TERMS OF SERVICE
ServerOrigin.Com Provides World Wide Web
page
hosting, ServerOrigin.Com Reserves the right to suspend or cancel any customer's access to any or all services provided
by
ServerOrigin.Com When ServerOrigin.Com decides that the account has been inappropriately used or
otherwise.
SERVER USE
Personal accounts are to be used by the primary owner
only, account holders are not permitted to resell, store or give away web-hosting services of their website to other
parties.
Web hosting services are defined as allowing a separate, third party to host content on the owner's web
site. Exceptions to this include ad banners, classified ads, and personal ads.
ServerOrigin.Com Reserves the right to refuse service and/or access to its servers to
anyone.
ServerOrigin.Com does not allow any of the following content to be stored
on
its servers:
- Illegal Material - This includes copyrighted works, commercial audio,
phishing, video, or music files and any material in violation of any Federal, State or Local
regulation.
- Warez - Includes pirated software, ROMS, emulators, freaking, hacking, password cracking, IP
spoofing, etc., and encrypting of any of the above. Also includes any sites which provide "links to" or
"how to" information about such material.
USE POLICY
You can run any CGI and non-CGI scripts you desire, however we reserve the right to disable any script
that dramatically affects server performance.
SHELL ACCOUNTS
Customer agrees not to store, send, or download any illegal files, documents, or applications from Provider. Customer
also agrees not to have any bots or irc clients participating or aiding in the transferring of said files. This
includes, but is not limited to, commercial software (.warez.), licensed music files (.mp3.) or copyrighted movies
(.vcds.). Failure to comply with these terms may result in legal consequences, account
termination/suspension, or deletion of the files and/or your account.
Launching IRC bots (if applicable) on an IRC channel that is takenover, or channel without any ops with the intent to
prevent ownership or hold illegal ownership of a channel that was takenover is grounds for account termination. Using
your account to provoke an attack, or to participate in the unwanted ownership change in a channel is also strictly
prohibited. You are responsible for your bots, by linking to a botnet, you are taking full responsibility for the other
botnet owners' actions.
Putting IRC bots (if applicable) on an IRC server that does NOT allow them or running more than the specified amount per
IRC network is grounds for account deletion or account contents deletion. You are required to follow and adhere to the
IRC server's rules. Connection laws and limits are governed soley by the IRC server or network, and should always
supercede Provider's recommended connection limits.
Running unapproved background/foreground processes which hog cpu/bandwidth such as, but not limited to, "Game" Servers
or other Streaming Media, IRCDs on non-IRCD accounts, IRCD Services or XDCC bots. If you are unsure whether a process is
approved for use on your shell account, contact us.
# Attempting to access the accounts of others, probing for security holes, or attempting to penetrate security
measures
of Provider's or other entities' systems ("hacking"), whether or not the attempt results in an intrusion, corruption, or
loss of data is grounds for legal action and immediate account termination.
Certain "tools" used for malicious purposes
include: Probing or Scanning tools, such as "nmap", "strobe".
Exploits or Malicious Code (remotely or locally).
or
Denial of Service, such as "smurf", "fraggle", "udpflood" are also prohibited. Storing or executing these types of files
on your account is grounds for termination.
USE OF IRC SERVERS & CONNECTION LIMITS
Each individual shell account is not permitted to make more than two (2) connections to any "IRC server". IRC community
networks such as Undernet have strict network-wide cloning/maximum connection limits. In this instance, you cannot make
more than two connections to the entire IRC network from the same shell account. Additionally, not more than two (2)
connections can be made to any single "bnc" process running on ServerOrigin servers. BNCs and eggdrops which spawn more
than 2 connections to the same server or network are subject to suspension and grounds for account termination after
investigation. Access to all third party IRC servers, networks, or communities are not guaranteed and is not considered
part of Provider's service agreement.
BitchX sessions and IRC sessions run on the shell account by default will put your Real Name into the Real Name/IRCname
field. This information will show up in a /whois. If you do not wish for this information to be shown when you log on
IRC via the shell, it is for your own privacy that we suggest you change it by typing "ircname" at the shell prompt.
SECURITY
Information transmitted over the Internet and/or other computer networks is generally not considered to be secure. While
Provider respects the privacy of our customers, the Customer understands that there is no guaranteed privacy on the
Internet. Provider cannot be liable or responsible for any viewing or interception of Customer's e-mail, downloads,
news, etc., by other customers or individuals at Provider or on any network. The Customer also acknolwedges that
although network and server backups are performed regularly as a courtesy, Provider cannot be liable or responsible for
any loss of data, or for any security holes in Customer applications.
