Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
Heavenly Hosts provides Internet World Wide Web page hosting, Marketing, and Development. Heavenly Hosts has certain legal and ethical responsibilities consisting with the use of its server and equipment involved in these services.
Heavenly Hosts general policy is to act as a provider of Internet presence. Heavenly Hosts reserves the right to suspend or cancel a customer's access to any or all services provided by Heavenly Hosts 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 Heavenly Hosts is strictly
prohibited.
Unauthorized use of other people's accounts or computers Heavenly Hosts 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 Heavenly Hosts customer, whether or not the attacked account or computer belongs to Heavenly Hosts, 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 - Heavenly Hosts 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 Heavenly Hosts to be unacceptable use of Heavenly Hosts'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: Providing material
that is grossly offensive to the Web community including blatant expressions
of bigotry, racism, hatred, or profanity Promoting or providing
instructional information about illegal activities, or promoting physical
harm or injury against any group or individual Displaying material
containing obscene nudity or pornographic material (not applicable to
managed dedicated servers) Displaying material that exploits children under
18 years of age 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
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| Abuse of Unlimited Traffic | ||||
| Heavenly Hosts's customers are
privileged to be offered unlimited traffic for their web sites. The
intention of Heavenly Hosts 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 Heavenly Hosts'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 Heavenly Hosts management.
Any customer who violates Heavenly Hosts'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.
For those that do not qualify for the unlimited service, traffic will go unmonitored until you reach the amount of quote allocated to your specific web hosting plan. Thereafter, normal data transfer cost will be billed to your account. If you want to pre-pay for bandwidth overages, you will be billed $2.00/1GB/month. You will have 3 days to pay for your overages. If you do not pay for your overages your site will be disabled within 3 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 Heavenly Hosts has the sole decision to deactivate any and all servers. Heavenly Hosts will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a
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| Unsolicited Email (Spam) | ||||
| Unsolicited commercial
advertisements (spam) are not allowed in e-mail, and will likely result in
account cancellation.
Heavenly Hosts takes a zero-tolerance approach to spam originating from our servers or for spam advertising of domains hosted on our servers. We will charge the compromised account up to $25 per unsolicited email message sent. The following activities are not allowed: 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. Forging, altering or removing electronic mail headers is prohibited. Any domain sending stealth spam will be terminated without warning and without refund. Sending numerous copies of the same or substantially similar message with the intent to disrupt a server or account ("mail bombing"). 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. 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 Heavenly Hosts (spamvertising), then the provisions of
the above Policy shall apply as if the spam were sent through our servers.
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| 100% Uptime Guarantee | ||||
| (1.) Coverage This 100% uptime
guarantee applies to any Heavenly Hosts client in good financial standing
with Heavenly Hosts at the time of a service outage.
(2.) Service Level Agreement & Specifications Heavenly Hosts endeavors to have the content of your web site available for http access by any party in the world 100% of the time. Network downtime (unavailability) is defined as 100% packet loss from Heavenly Hosts to its backbone providers. Downtime is measured past 10 minutes after notification of network failure via Heavenly Hosts's online ticketing system. If the ticketing system itself is unreachable, the ticket must be started by calling the Heavenly Hosts NOC. Heavenly Hosts's administrators will determine the end of the downtime by a traceroute to the customer's machine from outside the Heavenly Hosts network. (3.) Credits a. Shared Hosting - In the event that your web site is not available for less than 100%, Heavenly Hosts will credit the following month's service fee as follows. For any shared hosting client, such credit shall be retroactive and shall be as calculated below and as measured 24 hours a day in a calendar month, with the maximum credit not to exceed fifty (50) percent of the monthly service charge for the affected month. Monthly Uptime Credit: b. Managed Dedicated Servers - For managed dedicated server customers if the uptime is between 98.9% and 99.9% for any particular month the credit shall be retroactive and equivalent to the difference between the guaranteed level of availability of the customer's services during the month and the calculated actual level of availability of the customer's services, multiplied by the actual charges incurred by the customer for the services during that month period. In addition, for managed dedicated server, customers may be entitled to additional credits as calculated below and as measured 24-hours a day in a calendar month, with the maximum credit not to exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the monthly service charge for the affected month. Minutes of continuous downtime Credit 60 10% 5+ 60 minute intervals 25% In order for you to receive a credit on your account, you must request such credit within seven (7) days after you experienced the down time. You must request credit by sending an electronic mail message to jmel@heavenlyhostnet.com. For security, the body of this message must contain your account number, the dates and times of the unavailability of your website, and such other customer identification requested by Heavenly Hosts. Credits will usually be applied within sixty (60) days of your credit request. Credit to your account shall be your sole and exclusive remedy in the event of an outage. (4.) Restrictions Credits shall not be provided to you in the event that
you have any outage resulting from (1.) scheduled maintenance as posted from
time to time at Heavenly Hosts, (2.) your behavior or the performance or
failure of your equipment, facilities or applications, or (3.) circumstances
beyond Heavenly Hosts's reasonable control, including, without limitation,
acts of any governmental body, war, insurrection, sabotage, embargo, fire,
flood, strike or other labor disturbance, interruption of or delay in
transportation, unavailability of interruption or delay in
telecommunications or third party services, including DNS propagation,
domain name registration / transfer, failure of third party software or
hardware or inability to obtain raw materials, supplies, or power used in or
equipment needed for provision of your web site, or (4.) a client breaking
any item in Heavenly Hosts's "terms of conditions and acceptable use policy"
causing a machine to fail as a result. |
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| 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
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| Chat Rooms | ||||
| We do not allow clients to
install their own chat rooms within a shared hosting account, without
approving it with the Heavenly Hosts 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 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. If you wish to have a Voice Chat Room
please see our upgrade service. |
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| 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 $50.00/month in addition to your regular hosting charges if
your account is moved to this server. Please contact jmel@heavenlyhostnet.com
to have your domain moved. |
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| 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) |
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| 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.
