Terms of Service
Terms
and Conditions
This
policy represents the 88 KEYZ, INC. Terms of Service ("TOS") in its
entirety and supersedes any other written or oral policy. This policy defines
the terms of service all 88 KEYZ, INC. customers agree to when they sign-up for
any of the 88 KEYZ, INC. web site hosting services. 88 KEYZ, INC. reserves the
exclusive right to change, amend or revise any portion of this TOS policy at
any time, with or without written notice to our customers.
Customers using any services offered by 88 KEYZ, INC. agree to be obligated by
and must comply with all policies in this TOS or must otherwise opt out of and
cancel their web hosting service with 88 KEYZ, INC.. 88 KEYZ, INC. retains the
sole discretion to make judgment regarding any violation by any 88 KEYZ, INC.
customer and may take action against any customer deemed to be in violation of
these terms including the cancellation of any customer’s services without
refund and/or, if deemed appropriate, be legally prosecuted.
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General Provisions
In consideration for 88 KEYZ, INC. maintaining one or more accounts (each
"Account"), you, as the 88 KEYZ, INC. customer, agree to the
following terms of service.
Definitions
- "We" "Us"
or "Provider" or "88 KEYZ, INC." .88-keyz.com.
- "You"
"Your" "Client" "Customer" or
"Member" - Each person or entity who applies for internet
service or is a designate of anyone who applies for internet service.
Disclaimer
of Warranty
The Internet and web site hosting relies on a complex network of hardware,
software, network services and providers of information. Due to the need for an
aggregate of all of these providers and service companies working properly not
all services may be available to you at all times.
88 KEYZ, INC. however, offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee. This is valid for only
the 88 KEYZ, INC. servers and our primary co-location internet connection. 88
KEYZ, INC. shall pursue partnerships with all tier-1 resource and channel
available to maintain maximum uptime, however, 88 KEYZ, INC. is not responsible
for any down time caused by any provider’s hardware or network malfunction
which is outside of 88 KEYZ, INC. capability to directly correct. 88 KEYZ, INC.
clients are diverse and their web sites and the function of those web sites are
diverse and 88 KEYZ, INC. cannot be held responsible for any service
interruption due to client's error, including but not limited to spamming, the
target of a DDOS attack, or any other internet or cyber attack.
88 KEYZ, INC. MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
TO WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
USE) WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES IT PROVIDES. Neither 88 KEYZ, INC. nor any
one else involved in the provision of Service is liable to you or any
third-party for direct or indirect damages resulting from the use, non-use of
services provided herein, whether or not such damages resulted from the
negligence of 88 KEYZ, INC., even if 88 KEYZ, INC. has been advised to the
possibility of such damages.
Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT SHALL 88 KEYZ, INC. BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
PUNITIVE OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST
PROFITS AND DAMAGES RELATED TO CORRUPTION OR DELETION OF WEBSITE CONTENTS,
EMAIL DATA AND OR DATABASE CONTENTS) ARISING OUT OF OR IN RELATION TO THIS
AGREEMENT OR YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE 88 KEYZ, INC.. SERVICES (INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, INOPERABILITY OF 88 KEYZ, INC.. SERVERS), REGARDLESS OF THE
FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE,
EVEN IF 88 KEYZ, INC. HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN
NO EVENT SHALL 88 KEYZ, INC.. MAXIMUM LIABILITY EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY
YOU TO 88 KEYZ, INC. FOR THE SERVICES DURING THE PRIOR TWELVE (12) MONTHS. TO
THE EXTENT APPLICABLE LOCAL LAW DOES NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR
CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, 88 KEYZ, INC.. LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE
EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold 88 KEYZ, INC. and its affiliates,
directors, officers, employees and agents harmless from and against any
liabilities, losses, damages or costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees,
resulting from any third-party claim, action, dispute or demand related to your
use of the Services, your violation of any of the provisions of this Agreement
or from your placement or transmission of any materials or content onto 88
KEYZ, INC. servers. Such liabilities may include, but are not limited to, those
arising from the following: (a) with respect to your business, (i) infringement
or misappropriation of any intellectual property rights; (ii) defamation,
libel, slander, obscenity, pornography, or violation of the rights of privacy
or publicity; or (iii) spamming, or any other offensive, harassing or illegal
conduct or violation of the acceptable uses described herein or anti-spam
policy; (b) any damage or destruction to 88 KEYZ, INC.. equipment or to any
other accountholder, which damage is caused by or otherwise results from acts
or omissions by you, your representative(s) or your designees; (c) any personal
injury or property damage arising out of your activities related to the
Services, unless such injury or property damage is caused solely by 88 KEYZ,
INC.. gross negligence or willful misconduct; and (d) any other damage arising
from your equipment or your business.
