GENERAL TERMS OF SERVICE HOSTING

 

These Terms of Service Hosting (the “Agreement”) are an agreement between IIWHosting.com, ("IIW Hosting" or “us” or “our”) and you (“User” or “you” or “your”). This Agreement sets forth the general terms and conditions of your use of the products and services made available by IIWHosting and of the IIWHosting.com website (collectively, the “Services”). By using the Services, you agree to be bound by this Agreement. If you do not agree to abide by the terms of this Agreement, you are not authorized to use or access the Services.

 

 

1. By registering for or using the Services, you represent and warrant that: You are eighteen (18) years of age or older. The Services are intended solely for Users who are eighteen (18) years of age or older. Any registration, use of or access to the Services, by anyone under eighteen (18) is unauthorized and is a violation of this Agreement. If you use the Services on behalf of another party you agree that you are authorized to bind such other party to this Agreement and to act on such other party’s behalf with respect to any actions you take in connection with the Services.
2. It is your responsibility to provide accurate, current, and complete information on the registration forms, including an email address that is different from the domain you are signing up under. If there is ever an abuse issue or we need to contact you, we will use the primary email address we have on file. It is your responsibility to ensure that the contact information for your account, including any domain accounts is accurate, correct and complete at all times. IIWHosting is not responsible for any lapse in the Services, including without limitation, any lapsed domain registrations due to outdated contact information being associated with the domain. If you need to verify or change your contact information, please contact our sales team via email or update your contact information through the IIWHosting Billing and Support System. Providing false contact information of any kind may result in the termination of your account. In dedicated server purchases or certain other cases, you may be required to provide government issued identification and possibly a scan of the credit card used for verification purposes. Failure to provide the information requested may result in your order being denied.
3. You agree to be fully responsible for all use of your account and for any actions that take place through your account. It is your responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of your password and other information related to the security of your account.
4. Any dedicated IP order in addition to those provided with a hosting package may be subject to IP justification. IP justification practices are subject to change to remain in compliance with the policies of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). We reserve the right to deny any dedicated IP request based on insufficient justification or current IP utilization.

 

Our Transfers Team will make every effort to help you move your website to us. Transfers are provided as a courtesy service. We do not make any guarantees regarding the availability, possibility, or time required to complete an account transfer. Each hosting company is configured differently, and some hosting platforms save data in an incompatible or proprietary format, which may make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to migrate some or all account data. In some cases we may not be able to assist you in a transfer of data from an old host. The free transfer service is available for thirty (30) days from your sign up date. Transfers outside of the thirty (30) day period will incur a charge; please contact a member of our Transfers department to receive a price quote. In no event shall IIWHosting be held liable for any lost or missing data or files resulting from a transfer to or from IIWHosting. You are solely responsible for backing up your data in all circumstances.

 

Except for User Content (as defined below), all content available through the Services, including designs, text, graphics, images, video, information, software, audio and other files, and their selection and arrangement, and all software used to provide the Services (collectively, "IIWHosting Content"), are the proprietary property of IIWHosting or IIWHosting’s licensors. IIWHosting Content may not be modified, copied, distributed, framed, reproduced, republished, downloaded, scraped, displayed, posted, transmitted, sold or exploited for any purpose in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, other than as expressly permitted in this Agreement. You may not, directly or indirectly, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive source code or other trade secrets from any IIWHosting Content. Any use of IIWHosting Content, other than as specifically authorized herein, is prohibited and will automatically terminate your rights to use the Services and any IIWHosting Content. All rights to use IIWHosting Content that are not expressly granted in this Agreement are reserved by IIWHosting and IIWHosting’s licensors.

 

1. You may be able to upload, store, publish, display and distribute information, text, photos, videos and other content on or through the Services (collectively, “User Content”). User Content includes any content posted by you or by users of any of your websites hosted through the Services (“User websites”). You are solely responsible for any and all User Content and any transactions or other activities conducted on or through User websites. By posting or distributing User Content on or through the Services, you represent and warrant to IIWHosting that
   1. you have all the necessary rights to post or distribute such User Content, and
   2. your posting or distribution of such User Content does not infringe or violate the rights of any third party.

