Terms of Service & Acceptable Use Policy
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This Web Site and EMail Hosting Service Agreement
("Agreement") is by and between GWD Group of
Companies, A Sole Proprietorship - ("GWDHosting.com"),
an Oklahoma Based Service Company, and you, your heirs,
assigns, agents and contractors ("You") and is
effective as of the date of electronic execution. This
Agreement sets forth the terms and conditions of Your use of
GWDHosting.com's Web Site Hosting ("Web Hosting")
services and represents the entire agreement between You and
GWDHosting.com. By using GWDHosting.com's Web Hosting
services, You acknowledge that You have read, understand and
agree to be bound by all the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, along with any new, different or additional
terms, conditions or policies which GWDHosting.com may
establish from time to time. You may view the latest version
of this Agreement here.
In addition to transactions entered into by You on Your
behalf, You also agree to be bound by the terms of this
Agreement for transactions entered into on Your behalf by
anyone acting as Your Agent, and transactions entered into
by anyone who uses the account You've established with
GWDHosting.com, whether or not the transactions were in Your
behalf. You acknowledge that GWDHosting.com's acceptance of
any application made by You for services provided by
GWDHosting.com will take place at GWDHosting.com's office
located in Tuttle, Oklahoma, USA.
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1. Fees |
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a.) As consideration for the services purchased by
You and provided to You by GWDHosting.com, You agree to pay
GWDHosting.com a monthly fee. Your monthly billing date will
be determined based on the day of the month You establish
Your Web Hosting relationship with GWDHosting.com. Payment
is to be made by You providing either a valid credit card,
Paypal.com or via check for charge by GWDHosting.com
(Billing By GWD Group of Companies) (collectively, the
"Payment Method"). All personal checks will be
delayed fourteen (14) business days until the money is
credited, which may delay Your usage of the product or
service, and any check that bounces will result in a $25 NSF
check fee. If You purchase an automatically renewing service
or product by personal check, it is Your responsibility to
make payment arrangements for each renewal payment. Payments
are non-refundable. If for any reason GWDHosting.com is
unable to charge your Payment Method, You agree that
GWDHosting.com may pursue all available remedies in order to
obtain payment and/or terminate your accounts.
b.) In the event that You exceed the scope of the
Services as set forth in Your Agreement (for example,
available bandwidth, CPU or disk space utilization), You
shall pay GWDHosting.com for such additional services not
within the scope of Your Agreement as specified.
GWDHosting.com reserves the right to charge a reasonable
service fee for administrative tasks outside the scope of
its regular services. These include, but are not limited to,
customer service issues that cannot be handled over email
but require personal service, and disputes that require
legal services. These charges will be billed to the Payment
Method we have on file for You. You may change your Payment
Method at any time by contacting our billing department on
our Service Desk
c.) ALL FEES PAID TO GWDHosting.com FOR HOSTING ARE
EARNED IN FULL AT THE TIME OF SET-UP, INCLUDING HOSTING THAT
IS PAID YEARLY, QUARTERLY OR MONTHLY. GWDHosting.com WILL
NOT ISSUE REFUNDS ON ANY HOSTING PLAN AFTER THE INITIAL
CANCELLATION PERIOD IS PAST.
NO REFUNDS ARE GIVEN ON ANY HOSTING PLAN
UNLESS REQUESTED IN WRITTEN WITHIN THE FIRST TWENTY ONE (21)
DAYS OF YOUR ORIGINAL TERM. ANY COSTS SUCH AS SET UP FEES OR
DOMAIN REGISTRATIONS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE.
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2. Terms of Agreement; Terms, Termination, Modifications |
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Term
a.) The term of this Agreement shall commence on
the date You purchase the Web Hosting services, and will
continue in full force and effect as long as GWDHosting.com
is providing Web Hosting services to You.
Termination
b.) You agree that You will be responsible for
notifying GWDHosting.com should you desire to terminate Your
use of GWDHosting.com's Web Hosting services. Notification
of Your intent to terminate must be provided to
GWDHosting.com no sooner than 10 days prior to Your billing
date. In the absence of notification from You,
GWDHosting.com will automatically continue Web Hosting
services indefinitely and will charge the Payment Method You
have on file with GWDHosting.com, at GWDHosting.com's then
current rates. It is Your responsibility to keep your
Payment Method information current, including the expiration
date of any credit cards you have on file. In the event You
terminate, moving your web site off of the GWDHosting.com
hosting servers is Your responsibility. GWDHosting.com will
not transfer or FTP Your web site to another provider.
