UKSC Web Hosting Services - Terms & Conditions
The use of services from UKSC Web Hosting (Trading Name of UK Social Club Ltd - Company Registration Number 05273481. VAT Registration Number 941786786), [hereafter referred to as "UKSC Web Hosting" or UKSCWeb] constitutes agreement to these terms.

1.) Account Setup / Email on file
We will setup your account 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 @ the domain(s) you are signing up under. If there is ever an abuse issue or we need to contact you, the primary email address on file will be used for this purpose. It is your responsibility to ensure the email address on file is current or up to date at all times. Providing false contact information of any kind may result in the termination of your account. In dedicated server purchases or high risk transactions, it will be necessary to provide government issued identification and possibly a scan of the credit card used for the purchase. If you fail to meet these requirements, the order may be considered fraudulent in nature and be denied.

Transfers
Our transfers team will make every effort to help you move your site to us. However, transfers are provided as a courtesy service, and we can not make guarantees regarding the availability, possibility, or time required to complete an account transfer. Each hosting company is configured differently, and some hosting platforms save data in an incompatible or proprietary format, which may make it extremely difficult if not impossible to migrate some or all account data. We will try our best, but in some cases we may be unable to assist you in a transfer of data from an old host.

Domain Transfers & DNS Updates
If you are updating your DNS to a different server within the UKSC Group, then there is no charge.
UKSC Web Hosting charges an administration only fee to transfer your Domain to a different provider or update your DNS records. Each Domain Transferred & Each Record update is charged at £55.00 + VAT per transaction.
N.B. Domains cannot be transferred if there are outstanding bills on the account.

2.) Content
All services provided by UKSC Web Hosting may only be used for lawful purposes. The laws of England & Wales & The United Kingdom apply.

The customer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless UKSC Web Hosting from any claims resulting from the use of our services.

Use of our services to infringe upon any copyright or trademark is prohibited. This includes but is not limited to unauthorized copying of music, books, photographs, or any other copyrighted work. The offer of sale of any counterfeit merchandise of a trademark holder will result in the immediate termination of your account. Any account found to be in violation of anothers copyright will be expeditiously removed, or access to the material disabled. Any account found to be in repeated violation of copyright laws will be suspended and/or terminated from our hosting. If you believe that your copyright or trademark is being infringed upon, please email abuse@UKSCWeb.com with the information required. If the request is of a licensing issue, we may require further documentation.

Using a shared account as a backup/storage device is not permitted, with the exception of one cPanel backup of the same account. Please do not take backups of your backups.

Examples of unacceptable material on all Shared and Reseller servers include:
•Topsites
•IRC Scripts/Bots
•Proxy Scripts/Anonymizers
•Pirated Software/Warez
•Image Hosting Scripts (similar to Photobucket or Tinypic)
•AutoSurf/PTC/PTS/PPC sites
•IP Scanners
•Bruteforce Programs/Scripts/Applications
•Mail Bombers/Spam Scripts
•Banner-Ad services (commercial banner ad rotation)
•File Dump/Mirror Scripts (similar to rapidshare)
•Commercial Audio Streaming (more than one or two streams)
•Escrow/Bank Debentures
•High-Yield Interest Programs (HYIP) or Related Sites
•Investment Sites (FOREX, E-Gold Exchange, Second Life/Linden Exchange, Ponzi, MLM/Pyramid Scheme)
•Sale of any controlled substance without prior proof of appropriate permit(s)
•Prime Banks Programs
•Lottery Sites
•MUDs/RPGs/PBBGs
•Hateful/Racist/Harassment oriented sites
•Hacker focused sites/archives/programs
•Sites promoting illegal activities
•Forums and/or websites that distribute or link to warez/pirated/illegal content
•Bank Debentures/Bank Debenture Trading Programs
•Fraudulent Sites (Including, but not limited to sites listed at aa419.org & escrow-fraud.com)
•Mailer Pro
Examples of unacceptable material on all Dedicated servers include:

