Legal Definitions for Hosting for CRE Loaded

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HOSTING TERMS OF SERVICE

Index:

  1. Account Setup
  2. Content
  3. Zero Spam Tolerance Policy
  4. Payment Policies
  5. Backup Policies
  6. Cancellations & Refunds
  7. Resource Usage Policies
  8. Bandwidth Overages Policies
  9. Warranties
  10. Price Changes
  11. Indemnification
  12. Disclaimer
  13. Policy Updates

Account Setup

We will setup your account within 24 hours after we have received payment and we and/or our payment partner(s) have screened the order(s) in case of fraud. It is your responsibility to provide us with an email address which is not at the domain(s) you are signing up under.

We require a valid credit card to be stored with encryption. You may choose any of our gateway payment services to pay regularly.

Content

All services provided by us may only be used for lawful purposes. This includes, but not limited to: copyrighted material, material we judge to be threatening or obscene, pornography.

Examples of unacceptable material:

  • IRC Bots
  • Warez Sites
  • Pirated Software
  • Hate sites
  • Hack programs and archives

Zero Spam Tolerance

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 without notice.

We reserve the right to require changes or disable as necessary any web site, account, database, or other component that does not comply with this policy, at its sole discretion. We also reserves the right to make any such modifications in an emergency at our sole discretion.

What is the CAN-Spam Act?

The CAN-Spam Act, effective January 1, 2004, preempts all State spam statutes and places a series of requirements on commercial email, “the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service.” The act requires companies that send or initiate commercial email to:

Businesses are permitted to send “transactional or relationship messages to facilitate, complete or confirm a commercial transaction that the recipient has previously agreed to enter into.” This is intended to be a very narrow exception and would include warranty, recall, safety or security information regarding a product previously purchased, periodic account statements and the like. “Transactional or relationship” messages may also contain content promoting a product or service unrelated to a previous transaction if ancillary to the primary purpose of the communication.

A safe harbor exists for companies that have reasonable compliance practices and make good faith compliance efforts. The Act also requires the FTC to study the creation of a nationwide “do-not-email” registry similar to its “do-not-call” list.

How does the CAN-Spam Act impact StrikeHawk eCommerce Customers?

It is widely recognized that government efforts to prevent spam will be difficult. Early legislation on this issue by various States and other nations has been criticized as being difficult to enforce and police. Many spammers are very crafty in their techniques and are difficult to trace. Nevertheless, We supports federal efforts to establish laws such as the CAN-Spam Act, which includes penalties for spammers. We also look forward to the advent of policing methods and technologies that will see a reduction in unwanted email that is a nuisance to customers and costly to their productivity. 

If you are found on a Remote Block List (RBL), A $50/hr service charge may be applied at our discretion to remedy your content, scripts, media. The one time charge to recycle your IP with a new one is $25USD. These are non-refundable charges.

Payment Information

You agree to supply appropriate payment for the services received from us, in advance of the time period during which such services are provided. You agree that until and unless you notify Strikehawk eCommerce™ of your desire to cancel any or all services received, those services will be billed on a recurring basis. We maintain constant PCI DSS C compliance. Our current methods of payment are: Visa™, MasterCard™, Discover™. American Express™ is acceptable through PayPal™. We also accept Company and Personal checks, Money Orders.

Invoices are sent out 14 days before the due date. They are due upon the date stated in the invoice mailed to you and is also available from our billing portal. You are responsible for making payments on time. A five day grace period is extended to you before your account is suspended for non-payment. On the 7th day, all data is destroyed if amounts due are still not collected. Every attempt will be made to reach you, but you are still ultimately responsible for checking the billing portal. Payment arrangements can be made if you do so before the due date.

Backups and Data Loss

Your use of the service is at your sole risk. We are not responsible for files and 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 our servers.

Cancellation and Refunds

We reserve the right to cancel the account at any time.

Customers may cancel at any time. We give you an unconditional 30 day money back guarantee on managed shared hosting. Refund requests after 30 days will be refunded on a prorated basis of any unused time.

Login to our billing control panel and click your product and services link. Click the action icon on the far right. At the bottom is a cancellation link. You may select immediate or end of billing cycle.