GWDHosting.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion
and without notice, at any time and for any reason, to
suspend Your access to or use of the Server, services or any
portion thereof. In the event Your Web Hosting service is
terminated, GWDHosting.com will not transfer or manage Your
Web Hosting or Your website content.
c.) You agree that GWDHosting.com may modify this
Agreement from time to time. GWDHosting.com may also
discontinue services it provides under this Agreement. You
agree to be bound by any changes GWDHosting.com may
reasonably make to this Agreement when such changes become
effective.
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3. Violations of GWDHosting.com Acceptable Use Policy |
The following constitute violations of this AUP:
a.) Illegal use: GWDHosting.com's services may not be
used for illegal purposes, or in support of illegal
activities. GWDHosting.com reserves the right to cooperate
with legal authorities and/or injured third parties in the
investigation of any suspected crime or civil wrong doing.
b.) Harm to minors: Use of the GWDHosting.com service
to harm, or attempt to harm, minors in any way, including,
but not limited to child pornography.
c.) Threats: Use of the GWDHosting.com service to
transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or
otherwise) that threatens or encourages bodily harm or
destruction of property.
d.) Harassment: Use of the GWDHosting.com service to
transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or
otherwise) that harasses another.
e.) Fraudulent activity: Use of GWDHosting.com service
to make fraudulent offers to sell or buy products, items, or
services, or to advance any type of financial scam such as
"pyramid schemes," "ponzi schemes,"
"chain letters. and "phishing""
f.) Forgery or impersonation: Adding, removing or
modifying identifying network header information in an
effort to deceive or mislead is prohibited. Attempting to
impersonate any person by using forged headers or other
identifying information is prohibited. The use of anonymous
remailers or nicknames does not constitute impersonation.
g.) Unsolicited commercial e-mail / Unsolicited bulk
e-mail (SPAM): Use of the GWDHosting.com service to transmit
any unsolicited commercial or unsolicited bulk e-mail is
expressly prohibited. Violations of this type will result in
the immediate termination of the offending GWDHosting.com
account. This also includes sending bulk/spam/unsolicited
email from other networks to promote any website or service
hosted on our servers. DO NOT SPAM OR YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE
TERMINATED WITH NO WARNING!
h.) E-mail/News Bombing: Malicious intent to impede
another person's use of electronic mail services or news
will result in the immediate termination of the offending
GWDHosting.com account.
i.) E-mail/Message Forging: Forging any message
header, in part or whole, of any electronic transmission,
originating or passing through the GWDHosting.com service is
in violation of this AUP.
j.) Usenet SPAMing: GWDHosting.com has a zero
tolerance policy for the use of its network for the posting
of messages or commercial advertisements, which violate the
rules, regulations, FAQ or charter of any newsgroups or
mailing list. Commercial messages that are appropriate under
the rules of a newsgroup or mailing list or that are
solicited by the recipients are permitted.
k.) We do not offer SSH/Shell accounts on any of our
shared hosting servers. SSH access will be denied for all
users. The use of faux shells which are perl/php based
scripts that would allow an end-user to execute shell
commands via the browser are deemed to be against our TOS.
Any accounts that are found with this type of script
installed will be automatically terminated with no refunds
issued. Any damage done by any scripts in your account
whether by you (or anyone that accesses this script) you
will be charged an administrative fee of $150/hour for clean
up of any damage or changes that must be done to re-secure
the servers.
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4. Description of Service |
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a.) GWDHosting.com currently provides Web Hosting
services to its customers for a fee. GWDHosting.com will
host Your web site on GWDHosting.com's Web Hosting servers,
provided, however, You abide by the terms and conditions set
forth herein and in each of GWDHosting.com's policies and
procedures.
License of Your Website Content
b.) GWDHosting.com grants to You, and You accept
from GWDHosting.com, a non-exclusive, worldwide and royalty
free license to copy, display, use and transmit on and via
the Internet Your website content in connection with
GWDHosting.com's performance or enforcement of this
Agreement.
