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Conditions
URTech, Inc. provides Internet World Wide Web
page hosting, Marketing, and Development. URTech, Inc. has certain legal and
ethical responsibilities consisting with the use of its server and equipment
involved in these services.
URTech's general policy is to act as a provider of Internet presence.
URTech reserves the right to suspend or cancel a customer's access to any
or all services provided by URTech when we decide that the account has been
inappropriately used.
Server Abuse
Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server, or customer, of URTech
is strictly prohibited.
Unauthorized use of other people's accounts or computers URTech will
strongly react to any use or attempted use of an Internet account or
computer without the owner's authorization. Such attempts include "Internet
scamming" (tricking other people into releasing their passwords), password
robbery, security hole scanning etc.
Any unauthorized use of accounts or computers by a URTech customer, whether
or not the attacked account or computer belongs to URTech, will result in
action against the attacker. Possible actions include warnings, account
suspension or cancellation, and civil or criminal legal action, depending on
the seriousness of the attack.
IMPORTANT NOTE - URTech, Inc. has the right to discontinue service,
or deny access to anyone who violates our Policies or the terms and
conditions shown below WITHOUT WARNING OR PRIOR NOTICE. No refunds of
fees paid will be made if account termination is due to violation of the
terms outlined below.
Customers may not run IRC, bots or clients on shared servers. Unacceptable
uses also include, but are NOT limited to: Bulk emailing, unsolicited
emailings, newsgroup spamming, pornographic content, illegal content,
copyright infringement, trademark infringement, warez, cracks, software
serial numbers, and/or anything else determined by URTech, Inc. to be
unacceptable use of URTech, Inc. 's services including abuse of server
resources.
Shared hosting accounts may be terminated that include the following content
or which have links to the following content:
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Providing material that is grossly offensive to the Web
community including blatant expressions of bigotry, racism, hatred, or
profanity
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Promoting or providing instructional information about illegal
activities, or promoting physical harm or injury against any group or
individual
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Displaying material containing obscene nudity or pornographic
material (not applicable to managed dedicated servers)
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Displaying material that exploits children under 18 years of
age
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Acts of copyright infringement including offering pirated
computer programs or links to such programs, information used to circumvent
manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, including serial or
registration numbers for software programs, or any type of cracker utilities
Abuse of
Unlimited Traffic
URTech's customers are privileged to be offered unlimited traffic for
their web sites. The intention of URTech, Inc. is to provide a large space
to serve web documents, not an off site storage area for electronic files.
All (90%) of your web pages (html) must be 'linked' with files (.GIF, .JPEG,
etc.) stored on URTech, Inc.'s server. Web sites that are found to contain
either/or no html documents, a large number of unlinked files are subject to
warning, suspension or cancellation at the discretion of URTech, Inc.
management. Any customer who violates URTech, Inc.'s Policies in abusing
either space/site transfer will be notified and given 2 days to remedy the
problem. If the problem is not resolved within the allotted period, the
client will be billed for the overages.
To maintain the integrity of our shared hosting service the following
limitations apply:
Sites with banners, graphics or cgi scripts running from their domain used
on other domains. Sites with picture galleries (This is any site where 50%
of the files transferred is graphics) Sites offering download files or
archives. (This is any site where 50% or more of there monthly traffic is
from file downloads). Sites using more than 30% of system resources for
longer than 60 seconds. Sites running multimedia files (QuickTime, Real
Audio, Real Video, MP3).
For those that do not qualify for the unlimited service, traffic will go
unmonitored until you reach 20 GB per month. Thereafter, normal data
transfer cost of $30.00/1GB/month will be billed to your account. If you
want to pre-pay for bandwidth overages, you will be billed $20.00/1GB/month.
You will have 7 days to pay for your overages. If you do not pay for your
overages your site will be disabled within 7 days of your first notice. This
does not apply to co-location clients. Co-location clients will be billed
for the overages based on switch reports. Co-location clients must pay for
the overages IMMEDIATELY once billing or URTech, Inc. has the sole decision
to deactivate any and all servers.
URTech, Inc. will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of
this provision.