•IRCD (irc servers)
•IRC Scripts/Bots
•Pirated Software/Warez
•IP Scanners
•Bruteforce Programs/Scripts/Applications
•Mail Bombers/spam Scripts
•Escrow
•High-Yield Interest Programs (HYIP) or Related Sites
•Investment Sites (FOREX, E-Gold Exchange, Second Life/Linden Exchange, Ponzi, MLM/Pyramid Scheme)
•Sale of any controlled substance without prior proof of appropriate permit(s)
•Prime Banks Programs
•Lottery Sites
•Hateful/Racist/Harassment oriented sites
•Hacker focused sites/archives/programs
•Sites promoting illegal activities
•Forums and/or websites that distribute or link to warez/pirated/illegal content
•Bank Debentures/Bank Debenture Trading Programs
•Fraudulent Sites (Including, but not limited to sites listed at aa419.org & escrow-fraud.com)
•Mailer Pro
UKSC Web Hosting services, including all related equipment, networks and network devices are provided only for authorized customer use. UKSC Web Hosting systems may be monitored for all lawful purposes, including to ensure that use is authorized, for management of the system, to facilitate protection against unauthorized access, and to verify security procedures, survivability, and operational security. During monitoring, information may be examined, recorded, copied and used for authorized purposes. Use of UKSC Web Hosting system(s) constitutes consent to monitoring for these purposes.

Any account found connecting to a third party network or system without authorization from the third party is subject to suspension. Access to networks or systems outside of your direct control must be with expressed written consent from the third party. UKSC Web Hosting may, at its discretion, request and require documentation to prove access to a third party network or system is authorized.

We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. Any material that, in our judgment, is obscene, threatening, illegal, or violates our terms of service in any manner may be removed from our servers (or otherwise disabled), with or without notice.

Failure to respond to email from our abuse department within 48 hours may result in the suspension or termination of your services. All abuse issues must be dealt with via troubleticket/email and will have a response within 48 hours.

If in doubt regarding the acceptability of your site or service, please contact us at abuse@UKSCweb.com and we will be happy to assist you.

Potential harm to minors is strictly forbidden, including but not limited to child pornography or content perceived to be child pornography (Lolita):

Any site found to host child pornography or linking to child pornography will be suspended immediately without notice.

Resellers: we will suspend the site in question and will notify you so you may terminate the account. We will further monitor your activity; more than one infraction of this type may result in the immediate termination of your account.

Direct customers: Your services will be terminated with or without notice.

Violations will be reported to the appropriate law enforcement agency.

It is your responsibility to ensure that scripts/programs installed under your account are secure and permissions of directories are set properly, regardless of installation method. When at all possible, set permissions on most directories to 755 or as restrictive as possible. Users are ultimately responsible for all actions taken under their account. This includes the compromise of credentials such as user name and password. It is required that you use a secure password. If a weak password is used, your account may be suspended until you agree to use a more secure password. Audits may be done to prevent weak passwords from being used. If an audit is performed, and your password is found to be weak, we will notify you and allow time for you to change/update your password.

You agree that all pages Hosted or Designed by UKSCWeb will have the appropriate small link back to our services.

3.) Zero Tolerance Spam Policy
We take a zero tolerance stance against sending of unsolicited e-mail, bulk emailing, and spam. "Safe lists" and purchased lists will be treated as spam. Any user who sends out spam will have their account terminated with or without notice.

Sites advertised via SPAM (Spamvertised) may not be hosted on our servers. This provision includes, but is not limited to SPAM sent via fax, email, instant messaging, or usenet/newsgroups. No organization or entity listed in the ROKSO may be hosted on our servers. Any account which results in our IP space being blacklisted will be immediately suspended and/or terminated.

UKSC Web Hosting reserves the right to require changes or disable as necessary any web site, account, database, or other component that does not comply with its established policies, or to make any such modifications in an emergency at its sole discretion.

UKSC Web Hosting reserves the right to charge the holder of the account used to send any unsolicited e-mail a clean up fee or any charges incurred for blacklist removal. This cost of the clean up fee is entirely at the discretion of UKSC Web Hosting.

4.) Payment Information>
You agree to supply appropriate payment for the services received from UKSC Web Hosting, in advance of the time period during which such services are provided. You agree that until and unless you notify UKSC Web Hosting of your desire to cancel any or all services received, those services will be billed on a recurring basis. This includes when accounts are suspended. When an account's invoices are paid outside of the 10 day grace period, invoices will not be automatically generated. However, after the customer notifies UKSC Web Hosting of his or intent to resume service, invoices will be manually generated and payment expected for the time the account was suspended.

Failure to keep up payments or clear an outstanding balance or pay an invoice on time, will result in us (UKSCWeb / UK Social Club Limited) placing a holding page on your website. This will only be removed once the full outstanding debt has been cleared.

It is the customer's responsibility to notify our sales team via email after paying for a domain renewal and to ensure the email is received and acted upon. Domain renewal notices and invoices are provided as a courtesy reminder and UKSC Web Hosting cannot be held responsible for failure to renew a domain or failure to notify a customer about a domain's renewal.

