Terms of Service The following terms of service apply to all accounts published on any Nutechmart or authorized partner internet servers. Submitting your order or agreeing to the contents of a proposal/quote indicates agreement to Nutechmart Terms of Service. Agreement If a client refuses to accept any future provisions or amendments, the client will have the option to cancel service as of the renewal date (see cancellation below for correct procedure). Failure to cancel service by the client will be deemed to be acceptance of any amended provisions or conditions to this agreement. If the client refuses to accept any future provisions or amendments, Nutechmart may, in its sole discretion, cancel the account forthwith. Nutechmart Terms and Conditions Policy Nutechmart reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Please check this page on a regular basis, or when clarification is needed. Nutechmart endeavors to provide the best possible service to all our customers and in doing so will not permit any unlawful activity, abuse of our servers or any unfavorable conduct. This and other Nutechmart policies, procedures and guidelines are in effect to protect you, our other clients and ourselves from such harm. Account This agreement applies to all accounts, of any type (Nutechmart, sub-accounts, resold hosting, pointers, redirections and other related services and activities) associated with you, the account holder. Billing & Renewal Period This agreement will be automatically renewed each billing cycle, or renewal term. Full payment is required before any hosting services is rendered, including renewals and upgrades of service. Payment is due each billing period (one month, one quarter, bi-annually or yearly) and billing will continue until you specifically cancel your hosting account. Many accounts require prepayment and will therefore be billed one billing term in advance. In this case any additional charges incurred in a period that has already been prepaid, including but not limited to excess bandwidth, may be billed with the next billing period or separately. Cancellation This Agreement may be terminated by either party with or without cause upon thirty (30) days advance written notice to the other party. Cancellations must be received in writing by fax or postal mail and may require verbal conformation (to help ensure your account can not be cancelled by someone other than yourself). It is the clients responsibility to ensure that the account is indeed cancelled. Nutechmart will confirm the cancellation of an account by email, mail or fax. If such a confirmation is not yet received, then the account remains active and you will continue to be billed and invoiced for service. Cancellation does not absolve the client of any outstanding financial obligation and will make all outstanding obligations due on and payable by the date of cancellation. Termination Nutechmart reserves the right to terminate your account at any time. If a client fails to resolve an issue with any unfavorable circumstances associated with their account, or for any other reason deemed appropriate by Nutechmart, this agreement may be terminated at the discretion of Nutechmart. Whenever feasible Nutechmart will attempt to contact the client and resolve any unfavorable circumstances, however you may not be contacted before your account is deactivated should the circumstances warrant an immediate suspension of services. If the circumstances can not or have not been resolved by the client, Nutechmart may permanently terminate the account. This involves discontinuation of services, disabling and deletion of the account and any related information stored the Nutechmart servers if: The client violates any term of this or any other applicable agreement, any municipal, provincial or federal laws or regulations, or any policy or guideline set out by Nutechmart on this website or in other communications with the client; The client engages in conduct or posts material on the accounts web site(s) that Nutechmart in its sole discretion believes is harmful to other clients, the business or reputation of Nutechmart or any third-party; The client disputes the terms of this agreement or any amendment set out, from time to time, by Nutechmart anywhere in an amended agreement, attached schedule to this agreement, on the Nutechmart web site, or other communication of terms with the client. Any other circumstances deemed as grounds for termination by Nutechmart Content Any and all services and facilities Nutechmart can only be used for legal purposes under all international, federal, provincial and municipal laws. Violations of this or any other provision of this agreement can result in a suspension of service leading to termination or in Nutechmart's sole discretion, an immediate termination of service. This includes, but is not limited to: any infringement of copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other intellectual property right; pornography; any and all adult material content that exploits children under 18 years of age; hate propaganda; racist, threatening, slanderous, libelous or otherwise abusive content; the promotion or incitement of, or instructions for, the