HOSTING AGREEMENT
Welcome to USHostOffice.net
newsletter hosting service! We are a
division of SPIV Technologies Group.
This Hosting Agreement governs your
purchase and use, in any manner, of
all Internet hosting, creation and tracking
services (collectively, the "Services")
as described in the Order Form, ordered
by you and accepted by SPIV Technologies
Group Technologies Group and describes
the terms and conditions that apply
to such purchase and use of the Services.
You must register and accept the terms
of this Agreement in order to use the
Services.
BY CLICKING ON THE "I AGREE"
BUTTON BELOW, AND REGISTERING FOR AND
USING THE SERVICES, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE
THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND
AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
CONTAINED HEREIN AS WELL AS ALL POLICIES
AND GUIDELINES INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE.
SPIV Technologies Group reserves the
right to change or modify any of the
terms and conditions contained in this
Agreement and any policy or guideline
incorporated by reference at any time
and from time to time in its sole discretion,
and to determine whether and when any
such changes apply to both existing
or future customers.
Any changes or modification will be
effective upon posting of the revisions
on the SPIV Technologies Group Web site
(the "Site"). SPIV Technologies
Group will post a notice of such changes
or modifications to this Agreement on
the Site for thirty (30) days. SPIV
Technologies Group may post changes
or modifications to referenced policies
and guidelines without notice to you.
Your continued use of the Services following
SPIV Technologies Group Technologies
Group's posting of any changes or modifications
will constitute your acceptance of such
changes or modifications.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF
THIS AGREEMENT DO NOT CLICK THE "I
AGREE" BUTTON. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE
TO THE TERMS OF ANY MODIFICATION, DO
NOT CONTINUE TO USE THE SERVICES AND
IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY SPIV TECHNOLOGIES
GROUP OF YOUR TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT
IN THE MANNER DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1.2
BELOW.
1. Term and Payment for Services
1.1 Term. This Agreement shall be for
an "Initial Term" of ninety
days (90) days, or (b) as otherwise
chosen by you in the Order Form, located
on the Site, at the time you register
for the Services. This Agreement will
be automatically renewed (the "Renewal
Term") at the end of the Initial
Term for the same period as the Initial
Term unless you provide SPIV Technologies
Group with notice of termination either
(a) at least thirty (30) days prior
to the end of the Initial Term or the
Renewal Term, whichever is then applicable.
You must provide SPIV Technologies Group
with your notice of termination by E-mail,
Fax transmission, or US Mail and provide
SPIV Technologies Group with sufficient
customer identification information
so that SPIV Technologies Group may
properly identify you and your account.
Changing domain name server settings
("DNS") to another provider
or system, in and of itself, does not
constitute termination and does not
remove the obligation to notify SPIV
Technologies Group in writing. Any notice
of termination will be only be effective
upon SPIV Technologies Group Technologies
Group's receipt thereof. SPIV Technologies
Group is under no obligation to provide
notice of renewal in advance of the
automatic renewal billing process.
1.2 Termination Policy. Failure to
pay all applicable charges and service
fees when due, including, but not limited
to your credit card being declined or
rejected by our merchant account processing
gateway, shall be deemed a default cancellation
without notice. If you terminate your
receipt of the Services prior to the
end of the Initial Term or the Renewal
Term, whichever is then applicable,
(a) SPIV Technologies Group shall not
refund to you any fees paid in advance
of such termination. Your termination
request must be submitted to SPIV Technologies
Group in the manner described in Section
1.1. It is your obligation to notify
SPIV Technologies Group of any change
in billing or contact information in
advance of the renewal date. SPIV Technologies
Group may terminate this Agreement at
any time and for any reason by providing
to you seven (7) days prior written
notice of termination. If SPIV Technologies
Group terminates this Agreement, SPIV
Technologies Group shall refund to you
the pro-rata portion of pre-paid fees
attributable to Services not yet rendered
as of the termination date unless otherwise
expressly provided herein.
1.3 Liability and Obligations on Termination.
Should the Agreement expire or be terminated
for any reason, SPIV Technologies Group
will not be liable to you because of
such expiration or termination for compensation,
reimbursement or damages on account
of the loss of prospective profits,
anticipated sales, goodwill or on account
of expenditures, investments, leases
or commitments in connection with your
business, or for any other reason whatsoever
flowing from such termination or expiration.
Any termination of this Agreement shall
not relieve you of any obligations to
pay fees and costs accrued prior to
the termination date and any other amounts
owed by you to SPIV Technologies Group
as provided in this Agreement.