   Solely for purposes of providing the Services, you hereby grant to IIWHosting a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide right and license to:

   1. use, reproduce, publicly perform, publicly display, modify, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part), publish and distribute User Content; and
   2. make archival or back-up copies of User Content and User websites. Except for the rights expressly granted herein, IIWHosting does not acquire any right, title or interest in or to the User Content, all of which shall remain solely with you.
2. IIWHosting exercises no control over, and accepts no responsibility for, User Content or the content of any information passing through IIWHosting's computers, network hubs and points of presence or the Internet. IIWHosting does not monitor User Content. However, you acknowledge and agree that IIWHosting may, but is not obligated to, immediately take any corrective action in IIWHosting’s sole discretion, including without limitation removal of all or a portion of the User Content or User websites, and suspend or terminate any and all Services without refund if you violate the terms of this Agreement. You hereby agree that IIWHosting shall have no liability due to any corrective action that IIWHosting may take.

 

1. Third Party ProvidersIIWHosting may offer certain third party products and services. Such products and services may be subject to the terms and conditions of the third party provider. Discounts, promotions and special third party offers may be subject to additional restrictions and limitations by the third party provider. You should confirm the terms of any purchase and the use of goods or services with the specific third party provider with whom you are dealing.IIWHosting does not make any representations or warranties regarding, and is not liable for, the quality, availability, or timeliness of goods or services provided by a third party provider. You undertake all transactions with these third party providers at your own risk. We do not warrant the accuracy or completeness of any information regarding third party providers. IIWHosting is not an agent, representative, trustee or fiduciary of you or the third party provider in any transaction.
2. IIWHosting as Reseller or Licensor IIWHosting may act as a reseller or licensor of certain third party services, hardware, software and equipment used in connection with the Services ("Non-IIWHosting Products"). IIWHosting shall not be responsible for any changes in the Services that cause any Non-IIWHosting Products to become obsolete, require modification or alteration, or otherwise affect the performance of the Services. Any malfunction or manufacturer's defects of Non-IIWHosting Products, either sold, licensed or provided by IIWHosting to you will not be deemed a breach of IIWHosting's obligations under this Agreement. Any rights or remedies you may have regarding the ownership, licensing, performance or compliance of any Non-IIWHosting Product are limited to those rights extended to you by the manufacturer of such Non-IIWHosting Product. You are entitled to use any Non-IIWHosting Product supplied by IIWHosting only in connection with your use of the Services as permitted under this Agreement. You shall make no attempt to copy, alter, reverse engineer, or tamper with such Non-IIWHosting Product or to use it other than in connection with the Services. You shall not resell, transfer, export or re-export any Non-IIWHosting Product, or any technical data derived therefrom, in violation of any applicable law, rules or regulations.
3. Third Party websitesThe Services may contain links to other websites that are not owned or controlled by IIWHosting ("Third Party Sites"), as well as articles, photographs, text, graphics, pictures, designs, sound, video, information, and other content or items belonging to or originating from third parties ("Third Party Content"). We are not responsible for any Third Party Sites or Third Party Content accessed through the Services. Third Party Sites and Third Party Content are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by us. If you decide to access Third Party Sites or to access or use any Third Party Content, you do so at your own risk and you should be aware that our terms and policies no longer govern. You should review the applicable third party’s terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices of any website to which you navigate.

 

1. It is your responsibility to ensure that scripts/programs installed under your account are secure and permissions of directories are set properly, regardless of the installation method. When at all possible, set permissions on most directories to 755 or as restrictive as possible. Users are ultimately responsible for all actions taken under their account. This includes the compromise of credentials such as user name and password. You are required to use a secure password. If a weak password is used, your account may be suspended until you agree to use a more secure password. Audits may be done to prevent weak passwords from being used. If an audit is performed, and your password is found to be weak, we will notify you and allow time for you to change or update your password before suspending your account.
2. The Services, including all related equipment, networks and network devices are provided only for authorized customer use. IIWHosting may, but is not obligated to, monitor our systems, including without limitation, to ensure that use is authorized, to facilitate protection against unauthorized access, and to verify security procedures, survivability, and operational security. During monitoring, information may be examined, recorded, copied and used for authorized purposes. By using the Services, you consent to monitoring for these purposes. Acceptable Use Policy
3. Any account found connecting to a third party network or system without authorization from the third party is subject to suspension. Access to networks or systems outside of your direct control requires the express written consent of the third party. IIWHosting may, at our discretion, request documentation to prove that your access to a third party network or system is authorized.
4. Any account that is found to be compromised may be disabled and/or terminated. If you do not clean up your account after being notified by IIWHosting of an ongoing issue, we reserve the right to keep your account disabled. Upon your request, IIWHosting may clean-up your account for an additional fee.
5. IIWHosting reserves the right to migrate your account from one data center to another in order to comply with applicable data center policies, local law or for technical or other reasons without notice.

