HostBaron.com is a provider of web hosting solutions. All accounts on our web servers are subject to the terms and conditions described in this document. Under the terms of this agreement, your placement of information on our servers is an acknowledgement that you have read, understand, and agree to be bound by terms and conditions below.

Acceptable Use
HostBaron.com's services may only be used for lawful purposes. Transmission of any material in violation of International, Country, County, Federal or State regulation is prohibited. This includes but is not limited to: material legally judged to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade secret laws.
If you are found in violation of the HostBaron.com Acceptable Use Policy and Terms of Use. Your account will be terminated without notice and you will forfeit all of the money that has been paid to HostBaron.com.
Examples of content that is not acceptable on HostBaron.com Servers: "Pirated software" or "Warez", "Hacker programs and/or archives", "IRC Bots", "Gambling Related", "Copyrighted Mp3's", CGI-based message boards.
You specifically agree to indemnify and hold HostBaron.com harmless from any claims resulting from a breach of these terms, and/or their use of the service, which damages another.
Warez - Includes pirated software, ROMS, emulators, phreaking, hacking, and 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.

Adult Web Sites
Adult Content or links to Adult Content are not permitted on HostBaron.com services under any circumstances. We reserve the right to suspend or even terminate any offending account without refund.

Spam
SPAM in any shape or form is NOT permitted and is grounds for immediate account termination. Mailing lists via a mailing list manager are acceptable as long as the lists are OPT-IN list that people have signed up for. Spam complaints from other users will not be tolerated.

IRC and Chat Rooms
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) traffic is not permitted on our servers in any of its many forms including, but not limited to: bots and IRC servers. Chat rooms may be allowed on per use basis, so please ask one of our support staff before setting one up. (Some CGI/Perl based chat rooms over utilize the server processor.)

Web Site Hosting And Email
We make no representation and give no warranty as to the accuracy or quality of information received by any person via the Server and we shall have no liability for any loss or damage to any data stored on the Server.
You shall effect and maintain adequate insurance coverage in respect of any loss or damage to data stored on the Server.
You represent, undertake and warrant to us that you will use the Web Site allocated to you only for lawful purposes. In particular, you represent, warrant and undertake to us that you will not use the Server in any manner which infringes any law or regulation or which infringes the rights of any third party, nor will you authorize or permit any other person to do so.
You shall not post, link to or transmit: (a) Any material, which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, malicious, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, blasphemous, profane or otherwise objectionable in any way. (b) Any material containing a virus or other hostile computer program. (c) Any material which constitutes, or encourages the commission of, a criminal offence or which infringes any patent, trade mark, design right, copyright or any other intellectual property right or similar rights of any person which may subsist under the laws of any jurisdiction.
You shall keep secure any identification, password and other confidential information relating to your account and shall notify us immediately of any known or suspected unauthorized use of your account or breach of security, including loss, theft or unauthorized disclosure of your password or other security information.
You shall observe the procedures, which we may from time to time prescribe and shall make no use of the Server, which is detrimental to our other customers.
You shall procure that all mail is sent in accordance with applicable legislation (including data protection legislation) and a secure manner.
In the case of an individual User, you warrant that you are at least 18 years of age and if the User is a company, you warrant that the Services will not be used by anyone under the age of 18 years.
Any access to other networks connected to HostBaron.com must comply with the rules appropriate for those other networks.
While we will use every reasonable endeavour to ensure the integrity and security of the Server, we do not guarantee that the Server will be free from unauthorized users or hackers and we shall be under no liability for non-receipt or misrouting of email or for any other failure of email.

Intellectual Property Rights
You shall obtain any and all necessary consents and clearances to enable you lawfully to make use of all and any intellectual property rights through the Services, including without limitation, clearance and/or consents in respect of your proposed domain name.

Software file (exe), Zip file & Media file
Users are not allowed to upload any file that they do not have permission from the copyright owner for or are not open source for re-distribution licenses.

Service Availability
We shall use our reasonable endeavours to make available to you at all times the Server and the Services but we shall not, in any event, be liable for interruptions of Service or down-time of the Server.
We shall have the right to suspend the Services at any time and for any reason although we will inform you of any action that is to be taken and how long it will last for. We do not tolerate more than one login session under any one account at any one time. User programs may be run only during login sessions. If your account is found to have been transferred to another party, or shows other activity in breach of this sub clause, we shall have the right to cancel the account and terminate the Services and/or this Agreement immediately.

99% Uptime Guarantee
Network uptime is guaranteed to 99%. This is monitored by a Site Uptime (www.siteuptime.com) service monitoring the main website, located on the same network as all our hosting servers. You can request to view the logs at any time by filing a support ticket. The 99% uptime guarantee applies only to the network and does not apply to any of the following: General server reboots; Software install reboots; Server upgrades; Server Failure; Server component replacement; Scheduled network maintenance that has been posted on the main Web site (www.hostbaron.com). Should you decide to leave due to network downtime below 99%, HostBaron.com will refund you as follows:

Should your website be down longer than 1% , we will refund you 5% of your monthly fee for every 1% thereafter. To verify the downtime allowance for each month, please visit http://www.easyuptimecalc.com/.

