IMPORTANT NOTICE: *All
Payments To PSS Hosting.com Are Non-Refundable*
PSS Hosting.com. ("The Company")
agrees to furnish services to the Subscriber, subject
to the following TOS (Terms of Service).
Use of PSS Hosting.com
Service constitutes acceptance and agreement to PSS
Hosting.com’s AUP as well as PSS Hosting.com’s
TOS (Terms of Service).
All provisions of this
contract are subject to the TOS (Terms of Service)
of PSS Hosting.com and AUP (Acceptable Use Policy).
The AUP may be changed from time to time at the discretion
of the Company. Subscriber understands that change
to the AUP by the Company shall not be grounds for
early contract termination or non-payment.
This Agreement shall
be construed in all respects in accordance with the
laws of the state of Texas, county of Harris applicable
to contracts enforceable in that state. Venue will
be Harris County, Texas
1. Disclosure to Law Enforcement: The AUP specifically
prohibits the use of our service for illegal activities.
Therefore, Subscriber agrees that the Company may
disclose any and all subscriber information including
assigned IP numbers, account history, account use,
etc. to any law enforcement agent who makes a written
request without further consent or notification to
the Subscriber. In addition PSS Hosting.com shall
have the right to terminate all service set forth
in this Agreement.
2. Service Rates: Subscriber acknowledges that the
nature of the service furnished and the initial rates
and charges have been communicated to Subscriber.
Subscriber is aware that the Company may prospectively
change the specified rates and charges from time to
time. The promotional offer is contingent upon Company
achieving and maintaining its cost of service goals
including but not limited to rates charged to company
by its suppliers.
3. Payment: Establishment of this service is dependent
upon receipt by the Company of payment of stated charges.
Subsequent payments are due on the anniversary date
of the month for that month's service. The above applies
to all accounts and services provided by PSS Hosting.com.
4. Payments and Fees: Credit cards that are declined
for any reason are subject to a $1.00 declination
fee. Service will be interrupted on accounts that
reach 10 days past due. Service interrupted for nonpayment
is subject to a $10 for hosting plans, $25 for reseller
plans and $100 for dedicated server plans, as a reconnect
charge. Accounts not paid by due date are subject
to a $5 late fee. Accounts that are not collectable
by PSS Hosting.com may be turned over to an outside
collection agency for collection. If your account
is turned over for collection, you agree to pay the
company a "Processing and Collection" Fee
of not less than $50 nor more than $150. If you desire
to cancel your account, please follow the proper procedure
to do this as outlined in this TOS.
5. Refund and Disputes: All payments to PSS Hosting.com
are nonrefundable. This includes the one time setup
fee and subsequent charges regardless of usage. All
overcharges or billing disputes must be reported within
60 days of the time the dispute occurred. If you dispute
a charge to your credit card issuer that, in PSS Hosting.com’s
sole discretion is a valid charge under the provisions
of the TOS and /or AUP, you agree to pay PSS Hosting.com
an "Administrative Fee" of not less than
$50 and not more than $150.
6. Failure to Pay: The Company may temporarily deny
service or terminate this Agreement upon the failure
of Subscriber to pay charges when due. Such termination
or denial will not relieve Subscriber of responsibility
for the payment of all accrued charges, plus reasonable
interest and any collection fees.
7. Account Cancellation: Requests for canceling accounts
may be made in writing with at least 30 days notice
but not more than 60 days prior written notice and
sent to:
PSS Hosting.com
Attn: Cancellations
35 Riverstone Dr
Jasper GA 30143
Or you may email your
request to cancellations@psshosting.com
PSS Hosting.com preferred
method of cancellation is via the members section
of your PSS Hosting.com account. Please log into the
members section at www.psshosting.com and you can
request to have your server cancelled there via the
online cancellation form.
You must have all account
information to cancel.
8. Subscriber acknowledges that the service provided
is of such a nature that service can be interrupted
for many reasons other than the negligence of the
company and that damages resulting from any interruption
of service are difficult to ascertain. Therefore,
subscriber agrees that the company shall not be liable
for any damages arising from such causes beyond the
direct and exclusive control of the company. Subscriber
further acknowledges that the company's liability
for its own negligence may not in any event exceed
an amount equivalent to charges payable by subscriber
for services during the period damages occurred. In
no event shall the company be liable for any special
or consequential damages, loss or injury.
9. New Domain Accounts: All new webhosting accounts
involving new domains will be set up and entered into
our DNS servers within 3 to 5 business days. Due to
unforeseen complications, however, this process may
sometimes require up to 7 business days. If the new
domain is registered by the account holder, there
will be no handling fee. If the domain is registered
by PSS Hosting.com on behalf of the account holder
a handling fee will be incurred.
10. Transfer of Domains: New webhosting accounts which
involve the transfer of a domain from another provider
to PSS Hosting.com will require a minimum of seven
(7) days to be set up and entered into our DNS servers.
In some cases, such transfers may take up to sixty
(60) days. Due to the unpredictable nature of the
transfer process, no guarantees are made regarding
the amount of time a specific transfer may take. If
the transfer of the domain is done by PSS Hosting.com
on behalf of the account holder a handling fee will
be incurred. If the customer cancels service during
the transfer period for any reason, all charges are
considered earned.
