The use of services from
HostHamper.com [hereafter referred to as "HostHamper"]
constitutes agreement to these terms.
You may view our Privacy Policy
here.
1.) Account Setup / Email
on file
We will setup your account after we have
received payment and we and/or our payment
partner(s) have screened the order(s) incase
of fraud. It is your responsibility to provide
us with an email address which is not @ the
domain(s) you are signing up under. If there
is ever an abuse issue or we need to contact
you, the primary email address on file will
be used for this purpose. It is your responsibility
to ensure the email address on file is current
or up to date at all times. Providing false
contact information of any kind may result
in the termination of your account. In dedicated
server purchases or high risk transactions,
it will be necessary to provide government
issued identification and possibly a scan
of the credit card used for the purchase.
If you fail to meet these requirements, the
order may be considered fraudulent in nature
and be denied.
Transfers
Our transfers team will make every effort to help you move your site to us,
however, we can not make guarantees of the transfer process. We provide this
as a courtesy service and can not make guarantees regarding its availability
or the amount of time it may take as each host is configured a little differently.
We will try our best, however, in some cases we may be unable to assist you
in a transfer of data from an old host.
2.) Content
All services provided by HostHamper may only be used for lawful purposes. The
laws of the State of Gujarat and The States of Indian Union apply.
The customer agrees to indemnify
and hold harmless HostHamper from any claims
resulting from the use of our services.
Use of our services to infringe
upon any copyright or trademark is prohibited.
This includes but is not limited to unauthorized
copying of music, books, photographs, or
any other copyrighted work. The offer of
sale of any counterfeit merchandise of a
trademark holder will result in the immediate
termination of your account. If you believe
that your copyright or trademark is being
infringed upon, please email abuse@HostHamper.com with
the information required.
If the request is of a licensing issue, we
may require further documentation.
Examples of unacceptable material on all packages
include:
IRC
Bots, Proxy Scripts / Anonymizers, Pirated Software
/ Warez, image, filedump, mirror, or banner-ad services
(similar to rapidshare, photobucket, or commercial
banner ad rotation), affiliate servers, topsites,
commercial audio streaming (more than one or two
streams), Escrow, High-Yield Interest Programs (HYIP)
or related sites, Investment sites (FOREX, egold
exchange), sale of any controlled substance
without prior proof of appropriate permit(s), AutoSurf
sites, Bank Debentures, Bank Debenture Trading Programs,
Prime Banks Programs, lottery sites, muds / rpg's,
hate sites, hacker focused sites/archives/programs,
or sites promoting illegal activities, IP Scanners,
Brute Force Programs, Mail Bombers and Spam Scripts.
Forums and or websites that distribute or link to
warez content are prohibited.
Using a shared account as a backup/storage device
is not permitted, with the exception of one
cPanel backup of the same account.
Examples of unacceptable material on Dedicated servers include:
Pirated
Software / Warez, Escrow, High-Yield Interest Programs
(HYIP) or related sites, Investment sites (FOREX,
egold exchange), sale of any controlled substance
without prior proof of appropriate permit(s), AutoSurf
sites, Bank Debentures, Bank Debenture Trading Programs,
Prime Banks Programs, lottery sites, hate sites,
hacker focused sites/archives/programs, or sites
promoting illegal activities, IP Scanners, Brute
Force Programs, Mail Bombers and Spam Scripts. Forums
and or websites that distribute or link to warez
content are prohibited.
We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. Any material that, in our judgment,
is obscene or threatening is prohibited and will be removed from our servers
with or without notice.
Failure to respond to email from our abuse department within 72 hours may result
in the suspension or termination of your services. All abuse issues must be dealt
with via troubleticket/email and will have a response within 72 hours.
If in doubt regarding the acceptability of your site or service, please contact
us at abuse@HostHamper.com and we will be happy to assist you.
Potential harm to minors is strictly forbidden, including
but not limited to child pornography or content perceived to be child pornography
(Lolita):
Any site found to host child pornography or linking to child pornography will
be suspended immediately without notice.
Resellers: we will suspend the site in question and will notify you so you
may terminate the account. We will further monitor your activity; more than
one infraction of this type may result in the immediate termination of your
account.
Direct customers: Your services will be terminated with or without notice.
Violations will be reported to the appropriate law enforcement agency.
It is your responsibility to ensure that scripts/programs
installed under your account are secure and permissions of directories are
set properly, regardless of installation method. When at all possible, set
permissions on most directories to 755 or as restrictive as possible. Users
are ultimately responsible for all actions taken under their account. This
includes the compromise of credentials such as username and password. It
is required that you use a secure password. If a weak password is used, your
account may be suspended until you agree to use a more secure password. Audits
may be done to prevent weak passwords from being used. If an audit is performed,
and your password is found to be weak, we will notify you and allow time
for you to change/update your password.