Availability of Services
c.) Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, GWDHosting.com shall attempt to provide Web
Hosting for twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a
week throughout the term of this Agreement. You agree that
from time to time the Web Hosting service may be
inaccessible or inoperable for any reason, including,
without limitation: (i) equipment malfunctions; (ii)
periodic maintenance procedures or repairs which
GWDHosting.com may undertake from time to time; or (iii)
causes beyond the control of GWDHosting.com or which are not
reasonably foreseeable by GWDHosting.com, including, without
limitation, interruption or failure of telecommunication or
digital transmission links, hostile network attacks network
congestion or other failures. You agree that GWDHosting.com
has no control of availability of Web Hosting on a
continuous or uninterrupted basis.
d.) Service Availability Guarantee. GWDHosting.com
offers a service uptime guarantee for its Web Hosting
service of 99.9% ("Service Uptime") of available
time. If GWDHosting.com fails to maintain this level of
service availability, You may contact GWDHosting.com and
request a credit of 10% of your monthly fee for each hour of
downtime for that month. The credit does not apply to
service interruptions caused by (i) scheduled maintenance;
(ii) errors caused by You from custom scripting or coding;
or (iii) outages that do not affect the appearance of the
web site but merely affect access to the web site such as
FTP and email. (iv) network issues such as dDos
attacks or other service interruptions beyond our control.
Total Service Uptime shall be solely determined by
GWDHosting.com and shall be calculated on a monthly basis.
Web Site Content
e.) You shall be solely responsible for providing,
updating, uploading and maintaining Your website and any and
all files, pages, data, works, information and/or materials
on, within, displayed, linked or transmitted to, from or
through Your web site, including, without limitation, trade
or service marks, images, photographs, illustrations,
graphics, audio clips, video clips, email or other messages,
meta tags, domain names, software and text. Your web site
content shall also include any registered domain names
provided by You or registered on behalf of You in connection
with the Web Hosting services.
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5. Your Obligations |
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a.) You agree that You have provided accurate,
current and complete information in the application process
and that You will notify GWDHosting.com within five (5)
business days when any of the information You provided as
part of the application and/or registration process changes.
Failure by You, for whatever reason, to respond within five
(5) business days to any inquiries made by GWDHosting.com to
determine the validity of information provided by You, will
constitute a material breach of this Agreement. If You
provide any information that is inaccurate, not current,
false, misleading or incomplete, or if GWDHosting.com has
reasonable grounds to suspect that Your information is
inaccurate, not current, false, misleading or incomplete,
GWDHosting.com has the absolute right, in its sole
discretion, to terminate its Web Hosting services and close
Your account.
b.) You represent and warrant to GWDHosting.com
that: (i) You have the power and authority to enter into and
perform Your obligations under this Agreement; (ii) Your
Content does not and shall not contain any content,
materials, data, work, trade or service mark, trade name,
link, advertising or services that actually or potentially
violate any applicable law or regulation or infringe or
misappropriate any proprietary, intellectual property,
contract or tort right of any person; and (iii) You own Your
website content and all proprietary or intellectual property
rights therein, or have express written authorization from
the owner to copy, use and display the content on and within
Your web site. If Your web site includes GIF images you must
ensure that your GIF images are licensed with Unisys or were
created with Unisys Authorized Software. You also warrant
that the web site being hosted by GWDHosting.com will not be
used in connection with any illegal activity.
c.) If You are hosting Your web site on
GWDHosting.com's servers, You are responsible for ensuring
that there is no excessive overloading on GWDHosting.com's
Network or servers. You may not use GWDHosting.com's servers
and Your web site as a source, intermediary, reply to
address, or destination address for mail bombs, Internet
packet flooding, packet corruption, denial of service, or
other abusive activities. Server hacking or other
perpetration of security breaches is prohibited and
GWDHosting.com reserves the right to remove sites that
contain information about hacking or links to such
information. Use of your web site as an anonymous gateway is
prohibited. GWDHosting.com prohibits the use of software or
scripts run on its servers that cause the server to load
beyond a reasonable level, as determined by GWDHosting.com.
