Terms and Conditions
Hosting
and Domain Name Registration
Where the context admits: "We" & "Us" includes
Hyde Horizons Limited, PO Box 329, Bristol, BS34 7XZ, United Kingdom. "You"
includes the person purchasing the Services or any party acting on the
customer's instructions. "The Registrant" includes the person applying for a
domain name or any party acting on the Registrant's instructions. "The Registry"
the relevant domain names Registry. "Server" means the computer equipment
administered by us in connection with the provision of
the Services. "Web Site" means the area on the Server allocated to you for
use as your site on the Internet.
The relationship entered into between you and us is governed by these following
terms, which shall apply during, and where necessary after, the period of the
commercial relationship between you and us.
Domain Name
Registration
- We make no
representation that the domain name you wish to register is capable of being
registered by or for you or that it will be registered in your name. You
should therefore not assume registration of your requested domain name(s)
until you have been notified that it has or they have been registered. Any
action taken by you before such notification is at your risk.
- The
registration and use of your domain name is subject to the terms and
conditions of use applied by the relevant Registry; you shall ensure that
you are aware of those terms and conditions and that you comply with them.
- By
registering a .uk domain name, you enter into a contract of registration
with Nominet UK on the terms and conditions published at
http://www.nominet.org.uk.
- You
shall have no right to bring any claim against us in respect of any refusal
to register a domain name by the relevant registration authority.
- Any
administration charge paid by you to us shall be non-refundable
notwithstanding refusal by the Registry to register your desired name.
- We shall
have no liability in respect of the use by you of any domain name; any
dispute between you and any other person must be resolved between the
parties concerned in such dispute. If any such dispute arises, we shall be
entitled, at our discretion and without giving any reason, to withhold,
suspend or cancel the domain name. We shall also be entitled to make
representations to the relevant Registry but will not be obliged to take
part in any such dispute.
- We shall not
release any domain to another provider unless full payment for that domain
has been received by us.
Web Site Hosting And Email
- We make no representation and give no warranty as to the accuracy or
quality of information received by any person via the Server and we shall have
no liability for any loss or damage to any data stored on the Server.
- You represent, undertake and warrant to us that you will use the Web Site
allocated to you only for lawful purposes and to promptly inform us if this
clause or any sub clause of this clause has been breached or you become aware
that they may have been breached.
In particular, you represent, warrant and
undertake to us:
- You will not use the Server in any manner which infringes any law or
regulation or which infringes the rights of any third party, nor will you
authorise or permit any other person to do so.
- You will not upload, post, link to or transmit:
- Any material which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, malicious,
defamatory, obscene, pornographic, blasphemous, profane or otherwise
objectionable in any way.
- Any material containing a virus or other hostile computer program.
- Any material which constitutes, or encourages the commission of, a
criminal offence or which infringes any patent, trade mark, design right,
copyright or any other intellectual property right or similar rights of any
person which may subsist under the laws of any jurisdiction.
- You will not send bulk email whether opt-in or otherwise from our
Server. Nor will you promote a site hosted on our Server using bulk email.
- You will not employ programs which consume excessive system resources,
including but not limited to processor cycles and memory.
- Any file you store on the Server will be reachable via a hyperlink from a
page on your site.
- We reserve the right to remove any material which we deem inappropriate
from your Web Site without notice to you.
- You shall keep secure any identification, password and other confidential
information relating to your account and shall notify us immediately of any
known or suspected unauthorised use of your account or breach of security,
including but not limited to loss, theft or unauthorised disclosure of your
password or other security information.
- You shall observe the procedures which we may from time to time prescribe
and shall make no use of the Server which is detrimental to our other customers.
- You shall procure that all mail is sent in accordance with applicable
legislation (including data protection legislation) and in a secure manner.
- In the case of an individual User, you warrant that you are at least 18
years of age and if the User is a company, you warrant that the Services will
not be used by anyone under the age of 18 years.
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While we will use every reasonable endeavour to ensure the integrity and
security of the Server, we do not guarantee that the Server will be free from
unauthorised users or hackers and we shall be under no liability for non-receipt
or misrouting of email or for any other failure of email.
Service Availability
- We shall use our reasonable endeavours to make available to you at all
times the Server and the Services but we shall not, in any event, be liable for
interruptions of Service or down-time of the Server.
Payment
- All charges payable by you for the Services shall be in accordance with the
charges and rates agreed between us on.
