1. INTRODUCTION. In this Service Agreement ("Terms and
Conditions"), "you" and "your" refer to each customer ("Customer") and
its agents, including each person listed in your account information as
being associated with your account, and "we", "us", "IWS" and "our"
refer collectively to Imperial Web Solutions. This Agreement explains
our obligations to you, and your obligations to us in relation to the
service(s) you purchase from us. By purchasing or otherwise applying
for Imperial Web Solutions service(s), you agree to be bound by all
terms stated herein and establish an account with us for provision such
services. This agreement ("Terms and Conditions"), in addition to any
other specific agreement(s) signed between Imperial Web Solutions and
the customer ("you"), represents the complete understanding and
agreement between Imperial Web Solutions and Customer. Except when
expressly agreed to the contrary in writing by Imperial Web Solutions,
these Terms and Conditions supersede any other written (including,
without limitation, digitized/computerized) agreement, oral agreement,
and/or agreement by conduct. This agreement establishes your rights and
obligations when using any of our services.
Imperial Web Solutions may change or discontinue any provision of these
Terms and Conditions at any time, including, without limitation,
services, pricing, equipment, and products. Any such change or
discontinuance will legally bind Customer from the time Imperial Web
Solutions publishes notice of the change or discontinuance on the
Imperial Web Solutions Site, via email or letter in the mail. It is
Customer's sole responsibility to ensure that he/she stays up to date
with the most current version of the Imperial Web Solutions Terms and
Conditions of service. The latest applicable version is available
online at http://imperialwebsolutions.net/tos.html.
If you do no agree to any of the terms of this agreement, do not purchase, use or access Imperial Web Solution’s services.
2. SERVICE AND EQUIPMENT USAGE. Imperial Web
Solutions services and equipment may not be used for any unlawful
purposes. You (“Customer”) may not publish any racist, defamatory,
illegal, abusive, terrorist, obscene, infringing, or threatening
content on any of our servers. In addition, you (“Customer”) may not
publish any content in violation of any US or Foreign Law. You
(“Customer”) is solely responsible legally for all material posted on
their site.
We (“Imperial Web Solutions”) are not obligated to monitor Customer's
site content, this may be performed randomly and any violations will be
noted and customer notified. Depending on the severity your account may
be suspended or revoked without refund. By accepting these terms you
hereby acknowledge that if Imperial Web Solutions is made aware of
content that is deemed to be: unacceptable, undesirable, offensive,
indecent, obscene, excessively violent or otherwise objectionable,
Imperial Web Solutions has the right to notify customer and suspend or
otherwise revoke customer account. Imperial Web Solutions may disclose
any content or records concerning customer's account as required to
satisfy any legal requirement, regulation, government request or court
order.
Pornography and sex-related merchandising are expressly prohibited on
Imperial Web Solutions servers. This includes implying sexual content,
display of nudity, or any link to adult content. This is also true for
sites that promote illegal activity of any type or content that may be
damaging to Imperial Web Solutions servers or any other servers on the
Internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited. In addition, the
sale of or promoting bulk email services otherwise referred to as
spamming are not allowed. Non-acceptable content or links include but
are not necessarily limited to:
Adult Content Sites - Any pornographic material, links to adult sites, or advertisements for adult sites.
Pirated Software Sites (Warez) - Any software that is copyrighted and
not freely available for distribution without cost; i.e. ROMs, ROM
Emulators and MPEG Layer 3 files (MP3).
Copyright Violations - Violation of copyrights held by individuals and
corporations or other entities can result in civil and criminal
liability for the infringer.
Hacking/Phreaking - includes sites with material, links, or resources
for hacking, phreaking, viruses, or any type of site that promotes or
participates in willful harm to Internet sites or providers.
The designation of any materials as described above is left entirely to the discretion of Imperial Web Solutions.
3. SYSTEM & NETWORK RESOURCES. Resources are
defined as utilization of bandwidth usage, server processor usage,
server memory usage, and file storage. Imperial Web Solutions offers
services in a shared system environment. Individual websites may not
consume excessive resources at any time as this can affect other users
on the shared system. Excessive resource use is defined as, but not
limited to, use of more than 15% of a system resource for longer than
60 seconds. If a customer account is found to be using excessive
resources on a shared system, or causes a system to operate in a
non-optimal manner, the customer will be contacted to resolve the
problem. If Imperial Web Solutions is unable to contact a customer
regarding a resources related issue, we may, at our discretion, suspend
or cancel the customer account. Imperial Web Solutions provides a
service to host web sites and web pages. All images and files in a
website directory must be linked to from web pages on the customer's
web site. Web space is not to be used as an image, sound, or file
library, repository, or any other backup or storage solution. Images,
sound, and video files may not be linked to from outside sources or
websites.
