MP3's
MP3 files are only allowed if they are your own work or if you have express, verifiable, permission to use copyrighted works online. If your mp3's do not meet the above conditions do not put them on our servers.
Software "Backups"
So-called "backups" of your software, such as copies of MS Windows, MS Office, Oracle, etc. This is not allowed on our servers. This is because we have no way of knowing whether this is actually a backup of yours or an attempt at hosting illegal software.
Movies (mpeg, divx, etc)
We do not allow copyrighted content on our server. Whether this be a copy of the super bowl, a copy of Ocean's 11, or music videos or anything else that is copyrighted it is not allowed.
Adult Content
Anything that is interpreted as adult content is not allowed.
Spam
Spam is not allowed. For our purposes spam is defined as bulk unsolicited email.
Cgi-Based Message Boards
We do not allow cgi-based message boards. They are inefficient and can quickly grow out of control causing network problems. Please use a PHP based message board instead.
File Servers/Mirrors:
Due to copyright laws we do not allow download mirrors on our servers. We also do not allow "file servers", which by for our purposes is defined as solely, hosting many large files with the express intent to distribute them solely and where the domain contains little or no content otherwise. The purpose of this is to avoid downtime caused by the extreme bandwidth usage of such sites.
Warnings
1st Offense: Your site will be shut down temporarily until you have been contacted and are aware of the offenses. Any questionable content will be removed.
2nd Offense: Your site will be completely removed. You will not be eligible for any kind of refund or reimbursement.
Uptime Guarantee
Uptime guarantee only applies to outages caused by administrator error. Network outages, hardware failures or other events out of our control do not apply towards counted downtime.
Acceptable Use
Eternity Web Hosting's services may only be used for lawful purposes. Transmission of any material in violation of International, Federal or State regulation is prohibited. This includes but is not limited to: material legally judged to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade secret laws.
If you are found in violation of the Eternity Web Hosting Acceptable Use Policy and Terms of Use. Your account will be terminated without notice and you will forfeit all of the money that has been paid to Eternity Web Hosting.
Examples of content that is not acceptable on Eternity Web Hosting Servers: "Pirated software" or "Warez", "Hacker programs and/or archives", "IRC Bots", "Gambling Related", "Copyrighted MP3's", cgi-based message boards.
You specifically agree to indemnify and hold Eternity Web Hosting harmless from any claims resulting from a breach of these terms, and/or their use of the service, which damages another.
Warez - Includes pirated software, ROMS, emulators, phreaking, hacking, password cracking, IP spoofing, etc., and encrypting of any of the above. Also includes any sites which provide "links to" or "how to" information about such material.
WE DO NOT HOST ADULT SITES.
Adult Content or links to Adult Content are not permitted on Eternity Web Hosting servers.
Spam
SPAM in any shape or form is NOT permitted and is grounds for immediate account termination. Mailing lists via a mailing list manager are acceptable as long as the list are OPT-IN list that people have signed up for. Spam complaints from other users will not be tolerated.
IRC and Chat Rooms
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) traffic is not permitted on our servers in any of its many forms including, but not limited to: bots and IRC servers. Chat rooms may be allowed on per use basis, so please ask one of our support staff before setting one up. (Some cgi/perl based chat rooms over utilize the server processor.)
Web Site Hosting And Email
We make no representation and give no warranty as to the accuracy or quality of information received by any person via the server and we shall have no liability for any loss or damage to any data stored on the Server.
You shall effect and maintain adequate insurance coverage in respect of any loss or damage to data stored on the server.
You represent, undertake and warrant to us that you will use the website allocated to you only for lawful purposes. In particular, you represent, warrant and undertake to us that you will not use the server in any manner which infringes any law or regulation or which infringes the rights of any third party, nor will you authorize or permit any other person to do so.
You shall not post, link to or transmit: (a) Any material, which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, malicious, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, blasphemous, profane or otherwise objectionable in any way. (b) Any material containing a virus or other hostile computer program. (c) Any material which constitutes, or encourages the commission of, a criminal offence or which infringes any patent, trade mark, design right, copyright or any other intellectual property right or similar rights of any person which may subsist under the laws of any jurisdiction.
You shall keep secure any identification, password and other confidential information relating to your account and shall notify us immediately of any known or suspected unauthorized use of your account or breach of security, including loss, theft or unauthorized disclosure of your password or other security information.
You shall observe the procedures, which we may from time to time prescribe and shall make no use of the server, which is detrimental to our other customers.
You shall procure that all mail is sent in accordance with applicable legislation (including data protection legislation) and a secure manner.
In the case of an individual user, you warrant that you are at least 18 years of age and if the user is a company, you warrant that the services will not be used by anyone under the age of 18 years.
Any access to other networks connected to Eternity Web Hosting must comply with the rules appropriate for those other networks.
While we will use every reasonable endeavor to ensure the integrity and security of the server, we do not guarantee that the Server will be free from unauthorized users or hackers and we shall be under no liability for non-receipt or misrouting of email or for any other failure of email.
Intellectual Property Rights
You shall obtain any and all necessary consents and clearances to enable you lawfully to make use of all and any intellectual property rights through the services, including without limitation, clearance and/or consents in respect of your proposed domain name.
Service Availability
We shall use our reasonable endeavors to make available to you at all times the server and the services but we shall not, in any event, be liable for interruptions of service or down-time of the server beyond the aforementioned uptime guarantee.
We shall have the right to suspend the services at any time and for any reason without notice, but if such suspension lasts or is to last for more than 30 days you will be notified of the reason.