1.4 Charges. You agree to pay for all
charges attributable to your use of
the Services at the then current SPIV
Technologies Group prices, which shall
be exclusive of any applicable taxes.
You shall be responsible for the payment
of all federal, state, and local sales,
use, value added, excise, duty and any
other taxes assessed with respect to
the Services.
1.5 Payment. All charges for Services
must be paid in advance according to
the then current price applicable to
the Services by credit card. Upon registering
for Hosting Services, you thereby authorize
SPIV Technologies Group to charge your
credit or debit card to pay for any
charges that may apply to your account.
You must notify SPIV Technologies Group
of any changes to your card account
(including, without limitation, applicable
account number or cancellation or expiration
of the account), your billing address,
or any information that may prohibit
SPIV Technologies Group from charging
your account. If you fail to pay any
fees and taxes within two (2) days from
applicable due date for credit card
payments, late charges of the lesser
of one and one-half per cent (1.5%)
per month or the maximum allowable under
applicable law shall also become payable
by you to SPIV Technologies Group. In
addition, your failure to fully pay
any fees and taxes within five (5) days
after the applicable due date will be
deemed a material breach of this Agreement,
justifying SPIV Technologies Group Technologies
Group's suspension of its performance
of the Services and/or termination of
this Agreement. You are responsible
for any fees associated with reinstatement
of Services. Any such termination would
not relieve you from paying past due
fees plus interest. In the event of
collection enforcement, you will be
liable for any costs associated with
such collection, including, without
limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees,
court costs and collection agency fees.
2. Use of Services
2.1 Applicable Policies and Guidelines.
The USHostOffice.net Acceptable Use
and Service Guidelines (the "Usage
Guidelines") govern the general
policies and procedures for use of the
Services. SPIV Technologies Group's
On-line Privacy Practices govern how
SPIV Technologies Group collects, stores,
processes and uses information associated
with your use of the Services. The Usage
Guidelines and the On-line Privacy Practices
are posted on SPIV Technologies Group
Technologies Group's Web site (or such
other location as SPIV Technologies
Group may specify) and may be updated
from time-to-time. YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY
READ THE USAGE GUIDELINES. BY USING
THE SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND
BY THE TERMS OF THE USAGE GUIDELINES
AND ANY MODIFICATIONS THERETO. SPIV
Technologies Group RESERVES THE RIGHT
TO TERMINATE YOUR ACCOUNT FOR ANY VIOLATION
OF THE USAGE GUIDELINES OR THIS AGREEMENT.
2.2 Material and Product Requirements.
You must ensure that all material and
data placed on SPIV Technologies Group's
equipment is in a condition that is
"server-ready," which is in
a form requiring no additional manipulation
by SPIV Technologies Group. SPIV Technologies
Group will make no effort to validate
any of this information for content,
correctness or usability. In the event
that your material is not "server-ready",
SPIV Technologies Group has the option
at any time to reject this material.
SPIV Technologies Group will notify
you of its refusal of the material and
afford you the opportunity to amend
or modify the material to satisfy the
needs and/or requirements of SPIV Technologies
Group. Use of the Services requires
a certain level of knowledge in the
use of Internet languages, protocols
and software. This level of knowledge
varies depending on the anticipated
use and desired content of your Web
site. You must have the necessary knowledge
to create and maintain a Web site. It
is not SPIV Technologies Group Technologies
Group's responsibility to provide this
knowledge or customer support outside
of the Services agreed to by you and
SPIV Technologies Group.
2.3 Bandwidth, Storage, and E-Mail
Usage. You agree that use of the Services
hereunder will not exceed the bandwidth,
storage and E-mail usage limits set
out in the Order Form. If you use any
bandwidth or storage space in excess
of the agreed upon number of megabytes
per month or if you exceed E-Mail storage
and attachment size limitations, SPIV
Technologies Group may, in its sole
discretion, assess you with additional
charges, suspend the performance of
the Service, or terminate this Agreement.
In the event that SPIV Technologies
Group elects to take any corrective
action, you will not be entitled to
a refund of any unused pre-paid fees.
2.4 Disallowed Materials. The following
is not permitted: Spamming (sending
unsolicited email or posting messages
to UseNet Newsgroups that do not explicitly
allow advertising, with references,
directly or indirectly, to a site hosted
on our servers); sites containing pornographic
material or sites containing links to
adult sites, sites containing any illegal
content or sites advocating illegal
activities; violations or attempted
violations of system & network security
including, but not limited to port scanning,
denial-of-service attacks, or other
hacking, or material which is either
not rightfully belonging to the client,
or for which he/she does not have an
express or otherwise legal right to
use.
