(Revised 3/28/2002)
We have a responsibility to protect each client and to provide the best services available. The following guidelines were designed to ensure these obligations are met. Please read them carefully and print them for your records. Failure to comply with the statements herein will result in immediate termination of the account. Domain Payment Services will be the sole arbiter of what constitutes a violation of this policy.
Content: All services provided may be used
for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of
any information, data or material in violation of any United States
Federal, State or City law is prohibited. This includes, but is not
limited to: copyrighted material, material we judge to be threatening
or obscene, or material protected by trade secret and other statute.
The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold Domain Payment Services
harmless from any claims resulting from the use of the service which
damages the subscriber or any other party.
Liability: Domain Payment Services shall not be responsible or liable for direct or consequential damages, monetary or otherwise caused by acts of God, acts of government, insurrection, riot, civil disturbance, outages suffered by electric utilities, or outages suffered by RPOA's or intermediary private networks over whose facilities Customer' Web traffic is carried to and from the Web Server provided by Domain Payment Services. Or by failure of hardware, or software or any failure which may result in the loss of data or prevent the proper operation of the Web Server, or Network, or a Customers web site, or email, or any other function of the Web Server used for business or personal use by the Customer.
Even if Domain Payment Services were to be found to
be negligent or at fault, Domain Payment Services shall not be liable
for more than a refund of the moneys paid by the Customer to Domain
Payment Services. Domain Payment Services makes no representation as
to the merchantability or fitness for any purpose of the Web Server
and ancillary services to be provided to the Customer.
Absolutely No Pornography!
All pornography and sex-related merchandising and
content is prohibited on all of our servers. This includes sites that
may infer sexual content, or links to adult content elsewhere. Domain
Payment Services will be the sole arbiter in determining violations
of this provision. If the material is not suitable for a minor it is
not allowed to be stored on, or linked to, from our Web Server.
Also prohibited are sites that promote any illegal activity or present
content that may be damaging to our Web Servers or any other Server
on the Internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited.
Examples of unacceptable content or links:
• Pirated software
• Hacker programs or archives
• Warez sites
Sales of restricted products which require a permit and age verification
such as Tobacco, Fire Arms and Alcohol, or sexual content of any kind
are forbidden from any of our Web Servers. We will be the sole arbiter
as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.
Commercial Advertising - E-mail: Spamming, or the sending of unsolicited
e-mail, from our server or using an e-mail address or domain that is
maintained on our Web Servers, or "Spoofing" and email address
that is maintained on our Web Servers is STRICTLY prohibited. Domain
Payment Services will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation
of this provision. Our Web Server is monitored for SPAM and Spamvertising
software. If any such software is found, and any domain that is caught
Spamming will be shutdown immediately without warning.
E-mail: To assure fast operation for all we
do not allow the operation of high volume "Free E-mail" accounts
for advertising purposes such as "Hotmail" or "Yahoo
Mail". E-mail accounts are limited to the number issued at sign
up. Additional E-mail accounts can be purchased at a nominal fee. Also
we do not allow old E-mail messages to accumulate on our servers. You
must download then delete all e-mail messages within 30 days of its
posting. E-mail older than 30 days may be deleted at any time thereafter
by Domain Payment Services. We may assist you to purchase large group
E-mail on networks and Web Servers other than our own.
Background Running Programs: We may allow programs to run continually
in the background. These are considered on a case-by-case basis and
an extra charge will be incurred based on system resources used and
operational maintenance needed.
IRC: "Internet Relay Chat" We currently do not allow
IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers. You may use "Java"
based "Chat" applets on our servers only.
Server Abuse: Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server,
or customer is strictly prohibited. Any domain found attempting to do
so will be shutdown and suspended immediately without warning.
Refusal of Service: Domain Payment Services reserves the right to
refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion. All Sub-Networks,
distributive hosting sites, resellers and dedicated servers must adhere
to the above policies. Failure to follow any term or condition herein
will be grounds for immediate account deactivation and suspension.
Web Hosting Refunds: There are no full refunds
once an domain is hosted for any length of time. If a hosting package
is issued we can only refund the remainder of the contract from the
time it is canceled to the end of the term if more than 30 days are
remaining in the payment term. If an account is deactivated for violation
of our policy the remainder of the contract term will be refunded. Upgrades
in service options initiated by any client either by request or by use
of the User Control panel will be charged to the clients credit card
account upon activation of such upgrades. Domain Payment Services will
be the sole arbiter of determining if a refund is to be issued.
Domain Name Registration: There are no refunds for Domain Name
registrations once the domain name is registered by the registrar. Domain
names registrations cannot be canceled until the end of the registration
term. All sales are final. Furthermore once a Domain Name is registered,
if for any reason the clients credit is declined, or a chargeback is
issued, an invoice for the domain name registration charges, and any
other charges incurred by such actions will be billed by mail to the
client billing contact. Before you register a domain name you must read
and accept the terms of our registration agreement (HTML)
and our domain name dispute policy (HTML).
Payment: By purchasing a web hosting package the Customer authorizes Domain Payment Services - Domain Payment Services to debit the Customers credit card for recurring charges either Monthly, Quarterly, Semiannually or Annually, to be determined by the web hosting package and payment term selected on our order form.
Agreement: All Customers must agrees to the
policies set forth above, and comply with all applicable governmental
laws in the use of the Web Server, and all software and ancillary services
provided by Domain Payment Services, and, in the event of any noncompliance
agrees to hold harmless Domain Payment Services and its personnel and
contractors and suppliers from the consequences of such noncompliance.
By completing the order you AGREE to the terms and conditions set forth in these policies.