Terms and Conditions
Last updated 8th March 2011.
You indicate acceptance of these terms and conditions of service by placing an order with Buzme Media Limited, Buzme Internet and US Hosting Services, USH Internet, ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com. These terms and conditions will not be varied for individual customers. Please read through these terms and conditions carefully and print a copy for future reference.
1. DEFINITIONS
1.1 In this Agreement the following words and expressions shall have the following meanings: 1.1.1 "downtime" means any service interruption in the availability to visitors of the Website; 1.1.2 "intellectual property rights" means patents, trade marks, design rights, applications for any of the foregoing, copyright, topography rights, database rights, rights in know-how, trade or business names and other similar rights or obligations, whether registrable or not in any country; 1.1.3 "USH Internet, Buzme Internet" means ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com ( a trading name for Buzme Media Limited) the company; 1.1.4 "IP address" stands for internet protocol address which is the numeric address for the server; 1.1.5 "ISP" stands for internet service provider; 1.1.6 "server" means the computer server equipment operated by USH Internet and Buzme Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) in connection with the provision of the Services; 1.1.7 "the Services" means web hosting, domain name registration, email and any other services or facilities provided by USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com). 1.1.8 "spam" means sending unsolicited and/or bulk emails; 1.1.9 "virus" means a computer programme that copies itself or is copied to other storage media, including without limitation magnetic tape cassettes, memory chips, electronic cartridges, optical discs and magnetic discs, and destroys, alters or corrupts data, causes damage to the user's files or creates a nuisance or annoyance to the user and includes without limitation computer programs commonly referred to as "worms" or "trojan horses"; 1.1.10 "visitor" means a third party who has accessed the Website; 1.2 Product specifications and details may be found at http://www.ushostingservices.com and http://www.buzmeinternet.com. 1.3 Words denoting the singular shall include the plural and vice versa and words denoting any gender shall include all genders. 1.4 The headings of the paragraphs of this Agreement are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of or to affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement. 2. INTRODUCTION www.ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com are sites operated by Buzme Media Limited ("we", "us" and "our"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 07717612 and have our registered office at Trimble House, 9 Bold Street, Warrington, UK, WA1 1DN. 2.1 The Customer wishes to provide USH Internet and Buzme Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) with data that will be hosted on USH Internet (ushostingservices.com)'s servers and made accessible via the Internet. 2.2 Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) provides web hosting services and has agreed to host the Customer's data upon the following terms and conditions. 2.3 By placing an order through our website, you warrant that: 2.4 you are legally capable of entering into binding contracts; and 2.5 you are at least 18 years old. 2.6 If you are acting on behalf of a company or other business, you further warrant that you personally have the authority to bind that company or business on whose behalf you are placing an order. 3. DUTIES 3.1 Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) shall provide to the Customer the Services specified in their order subject to the following terms and conditions. 3.2 The Customer shall deliver to Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) the website and the software used in the website which is owned by the Customer, or licensed to him by a third party or Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) ("the Customer Software), in a format specified by Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com). 4 CHARGES ,PAYMENT AND 30 DAY MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE 4.1 Payment methods include credit cards (including MasterCard and Visa), debit cards (including Switch/Maestro) and direct debits 4.2 Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) do not accept cheques, bank transfers, postal orders, cash or any other form of payment other than those outlined in 4.1 4.3 The Charges are exclusive of VAT, which if payable shall be paid by the Customer. 4.4 Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) shall be entitled to charge interest in respect of late payment of any sum due under this Agreement, which shall accrue from the date when payment becomes due from day to day until the date of payment at a rate of 8% per annum above the base rate of the Bank of England from time to time in force. 4.5 Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) do not provide credit facilities. 4.6 From time to time Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) may make enquiries on the Customers company, proprietor or directors of the Customers company with credit reference agencies. These agencies may record that a search has been made and share this information with other businesses. 