Invoices that have been paid more than once with multiple Paypal Subscriptions can only be added as credit towards the account and cannot be refunded via Paypal. If you require assistance with this provision, please email your contact.

UKSC Web Hosting reserves the right to change the monthly payment amount and any other charges at anytime.

5.) Backups and Data Loss
Your use of this service is at your sole risk. Our backup service is provided to you as a courtesy. UKSC Web Hosting is not responsible for files and/or 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 UKSC Web Hosting servers. Backups will not be provided for accounts that have been suspended or terminated for any reason unless otherwise agreed to in writing by UKSC Web Hosting.

6.) Cancellations and Refunds
If you decide to cancel your service/s (including Domain renewals) with UKSC Web you must do so in writing, giving 30 days notice.
If notice period is not given we will take it that you wish to continue using our service/s and invoice you accordingly.
If you are still within a period of contract, the remainder of the contract will need to be paid before any release is agreed.

UKSC Web Hosting reserves the right to cancel, suspend, or otherwise restrict access to the account at any time with or without notice.

Any abuse of our staff in any medium or format will result in the suspension or termination of your services.

The following methods of payments are non-refundable, and any refunds given will be posted as a credit to the hosting account:

•Bank Wire Transfers
•Western Union Payments
•Cheques
•Money orders
There are no refunds on dedicated servers, administrative fees, install fees for custom software, or domain name purchases. Refund requests for shared and reseller accounts after the initial 45 days will be refunded on a prorated basis of any unused time.

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.

Violations of the Terms of Service will waive the refund policy.

7. Resource Usage
User may not:
a) 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.
b) Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.
c) Run any type of web spider or indexer (including Google Cash / AdSpy) on shared servers.
d) Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
e) Run any bit torrent application, tracker, or client. You may link to legal torrents off-site, but may not host or store them on our shared servers.
f) Participate in any file-sharing/peer-to-peer activities
g) Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike, half-life, battlefield1942, etc
h) Run cron entries with intervals of less than 15 minutes When using PHP include functions for including a local file, include the local file rather than the URL. Instead of include("http://yourdomain.com/include.php") use include("include.php")

7b.) INODES
The use of more than 250,000 inodes on any shared account may potentially result in a warning first, and if no action is taken future suspension. Accounts found to be exceeding the 50,000 inode limit will automatically be removed from our backup system to avoid over-usage. Every file (a webpage, image file, email, etc) on your account uses up 1 inode.

Sites that slightly exceed our inode limits are unlikely to be suspended; however, accounts that constantly create and delete large numbers of files on a regular basis, have hundreds of thousands of files, or cause file system damage may be flagged for review and/or suspension. The primary cause of excessive inodes seems to be due to users leaving their catchall address enabled, but never checking their primary account mailbox. Over time, tens of thousands of messages (or more) build up, eventually pushing the account past our inode limit. To disable your default mailbox, login to cPanel and choose "Mail", then "Default Address", "Set Default Address", and then type in: :fail: No such user here.

7c.) Backup Limit
Any shared account using more than 20 gigs of disk space will be removed from our off site weekly backup with the the exception of Databases continuing to be backed up. All data will continue to be mirrored to a secondary drive which helps protect against data loss in the event of a drive failure.

8.) 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.

9a.) Money back Guarantee
On dedicated servers and collocation no full refund will be honored -- the 45 day money back guarantee does not apply. We reserve the right to refund a prorated amount or no refund at all.

Each of UKSC Web Hosting's managed shared and reseller servers carry a 45 day unconditional money back guarantee on them. If you are not completely satisfied with our services within the first 45 days of your service, you will be given a full refund of the contract amount. Remember, this is only for monthly shared or reseller packages and does not apply to dedicated servers, administrative fees, install fees for custom software, or domain name purchases.

9b.) Uptime Guarantee
If your shared / reseller server has a physical downtime that is not within the 99.9% uptime you may receive one month of credit on your account. Approval of the credit is at the discretion of UKSC Web Hosting dependant upon justification provided. Third party monitoring service reports may not be used for justification due to a variety of factors including the monitor's network capacity/transit availability. The uptime of the server is defined as the reported uptime from the operating system and the Apache Web Server which may differ from the uptime reported by other individual services. To request a credit, please contact sales@UKSC Web Hosting.com with justification. All requests must be made in writing via email. Uptime guarantees only apply to shared / reseller solutions. Dedicated servers are covered by a network guarantee in which the credit is prorated for the amount of time the server is down which is not related to our uptime guarantee.