CHOICE OF LAW
This Agreement shall be interpreted under the laws of the State of Florida
without regard to any conflict of laws provisions. Any action between the
parties to this agreement for the breach of this agreement or any action or
claim in any way relating thereto shall be venued in the Superior Court of the
State of Florida , County of Pinellas . The parties to this agreement hereby
consent to jurisdiction in that court and agree to accept service by mail and
hereby waive any defense of any kind related to jurisdiction or venue.
Services Provided by 88 KEYZ, INC.
88 KEYZ, INC. will provide Internet server rental ("the Service") to
its members for the express purpose of allowing customers to provide http
Internet content to the general public. The Service allows 88 KEYZ, INC.
members to maintain Internet websites, receive and maintain e-mail accounts and
access web space via FTP to upload files for their websites. 88 KEYZ, INC.
members will use the provided services in a manner consistent with any and all
applicable laws. 88 KEYZ, INC. provides the Services exclusively and makes no
effort to edit, control, monitor or restrict the content of data other than as
necessary to provide such Services. 88 KEYZ, INC. reserves the right to refuse
service to potential and/or existing customers to protect its existing paying
customers. If any of the below violates are committed, 88 KEYZ, INC. can
terminate client's account without notification.
88 KEYZ, INC. provides timely web site hosting support to our clients through
emails, and support tickets. By accepting your client contract agreement with 88
KEYZ, INC You agree not to abuse whether verbally or physically or whether in
person, via email, live chat or telephone or otherwise (a) any other customer
of 88 KEYZ, INC and any employee or contractor of 88 KEYZ, INC.
- Client Content:
Client agrees that web pages and files uploaded to servers will not
violate any state, national or foreign laws or regulations; infringe on
any intellectual property rights of 88 KEYZ, INC. or any third party; be
defamatory, slanderous or trade libelous; be threatening or harassing; be
discriminatory based on gender, race, age; promote hate; or contain
viruses or other computer programming defects which result in damage to 88
KEYZ, INC. or any third party. Customers may not run IRC, bots or clients.
Clients may not use 88 KEYZ, INC. servers for file storage unrelated to
the client's web site, storage Space is for active web site file pages
only. 88 KEYZ, INC.' shared hosting account holders may not act as a
reseller, which means that clients may not host any web sites in their add-on
domains that are not domains owned by the client on record at 88 KEYZ,
INC.. You will need to opt-in for our reseller
hosting service. Unacceptable uses also include: Bulk
unsolicited emailing, unsolicited e-mailings, newsgroup spamming, child
pornography, hardcore pornography or links to such sites, copyrighted MP3,
copyrighted music, copyrighted video, illegal content, copyright
infringement, trademark infringement, warez, cracks, software serial
numbers, proxy(ies) and image/file sharing web sites. 88 KEYZ, INC. will
be the sole and final arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this
policy. 88 KEYZ, INC. does not normally monitor the contents of clients
servers, however if suspicion occurs, 88 KEYZ, INC. reserves the right to
investigate and terminate the clients subscription to the service.
