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CompTech Plus provides web hosting to clients worldwide, and
we have a responsibility to protect each client and to provide the best
services available. All clients of CompTech Plus are subject to the
following terms of service:
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Billing:
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At this time we bill either monthly or annually. If you are
not satisfied within your first 15 days we would be happy to provide you
with a full refund. We accept Visa, Master Card, American Express and
Discover Card. Please note that we will setup your account and email your
login information upon receipt of payment.
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Non-U.S.
Clients:
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Non-U.S. clients are encouraged to pay by credit card as it is
the easiest way to handle payment at this time. However, if you would like
to pay some other way, please let us know and we will do our best to
accommodate you. Please make payments in United States Dollars (USD) by
Visa/MasterCard via PayPal. Payments are due
within 10 days of receipt our statement. If you paid for your account with
a credit card, we will send you a form to sign so that we can bill your
account every month on that card. There are no contract periods but for
each successive period, your contract is automatically renewed unless we
are notified otherwise.
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All accounts are billed according to the dates they were first
activated on. Net amount due within 10 days of receipt of invoice. Balances
not paid within 15 days of invoice date or before the start of the next
billing period will be considered past due. Accounts that are past due may
be disabled on an individual need-be-basis solely at our discretion.
Paypal
Subscription Cancellations:
If you
subscribed to our hosting plan with Paypal payments and if we get notice
from paypal.com regarding your subscription cancellation, we have full
right to suspend your hosting account till the subscription is reinstated. CompTech
Plus does not host websites with cancelled subscriptions.
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All services provided by CompTech Plus may be used for lawful
purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information,
data or material in violation of any United States Federal, State or City
law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material,
material we judge to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by
trade secret and other statute. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold
harmless CompTech Plus and its employees from any claims resulting from the
use of the service which damages the subscriber or any other party. Our
acceptable use policy is actively and strictly enforced. Offending content
or users are suspended from our network, usually as soon as they are
discovered, although we will always inform you when and why any action has
been taken. Pornography is prohibited on all CompTech Plus servers This includes
sites that include sexually explicit or hardcore images and/or advertising.
We do not have a problem with sites of an adult nature, but we do not allow
pornographic sites. If you think your site may violate our Terms Of
Service, please ask us before signing up for an account so that we may
determine if we can host your site. CompTech Plus reserves the right to
determine what is and what isn't acceptable for our servers.
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.
Illegality
In any form, including but not limited to the unauthorized distribution or
copying of copyrighted software or other data, harassment, fraud,
trafficking in obscene material. Undesirable Content Certain types of
content are not allowed on our network. We do not host adult content of any
description. Content relating to Hacking, Cracking, Warez
and IRC is not allowed. Software downloads may only be hosted if you are
the writer and copyright owner of the software. Audio and video downloads
will not be hosted on our servers. There are no exceptions. Offending
content or users are suspended from our network, usually as soon as they
are discovered, although we will always inform you when and why any action
has been taken. Accounts suspended due to content or AUP violation are not refunded under any circumstances.
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Each account comes with its own cgi-bin.
You are free to use any CGI scripts you wish, however we reserve the right
to disable any CGI script that effects normal server operation without
prior warning.
Banned Scripts :
The following scripts are banned from use on our servers and may not
be uploaded or run. Reasons for banning them include adverse effects on
server load, invitations to hackers/spammers/criminal activity, etc.
- IRC egg drops
- Proxy servers
- Mail bombers
- Anonymous mailers
- IP spoofers
- Port scanners
- nph-proxy
- UBB (Ultimate Bulletin
Board, all versions)
- Ikonboard, Yabb
(except for MySql version)
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Background Running Programs:
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Background daemons in general are prohibited, we will consider
requests on a one on one basis. If allowed extra charges will be assessed
based on resources on system maintenance needed.
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IRC:
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We currently do not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on
our servers.
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Backup:
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CompTech Plus is
not responsible for backups for MySql databases.
Subscriber acknowledges that they will backup their own databases from the
backup utility provided from their control panel. CompTech Plus will
however do other backup's of websites, images, cgi-bin,
mail, etc.
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Commercial Advertising - Email:
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Our servers may not be the source, intermediary, or
destination address involved in the transmission of spam, flames, or mail
bombs. Your domain may not be referenced as originator, intermediary, or
reply-to address in any of the above. SPAM /illegal content advertising
sites on other servers which in turn contain links to a domain on our
servers is prohibited. We consider spam any mass unsolicited message in the
mediums of Newsgroups and Email. If you are found to have spammed, then we
will immediately, without warning, disable your domain. In addition, we
will impose a $100 penalty for each spam policy violation. We reserve the
right to refuse or cancel service to known spammers. Lastly, we reserve the
right to determine what violates this policy. As such, any violation will
result in immediate deactivation of services without refund. Server Abuse:
Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a server is strictly
prohibited.
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Indemnification:
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Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold
CompTech Plus and it's associates harmless from any and all demands,
liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney's fees
asserted against CompTech Plus, its agents, its customers, officers and
employees, that may arise or result from any service provided or performed
or agreed to be performed or any product sold by customer, it's agents,
employees or assigns. Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold
harmless CompTech Plus against liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury
to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed
in connection with CompTech Plus servers; (2) any material supplied by
customer infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a
third party and (3) copyright infringement. Accounts Reinstatement:
Accounts and domains deleted due to violation of our acceptable use policy
cannot be reinstated. Refusal of Service: We reserve the right to refuse,
cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion.
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LIMITATION OF LIABILITY:
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CompTech
Plus shall not be responsible for any claimed damages, including incidental
and consequential damages, which may arise from CompTech Plus servers going
off-line or being unavailable for any reason whatsoever. Furthermore, CompTech
Plus shall not be responsible for any claimed damages, including incidental
or consequential damages, resulting from the corruption or deletion of any
web site from one of CompTech Plus servers. All damages shall be limited to
the immediate termination of service. Violations of these Acceptable Uses
Policies should be referred to abuse@comptechplus.net. All complaints will
be investigated promptly.
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DISCLAIMER:
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CompTech Plus cannot be held liable for system downtime,
crashes, or data loss. We cannot be held liable for any predicted estimate
of profits in which a client would have gained if their site was
functioning. Certain services provided by CompTech Plus are resold. Thus,
certain equipment, routing, software, and programming used by CompTech Plus
are not directly owned or written by CompTech Plus. Moreover, CompTech Plus
holds no responsibility for the use of our clients accounts. If any terms
or conditions are failed to be followed, the account in question will be
automatically deactivated. We reserve the right to remove any account
without advanced notice for any reason without restitution as CompTech Plus
sees fit. FURTHERMORE, CompTech Plus retains the right to change any or all
of the above Policies, Guidelines, and Disclaimer without notification.
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