Website Hosting Terms

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR HOSTING CLIENTS OF ASCENDANCY INTERNET MARKETING

You ‘the Customer’ indicate acceptance of these terms and conditions of service by placing an order with Ascendancy Internet Marketing Limited. These terms and conditions will not be varied for individual customers.

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, trademarks, 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 “ASCENDANCY” means Ascendancy Internet Marketing Limited a company registered in England and Wales under number 05664084 whose registered office is at 5 Chetwynd End, Newport, Shropshire, England, TF10 7JJ
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 ASCENDANCY in connection with the provision of the Services;
1.1.7 “the Services” means web hosting and any domain name registration we agree to carry out for you but excludes any other services or facilities provided by ASCENDANCY which are provided under the terms of other written contracts with you.
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;
1.1.11 “Customer Software” means as defined in clause 3.2;
1.1.12 “Content” means as defined in clause 6.2
1.1.13 “ Website” means the Customer’s world wide web site to be hosted by ASCENDANCY pursuant to this Agreement.
1.2 Words denoting the singular shall include the plural and vice versa and words denoting any gender shall include all genders.
1.3 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
2.1 The Customer wishes to provide ASCENDANCY with data that will be hosted on ASCENDANCY’s Servers and made accessible via the Internet.

2.2 ASCENDANCY provides web hosting services and has agreed to host the Customer’s data upon the following terms and conditions. For the avoidance of doubt, these terms and conditions only cover the Services.

3 DUTIES
3.1 ASCENDANCY 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 ASCENDANCY the Website and the software used in the Website (including but not limited to any plug in software) which is owned by the Customer, or licensed to him by a third party or ASCENDANCY (“the Customer Software), in a format specified by ASCENDANCY.

4 CHARGES ,PAYMENT
4.1 Payment for the Services must be made by bank transfer into our bank account (details of which appear on our invoice).
4.2 ASCENDANCY do not accept cheques, postal orders, cash or any other form of payment other than that outlined in 4.1.
4.3 The Charges are exclusive of VAT, which if payable shall be paid by the Customer.
4.4 ASCENDANCY 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 ASCENDANCY do not provide credit facilities.
4.6 From time to time ASCENDANCY 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 Pro-rata refunds will not be issued for yearly Services that are cancelled before the end of the year.
4.8 Should you fail to pay ASCENDANCY under and in accordance with these terms and conditions ASCENDANCY will be entitled to stop provision of the Services.
4.9 Services last for a year from when they are first provided and payment for Services is made in advance for each year. Prior to the end of any year of Services ASCENDANCY will invoice the Customer in advance for the forthcoming year of Services. If the invoice is not paid prior to the commencement of the forthcoming year of Services then the Services shall cease and ASCENDANCY shall have no further liability to the Customer to provide the Services.

5 IP ADDRESSES
5.1 ASCENDANCY reserves the right in its sole discretion to change or remove any and all IP Addresses.
5.2 Where ASCENDANCY 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 ASCENDANCY agrees to sublicense to the Customer software such as plug in software which has been licensed to ASCENDANCY (“ASCENDANCY’s Sub Licensable Software”) in order to use the Services then to the extent (if at all) Ascendancy is able to do so ASCENDANCY grants to the Customer a, non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to use ASCENDANCY’s Sub Licensable 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 any other Software owned by or licenced to ASCENDANCY.
6.2 In relation to ASCENDANCY’s obligations under this Agreement in connection with the provision of the Services, the Customer grants to ASCENDANCY 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 ASCENDANCY 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 ASCENDANCY Software.
6.4 ASCENDANCY may make such copies of the Customer Content as may be necessary to perform its obligations under this Agreement, including backup copies of the Content. Upon termination or expiration of this Agreement, ASCENDANCY shall be entitled to destroy all such copies of the Content and other materials provided by the Customer.

7 SERVICE LEVELS AND DATA BACKUP
7.1 ASCENDANCY shall use its reasonable endeavours to make the server and the Services available to the Customer but because the Services are provided by means of computer and telecommunications systems, ASCENDANCY makes no warranties or representations that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free and ASCENDANCY shall not, in any event, be liable for interruptions of Service or Downtime of the server.
7.2 ASCENDANCY carries out data backups for use by ASCENDANCY in the event of systems failure. ASCENDANCY do not provide data restoration facilities for individual customers. Even though every effort is made to ensure data is backed up correctly ASCENDANCY accepts no responsibility for data loss or corruption.

8 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 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; or
8.1.7 obtain or attempt to obtain access, through whatever means, to areas of ASCENDANCY’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;
8.1.9 breach any applicable law including, but not limited, to the Data Protection Act 1998.
8.2 The Customer has full responsibility for the Content of the Website. For the avoidance of doubt, ASCENDANCY 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 8.1 ASCENDANCY 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 ASCENDANCY and the password will be changed.

10 WARRANTIES

10.1 The Customer warrants and represents to ASCENDANCY that ASCENDANCY’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 ASCENDANCY 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, ASCENDANCY 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 ASCENDANCY 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 ASCENDANCY 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 ASCENDANCY’s liability for death or personal injury resulting from ASCENDANCY’s negligence or that of its employees, agents or sub-contractors.
12.2 The entire liability of ASCENDANCY 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 ASCENDANCY be liable to the Customer for any loss of business, loss of opportunity or loss of profits or for any indirect or consequential loss or damage whatsoever. This shall apply even where such a loss was reasonably foreseeable or ASCENDANCY had been made aware of the possibility of the Customer incurring such a loss.

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 ASCENDANCY 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.

14 ASSIGNMENT
14.1 ASCENDANCY 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 ASCENDANCY’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 ASCENDANCY will provide a full refund for that domain name.
20.2 Individual domain name registrars have their own terms and conditions for registration, maintenance of registration, transfer and dispute resolution etc

21 SCRIPTING
ASCENDANCY 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.

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
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.

25 EMAIL NEWSLETTER
ASCENDANCY may communicate with its customers via email from time to time and as such you agree to receive by email updates from Ascendancy including amongst other things changes to our terms and conditions, notification of major outages, updates to our products & features and special offers.

26 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 housekeeping when maintaining their account.

27 MAIL BOXES
Mail boxes not accessed for 100 days or more may be deleted from the system.