This Terms of Service Agreement
states the terms and conditions governing the use
of the services and materials provided by Rent-Hosting.com,
herein refered to as 'Rent Hosting' or 'Company'. By submitting the
order form, or through the use of services rendered by Rent Hosting, you, herein referred to as 'Customer',
agree to abide by the terms and conditions described below. This document was last updated on
March 2, 2012.
This document contains
the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP), Privacy Policy and the Billing
Policy as part of its terms.
1. Money Back Guarantee. If
for any reason the Customer is unsatisfied with the services
of Rent Hosting with the first 65 days of purchase, the Company
will refund all fees paid with the exception of any Nonrefundable Fees. The amount refunded will be
the dollar amount paid to Rent Hosting, less the Nonrefundable Fees of Domain Name, SSL certificate, and ClientExec purchase amounts. Notice of service termination is required as set forth in section 5, Account Cancellations.
2. 99.9% Uptime
Service Level Agreement (SLA). Should Rent Hosting
fail to reach a monthly 99.9% uptime, a partial or complete
refund will
be disbursed. This guaruantee shall include server uptime, network uptime, power outages and all other sources of downtime with the exception of website maintaince by the Customer or DNS and Registrar issues. Rent Hosting will credit 50% of the Customer's fee for
an outage resulting in an uptime less then 99.9% for a calendar
month. Any
outrage resulting in uptime below 99.7% will result in a
full refund for the calender month.
3. Anytime Money Back Guarantee. After the first 65 days
of service, refunds will be granted for full unused months.
Domain name, SSL certificate, and ClientExec purchases are
Nonrefundable Fees. Should the Customer receive a free domain during
a promotion, upon early cancellation, the Customer will be charged
a $10 fee.
No refunds, including refunds persuant to the Money Back Guaruantee, will be issued if any part of this agreement is
breached.
4. Account Information / Verification. Information provided by the Customer may undergo fraud checking measures in order to verify the validity of an order. Should Rent
Hosting determine that information provided by the Customer
is invalid at any time, Rent Hosting reserves
the right to immediately terminate or suspend the offending account. The
Customer agrees to take responsibility for keeping billing and contact information current.
5. Account Cancellations. The
Customer may cancel their account at any time with a one day notice period. Account cancellation requests must be sent to cancellations@rent-hosting.com.
The content of email must specify the domain name used
by the Customer during the ordering process and order number
included in the welcome email. Note that by emailing Rent Hosting,
the Customer is requesting an immediate termination of the
account. Should the Customer have a purchased or received domain name through Rent
Hosting, the Customer will need to transfer it away from Rent Hosting with-in
a period of one month. Please allow up to a week for Rent Hosting
to cancel an account after a request has been submitted. If the Customer purchases
a ClientExec licence with Rent Hosting, after account cancellation,
the Customer will no longer have access to the software.
6. Prohibited Conduct.
a. Unsolicited Bulk Email. Rent
Hosting has ZERO-TOLERANCE for unsolicited email. All accounts
caught spamming will be terminated, without permission
to retrieve a backup of any data on the account.
b. Illegal Activity. Websites
making available or otherwise contributing to software piracy,
hacking, spamming, denial of service attacks and/or damage
to our or other networks will be terminated without notice.
Free For All (FFA) link sites and IRC servers, chat applets
excluded, are not allowed on the servers of Rent Hosting.
c. Adult Content. Adult content
is prohibited on the servers of Rent Hosting. If adult content
is found on an account, Rent Hosting will contact the owner
of the account and request the removal of offending material.
Should the material not be removed by the Customer with-in three days, the offending account will be subject to suspension or termination.
d.
Non-Payment. The Customer authorizes the Company to charge the
payment method each recurring term until proper cancellation notice is provided as per section 5, Account Cancellations. An account with a payment late by more than three days may be subject to immediate suspension; a $5 re-activation fee will apply. If after fifteen days, the Customer does not contact
Rent Hosting or make a full payment, Rent Hosting reserves
the right to terminate the offending account, including the removal of all data, without notice.
e. Abusive Behavior. Abusive
behavior towards any of Rent Hosting staff members in any
manner will not be tolerated and is grounds for immediate
account termination. Websites deemed offensive or racially
inappropriate will be terminated.
f.