3.) Zero Tolerance Spam Policy
We take a zero tolerance stance against sending of unsolicited e-mail,
bulk emailing, and spam. "Safe lists" and "double opt-in" will be treated as
spam. Any user who sends out spam will have their account terminated with or
without notice.
Please read http://www.hosthamper.com/mail-policy.php for our generalized
mail policy.
Sites advertised via SPAM (Spamvertised) may not be hosted
on our servers. This provision includes, but is not limited to SPAM sent via
fax, email, instant messaging, or usenet/newsgroups. No organization or entity
listed in the ROKSO may
be hosted on our servers. Any account which results in our IP space being blacklisted
will be immediately suspended and/or terminated.
HostHamper reserves the right to require changes or disable
as necessary any web site, account, database, or other component that does
not comply with its established policies, or to make any such modifications
in an emergency at its sole discretion.
HostHamper reserves the right to charge the holder of the
account used to send any unsolicited e-mail a clean up fee. This cost of the
clean up fee is entirely at the discretion of HostHamper.
4.) Payment Information
You agree to supply appropriate payment for the services received from
HostHamper, in advance of the time period during which such services are provided.
You agree that until and unless you notify HostHamper of your desire to cancel
any or all services received, those services will be billed on a recurring
basis.
Cancellations must be done in writing via the cancellation
form provided. Once we receive your cancellation and have confirmed all
necessary information with you via e-mail, we will inform you that your account
has been canceled. At this time, your account with us has been canceled. If
you do not hear back from us or receive an e-mail confirming this cancellation,
please contact us immediately.
As a client of HostHamper, it is your responsibility to ensure that your payment
information is up to date, and that all invoices are paid on time. HostHamper
provides a 10 day grace period from the time the invoice is due and when it
must be paid. Any invoice that is overdue for 10 days and not paid will result
in a $10 late fee and/or an account suspension until account balance has been
paid in full.
Invoices that have been paid more than once with multiple Paypal Subscriptions
can only be added as credit towards the account and cannot be refunded via
Paypal. If you require assistance with this provision, please contact sales@HostHamper.com
HostHamper reserves the right to change the monthly payment
amount and any other charges at anytime.
5.) Backups and Data Loss
Your use of the service is at your sole risk. HostHamper is not responsible
for files and/or data residing on your account. You agree to take full responsibility
for files and data transferred and to maintain all appropriate backup of
files and data stored on HostHamper servers.
6.) Cancellations and Refunds
HostHamper reserves the right to cancel the account at any time with or without
notice.
Any abuse of our staff in any medium or format
will result in the suspension or termination of
your services.
Customers may cancel by sending email.
HostHamper gives you an 7 day money back guarantee on managed
shared hosting, and reseller solutions for any customer who paid the first
invoice with a credit card or with Paypal.
The following methods of payments are non-refundable, and refunds will be posted
as credit to the hosting account:
- Bank Wire Transfers
- Western Union Payments
- Checks
- Money orders
There are no refunds on dedicated servers, administrative
fees, install fees for custom software, or domain name purchases. Refund requests
after the initial 45 days will be refunded on a prorated basis of any unused
time.
Only first-time accounts are eligible for a refund. For example,
if you've had an account with us before, cancelled and signed up again, you
will not be eligible for a refund or if you have opened a second account with
us.
Violations of the Terms of Service will waive the refund
policy.
7a.) Resource Usage
User may not:
a) Use 25% or more of system resources for longer then 90 seconds. There are
numerous activities that could cause such problems; these include: CGI scripts,
FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc.
b) Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on
the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.
c) Run any type of web spider or indexer (including Google Cash / AdSpy) on
shared servers.
d) Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
e) Run any bit torrent application, tracker, or client. Please note that you
may link to torrents off server, but may not host or store them.
f) Participate in any file-sharing/peer-to-peer activities
g) Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike, half-life, battlefield1942,
etc
h) Run cron entries with intervals of less than 15 minutes
When using PHP include functions for including a local file,
include the local file rather than the URL. Instead of include("http://yourdomain.com/include.php")
use include("include.php")
7b.) INODES
The use of more than 50,000 inodes on any shared account may potentially
result in suspension. Accounts found to be exceeding the 50,000 inode limit
will automatically be removed from our backup system to avoid overusage. Every
file (a webpage, image file, email, etc) on your account uses up 1 inode.
Sites that slightly exceed our inode limits are unlikely to be suspended; however,
accounts that constantly create and delete large numbers of files on a regular
basis, have hundreds of thousands of files, or cause file system damage may
be flagged for review and/or suspension.
The primary cause of excessive inodes seems to be due to users leaving their
catchall address enabled, but never checking their primary account mailbox.