4.7 Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) provide a "30 Day Money-Back Guarantees" on certain products. Should your product qualify for this guarantee please raise a support ticket at http://www.ushostingservices.com within 30 days of placing your order for a full refund. This guarantee excludes any add-on services and domain names which may not be cancelled once ordered. Customers are limited to using the money-back guarantee once. In the event of a free domain offer with selected hosting plans and a "30 Day Money-Back Guarantee" only the remaining difference after deducting the cost of the domain will be refunded from the amount you paid. This means the cost of the domain cannot be refunded. 4.8 Pro-rata refunds will not be issued for yearly or monthly services that are cancelled before then end of the year. 4.9 Should your chosen payment method fail Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) will attempt to settle your invoice using any other payment facilities available on your account. 4.10 All services will renew until cancelled by the customer. Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) emails the customers primary email address prior to renewal of services, it is the customers responsibility to cancel services prior to renewal as no refund can be made once renewal has occurred. Customers must notify us at least 72 hours before a service is renewed if they wish to cancel that service. The cancellation process must be fully completed by you before your account is cancelled. 5. IP ADDRESSES 5.1 Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) shall maintain control and ownership of the IP address that is assigned to the Customer as part of the Services and reserves the right in its sole discretion to change or remove any and all IP addresses. 5.2 Where Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) changes or removes any IP address it shall use its reasonable endeavours to avoid any disruption to the Customer. 6. SOFTWARE LICENCE AND RIGHTS 6.1 If the Customer requires use of software owned by or licensed to USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) ("USH Internet (ushostingservices.com)'s software") in order to use the Services, USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) grants to the Customer and its employees, agents and third party consultants and contractors, a royalty-free, world-wide, non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to use USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) Software in object code form only, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, this Agreement does not transfer or grant to the Customer any right, title, interest or intellectual property rights in USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) Software. 6.2 In relation to USH Internet (ushostingservices.com)'s obligations under this Agreement in connection with the provision of the Services, the Customer grants to USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) a royalty-free, world-wide, non-exclusive licence to use the Customer Software and all text, graphics, logos, photographs, images, moving images, sound, illustrations and other material and related documentation featured, displayed or used in or in relation to the website ("the Content"). For the avoidance of doubt, this Agreement does not transfer or grant to USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) any right, title, interest or intellectual property rights in the Customer Software or the Content. 6.3 The Customer undertakes that he will not himself or through any third party, sell, lease, license or sublicense USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) Software. 6.4 USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) may make such copies of the Customer Content as may be necessary to perform its obligations under this Agreement, including back up copies of the Content. Upon termination or expiration of this Agreement, USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) shall destroy all such copies of the Content and other materials provided by the Customer as and when requested by the Customer. 7. SERVICE LEVELS AND DATA BACKUP 7.1 USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) shall use its reasonable endeavours to make the server and the Services available to the Customer 99.9% of the time but because the Services are provided by means of computer and telecommunications systems, USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) makes no warranties or representations that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) shall not, in any event, be liable for interruptions of Service or downtime of the server. 7.2 USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) carries out data backups for use by USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) in the event of systems failure. USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) do not provide data restoration facilities for individual customers. Even though every effort is made to ensure data is backed up correctly USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) accepts no responsibility for data loss or corruption. 7.3 It is your responsibility to maintain appropriate and up-to-date back-up copies of any data, information or other material you upload (or permit to be uploaded) onto our servers ("Material") as part of your use of the Hosting Services. In the event of loss of or damage to your Material, you will not be given access to the server back-up we maintain pursuant to our archiving procedure. 