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By using the website hosting services (hereinafter the "Services,"
defined further below), you signify your agreement to the terms and
conditions contained in this Website Hosting Agreement (hereinafter, the
"Agreement"). This Agreement is between you, your organization (if you
are entering into this Agreement on behalf of an organization),
collectively referred to herein as "you" or "your" (and appropriate
formatives), the website hosting service provider offering these
services to you, if any, (the "Primary Service Provider") and the
backend service provider, Commerce Street, Inc., d.b.a
CommerceStreet.com. (the "Backend Service Provider"), collectively
referred to herein as "The Server Provider".
- These terms and conditions may be modified from time to time.
Modifications made to this Agreement will become effective 30 days
after the modifications are posted. This Agreement shall be posted
through the interface which you use to configure and/or otherwise
order the Services (the "Services Interface"). You agree that you will
check the terms and conditions periodically and that, if you no longer
agree to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, that you will
stop using the Services and that you will terminate the Services as
described below in paragraph 4.
- The Services consist of the website hosting package with the
specific configuration which you selected or are going to select
through the Services Interface as you use the Services. You
acknowledge and understand that important service limitations
(including bandwidth limitations and other capacity matrices), pricing
(including pricing for optional Services, such as automatic capacity
upgrade in the event of overage), the term of the Service, payment
terms, and other conditions relating to the Services are conveyed
through the Services Interface and are hereby incorporated into this
Agreement.
- You are hereby informed that, if you use a credit card to pay for
the Services, that the charge for the Services may appear under a name
other than the name of the Primary Service Provider (the name being
generally descriptive of the Services) and that, prior to contacting
your credit card company in relation to such charges, that you will
first contact the Primary Service Provider to verify the charges and
the manner of billing. You agree that any chargeback by a credit card
company (or similar action by another payment provider) of a charge
related to the Services, for whatever reason, is a material breach of
this Agreement and is grounds for termination. You further agree that,
upon a chargeback by you, you agree and acknowledge that The Server
Provider may suspend your access to any account you have with The
Server Provider and your use of any domain names, websites, website
content, email, or other data hosted on The Server Provider systems.
The Server Provider will reinstate your rights solely at The Server
Provider's discretion, and subject to receipt of the fee owed and
then-current reinstatement fee.
- You agree that the Services shall be provided for the term you
selected through the Services Interface. Unless you terminate the
Services THROUGH THE SERVICES INTERFACE prior to the end of the then
extant Services term, you agree that the Services may be renewed for
another term of equal duration to the immediately preceding term and
that the resulting fees shall be charged to the credit card associated
with your account. You agree to hereby waive any requirement which
might otherwise be imposed by law which would require that either the
Primary Service Provider or the Backend Service Provider obtain your
affirmative consent for on-going billings and that your continuing
consent to be billed for such renewal(s) may be presumed until such
time as you terminate the Services through the Services Interface. You
agree that attempts to terminate the Services other than through the
Services Interface (such as by sending an email to a general email
address of either the Primary Service Provider or the Backend Service
Provider) are not reliable means of communication and that such a
termination attempt shall not binding until accepted and acknowledged
by either the Primary Service Provider or the Backend Service
Provider. In relation to renewals, you further agree that it is your
obligation to keep the credit card information associated with your
account current and that neither the Primary Service Provider nor the
Backend Service Provider shall be obligated to contact you to update
such information in the event that the charges are denied.
- You agree that you may not downgrade (reduce) the bandwidth or
other capacity matrices of the Services below the level of actual use
of the Services which you experienced in the current or previous
month.
- Your use of the Services may be suspended and/or this Agreement
may be terminated if either the Primary Service Provider or the
Backend Service Provider determines that you are or are alleged to be
violating the terms and conditions of this Agreement or any other
agreement entered into by you and either the Primary Service Provider
or the Backend Service Provider. In the event of termination or
suspension of Services under such circumstances, you agree a) that no
pre-paid fees will be refunded to you and b) that either the Primary
Service Provider or the Backend Service Provider may take control of
any domain name associated with the terminated Services, provided such
domain name was registered through the domain name registration
services of either the Primary Service Provider or the Backend Service
Provider. You understand that taking control of a domain name
includes, without limitation, acts such as listing such controlling
party as the "registrant" and/or "administrative contact" for the
domain name and controlling the DNS settings for the domain name.
- Either the Primary Service Provider or the Backend Service
Provider may elect to terminate this Agreement without cause and
discontinue the Services upon 30 days notice, whereupon any pre-paid
fees for an unused portion of a service term shall be refunded to you
within a reasonable period of time. You further agree that, within 30
days of your initial enrolment to receive the Services, either the
Primary Service Provider or the Backend Service Provider may elect to
terminate this Agreement without cause and that, in such event, the
termination shall take effect immediately and that any pre-paid fees
for an unused portion of your service term shall be refunded to you
within a reasonable period of time.