11. Support Boundaries: PSS Hosting.com, provides
24 x 7 technical support to our subscribers (except
for few holidays and short company meetings when we
close our center.) We limit our technical support
to our area of expertise. The following is our guidelines
when providing support: PSS Hosting.com provides support
related to your server or virtual site physical functioning.
PSS Hosting.com does not offer tech support for application
specific issues such as cgi programming, html or any
other such issue. PSS Hosting.com does not provide
technical support for YOUR customers. If you can email,
we encourage you to email support@psshosting.com for
assistance. If you are able to get online and have
other questions, the answers may be on our home page
at http://www.psshosting.com/support/ - we encourage
you to check there first. Lastly, the Help files in
the program you are using may have the answer to your
question so please do investigate these resources
before calling tech support.
12. SPAM and Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE): PSS
Hosting.com takes a zero tolerance approach to the
sending of Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) or SPAM
over our network. Very simply this means that customers
of PSS Hosting.com may not use or permit others to
use our network to transact in UCE. Customers of PSS
Hosting.com may not host, or permit hosting of, sites
or information that is advertised by UCE from other
networks. Violations of this policy carry severe penalties,
including termination of service.
a. Violation of PSS Hosting.com's SPAM policy will
result in severe penalties. Upon notification of an
alleged violation of our SPAM policy, PSS Hosting.com
will initiate an immediate investigation (within 48
hours of notification). During the investigation,
PSS Hosting.com may restrict customer access to the
network to prevent further violations. If a customer
is found to be in violation of our SPAM policy, PSS
Hosting.com may, at its sole discretion, restrict,
suspend or terminate customer's account. Further,
PSS Hosting.com reserves the right to pursue civil
remedies for any costs associated with the investigation
of a substantiated policy violation. PSS Hosting.com
will notify law enforcement officials if the violation
is believed to be a criminal offense.
b. First violations of this policy will result in
an "Administrative Fee" of $250 and your
account will be reviewed for possible immediate termination.
A second violation will result in an "Administrative
Fee" of $500 and immediate termination of your
account. Users who violate this policy agree that
in addition to these "Administrative" penalties,
they will pay "Research Fees" not to exceed
$175 per hour that PSS Hosting.com personnel must
spend to investigate the matter. PLEASE, DO NOT SPAM
from your account.
c. As our Customers are ultimately responsible for
the actions of their clients over the PSS Hosting.com
network, it is advisable that Customers develop a
similar, or stricter, policy for their clients.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
BEGINNING IMMEDIATELY, anyone hosting websites or
services on their server that support spammers or
cause any of our IP space to be listed in any of the
various Spam Databases will have their server immediately
removed from our network. The server will not be reconnected
until such time that you agree to remove ANY and ALL
traces of the offending material immediately upon
reconnection and agree to allow us access to the server
to confirm that all material has been COMPLETELY removed.
Severe violations may result in immediate and permanent
removal of the server from our network without notice
to the customer. Any server guilty of a second violation
WILL be immediately and permanently removed from our
network without notice.
13. Network
a. IP Address Ownership: If PSS Hosting.com assigns
Customer an Internet Protocol address for Customer's
use, the right to use that Internet Protocol address
shall belong only to PSS Hosting.com, and Customer
shall have no right to use that Internet Protocol
address except as permitted by PSS Hosting.com in
its sole discretion in connection with the Services,
during the term of this Agreement. PSS Hosting.com
shall maintain and control ownership of all Internet
Protocol numbers and addresses that may be assigned
to Customer by PSS Hosting.com, and PSS Hosting.com
reserves the right to change or remove any and all
such Internet Protocol numbers and addresses, in its
sole and absolute discretion. Our allocation of IP
addresses is limited by ARIN's new policies. These
new policies state that use of IP addresses for IP
based virtual hosts will not be accepted as justification
for new IP addresses. What this means to you is that
you MUST use name-based hosting where possible. We
will periodically review IP address usage, and if
we find that clients are using IP addresses where
name-based hosting could be used, we will revoke authorization
to use those IP addresses that could be used with
name-based hosting.
b. Bandwidth and Disk Usage: Customer agrees that
bandwidth and disk usage shall not exceed the number
of megabytes per month for the Services ordered by
Customer on the Order Form (the "Agreed Usage").
PSS Hosting.com will monitor Customer's bandwidth
and disk usage. PSS Hosting.com shall have the right
to take corrective action if Customer's bandwidth
or disk usage exceeds the Agreed Usage. Such corrective
action may include the assessment of additional charges,
disconnection or discontinuance of any and all Services,
or termination of this Agreement, which actions may
be taken is in PSS Hosting.com's sole and absolute
discretion. If PSS Hosting.com takes any corrective
action under this section, Customer shall not be entitled
to a refund of any fees paid in advance prior to such
action. In the event that a customer exceeds the included
allocation, PSS Hosting.com may, at its sole discretion,
collect a deposit, in an amount determined by PSS
Hosting.com, against customer's credit card on file
with PSS Hosting.com.
c. System and Network Security: Users are prohibited
from violating or attempting to violate the security
of the PSS Hosting.com Network. Violations of system
or network security may result in civil or criminal
liability. PSS Hosting.com will investigate occurrences,
which may involve such violations and may involve,
and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in
prosecuting Users who are involved in such violations.
