Putting the Web to Work dot com wants to deliver the best possible hosting experience to every client. To provide the best possible service and trouble-free web hosting, you and our other clients must review, accept and follow our web hosting terms of service, policies and hosting agreement set out in this document.
Our web hosting terms of service, policies and hosting agreement requirements are vital to our ability to deliver good service to you and are designed to permit our hosting plans and support services to be available to all of our clients in an equitable, timely and efficient manner.
By signing up, subscribing to, agreeing to, using or utilizing Putting the Web to Work dot com web hosting or any related services we may offer, you agree to abide by and accept all of these policies and this service agreement. This service agreement may be amended from time to time and in such manner as is required for us to provide the best possible service to our clients. Your use of our internet hosting or any related services we offer indicates your agreement to the Terms and Conditions of Use in place at that time.
PUTTING THE WEB TO WORK'S POLICIES
Online Gambling
No online gambling activities, pools, wagering systems or other forms of betting may be operated from our servers.
Damaging or Hate-Inspired Material
You may not use our services or servers to distributed in any manner any information or material which may be dangerous, damaging, defamatory, libelous, slanderous, scandalous, private information or injurious to persons or property which, directly or indirectly, may be used to create danger, damage or injury to persons or property, nor may you use our services or servers to inflict emotional distress, make unlawful threats, stalk, interfere with any contract or prospective relationships or engage in sexual or other harassment.
Adult Content
All forms of pornography are prohibited on our servers. This includes sites and/or email servers that may provide links to or promotional materials for adult content elsewhere.
Child Pornography
The use of our services to store, post, display, transmit, advertise or otherwise make available child pornography is prohibited. We are required by law to notify law enforcement agencies if we become aware of the presence of child pornography on, or being transmitted through, our service, and we will do so immediately.
Spamming, Spoofing and Other Harmful Activities
We consider spam any mass unsolicited messages or similar activity, whether sent by you intentionally or sent by a computer using your account access information for our servers. You may not use our services or servers for distributing, sending or hosting harmful content including, without limitation, viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or any other computer programming routines that may damage, interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, program, data or personal information. If we believe that you have violated this rule, we have the right to immediately, without notice, disable your domain and terminate service until we have complete assurance that you abide by this rule. We similarly have the right to refuse or terminate service to you if we suspect that you will violate this policy.
Our servers may not be used as the source, intermediary, or destination address involved in the transmission of spam, flames, mail bombs, hacking, spoofing, or any similar activity. You may not use our servers when subscribing someone else to a mailing list without that person's permission. Your domain may not be referenced as originator, intermediary or reply-to address in any of the above activities. Spamming via other hosting facilities containing or delivering links or references to a domain on our network is prohibited. Any site selling, promoting or describing bulk e-mail services, harvesters, malicious spiders or similar wares is prohibited.
Server Abuse
Any act or attempt to undermine or cause harm to our servers, computers or clients is prohibited. If we believe that you have violated this rule, we have the right to immediately, without notice, disable your domain and terminate service until we have complete assurance that you abide by this rule. We similarly have the right to refuse or terminate service to you if we suspect that you will violate this policy.
Unauthorized Use of Other People's Accounts or Computers
Any unauthorized use or attempted use of an internet account or computer of ours or our other clients is prohibited. Such acts include "internet scamming" (tricking other people into releasing their passwords), social networking, password robbery, security hole scanning, directory and sictionary attacts, etc. If we believe that you have violated this rule, we have the right to immediately, without notice, disable your domain and terminate service until we have complete assurance that you abide by this rule. We similarly have the right to refuse or terminate service to you if we suspect that you will violate this policy.
IRC
We do not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers. If we believe that you have violated this rule, we have the right to immediately, without notice, disable your domain and terminate service until we have complete assurance that you abide by this rule. We similarly have the right to refuse or terminate service to you if we suspect that you will violate this policy.