4. FEES, PAYMENT, REFUNDS AND TERM.
As consideration for the services you have selected, you agree to pay
Imperial Web Solutions the applicable service fees as quoted or
advertised on the Imperial Web Solutions website. All fees payable
hereunder are non-refundable except those fees covered by Imperial Web
Solutions' "30 Day Money Back Guarantee" if explicitly stated on your
invoice or web design agreement. We require 50% deposit for all web
design projects and the balance due on or before the launch of the
website also referred to as as "Going Live". As further consideration
for the Services, you agree to:(1) provide certain current, complete
and accurate information about you as required by the registration
process and (2) maintain and update this information as needed to keep
it current, complete and accurate. All such information shall be
referred to as account information. You hereby grant us the right to
disclose to third parties as needed to maintain your services such
Account Information. By submitting to this Agreement, you represent
that the statements you have made in our application are true and you
will not use our Services for any unlawful purpose.
All Bank Disputes and Credit Card Charge Backs result in the complete
cancellation of your account. Credit Card Charge Backs result in the
forfeiture of all Imperial Web Solutions services AND the purchasers
Domain Name. All accounts over 30 days in default will be automatically
canceled without refund and forwarded to a collections agency and you
will be legally liable to pay all fees associated with collections, the
amount you owe, interest, including any accrued late fees, bounced
check fees/other bank fees or interest on the balance. All deactivated,
canceled or suspended accounts are subject to a $50 reactivation fee.
All hosting accounts over 60 days past due will be automatically
deleted from our servers. Imperial Web Solutions shall not be held
liable for any data loss due to delinquent accounts. It is the sole
responsibility of the client to migrate or move or back up website
conten. All web design project payments over 30 days past due are
subject to $100 late fee per month up to an amount not exceeding $500.
Web design projects in default will be automatically be removed until
all payments including late fees are paid in full. All accounts in
default over 90 days will be forwarded to a collection agency.
Recurring hosting charges will be automatically billed monthly. Domains
are registered annually and cannot be refunded but may be transferred
to another ISP.
SERVICE SPECIFIC TERMS
- Web
Design - We require 50% deposit and the balance is due before the site
launches also referred to as “Going Live”. All scheduled payments must
be paid strictly on the due dates, failure to which may lead to project
suspension or cancellation without refund. All projects are allotted a
time frame which cannot be exceeded by over 7 days unless project
requirements change in the course of the design. You “the client” must
provide all the material for the website within the allotted time to
prevent delays in completing the project. You will be liable in the
event of any delays caused by you.
All web design material
and code with the exception of data or material (images, media, data
feeds) provided by the client is considered property of Imperial Web
Solutions until all payments have been made by the client. We "Imperial
Web Solutions" reserve the right to copyright or limit the use of or
distribution of custom software developed by Imperial Web Solutions
which may be deemed as our Intellectual Property.
All third party software implemented on behalf of the client is
copyright of the owners and Imperial Web Solutions does not provide any
warranty on security, stability or use.
- Site
Manager - IWS Site manager is copyright property of Imperial Web
Solutions. It is provided as a hosted solution and may not be
transferred or hosted on any server other than our own. All websites
developed using the site manager may be exported as HTML for purposes
of transfer to another ISP and is the sole responsibility of the client
to save content and pages to be transferred.
- Web Hosting - See paragraphs 2 and 3
- Search
Engine Marketing - Also referred to as SEO or SEM is an Internet
Marketing service offered by Imperial Web Solutions to help boost
traffic and rank of a website. Imperial Web Solutions does not have
control over whether any search engines will or will not index your
website. We do however guarantee improved traffic and search engine
recognition within the period of service. Website traffic is determined
by combined online and on the ground marketing strategies. Our search
engine optimization methodology follows the strict stipulation set by
the various search engines. We do not follow procedures that may cause
your website to be black listed by search engines such as but not
limited to "Link farming". We do not offer any warranty or guarantee
that traffic to your website traffic will be consistent nor that your
website will appear in the top results with any keywords.
- Website
Maintenance - All website maintenance requests must be submitted in
clear and concise manner via fax or email. Website changes also
referred to as "Change Requests" are processed in the order received.
Depending on our current work load, changes may be started within 24 -
72 hrs and time spent will be based entirely on the task requirements
on the clients to-do list.
5. SYSTEM SECURITY. Customers may not use the Imperial
Web Solutions Network to attempt in any way to circumvent user
authentication or security of any host, network, or account. This
includes, but is not limited to, accessing any data not intended for
the customer, logging into any 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. Imperial Web Solutions 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 will be held accountable
for any criminal or civil liability.
6. UNSOLICITED EMAIL (SPAM). Customer may not use any
Imperial Web Solutions service, equipment or any Imperial Web Solutions
hosted email address in connection with the transmission of spam,
flames, mail bombs, or substantially similar, unsolicited email
messages. Your domain may not be referenced as originator,
intermediary, or reply-to address in any of the above. This shall
include the sending of unsolicited mass mailings from any other service
that in any way implicates the use of the Imperial Web Solutions
network. A message is considered to be unsolicited if it is posted in
violation of a newsgroup charter or if it is sent to a recipient who
has not requested or invited the message. Simply making one's email
address accessible to the public will not constitute a request or
invitation to receive messages, for purposes of enforcing this
provision.