10.) Reseller: Client Responsibility
Resellers are responsible for supporting their clients. UKSC Web Hosting does not provide support to our Reseller's Clients. If a reseller's client contacts us, we reserve the right to place the client account on hold until the reseller can assume their responsibility for their client. All support requests must be made by the reseller on their clients' behalf for security purposes. Resellers are also responsible for all content stored or transmitted under their reseller account and the actions of their clients'. UKSC Web Hosting will hold any reseller responsible for any of their clients actions that violate the law or the terms of service.

11.) Shared (non-reseller accounts) / Semidedicated Servers
Shared accounts may not resell web hosting to other people, if you wish to resell hosting you must use a reseller account. Semi-dedicated servers are not backed up. You must maintain your own backups.

12.) Dedicated Servers
UKSC Web Hosting reserves the right to reset the password on a dedicated server if the password on file is not current so that we may do security audits as required by our datacenter. It is the responsibility of the client to ensure that there is a valid email address and current root password on file for their dedicated server on file to prevent downtime from forced password resets. UKSC Web Hosting reserves the right to audit servers as needed and to perform administrative actions at the request of our datacenter. Dedicated servers are NOT backed up by us and it is the responsibility of the client to maintain backups or have a solution for this. You may purchase an additional hard drive and maintain backups to it as the most simple solution. Please contact us by email if you wish to obtain a secondary hard drive. It is your responsibility to maintain backups.

13.) Price Change
We reserve the right to change prices listed on UKSC Web Hosting.com, and the right to increase the amount of resources given to plans at any time.

14.) Managed Services
Updating & Managing your Domain / website on a monthly basis. This may involve Major or Minor website changes; Creation of new pages; Updating Product Information; Replacing Outdated Prices & SEO (Search Engine Optimisation. Please note that the basic package for this service is Limited to creating 1 new basic webpage per month; or 30 minutes of updates before additional hourly charges are added. The Basic Service package is currently priced from £50.00 per month with additional hours charged at £50.00. All prices exclude VAT.

UKSC Web Hosting reserves the right to decline working with any outside agency person/s or companies that are in direct competition with us. We will not entertain joint working policies on any website we are hosting for the client as this will utlimately disolve security and therefore provide significant risk.

15a.) Indemnification
Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold UKSC Web Hosting harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney's/lawyer/court fees asserted against UKSC Web Hosting, 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 UKSC Web Hosting against liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with UKSC Web Hosting; (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 UKSC Web Hosting's server.

15b.) Arbitration
By using any UKSC Web Hosting services, you agree to submit to binding arbitration. If any disputes or claims arise against UKSC Web Hosting or its subsidiaries, such disputes will be handled by an arbitrator of UKSC Web Hosting's choice. An arbitrator from the American Arbitration Association or the National Arbitration Forum will be selected in the state of Texas. Arbitrators shall be attorneys or retired judges and shall be selected pursuant to the applicable rules. All decisions rendered by the arbitrator will be binding and final. The arbitrator's award is final and binding on all parties. The Federal Arbitration Act, and not any state arbitration law, governs all arbitration under this Arbitration Clause. You are also responsible for any and all costs related to such arbitration.

16.) Website Design
UKSC's basic website design service is limited to 1 basic page for £149.99 + VAT.
A 5 page website from one of our templates is charged at £575.00 + VAT.
Additional pages are charged at £85.00 + VAT per page; other site changes are charged at £50.00 per hour unless otherwise agreed.
Our advanced design service is tailored to individual needs with pricing starting from £800.00 + VAT per website.
UKSC Web only provide a basic Artwork Design service. All other artwork needs to be submitted by the client at their cost.

,16b.) Domain Purchases
All Domain Purchases will be made in the name of UK Social Club Ltd, unless otherwise requested in writing.
This is done to ensure the purchasers identity is protected.
It is possible to change the name into yours or your company name after registration. However, because the Registrars make a charge for this change we will have to pass this charge onto you, plus a small admin fee.

17.) Disclaimer
UKSC Web Hosting shall not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer. UKSC Web Hosting makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services we provide. UKSC Web Hosting 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 UKSC Web Hosting, its employees & Service Providers.

18.) Disclosure to law enforcement
UKSC Web Hosting may disclose any subscriber information to law enforcement agencies without further consent or notification to the subscriber upon lawful request from such agencies. We will cooperate fully with law enforcement agencies.

19.) Changes to the TOS (Terms & Conditions of Service)
UKSC Web Hosting reserves the right to revise its policies at any time without notice.

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