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GENERAL HOSTING Terms & Conditions  


General Hosting (hereby called "The Service Provider") is an Internet Service Provider and host of personal and business World Wide Web pages. General Hosting maintains The Service Provider as a service to the Internet community. The goal of General Hosting is to provide you with the best service possible for an enjoyable Internet experience. These Terms and Conditions are designed to keep General Hosting and the Internet enjoyable and useful for all of our subscribers. General Hosting is committed to and supports the free flow of information and ideas over the Internet. General Hosting does not actively monitor nor does General Hosting exercise editorial control over the content of any web site, electronic mail transmission, mailing list, news group or other material created or accessible over General Hosting services. However, General Hosting reserves the right to remove any materials General Hosting does become aware of that are, in General Hosting's sole discretion, potentially illegal, could subject General Hosting to liability, deemed erotic or/and porno or violate this policy. The use of The Service Provider is subject to the following terms and conditions. General Hosting may amend this agreement on an as needed basis by placing an update of this posting, and your continued use of The Service Provider following each updated posting shall be deemed to be your acceptance of any such modification. Furthermore, it is your responsibility to monitor the "Terms and Conditions" page of The Service Provider regularly to determine whether the terms and conditions have been modified. If changes to terms and conditions or pricing have been made, these changes will take effect on the date of Client's contract renewal. If you do not agree with the Terms and Conditions of The Service Provider or any modifications or changes to this Agreement, you must immediately stop using The Service Provider.
The entire content of The Service Provider is Copyrighted, and all rights are reserved. You may save to disk or print out individual or selections of information contained within The Service Provider for your own use, provided that you do not collect multiple small selections for the purpose of replicating or copying all or substantial portions of The Service Provider.

Terms of Contract

I. Financial Arrangements
1. Client agrees to the contract for the length specified, beginning upon General Hosting's receipt by fax, e-mail, or express mail. Client agrees to pay General Hosting for services rendered pursuant to the payment schedule.
2. First payment shall be due upon receipt of contract.
3. This agreement will automatically renew for identical or up to 1-year successive periods unless canceled in writing or modified by client prior to the renewal date. Client will receive a receipt for charges and payment.  Any invoice for charges and payment is due upon receipt of invoice.
4. Initial payment is due with contract. Contract takes effect on the date
of receipt of payment, and will be renewed automatically for identical or up to 1-year successive periods. Any changes made to the Client's package (e.g. extra traffic charges, additional server space, additional e-mail accounts) shall be billed accordingly.  
5. All orders are subject to acceptance by General Hosting. An order will be deemed accepted by General Hosting when confirmation of the order is sent to Customer. General Hosting may refuse to accept any order, or delay acceptance awaiting completion of conditions General Hosting may choose to exercise. Such refusal of such conditions may not be unreasonable, however, and General Hosting agrees to provide Customer with reasonable notice by Email or fax of any intent to delay or decline the acceptance of any order.

II. Taxes
General Hosting shall not be liable for any taxes or other fees to be paid in accordance with or related to purchases made from Client or General Hosting's server. Client agrees to take full responsibility for all taxes and fees of any nature associated with any such products sold.

III. Material and Products
1. General Hosting will exercise no control whatsoever over the content of the information passing through the network or on the Client's web sites. General Hosting makes no warranties or guarantees of any kind, whether expressed or implied for the service it is providing. General Hosting also disclaims any warranty of merchantability or fitness for particular purpose and will not be responsible for any damages that may be suffered by the Client, including loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries or service interruptions or gaps by any cause or errors or omissions of the Client. General Hosting is not responsible for any loss, erasure, or corruption of Client's data or files whatsoever. Use of any information obtained by way of General Hosting is at the Client's own risk, and General Hosting specifically denies any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through its services. Connection speed represents the speed of connection to General Hosting and does not represent guarantees of available end to end bandwidth. General Hosting expressly limits its damages to the Client for any non-accessibility time or other down time to the pro-rata monthly charge during the system unavailability. General Hosting specifically denies any responsibilities for any damages arising from a consequence of such unavailability. In the event that this material is not "Server-ready", General Hosting may, at its option and at any time, reject this material, including but not limited to after it has been put on General Hosting's Server.
General Hosting agrees to notify Client immediately of its refusal of the material and afford Client the opportunity to amend or modify the material to satisfy the needs and/or requirements of General Hosting. If the Client fails to modify the material, as directed by General Hosting, within a
reasonable period of time, the Agreement shall be terminated.