When any customer is found to have been engaged in spamming in
violation of this agreement, Imperial Web Solutions reserves the right
to disable that customer's web site without warning. Imperial Web
Solutions solely reserves the right to refuse or cancel service to
spammers. Imperial Web Solutions reserves the right to determine what
violates this policy. As such, any violation may result in cancellation
of services without refund. Such cancellation of services for cause,
specifically the reasons provided herein, shall automatically void
Imperial Web Solutions 30 day money back guarantee.
7. CANCELLATION 0F SERVICE. Cancellation of any
service must be done via email, or via fax signed by the account
holder. Imperial Web Solutions can not accept cancellation requests in
any other way. Transferring your domain to another provider does not
constitute canceling your account with Imperial Web Solutions. You must
notify Imperial Web Solutions as detailed above to formally cancel your
account with Imperial Web Solutions to avoid further charges. Domain
Name Registration CANNOT be canceled. As the purchaser of the Domain
Name you are the Domain Names owner until the term of the Domain Names
registration has expired. Imperial Web Solutions reserves the right to
cancel service for any reason without prior notice.
8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. You agree that our entire
liability, and your exclusive remedy, with respect to any Services(s)
provided under this Agreement and any breach of this Agreement is
solely limited to the amount you paid for such Service(s). We and our
contractors shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, accidental,
incidental, special or consequential damages resulting from the use or
inability to use any of the Services or for the cost of procurement of
substitute services. We disclaim any and all loss or liability
resulting from, but not limited to: (1) loss or liability resulting
from access delays or access interruptions; (2) loss or liability
resulting from data non-delivery or data mis-delivery; (3) loss or
liability resulting from acts of God; (4) loss or liability resulting
from the unauthorized use or misuse of your Account Identifier or
Password; (5) loss or liability resulting from errors, omissions, or
misstatements in any and all information or services(s) provided under
this Agreement; (6) loss or liability resulting from the development or
interruption of your Web site or email service. You agree that we will
not be liable for interruption of business, or any indirect, special,
accidental, or consequential damages of any kind (including lost
profits) regardless of the form of action whether in contract, tort
(including negligence), or otherwise, even if we have been advised of
the possibility of such damages. In no event shall our maximum
liability exceed one hundred ($100.00) dollars.
9. INDEMNIFICATION. Customer agrees that it will
protect, indemnify, save and hold Imperial Web Solution, harmless from
any and all stipulations, liabilities, losses, expenses and claims, as
well as reasonable attorney's fees assessed against Imperial Web
Solutions, its agents, customers, officers, employees and
administration that may arise or result from any service provided or
performed or agreed to be performed or any product sold by it's
customers, agents, employees or assigns. Customer agrees to defend,
indemnify and hold Imperial Web Solutions, harmless against liabilities
arising out of;
1. Any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or
distributed in association with Imperial Web Solution’s Services;
2. Any material furnished by customer infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party;
3. Copyright violation and any defective products sold to a customer from Imperial Web Solution’s Services.
10. DISCLAIMER. Imperial Web Solutions, . will not be
responsible for any damages your business may suffer. Imperial Web
Solutions makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for
services we provide. Imperial Web Solutions, . disclaims any warranty
or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This includes
data loss resulting from delays, non-deliveries, wrong delivery, and
any and all service interruptions of any kind caused by Imperial Web
Solutions, . and its employees. Imperial Web Solutions, reserves the
right to amend or update these policies without notice. Failure to
follow any terms and conditions may result in account deactivation.
Imperial Web Solutions furthermore expects that its customers who
resell our Internet services to others will fully comply with all
applicable laws concerning the privacy of on-line communications. A
customer's failure to comply with those laws will violate this policy.
Finally, Imperial Web Solutions wishes to emphasize that in accepting
services, customers indemnify Imperial Web Solutions for the violation
of any law or Imperial Web Solutions policy that results in loss to
Imperial Web Solutions or the bringing of any claim against Imperial
Web Solutions. If Imperial Web Solutions is sued because of activities
of a customer that violate any law, or this policy, the customer will
pay any damages awarded against Imperial Web Solutions, plus costs and
reasonable attorneys' fees.
All Customer of Imperial Web Solutions must adhere to the above
policies. Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for
immediate account deactivation.
11. IWS SITE MANAGER. Imperial Web Solutions Site
manager software is copyright to Imperial Web Solutions and is offered
for use with licence fees on our servers. We provide no warranties or
claims of merchantability for its use. It is offered as a hosted
solution and cannot be transferred or hosted by any other ISP except
where expressly authorized or licensed by Imperial Web Solutions.
Websites designed on IWS Site manager are subject to automatic upgrades
with any new version or bug fixes. In event of cancellation or
migration to a new ISP, the website owner is liable for generating a
static (HTML) version of the website. However this service is available
for free at the direct request of the client
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