Unsolicited Email (Spam)
Unsolicited commercial advertisements (spam) are not allowed in e-mail, and
will likely result in account cancellation.
URTech, Inc. takes a zero-tolerance approach to spam originating from our
servers or for spam advertising of domains hosted on our servers.
The following activities are not allowed:
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Unsolicited bulk or commercial messages ("spam"). This
includes, but is not limited to, bulk mailing of commercial advertising,
informational announcements, charity requests, petitions for signatures, and
political or religious tracts. Such messages may only be sent to those who
have explicitly requested it from your domain.
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Forging, altering or removing electronic mail headers is
prohibited. Any domain sending stealth spam will be terminated without
warning and without refund.
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Sending numerous copies of the same or substantially similar
message with the intent to disrupt a server or account ("mail bombing").
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Spamming Newsgroups: Commercial advertisements are unwelcome
in most Usenet discussion groups and on most e-mail mailing lists.
Inappropriate posting may result in account cancellation. See the newsgroup
or mailing list's charter for whether advertising is allowed or not.
"Spamming," or sending a message to many different off-topic newsgroups, is
particularly unethical and will be treated as such.
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Mail may not be used to harass or intimidate others.
Harassment, whether through language, frequency of messages, or size of
messages, is prohibited. Sending a single unwelcome message may be
considered harassment. If a recipient asks to stop receiving e-mail, you
must not send that person any further messages.
Note: If you use the services of another provider to promote a web site
hosted by or through URTech, Inc. (spamvertising), then the provisions of
the above Policy shall apply as if the spam were sent through our servers.
CGI Scripts
Each shared web hosting 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 shared server operation without prior
warning. (this section does not apply to managed dedicated servers)
Chat Rooms
We do not allow clients to install their own chat rooms within a shared
hosting account, without approving it with the URTech, Inc. Support Team.
Most chat rooms tend to be large system hogs and we cannot allow it as an
account option. However, we do provide a choice of Java chat rooms for a
small extra charge that will more than fill your needs and run without
hindering the performance of the machine for others. Note: Parachat chat
rooms do not apply to this rule. They are perfectly fine to install.
Abuse of SMTP Mail Server
We do not allow clients to send more than 2000 pieces of e-mail per day from
a shared hosting account. If you do send more than 2000 pieces of e-mail per
day, your account will be placed on hold for Network Abuse. If you are
sending legitimate e-mails and they total more than 2000 per day your
account will be moved to a special server that is specifically designed to
handle high volumes of e-mail. You will be charged $60.00/month in addition
to your regular hosting charges if your account is moved to this server.
Please contact
support@urtechnet.com to have your domain moved.
Background Running Programs
We may allow programs to run continually in the background. These are
considered on a one-to-one basis and an extra charge will be incurred based
on system resources used and operational maintenance needed. (this section
does not apply to managed dedicated servers)
IRC
We currently do not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers. You
can however, install IRC clients on managed dedicated servers. IRC servers
are not permitted on our network.
Disk Overages
All URTech, Inc. accounts come with metered disk space. Should you use more
than your allotted disk space you will be charged $.50 per megabyte per
month.
Payment Policies
All accounts are set up on a pre-pay basis. Setup fees are charged for all
new accounts and major account changes and are non-refundable. All pricing
is guaranteed for the term of pre-payment. URTech, Inc. reserves the right
to change prices at any time, unless other terms have been agreed upon. Any
account not brought current within a week (7 days) of e-mail notice or
exceeding this time frame in any way is subject to suspension. The customer
is responsible for all money owed on the account from the time it was
established to the time that the customer notifies URTech, Inc. at support@urtechnet.com
to request for termination of services. All payment is in U.S. currency.
URTech, Inc. will bill each client $50.00 per returned check, per wire
transfer received and per credit card charge-back received. All URTech, Inc.
accounts are setup on anniversary billing cycles. Your particular billing
cycle corresponds to the contract length that was initially chosen at setup.
