Where the context admits: "We" includes Xperience Web Hosting Ltd of: Lymedale Business Centre, Hooters Hall Road, Lymedale Business Park, Newcastle, Staffordshire, ST5 9QF, United Kingdom or any party acting on
Xperience Web Hosting's implicit instructions. "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 server equipment operated by us
in connection with the provision of the Services. "Web Site" means the area
on the Server allocated by us to you for use by you as a site on the
Internet.
In consideration of the mutual covenants herein, the parties agree to the
following, which shall apply during the term of this Agreement:
1. Domain Name Registration
1.1 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.
1.2 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.
1.3 You shall have no right to bring any claim against us in respect of
refusal to register a domain name.
1.4 Any administration charge paid by you to us shall be non-refundable
notwithstanding refusal by the Registry to register your desired name.
1.5 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.
1.6 We shall not release any domain to another provider unless full payment
for that domain has been received by us.
1.7 When registering a .uk domain name, you also must read and agree to Nominet's Terms and Conditions of Domain Name Registration which are available at www.nominet.uk/go/terms.
2. Web Site Hosting And Email
2.1. 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.
2.2 You represent, undertake and warrant to us that you will use the Web
Site allocated to you only for lawful purposes. In particular, you
represent, warrant and undertake to us that.
2.2.1 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.
2.2.2 you will not upload, post, link to or transmit:
(a) any material which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, malicious,
defamatory, obscene, pornographic, blasphemous, profane or otherwise
objectionable in any way.
(b) any material containing a virus or other hostile computer program.
(c) 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.
(d) any material which is forbidden by our acceptable use policy.
2.2.3 you will not send bulk email whether opt-in or otherwise from our
network. Nor will you promote a site hosted on our network using bulk email.
2.2.4 you will not employ programs which consume excessive system resources,
including but not limited to processor cycles and memory.
2.2.5 any file you store on the Server will be reachable via a hyperlink
from a page on your site.
2.3 We reserve the right to remove any material which we deem inappropriate
from your Web Site without notice to you.
2.4 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 loss, theft or unauthorised disclosure of your
password or other security information.
2.5 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.
2.6 You shall procure that all mail is sent in accordance with applicable
legislation (including data protection legislation) and in a secure manner.
2.9 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.
2.10 Any access to other networks connected to Xperience Web Hosting must
comply with the rules appropriate for those other networks.
2.11 While we will use every reasonable endeavor 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.
2.12 No more than one log-in session under any one account may be used at
any time by you. If you have multiple accounts, you are limited to one login
session per system account at any time.
3. Resellers
3.1 If you are or become a reseller of our Services you will continue to
be bound by these terms and conditions, you will be responsible for ensuring
that your customers are bound by terms and conditions that adequately
reflect and give effect to these.
3.2 You shall not incur or purport to incur on our behalf any liability nor
in any way pledge or purport to pledge our credit or to make any contract
binding on us.
3.3 No default by your customers shall in any way affect, modify or limit
your obligations under this Agreement.
3.4 We authorise you to sell our services under your own brand for the
direct use of your clients only. You may not permit your clients to resell
the services you provide.
4. Service Availability
4.1 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.
4.2 We shall have the right to suspend the Services at any time and for any
reason, generally without notice, but if such suspension lasts or is to last
for more than 7 days you will be notified of the reason.
5. Payment
5.1 All charges payable by you for the Services shall be in accordance
with the scale of charges and rates published from time to time by us on our
web site and shall be due and payable in advance of provision of the
Services.
5.2 We reserve the right to change pricing at any time although all pricing
is guaranteed for the period of pre payment.
5.2 Payment is due each anniversary month, quarter or year following the
date the Services were established until closure notice is given in
accordance with 6.4. If you choose to pay by credit or debit card you
authorise Xperience Web Hosting to debit your account renewal fees from your
card.
5.3 All payments must be in UK Pounds Sterling.
5.4 If your Direct Debit or cheque is returned by the bank as unpaid for any reason, you
will be liable for a "returned transaction" charge of £25.
5.5 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 forthwith to suspend the provision of Services to you.
6. Termination And Refunds
6.1 We shall be entitled to suspend the Services and/or terminate this
Agreement forthwith without notice to you If you:
6.1.1 fail to pay any sums due to us as they fall due.
6.1.2 break any of these terms and conditions.
6.1.3 are a company and you go into insolvent liquidation or suffer the
appointment of an administrator or administrative receiver or enter into a
voluntary arrangement with your creditors.
6.2 No refunds will be made under any circumstances for Services suspended
in accordance with 6.1.
6.3 We reserve the right to suspend the Services and/or terminate this
Agreement at any time.
6.4 You may cancel the Services at any time. To do so you must request
cancellation of the Services in writing including your account username and
password. We will cancel the Services within 2 working days of receipt of
your request.
6.5 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.
7. Indemnity
7.1 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 this Agreement.
8. Limitation Of Liability
8.1 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, subject always to subclause 8.2.
8.2 Nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude our liability for
death or personal injury resulting from our negligence.
8.3 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.
8.4 In any event no claim shall be brought unless you have notified us of
the claim within one year of it arising.
8.5 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.
9. Notices
9.1 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.
10. Law
10.1 This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with English law and you hereby submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of
the English courts.
11. Headings
11.1 Headings are included in this Agreement for convenience only and
shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.
12. Entire Agreement
12.1 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 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.