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Hosting Terms and Conditions

- In consideration for hosting services to be delivered, Subscriber agrees to be bound to the following terms: Big Blue Host is a division of ZeRO Web Hosting
   • Subscriber agrees to pay for hosting services rendered in advance of each monthly service term.
   • Subscriber agrees to be bound by the service term selected on the online order form or via applicable       promotional codes.
   • Subscriber agrees to a no-refund policy in advance. Setup fees and monthly service fees are non-refundable.
   • Server rental charges will be incurred immediately at signup and are prorated by 3 days to allow for server       provisioning and delivery.
   • Non-Payment of services shall result in a 5-day notice of disconnection. All payment failures must be cured       within 5 days of notice. Subscribers failing to secure payment within 5 days of notice will incur service       interruption and $50 reconnection fee.
   • Service Cancellations must be submitted using the cancellation form inside our client system
      at least 7 days before your next monthly billing cycle.
   • Big Blue Host is not responsible for data integrity on equipment reclaimed for non-payment.
   • New York residents agree to pay all taxes applicable to your account.

- Subscriber agrees to adhere to the Big Blue Host Acceptable Use Policy.

- Subscriber agrees to adhere to the Big Blue Host Data Center Rules and Procedures.

- Subscriber agrees not to engage in activity that violates federal (United States), state (New York) or local (New York   County) laws applicable to the service terms described herein.

Backups and Data Loss
Your use of any of our services is at your sole risk. Big Blue Host is not responsible for files and/or data or databases 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 any server space purchased through Big BLue Host. Subscriber accepts that we do not by default backup any database driven data (including but not limited to MySQL and SQL Server). This feature can however be requested for an additional cost. Backups of non database data are taken on a weekly basis and are retained for a period of no more than one week.
- Big Blue Host reserves the right to discontinue service to any subscriber it deems, in its sole discretion, violates   any condition of service including the Acceptable Use Policy, Data Center Rules and Procedures, and Terms of   Services.
-Credits
a. Shared Hosting - In the event that your web site is not available for 99%, Big Blue Host will credit the following month's service fee as follows. For any shared hosting client, such credit shall be available upon request of client and shall be as calculated below and as measured as a 30 day average in a calendar month, with the maximum credit not to exceed fifty (50) percent of the monthly service charge for the affected month.

Monthly Uptime Credit
95% to 99% 10%
90% to 94.9% 20%
89.9% or below 50%

30 Day Return Policy
-Customer has 30 days from the first day of your inital purchase to contact our company for a full refund.


-Restrictions
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:

a. circumstances beyond Big Blue Host'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, virus attacks or hackers, failure of third party software (including, without limitation, ecommerce software, payment gateways, chat, statistics or free scripts) or inability to obtain raw materials, supplies, or power used in or equipment needed for provision of this SLA;

b. failure of access circuits to the Big Blue Host Network, unless such failure is caused solely by Big Blue Host;
c. scheduled maintenance and emergency maintenance and upgrades;

d. DNS issues outside the direct control of Big Blue Host;

e. issues with FTP. POP, IMAP, or SMTP customer access;

f. false SLA breaches reported as a result of outages or errors of any Big Blue Host measurement system;

g. 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, ASP, etc), any negligence, willful misconduct, or use of the Services in breach of Big Blue Host's Terms and Conditions and Acceptable Use Policy;

h. e-mail or webmail delivery and transmission;

i. DNS (Domain Name Server) Propagation.

j. outages elsewhere on the Internet that hinder access to your account. Big Blue Host is not responsible for browser or DNS caching that may make your site appear inaccessible when others can still access it. Big Blue Host will guarantee only those areas considered under the control of Big Blue Host: Big Blue Host server links to the Internet, Big Blue Host's routers, and Big Blue Host's servers.