These violations include, without limitation:
i. Accessing data not intended for such User or logging
into a server or account, which such User is not authorized
to access.
ii. Attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability
of a system or network or to breach security or authentication
measures without proper authorization.
iii. Attempting to interfere with service to any user,
host or network, including, without limitation, via
means of overloading, "flooding", "mail
bombing" or "crashing".
iv. Forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of
the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup
posting.
v. Taking any action in order to obtain services to
which such User is not entitled.
14. Notification of
Violation:
a. PSS Hosting.com is under no duty to look at each
customer's or user's activities to determine if a
violation of the AUP has occurred, nor do we assume
any responsibility through our AUP to monitor or police
Internet-related activities.
b. First violation: Any User, which PSS Hosting.com
determines to have violated any element of this Acceptable
Use Policy, shall receive an email, warning them of
the violation. The service may be subject at PSS Hosting.com's
discretion to a temporary suspension pending a User's
agreement in writing, to refrain from any further
violations.
c. Second Violation: Users that PSS Hosting.com determines
to have committed a second violation of any element
of this Acceptable Use Policy shall be subject to
immediate suspension or termination of service without
further notice.
d. We reserve the right, to drop the section of IP
space involved in Spam or Denial-of-Service complaints
if it is clear that the offending activity is causing
great harm to parties on the Internet. In particular,
if open relays are on your network or a customer's
network, or if denial of service attacks are originating
from your network. In certain rare cases, we may have
to do this before attempting to contact you. If we
do this, we will contact you as soon as is feasible.
15. Suspension of Service
or Cancellation: PSS Hosting.com reserves the right
to suspend network access to any customer if in the
judgment of the PSS Hosting.com network administrators
the customer's server is the source or target of the
violation of any of the other terms of the AUP or
for any other reason which PSS Hosting.com chooses.
If inappropriate activity is detected, all accounts
of the Customer in question will be deactivated until
an investigation is complete. Prior notification to
the Customer is not assured. In extreme cases, law
enforcement will be contacted regarding the activity.
The customer will not be credited for the time the
customer's machines were suspended.
16. PSS Hosting.com reserves the right to amend its
policies at any time. All Sub-Networks, resellers
and managed servers of PSS Hosting.com must adhere
to the above policies. Failure to follow any term
or condition will be grounds for immediate Cancellation.
You will be held responsible for the actions of your
clients in the matter described on these Terms and
conditions. Therefore, it is in your best interest
to implement a similar or stricter Terms and conditions
or otherwise called Acceptable Terms of use policy.
17. Indemnification: PSS Hosting.com wishes to emphasize
that in agreeing to the PSS Hosting.com Acceptable
Use Policy (AUP) and Terms of Service (ToS), customer
indemnifies PSS Hosting.com for any violation of the
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and Terms of Service (ToS)
that results in loss to PSS Hosting.com or the bringing
of any claim against PSS Hosting.com by any third-party.
This means that if PSS Hosting.com is sued because
of a customer's or a customer of a customer's activity,
the customer will pay any damages awarded against
PSS Hosting.com, plus all costs and attorney's fees.
18. Miscellaneous Provisions: You must provide us
with, and keep current, good contact information for
you. E-mail, fax, and telephone contacts are used,
in that order of preference.
a. A waiver by the Company of any breach of any provision
of this Agreement by Subscriber shall not operate
as or be construed as a continuing or subsequent waiver
thereof or as a waiver of any breach of any other
provision thereof.
b. Subscriber shall not transfer or assign this Agreement
without the prior written consent of the Company.
Company may assign Agreement at anytime without consent
from or notice to Subscriber. Company reserves right
to cancel customers rights under this contract at
anytime without further obligation.
c. PSS Hosting.com takes no responsibility for any
material input by others and not posted to the PSS
Hosting.com Network by PSS Hosting.com. PSS Hosting.com
is not responsible for the content of any other websites
linked to the PSS Hosting.com Network; links are provided
as Internet navigation tools only. PSS Hosting.com
disclaims any responsibility for any such inappropriate
use and any liability to any person or party for any
other person or party's violation of this policy.
d. PSS Hosting.com is not responsible for any damages
your business may suffer. PSS Hosting.com does not
make implied or written warranties for any of our
services. PSS Hosting.com denies any warranty or merchantability
for a specific purpose. This includes loss of data
resulting from delays, non-deliveries, wrong delivery,
and any and all service interruptions caused by PSS
Hosting.com.
e. It is absolutely forbidden to host pornographic
content or IRC servers on Virtual Server Accounts.
Virtual Server Accounts found hosting this material
will be subject to immediate cancellation without
refund.
19. Responsibility for Content: You, as PSS Hosting.com’s
customer, are solely responsible for the content stored
on and served by your PSS Hosting.com server.
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