7.4 We will follow our archiving procedures for the data stored on our servers. In the event of any loss or damage to our servers, your sole and exclusive remedy will be for us to use reasonable commercial efforts to restore the data on our servers (including your Material) from the latest back-up we maintained in accordance with our archiving procedure. We will not be responsible for any loss, destruction, alteration or disclosure of your Material caused by you or any third party. 8. ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY Please read our: Hosting Acceptable Use Policy 8.1 The website and use of the Services may be used for lawful purposes only and the Customer may not submit, publish or display any content that breaches any law, statute or regulation. In particular the Customer agrees not to: 8.1.1 use the Services or the website in any way to send unsolicited commercial email or "spam", or any similar abuse of the Services; 8.1.2 send email or any type of electronic message with the intention or result of affecting the performance of any computer facilities; 8.1.3 publish, post, distribute or disseminate defamatory, obscene, indecent or other unlawful material or information, or any material or information which infringes any intellectual property rights (for the avoidance of doubt this includes licensed software distributed as Warez), via the Services or on the Website; 8.1.4 threaten, abuse, disrupt or otherwise violate the rights (including rights of privacy and publicity) of others; 8.1.5 engage in illegal or unlawful activities through the Services or via the Website; 8.1.6 make available or upload files to the website or to the Services that the Customer knows contain a virus, worm, trojan or corrupt data; or 8.1.7 obtain or attempt to obtain access, through whatever means, to areas of USH Internet (ushostingservices.com)'s network or the Services which are identified as restricted or confidential. This includes leaving your home directory whilst using SSH access to servers. 8.1.8 operate or attempt to operate IRC bots or other permanent server processes. 8.2 The Customer has full responsibility for the content of the Website. For the avoidance of doubt, USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) is not obliged to monitor, and will have no liability for, the content of any communications transmitted by virtue of the Services. 8.3 If the Customer fails to comply with the Acceptable Use Policy outlined in Clause 8.4 USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) shall be entitled to withdraw the Services and terminate the Customer's account without notice. 9 ALTERATIONS AND UPDATES All alterations and updates to the website shall be made by the Customer using the online account management facility, FTP access or SSH access where available. The Customer will be issued with a user name and password in order to access the account. The Customer must take all reasonable steps to maintain the confidentiality of this user name and password. If the Customer reasonably believes that this information has become known to any unauthorised person, the Customer agrees to immediately inform USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) and the password will be changed. 10 WARRANTIES 10.1 The Customer warrants and represents to USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) that USH Internet (ushostingservices.com)'s use of the Content or the Customer Software in accordance with this Agreement will not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party and that the Customer has the authority to license the Content and the Customer Software to USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) as set out in Clause 6.2. 10.2 All conditions, terms, representations and warranties that are not expressly stated in this Agreement, whether oral or in writing or whether imposed by statute or operation of law or otherwise, including, without limitation, the implied warranty of satisfactory quality and fitness for a particular purpose are hereby excluded. In particular and without prejudice to that generality, USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) shall not be liable to the Customer as a result of any viruses introduced or passed on to the Customer. 11 INDEMNITY The Customer agrees to indemnify and hold USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) (Buzme Media Limited) (the company) and its employees and agents harmless from and against all liabilities, legal fees, damages, losses, costs and other expenses in relation to any claims or actions brought against USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) arising out of any breach by the Customer of the terms of this Agreement or other liabilities arising out of or relating to the Website. 12 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY 12.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude or limit USH Internet (ushostingservices.com)'s liability for death or personal injury resulting from USH Internet (ushostingservices.com)'s negligence or that of its employees, agents or sub-contractors. 12.2 The entire liability of USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) to the Customer in respect of any claim whatsoever or breach of this Agreement, whether or not arising out of negligence, shall be limited to the charges paid for the Services under this Agreement in respect of which the breach has arisen. 