IV. Trademarks & Copyrights
Client warrants that it has the right to use the applicable trademarks, if any, and grants General Hosting the right to use such trademarks in connection with General Hosting's service.

V. Etiquette and Policy
1. The network resources of General Hosting may not be used to impersonate another person or misrepresent authorization to act on behalf of others or General Hosting. All messages via General Hosting should correctly identify the sender; users may not alter the attribution of origin in electronic mail messages or postings. Users may not attempt to undermine the security or integrity of computing systems or networks and must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to said networks. Clients may not use General Hosting's server for mass e-mail or "spamming" purposes. 
2. General Hosting may impose reasonable rules and regulations regarding the use of its services. Customer shall impose such rules and regulations on its customers to the extent necessary to ensure compliance. 
3. General Hosting may discontinue servicing any Plan, or may require fulfillment of terms or conditions General Hosting may choose to impose as a prerequisite for continuing to service any such Plan. Such discontinuation or requirement may not be unreasonable, however, and General Hosting agrees to provide Customer with reasonable notice by Email and fax of any such intent to discontinue or impose certain conditions.
4. General Hosting's services may not be used for illegal purposes, or in support of illegal activities. General Hosting reserves the right to cooperate with legal authorities and/or injured third parties in the investigation of any suspected crime or civil wrong. Activities which are prohibited as potentially illegal include, but are not limited to: Unauthorized copying of copyrighted material including, but not limited to, digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted sources, and copyrighted software. Posting or e-mailing of scams such as 'make-money-fast' schemes or 'pyramid/chain' letters. Threatening bodily harm or property damage to individuals or groups. Making fraudulent offers of products, items, or services originating from your account. Attempting to access the accounts of others, or attempting to penetrate beyond security measures of our or other systems (referred to as hacking) whether or not the intrusion results in corruption or loss of data. Harassing others by 'mail-bombing'. 'Mail-bombing' constitutes sending more than ten (10) similar mail messages to the same e-mail address. Forging any message header, in part or whole, of any electronic transmission, originating or passing through General Hosting services.  Distributing viruses to or from General Hosting systems.
5. Bulk email sent through a mail service external to our system can not contain an email address or a domain name that is hosted by General Hosting. This generally results in complaints being forwarded to our administrative staff and will be cause for immediate account termination or suspension without prior notification.
6. Contents judged erotic or porno to the sole discretion of General Hosting can not be hosted under any General Hosting servers or services.

VI. Charges for Space and Server Traffic Above and Beyond that which are Allocated in Client's Hosting Plan Client agrees that it will be charged and will remit payment for extra server traffic pursuant to the web site hosting package that Client has selected. Said charges will be prorated and will appear on the following invoice. Charges for excess server traffic are posted in the hosting
section of <http://www.--YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME--.COM/lib/stats>. Client agrees that it will be charged and will remit payment for extra server storage space and extra e-mail accounts pursuant to the web site hosting package that Client has selected. Said charges will be prorated and appear on the following invoice. Charges for extra server storage space and extra e-mail accounts
will be emailed to Client.

VII. Termination
1. This Agreement may be terminated by General Hosting, without cause, by giving the other party 1-30 days notice via e-mail or fax. In such event, General Hosting will be required to pay to the other party an amount equal to the unused and prorated portion of service excluding any setup charges. Notwithstanding the above, General Hosting may terminate the service under this Agreement at any time, without penalty, if the Client fails to comply with the terms of this Agreement. It is the clients responsibility to point his/her domain to another service provider upon termination, cancellation or discontinuation of service.
2. General Hosting offers a 30-Day money back guarantee for its services. This guarantee excludes any setup fees or installation charges applied to General Hosting's services.
3. General Hosting will not issue refunds or credits past the 30-Day money back guarantee.  