Lawful Purpose
Use of our servers or services in any manner in violation of any state, local or United States law, rule or regulation is prohibited. Such prohibited use includes, but is not limited to, disseminating, posting or storage of any material in violation of any Federal, state or local law, rule or regulation. Our servers and services may not be used for the propagation, distribution, housing, processing, storing or otherwise handling in any way lewd, obscene, pornographic or satanic materials. Also included is the posting or trafficking in government secrets, providing any information to in any way assist or encourage any terrorist activities, providing any information concerning nuclear or biological weapons or other weapons of mass destruction, posting or trafficking in obscene material, solicitation of a minor or others for illegal acts, dealing drugs, harassment, fraud, stalking, abuse or other subject matters that are prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law, rules or regulations.
Infringement
You may not use our services or servers to post or disseminate in any manner, any information or material which infringes the intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights of any third party, including, without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other intellectual property right used with proper authorization. Infringement may result from, among other activities, the unauthorized copying and posting of pictures, logos, software, articles, musical works and videos. You shall comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). Click Here for our DMCA Policy.
Fraudulent Activities
You may not offer or disseminate fraudulent goods, services, schemes or promotions (i.e., "make-money-fast" schemes, chain letters, pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes) or fraudulently use any information obtained through the use of our servers or services, including, without limitation, unauthorized use of credit card numbers.
Contact Information
You are required to provide us with accurate contact information when setting up your account, during the course of our relationship, and when corresponding with us. On occasion, we may need to communicate with you by e-mail about your account. You agree to maintain a working e-mail address that is monitored daily. We have no responsibility, or liability, for interruptions in service, or damages of any sort, based on communications that are misdirected as a result of your failure to provide us with updated contact information.
SERVICE AGREEMENT
Payment Policies
You shall pay, on a pre-paid basis only, for the particular program you select according to our then published rate. If you fail to pre-pay, we will terminate your service at the end of your pre-paid period. You may choose the period to pre-pay. Although you may cancel your account at any time by giving us written notice of cancellation, there is no refund of any prepaid amounts with the exception of accounts meeting requirements of "30 Day Money Back Guarantee" (see below). Domain Registration fees are non-refundable. All payments are to be made in U.S. currency. In the event you violate any of our above provided policies or you fail to timely pay us and your service is terminated, then you will, in addition to all other fees, pay to us $100.00 if such violation results in a termination of your web site plus and an additional $100 if you cause us to reinstate your web site. In addition, you shall pay a $25 processing fee if any check given to us is not honored and paid or if you cause any credit card payment to be reversed.
Service Cancellation
To make a cancellation request, you will need to fill out our cancellation request form. If this is not possible, you may fax a request to 630-604-6542 or mail a cancellation request to Putting the Web to Work, 503 North Bullard Street, Silver City, NM 88061. You must include your Account Domain Name and Account Password for the account which you wish to cancel hosting for. We cannot accept cancellation requests over the phone for security reasons.
30-Day Money Back Guarantee
We provide a 30 day money back guarantee for all direct shared hosting accounts. If for any reason you request cancellation of such account within 30 days of the initial ordering of your account, you will be given a full refund of your account fees including your initial setup fee. Please Note: Domain registration and transfer fees are not included with this offer and are not refundable. Also, if you activate your Miva Merchant license or other third-party applications available at additional cost, these fees are not refundable. This offer does not apply to Dedicated Servers, Custom Services, or Colocation services.
Violations
In addition to the service terminations specifically herein provided, we reserve the right in our sole discretion to refuse or terminate service to you at any time. We may, but need not, give you notice of such termination or of a suspected Violation of any of our policies. Such notice may, but need not, contain such warning, suspension or possible account terminations as we from time to time in our sole discretion determine advisable. We also reserve the right to remove materials from your web site at any time if we determine in our sole discretion that such content or materials violates our policies or this service agreement. Your pre-payment of your accounts that is terminated due to our determination of a violation of one or more of our policies will not be refunded. You agree to pay to us our costs, including reasonable attorney fees, incurred as a result of our investigation and/or defense of any third party claiming that your Web site violates or infringes on their rights. We have the right to require pre-payment of such fees. We are, however, under no obligation to conduct any investigation and may, if we choose, terminate your service upon receipt of such third-party claim or upon our own action. In the event of a termination of services, your files and data stored on our computers will be deleted after such termination.
