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The provisions of this Policy are intended as guidelines and are not meant to be exhaustive. Generally, conduct that violates law, regulation, or the accepted norms of the Internet community, whether or not expressly mentioned in this Policy, is prohibited. By using our web hosting services, you agree to comply with our policies. You are expected to use the Internet with respect, courtesy, and responsibility, giving due regard to the rights of other Internet users.
Disclaimer:-
ACL Hosting takes no responsibility for any damages or losses client may suffer
from using our service(s). Client agrees that ACL Hosting takes no
responsibility for the data contained within client’s personal directories;
however client assumes full responsibility of the data.
ACL Hosting would not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer.
ACL Hosting disclaims any warranty or merchantability or fitness for a
particular purpose. This includes, but is not limited to, loss of data resulting
from delays, no deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service
interruptions caused by ACL Hosting and its employees.
Abuse & Prohibited Use:-
The services of ACL Hosting can only be used for lawful purposes. Storage or
distribution / transmission of illegal data is strictly prohibited. ACL Hosting
reserves the right to decide as to what constitutes as abuse and any material
not mentioned below is left entirely up to the discretion of the ACL Hosting
staff.
The list of prohibited data includes, but is not limited to -
IRC Bots / Software
BitTorrent software
Proxy software
Any Automated Bots
Warez Sites
HYIP Sites
Hate Sites
Pornoghraphy
Abuse can include, but is not limited to the following
offenses:-
I. Any attempts to compromise or actual compromise of a network device belonging
to ACL Hosting or any other company, individual, or other entity is strictly
prohibited. This offense also includes port scanning, IP range scanners and
vulnerability scanning. All infractions and or suspected infractions will be
vigorously investigated and may result in immediate termination of service.
II. Denial of Service (DOS) attacks directed at ACL Hosting, or any attempts to
launch a Denial of Service attack from our servers are strictly prohibited. All
infractions and or suspected infractions will be vigorously investigated and may
result in immediate termination of service.
III. Hosting any software, source code or any other material that is illegal or
could be used to commit an illegal act is strictly prohibited. This includes but
is not limited to software exploits; exploit source code, hacking tutorials,
hacking tools, viruses and Trojans, bomb making and similar device tutorials.
All infractions and or suspected infractions will be vigorously investigated and
may result in immediate termination of service.
IV. The hosting of material that infringes on any copyright, trademark and or
service mark is strictly prohibited. This also includes the storage and
transmission of pirated movies, music, software, ring tones or anything else
considered "Warez". Any authentic complaint received will be investigated and
may result in termination of service.
V. The hosting of defamatory, scandalous, or private information about a person
without their consent, intentionally inflicting emotional distress, or violating
trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights.
Zero Tolerance Spam Policy:-
If you send unsolicited email messages, commonly known as SPAM, your account
WILL be terminated, NO exceptions. Sending newsgroup postings, chain letters or
anything else that could be considered as "spam", is strictly prohibited. The
gathering of email addresses to be used for sending unsolicited email on a 3rd
party service "harvesting" is also prohibited and may result in termination of
service.
We have set a limit of 200 outgoing emails per hour on our shared and reseller
hosting accounts, 500 outgoing emails per hour on VPS hosting, 1000 outgoing
emails per hour on Semi Dedicated Hosting and 3600 outgoing emails per hour on
Dedicated Server Hosting. Customers need to take note of this restriction that
they can not send more than the specified number of emails every hour.
Spamming activities also include (but not limited to) commercial advertising and
informational announcements. A user shall not use another site's mail server to
relay mail without the express permission of the site or distributing,
advertising or promoting software or services that have the primary purpose of
encouraging or facilitating unsolicited commercial E-mail or spam.
Resource Usage:-
Abuse of resources include, but is not limited to:-
I. Usage 25% or more of system resources for longer then 90 seconds. These
include, but are not limited to: CGI scripts, FTP, PHP, and HTTP.
II. Run any interactive real-time chat applications that require server
resources. Remotely-hosted services are fully allowed.
III. Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on
the server. This includes, but is not limited to, IRCD, BotProcesses.
IV. Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
V. Run any gaming server instances. This includes, but is not limited to, such
as counter-strike, half-life & battlefield 1942.
Repeated infringements on account of excessive server-resource consumption may
result in suspension OR termination of services.
Bandwidth Usage:-
Bandwidth is defined as the amount of traffic that is allowed to occur between
your website & the rest of the internet. All bandwidth quotas are on a monthly
basis. The amount of bandwidth allowed is commensurate to the subscribed hosting
plan. ACL Hosting reserves the right to suspend services for an account which
has exceeded the bandwidth quota allotted. Services would be restored on the
start of the next cycle or Upgrading of the hosting package, whichever is
earlier. Carrying over of unused amount of bandwidth is not permitted.
Payments, Verification & Account Setup:-
ACL Hosting will not activate any service(s) until client has paid in full.
Until and unless you notify ACL Hosting of your desire to cancel any or all
services received, those services will be billed on a recurring basis. Clients
have to make appropriate payment for the services received from aclhosting.net,
before the payment due date during the duration of the services received. ACL
Hosting reserves the right to change the monthly payment amount and any other
charges at anytime.
All payments and service orders are screened for fraudulent transaction & credit
card abuse. If a payment is found not to be compliant with our verification &
screening procedures, such orders won’t be setup. Payments are automatically
rejected.
Account setups are done after payment verification. Only accounts which have
been paid for in full would be setup.
Cancellations & Refunds:-
ACL Hosting reserves the right to suspend OR terminate services on receipt of
Abuse complaints. An unconditional 30 day money back guarantee is provided on
managed shared hosting, reseller hosting, semi-dedicated hosting and VPS
solutions. Domain registration Fees & Dedicated Server packages do not come
under the purview of this guarantee. Refund requests after 30 days will be
refunded on a prorated basis of any unused time.
Only first-time accounts are eligible for a refund. For instance, if you've had
an account with us before, cancelled and signed up again, you will not be
eligible for a refund or if you have opened a second account with us.
There will be no refund for new domain registrations, WHM/CPanel, Plesk VPS &
Dedicated Server License, Virtuozzo, SSL Certificates and Site Builder as these
are purchased from External Vendors & ACL Hosting does not get any refund in
case of cancellation of licenses.
Any service interruptions or downtime due to scheduled maintenance by ACL
Hosting or our network providers will not count towards the uptime guarantee.
ACL Hosting is not liable in any way for failure of third party services.
Server Location:-
Our service is based in the UK and may use servers that whilst will be monitored from the UK may be located outside the UK but will meet our high standards at all times, any and all hosting contracts will be taken out on this basis.
Data-backups:-
ACL Hosting does not assume any responsibility of backing up files & data
residing in your hosting account. You agree to take full responsibility for
files and data transferred and to maintain all appropriate backup of files and
data stored on aclhosting.net servers.
Money back Guarantee:-
All hosting plans carry a 30 day unconditional money back guarantee. If you find
the services to be deficient or unsatisfactory, you are entitled to a full
refund of the contract amount within the first 30-days of the date of account
set-up.
We also provide a Price-Freeze guarantee. You would never have to pay more than
what you signed up for your hosting service. ACL Hosting reserves the right to
change the resource allocation for its services & also to change the prices
listed on the website.
ACL Hosting reserves the right to change or revise its policies at any time without prior notice.
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