Only first-time accounts are eligible for a refund. For example, if you've had an account with us before, canceled and signed up again, you will not be eligible for a refund or if you have opened a second account with us.

In the event of cancellation or termination, any due balances that are left unpaid will be charged to the credit card on file and you agree to authorize StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. to collect those funds. If we cannot collect the debt, your account will be turned over to a collection agency which may negatively affect your credit rating.

Resource Usage

Users may not initiate the following:

  • 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.
  • Run any type of interactive real-time chat applications that require server resources. Remotely-hosted services are fully allowed.
  • Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.
  • Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
  • Run any gaming servers such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Battlefield1942, etc

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.

Money back Guarantee

On dedicated servers, and co-location no full or partial refund will be honored. The 30 day money back guarantee does not apply. We reserve the right to refund a prorated amount or no refund at all. You agree that we are not responsible for outages that are beyond our control. Such instances usually relate to hardware, power sources, optical fiber networks and all other events at the data center that we do not control. Other such acts of God, Civil Unrest or War are also excluded.

Price Change

We reserve the right to change the monthly payment amount and any other charges including the right to increase/decrease the amount of resources given to plans at any time to maintain par excellence 60 days from posting the announcement in our billing system.

Indemnification

Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold us harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney's fees asserted against us, 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 any liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with us; (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 hosting-4-creloaded.com's server.

Disclaimer

We will not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer. We make no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services we provide. We 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 us and our employees.

Changes to the TOS

We reserve the right to revise these policies at any time without notice.


Last Policy Update: Nov 16, 2010

Privacy Policy

Your Privacy from us.

We recognize your needs for privacy and respect them. This site uses cookies for account management. Portions of the site may use cookies for the purpose of tracking visitor activity on the site and improving the effectiveness of our services and our business offerings. Such data is collected in aggregate, with no effort to collect specific identifying data. It is our policy that specific personal data will not be collected unless the means used to gather it is openly presented to you in a form clearly identified to you such as a survey, questionaire or a form used to collect data necessary to the conduct of business operations such as an account registration or service agreement.

Your Privacy from others

Data collected by us may only be used for lawful purposes. This means that data in our possession will be supplied to law enforcement agencies and officials as needed and warranted to be used in the conduct of their official duties. It means that when we collect research data in cooperation with The Open Source Commerce University , osCommerce Resources or other education, journalistic or research organizations we will provide data only when it is collected in an ethical manner - either in blind aggregate form or openly collected with your willing cooperation. We will not help others violate your privacy. Period.

Zero Tolerance for Privacy Violations

We also take a zero tolerance stance against violations of privacy . While we are not law enforcement officials, we recognize our responsibilities as members of a global community. The responsibilities that come with being a good neighbor. We reserve the right to take active measures to promote privacy protection whenever necessary.

Payment Information, eCommerce and Privacy

As merchants, you have responsibilities to maintain the privacy of payment information tendered to you in the course of your daily operations. We provide services designed to help you meet these requirements. Protections against Brute Force, Injection and other forms of attack on your site are in place and it is our policy to maintain them as our top priority. As eCommerce hosting providers, we have a greater need than other types of hosting providers to require your participation in maintaining these protections. We will not hesitate to do so. Where additional measures may help, but would exceed the normal cost of hosting operations they will be made available as service add ons. You are encouraged to use these services.

We reserve the right to change the monthly payment amount and any other charges at anytime.

Backups and Data Loss

Your use of the service is at your sole risk. We are not responsible for files and 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 our servers..

DMCA Policy of Strikehawk

DMCA Policy

Digital Millenium Copyright Act Notice

COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS AND DESIGNATED COPYRIGHT AGENT THIS NOTICE IS SUBJECT TO MODIFICATION OR TERMINATION AT ANY TIME, WHETHER FOR CHANGES IN THE LAW OR AT THE CONVENIENCE OF StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc., WITHOUT ADVANCE NOTICE. YOU MUST CHECK BACK FREQUENTLY TO ENSURE THAT YOU SEE A CORRECT, CURRENT VERSION OF THE NOTICE. Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c), a copyright owner or its authorized agent ("Complainant") may submit a notification alleging copyright infringement to StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. Designated Copyright Agent if Complainant has a good-faith belief that its works are being infringed by material subject to StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. control.