- The Services are provided through an infrastructure which is
shared by all users of the Services. Your use of the Services may be
throttled or suspended indefinitely if your use of the Services
degrades the ability of either the Primary Service Provider or the
Backend Service Provider to provide the Services to other users of the
Services.
- You acknowledge that email and/or online communication systems
(chat, account notices, etc.) will be the primary means of
communication between yourself and the Primary Service Provider and/or
the Backend Service Provider. You acknowledge that it is your
responsibility to maintain a current email address and physical
mailing address in your contact information. You further agree that
you will regularly login to your account to obtain any notices posted
through the Services Interface. You agree that your failure to respond
to a communication from either the Primary Service Provider or the
Backend Service Provider may result in suspension or cancellation of
Services without any refund of pre-paid fees, if any.
- You acknowledge that neither the Primary Service Provider nor
Backend Service Provider are obligated to return any data to you upon
termination of this Agreement. You acknowledge that it is your
responsibility to download, make copies of, and/or backup all data
residing on the servers and other equipment which provide the Services
and to do so within the bandwidth limitations of the Services. You
acknowledge that any loss or corruption of data which occurs due to an
interruption in the Services, regardless of the cause of the
interruption, shall not be the responsibility of the Primary Service
Provider or Backend Service Provider and that you may, following an
interruption in the Services, be required to upload the data to the
servers and other equipment which provide the Services.
- You agree that any personally identifying information provided by
you shall be used by the Primary Service Provider according to the
privacy policy of the Primary Service Provider, if any, and by the of
the Backend Service Provider according to the privacy policy posted at
http://www.commercestreet.com/PrivacyPromise.htm.
- You represent and warrant as follows: that a) you are lawfully
entitled to use, display, posses, or access the data uploaded, linked
to, framed, or otherwise posted on your website by you and/or by the
users of your website; b) that your website and your use of the
Services will not infringe the intellectual property rights of any
third party; c) that your website and your use of the Services will
not violate any laws, including, without limitation, laws relating to
unsolicited commercial email, child pornography, collection of
identifying information, consumer protection, and privacy; d) that
neither you nor those who access your website will upload any worms,
virus, or malicious code to the servers which provide the Services;
and e) that your website and your use of the Services will not subject
either the Primary Service Provider or Backend Service Provider to any
claims by any third party, including claims relating to infringement
of intellectual property rights or claims relating to the products or
services which you may provide or offer through the website hosted
through the Services.
- You further represent and warrant that you will not allow any
unauthorized third party to access the account which you use to access
the Services.
- EXCLUSIVE REMEDIES FOR UNPLANNED SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS:
CommerceStreet.com makes certain guarantees as to service availability
(Up Time). You agree
that the remedy for any unplanned or unannounced interruptions in the Services shall
be remedied by the guarantees to you. CommerceStreet.com will credit
it's customer for one month of service if up-time falls below 99.9% in any
calendar month period. CommerceStreet.com makes certain guarantees as
to uptime on in-bound email services. If specified on customer's
invoice,
CommerceStreet.com will credit it's customer for one month of service
if in-bound email up-time falls below 100% in any calendar month period.
Such credits shall exclusively be applied
against the fees owed for your next period of hosting, if any, or
shall be exclusively be accomplished by adjusting the end of your
then-current Service term.
- LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: YOU AGREE THAT NEITHER THE PRIMARY
SERVICE PROVIDER NOR BACKEND SERVICE PROVIDER WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY
(A) SUSPENSION OR LOSS OF THE SERVICES, EXCEPT TO THE LIMITED EXTENT
THAT A REMEDY IS PROVIDED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT; (B) INTERRUPTION OF
BUSINESS; (C) ACCESS DELAYS OR ACCESS INTERRUPTIONS TO THE WEB SITE(S)
PROVIDED THROUGH OR BY THE SERVICES; (D) LOSS OR LIABILITY RESULTING
FROM ACTS OF GOD; (E) DATA NON-DELIVERY, MIS-DELIVERY, CORRUPTION,
DESTRUCTION OR OTHER MODIFICATION; (F) EVENTS BEYOND THE CONTROL OF
THE PRIMARY SERVICE PROVIDER OR BACKEND SERVICE PROVIDER; (G) THE
PROCESSING OF YOUR APPLICATION FOR THE SERVICES; OR (H) LOSS OR
LIABILITY RESULTING FROM THE UNAUTHORIZED USE OR MISUSE OF YOUR
ACCOUNT IDENTIFIER OR PASSWORD. YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT NEITHER THE
PRIMARY SERVICE PROVIDER NOR BACKEND SERVICE PROVIDER WILL BE LIABLE
FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY
KIND (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS) REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION WHETHER
IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE, REGARDLESS OF
WHETHER OR NOT EITHER THE PRIMARY SERVICE PROVIDER OR BACKEND SERVICE
PROVIDER HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO
EVENT SHALL THE MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF EITHER THE PRIMARY
SERVICE PROVIDER OR THE BACKEND SERVICE PROVIDER EXCEED THE TOTAL
AMOUNT PAID BY YOU FOR THE SERVICES FOR A ONE-MONTH PERIOD, BUT IN NO
EVENT GREATER THAN ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00). BECAUSE SOME STATES
DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR
CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, IN SUCH STATES, THE LIABILITY OF
THE PRIMARY SERVICE PROVIDER AND/OR BACKEND SERVICE PROVIDER SHALL BE
LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
- INDEMNIFICATION: YOU AGREE TO RELEASE, INDEMNIFY, AND HOLD THE
PRIMARY SERVICE PROVIDER AND BACKEND SERVICE PROVIDER, THEIR
CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND AFFILIATES
HARMLESS FROM ALL LIABILITIES, CLAIMS AND EXPENSES, INCLUDING
ATTORNEY'S FEES AND COURT COSTS, FOR THIRD PARTY CLAIMS RELATING TO
YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES OR ARISING UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING
WITHOUT LIMITATION, INFRINGEMENT BY YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE USING YOUR
COMPUTER, OF ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OR OTHER PROPRIETARY RIGHT OF
ANY PERSON OR ENTITY, OR FROM THE VIOLATION OF ANY TERM OR CONDITION
OF THIS AGREEMENT. WHEN EITHER THE PRIMARY SERVICE PROVIDER AND/OR
BACKEND SERVICE PROVIDER MAY BE INVOLVED IN A SUIT INVOLVING A THIRD
PARTY AND WHICH IS RELATED TO THE SERVICES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT,
EITHER THE PRIMARY SERVICE PROVIDER AND/OR BACKEND SERVICE PROVIDER
MAY SEEK WRITTEN ASSURANCES FROM YOU IN WHICH YOU PROMISE TO INDEMNIFY
AND HOLD SUCH PARTIES HARMLESS FROM THE COSTS AND LIABILITIES
DESCRIBED IN THIS PARAGRAPH. SUCH WRITTEN ASSURANCES MAY INCLUDE THE
POSTING OF PERFORMANCE BONDS OR OTHER GUARANTEES. YOUR FAILURE TO
PROVIDE SUCH ASSURANCES MAY BE CONSIDERED A BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT
BY YOU.
- You agree that the Backend Service Provider shall not be liable
for the actions, inactions, negligence, or intentional misconduct of
the Primary Service Provider. You acknowledge and agree that neither
the Primary Service Provider nor the Backend Service Provider are
agents for one another.
- DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES: NEITHER THE PRIMARY SERVICE PROVIDER NOR
BACKEND SERVICE PROVIDER MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS NOR WARRANTIES OF
ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THIS
AGREEMENT OR THE SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, UNLESS SUCH
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES ARE NOT LEGALLY EXCLUDABLE. YOU
UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ANY MATERIAL AND/OR DATA DOWNLOADED OR
OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN
DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE
DOWNLOAD OF SUCH MATERIAL AND/OR DATA. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION,
WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM EITHER THE PRIMARY
SERVICE PROVIDER OR BACKEND SERVICE PROVIDER SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY
NOT EXPRESSLY MADE HEREIN. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE
EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY
NOT APPLY TO YOU.
- GOVERNING LAW: this Agreement, your rights and obligations and all
actions contemplated by this Agreement shall be governed by the laws
of the United States of America and the State of Texas, as if the
Agreement was a contract wholly entered into and wholly performed
within the State of Texas. You agree that any action to enforce this
Agreement or any matter relating to your use of the Services shall be
brought exclusively in the United States District Court in Tarrant
County, Texas, or if there is no jurisdiction in such court, then in a
state court in Tarrant County, Texas. You consent to the personal and
subject matter jurisdiction of any state or Federal court in Tarrant
County, Texas state in relation to any dispute arising under this
Agreement. You agree that service of process on you by either the
Primary Service Provider or Backend Service Provider in relation to
any dispute arising under this Agreement may be served upon you by
first class mail to the address listed by you in your contact
information or by electronically transmitting a true copy of the
papers to the email address listed by you in your contact information.
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