3. Intellectual Property Rights
3.1 Your License Grant to SPIV Technologies
Group. You hereby grant to SPIV Technologies
Group a non-exclusive, worldwide, and
royalty-free license for the Initial
Term and the Renewal Term, if applicable,
to edit, modify, adapt, translate, exhibit,
publish, transmit, participate in the
transfer of, reproduce, create derivative
works from, distribute, perform, display,
and otherwise use your content as necessary
for the purposes of rendering and operating
the Services to you under this Agreement.
You expressly (a) grant to SPIV Technologies
Group a license to cache materials distributed
or made available for distribution via
the Services, including content supplied
by third parties, and (b) agree that
such caching is not an infringement
of any of your intellectual property
rights or any third party's intellectual
property rights.
3.2 Your Warranties And Representations
to SPIV Technologies Group. You warrant,
represent, and covenant to SPIV Technologies
Group that (a) you are at least eighteen
(18) years of age; (b) you possess the
legal right and ability to enter into
this Agreement; (c) you will use the
Services only for lawful purposes and
in accordance with this Agreement and
all applicable policies and guidelines;
(d) you will be financially responsible
for the use of your account; (e) you
have acquired or will acquire all authorization(s)
necessary for hypertext links to third-party
Web sites or other content; (f) you
have verified or will verify the accuracy
of materials distributed or made available
for distribution via the Services, including,
without limitation, your content, descriptive
claims, warranties, guarantees, nature
of business, and address where business
is conducted, and (g) your content does
not and will not infringe or violate
any right of any third party (including
any intellectual property rights) or
violate any applicable law, regulation
or ordinance.
3.3 SPIV Technologies Group Materials
And Intellectual Property. All materials,
including but not limited to any computer
software (in object code and source
code form), data or information developed
or provided by SPIV Technologies Group
or its suppliers or agents pursuant
to this Agreement, and any know-how,
methodologies, equipment, or processes
used by SPIV Technologies Group to provide
the Services to you, including, without
limitation, all copyrights, trademarks,
patents, trade secrets, and any other
proprietary rights inherent therein
and appurtenant thereto shall remain
the sole and exclusive property of SPIV
Technologies Group or its suppliers.
SPIV Technologies Group shall also maintain
and control ownership of all Internet
protocol ("IP") numbers and
addresses that may be assigned to you
by SPIV Technologies Group. SPIV Technologies
Group reserves, in its sole discretion,
the right to change or remove any and
all such IP numbers and addresses.
4. Enforcement
4.1 Investigation of Violations. SPIV
Technologies Group may investigate any
reported violation of this Agreement,
the Addendum its policies or any complaints
and take any action that it deems appropriate
and reasonable under the circumstance
to protect its systems, facilities,
customers and/or third parties. SPIV
Technologies Group will not access or
review the contents of any e-mail or
similar stored electronic communications
except as required or permitted by applicable
law or legal process.
4.2 Actions. SPIV Technologies Group
reserves the right and has absolute
discretion to restrict or remove from
its servers any content that violates
this Agreement, the Addendum or related
policies or guidelines, or is otherwise
objectionable or potentially infringing
on any third party's rights or in potentially
violation of any laws. In the event
of becoming aware of any possible violation
by you of this Agreement, the Addendum,
any related policies or guidelines,
third party rights or laws, SPIV Technologies
Group may immediately take corrective
action, including, but not limited to,
(a) issuing warnings, (b) suspending
or terminating the Service, (c) restricting
or prohibiting any and all uses of content
hosted on SPIV Technologies Group Technologies
Group's systems, and/or (d) disabling
or removing any hypertext links to third-party
Web sites, any of your content distributed
or made available for distribution via
the Services, or other content not supplied
by SPIV Technologies Group which, in
SPIV Technologies Group Technologies
Group's sole discretion, may violate
or infringe any law or third-party rights
or which otherwise exposes or potentially
exposes SPIV Technologies Group to civil
or criminal liability or public ridicule.
It is SPIV Technologies Group Technologies
Group's policy to terminate repeat infringers.
The above stated rights of action, however,
do not obligate SPIV Technologies Group
to monitor or exert editorial control
over the information made available
for distribution via the Services. In
the event SPIV Technologies Group takes
corrective action due to such possible
violation, SPIV Technologies Group shall
not be obligated to refund to you any
fees paid in advance of such corrective
action.