commission of illegal activities; mail fraud, multi-level marketing schemes or any fraudulent activities; content promoted through the sending of unsolicited email (spamming); sending of unsolicited email (spam) from a Nutechmart server, or any other server that refers to content on a Nutechmart server, or sending such email with a Nutechmart hosted Web site listed as the contact address; pirated software; warez, cracks, hacks, spam software & their associated utilities; illegal mpeg layer two or three files (MP2 or MP3) which may be considered copyright infringement; online gambling information or other material that contains a virus, corrupted data or any other harmful or damaging component. Using any Nutechmart service or product for the purpose of participating in any activity dealing with subject matters that are prohibited under applicable law is prohibited. Any illegal activity, including adult content, links to adult content web sites, online gambling, spamming or hacking will result in your site being shut down. Nutechmart does not host sites of its competitors or web pages promoting sites of its competitors. Nutechmart will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. Commercial Advertising & SPAM Nutechmart is dedicated to a zero-tolerance, anti-Spamming policy. Under this policy, we prohibit Spam, or any unsolicited commercial email, from being sent either: over the Nutechmart network, by customers or any other users of the Nutechmart network (including customers' customers) and/or over any network, if the message sent advertises or mentions a site hosted on the Nutechmart server. Any unsolicited email, hate email, email bombs, or any mass email may not be found to be originated by Nutechmart or it's client accounts or to be distributed or processed by any of our clients. Also, your email address or account is subject to the same conditions. Sending of unsolicited e-mail (spam), from any account on our server or using an e-mail address or domain that is hosted or otherwise associated with our server or company operations is not allowed in any form. This policy includes any opt-in or similar email marketing programs, as such websites, email accounts and domains will not be hosted by Nutechmart. Nutechmart reserves the right to deactivate any email accounts, domains or hosting accounts that we consider detrimental to performance. If your account or any part of your account is deactivated, you may be required to pay a re-activation fee of $50. Accounts canceled due to Spam will be billed a clean up fee of $250. If you have any complaints or suggestions or comments regarding SPAM on our network, please direct them via email to spam@nutechmart.com Refusal of Service Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation. Nutechmart reserves the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion and for reasons that may or may not be disclosed to the customer. SSH & Telnet Nutechmart has a strict "No SSH" policy and any domain or other account that uses a script or other means which may be used to elevate user privileges or enable SSH , Telnet or other services, will be instantly suspended, subject to termination and a fee of up to $250. Backups Backups of configurations, backups of files and full backups are performed periodically. No guarantees of any kind are made, either expressed or implied, as to the regularity, scope or integrity of these backups. These backups are made for server restoration purposes only and are not intended for individual client use. It is the clients responsibility to maintain local copies of the files and data stored on the web server. Support Policy It is the responsibility of the client to have an adequate working knowledge of their web site operations. Please do not expect to be taught by Nutechmart support personnel to teach you how to use the software and tools at your disposal. Problems or malfunctions of your hosting or other accounts requiring assistance from support will be acted upon only when proper support procedure is followed. Traffic/Bandwidth & Usage Nutechmart customers are discouraged from storing any files that cause excessive traffic on the Nutechmart servers. Please contact Nutechmart for more information. If the client exceeds the disk usage or data transfer limit of their hosting account, they will be billed for sufficient blocks of additional disk space or data transfer. The client understands services are provided on a shared server and means that the clients web site cannot overwhelm the server with heavy (CPU) usage from highly active common gateway interface ( CGI) scripts, chat scripts, other scripts or excessive bandwidth usage which interferes with Nutechmart’s ability to provide service to its other clients and users. Should a client’s web site or a script or other of the clients file(s) overwhelm the server, use a large share of server resources, the clients account will be subject to temporary suspension. If the offending item is not corrected or removed as directed, the account will be subject to immediate termination. CGI & other Scripts Some of our hosting accounts have the ability to run scripts from your own cgi-bin. You may use any CGI scripts within your