- Unlimited Features:
What do you mean by "unlimited bandwidth/data transfer"
We do not set limits on the bandwidth (data transfer) that we provide in
plans that are marked "Unlimited". We want you to have the
resources available to you to build a great online presence.
Even though we want you to succeed, we need to ensure that we're providing
all of our customers with optimum service. As such we do require all of
our customers to be fully compliant with our Excessive Resource User
Policy/Terms of Service and utilize disk space and bandwidth related to
normal operation of a personal or small business web site.
If a customer's hosting account is found to have violated the client
content, excessive resource user policy and/or is storing files for
archiving purposes, the contents will be removed and while we make best
effort to contact customers before hand, can occur without notice.
- Excessive Resource User Policy:
Resources are defined as bandwidth, memory and/or processor utilization. 88
KEYZ, INC. offers a shared web hosting service in which environment customers
may share resources with other customers, therefore it is imperative that 88
KEYZ, INC. control any excessive usage by customers so that they do not
disrupt the service quality of other customers using the same resources. A
website is considered using "Excessive amounts of resources"
when it monopolies the resources available using 8% or more of system
resources for longer than 60 seconds. There are numerous issues that could
cause such problems, including but not limited to: cgi scripts, FTP, HTTP,
etc. Any site that consumes over the account limit of bandwidth is also
considered an "excessive resource" user. In the event of
excessive resource usage 88 KEYZ, INC. may act in the following manner: if
the excessive usage may cause a disruption of service to any other
customer, 88 KEYZ, INC. may suspend that customer’s account prior to
notify that customer, 88 KEYZ, INC. may also contact the .excessive usage.
customer prior to taking any action if 88 KEYZ, INC. feels that the
excessive usage will not interfere with the service of any other customer.
Client suspensions prior to notification by 88 KEYZ, INC. is rare and is
only implemented in extreme circumstances and is intended to prevent the
misuse of our servers. The client whom is using "excessive
resources" may be asked to upgrade his/her package to one of our
dedicated server packages to reduce their excessive usage utilization in
the future. 88 KEYZ, INC. will be the sole and final arbiter as to what
constitutes a violation of this policy.
- No "Spam":
UCE/UBE or "Spam" originating from a server located on our
network or associated with a 88 KEYZ, INC. server is not tolerated. This
includes any e-mail that promotes web sites hosted on a server located on
the 88 KEYZ, INC. network but is sent from an e-mail address not associated
with that 88 KEYZ, INC. account. Client shall not use their 88 KEYZ, INC.
services for chain letters, junk mail, bulk-email, or any use of
distribution lists to any person who has not given specific permission to
be included in such a process. 88 KEYZ, INC. reserves the right to
deactivate or terminate any account(s) upon any indication of such
activity without notice.
- Excessive Exploits
88 KEYZ, INC. allows 3rd party scripts to be uploaded/installed from our
auto-installer or manually (those scripts that are/aren't included in the
auto-installer) on your web hosting account. It is the responsibility or
our web hosting clients to maintain the latest exploit free version of the
scripts. If a script that our web hosting clients uploads to our servers
is found to have security lapses and allows a third party to
"hack", "exploit", "deface" their site(s) it
is the responsibility of our clients to either remove that script or 88
KEYZ, INC. reserves the right to terminate that clients' account and
provide them with a prorated refund.
- False Information:
Customer agrees not to post false or inaccurate information to news groups
in violation of the news groups rules and regulations. If any news groups
or service provider contact 88 KEYZ, INC. concerning unethical, false or
unlawful activities by you, 88 KEYZ, INC. reserve the right to suspend or
terminate your service with or without notice.
- Licensed Software Only:
Client agrees to use only properly licensed third party software in connection
with Client's use of the Services.
- Back-Up Files:
88 KEYZ, INC. provides the tools needed to create back ups of account
data. It is the responsibility of the customer to keep up-to-date archives
of their backed up data. 88 KEYZ, INC. does not back-up, or keep records
or copies of our clients web site files and is not responsible for any
loss of data.