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| 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. Heavenly Hosts reserves the right to change prices at any time,
unless other terms have been agreed upon. Any account not brought current
within a week (1 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 Heavenly Hosts at cancel@heavenlyhostnet.com to request for
termination of services. All payment is in U.S. currency. Heavenly Hosts
will bill each client $50 per returned check, per wire transfer received and
per credit card chargeback received. All Heavenly Hosts 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 re! new 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@heavenlyhostnet.com
should you wish to change your anniversay billing cycle. |
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| Cancellation | ||||
| Heavenly Hosts reserves the
right to cancel service at any time. All fees paid in advance of
cancellation will be pro-rated and paid by Heavenly Hosts if Heavenly Hosts
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 Heavenly Hosts's web hosting plans are backed by a 10 day money
back guarantee. If you are not completely satisfied with our services or
support within the first 10 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 Heavenly Hosts is notified within the first 30
days following activation. No refund is available after the 10th 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 forms at cancel@heavenlyhostnet.com
. Phone or email requests will not constitute acceptance of any
cancellation. Refunds will be made by company check or issued back to your
credit card within 30 days of receipt of cancellation. |
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| Intellectual Property Rights | ||||
| Material accessible to you
through Heavenly Hosts'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 Heavenly Hosts 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 Heavenly Hosts network. If you use a domain name in connection
with Heavenly Hosts or similar service, you must not use that domain name in
violation of any trademark, service mark, or similar rights of any third
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| Network Security | ||||
| Customers may not use the
Heavenly Hosts 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. Heavenly Hosts 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.
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| 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. |
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| Static / Dynamic Content Caching | ||||
| You expressly (i) grant to
Heavenly Hosts a license to cache the entirety of your Web Site, including
content supplied by third parties, hosted by Heavenly Hosts 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. |
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| IP Address Ownership | ||||
| Heavenly Hosts shall maintain
and control ownership of all IP numbers and addresses that may be assigned
to you by Heavenly Hosts and Heavenly Hosts reserves, in its sole
discretion, the right to change or remove any and all such IP numbers and
addresses. |
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| Domain Name Registration | ||||
| Customer agrees to pay Heavenly
Hosts prior to the effectiveness of the desired domain name registration,
the then-current amounts set forth in the Heavenly Hosts 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. Heavenly Hosts 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 Heavenly Hosts 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 Heavenly
Hosts) 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 Heavenly Hosts 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. Heavenly
Hosts will reinstate Customer's domain name registration solely at Heavenly
Hosts's discretion, and subject to our receipt of the initial registration
or renewal fee and our then-current reinstatement fee. |
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| Lawful Purpose | ||||
| Heavenly Hosts reserves the
right to refuse service to anyone. Customers may only use Heavenly Hosts
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
Heavenly Hosts management. Regardless of the place of signing this
agreement, the client agrees that for purposes of venue this contract was
entered into in Wilmington, Delaware, and any dispute will be litigated or
arbitrated in Wilmington, Delaware. Defendants further waive all objections
to venue and acknowledge that venue in any such litigation will be held in
Delaware courts. IN NO EVENT SHALL HEAVENLY HOSTS'S MAXIMUM LIABILITY EXCEED
FIVE HUNDRED ($500.00) DOLLARS. |
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| Indemnification | ||||
| CUSTOMER AGREES THAT IT SHALL
DEFEND, INDEMNIFY, SAVE AND HOLD HEAVENLY HOSTS HARMLESS FROM ANY AND ALL
DEMANDS, LIABILITIES, LOSSES, COSTS AND CLAIMS, INCLUDING REASONABLE
ATTORNEY'S FEES ASSERTED AGAINST HEAVENLY HOSTS, ITS AGENTS, ITS CUSTOMERS,
OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES, 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 HEAVENLY HOSTS AGAINST LIABILITIES ARISING OUT OF; (1) ANY INJURY
TO PERSON OR PROPERTY CAUSED BY ANY PRODUCTS SOLD OR OTHERWISE DISTRIBUTED
IN CONNECTION WITH HEAVENLY HOSTS'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 HEAVENLY HOSTS'S SERVER. |
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| Disclaimer | ||||
| HEAVENLY HOSTS WILL NOT BE
RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES YOUR BUSINESS MAY SUFFER. HEAVENLY HOSTS MAKES
NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED FOR SERVICES WE PROVIDE.
HEAVENLY HOSTS 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 HEAVENLY HOSTS AND ITS EMPLOYEES. HEAVENLY HOSTS RESERVES THE RIGHT TO
REVISE ITS POLICIES AT ANY TIME. ALL SUB-NETWORKS, RESELLERS AND DEDICATED
SERVERS OF HEAVENLY HOSTS MUST ADHERE TO THE ABOVE POLICIES. FAILURE TO
FOLLOW ANY TERM OR CONDITION WILL BE GROUNDS FOR IMMEDIATE ACCOUNT
DEACTIVATION. |
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| Privacy Statement | ||||
| Heavenly Hosts follows the
strict guidelines of our customer privacy statement. Please make sure you
understand this statement fully. |
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