You agree that GWDHosting.com reserves the right to remove
Your web site temporarily or permanently from its hosting
servers if GWDHosting.com is the recipient of activities
that threaten the stability of its network.
d.) You agree not to engage in unacceptable use of
any Services, which includes, without limitation, use of the
Services to: (i) disseminate or transmit unsolicited
messages, chain letters or unsolicited commercial email;
(ii) disseminate or transmit any material that, to a
reasonable person may be abusive, obscene, pornographic,
defamatory, harassing, grossly offensive, vulgar,
threatening or malicious; (iii) disseminate or transmit
files, graphics, software or other material, data or work
that actually or potentially infringes the copyright,
trademark, patent, trade secret or other intellectual
property right of any person; (iv) create a false identity
or to otherwise attempt to mislead any person as to the
identity, source or origin of any communication; (v) export,
re-export or permit downloading of any message or content in
violation of any export or import law, regulation or
restriction of the United States and its agencies or
authorities, or without all required approvals, licenses
and/or exemptions; (vi) interfere, disrupt or attempt to
gain unauthorized access to any computer system, server,
network or account for which You do not have authorization
to access or at a level exceeding Your authorization; (vii)
disseminate or transmit any virus, Trojan horse or other
malicious, harmful or disabling data, work, code or program;
or (viii) engage in any other activity deemed by
GWDHosting.com to be in conflict with the spirit or intent
of this Agreement or any GWDHosting.com policy.
Storage and Security
e.) At all times, You shall bear full risk of loss
and damage to your web site and all of Your web site content
and email accounts. You are entirely responsible for
maintaining the confidentiality of Your password and account
information. You agree that you are solely responsible for
all acts, omissions and use under and charges incurred with
Your account or password or in connection with the Site or
any of Your web site content displayed, linked, transmitted
through or stored on the Server. You shall be solely
responsible for undertaking measures to: (i) prevent any
loss or damage to Your web site content; (ii) maintain
independent archival and backup copies of Your web site
content; (iii) ensure the security, confidentiality and
integrity of all your web site content transmitted through
or stored on GWDHosting.com servers; and (iv) ensure the
confidentiality of Your password. GWDHosting.com's servers
and hosting services are not an archive and GWDHosting.com
shall have no liability to You or any other person for loss,
damage or destruction of any of Your content. If Your
password is lost, stolen or otherwise compromised, You shall
promptly notify GWDHosting.com, whereupon GWDHosting.com
shall suspend access to Your web site by use of such
password and issue a replacement password to You or Your
authorized representative. GWDHosting.com will not be liable
for any loss that You may incur as a result of someone else
using Your password or account, either with or without Your
knowledge. However, You could be held liable for losses
incurred by GWDHosting.com or another party due to someone
else using Your account or password.
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6. GWDHosting.com's Rights |
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a.) GWDHosting.com explicitly reserves the right
and sole discretion to: (i) Censor any web site hosted on
its Web Hosting servers that, in GWDHosting.com's sole
discretion, is deemed inappropriate; (ii) Review every Web
Hosting account for excessive space and bandwidth
utilization and to terminate or apply additional fees to
those accounts that exceed allowed levels; (iii) Modify its
pricing through email notification; (iv) Terminate Your Web
Hosting service for unsolicited, commercial e-mailing (i.e.,
SPAM); illegal access to other computers or networks (i.e.,
hacking); distribution of Internet viruses or similar
destructive activities; non-payment of Web Hosting fees; and
other activities whether lawful or unlawful that
GWDHosting.com determines to be harmful to its other
customers, operations, or reputation; (v) Terminate Your Web
Hosting service if the contents of Your web site result in,
or are the subject of, legal action or threatened legal
action, against GWDHosting.com or any of its affiliates or
partners, without consideration for whether such legal
action or threatened legal action is eventually determined
to be with or without merit. GWDHosting.com has no
obligation to monitor the Site or any of Your content, but
reserves the right in its sole discretion to do so.
No Spam; Liquidated Damages
b.) GWDHosting.com will immediately terminate any
Web Hosting service which it believes, in its sole
discretion, is transmitting or is otherwise connected with
any spam or other unsolicited bulk email. In addition, if
actual damages cannot be reasonably calculated then you
agree to pay GWDHosting.com liquidated damages of $1 for
each piece of spam or unsolicited bulk email transmitted
from or otherwise connected with your website hosted with
us, otherwise you agree to pay GWDHosting.com's actual
damages.