VPS Servers: User is liable for
securing and administering your own VPS Servers. Our servers are unmanaged and we highly recommend having working
knowledge prior to signing up with a VPS as you could be held responsible if your server is hacked and used
maliciously.
HIGH RESOURCE
USER POLICY
Resources are defined as bandwidth and/or processor utilization.
ServerOrigin.Com
may implement the following policy to its sole discretion:
When a
website is found to be monopolizing the resources available, ServerOrigin.Com Reserves the right to suspend that site
immediately. This policy is only implemented in extreme circumstances and is intended to prevent the misuse of our
servers.
MAILING LISTS AND/OR UNSOLICITED MAILINGS (SPAM)
ServerOrigin, strictly prohibits the use of their servers to send or relay unsolicited mail (SPAM). If
any
domain hosted by ServerOrigin participates in the sending of unsolicited mail, unsolicited bulk mailings, unsolicited
spot mailings or any other form of mailing commonly known as SPAM, the domain will be cancelled immediately.
Inadvertent spam will be subject to a processing fee in the amount of $100 per infraction.
Termination of the
hosting account on our servers applies when we are advised form an appropriate source that the SPAM was distributed
through our network. ServerOrigin does not support the practice of SPAM and will terminate their association with any
company hosted by our servers if that company has been identified as the source of unsolicited email/SPAM. All
information stored on ServerOrigin servers will be removed immediately, DNS will be terminated, and mail will be
stopped.
PAYMENT POLICIES
All accounts are set up
on a prepay basis. Although ServerOrigin.Com Reserves the right to change prices of accounts or services at any time
all
pricing is guaranteed for the period of pre-payment.
Payment is due
each anniversary year or month following the date the account was established.
Customers WILL automatically be
charged again at the end of their prepay period .
In situations where
the card number on file is declined ServerOrigin.Com Will immediately suspend the facility to purchase services on-line
until the outstanding charge is processed successfully.
In addition, ServerOrigin.Com Reserves the right to suspend
other services until the outstanding debt is cleared. The customer is responsible for all money owed on the account
from the time it was To reactivate a suspended account (due payment problem) a $5 reactivating fee must be paid for
each suspended domain/account.
Established to the time that the customer sends a written cancellation
request
No bills or invoices will be sent by regular mail. All invoices
will be sent directly to customers via e-mail shortly after the online purchase has been made. At this point the
customer's card will be charged automatically. Bandwidth Overage is billed at $1.00/GB of usage and will be due at
the end of your billing cycle.All payments are accepted in US
dollars.
PAYMENT OPTIONS
In order to streamline our accounting
procedures and keep costs down ServerOrigin.Com Accepts Google Checkout, PayPal, and Money Orders..
CANCELLATION AND REFUNDS
ServerOrigin.Com Reserves
the right to cancel the service at any time. Customer refund requests are to be sent to billing@serverorigin.com and
will
only be processed in the cases of service non-performance within 30 days of signup that might be caused by ServerOrigin.Com's side, Refund
requests will be
refused if it's requested for any cause that's out of ServerOrigin.Com's side, For example:
- Domain transfer
failure.
-
Failure of any third party programs that's not supported by ServerOrigin.Com
- Customers lack of experience in
dealing with
web basics and irc communication protocols
There will be a $5.00 charge
for
each refund. If your monthly invoice is below $5.00, no refund will be processed.
INDEMNIFICATION
Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify,
save and hold ServerOrigin.Com Harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including
reasonable
attorney's fees asserted against ServerOrigin.Com, 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 ServerOrigin.Com Against liabilities arising out
of:
(1)
any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in
connection with
ServerOrigin.Com's
server.
(2) any material supplied by customer infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a
third party.
(3) copyright infringement.
(4) any defective products sold to customer from ServerOrigin.Com's
server.
DISCLAIMER
ServerOrigin.Com Will not be
responsible
for any damages your business may suffer, ServerOrigin.Com Makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for
services we
provide.
ServerOrigin.Com Disclaims any warranter merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This includes
loss of
data resulting from delays, non deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service interruptions caused by
ServerOrigin.Com and
its employees.
ServerOrigin.Com Reserves the right to revise the above
mentioned
policies at any time.