Over time, tens of thousands of messages (or more) build up, eventually pushing
the account past our inode limit. To disable your default mailbox, login to
cPanel and choose "Mail", then "Default Address", "Set Default
Address", and then type in: :fail: No such user here
8.) Bandwidth Usage
You are allocated a monthly bandwidth allowance. This allowance varies
depending on the hosting package you purchase. Should your account pass the
allocated amount we reserve the right to suspend the account until the start
of the next allocation, suspend the account until more bandwidth is purchased
at an additional fee, suspend the account until you upgrade to a higher level
of package, terminate the account and/or charge you an additional fee for the
overages. Unused transfer in one month cannot be carried over to the next month.
9a.) Money back Guarantee
Each of HostHamper's managed shared and reseller servers carry
a 7 day money back on them. If you are not completely
satisfied with our services within the first 45 days of your service, you will
be given a full refund of the contract amount. Remember, this is only for monthly
shared or reseller packages and does not apply to dedicated servers, administrative
fees, install fees for custom software, or domain name purchases.
9b.) Uptime Guarantee
If your shared / reseller server has a physical downtime that is not within
the 99.9% uptime you may receive one month of credit on your account. Approval
of the credit is at the discretion of HostHamper dependant upon justification
provided. Third party monitoring service reports may not be used for justification
due to a variety of factors including the monitor's network capacity/transit
availability. The uptime of the server is defined as the reported uptime
from the operating system and the Apache Web Server which may differ from
the uptime reported by other individual services. To request a credit,
please contact sales@HostHamper.com with justification. All requests must
be made in writing via email. Uptime guarantees only apply to shared /
reseller solutions. Dedicated servers are covered by a network guarantee
in which the credit is prorated for the amount of time the server is down
which is not related to our uptime guarantee.
10.) Reseller: Client Responsibility
Resellers are responsible for supporting their clients. HostHamper does not
provide support to our Reseller's Clients. If a reseller's client contacts
us, we reserve the right to place the client account on hold until the reseller
can assume their responsibility for their client. All support requests must
be made by the reseller on their clients' behalf for security purposes. Resellers
are also responsible for all content stored or transmitted under their reseller
account and the actions of their clients'. HostHamper will hold any reseller
responsible for any of their clients actions that violate the law or the
terms of service.
11.) Shared (non-reseller accounts) / Semidedicated Servers
Shared accounts may not resell web hosting to other people, if you wish
to resell hosting you must use a reseller account. Semidedicated servers are
not backed up. You must maintain your own backups.
12.) Dedicated Servers
HostHamper reserves the right to reset the password on a dedicated server if
the password on file is not current so that we may do security audits as
required by our datacenter. It is the responsibility of the client to ensure
that there is a valid email address and current root password on file for
their dedicated server on file to prevent downtime from forced password resets.
HostHamper reserves the right to audit servers as needed and to perform administrative
actions at the request of our datacenter. Dedicated servers are NOT backed
up by us and it is the responsibility of the client to maintain backups or
have a solution for this. You may purchase an additional hard drive and maintain
backups to it as the most simple solution. Please contact sales@HostHamper.com
if you wish to obtain a secondary hard drive. It is your responsibility to
maintain backups.
13.) Price Change
The amount you pay for hosting will never increase from the date of purchase.
We reserve the right to change prices listed on HostHamper.com, and the right
to increase the amount of resources given to plans at any time.
14a.) Indemnification
Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold HostHamper harmless
from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including
reasonable attorney's fees asserted against HostHamper, 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, its
agents, employees or assigns. Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold
harmless HostHamper against liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to
person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in
connection with HostHamper; (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 customers from HostHamper's
server.
14b.) Arbitration
By using any HostHamper services, you agree to submit to binding arbitration.
If any disputes or claims arise against HostHamper or its subsidiaries,
such disputes will be handled by an arbitrator of HostHamper's choice.
An arbitrator from the American Arbitration Association or the National
Arbitration Forum will be selected in the state of Texas. Arbitrators shall
be attorneys or retired judges and shall be selected pursuant to the applicable
rules. All decisions rendered by the arbitrator will be binding and final.
The arbitrator's award is final and binding on all parties. The Federal
Arbitration Act, and not any state arbitration law, governs all arbitration
under this Arbitration Clause. You are also responsible for any and all
costs related to such arbitration.
15.) Disclaimer
HostHamper shall not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer.
HostHamper makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services
we provide. HostHamper disclaims any warranty or merchantability or fitness
for a particular purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from delays,
no deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service interruptions caused
by HostHamper and its employees.
16.) Disclosure to law enforcement
HostHamper may disclose any subscriber information to law enforcement agencies
without further consent or notification to the subscriber upon lawful request
from such agencies.
We will cooperate fully with law enforcement agencies.
17.) Changes to the TOS
HostHamper reserves the right to revise its policies at any time without notice.