- We reserve the right to change pricing at any time although all pricing is
guaranteed for the period of pre payment.
- Payment is due within 21 days
of the invoice date, unless paying by standing order, until closure notice is
given in accordance with the Termination and Refunds policy.
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All payments must be in UK Pounds Sterling.
- If your cheque is returned by the bank as unpaid for any reason, you will
be liable for a "returned cheque" charge of £25.
- Without prejudice to our other rights and remedies under this Agreement, if
any sum payable is not paid on or before the due date, we shall be entitled but
not obliged forthwith to suspend the provision of Services to you.
- All sums not paid within the specified period for payment shall be subject
to interest on the amount due computed from the date of invoice on a day to day basis at the rate of 5 % per annum above the Barclays Bank plc base
rate ruling from time to time.
- HHL shall be entitled to recover its expenses in connection with any default in payment by The Client including legal
expenses and costs of collection
Termination And Refunds
- We shall be entitled to suspend the Services and/or terminate this
Agreement forthwith without notice to you If you:
- Fail to pay any sums due to us as they fall due.
- Break any of these terms and conditions.
- Are a company and you go into liquidation or suffer the appointment of an
administrator or administrative receiver or enter into a voluntary arrangement
with your creditors.
- No refunds will be made under any circumstances for Services suspended in
accordance with the above.
- We reserve the right to suspend the Services and/or terminate this
Agreement at any time. In the event of this You will be entitled to a pro rata
refund based upon the remaining period of prepayment if applicable.
- You may cancel the Services at any time. To do so you must request
cancellation of the Services in writing. We will cancel the Services within 5 working days of receipt of your
request.
- On termination of this Agreement or suspension of the Services we shall be
entitled immediately to stop access to your Web Site and to remove all data
located on the Server.
Indemnity
- You shall indemnify us and keep us indemnified and hold us harmless from
and against any breach by you of these terms of business and any claim brought
against us by a third party resulting from the provision of Services by us to
You and your use of the Services and the Server including, without limitation,
all claims, actions, proceedings, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, expenses
(including reasonable legal costs and expenses), howsoever suffered or incurred
by us in consequences of your breach or non-observance of any of the terms of
this Agreement.
Limitation Of Liability
- All conditions, terms, representations and warranties relating to the
Services supplied under this Agreement, whether imposed by statute or operation
of law or otherwise, that are not expressly stated in these terms and conditions
including, without limitation, the implied warranty of satisfactory quality and
fitness for a particular purpose are hereby excluded to the extent applicable
under UK law, subject always to following sub clause.
- Nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude our liability for death
or personal injury resulting from our negligence.
- Our total aggregate liability to you for any claim in contract, tort,
negligence or otherwise arising out of or in connection with the provision of
the Services shall be limited to the charges paid by you in respect of the
Services which are the subject of any such claim.
- In any event no claim shall be brought unless you have notified us of the
claim within one month of it arising.
- In no event shall we be liable to you for any loss of business, contracts,
profits or anticipated savings or for any other indirect or consequential or
economic loss whatsoever.
Notices
- Any notice to be given by either party to the other may be sent by either
email, fax or recorded delivery to the address of the other party as appearing
in this Agreement or ancillary application forms or such other address as such
party may from time to time have communicated to the other in writing, and if
sent by email shall unless the contrary is proved be deemed to be received on
the day it was sent or if sent by fax shall be deemed to be served on receipt of
an error-free transmission report, or if sent by recorded delivery shall be
deemed to be served two days following the date of posting.
Non-Waiver
- Any forbearance or failure by us to enforce a contractual provision to
which you are subject shall not affect our right to require such performance at
any subsequent time, nor shall the waiver or forbearance by us of any breach of
any provisions of the agreement herein be taken to be or held to be a waiver of
the provision or provisions itself of themselves.
Law
- This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with
English law and you hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English
courts.
Headings
- Headings are included in this Agreement for convenience only and shall not
affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.
Entire Agreement
- These terms and conditions together with any documents expressly referred
to in them, contain the entire Agreement between us relating to the subject
matter covered and supersede any previous Agreements, arrangements, undertakings
or proposals, written or oral: between us in relation to such matters. No oral
explanation or oral information given by any party shall alter the
interpretation of these terms and conditions. In agreeing to these terms and
conditions, you confirm that you have not relied on any representation other
than those expressly stated in these terms and conditions and you agree that you
shall have no remedy in respect of any misrepresentation which has not been made
expressly in this Agreement.