4.3 Disclosure Rights. To comply with
applicable laws and lawful governmental
requests, to protect SPIV Technologies
Group Technologies Group's systems and
customers, or to ensure the integrity
and operation of SPIV Technologies Group
Technologies Group's business and systems,
SPIV Technologies Group may access and
disclose any information it considers
necessary or appropriate, including,
without limitation, user profile information
(i.e., name, e-mail address, etc.),
IP addressing and traffic information,
usage history, and content residing
on SPIV Technologies Group Technologies
Group's servers and systems. SPIV Technologies
Group also reserves the right to report
any activity that it suspects violates
any law or regulation to appropriate
law enforcement officials, regulators,
or other appropriate third parties.
To the extent any inconsistency exists
between any terms of SPIV Technologies
Group Technologies Group's On-line Privacy
Practices and SPIV Technologies Group
Technologies Group's right disclose
under this section, SPIV Technologies
Group Technologies Group's right to
disclose under this section will control.
5. Disclaimed Warranties You acknowledge
and agree that SPIV Technologies Group
exercises no control over, and accepts
no responsibility for, the content of
the information passing through SPIV
Technologies Group Technologies Group's
host computers, network hubs and points
of presence, or the Internet. ALL SERVICES
PERFORMED HEREUNDER ARE PERFORMED "AS
IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY AGAINST
FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, ANY FAILURE DUE TO COMPUTER
HARDWARE OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS. EXCEPT
AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THIS AGREEMENT,
SPIV Technologies Group DOES NOT MAKE
AND HEREBY DISCLAIMS, AND YOU HEREBY
WAIVE ALL RELIANCE ON, ANY REPRESENTATIONS
OR WARRANTIES, ARISING BY LAW OR OTHERWISE,
REGARDING THE SERVICES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT,
OR ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE
OF PERFORMANCE OR USAGE IN TRADE.
6. Limitation and Exclusion of Liability
6.1 Limitations. IN NO EVENT SHALL
SPIV TECHNOLOGIES GROUP OR ITS SUPPLIERS
HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR UNAUTHORIZED
ACCESS TO, OR ALTERATION, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION
OF INFORMATION DISTRIBUTED OR MADE AVAILABLE
FOR DISTRIBUTION VIA THE SERVICES THROUGH
ACCIDENT, FRAUDULENT MEANS OR DEVICES.
NEITHER SPIV TECHNOLOGIES GROUP NOR
ITS SUPPLIERS SHALL HAVE LIABILITY WITH
RESPECT TO SPIV TECHNOLOGIES GROUP'
OBLIGATIONS UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, THE
ADDENDUM OR OTHERWISE FOR CONSEQUENTIAL,
EXEMPLARY, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR PUNITIVE
DAMAGES EVEN IF SPIV TECHNOLOGIES GROUP
HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT
ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF
LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION
OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
IN ANY EVENT, THE LIABILITY OF SPIV
TECHNOLOGIES GROUP AND ITS SUPPLIERS
TO YOU FOR ANY REASON AND UPON ANY CAUSE
OF ACTION SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT
ACTUALLY PAID TO SPIV TECHNOLOGIES GROUP
BY YOU UNDER THIS AGREEMENT AND THE
ADDENDUM DURING THE THREE (3) MONTHS
IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE ON WHICH
SUCH CLAIM ACCRUED. THIS LIMITATION
APPLIES TO ALL CAUSES OF ACTION IN THE
AGGREGATE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION,
TO BREACH OF CONTRACT, BREACH OF WARRANTY,
NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, MISREPRESENTATIONS,
AND OTHER TORTS. THE FEES FOR THE SERVICES
SET BY SPIV TECHNOLOGIES GROUP HEREUNDER
HAVE BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE BASED
UPON THIS ALLOCATION OF RISK. ACCORDINGLY,
YOU HEREBY RELEASE SPIV TECHNOLOGIES
GROUP AND ITS SUPPLIERS FROM ANY AND
ALL OBLIGATIONS, LIABILITIES, AND CLAIM
IN EXCESS OF THE LIMITATION STATED IN
THIS SECTION 6.1.
6.2 Interruption of Service. You hereby
acknowledge and agree that SPIV Technologies
Group and its suppliers will not be
liable for any temporary delay, outages
or interruptions of the Services. Further,
SPIV Technologies Group shall not be
liable for any delay or failure to perform
its obligations under this Agreement,
where such delay or failure results
from any act of God or other cause beyond
its reasonable control (including, without
limitation, any mechanical, electronic,
communications or third-party supplier
failure).
