Terms
and Conditions
You
indicate acceptance of these terms and conditions of service by placing an
order with MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD.
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 "motivatedhosting.co.uk" means Motivated
Design Ltd
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 Motivated Design 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 Motivated Design LTD "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 www.motivatedhosting.co.uk
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 Motivated
Design LTD with data that will be hosted on Motivated Design Ltd’s servers and made accessible via the
Internet.
2.2 Motivated Design LTD provides web hosting
services and has agreed to host the Customer's data upon the following terms
and conditions.
3 DUTIES
3.1 Motivated Design LTD 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 Motivated
Design LTD the website and the software used in the website which is owned by
the Customer, or licensed to him by a third party or Motivated Design LTD
("the Customer Software), in a format specified by Motivated Design LTD.
4 CHARGES ,PAYMENT AND MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
4.1 Payment methods include credit cards
(including MasterCard and Visa), debit cards (including Switch/Maestro) and
direct debits
4.2 Motivated Design LTD 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 Motivated Design LTD 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 Motivated Design LTD do not provide credit
facilities.
4.6 From time to time Motivated Design LTD 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 Motivated Design LTD provide "Money-Back
Guarantees" on certain products. Should your product qualify for this
guarantee please raise a support ticket at www.motivatedhosting.co.uk 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 Motivated Design LTD 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. Motivated Design LTD
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 Motivated Design LTD 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 Motivated Design LTD 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 Motivated Design LTD ("Motivated Design LTD's
software") in order to use the Services, Motivated Design LTD 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 Motivated Design LTD 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 Motivated Design LTD Software.
6.2 In relation to Motivated Design LTD's
obligations under this Agreement in connection with the provision of the
Services, the Customer grants to Motivated Design LTD 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 Motivated Design LTD 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
Motivated Design LTD Software.
6.4 Motivated Design LTD 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, Motivated Design LTD 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
Motivated Design LTD 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,
MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD makes no
warranties or representations that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free
and MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD shall not, in
any event, be liable for interruptions of Service or downtime of the server.
7.2 MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD carries out data backups for use by
MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD in the event of
systems failure. MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD
do not provide data restoration facilities for individual customers.
Even though every effort is made to ensure data is backed up correctly
MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD 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 MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD '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.
8.1.9 promote, advertise, sell gambling
and adult material or any other products / materials deemed to be unsuitable by
Motivated Design LTD.
8.2 The Customer has full responsibility for the
content of the Website. For the avoidance of doubt, MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD 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 MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD 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 MOTIVATED
DESIGN LTD and the password will be changed.
10 WARRANTIES
10.1 The Customer warrants and represents to
MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD that MOTIVATED
DESIGN LTD'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 MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD
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, MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD 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
MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD 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 MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD 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 MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD 's liability for death or personal injury
resulting from MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD's negligence or that of its employees,
agents or sub-contractors.
12.2 The entire liability of MOTIVATED DESIGN
LTD 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 MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD 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 MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD 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 MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD 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 MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD 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 MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD '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 MOTIVATED DESIGN LTD
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
MOTIVATED
DESIGN LTD 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
MOTIVATED
DESIGN LTD 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.