cgi-bin folder, (as long as they are not on a list of scripts prohibited by us). If a script detrimentally affects normal server functionality or operation, we reserve the right to disable the CGI script to protect the server and the usability of other hosting accounts of the customers of Nutechmart. You will be notified in 24 hours regarding any offending cgi script that has or will be disabled.. Nutechmart is not responsible for scripts that you use in your hosting account(s). Nutechmart is not responsible for ensuring your scripts operate correctly. Nutechmart provides technical support for our servers & server related software. Any 3 rd party scripts are not supported by Nutechmart, however you may ask for assistance from other hosting clients in our new support area (when available).. Chat software such as IRC Nutechmart does not allow IRC, IRC bots or any related programs, applications and code to be operated on our servers. This includes any applications related to these software products. Limitations of Liability Nutechmart is not responsible for any failures, delays or interruptions in the delivery of any content or services contained on the Nutechmart server; or losses or damages arising from the use of the content or services provided by Nutechmart, and for greater certainty and without limitation to the generality of the foregoing: Nutechmart liability to the client for actual damages for any cause whatsoever, regardless of the form of action will be limited to a maximum of the fees paid by the client to Nutechmart, for the prior 1, 3, 6 or 12 months (whichever is appropriate); In no event will Nutechmart be liable to the client for any indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the service or in connection with the client web site or any other services or products provided to or by the client; Nutechmart, its officers, directors, owners, agents and employees, shall in no way be liable to the client or anyone else for any loss or injury resulting from use of the service or the Client's web site; In no event shall Nutechmart be liable for any damages, whatsoever, as a result of the notifying any official of potentially illegal content on the web site, providing copies of the client's web site to the appropriate officials or cooperating with law enforcement efforts to locate persons who have posted content that is illegal or promotes illegal conduct; In no even shall Nutechmart be liable for any damages, whatsoever, as a result of the termination of this agreement. Severability If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, all other provisions will nevertheless continue in full force and effect. Indemnification As a client, you agree not to harm Nutechmart, its reputation, computer systems, programming and/or other Account Holders using Nutechmart's services. Nutechmart reserves the right to select the computer for the client’s web site for best performance. If the client breaches this Agreement, then Nutechmart has the right to terminate service without any refunds of the unused portion prepaid by the client. The client agrees to indemnify and hold harmless both Nutechmart and other clients from any and all claims and/or costs (including legal costs) resulting from the clients use or abuse of their service in any manner. If at any time, the client breaches any part of this contract and Nutechmart has to engage the services of an attorney, then the client will pay any and all of the Nutechmart's reasonable attorney fees and court costs. The client agrees to indemnify and hold Nutechmart harmless from and against, and to reimburse Nutechmart with respect to, any and all losses, damages, liabilities, claims, judgments, settlements, fines, costs and expenses (including reasonable related expenses, legal fees and costs of investigation) of every nature whatsoever incurred by Nutechmart by reason of or arising out of or in connection with (i) any breach of this Agreement by the client, (ii) any infringement of any copyright, trade-mark, patent, trade secret or any other intellectual propriety right of any party by content on the Site, or (iii) illegal, libelous, slanderous, dangerous or defamatory content on the website. Nutechmart does not offer any warranty or guarantee other than those expressly stated in the Terms of Service. Nutechmart reserves the right to amend our Terms and Conditions at any time and without notice. Right to Refuse Service Nutechmart reserves the right to refuse services to any client. In the event that a client does not abide by the provisions set out in this agreement or if Nutechmart deems the client to be a hindrance to Nutechmart, the client will be blacklisted and Nutechmart will not provide any services to the client in the future. In such an event, Nutechmart may give the client up to 15 (fifteen) calendar days notice to find another provider for their web hosting needs. We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason not prohibited by law. Also we reserve the right to terminate service to any customer for any reason not prohibited by law. Nutechmart reserves the right to refuse services to any potential client, even before any services have been provided to the client.