The services provided to you hereunder and your account with us cannot be transferred or used by anyone other than you. No more than one login session under any one account may be used at any time by you. User programs may be run only during login sessions. If your account is found to have been transferred to another party, or shows other activity in breach of this sub clause, we shall have the right to cancel the account and terminate the Services and/or this agreement immediately.
Termination without in any way limiting our (Eternity Web Hosting) rights.
If a site violates these terms in any way, shape, or form, the site will be deleted from our network.
Questionable Situations: If we find content that is questionable and may or may not violate the terms of service we will contact you. An example of a situation like this is a band hosting their own music on our servers. However, you can avoid this step if you notify us. If you are a band or if you are planning to upload a large amount of files that are questionable please notify us before you upload so we are aware of the situation. This will keep everyone happy.
If you fail to pay any sums due to us as they fall due, we may suspend the services and/or terminate this agreement forthwith without notice to you.
If you break any of these terms and conditions, we may terminate this agreement forthwith upon written notice.
If you are a company and you go into insolvent liquidation or suffer the appointment of an administrator or administrative receiver or enter into a voluntary arrangement with your creditors, we shall be entitled to terminate this agreement forthwith without notice to you.
On termination of this agreement or suspension of the services we shall be entitled immediately to block your website and to remove all data located on it. We shall be entitled to delete all such data but we may, at our discretion, hold such data for such period as we may decide to allow you to collect it at your expense, subject to payment in full of any amounts withstanding and payable to us. We shall further be entitled to post such notice in respect of the non-availability of your website as we think fit.
Accounts may be cancelled by the user with a 3 day notice. Eternity Web Hosting reserves the right to cancel any account with or without notice. Please note upon submitting a cancellation request, your account will be canceled when your current billing period expires. Eternity Web Hosting will not be held liable for any information lost after submitting a cancellation request. Upon cancellation, all accounts will be deleted and all information will be completely removed from our network. For this reason, Eternity Web Hosting can not be held liable for any information stored on the server, or lack of, upon cancellation of service. Please Note upon account termination Eternity Web Hosting will no longer be held liable for any information which may be stored on the server. This includes any actions such as retrieving data. By agreeing to the terms of service Eternity Web Hosting will not be held liable for any loss of data which may occur after termination of account.
Legal
Eternity Web Hosting expects that its subscribers who provide Internet services to others will comply fully with all applicable laws concerning the privacy of on-line communications. A subscriber's failure to comply with those laws will violate Eternity Web Hosting policy. Finally, Eternity Web Hosting wishes to emphasize that in signing the service agreement, subscribers indemnify Eternity Web Hosting for any violation of the service agreement, law, or Eternity Web Hosting policy, that results in loss to Eternity Web Hosting or the bringing of any claim against Eternity Web Hosting by any third-party. This means that if Eternity Web Hosting is sued because of a subscriber's or customer of a subscriber's activity, the subscriber will pay any damages awarded against Eternity Web Hosting, plus costs and reasonable attorneys' fees.
Limitation Of Liability
All conditions, terms, representations and warranties relating to the services supplied under this agreement, whether imposed by statute or operation of law or otherwise, that are not expressly stated in these terms and conditions including, without limitation, the implied warranty of satisfactory quality and fitness for a particular purpose are hereby excluded.
Our total aggregate liability to you for any claim in contract, tort, negligence or otherwise arising out of or in connection with the provision of the services shall be limited to the charges paid by you in respect of the services, which are the subject of any such claim.
In any event no claim shall be brought unless you have notified us of the claim within 6 months of it arising.
In no event shall we ever be liable to you for any loss of business, contracts, profits or anticipated savings or for any other indirect or consequential or economic loss whatsoever.
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 ancillary application forms 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 two days following the date of posting.
Payment
All payments must be in US Dollars. If your check is returned by the bank as unpaid for any reason, you will be liable for a "returned check" charge of $30.00. Please note this is only without a prior request to cancel the account.
All charges payable by you for the services shall be in accordance with the scale of charges and rates published from time to time by us on our web site and shall be due and payable in advance of our service provision.
Without prejudice to our other rights and remedies under this agreement, if any sum payable is not paid on or before the due date, we shall be entitled forthwith to suspend the provision of services to you.
Your Billing is based on the date that you signed up with us. (ex. If you joined us on June 25th, 2000 Your Credit Card will be charge on the 25th of every month). Any refund due will be paid via Paypal, check or money order.
Headings
Headings are included in this agreement for convenience only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this agreement.
Entire Agreement
These terms and conditions together with any documents expressly referred to in them, contain the entire agreement between us relating to the subject matter covered and supersede any previous agreements, arrangements, undertakings or proposals, written or oral: between us in relation to such matters. No oral explanation or oral information given by any party shall alter the interpretation of these terms and conditions. In agreeing to these terms and conditions, you have not relied on any representation other than those expressly stated in these terms and conditions and you agree that you shall have no remedy in respect of any misrepresentation, which has not been made expressly in this agreement.
Misuse Of Resources
Including but not limited to employing applications which consume excessive CPU time or bandwidth. Chat/IRC, web proxy and mailing list scripts are not allowed on our network under any circumstances. CGI based message forums which use flat file databases are often found to use excessive system resources, to avoid disappointment please use a PHP/ASP message forum.
If you are unsure about content you intend to place on our network, please check with us before you do. We reserve the right to determine what constitutes acceptable use. We may amend these terms of service with or without notice.
We do reserve the right to edit the terms of service at any time with or without notice.