Terms and Conditions
You indicate acceptance of these terms and conditions of service
by placing an order with Midland Intrenet. These terms and conditions
will not be varied for individual customers.
1 DEFINITIONS 1.1 In this Agreement the following words and expressions
shall have the following meanings:
1.1.1 "downtime" means any service interruption in the availability
to visitors of the Website;
1.1.2 "intellectual property rights" means patents, trade marks,
design rights, applications for any of the foregoing, copyright,
topography rights, database rights, rights in know-how, trade or
business names and other similar rights or obligations, whether
registrable or not in any country;
1.1.3 "Midland Internet" means Midland Intrenet
1.1.4 "IP address" stands for internet protocol address which is
the numeric address for the server;
1.1.5 "ISP" stands for internet service provider;
1.1.6 "server" means the computer server equipment operated by
Midland Intrenet in connection with the provision of the Services;
1.1.7 "the Services" means web hosting, domain name registration,
email and any other services or facilities provided by Midland Intrenet.
1.1.8 "spam" means sending unsolicited and/or bulk emails;
1.1.9 "virus" means a computer programme that copies itself or
is copied to other storage media, including without limitation magnetic
tape cassettes, memory chips, electronic cartridges, optical discs
and magnetic discs, and destroys, alters or corrupts data, causes
damage to the user's files or creates a nuisance or annoyance to
the user and includes without limitation computer programs commonly
referred to as "worms" or "trojan horses";
1.1.10 "visitor" means a third party who has accessed the Website;
1.2 Product specifications and details may be found at URL.
1.3 Words denoting the singular shall include the plural and vice
versa and words denoting any gender shall include all genders. 1.4
The headings of the paragraphs of this Agreement are inserted for
convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of
or to affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.
2 INTRODUCTION
2.1 The Customer wishes to provide Midland Intrenet with data
that will be hosted on Midland Intrenet's servers and made accessible
via the Internet.
2.2 Midland Intrenet provides web hosting services and has agreed
to host the Customer's data upon the following terms and conditions.
3 DUTIES
3.1 Midland Intrenet shall provide to the Customer the Services
specified in their order subject to the following terms and conditions.
3.2 The Customer shall deliver to Midland Intrenet the website
and the software used in the website which is owned by the Customer,
or licensed to him by a third party or Midland Intrenet ("the Customer
Software), in a format specified by Midland Intrenet.
4 CHARGES ,PAYMENT AND MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
4.1 Payment methods via Paypal.
4.2 Midland Intrenet do not accept cheques, bank transfers, postal
orders, cash or any other form of payment other than those outlined
in
4.1 4.3 The Charges are exclusive of VAT, which if payable shall
be paid by the Customer.
4.4 Midland Intrenet shall be entitled to charge interest in respect
of late payment of any sum due under this Agreement, which shall
accrue from the date when payment becomes due from day to day until
the date of payment at a rate of 8% per annum above the base rate
of the Bank of England from time to time in force.
4.5 Midland Intrenet do not provide credit facilities.
4.6 From time to time Midand Internet may make enquiries on the
Customers company, proprietor or directors of the Customers company
with credit reference agencies. These agencies may record that a
search has been made and share this information with other businesses.
4.7 Midland Intrenet provide "Money-Back Guarantees" on certain
products. Should your product qualify for this guarantee please
raise a support ticket at URL within 30 days of placing your order
for a full refund. This guarantee excludes domain names which may
not be cancelled once ordered. Customers are limited to using the
money-back guarantee once.
4.8 Pro-rata refunds will not be issued for yearly services that
are cancelled before then end of the year.
4.9 Should your chosen payment method fail Midland Intrenet will
attempt to settle your invoice using any other payment facilities
available on your account.
4.10 All services will renew until cancelled by the customer. Midland
Internet emails the customers primary email address prior to renewal
of services, it is the customers responsibility to cancel services
prior to renewal as no refund can be made once renewal has occurred.
Customers must notify us at least 72 hours before a service is renewed
if they wish to cancel that service. The cancellation process must
be fully completed by you before your account is cancelled.
5 IP ADDRESSES
5.1 Midland Intrenet shall maintain control and ownership of the
IP address that is assigned to the Customer as part of the Services
and reserves the right in its sole discretion to change or remove
any and all IP addresses.
5.2 Where Midland Intrenet changes or removes any IP address it
shall use its reasonable endeavours to avoid any disruption to the
Customer.
6 SOFTWARE LICENCE AND RIGHTS
6.1 If the Customer requires use of software owned by or licensed
to Midland Intrenet ("Midland Intrenet's software") in order to
use the Services, Midland Intrenet grants to the Customer and its
employees, agents and third party consultants and contractors, a
royalty-free, world-wide, non-transferable, non-exclusive licence
to use Midland Intrenet Software in object code form only, in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, this
Agreement does not transfer or grant to the Customer any right,
title, interest or intellectual property rights in Midland Intrenet
Software.