Server and Support Resource Abuse

(This section does not apply to managed dedicated or colocation servers.) Shared server accounts are limited in use of the amount of server resources. Shared server resource abuse includes any process or service usage that affects normal shared server operation, resources or connectivity, and which causes a server to become overloaded. Shared server resources include CPU and memory usage, number of concurrent processes, number of concurrent port or database connections and total bandwidth. Possible causes of server resource abuse include, but are not limited to, the use of: CGI, Perl, Sendmail, mySQL, MSSQL, PHP, ASP, COLDFUSION, HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP. If server resource abuse is detected, possible actions include, but are not limited to: disabling or renaming of the offending script or scripts, disabling of the specific service, disabling of the entire account or account cancellation. If server overload is a result of server resource abuse, these actions will be taken without prior notice or warning. Any guarantees are void if you are in violation of any type of excessive use or abuse of server resources.
Abuse may also apply to our support ticket system and staff. Abuse is defined as submitting multiple tickets for the same issue within an unreasonalbe timeframe or any poor treatment of our support staff either inhouse or contracted. We may at any time refuse service based on support or ticket system abuse.

Child Pornography
Our policy on child pornography is zero tolerance. Big Blue Host will cooperate fully with any criminal investigation into a Customer's violation of the Child Protection Act of 1984 concerning child pornography. Customers are ultimately responsible for the actions of their clients over the Big Blue Host network, and will be liable for illegal material posted by their clients. According to the Child Protection Act, child pornography includes photographs, films, video or any other type of visual presentation that shows a person who is or is depicted as being under the age of eighteen years and is engaged in or is depicted as engaged in explicit sexual activity, or the dominant characteristic of which is the depiction, for a sexual purpose, of a sexual organ or the anal region of a person under the age of eighteen years or any written material or visual representation that advocates or counsels sexual activity with a person under the age of eighteen years.

Free Services offered at Signup
If you receive any free offers such as but not limited to free domain names during signup and cancel your account within 6 months you are no longer owner of any of the free services that you may or may not have received. We reserve the right to take back any service, product, gift or domain name we provided to you.
- Subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Big Blue Host and the employees and agents of Big Blue Host   against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities, penalties, actions, proceedings or judgments (collectively,   "Losses") to which an Indemnified Party may become subject and which Losses arise out of, or relate to this   Agreement or Subscriber's use of the Services and Products, and will reimburse an Indemnified Party for all   legal and other expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by such Indemnified Party in connection   with investigating, defending or settling any Loss whether or not in connection with pending or threatened   litigation in which such Indemnified Party is a party.

- Big Blue Host SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR i) ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL   DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS OR LOSS OF REVENUE RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THE Big Blue Host's SERVICES AND PRODUCTS BY SUBSCRIBER OR ANY THIRD PARTIES, OR (ii) ANY LOSS OF DATA   RESULTING FROM DELAYS, NONDELIVERIES, MISDELIVERIES OR SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS Big Blue Host   PROVIDES THE SERVICES AND PRODUCTS AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR   IMPLIED Big Blue Host DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE   IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE SUBSCRIBER SHALL   BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SELECTION, USE AND SUITABILITY OF THE SERVICES AND PRODUCTS AND   Big Blue Host SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY THEREFORE.

- Arbitration. ANY CONTROVERSY OR CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS CONTACT OR ANY BREACH   THEREOF IN EXCESS OF $250.00 SHALL BE SETTLED BY ARBITRATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE   COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION RULES OF THE AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION AND JUDGMENT UPON THE   AWARD RENDERED BY THE ARBITRATOR MAY BE ENTERED IN ANY COURT HAVING JURISDICTION THEREOF.

- Notices. Unless otherwise specified herein, any notices or other communications required or permitted   hereunder shall be sufficiently given if in writing and delivered personally or sent by facsimile transmission,   internationally recognized overnight courier, registered or certified mail, to the address or facsimile number of   Subscriber as set forth in the Service Descriptions or Big Blue Host as set forth below. Such notices or other   communications shall be deemed received (i) on the date delivered, if delivered personally, (ii) on the date that   return confirmation is received, if sent by facsimile, (iii) on the business day (or, if international, on the second   business day) after being sent by an internationally recognized overnight air courier or (iv) five days after being   sent, if sent by first class registered mail, return receipt requested.

- Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of   New York, without regard to choice of law provisions that would cause the application of the law of another   jurisdiction.
Some helpful links:
Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC)
US-CERT
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998
FBI