Filing Notice of Infringement

To file a notice of infringement with us, you must provide a written communication (by fax or regular mail -- not by email, except by prior agreement) that sets forth the items specified below. Please note that you will be liable for damages (including costs and attorneys' fees) if you materially misrepresent that a product or activity is infringing your copyrights. Indeed, in a recent case (please see http://www.onlinepolicy.org/action/legpolicy/opg_v_diebold/ for more information), a company that sent an infringement notification seeking removal of online materials that were protected by the fair use doctrine was ordered to pay such costs and attorneys fees. The company agreed to pay over $100,000. Accordingly, if you are not sure whether material available online infringes your copyright, we suggest that you first contact an attorney.

StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. will investigate proper notifications sent, please review the steps below:

  1. Identify in sufficient detail the copyrighted work that you believe has been infringed upon.
  2. Identify the material that you claim is infringing the copyrighted work listed in item #1 above.
  3. Provide information reasonably sufficient to permit StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. to contact you (email address is preferred).
  4. Provide information, if possible, sufficient to permit StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. to notify the owner/administrator of the allegedly infringing webpage or other content (email address is preferred).
  5. Include the following statement: "I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law."
  6. Include the following statement: "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."
  7. Sign the paper.
  8. Send the written communication to the following address:
StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc.
ATTN DMCA COMPLAINT
DBA hosting-4-creloaded.com
PO BOX 0006 NEW SMYRNA BEACH, FL USA 32170-0006

Or Fax To: Facsimile: +1 (866) 219-8559 Attn: StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. Legal Support, DMCA Complaints

Counter Notification

The administrator of an affected site or the provider of affected content may make a counter notification pursuant to sections 512(g)(2) and (3) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. When we receive a counter notification, we may reinstate the material in question. To file a counter notification with us, you must provide a written communication (by fax or regular mail -- not by email, except by prior agreement) that sets forth the items specified below. Please note that you will be liable for damages (including costs and attorneys' fees) if you materially misrepresent that a product or activity is not infringing the copyrights of others. Accordingly, if you are not sure whether certain material infringes the copyrights of others, we suggest that you first contact an attorney. A sample counter notification may be found at www.chillingeffects.org/dmca/counter512.pdf. To expedite our ability to process your counter notification, please use the following format (including section numbers):

  1. Identify the specific URLs or other unique identifying information of material that StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. has removed or to which StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. has disabled access.
  2. Provide your name, address, telephone number, email address, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or Okaloosa County, Florida if your address is outside of the United States), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.
  3. Include the following statement: "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good faith belief that each search result, message, or other item of content identified above was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled, or that the material identified by the complainant has been removed or disabled at the URL identified and will no longer be shown."
  4. Sign the paper.
  5. Send the written communication to the following address:
Strikehawk eCommerce Inc.
Attn: StrikeHawk Hosting Legal Support, DMCA Counter Notification DBA
PO BOX 0006 NEW SMYRNA BEACH, FL USA 32170-0006

OR fax to: +1 (866) 219-8559 Attn: StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. Legal Support, DMCA Counter Notification

Trade Marks Policy

Trademarks Used on this site

CRE Loaded

CRE Loaded is a trademark of Chain Reaction Works, Inc. Neither StrikeHawk Hosting or Hosting-4-creloaded.com are owned by this firm. CRE Loaded is used in a nominative sense in accordance with fair use provisions of the Lanham Act and the First Amendment only.

Other Trademarks

AMD, Intel, CentOS, cPanel, Virtuozzo and other trademarks are owned by their respective companies.

Use of StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. trademarks

StrikeHawk eCommerce and the StrikeHawk eCommerce Logo are trademarks of StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc.  Permission to use our emblem is permitted as long as it remains unmodified and trademark restrictions are respected.

