This Service
Agreement ("Agreement" or "Contract") is between www.Mauritius.biz
Hosting (represented by Mr Junaid Ghulam Rabbani),
hereinafter known as "Provider" and You the
"Customer". This Agreement is made effective as of the Domain Name
Registration Date or Account Activation Date, whichever is earlier.
The parties agree
as follows:
Overview
Customer agrees that by merely placing
an order either by means of electronic ordering (web order form) or
by submitting a written order (on paper or via SMS) or simply
verbally, and receipt of such order by Provider, that you are
agreeing to this Service Agreement and Provider Acceptable Use
Policy. No Modifications of said Agreement and Policy by Customer is
allowed.
This Agreement is
intended to cover any and all domain name registrations, web &
e-mail hosting services and website design and maintenance services
provided by Provider and received by the Customer. This Agreement
contains the entire understanding between Provider and Customer with
respect to the services ("Services") described and published on
Provider Website and supersedes all prior Agreements,
understandings, negotiations and discussions, whether oral or
written, between Provider and Customer.
Customer shall at
all times comply with and help ensure that their Customers comply
with the terms of this Agreement. Customer acknowledges and agrees
that its entire right relating to Provider Services are as set forth
in this Agreement and hereby waives all other rights that it may
have by implication of law or otherwise.
Use of Provider
Services (includes but not limited to logging-in to the hosting
control panel, using e-mail or uploading files on the server, among
others, constitutes acceptance and agreement to Provider Terms of
Service (Service Agreement).
This Agreement
may be changed from time to time at the discretion of Provider.
Provider will duly inform the Customer of any such changes. Customer
understands that any changes to the Agreement by Provider shall not
be grounds for early contract termination, non-payment of any
outstanding dues, request of refund or for any lawsuit filed against
Provider. Continued use of Provider Services by the Customer, after
any changes to Agreement (which the Customer was duly advised),
constitutes acceptance and agreement to these changes.
1.0 Services
Subject to the
terms and conditions of this Agreement, Provider agrees to provide
domain name registration, web & e-mail hosting and/or related
services specified in the Order. Subject to Customer's right to
terminate this Agreement and section 9 of this Agreement, Provider
may expand or contract the scope of the Provider services by issuing
to Customer a notification e-mail at least 15 days in advance of
such change.
2.0 Initial
Term
The initial term
commences upon acceptance of the Order by Provider from the Customer
and the hosting account set up and issuance of login details by
Provider to the Customer. By accepting the login details, the
Customer hereby acknowledges the commencement of the initial term of
this Agreement and Acceptable Use Policy.
3.0 Renewal
Term
Unless terminated
in accordance with sections 9 or 10 of this Agreement, this
Agreement will automatically renew for successive terms of equal
length to the Initial Term at the then applicable rate and
discounts.
4.0 Fees and
Payment
The Customer
agrees to pay Provider, without limitation, for its domain name
registration and hosting and related services as specified in the
Order and all other fees incurred by the Customer related to
supplemental services including, but not limited to: domain name
registration/renewal, professional consulting, and support services
supplied by Provider.
4.1 Measuring
Bandwidth Usage
- Provider will measure usage of the services in accordance with
Provider policies and practices in effect from time to time.
4.2 Charges
- Monthly Base Fees will be charged in advance and will be paid
yearly.
4.3 Fee
Changes
- Provider may increase or amend any of the Customer Fees by issuing
a notification email at least thirty (30) days in advance of such
changes.
4.4 Hosting
Renewal Payment Procedures
- Attention is drawn to the
Customer that all Provider hosting Accounts DO NOT renew
automatically upon their expiry.
Provider will issue a Hosting Renewal Invoice and
send it by registered post to Customers billing address thirty (30)
days in advance of the expiry of the hosting period. Invoices
submitted by Provider to the Customer are due on presentation and
must be settled at least twenty five (25) days in advance of the
expiry of the hosting period. Provider reserves the right to disable
and/or suspend services provided to the Customer if the Customer
fails timely payments for Invoices duly issued by Provider.