7. Indemnification You hereby release
and hold harmless, and agree to indemnify,
SPIV Technologies Group and its affiliates
and suppliers (and their respective
employees, directors and representatives)
against any and all claims, actions,
proceedings, suits, liabilities, damages,
settlements, penalties, fines, costs
or expenses (including, without limitation,
reasonable attorneys' fees and other
litigation expenses) incurred by SPIV
Technologies Group or its suppliers,
arising out of or relating to (a) your
violation or breach of any term, condition,
representation or warranty of this Agreement,
the Addendum or any applicable policy
or guideline; (b) your improper or illegal
use the Services; or (c) your violation,
alleged violation, or misappropriation
of any intellectual property right (including,
without limitation, trademark, copyright,
patent, trade secrets) or non-proprietary
right of a third party (including, without
limitation, defamation, libel, violation
of privacy or publicity).
8. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
8.1 Entire Agreement. This Agreement,
in conjunction with all policies and
guidelines incorporated herein by reference,
constitutes the entire agreement between
you and SPIV Technologies Group with
respect to the subject matter hereof
and there are no representations, understandings
or agreements which are not fully expressed
in this Agreement and the related policies
and guidelines.
8.2 No Fiduciary Relationship; No Third-Party
Beneficiaries. SPIV Technologies Group
is not the agent, fiduciary, trustee
or other representative of you. Except
for the rights of SPIV Technologies
Group Technologies Group's suppliers
under sections 6 and 7 hereof, nothing
expressed or mentioned in or implied
from this Agreement is intended or shall
be construed to give to any person other
than the parties hereto any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under
or in respect to this Agreement. This
Agreement and all of the representations,
warranties, covenants, conditions and
provisions hereof are intended to be
and are for the sole and exclusive benefit
of the parties hereto.
8.3 Amendments. Except as expressly
provided in this Agreement, no amendment,
change, waiver, or discharge hereof
shall be valid unless in writing and
signed by the parties.
8.4 Choice of Law and Forum. THIS AGREEMENT,
INCLUDING THE ADDENDUM, WILL BE GOVERNED
BY THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, WITHOUT REFERENCE
TO RULES GOVERNING CHOICE OF LAWS. ANY
ACTION RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT MUST
BE BROUGHT IN THE FEDERAL OR STATE COURTS
LOCATED IN SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, AND
YOU IRREVOCABLY CONSENT TO THE JURISDICTION
OF SUCH COURTS.
8.5 Compliance With Laws. You shall
at all times comply with all applicable
laws and regulations and shall indemnify
and save SPIV Technologies Group harmless
from your failure to so comply. You
agree that SPIV Technologies Group shall
not have to perform any obligations
set forth in this Agreement if such
performance would violate any present
or future law, regulation or policy
of any applicable government.
8.6 Non-Assignment. You may not assign
this Agreement or any right or obligation
hereunder by operation of law or otherwise,
without SPIV Technologies Group Technologies
Group's prior written consent. SPIV
Technologies Group may assign its rights
and obligations under this Agreement
and may utilize affiliate and/or agents
in performing its duties and exercising
its rights hereunder, without your consent.
Subject to that restriction, this Agreement
will be binding on, inure to the benefit
of, and be enforceable against the parties
and their respective successors and
assigns.
8.7 No Waiver. SPIV Technologies Group
Technologies Group's failure to enforce
the strict performance of any provision
of this Agreement will not constitute
a waiver of SPIV Technologies Group
Technologies Group's right to subsequently
enforce such provision or any other
provisions hereunder or thereunder.
8.8 Severability. Should any term or
provision hereof be deemed invalid,
void or unenforceable either in its
entirety or in a particular application,
the remainder of this Agreement if applicable,
shall nonetheless remain in full force
and effect and, if the subject term
or provision is deemed to be invalid,
void or unenforceable only with respect
to a particular application, such term
or provision shall remain in full force
and effect with respect to all other
applications.
8.9 Acceptance. YOUR SIGNATURE ON A
HARD COPY OF THIS AGREEMENT IS NOT REQUIRED
IN ORDER FOR THE AGREEMENT TO BE LEGALLY
BINDING ON YOU. YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE,
HAVING THE SAME FORCE AND EFFECT AS
IF YOU HAD ACTUALLY SIGNED A HARD COPY
OF THIS AGREEMENT