 

You are solely responsible for any applicable compliance with federal or state laws governing the privacy and security of personal data, including medical or other sensitive data. You acknowledge that the Services may not be appropriate for the storage or control of access to sensitive data, such as information about children or medical or health information. IIWHosting does not control or monitor the information or data you store on, or transmit through, the Services. We specifically disclaim any representation or warranty that the Services, as offered, comply with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”). Customers requiring secure storage of “protected health information” as defined under HIPAA are expressly prohibited from using the Services for such purposes. Storing and permitting access to “protected health information” is a material violation of this Agreement, and grounds for immediate account termination. We do not sign “Business Associate Agreements” and you agree that IIWHosting is not a Business Associate or subcontractor or agent of yours pursuant to HIPAA. If you have questions about the security of your data, you should contact care@iiwhosting.com

 

1. You agree to cooperate fully with IIWHosting in connection with IIWHosting's provision of the Services. It is solely your responsibility to provide any equipment or software that may be necessary for your use of the Services. To the extent that the performance of any of our obligations under this Agreement may depend upon your performance of your obligations, IIWHosting is not\ responsible for any delays due to your failure to timely perform your obligations.
2. You are solely responsible for ensuring that all User Content and User websites are compatible with the hardware and software used by IIWHosting to provide the Services, which may be changed by IIWHosting from time to time in our sole discretion.
3. You are solely responsible for backing-up all User Content, including but not limited to, any User websites. IIWHosting does not warrant that we back-up any User Content, and you agree to accept the risk of loss of any and all User Content.

 

1. Permitted CPU and Disk Usage.

   All use of hosting space provided by IIWHosting is subject to the terms of this Agreement and the Acceptable Use Policy.

   1. Shared hosting space may only be used for web files, active email and content of User websites. Shared hosting space may not be used for storage (whether of media, emails, or other data), including, as offsite storage of electronic files, email or FTP hosts. IIWHosting expressly reserves the right to review every shared account for excessive usage of CPU, disk space and other resources that may be caused by a violation of this Agreement or the Acceptable Use Policy. IIWHosting may, in our sole discretion, terminate access to the Services, apply additional fees, or remove or delete User Content for those accounts that are found to be in violation of IIWHosting’s terms and conditions.
   2. Dedicated and VPS usage is limited by the resources allocated to the specific plan that you have purchased.
2. Bandwidth Usage. Shared servers are not limited in their bandwidth allowance. Unlimited bandwidth usage is not available for resellers, dedicated or VPS servers, which are subject to the terms of the plan you purchased and can be viewed in your control panel.

 

If your shared or reseller server has a physical downtime that falls short of the 99.9% uptime guarantee, you may receive one (1) month of credit on your account. This uptime guarantee does not apply to planned maintenance. Approval of any credit is at the sole discretion of IIWHosting and may be dependent upon the justification provided. Third party monitoring service reports may not be used for justification due to a variety of factors including the monitor's network capacity/transit availability. The uptime of the server is defined as the reported uptime from the operating system and the Apache Web Server which may differ from the uptime reported by other individual services. To request a credit, please visit https://www.iiwhosting.com/clientarea.php to create a support ticket to our Billing department with justification. Uptime guarantees only apply to shared and reseller solutions. Dedicated servers are covered by a network guarantee in which the credit is prorated for the amount of time the server is down which is not related to our uptime guarantee

 