6.2 In relation to Midland Intrenet's obligations under this Agreement
in connection with the provision of the Services, the Customer grants
to Midland Intrenet a royalty-free, world-wide, non-exclusive licence
to use the Customer Software and all text, graphics, logos, photographs,
images, moving images, sound, illustrations and other material and
related documentation featured, displayed or used in or in relation
to the website ("the Content"). For the avoidance of doubt, this
Agreement does not transfer or grant to Midland Intrenet any right,
title, interest or intellectual property rights in the Customer
Software or the Content.
6.3 The Customer undertakes that he will not himself or through
any third party, sell, lease, license or sublicense Midland Intrenet
Software.
6.4 Midland Intrenet may make such copies of the Customer Content
as may be necessary to perform its obligations under this Agreement,
including back up copies of the Content. Upon termination or expiration
of this Agreement, Midland Intrenet shall destroy all such copies
of the Content and other materials provided by the Customer as and
when requested by the Customer.
7 SERVICE LEVELS AND DATA BACKUP
7.1 Midland Intrenet shall use its reasonable endeavours to make
the server and the Services available to the Customer 100% of the
time but because the Services are provided by means of computer
and telecommunications systems, Midland Intrenet makes no warranties
or representations that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free
and Midland Intrenet shall not, in any event, be liable for interruptions
of Service or downtime of the server.
7.2 Midland Intrenet carries out data backups for use by Midland
Intrenet in the event of systems failure. Midland Intrenet do not
provide data restoration facilities for individual customers. Even
though every effort is made to ensure data is backed up correctly
Midland Intrenet accepts no responsibility for data loss or corruption.
8 ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
8.1 The website and use of the Services may be used for lawful
purposes only and the Customer may not submit, publish or display
any content that breaches any law, statute or regulation. In particular
the Customer agrees not to:
8.1.1 use the Services or the website in any way to send unsolicited
commercial email or "spam", or any similar abuse of the Services;
8.1.2 send email or any type of electronic message with the intention
or result of affecting the performance of any computer facilities;
8.1.3 publish, post, distribute or disseminate defamatory, obscene,
indecent or other unlawful material or information, or any material
or information which infringes any intellectual property rights
(for the avoidance of doubt this includes licensed software distributed
as Warez), via the Services or on the Website;
8.1.4 threaten, abuse, disrupt or otherwise violate the rights
(including rights of privacy and publicity) of others;
8.1.5 engage in illegal or unlawful activities through the Services
or via the Website;
8.1.6 make available or upload files to the website or to the
Services that the Customer knows contain a virus, worm, trojan or
corrupt data; or
8.1.7 obtain or attempt to obtain access, through whatever means,
to areas of Midland Intrenet's network or the Services which are
identified as restricted or confidential. This includes leaving
your home directory whilst using SSH access to servers.
8.1.8 operate or attempt to operate IRC bots or other permanent
server processes.
8.2 The Customer has full responsibility for the content of the
Website. For the avoidance of doubt, Midland Intrenet is not obliged
to monitor, and will have no liability for, the content of any communications
transmitted by virtue of the Services.
8.3 If the Customer fails to comply with the Acceptable Use Policy
outlined in Clause 8.1 Midland Intrenet shall be entitled to withdraw
the Services and terminate the Customer's account without notice.
9 ALTERATIONS AND UPDATES All alterations and updates to the website
shall be made by the Customer using the online account management
facility, FTP access or SSH access where available. The Customer
will be issued with a user name and password in order to access
the account. The Customer must take all reasonable steps to maintain
the confidentiality of this user name and password. If the Customer
reasonably believes that this information has become known to any
unauthorised person, the Customer agrees to immediately inform Midland
Intrenet and the password will be changed.
10 WARRANTIES
10.1 The Customer warrants and represents to Midland Intrenet that
Midland Intrenet's use of the Content or the Customer Software in
accordance with this Agreement will not infringe the intellectual
property rights of any third party and that the Customer has the
authority to license the Content and the Customer Software to Midland
Intrenet as set out in Clause 6.2.
10.2 All conditions, terms, representations and warranties that
are not expressly stated in this Agreement, whether oral or in writing
or whether imposed by statute or operation of law or otherwise,
including, without limitation, the implied warranty of satisfactory
quality and fitness for a particular purpose are hereby excluded.
In particular and without prejudice to that generality, Midland
Intrenet shall not be liable to the Customer as a result of any
viruses introduced or passed on to the Customer.
11 INDEMNITY The Customer agrees to indemnify and hold Midland
Intrenet and its employees and agents harmless from and against
all liabilities, legal fees, damages, losses, costs and other expenses
in relation to any claims or actions brought against Midland Intrenet
arising out of any breach by the Customer of the terms of this Agreement
or other liabilities arising out of or relating to the Website.
12 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
12.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude or limit
Midland Intrenet's liability for death or personal injury resulting
from Midland Intrenet's negligence or that of its employees, agents
or sub-contractors.
12.2 The entire liability of Midland Intrenet to the Customer in
respect of any claim whatsoever or breach of this Agreement, whether
or not arising out of negligence, shall be limited to the charges
paid for the Services under this Agreement in respect of which the
breach has arisen.
12.3 In no event shall Midland Intrenet be liable to the Customer
for any loss of business, loss of opportunity or loss of profits
or for any other indirect or consequential loss or damage whatsoever.
