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Terms of Services
ccHawaii.net provides its
Services to you, subject to the following Terms of Services ("Terms"),
which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you. You
can review the most current version of the Terms at any time at http://www.cchawaii.net/terms.html.
In addition, when using particular ccHawaii.net Servicess, you and ccHawaii.net
shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such Servicess
which may be posted from time to time. All such guidelines or rules are
hereby incorporated by reference into the Terms. Every client claims that
he/she is at least 18 years of age and agrees to the terms below.
1. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES
ccHawaii.net currently provides
users and customers of its users with webhosting, domain name registration,
website design, colocation and programming Services (“Services”). Unless
explicitly stated otherwise, any new features that augment or enhance the
current Servicess, including the release of new ccHawaii.net properties,
shall be subject to the Terms. You understand and agree that the Servicess
are provided "as-is" and that ccHawaii.net assumes no responsibility for
the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or failure to store any user communications
or settings. We do not support Chat rooms!
2. YOUR OBLIGATIONS
In consideration of your
use of the Services, you agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current
and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Services' registration
form "Registration Data") and (b) maintain and promptly update the Registration
Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any
information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, ccHawaii.net
has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all
current or future use of the Services (or any portion thereof). You will
receive a password and account esignation upon completing the Services's
registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality
of the password and account, and are fully responsible for all activities
that occur under your password or account. You agree to (a) immediately
notify ccHawaii.net of any nauthorized use of your password or account
or any other breach of security, and (b) ensure that you exit from your
account at the end of each session. You also agree to backup your files
on a local machine. cchawaii.net does not provide backup services on your
behalf. ccHawaii.net cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage
arising from your failure to comply with this Section 2.
Every client that uses the
domain registration services of cchawaii.net additionally acknowledges
to have read and agrees to the Registration Agreement, which is incorporated
into these Terms by reference and can be found at http://www.cchawaii.net/domainterms-cchawaii.html,
as well as to the current ICANN domain name dispute policy (“Dispute Policy”)
which is incorporated into these Terms by reference and can be found at
http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm. As consideration for the Services provided
by ccHawaii.net, you agree to pay ccHawaii`s current fees according to
the ccHawaii.net fee schedule which is incorporated into this Agreement
by reference and can be found at http://www.cchawaii.net/hosting.html.
Payments must be made by credit card as specified on the ccHawaii.net application
form. Your account will not be activated unless and until ccHawaii.net
has received appropriate authorization from your credit card company. Payment
is handled on a quarterly base on an automated base. All payments must
be paid in advance. Fees are charged to the credit card that is listed
for your account. The client is responsible to update account/credit card
information. In case of a declined card or a chargeback, the account is
subject to deletion without further notification. You agree that ccHawaii.net
shall have no liability whatsoever with respect to any such cancellation.
If at anytime taxes shall become due and payable to any third party related
to a Service with ccHawaii.net on your behalf, fees payable by you to ccHawaii.net
under this agreement will increase by such amount.
3. USE POLICY
You acknowledge that ccHawaii.net
may establish general practices and limits concerning use of the Services,
including without limitation the maximum number of days that email messages,
or other uploaded Content will be retained by the Services, the maximum
number of email messages that may be sent from or received by an account
on the Services, the maximum size of any email message that may be sent
from or received by an account on the Services, the maximum disk space
that will be allotted on ccHawaii.net's servers on your behalf, and the
maximum number of times (and the maximum duration for which) you may access
the Services in a given period of time. You agree that ccHawaii.net has
no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any
messages and other communications or other Content maintained or transmitted
by the Services. You acknowledge that ccHawaii.net reserves the right to
log off accounts that are inactive for an extended period of time. You
further acknowledge that ccHawaii.net reserves the right to change these
general practices and limits at any time, in its sole discretion, with
or without notice.
You acknowledge that ccHawaii.net
does not pre-screen Content, but that ccHawaii.net and its designees shall
have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse
or move any Content that is available via the Services. Without limiting
the foregoing, ccHawaii.net and its designees shall have the right to remove
any Content that violates the Terms or is otherwise objectionable. You
acknowledge and agree that ccHawaii.net may preserve Content and may also
disclose Content if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief
that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply
with legal process; (b) enforce the Terms; (c) respond to claims that any
Content violates the rights of third-parties; or (d) protect the rights,
property, or personal safety of ccHawaii.net, its users and the public.
You understand that all information and data or other materials ("Content"),
whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility
of the person from which such Content originated. This means that you,
and not ccHawaii.net, are entirely responsible for all Content that you
upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available via the Services.
Under no circumstances will ccHawaii.net be liable in any way for any Content,
including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any Content,
or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of
any Content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available via
the Services.
Pornography and sex-related
merchandising are also prohibited on all servers. This includes sites that
may infer sexual content, or link to adult content elsewhere. This is also
true for sites that promote any illegal activity or content that may be
damaging to our servers or any other server on the Internet. Links to such
materials are also prohibited.
Due to the resources certain
web-sites carry, the following are limited to 4 gigabytes of free monthly
traffic: Distribution sites. That includes, but is not limited to: shareware
sites, mirror sites, etc. Multimedia archives, sound, video, mp3. Any site
whose primary purpose is file distribution. Excessive traffic costs $0.05/
MB megabyte/month.
System and Network Security
Violations of system or
network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability.
Examples include, but are not limited to the following: Unauthorized access,
use, probe, or scan of a systems security or authentication measures, data
or traffic. Interference with service to any user, host or network including,
without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload
a system and broadcast attacks. Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or
any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting.