Upon receiving
the Invoice, the Customer must either make immediate payment, or
inform Provider in writing by sending a Registered letter, should
the Customer does not wish to renew the service upon it's expiry.
Please also refer to clause 10.4 of this agreement.
Re-activation of
expired accounts will require full payment plus a re-activation fee
of Rs 500.00. Re-activation of a disable/suspended/expired account
may take up to 72 hours after payment. Provider will permanently
delete delinquent accounts overdue past 30 days, from the system,
without incurring any liability whatsoever for loss of data (any
website content, databases and e-mail or any other data stored on
the server).
5.0 Additional
Terms for Domain Name Registration and Renewal
5.1 Registrar
Services.
Provider has entered into agreements with various ICANN Accredited
Domain Name Registrars, ("Registrar") to provide you with domain
name registration services, for any requests by you to Provider to
register an Internet domain name. As consideration for the domain
name registration services provided by Registrar to you, on behalf
of Provider, you agree to pay Provider, prior to the effectiveness
of the desired domain name registration, the then-current amounts
set forth in the Provider price schedule for the initial
registration of the domain name and, should you choose to renew the
registration, subsequent renewals of the registration.
Customer
acknowledges that Provider registers or renews domain names as an
affiliate or a reseller of other domain name registrars and is not a
domain name registrar on its own. Hence Provider cannot be held
responsible for any and all problems arising with domain name
registrations or renewals (including any failures, lapses, transfer
of domain name to any third party, or non-renewals of domain names)
effected by Provider on behalf of the Customer under this agreement
and Customer
hereby irrevocably waive any and all claims and causes of action
against Provider which may arise due to such problems.
All domain name
registration and renewal fees are non-refundable, in whole or in
part, even if your domain name registration is suspended, cancelled
or transferred prior to the end of your then current registration
term. Provider reserves the right to change fees, surcharges,
renewal fees or to institute new fees at any time, for any reason,
at its sole discretion. Your requested domain name will not be
registered unless and until Provider receives actual payment of the
registration fee, and have confirmed your registration in an email
from Provider to the email address indicated in your registration
application.
5.2
Domain Name Intellectual Property Rights. Provider makes no
representations concerning and does not guarantee that your domain
name does not infringe upon any trademarks, trade names, service
marks or other proprietary rights owned by a third party. You agree
to be bound by the terms of the Domain Name Registration Agreement,
Domain Name Dispute Policy, and related agreements, as duly
published by the appropriate domain name registrars on their
respective websites.
6.0 Customer
Obligations
Customer shall at
all times comply with this Agreement.
This Agreement recognizes the fundamental fact that
no one owns or controls the Internet. Provider cannot monitor or
control all the activities of its customers. Provider does not
intend to actively screen, review, and sensor, edit or take
responsibility for the activities or content of its customers.
Customers, not Provider, assume all responsibility relating to their
Internet activities.
6.1 Hardware, Equipment and Software.
Customer is responsible for and must provide all telephone,
computer, hardware and software equipment and services necessary to
access the Internet and Provider’s services. Customer is responsible
for all costs to access the Internet and Provider’s services.
Provider makes no representations, warranties or assurances that
Customer's equipment will be compatible with Provider's services.
6.2 Allowed Hosting Content and Activities.
Provider servers may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission,
storage, or distribution of any information, data, or material in
violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. It is
absolutely forbidden to host pornographic/adult content, WAREZ or
IRC servers on Provider servers. Any Customer found hosting this
material will be subject to immediate cancellation without refund.
Any content that will promote or cause
any of the following activities, is strictly NOT Allowed:
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Any
unlawful activity or is considered offensive
by the web community, promotes injury or physical harm
against any group or individual,
promotes
or teaches illegal activities, exploits or depicts children
in a negative way,
infringes
on copyright, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, or other
intellectual property including pirated computer programs,
cracker utilities, warez and software serial numbers or
registration codes, violates any law, statute, ordinance or
regulation governing the Customer's business or activities,
including without limitation the laws and regulations
governing export control, unfair competition, false
advertising, consumer protection, issuance or sale of
securities, trade in firearms, privacy, data transfer and
telecommunications.