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7. Dispute Resolution Policy |
| a.) You agree that if a dispute
arises as a result of one or more web sites GWDHosting.com
is hosting for You, You will indemnify, defend and hold
GWDHosting.com harmless for damages arising out of such
dispute. You also agree that if GWDHosting.com is notified
that a complaint has been filed with a governmental,
administrative or judicial body, regarding a web site hosted
by GWDHosting.com, that GWDHosting.com, in its sole
discretion, may take whatever action GWDHosting.com deems
necessary regarding further modification, assignment of
and/or control of the web site to comply with the actions or
requirements of the governmental, administrative or judicial
body until such time as the dispute is settled |
8. Limitation of Liability |
| a.) IN NO EVENT SHALL
GWDHosting.com BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON FOR ANY
INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES,
INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFIT OR GOODWILL, FOR ANY MATTER,
WHETHER SUCH LIABILITY IS ASSERTED ON THE BASIS OF CONTRACT,
TORT, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF GWDHosting.com HAS BEEN ADVISED
OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOU AGREE THAT
GWDHosting.com's TOTAL LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES SHALL BE
LIMITED TO THE TOTAL FEES PAID BY YOU TO GWDHosting.com
HEREUNDER FOR THE ONE (1) YEAR PERIOD PRIOR TO ANY ACT OR
OMISSION GIVING RISE TO ANY POTENTIAL LIABILITY. |
9. Indemnity |
| a.) You agree to release, defend,
indemnify and hold harmless GWDHosting.com and its
contractors, agents, employees, offices, directors, and
affiliates from and against any action, claim, demand,
dispute, liability, losses, damages or costs, including
reasonable attorney's fees and costs, resulting from or
related to (i) a dispute over one or more web sites
GWDHosting.com is hosting for you, (ii) Your breach of this
Agreement, (iii) any negligence, willful or improper
misconduct by You; (iv) any allegation that Your site or
content infringes a third person's copyright, trademark or
proprietary or intellectual property right, or
misappropriates a third person's trade secrets; or (v) any
action or conduct of GWDHosting.com's undertaken pursuant to
this Agreement. You shall defend and settle at Your sole
expense all proceedings arising out of the foregoing. You
agree that GWDHosting.com shall have the right to
participate in the defense of any such claim through counsel
of its own choosing. You agree to notify GWDHosting.com of
any such claim promptly in writing and to allow
GWDHosting.com to control the proceedings. You agree to
cooperate fully with GWDHosting.com during such proceedings.
You agree You will not be entitled to a refund of any fees
paid to GWDHosting.com if, for any reason, GWDHosting.com
takes corrective action with respect to Your improper or
illegal use of its Web Hosting services. You also agree that
if GWDHosting.com is notified that a complaint has been
filed with a governmental, administrative or judicial body,
regarding a web site hosted by GWDHosting.com, that
GWDHosting.com, in its sole discretion, may take whatever
action GWDHosting.com deems necessary regarding further
modification, assignment of and/or control of the web site
to comply with the actions or requirements of the
governmental, administrative or judicial body until such
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10. Disclaimer of Warranties |
| a.) GWDHosting.com expressly
disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or
implied, including, but not limited to, the implied
warranties of merchantability, concerning any subject matter
of this agreement. |
11. Severability |
| a.) You agree that the terms of
this Agreement are severable. If any part of this Agreement
is determined to be unenforceable or invalid, that part of
the agreement will be interpreted in accordance with
applicable law as closely as possible, in line with the
original intention of both parties to the Agreement. The
remaining terms and conditions of the Agreement will remain
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12. Venue; Waiver of Trail By Jury |
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a.) This agreement shall be deemed entered into the
state of Oklahoma. the laws and judicial decisions of Grady
County, Oklahoma, shall be used to determine the validity,
construction, interpretation and legal effect of this
agreement. You agree that any action relating to or arising
out of this agreement, shall be brought in the courts of
Grady County, Oklahoma.
b.) You agree to waive the right to trial by jury
in any proceeding that takes pace relating to or arising out
of this agreement.
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13. Notices |
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You agree that all notices (except for notices concerning
breach of this Agreement) from GWDHosting.com to You may be
posted on our web site. Notices concerning breach will be
sent either to the email or postal address You have on file
with GWDHosting.com. In either case, delivery shall be
deemed to have been made five (5) days after the date sent.
Notices from You to GWDHosting.com, shall be made either
by email, facsimile, or mailed to the address below. They
shall be deemed to be delivered when received by
GWDHosting.com through first class mail the date they are
received, or when sent by facsimile.
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Revised: 10/01/04
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