VIII. Limited Liability
1. Client expressly agrees that use of General Hosting's Server is at Client's sole risk. Neither General Hosting, its employees, agents, resellers, third party information providers, merchants licensers or the like, warrant that General Hosting's Server service will not be interrupted or be error free; nor do they make any warranty as to the results that might be obtained from the use of the Server service or as to the accuracy, or reliability of any information service or merchandise contained in or provided through the General Hosting Server service, unless otherwise expressly stated in this Agreement.
2. Under no circumstances, including negligence, shall General Hosting, its offices, agents or any one else involved in creating, or distributing General Hosting's Server service be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages that result from the use of or inability to use the General Hosting Server service; or that results from mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files, errors, defects, delays in operation, or transmission or any failure of
performance, whether or not limited to acts of God, communication failure, theft, destruction or unauthorized access to General Hosting's records, programs or services. Client hereby acknowledges that this paragraph shall apply to all content on General Hosting's Server service.

IX. Indemnification
Client agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold General Hosting harmless from any demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorneys' fees, ("Liabilities") asserted against General Hosting, its agents, its customers, servants officers and employees, that may arise or result from any service provided or performed or agreed to be performed or any product sold by Client, its agents, employees or assigns. Client agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless General Hosting against Liabilities arising out of (i) any injury to person or property
caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with General Hosting's Server; (ii) any material supplied by Client infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party; (iii) copyright infringement and (iv) any defective product which Client sold on General Hosting Server.

X. Partial Invalidity
If any provision of this agreement is held to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, then the remaining provisions shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect. General Hosting and Customer agree to renegotiate in good faith any term held invalid and to be bound by mutually agreed substitute provision.

XI. Disputes
The parties shall try to resolve all disputes that might arise out of this agreement in a spirit of cooperation without formal procedures. Any dispute which cannot be so resolved (other than the collection of money due on unpaid invoices) and other than the injunctive relief referred to in paragraph 10 shall be subject to arbitration upon written demand of either party. Arbitration shall take place in New York, New York or at a different location if the parties so agree. The arbitration will take place before an arbitration panel chosen as follows: The parties shall each choose an arbitrator, and the two arbitrators shall choose a third arbitrator and determine the third arbitrator's pay. Each party shall have one veto over the choice of the third arbitrator. The three arbitrators shall schedule an informal proceeding, hear the arguments, and decide the matter by secret majority vote. Unless the arbitrators decide otherwise, each party shall pay the costs of its own arbitrator, and shall pay half of the other costs of the arbitration proceeding. Each party shall have the right to have the proceedings transcribed. The arbitrators will not have the authority to award punitive damages or any other form of relief not contemplated in the contract. The majority of arbitrators shall render a written opinion setting forth the basis on which they arrived at the decision regarding each issue submitted to arbitration; the dissenting arbitrator, if any, shall not issue a dissenting opinion. Regarding each issue submitted to arbitration, the decision will be final and binding only to the extent it is accompanied by a written explanation of the basis upon which it was arrived at. Judgment upon the award, if any, rendered by the arbitrators may be entered in any court having jurisdiction. Should any legal action permissible under this agreement be taken to enforce the conditions and terms of this agreement, in particular the right to collect money due on unpaid invoices, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover reasonable legal fees and expenses incurred at the trial and appellate levels.

XII. Confidentiality
Customer acknowledges that by reason of its relationship with General Hosting, it may have access to certain products, information and materials relating to General Hosting's business, plans, customers, software technology, and marketing plans that are confidential and of substantial value to General Hosting, which value would be impaired if such information were disclosed to third parties. Customer agrees that it will not use in any way for its own account or for the account of any third party, nor disclose to any third party, any such information revealed to it by General Hosting. Customer further agrees that it will take every appropriate precaution to protect the confidentiality of such information. In the event of termination of this agreement, there shall be no use or disclosure by the Customer of any such confidential information in its possession, and all confidential documents shall be returned to General Hosting or destroyed. The provisions of this section shall survive the termination of the agreement for any reason. Upon any breach or threatened breach of this section, General Hosting shall be entitled to injunctive relief, which relief will not be contested by Customer. Domain names are registered through third party ICANN certified registrars.

XIII. Notices
Except with respect to service of process as set forth in paragraph , all notices may be sent by email, fax, or express mail to the email address, fax number, or address most recently provided and will be effective upon transmission. Evidence of successful transmission shall be retained..