12.3 In no event shall USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) be liable to the Customer for any loss of business, loss of opportunity or loss of profits or for any other indirect or consequential loss or damage whatsoever. This shall apply even where such a loss was reasonably foreseeable or USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) had been made aware of the possibility of the Customer incurring such a loss. (See 12.6) 12.4 We do not monitor and will not have any liability for your Material or any other communication you transmit, or allow to be transmitted, by virtue of the Hosting Services. 12.5 Due to the public nature of the Internet, we shall not be liable for the protection of the privacy of electronic mail or any other information transferred through the Internet or via any network provider and no guarantee or representation is given that the Hosting Services will be free from hackers or unauthorised users. You shall be liable for the content of any emails transmitted by virtue of the Hosting Services, for any material you upload to, or allow to be uploaded to, our servers and for ensuring compliance at all times with all relevant legislation (including, but not limited to the Data Protection Act 1998 and all other privacy laws, regulations and guidance notes made or issued thereunder). 12.6 You are advised to acquire business interruption insurance, or other appropriate insurance, to protect you and your business in the event of interruption of the Services (in particular the Hosting or Mail Services). USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) (Buzme Media Limited) does not and will not be liable for any business interruptions due to the services we provide to you and your business/company. (See 12.3) 13 TERM AND TERMINATION 13.1 This Agreement will become effective on the date the service is ordered and shall continue until terminated by either party in writing of its intention to terminate the Agreement. 13.2 USH Internet (ushostingservices.com) shall have the right to terminate this Agreement with immediate effect by notice in writing to the Customer if the Customer fails to make any payment when it becomes due. 13.3 Either party may terminate this Agreement forthwith by notice in writing to the other if: 13.3.1 the other party commits a material breach of this Agreement and, in the case of a breach capable of being remedied, fails to remedy it within a reasonable time of being given written notice from the other party to do so; or 13.3.2 the other party commits a material breach of this Agreement which cannot be remedied under any circumstances; or 13.3.3 the other party passes a resolution for winding up (other than for the purpose of solvent amalgamation or reconstruction), or a court of competent jurisdiction makes an order to that effect; or 13.3.4 the other party ceases to carry on its business or substantially the whole of its business; or 13.3.5 the other party is declared insolvent, or convenes a meeting of or makes or proposes to make any arrangement or composition with its creditors; or a liquidator, receiver, administrative receiver, manager, trustee or similar officer is appointed over any of its assets. 13.4 Any rights to terminate this Agreement shall be without prejudice to any other accrued rights and liabilities of the parties arising in any way out of this Agreement as at the date of termination. 13.5 On termination all data held in the customers account will be deleted. 14 ASSIGNMENT 14.1 Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) may assign or otherwise transfer this Agreement at any time. 14.2 The Customer may not assign or otherwise transfer this Agreement or any part of it without Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com)'s prior written consent. 15 FORCE MAJEURE Neither party shall be liable for any delay or failure to perform any of its obligations if the delay or failure results from events or circumstances outside its reasonable control, including but not limited to acts of God, strikes, lock outs, accidents, war, fire, the act or omission of government, highway authorities or any telecommunications carrier, operator or administration or other competent authority, the act or omission of any Internet Service Provider, or the delay or failure in manufacture, production, or supply by third parties of equipment or services, and the party shall be entitled to a reasonable extension of its obligations after notifying the other party of the nature and extent of such events. 16 SEVERANCE If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason by any Court of competent jurisdiction such provision shall be severed and the remainder of the provisions hereof shall continue in full force and effect as if this Agreement had been agreed with the invalid illegal or unenforceable provision eliminated. 17 NOTICES Any notice to be given by either party to the other may be sent by either email, fax or recorded delivery to the address of the other party as appearing in this Agreement or such other address as such party may from time to time have communicated to the other in writing, and if sent by email shall unless the contrary is proved be deemed to be received on the day it was sent or if sent by fax shall be deemed to be served on receipt of an error free transmission report, or if sent by recorded delivery shall be deemed to be served 2 days following the date of posting. 18 ENTIRE AGREEMENT This Agreement contains the entire Agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter and supersedes any previous agreements, arrangements, undertakings or proposals, oral or written. This Agreement may be updated without notice. 