Excessive Resource Usage. Websites or
accounts using 25 percent or more of the server resources
for longer than 90 seconds may be
suspended without notice. Rent Hosting will contact the
Customer thereafter and attempt to resolve the problem. If
necessary, Rent Hosting will ask the Customer to make arrangements
for semi-dedicated or private servers with Rent Hosting
or other companies.
7. Reseller Plans - Rent
Hosting reserves the right to suspend any accounts
created by Customers on a Reseller Plan without
notice. Rent Hosting will strive to notify the Customer retroactively if any account is suspended. Reseller
Customers may not use Rent Hosting to provide a free web hosting
service.
8. Shell / SSH Access -
Shell access may be available upon request. Customers on a Reseller Plan may not provide shell access to any other person at any time. A
copy of the front and back of the Customer's drivers license
is required.
9. Services and Reliability -
The Customer is responsible for regularly monitoring and creating
backups of the Customer’s own data and agrees to use
Rent Hosting’s
resources and infrastructure at the Customer’s own risk.
Rent Hosting is not liable
to the Customer or any third party for any damage, direct or
incidental, that could occur as the Customer uses Rent Hosting’s
services. Rent Hosting is also
not liable for any damages downtime may incur on the Customer.
Rent Hosting is not responsible for the delivery or quality
of any goods or services sold or advertised through Rent
Hosting network of web sites, its affiliates or through our
Customer's websites. Rent Hosting does not guarantee that its
security procedures will prevent the loss of, alteration
of, or improper access to the Customer’s information.
10. Domain Name Policy - Rent Hosting will
make every effort to register, transfer and/or renew a requested
domain name. This is not a guarantee that the Customer's requested domain name
is available for registration, transfer and/or renewal. A Customer’s domain
name may go unregistered, untransferred and/or unrenewed, due to circumstances
beyond our control, such as registry, software and other problems or outages,
and will not be grounds for compensation of financial loss. The Customer is responsible
for monitoring his/her domain expiration date and ensuring the is renewed
before expiry. Rent Hosting reserves the right to use customer information,
entrusted to us, during domain registration and for whois services.
11. Fees
All prices on Rent-Hosting.com are in United States Dollars (USD).
a. Additional or Added Bandwidth Price:
$1.00/GB
b. Additional or Added Space Price:
$1.50/500 MB
12. Privacy Policy - Rent Hosting
is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our customers. Rent
Hosting's sole purpose in collecting personal information is
to identify the Customer, indicate correct domain information
if applicable, as well as to send recent updates and important
announcements via post and/or email. This data is compiled,
analyzed, and used only by Rent Hosting. No part of the information the Customer has
provided will be sold, disclosed, or made accessible to
third-parties or to the public at any time except in order
to comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process.
13. Reservation of Rights - Rent Hosting reserves the right to deny or cancel service to
anyone for any lawful reason at any time. Rent Hosting additionally reserves the right to modify this
Terms of Service Agreement at any time and without notice.
A change in policy shall not be grounds for early contract termination or non-payment. The Customer acknowledges that service rates may change; any rate change will be communicated prior to actual billing.
14. Liabilities - The Customer
is solely responsible for the conduct of the client’s
business and all other matters under the client’s control.
IN NO EVENT SHALL Rent Hosting BE LIABLE TO CUSTOMER OR ANY
OTHER PERSON, FIRM OR ENTITY IN ANY RESPECT, INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, FOR ANY DAMAGES, EITHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL,
SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, ACTUAL, PUNITIVE, OR FOR ANY OTHER DAMAGES,
OR FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OF ANY KIND OR NATURE WHATSOEVER, ARISING
OUT OF MISTAKES, NEGLIGENCE, ACCIDENTS, ERRORS, OMISSIONS,
INTERRUPTIONS OR DEFECT IN TRANSMISSION, OR DELAYS, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THOSE WHICH MAY BE CAUSED BY REGULATORY
OR JUDICIAL AUTHORITIES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS
AGREEMENT OR THE OBLIGATIONS OF Rent Hosting PURSUANT TO THIS
AGREEMENT. Rent Hosting MAKES NO WARRANTY, WHETHER EXPRESS,
IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE DESCRIPTION, QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY,
COMPLETENESS OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE FOR THE SERVICE OR
LOCAL ACCESS, OR AS TO ANY OTHER MATTER, ALL OF WHICH WARRANTIES
BY Rent Hosting ARE HEREBY EXCLUDED AND DISCLAIMED.
In jurisdictions not allowing the limitation
or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages,
Rent Hosting's liability shall be limited to the extent permitted
by law.
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