Your account will automatically renew at this length. There is no fee to
change to a shorter billing cycle at the end of the current cycle. However,
if you wish to change to a shorter billing cycle, during a current cycle,
there will be a $50.00 fee. Please contact the billing department at
billing@urtechnet.com should you wish to change your anniversary billing
cycle. Any account that is not brought current prior to deactivation will be
charged a $40.00 reactivation fee as well as a $20.00 late charge, per
domain deactivated.
Cancellation
URTech, Inc. reserves the right to cancel service at any time. All fees paid
in advance of cancellation will be pro-rated and paid by URTech, Inc.
If
URTech, Inc. institutes it's right of cancellation. Any violation of
policies which results in extra costs will be billed to the customer (i.e.
transfer, space etc.)
All of URTech, Inc.'s web hosting plans are backed by a 30 day money back
guarantee. If you are not completely satisfied with our services or support
within the first 30 days of your contract, you will be given a full refund
of the contract amount excluding setup fees, domain registration fees, addon/upgrade
fees and overages. Setup fees are refundable only if the account order is
canceled prior to account activation. For all web hosting clients who
cancel, the full contract amount less any setup fees and overages will be
refunded if URTech, Inc. is notified within the first 30 days following
activation. No refund is available after the 30th day. This policy does not
apply to any additional services such as overages, referrer logs, real
audio/video, additional disk space, additional pop accounts, domain
registration fees etc. Due to security concerns, all account cancellations
must be done via our cancellation by e-mailing
billing@urtechnet.com. Refunds will be made by company check or issued
back to your credit card within 30 days of receipt of cancellation.
Intellectual Property Rights
Material accessible to you through URTech, Inc.'s services may be subject to
protection under the United States or other copyright laws, or laws
protecting trademarks, trade secrets or proprietary information. Except when
expressly permitted by the owner of such rights, you must not use URTech,
Inc. or its servers and network in a manner that would infringe, violate,
dilute or misappropriate any such rights, with respect to any material,
which you access or receive through the URTech, Inc. network. If you use a
domain name in connection with URTech, Inc. or similar service, you must
not use that domain name in violation of any trademark, service mark, or
similar rights of any third party.
Network Security
Customers may not use the URTech, Inc. network with an attempt to circumvent
user authentication or security of any host, network, or account. This
includes, but is not limited to, accessing data not intended for the
customer, logging into a server or account the customer is not expressly
authorized to access, password cracking, probing the security of other
networks in search of weakness, or violation of any other organization's
security policy. Customers may not attempt to interfere or deny service to
any user, host, or network. This includes, but is not limited to, flooding,
mail bombing, or other deliberate attempts to overload or crash a host or
network. URTech, Inc. will cooperate fully with investigations of violations
of systems or network security at other sites, including cooperating with
law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal
violations. Users who violate system or network security may incur criminal
or civil liability.
Electronic Commerce
You will be solely responsible for the development, operation and
maintenance of your online store and products and all contents and materials
appearing online or on your products, including without limitation (a) the
accuracy and appropriateness of content and materials appearing within the
store or related to your products, (b) ensuring that the content and
materials appearing within the store or related to your products do not
violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party, and (c) ensuring
that the content and materials appearing within the store or related to your
products are not libelous or otherwise illegal. You will be solely
responsible for the final calculation and application of shipping and sales
tax. You will also be solely responsible for accepting, processing, and
filling any customer orders, and for handling any customer inquiries or
complaints arising therefrom.
You are also responsible for the security of any customer credit card
numbers and related customer information you may access as a result of
conducting electronic commerce transactions through your Web Site. You will
keep all such information confidential and will use the same degree of care
and security as you use with your confidential information.
Static / Dynamic Content
Caching
You expressly (i) grant to URTech, Inc. a license to cache the entirety of
your Web Site, including content supplied by third parties, hosted by
URTech, Inc. under this Agreement and (ii) agree that such caching is not an
infringement of any of your intellectual property rights or any third
party's intellectual property rights.
IP Address Ownership
URTech, Inc. shall maintain and control ownership of all IP numbers and
addresses that may be assigned to you by URTech, Inc. and URTech, Inc.
reserves, in its sole discretion, the right to change or remove any and all
such IP numbers and addresses.
