Universal Website Services

Terms of Service

 
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.

     
1. General Terms.
     
  In consideration of hosting services to be delivered, Customer agrees to be bound by the following terms and conditions:
     
  1.1. Customer agrees to pay, in advance of each monthly service term, for hosting services to be rendered.
     
  1.2. 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.
     
  1.3. Customer agrees to a no-refund policy in advance. Setup fees and monthly web hosting service fees are non-refundable.
     
  1.4. Non-Payment of services shall result in a 14-day notice of disconnection. All payment failures must be cured within 14 days of notice.
     
  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.
     
  1.6. Customers agree to pay all taxes applicable to your account.
     
2. Agreement for Services.
     
  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.
     
     
  2.2. 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.
     
3. Payment.
     
  3.1. Establishment and provision of service is contingent upon receipt of payment from Customer to Universal Website Services.
     
    3.1.1. Customer must pay in full for the Services before Universal Website Services begins to provide the Services to Customer.
       
    3.1.2. Setup fees will be charged and are due at the time of the Customer’s initial request of the Services requiring setup.
     
  3.2. 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.
     
4. Delinquent Accounts.
 
  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.
     
5. Account Cancellation.

 

 

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.

     
6. Refunds and Disputes.

 

 

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.
     
7. 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.
     
8. 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:
     
  8.1. the Acceptable Use Policy, or
     
  8.2. the No-Spam Policy.
 
9. 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.
     
10. UNIVERSAL WEBSITE SERVICES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES FOR
     
  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
     
  10.2. ANY LOSS OF DATA RESULTING FROM DELAYS, NONDELIVERIES, MISDELIVERIES OR SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS.
     
11. 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.
     
12. 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.
     
13. 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.
     
14.No Waiver of Rights by Universal Website Services.
     
  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.
     
15. Arbitration.
     
  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.
     
16. Notices.
     
  16.1. From Universal Website Services to Customer.
     
  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.
     
  16.2. From Customer to Universal Website Services.
     
   

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

     
17. Governing Law.
     
  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.
     
18. Currency.
     
  All monetary amounts to which this Agreement refers shall be in United States dollars.
     
19. Entire Agreement.
     
  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.
     
20. No Oral Modification of this Agreement.
     
  This Agreement may not be modified orally.
     
21. Assignment.
     
  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.
     
  21.2. 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.
     
22. Consent to Jurisdiction; Venue.
     
  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.
     
23. Choice of Law.
     
  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.
     
24. Force Majeure.
     
  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.
     
25. Severability of Terms of this Agreement.
     
  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.
     
26. Limitation of Actions Arising Under this Agreement.
     
  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.
     
1. Introduction, Purpose, and General Terms.
     
 
1.1.
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.
     
  1.2. 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.
     
  1.3.

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

     
  1.4.

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.

     
  1.5. 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.
     
  1.6. 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.
 
  1.7. 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.
     
2. General Prohibitions.
     
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.
     
3. Compliance with Law.
     
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:
     
  3.1. Violates, attempts to violate, or helps any third party to violate any local, state, federal, international, or non-United States law, ordinance, or regulation,
     
  3.2. 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”),
     
  3.3. Threatens or encourages bodily harm or destruction of property,
     
  3.4. Harms any person,
     
  3.5. 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,
     
  3.6. Is posted in violation of a newsgroup charter,
     
  3.7. Contains viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer,
     
  3.8. Violates any terms or conditions of any other network access provider or Internet service provider,
     
  3.9. 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,
     
  3.10. 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,
     
  3.11. 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 laws concerning privacy, or
     
  3.12. 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).
     
4. System and Network Security.
     

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:

     
  4.1. Introduction into the network or server of any malicious program (examples: viruses, worms, Trojan Horses, logic bombs, and other executables intended to inflict harm).
     
  4.2. 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.
     
  4.3. 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.
     
  4.4. 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.
     
  4.5. 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.
     
  4.6. Executing any form of network activity that will intercept data not intended for the Customer.
     
  4.7. Circumventing user authentication or security of any host, network or account.
     
  4.8. 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).
     
  4.9. 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.
     
  4.10. 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.
     
  4.11. Interfering with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail-bombing, flooding, or attempting to overload the system.
     
  4.12. Forging any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting.
     
  4.13 Falsifying address information or otherwise modifying e-mail headers to conceal the sender’s or the recipient’s identity.
     
5. Internet Etiquette.
     
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.
     
6. Child Pornography.
     

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

     
7. Universal Website Services No-Spam Policy (NSP).
     
  7.1. 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.
     
  7.2. At Universal Website Services, we are committed to providing valuable hosting services to our valued customers.
     
  7.3. 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.
     
  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.
     
  7.5. Definition of Spam.
     
 

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:

     
  a commercial e-mail message or other electronic message, including, but not limited to, messages that are:
    posted to an electronic mailing list (other than an “opt-in” e-mail list as described below),
    posted on an online bulletin board system or Web-based message board system or “guest book”,
    posted to a Usenet newsgroup,
    posted to the common area of an online community, group, or club,
    posted in a chat room,
    posted in a message board of a commercial online service (such as America Online),
    posted to a Weblog (“blog”),
    sent via an instant message system (such as ICQ, Yahoo! Pager, Yahoo! Instant Messenger, or AOL Instant Messenger),
    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,
  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,
  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,”
  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),
  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
  a commercial e-mail message or other electronic message that contains forged headers, compromised mail server relays, or false contact information.
     
  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.
     
  7.6. “Opt-in” E-mail Lists.
     
  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:
     
  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;
  the messages STRICTLY COMPLY with ALL the requirements and regulations of the “opt-in” e-mail list; and
  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.
     
 

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.

     
  7.7. Zero Tolerance for Spam.
     
 

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.

     
  7.8 Indemnification of Universal Website Services.
     
  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.
     
8. No Editing, Censoring, or Control of Communications; Reservation of Rights.
     
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.
     
9. Export Control Laws.
     

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/

     
10. International Use.
     
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.
     
11. Intellectual Property Rights.
     
  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.
     
  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.
     
  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,
     
  11.4 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.
     
  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.
     
  11.6. Please see Copyright Infringement Reporting on the Universal Website Services Web site for procedures on disclosing alleged copyright infringement.
     
12. Customer’s Grant of Limited License to Universal Website Services; Warranties on Content.
     
By posting or submitting content to any Universal Website Services Web site or server, you:
     
  12.1. 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;
     
  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.

     
  12.3. 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; and
     
  12.4. 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.
     
13. IP Allocation.
     
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.
     
14. Restrictions on Use of Universal Website Services Services.
     
  14.1 You may not operate Internet Relay Chat (“IRC”) servers using Universal Website Services’s services.
     
  14.2. 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.
     
  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.
     
  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.
     
  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.
     
  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.
     
  14.7 You may not host any adult websites on Universal Website Services's servers.
     
15. Suspension and Cancellation.
     
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.
     
16. Notices Regarding Violations of AUP and Intellectual Property Rights.
     
  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.
     
  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.
     
17. Miscellaneous.
     
All monetary amounts to which this Agreement refers shall be in United States dollars.
     
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