Free Bandwidth/Diskspace Boost
Putting the Web to Work offers Bandwidth Boost and Disk Space Boost features to its hosting plans. These features allow hosting clients to immediately double their available bandwidth, or diskspace, or both, upon request. This feature is available once per hosting client for bandwidth and diskspace.
Terms of Data Transfer
Data transfer limits for our hosting plans are listed here (described as "Bandwidth" per month). Any client who exceeds this limit will be notified by Putting the Web to Work to resolve the situation and be given options for upgrading your account. Assuming the activity continues and your account has not been upgraded you will be charged $5.00 per additional gigabyte of data transfer per month.
Server Resources
The use of your account must be reasonable, you may not place excessive burdens on our servers. If you use a high amount of server resources (such as, but not limited to, CPU Time, Memory Usage, and Network Resources) at our election, you will be given an option of either upgrading the service level or reducing the resource usage to an acceptable level, or your use of our servers may be limited.
IP Addresses
Depending on the service plan your account is on it will have either a shared or dedicated IP address associated with it. We cannot guarantee this IP address will never change. We make a reasonable effort to avoid IP address changes but due to many factors including network changes it's not possible to guarantee. You will be given advanced e-mail notification if such a change ever does effect your account.
Account Management Applications
We provide account management applications for the explicit use of our clients and their accounts with us. Any usage of the applications outside of the management of your account or intended use of the applications is prohibited.
ALL SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS WE PROVIDE TO YOU ARE "AS IS," AND WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, AS TO THEIR PERFORMANCE. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ERRORS, INTERRUPTIONS IN SERVICE, OR LOSS OF DATA AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THESE APPLICATIONS. YOU USE THEM AT YOUR OWN RISK.
All software applications we provide to you may only be used in conjunction with your use of our services. They remain our intellectual property, including documentation and help files, and we may permit others to also use them. Such applications remain protected by copyright laws, other intellectual property laws, and by international treaties. You may not (1) modify or use them with derivative works, including translation or localization or (2) reverse engineering, recompilation, disassembling or make any other attempt to derive the source code for any such application. Upon termination of your account you may no longer use any such applications.
Indemnification
You agree and promise to defend, indemnify, save and hold us harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney's fees asserted against us, our agents, our clients, our officers and our employees, that may arise, result, or be threatened as a result of your actions, property or services sold or licensed by you, or the actions of your employees, agents or assigns, including, but not limited to: (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or distributed in association with our services; (2) any material supplied by you infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party; (3) your copyright infringement; (4) any defective products sold by you that are connected to our servers or services (5) investigation of any alleged violations of our policies.
Disclaimer
WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES TO YOU OR YOUR BUSINESS AS A RESULT OF OUR ACTION OR FAILURE TO ACT. WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES WE PROVIDE. WE DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTY OR MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OF ANY OF SUCH SERVICES. THIS INCLUDES LOSS OF DATA RESULTING FROM DELAYS, NON-DELIVERIES, WRONG DELIVERY, AND ANY AND ALL SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS YOU MAY SUFFER WHETHER OR NOT CAUSED BY US OR OUR EMPLOYEES OR VENDORS. IN NO EVENT SHALL WE 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 WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOU AGREE THAT OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE TOTAL FEES PAID BY YOU TO US FOR THE ONE (1) YEAR PERIOD PRIOR TO ANY ACT OR OMISSION GIVING RISE TO SUCH DAMAGES.
Amendments
We reserve the right to revise, add to or modify the above policies or service agreement at any time. We have the right to terminate your account or restrict its use if we believe you have violated or may violate any of our policies.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
The validity and effect of our policies and service agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of New Mexico, without regard to its conflicts of laws principles. Any suit, action or proceeding concerning our policies and/or service agreement must be brought in a New Mexico State court located in Grant County, New Mexico, and you hereby irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts (and of the appropriate appellate courts therefrom) in any such suit, action or proceeding and irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any objection which you may now or hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any such suit, action or proceeding in any such court that any such suit, action or proceeding which is brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
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