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This agreement represents the complete agreement
and understanding between Orbit Technology (hereinafter
called COMPANY) and the customer (hereinafter called
Account Holder) and supersedes any other written
or oral agreement. COMPANY reserves the right, in
its sole discretion, with or without notice, to
modify these terms and conditions, amplify them,
and/or modify the prices, as well as discontinue
or change the services offered. Account Holder must
comply with COMPANY's current "Terms and Conditions",
as updated from time to time by COMPANY, which can
be viewed at COMPANY's web site. Submission of your
account order shall constitute your acceptance of
these Terms and Conditions.
1. Provision of services
a. Service means - Any act of serving the ACCOUNT
HOLDER, being provided by COMPANY, regardless of
its duration and whether it's a paid service or
a free service.
b. COMPANY's fee for hosting does not include the
initial domain registration fee and renewal fee
thereafter, or any other regional registrar domain
registration fees. The .com, .net, or .org initial
domain registration fee and the renewal fee thereafter
will be processed by Orbit Technology in Canadian
funds if domain names used by ACCOUNT HOLDER are
managed by Orbit Technology.
c. Be advised that upon registering a domain name,
you will be subject to the Terms and Conditions
of InterNIC or other registries as applicable.
2. Use of Services
a. The ACCOUNT HOLDER agrees to use the services
provided by COMPANY as permitted by applicable local,
provincial, state, and federal laws. The ACCOUNT
HOLDER agrees, therefore, not to use these services
to conduct any business or activity or solicit the
performance of any activity that is prohibited by
law, libelous, or against any COMPANY policy.
b. COMPANY reserves the right to refuse service
to any new or existing customers.
c. The ACCOUNT HOLDER is solely responsible for
any legal liability arising out of, or relating
to, his/her web site hosted by COMPANY.
d. The ACCOUNT HOLDER understands and agrees that
hosting of the ACCOUNT HOLDER's web site is at the
sole discretion of COMPANY. COMPANY may at its sole
discretion discontinue web site hosting service
to any ACCOUNT HOLDER operating a web site that
COMPANY deems to be in violation of these Terms
and Conditions.
e. COMPANY accounts cannot be transferred or used
by anyone other than the ACCOUNT HOLDER. ACCOUNT
HOLDER may not sell, lease, rent or assign the connection
or parts of the connection to any party not named
in the agreement.
f. Use of other organizations' networks or computing
resources is subject to their respective permission
and usage policy.
3. Password Security
The ACCOUNT HOLDER agrees to maintain a secure
password of the account. Secure passwords are those
that are between 6 and 12 characters in length;
containing upper and lowercase letters, numbers
or other characters. The ACCOUNT HOLDER is solely
responsible for changing its password as required
to assure secure access to its account. The ACCOUNT
HOLDER is allowed to reveal their password only
to trusted individuals, including, but not limited
to COMPANY employees.
4. Limited liability
a. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable
law, in no event and under no legal theory shall
COMPANY be liable to the account holder for any
business loss, revenue decrease, expense increase,
costs of substitute products/services, or for any
consequential, special, incidental, punitive or
indirect damages of any kind arising out of the
use of, or inability to use, any of COMPANY's services,
even if COMPANY has been advised of the possibility
of such damages. In no event shall COMPANY's liability
exceed the monthly fee paid by the account holder.
This limitation of liability and risks is reflected
in the price of COMPANY's services.
b. The ACCOUNT HOLDER acknowledges that the information
available through the interconnecting networks may
not be accurate. COMPANY has no ability or authority
over the material. COMPANY can make no warranty
of any kind, either expressed or implied, regarding
the quality, accuracy, or validity of the data and/or
information residing on or passing through these
networks.
c. The ACCOUNT HOLDER understands, agrees and acknowledges
that some of the technologies, developments and
innovations that COMPANY provides to the ACCOUNT
HOLDER are licensed, or co-branded, from or by,
third-party entities. COMPANY can make no warranty
of any kind, either expressed or implied, regarding
the quality, accuracy, reliability or validity for
the application(s), data and/or information involved
in such items.
5. Payment of fees and penalties; Refunds
a. The COMPANY accounting cycle begins on the date
when money is transferred.
b. Service payments will be charged in advance
of receiving services.
c. The service contract will be automatically renewed
at the end of its term. The length of the renewal
term is based on the service plan "billing
frequency."
d. Accounts that are overdue are put on "accounting
hold" and may not be used. Accounts that are
unpaid for 7 days will be suspended immediately
with or without notice.
e. There is a CAD$25.00 service charge for each
check that is not honoured.
f. The ACCOUNT HOLDER will be charged for excessive
bandwidth/throughput usage (above the relevant allowance
of the chosen service package). COMPANY has no obligation
to warn the ACCOUNT HOLDER regarding the excessive
bandwidth usage.
6. "NOT-TO-RENEW" Requests
"NOT-TO-RENEW" requests for COMPANY accounts
must be given in written form, 15 days before the
account's cancellation date. This will prevent an
automatic renewal and charge.
7. Abuse of Services
a. Any use of COMPANY's system resources that disrupts
the normal use of the system is considered to be
abuse of system resources and is subject to administrative
intervention. Some examples of system abuse include,
but are not limited to, spawning dozens of processes,
consuming excessive amounts of memory or CPU for
long periods of time, overwhelm the server with
heavy CPU usage from highly active CGI scripts or
chat scripts, spamming or mass emailing using internal
or external mail and/or news servers.
b. Depending on the nature and the severity of
the abuse, the user may receive an email warning
or have his/her account suspended by COMPANY Technical
Support. Spamming activities will result in immediate
termination of services to Account Holder.
c. Unethical and criminal offences are violations
of COMPANY's conditions of use. Upon being aware
of possible violations, COMPANY will initiate an
investigation. At the same time, in order to prevent
further possible unauthorized activity, COMPANY
may suspend access to services to the individual
account in question. Confirmation of violations
may result in cancellation of the individual account
and/or criminal prosecution.
8. Age of Majority
COMPANY cannot accept agreements and payments from
persons under the age of 18 years. Therefore, COMPANY
requires that its agreements be made with a person
who is qualified to contract. As such, the ACCOUNT
HOLDER must be over the age of 18 years. Otherwise,
a parent or guardian must accept this agreement
and ensure the proper payment.
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