The usage of the StrikeHawk eCommerce name must use the correct casing of the letters forming the name. "StrikeHawk eCommerce" is being used correctly where "Strikehawk Ecommerce", "Strikehawk E-Commerce", and "Strike Hawk E-Commerce" are incorrect. The usage of the StrikeHawk eCommerce name is not allowed to be used in conjunction with product names and service titles.

Trademarks and the GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GPL) permits third parties to use and redistribute the underlying software under certain conditions. Such use and/or redistribution of CRE Loaded software products are welcomed by CRE Loaded, but should be distinguished from the use of the CRE Loaded marks.

Hosting Service Level Agreement

Coverage; Definitions

This Web Site Availability Service Level Agreement (SLA) applies to you ("customer") if you have ordered any of the following hosting account services from StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. (the "Services") and your account is current (i.e., not past due) with StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc.:  Shared Web Hosting Plans (Virtual Server) or Virtual Private Servers. As used herein, the term "Web Site Availability" means the percentage of a particular month (based on 24-hour days for the number of days in the subject month) that the content of customer's Web site is available for access by third parties via HTTP, as measured by StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc..

  1. Service Level
    1. Goal: StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc.'s goal is to achieve 100% Web Site Availability for all customers.
      1. Remedy:  Subject to Sections 2 and 3 below, if the Web Site Availability of customer's Web site is less than 99.9% in any month, StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. will issue a credit to customer in accordance with the following schedule, with the credit being calculated on the basis of the monthly service charge for the affected Services:
        Web Site Availability Credit Percentage
        98.9% to 99.9% 0%
        95% to 98.9% 15%
        90% to 94.9% 30%
        89.9% or below 100%

      2. Exceptions
        Customer shall not receive any credits under this SLA in connection with any failure or deficiency of Web Site Availability caused by or associated with:
        1. circumstances beyond StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc.'s reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of any governmental body, war, insurrection, sabotage, armed conflict, embargo, fire, flood, strike or other labor disturbance, interruption of or delay in transportation, unavailability of or interruption or delay in telecommunications or third party services, failure of third party software (including, without limitation, ecommerce software, payment gateways, chat, statistics or free scripts) or inability to obtain supplies, or power used in or equipment needed for provision of this SLA;
        2. attacks by viruses or hackers, including Distributed Denial of Service (dDoS) attacks against StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc.'s network.
        3. failure of access circuits to the StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. Network, unless such failure is caused solely by StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc.;
        4. scheduled maintenance and system upgrades, or emergency maintenance;
        5. DNS issues outside the direct control of StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc.;
        6. issues with FTP, POP, IMAP, or SMTP customer access;
        7. false SLA breaches reported as a result of outages or errors of any StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. measurement system;
        8. customer's acts or omissions (or acts or omissions of others engaged or authorized by customer), including, without limitation, custom scripting or coding (e.g., CGI, Perl, HTML, etc), any negligence, willful misconduct, or use of the Services in breach of StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc.'s Terms and Conditions and Acceptable Use Policy;
        9. e-mail or webmail delivery and transmission;
        10. DNS (Domain Name Server) Propagation.
        11. outages elsewhere on the Internet that hinder access to your account. StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. is not responsible for browser or DNS caching that may make your site appear inaccessible when others can still access it. StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. will guarantee only those areas considered under the control of StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc.: StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. server links to the Internet, StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc.'s routers, and StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc.'s servers.
      3. Credit Request and Payment Procedures
        1. In order to receive a credit, customer must make a request for credit by email or fax to StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc.. Each request in connection with this SLA must include customer's account number (per StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc.'s invoice) and the dates and times of the unavailability of customer's Web site and must be received by StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. within ten (10) business days after customer's Web Site was not available. If the unavailability is confirmed by StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc., credits will be applied within two billing cycles after StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc.'s receipt of customer's credit request.
        2. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the total amount credited to customer in a particular month under this SLA shall not exceed the total hosting fee paid by customer for such month for the affected Services. Credits are exclusive of any applicable taxes charged to customer or collected by StrikeHawk eCommerce Inc. and are customer's sole and exclusive remedy with respect to any failure or deficiency in the Web Site Availability of customer's Web site.