1. Resellers shall ensure that each of their clients complies with this Agreement.
2. Resellers are responsible for supporting their clients. IIWHosting does not provide support to clients of IIWHosting’s resellers. If a reseller’s client contacts IIWHosting, IIWHosting reserves the right to place a reseller client account on hold until the reseller can assume responsibility for the reseller’s client. All support requests must be made by the reseller on its client's behalf for security purposes.
3. Resellers are also responsible for all content stored or transmitted under their reseller account and the actions of their clients. IIWHosting will hold any reseller responsible for any of their client’s actions that violate the law or this Agreement.
4. IIWHosting is not responsible for the acts or omissions of our resellers. The reseller hereby agrees to indemnify IIWHosting from and against any and all claims made by any User arising from the reseller's acts or omissions.
5. IIWHosting reserves the right to revise our Reseller Program at any time. Changes shall take effect when posted online or on any subsequent date as may be set forth by IIWHosting.

 

Shared accounts may not be used to resell web hosting to others. If you wish to resell hosting you must use a reseller account.

 

IIWHosting reserves the right to reset the password on a dedicated server if the password on file is not current so that we may do security audits as required by our datacenter. It is your responsibility to ensure that there is a valid email address and current root password on file for your dedicated server to prevent downtime from forced password resets. IIWHosting reserves the right to audit servers as needed and to perform administrative actions at the request of our datacenter. Dedicated servers are NOT backed up by us. It is your responsibility to maintain backups. Dedicated servers that have invoices outstanding for more than ten (10) days may be subject to deletion which will result in the loss of all data on the server. IIWHosting will not be liable for any loss of data resulting from such deletion.

 

IIWHosting may terminate your access to the Services, in whole or in part, without notice in the event that:

1. you fail to pay any fees due;
2. you violate this Agreement;
3. your conduct may harm IIWHosting or others or cause IIWHosting or others to incur liability, as determined by IIWHosting in our sole discretion; or
4. as otherwise specified in this Agreement. In such event, IIWHosting shall not refund to you any fees paid in advance of such termination, and you shall be obligated to pay all fees and charges accrued prior to the effectiveness of such termination. Additionally, IIWHosting may charge you for all fees due for the Services for the remaining portion of the then current term.

 

In no event will iiwhosting its directors, employees or agents be liable to you or any third person for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including for any lost profits or lost data arising from your use of the services, or any user content, user websites or other materials accessed or downloaded through the services, even if iiwhosting is aware or has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, iiwhosting's liability to you, or any party claiming through you, for any cause whatsoever, and regardless of the form of the action, is limited to the amount paid, if any, by you to iiwhosting for the services in the three (3) months prior to the initial action giving rise to liability. This is an aggregate limit. The existence of more than one claim hereunder will not increase this limit.

 

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless IIWHosting, our affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees and agents (each an "Indemnified Party" and, collectively, the "Indemnified Parties") from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, suits, actions, demands, proceedings (whether legal or administrative), and expenses (including, but not limited to, reasonable attorney's fees) threatened, asserted, or filed by a third party against any of the Indemnified Parties arising out of or relating to

1. your use of the Services,
2. any breach or violation by you of this Agreement; or
3. any acts or omissions by you.

The terms of this section shall survive any termination of this Agreement.

 

By using the Services, you hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Laws of India in connection with any dispute relating to, concerning or arising out of this Agreement. The arbitration will be conducted before a single arbitrator chosen by IIWHosting and will be held at Bangalore India.

 

IIWHosting and User are independent contractors and nothing contained in this Agreement places IIWHosting and User in the relationship of principal and agent, partners or joint venturers. Neither party has, expressly or by implication, or may represent itself as having, any authority to make contracts or enter into any agreements in the name of the other party, or to obligate or bind the other party in any manner whatsoever.

 

Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the formation of this Agreement or the breach of this Agreement, including any claim based upon an alleged tort, shall be governed by the substantive laws of India. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply to this Agreement.

 

IIWHosting shall not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer. IIWHosting makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for the Services. IIWHosting disclaims any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, including loss of data resulting from delays, delivery failures, wrong deliveries, and any and all service interruptions caused by IIWHosting or our employees.

