Cancellation. |
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| Universal Website Services reserves the right
to suspend service to any Customer or who is using our network
or services for violation of the AUP, the NSP, the Privacy Policy,
or the TOS. Universal Website Services will use reasonable care
in notifying the Customer and in resolving the problem in a
method resulting in the least amount of service interference
as reasonably possible. Universal Website Services reserves
the right to terminate service without notice for continued
and repeated violations of the AUP, the NSP, the Privacy Policy,
or the TOS. |
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| 16. Notices Regarding Violations
of AUP and Intellectual Property Rights. |
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16.1. |
The Universal Website Services Agreement and all
its components prohibit acts of copyright and trademark infringement
and other unlawful behavior by Universal Website Services Customers.
Universal Website Services takes Customer violations seriously
and will investigate complaints and, where appropriate, may
remove content, disable sites, suspend or terminate services,
or take other action as necessary. |
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16.2. |
General Complaints: Please send reports of any
activity in violation of this Acceptable Use Policy to cs@universalwebsiteservices.com.
If possible, please provide the IP address used to commit the
violation, the date and time of the violation, and evidence
of the violation. Universal Website Services will reasonably
investigate incidents involving such alleged violations. Universal
Website Services may involve and will cooperate with law enforcement
officials if any criminal activity is suspected. Violations
may result in criminal and civil liability. |
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| 17. Miscellaneous. |
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| All monetary amounts to which this Agreement refers
shall be in United States dollars. |
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