Termination Without in any way limiting HostBaron.com rights
If a site violates these terms in any way, shape, or form, the offending article, page or even site will be deleted from our network.. If 2 violations occur within a 90 day period the site will be blocked from our network. Our warning schedule is below.
First Warning: When you (or your clients) upload illegal content you (or your clients) are knowingly violating the terms of service. Therefore there is no need for a first warning. When you upload illegal files which violate these terms you know what you are doing is against our policies.
Second Warning: There is no second warning, the domain is deleted. You may recreate the domain, however if illegal content is found on this domain again the domain will be blocked from our servers.
Questionable Situations: If we find content that is questionable and may or may not violate the terms of service we will contact you. An example of a situation like this is a band hosting their own music on our servers. However, you can avoid this step if you notify us. If you are a band or if you are planning to upload a large amount of files that are questionable please notify us before you upload so we are aware of the situation. This will keep everyone happy.
If you fail to pay any sums due to us as they fall due, we may suspend the Services and/or terminate this Agreement forthwith without notice to you.
If you break any of these terms and conditions, we may terminate this Agreement forthwith upon written notice.
If you are a company and you go into insolvent liquidation or suffer the appointment of an administrator or administrative receiver or enter into a voluntary arrangement with your creditors, we shall be entitled to terminate this Agreement forthwith without notice to you.
On termination of this Agreement or suspension of the Services we shall be entitled immediately to block your Web Site and to remove all data located on it. We shall be entitled to delete all such data but we may, at our discretion, hold such data for such period as we may decide to allow you to collect it at your expense, subject to payment in full of any amounts withstanding and payable to us. We shall further be entitled to post such notice in respect of the non-availability of your Web Site as we think fit. Accounts may be cancelled by the user with a 7 day notice. HostBaron.com reserves the right to cancel any account with or without notice.

Legal
HostBaron.com expects that its subscribers who provide Internet services to others will comply fully with all applicable laws concerning the privacy of on-line communications. A subscriber's failure to comply with those laws will violate our policy. HostBaron.com wishes to emphasize that in accepting the service agreement, subscribers indemnify HostBaron.com for any violation of the service agreement, law, or HostBaron.com policy, which results in loss to HostBaron.com or the bringing of any claim against HostBaron.com by any third-party. This means that if HostBaron.com is sued because of a subscriber's or customer of a subscriber's activity, the subscriber will pay any damages awarded against HostBaron.com, plus costs and reasonable attorneys' fees.

Limitation Of Liability
All conditions, terms, representations and warranties relating to the Services supplied under this Agreement, whether imposed by statute or operation of law or otherwise, that are not expressly stated in these terms and conditions including, without limitation, the implied warranty of satisfactory quality and fitness for a particular purpose are hereby excluded.
Our total aggregate liability to you for any claim in contract, tort, negligence or otherwise arising out of or in connection with the provision of the Services shall be limited to the charges paid by you in respect of the Services, which are the subject of any such claim.
In any event no claim shall be brought unless you have notified us of the claim within 6 months of it arising.
In no event shall we ever be liable to you for any loss of business, contracts, profits or anticipated savings or for any other indirect or consequential or economic loss whatsoever.

Notices
Any notice to be given by either party to the other may be sent by either email, fax or recorded delivery to the address of the other party as appearing in this Agreement or ancillary application forms or such other address as such party may from time to time have communicated to the other in writing, and if sent by email shall unless the contrary is proved be deemed to be received on the day it was sent or if sent by fax shall be deemed to be served on receipt of an error free transmission report, or if sent by recorded delivery shall be deemed to be served two days following the date of posting.

Payment
All accounts are set up on a prepay basis. Payment is due each anniversary year or month following the date the account was established. If payment is not paid on or before the due date, HostBaron.com will immediately suspend the facility to purchase services on-line until payment is received. In addition, HostBaron.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 established to the time that the customer sends a written cancellation request. For payments via mail or bank transfer/deposit, we will allow the client 5 working days after invoice after for payment to be received before suspending the account.

Money Back Guarantee
The money back guarantee only applies to accounts that have suffered a substantial amount of downtime and/or have experienced other problems leading to obvious customer dissatisfaction. We aim to maintain a 99% uptime, however due to many reasons it is not always possible. If you request a refund because you cannot afford to pay or have decided you no longer need web hosting, then it will be at our discretion as to whether or not we refund you.

Headings
Headings are included in this Agreement for convenience only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.

Entire Agreement
These terms and conditions together with any documents expressly referred to in them, contain the entire Agreement between us relating to the subject matter covered and supersede any previous Agreements, arrangements, undertakings or proposals, written or oral: between us in relation to such matters. No oral explanation or oral information given by any party shall alter the interpretation of these terms and conditions. In agreeing to these terms and conditions, you have not relied on any representation other than those expressly stated in these terms and conditions and you agree that you shall have no remedy in respect of any misrepresentation, which has not been made expressly in this Agreement. Misuse Of Resources including but not limited to employing applications which consume excessive CPU time. IRC and web proxy scripts are not allowed on our network under any circumstances. Streaming media can be a drain on web server resources and as such is not allowed. CGI based message forums which use flat file databases are often found to use excessive system resources, to avoid disappointment please use a PHP/ASP message forum.
If you are unsure about content you intend to place on our network, please check with us before you do. We reserve the right to determine what constitutes acceptable use. We may amend these terms of service with or without notice.

Updated - 24.05.2004

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