 

Your use of the Services is at your sole risk. IIWHosting’s backup service runs once a week and overwrites any of our previous backups. Only one week of backups are kept at a time. This service is provided only to shared and reseller accounts as a courtesy and may be modified or terminated at any time at IIWHosting’s sole discretion. IIWHosting does not maintain backups of dedicated accounts. IIWHosting is not responsible for files and/or data residing on your account. You agree to take full responsibility for all files and data transferred and to maintain all appropriate backup of files and data stored on IIWHosting’s servers.
Any shared account using more than 20 gigs of disk space will be removed from our off site weekly backup with the exception of databases continuing to be backed up. All data will continue to be mirrored to a secondary drive to help protect against data loss in the event of a drive failure.

 

The services provided under this agreement are provided on an “as is” and “as available basis.” Except as expressly provided in this section, iiwhosting and our affiliates, employees, agents, suppliers and licensors disclaim all warranties of any kind, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement, for the services provided hereunder. Iiwhosting and our affiliates, employees, agents, suppliers and licensors make no representations or warranties

1. that the services will be uninterrupted, error free or completely secure;
2. as to the results that may be obtained from the use of the services; or
3. as to the accuracy, reliability or content of any information provided through the services. Iiwhosting and our affiliates, employees, agents, suppliers and licensors are not liable, and expressly disclaims any liability, for the content of any data transferred either to or from users or stored by users on or through the services.

The terms of this section shall survive any termination of this agreement.

 

IIWHosting may disclose User information to law enforcement agencies without further consent or notification to the User upon lawful request from such agencies. We cooperate fully with law enforcement agencies.

 

This Agreement, including documents incorporated herein by reference, supersedes all prior discussions, negotiations and agreements between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and this Agreement constitutes the sole and entire agreement between the parties with respect to the matters covered hereby.

 

The headings herein are for convenience only and are not part of this Agreement.

 

1. IIWHosting may modify, add, or delete portions of this Agreement at any time. If we have made significant changes to this Agreement, we will post a notice on the IIWHosting website for at least thirty (30) days after the changes are posted and will indicate at the bottom of this Agreement the date of the last revision. Any revisions to this Agreement will become effective when posted unless otherwise provided. You agree to any modification to this Agreement by continuing to use the Services after the effective date of any such modification
2. IIWHosting reserves the right to modify, change, or discontinue any aspect of the Services at any time.

 

If any provision or portion of any provision of this Agreement is found to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions or portions (unless otherwise specified) thereof shall remain in full force and effect.

 

No failure or delay by you or IIWHosting to exercise any right or remedy hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right or remedy preclude any other or further exercise of any right or remedy. No express waiver of, or assent to, any breach of or default in any term or condition of this Agreement by any party hereto shall constitute a waiver of, or an assent to, any succeeding breach of or default in the same or any other term or condition hereof.

 

You may not assign or transfer this Agreement or any of your rights or obligations hereunder, without the prior written consent of IIWHosting. Any attempted assignment in violation of this Agreement shall be null and void and of no force or effect whatsoever. IIWHosting may assign our rights and obligations under this Agreement, and may engage subcontractors or agents in performing our duties and exercising our rights hereunder, without the consent of User.This Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns.

 

Neither party is liable for any default or delay in the performance of any of its obligations under this Agreement (other than failure to make payments when due) if such default or delay is caused, directly or indirectly, by forces beyond such party's reasonable control, including, without limitation, fire, flood, acts of God, labor disputes, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, interruptions of transportation or communications, supply shortages or the failure of any third party to perform any commitment relative to the production or delivery of any equipment or material required for such party to perform its obligations hereunder.

 

Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, nothing in this Agreement is intended, nor shall anything herein be construed to confer any rights in any person other than the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns. Notwithstanding the foregoing, user acknowledges and agrees that any supplier of a third-party product or service that is identified as a third-party beneficiary in the service description, is an intended third-party beneficiary of the provisions set forth in this Agreement as they relate specifically to its products or services and shall have the right to enforce directly the terms and conditions of this Agreement with respect to its products or services against user as if it were a party to this Agreement.