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RashHost Terms and Conditions
Our terms and conditions are written to protect the interests of our customers, ourselves and the rest of the internet community. Please read them carefully and make sure that you understand them.
Allowed content
RashHost does not allow storage and/or display of the following material on its servers. This includes uploading to web sites, or transmitting by any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise).
- Adult Sites: We prohibit any adult (pornographic) web-sites on our servers, including pedophile sites, sites linking to pornographic sites (outside links) and pornographic advertisements on your own site.
- Illegal use: RashHost services may not be used for illegal purposes, or in support of illegal activities.
- Copyright or trademark infringement: Use of the RashHost service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting, hot linking, directly linking or otherwise) that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other proprietary rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material, the digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted sources, and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software.
- Distribution of Viruses, Spyware, and Malware: Distributions of software that attempts to and/or causes damage, harassment, or annoyance to persons, data, and/or computer systems are prohibited. Distribution of software that monitors computer or computer user activity without the computer user's knowledge and consent is prohibited.
Spamming
DO NOT SEND SPAM EMAIL OR SMS FROM OUR SERVERS.
Spamming (sending unsolicited commercial or bulk emails or sms's) using our servers is strictly not allowed. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate any account that is sending out unsolicited emails or sms's.
Spamming (sending unsolicited commercial or bulk emails or sms's) using our servers is strictly not allowed. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate any account that is sending out unsolicited emails or sms's.
Server Use
We want to allow our customers to use our servers the best way, but in order to protect other users, we may, temporarily or not, suspend a shared hosting site if this site slows down our servers or uses too much server resource. In this case, we will try to find a solution together with the customer.
You may not use your site to publish material, which RashHost determines, at its sole discretion, to be unlawful, indecent or objectionable. For purposes of this policy, "material" refers to all forms of communications including narrative descriptions, graphics (including photographs, illustrations, images, drawings, logos), executable programs, video recordings, and audio recordings.
You must take reasonable steps to protect the security of our servers. This includes, but is not limited to:
You may not use your site to publish material, which RashHost determines, at its sole discretion, to be unlawful, indecent or objectionable. For purposes of this policy, "material" refers to all forms of communications including narrative descriptions, graphics (including photographs, illustrations, images, drawings, logos), executable programs, video recordings, and audio recordings.
You must take reasonable steps to protect the security of our servers. This includes, but is not limited to:
- keeping all passwords to RashHost systems secure. You must not reveal your passwords to third parties.
- ensuring that any scripts that are installed on your site cannot be exploited to compromise the security or the server.
- Illegal use: RashHost services may not be used for illegal purposes, or in support of illegal activities. RashHost reserves the right to cooperate with legal authorities and/or injured third parties in the investigation of any suspected crime or civil wrongdoing.
- Harm to minors: Use of the RashHost service to harm, or attempt to harm, minors in any way, including, but not limited to child pornography.
- Threats: Use of the RashHost service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that threatens or encourages bodily harm or destruction of property.
- Harassment: Use of the RashHost service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that harasses another.
- Fraudulent activity: Use of the RashHost service to make fraudulent offers to sell or buy products, items, or services, or to advance any type of financial scam such as "pyramid schemes," "ponzi schemes," "hyip schemes," and "chain letters."
- Forgery or impersonation: Adding, removing or modifying identifying network header information in an effort to deceive or mislead is prohibited. Attempting to impersonate any person by using forged headers or other identifying information is prohibited.
- Unsolicited commercial e-mail & sms / Unsolicited bulk e-mail & sms (SPAM): Use of the RashHost service to transmit any unsolicited commercial or unsolicited bulk e-mail or sms is expressly prohibited. Violations of this type will result in the immediate termination of the offending RashHost account.
- Unauthorized access: Use of the RashHost service to access, or to attempt to access, the accounts of others, or to penetrate, or attempt to penetrate, security measures of RashHost's or another entity's computer software or hardware, electronic communications system, or telecommunications system, whether or not the intrusion results in the corruption or loss of data, is expressly prohibited and the offending account is subject to immediate termination.
- Fraudulent links: Use of fraudulent referrers to a site hosted on our servers is forbidden. This includes, but is not limited to, blog ping backs. Inappropriate (e.g. off-topic or automated) postings to forums, or other services containing links to a site hosted on our servers is forbidden.
- Servers and Proxies: Use of server software or scripts which creates a listening socket on our server is forbidden. Proxies which receive requests over HTTP and use our network connection to forward the request to another server are not permitted. This includes, but is not limited to, HTTP proxies.
- File Sharing and Bit Torrents: Use of software and scripts for "file sharing", "bit torrents" or similar is not allowed on our servers. This includes sending or receiving files using these mechanisms.
Scripts
You are responsible for ensuring that any scripts that you install do not compromise the security of our servers. This includes, but is not limited to:
- ensuring that it is not possible to abuse such scripts to gain access to the file system of the server.
- ensuring that it is not possible to abuse such scripts to send emails to third parties.
- ensuring that you update any installed scripts with the latest releases, which often contain security fixes.
Responsibility
RashHost will not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer. RashHost makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services we provide. RashHost disclaims any warranty or 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 RashHost, its employees, suppliers, customers or any third party. You, as a RashHost customer, are solely responsible for the content stored on and served by your web site.
Backups
You are solely responsible for maintaining adequate backups of your content.
Technical Support
RashHost provides technical support to our customers via help center or live chat. For web hosting, RashHost provides support related to your web site physical functioning. RashHost does not offer technical support for application specific issues such as PHP or cgi programming, html, script installation or any other such issue.
Termination and Suspension
You may terminate your hosting at any time by contacting us.
We may suspend any or all of your services where we have reason to suspect a violation of our terms and conditions whilst we investigate the suspected violation. We may suspend your services where we have reason to suspect that a script installed on your site is being abused whilst we investigate the suspected abuse.
We may suspend any or all of your services where we have reason to suspect a violation of our terms and conditions whilst we investigate the suspected violation. We may suspend your services where we have reason to suspect that a script installed on your site is being abused whilst we investigate the suspected abuse.
Clean Up
If we suspect that activities performed by you or a third party on your hosting account, whether deliberate or not, may compromise the security of our server or any other server or computer, we may require a clean up to be performed.
A simple clean up will be provided free of charge, resulting in total loss of existing data on your hosting account. You should then restore the site from your backups. Depending on the severity, we may agree to perform a complex clean up (targeting only compromised files), for which we will charge support at our standard support rate.
A simple clean up will be provided free of charge, resulting in total loss of existing data on your hosting account. You should then restore the site from your backups. Depending on the severity, we may agree to perform a complex clean up (targeting only compromised files), for which we will charge support at our standard support rate.
Violations
If you violate our terms and conditions we may terminate or suspend (temporarily or indefinitely) any services you have with us. In this case no refund will be given for any payments that have been, or are made by you to us.
Cancellation and refund
Domain name registrations, SMS hosting, SEO, E-mail Marketing, and SMS Marketing cannot be cancelled and are not refundable. RashHost will accept a request to cancel a web hosting or Email hosting account and give a full refund to a new customer who requests such refund and cancellation within 30 days of ordering.