Any ATTEMPT to undermine
or cause ANY harm to a server is strictly prohibited. We reserve the right
to refuse or cancel service at our sole discretion. Any violation of these
guidelines will result in immediate deactivation of services without refund.
Misuse of System Resources
It is a violation for anyone
who, including but not limited to, employs posts or programs which consume
excessive CPU time or storage space, permits the use of mail services,
mail forwarding capabilities, POP accounts, or auto responders other than
for their own account; or resale of access to CGI scripts installed on
our servers.
Each domain has its own
cgi-bin directory. You are free to install and use whatever scripts you
wish, but we reserve the right to disable any CGI script that might effect
the normal server operation.
Tortious Conduct
No one shall post defamatory,
scandalous, or private information about a person without their consent,
or violating trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights.
Spamming
Sending unsolicited mail
messages, including, without limitation, commercial advertising and informational
announcements, is explicitly prohibited. A user shall not use another site's
mail server to relay mail without the express permission of the site. It
is contrary to ccHawaii.net’s USE POLICY for customers to use our servers
to effect or participate in any of the following activities: To post to
any Usenet or other newsgroup, forum, e-mail mailing list or other similar
group or list articles which are off-topic according to the charter or
other owner-published FAQ or description of the group or list; To engage
in any of the foregoing activities using the service of another provider,
but channeling such activities through a ccHawaii.net provided server,
or using a ccHawaii.net provided server as a maildrop for responses; To
falsify user information provided to ccHawaii.net or to other users of
the service in connection with use of a ccHawaii.net service. Leaving background
processes running after logging out is also disallowed. Send inquiries
to IRC and Telnet are prohibited on all servers. Recognizing the global
nature of the Internet, you agree to comply with all local rules regarding
online conduct and acceptable Content. Specifically, you agree to comply
with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported
from the United States or the country in which you reside.
Consequences of Violation
When ccHawaii.net becomes
aware of an alleged violation of its Use Policy, ccHawaii.net will initiate
an investigation. During the investigation ccHawaii.net may restrict Customer
's access in order to prevent further possible unauthorized activity. Depending
on the severity of the violation, ccHawaii.net may, at its sole discretion,
restrict, suspend, or terminate Customer's account and/or pursue other
civil remedies. If such violation is a criminal offense, ccHawaii.net will
notify the appropriate law enforcement department of such violation. ccHawaii.net
does not issue service credits for any outages incurred through service
disablement.
4. INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and
hold ccHawaii.net, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents,
co-branders or other partners, and employees, harmless from any claim or
demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due
to or arising out of Content you submit, post, transmit or make available
through the Services, your use of the Services, your connection to the
Services, your violation of the Terms, or your violation of any rights
of another.
5. MODIFICATIONS
ccHawaii.net reserves the
right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily
or permanently, the Services (or any part thereof) with or without notice.
You agree that ccHawaii.net shall not be liable to you or to any third
party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Services.
6. TERMINATION
To cancel your account(s),
you may terminate this agreement by giving cchawaii.net thirty (30) days
notice prior to the next billing date. Cancellation notices are only accepted
in written form, by email, fax or postal mail. Your account, then,
would be cancelled and deleted on the next billing date. We don't refund
paid charges for any web hosting accounts or InterNic fees. With free domains
we bill a cancellation fee of minimum one year at $35 or the paid period.
If we do not receive a cancellation in time we automatically renew the
account.
You agree that ccHawaii.net,
in its sole discretion, may terminate your password, account (or any part
thereof) or use of the Services, and remove and discard any Content within
the Services, for any reason, including, without limitation, if ccHawaii.net
believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with these Terms.
ccHawaii.net may also in its sole discretion and at any time discontinue
providing the Services, or any part thereof, with or without notice. You
agree that any termination of your access to the Services under any provision
of this Terms may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and
agree that ccHawaii.net may immediately deactivate or delete your account
and all related information and files in your account and/or bar any further
access to such files or the Services. Further, you agree that ccHawaii.net
shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your
access to the Services.
7. DISCLAIMER
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND
AND AGREE THAT:
a. YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES
IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE"
BASIS. ccHawaii.net EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL ARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR URPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
b. ccHawaii.net MAKES NO
WARRANTY THAT (i) THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) THE SERVICES
WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) THE RESULTS
THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE,
AND (iv) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED.
8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND
AND AGREE THAT ccHawaii.net SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT
NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER
INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF ccHawaii.net HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE
SERVICES; (ii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS
OR DATA; (iii) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICES;
OR (iv) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SERVICES. BECAUSE SOME STATES
DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL
DAMAGES, IN SUCH STATES, OUR LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED
BY LAW.
9. NOTICE
Notices to you may be made
via either email or regular mail.
10. GENERAL
The Terms constitute the
entire agreement between you and ccHawaii.net and govern your use of the
Services, superceding any prior agreements between you and ccHawaii.net.
You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply
when you use affiliate Servicess, third-party content or third-party software.
The Terms and the relationship between you and ccHawaii.net shall be governed
by the laws of the State of Hawaii without regard to its conflict of law
provisions. You and ccHawaii.net agree to submit to the personal and exclusive
jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of Maui, Hawaii. The
failure of ccHawaii.net to exercise or enforce any right or provision of
the Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If
any provision of the Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction
to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor
to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision,
and the other provisions of the Terms remain in full force and effect.
You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim
or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Services or
the Terms must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of
action arose or be forever barred.
Hawaii, USA 2001
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