19 GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and the parties hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts. 20 DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION 20.1 Domain names are not deemed to be successfully registered until they appear in the relevant whois database of the top level domain name registrar. In the event that a domain name is unavailable when we attempt to register it Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) will provide a full refund for that domain name. 20.2 Terms and conditions for individual domain name registrars can found at the bottom of this page. 20.3 On expiry, any domains that you fail to renew with us will fall into a 90 day redemption period. After this period the domain will be up for public re-sale. There is a fee of £200 to retreive your domain out of redemption within the given period. We will send out reminders, however, It is your responsibilty to be aware of your domains expiry date and renew in good time before the expiry date, should you wish to keep your domain. 20.4 Where the Contract includes our Domain Registration and Renewal Service: 20.5 we will endeavour to procure the registration of the domain name you request; 20.6 we will not be liable in the event that the relevant domain name registry refuses to register the domain name you request, or subsequently suspends or revokes any registration for that domain name; 20.7 we shall not act as your agent or on your behalf in any dealings with domain name registry; 20.8 the registration of the domain name you request and its ongoing use is subject to the relevant domain name registry's terms and conditions of use which you should obtain and consider 21 SCRIPTING Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) are not responsible for customer programming issues other than ensuring that programming languages such as Perl, PHP and ASP are installed and functioning on the web hosting system. 22 PRIVACY To protect your privacy we will not distribute your details to third parties, unless required to do so by law. Please read our: Privacy Policy 23 DATA TRANSFER 23.1 Web hosting accounts include a certain amount of data transfer, if you exceed this amount in any one month your account will be deactivated until you have upgraded to an account that has more data transfer included. 23.2 Web hosting accounts are prohibited from hosting file distribution websites (including but not limited to music, video and software), adult content orientated websites, hosting banners, graphics or cgi scripts for other websites, storing pages, files or data as a repository for other websites or personal computers, giving away web space under a domain, sub domain or directory. 24 SERVER USAGE - BANDWIDTH Should your account use more than 5% of the servers processing power and as a result have a detrimental effect on other customers we will discuss with you alternative solutions for your hosting requirements. Please read our: Hosting Acceptable Use Policy 25 AFFILIATE PROGRAMME Commission earned via the affiliate programme will only be paid by using a valid direct debit/credit mandate on your account. It is the customers responsibility to ensure they have this facility. In the event of the customer not being able to obtain this facility then no commission will be paid. 26 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Buzme Internet and USH Internet (ushostingservices.com, buzmeinternet.com) communicates with it's customers via email and as such you agree to receive by email our regular newsletter which contains amongst other things changes to our terms and conditions, notification of major outages, updates to our products & features and special offers. 27 WEBSPACE USAGE Unlimited web space is available for genuine web site content, content must be linked into web pages. Customers are prohibited from using the server as a file/backup repository. Customers are expected to employ good house keeping when maintaining their account. Please read our: Hosting Acceptable Use Policy 28 MAIL BOXES Mail boxes not accessed for 100 days or more will be deleted from the system. Emails should not be stored on the mail server for a long period of time. You should download your emails to a mail client on your PC. We may revise these terms and conditions at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Extended General Terms and Conditions & Domain Registration
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This acceptable use policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may use the hosting services we provide (“Hosting Services”). Your use of the Hosting Services means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in this acceptable use policy, which supplement our terms and conditions of sale.
You must not allow a third party to access or use the Hosting Services. If you have purchased one of our reseller hosting packages, you can allow a third party (a “Third Party”) to access or use the Hosting Services. If you do so, they will also be regulated by this acceptable use policy. As such, you will monitor the use of the Hosting Services by a Third Party and you will procure that they abide by this acceptable use policy. A breach of this acceptable use policy by a Third Party will be deemed to be a breach of this acceptable use policy by you.
The Hosting Services are provided by Buzme Media Limited (“we”, “us” and “our”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 07717612 and we have our registered office at Buzme Media Limited, Trimble House, 9 Bold St, Warrington WA1 1DN.
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