Domain Name Registration
Customer agrees to pay URTech, Inc. prior to the effectiveness of the
desired domain name registration, the then-current amounts set forth in the
URTech, Inc. price schedule for the initial registration of the domain name
and, should Customer choose to renew the registration, subsequent renewals
of the registration. All fees are non-refundable, in whole or in part, even
if Customer's domain name registration is suspended, cancelled or
transferred prior to the end of Customer's then current registration term.
URTech, Inc. reserves the right to change fees, surcharges, renewal fees or
to institute new fees at any time, for any reason, at its sole discretion.
Customer's requested domain name will not be registered unless and until we
receive actual payment of the registration fee, and have confirmed
Customer's registration in an email from URTech, Inc. to the email address
indicated in Customer's registration application. In the event of a
chargeback by a credit card company (or similar action by another payment
provider allowed by URTech, Inc.) in connection with the payments of the
registration fee for Customer's domain name registration, Customer agrees
and acknowledges that the domain name registration shall be transferred to
URTech, Inc. as the paying entity for that registration to the registry and
that we reserve all rights regarding such domain name including, without
limitation, the right to make the domain name available to other parties for
purchase. URTech, Inc. will reinstate Customer's domain name registration
solely at URTech, Inc.'s discretion, and subject to our receipt of the
initial registration or renewal fee and our then-current reinstatement fee.
Lawful Purpose
URTech, Inc. reserves the right to refuse service to anyone. Customers may
only use URTech, Inc. server for lawful purpose. Transmission of any
material in violation of any Federal, State or Local regulation is
prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to copyrighted material,
material legally judged to be threatening or obscene, and material protected
by trade secrets. The designation of any materials as such described above
is left entirely to the discretion of URTech, Inc. management. Regardless of
the place of signing this agreement, the client agrees that for purposes of
venue this contract was entered into in Tarrant County, Texas, and any
dispute will be litigated or arbitrated in Tarrant County, Texas. Defendants
further waive all objections to venue and acknowledge that venue in any such
litigation will be held in Tarrant County courts. IN NO EVENT SHALL URTECH,
INC.'S MAXIMUM LIABILITY EXCEED FIVE HUNDRED ($500.00) DOLLARS.
Indemnification
CUSTOMER AGREES THAT IT SHALL DEFEND, INDEMNIFY, SAVE AND HOLD URTECH,
INC. HARMLESS FROM ANY AND ALL DEMANDS, LIABILITIES, LOSSES, COSTS AND
CLAIMS, INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEY'S FEES ASSERTED AGAINST URTECH, INC.,
ITS AGENTS, ITS CUSTOMERS, OFFICERS AND EMPLO YEES, 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 URTECH, INC. AGAINST LIABILITIES
ARISING OUT OF; (1) ANY INJURY TO PERSON OR PROPERTY CAUSED BY ANY PRODUCTS
SOLD OR OTHERWISE DISTRIBUTED IN CONNECTION WITH URTECH, INC.'S SERVER; (2)
ANY MATERIAL SUPPLIED BY CUSTOMER INFRINGING OR ALLEGEDLY INFRINGING ON THE
PROPRIETARY RIGHTS OF A THIRD PARTY; ( 3) COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT AND (4) ANY
DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS SOLD TO CUSTOMER FROM URTECH, INC.'S SERVER.
Disclaimer
URTECH, INC. WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES YOUR BUSINESS MAY
SUFFER. URTECH, INC. MAKES NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED
FOR SERVICES WE PROVIDE. URTECH, INC. DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY OR
MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THIS INCLUDES LOSS OF
DATA RESULTING FROM DELAYS, NON-DELIVERIES, WRONG DELIVERY, AND ANY AND ALL
SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS CAUSED BY URTECH, INC. AND ITS EMPLOYEES. URTECH, INC.
RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REVISE ITS POLICIES AT ANY TIME.
ALL SUB-NETWORKS, RESELLERS AND DEDICATED
SERVERS OF URTECH, INC. MUST ADHERE TO THE ABOVE POLICIES.
FAILURE
TO FOLLOW ANY TERM OR CONDITION WILL BE GROUNDS FOR IMMEDIATE ACCOUNT
DEACTIVATION.
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