Payment, Renewal,
Cancellations
- Payment
Obligations:
Full payment is required in advance before hosting service is established.
88 KEYZ, INC. sends out invoices that are due every pay period. You are
given fifteen (15) days to fully pay the invoice.
You warrant and represent that the information you supply in the Order
Form (or other information that 88 KEYZ, INC. may require) is accurate and
truthful. All payment-due notices will be sent by e-mail. No bills or
invoices will be sent by postal mail or fax. If payment was not received
by the due-date, your account will be suspended. It is the client’s
responsibility to ensure that payment is made to 88 KEYZ, INC. prior to
the renewal date and although 88 KEYZ, INC. sends renewal notices to our
customers prior to their renewal date, because of the ability for a
customer to change their contact email addresses without notifying 88
KEYZ, INC., the customer is ultimately responsible for remembering their
renewal date and to make sure payment is made upon the renewal.
- Renewals:
Your account will be automatically renewed under the same time and fee
structure unless you give written notice to 88 KEYZ, INC. thirty (30) days
before the renewal date that you do not wish to renew or make changes to
such account. For accounts who used a coupon upon their initial purchase
to reduce the cost of signing up with 88 KEYZ, INC. those coupons are good
for only the initial purchase and initial activation of the customers'
account and the coupon is not applied to the renewal of their customer
account.
- Late Fees:
Clients have the option to pay an invoice at any time by logging into
their 88 KEYZ, INC. account and submitting a payment. An invoice that is
not paid by the due date is automatically marked overdue in the system. If
an invoice is overdue by more than four days (the grace period), the
account is automatically suspended and a $15.00 late fee is added to the
account. To reactivate an account that is suspended for failure to submit
a payment within the grace period, a payment for the original invoiced
amount plus $15.00 must be submitted to 88 KEYZ, INC..
- Cancellation & Refunds:
Should you become dissatisfied with our services within the first 30 days
of your account activation, 88 KEYZ, INC. will refund your hosting fee
subject to the money back guarantee terms listed in this agreement.
Refunds are not available for customers after the 30 days of account
activation. You may however cancel your account at any time in order to
make sure that your account is not renewed. You will need to contact
customer service and verify information before cancellation takes place.
You will be charged in full for the entire month in which you cancelled
your account. Accounts which have negative balances will be sent to
collections and all services will be terminated, including domain
registrations. Refunds are never available for domain registrations.
Domain Names transferred to our service incur an additional year of
registration and therefore are considered a domain registration. Domain
registration fees are $24.95/yr. Domain names of customers which leave our
hosting service will be refunded the package price total less the domain
registration fee if the customer leaves 88 KEYZ, INC. hosting service
within the 30 day money back guarantee.
99.9% Service Level Agreement "
SLA"
88 KEYZ, INC. offers its clients a 99.9% network uptime guarantee for customer
satisfaction purposes and also to ensure that your business is running problem
free. 88 KEYZ, INC. will try to maintain maximum uptime. 88 KEYZ, INC. is not
responsible for any downtime caused by the client.
30-Day Money Back Guarantee
88 KEYZ, INC. offers an unconditional 30-day money back guarantee that covers
cancellations of a web hosting account made during the first 30 days of
service, due to the inability to deliver satisfactory services. As a part of
our strive to achieve industry leading customer satisfaction, the customer will
be refunded all hosting charges made to their credit card minus any setup fees
or domain name costs which are non-refundable. The guarantee does not apply to
accounts with non-use, misuse, and/or abuse of this agreement. Domain name
registrations are also non-refundable. Domain Names transferred to our service
incur an additional year of registration and therefore are considered a domain
registration. Domain registration fees are $15.00/yr. Domain names of customers
which leave our hosting service will be refunded the package price total less
the domain registration fee if the customer leaves 88 KEYZ, INC. hosting
service within the 30 day money back guarantee. Any questions regarding the
30-day money back guarantee should be forwarded to sales@88-keyz.com |
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