This shall apply even where such a loss was reasonably foreseeable
or Midland Intrenet had been made aware of the possibility of the
Customer incurring such a loss.
13 TERM AND TERMINATION
13.1 This Agreement will become effective on the date the service
is ordered and shall continue until terminated by either party in
writing of its intention to terminate the Agreement.
13.2 Midland Intrenet shall have the right to terminate this Agreement
with immediate effect by notice in writing to the Customer if the
Customer fails to make any payment when it becomes due.
13.3 Either party may terminate this Agreement forthwith by notice
in writing to the other if:
13.3.1 the other party commits a material breach of this Agreement
and, in the case of a breach capable of being remedied, fails to
remedy it within a reasonable time of being given written notice
from the other party to do so; or
13.3.2 the other party commits a material breach of this Agreement
which cannot be remedied under any circumstances; or
13.3.3 the other party passes a resolution for winding up (other
than for the purpose of solvent amalgamation or reconstruction),
or a court of competent jurisdiction makes an order to that effect;
or
13.3.4 the other party ceases to carry on its business or substantially
the whole of its business; or
13.3.5 the other party is declared insolvent, or convenes a meeting
of or makes or proposes to make any arrangement or composition with
its creditors; or a liquidator, receiver, administrative receiver,
manager, trustee or similar officer is appointed over any of its
assets.
13.4 Any rights to terminate this Agreement shall be without prejudice
to any other accrued rights and liabilities of the parties arising
in any way out of this Agreement as at the date of termination.
13.5 On termination all data held in the customers account will
be deleted.
14 ASSIGNMENT
14.1 Midland Intrenet may assign or otherwise transfer this Agreement
at any time.
14.2 The Customer may not assign or otherwise transfer this Agreement
or any part of it without Midland Intrenet's prior written consent.
15 FORCE MAJEURE Neither party shall be liable for any delay or
failure to perform any of its obligations if the delay or failure
results from events or circumstances outside its reasonable control,
including but not limited to acts of God, strikes, lock outs, accidents,
war, fire, the act or omission of government, highway authorities
or any telecommunications carrier, operator or administration or
other competent authority, the act or omission of any Internet Service
Provider, or the delay or failure in manufacture, production, or
supply by third parties of equipment or services, and the party
shall be entitled to a reasonable extension of its obligations after
notifying the other party of the nature and extent of such events.
16 SEVERANCE If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid,
illegal or unenforceable for any reason by any Court of competent
jurisdiction such provision shall be severed and the remainder of
the provisions hereof shall continue in full force and effect as
if this Agreement had been agreed with the invalid illegal or unenforceable
provision eliminated.
17 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 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 2 days following the date of posting.
18 ENTIRE AGREEMENT This Agreement contains the entire Agreement
between the parties relating to the subject matter and supersedes
any previous agreements, arrangements, undertakings or proposals,
oral or written. This Agreement may be updated without notice.
19 GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION This Agreement shall be governed
by and construed in accordance with the law of England and the parties
hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
20 DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION
20.1 Domain names are not deemed to be successfully registered
until they appear in the relevant whois database of the top level
domain name registrar. In the event that a domain name is unavailable
when we attempt to register it Midland Intrenet will provide a full
refund for that domain name.
20.2 Please return to the main terms and conditions area of this
website to view terms and conditions for individual domain name
registrars.
21 SCRIPTING Midland Intrenet are not responsible for customer
programming issues other than ensuring that programming languages
such as Perl, PHP and ASP are installed and functioning on the web
hosting system.
22 PRIVACY To protect your privacy we will not distribute your
details to third parties, unless required to do so by law
. 23 DATA TRANSFER
23.1 Web hosting accounts include a certain amount of data transfer,
if you exceed this amount in any one month your account will be
deactivated until you have upgraded to an account that has more
data transfer included.
23.2 Web hosting accounts are prohibited from hosting file distribution
websites (including but not limited to music, video and software),
adult content orientated websites, hosting banners, graphics or
cgi scripts for other websites, storing pages, files or data as
a repository for other websites or personal computers, giving away
web space under a domain, sub domain or directory.
24 SERVER USAGE Should your account use more than 5% of the servers
processing power and as a result have a detrimental effect on other
customers we will discuss with you alternative solutions for your
hosting requirements.
25 AFFILIATE PROGRAMME Commission earned via the affiliate programme
will only be paid by using a valid direct debit/credit mandate on
your account. It is the customers responsibility to ensure they
have this facility. In the event of the customer not being able
to obtain this facility then no commission will be paid.
26 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Midland Intrenet communicates with it's customers
via email and as such you agree to receive by email our regular
newsletter which contains amongst other things changes to our terms
and conditions, notification of major outages, updates to our products
& features and special offers.
27 WEBSPACE USAGE Unlimited web space is available for genuine
web site content, content must be linked into web pages. Customers
are prohibited from using the server as a file/backup repository.
Customers are expected to employ good house keeping when maintaining
their account.
28 MAIL BOXES Mail boxes not accessed for 100 days or more will
be deleted from the system.
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