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Gaining or attempting to gain unauthorized
access to servers or services. Such attempts include
"Internet scamming" (tricking other people into releasing
their passwords), phishing, password robbery, security hole
scanning, port scanning, probing, monitoring or testing for
system or network vulnerabilities.
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Introducing viruses, Trojan horses, trap
doors, back doors, Easter eggs, worms, time bombs, packet
bombs, cancel bots or other computer programming routines
that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with,
surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or
personal information.
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Running programs continuously in the
background without our permission.
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Intentionally omitting, deleting, forging or
misrepresenting transmission information, including headers,
return addressing information and IP addresses.
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Using (fake) IP addresses which were not
assigned to them by Provider.
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Uploading
anonymous content (content without a valid contact address
and telephone numbers).
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Running Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bots or
Customers.
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Hosting, sharing, storing and distributing
any type of audio, music or video files.
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Advertising or promoting sale (for free or for whatever
cost) of any products or services that are considered
immoral.
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Offering "Free" E-mail Service.
Content that requires PRIOR PERMISSION
and written AUTHORIZATION:
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Set up of Blogs, Forums, Bulletin Boards or
Live Chat.
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Creating
Sub-domains.
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Creating
Sub-FTP Accounts.
IMPORTANT
NOTICE:
Failing to abide to rule 6.2 will result immediate suspension and/or
deletion of the Customer account, WITHOUT ANY LIABILITY.
6.3 Value
Added Reselling.
Customer is not allowed to market or resell (at a cost or for free)
the web & e-mail hosting services provided by Provider to the
Customer, unless expressly agreed upon in writing between Provider
and Customer. This includes, but not limited to: Web Hosting Space,
Sub-domains, E-mail and FTP accounts and storage of third-party data
on Customer’s storage area. Violations of this policy carry severe
penalties, including immediate termination of service.
6.4 SPAM and
Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE).
Provider takes a zero tolerance approach to the sending of
Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) or SPAM over its network. Very
simply this means that customers of Provider may not use or permit
others to use Providers network to transact in UCE. Customers of
Provider may not host, or permit hosting of, sites or information
that is advertised by UCE from other networks. In order to prevent
unnecessary blacklisting due to spam, Provider reserve the right to
occasionally sample bulk email being sent from its servers.
As Customers are
ultimately responsible for the actions of their clients over the
Provider network, it is advisable that Customers develop a similar,
or stricter, policy for their clients.
BEGINNING
IMMEDIATELY, any websites or services on our server that support
spammers or cause any of our IP addresses to be listed in any of the
various Spam Databases, will have their account immediately
suspended from our network. The account will not be reactivated
until such time that Customer agree to remove ANY and ALL traces of
the offending material immediately upon reactivation and agree to
allow us access to the account to confirm that all material has been
COMPLETELY removed. Persistent or subsequent violations may result
in immediate and permanent deletion of the account from our network
without notice to the customer.
6.5 E-mail
(including WebMail)
Service and Website Contents.
Customer publishes any information on its Website at its own risk.
Customer is solely responsible for safeguarding any information it
stores on the Provider servers.
6.5.1 E-mail
Retrieval.
Customer is obliged to check their e-mails (via
Microsoft Outlook or any other suitable POP3 e-mail application) on
a regular basis of max. two (2) weeks.
Customers bear the burden of downloading all e-mails from the
Provider's e-mail servers to their local personal computers and to
empty & liberate their e-mail inbox. Customer
acknowledges that e-mail messages sent to them,
maybe sent back to the sender, should the capacity of the respective
e-mail inbox becomes full.
6.5.2 Webmail.
(SquirrelMail, Horde or any other webmail service) is provided as
alternative means to access e-mails from the Provider Mail servers.
Webmail must not be used to store e-mails for a long period, due to
the volatile nature of the mail system. Customers bear the burden of
downloading all essential e-mails from the Webmail interface to
their local personal computers at appropriate intervals. Provider
mail servers must never be construed as backups of essential e-mails
and must never be used as such.
6.5.3 Website
Content (including File Transfer Protocol [FTP] storage).
Customers expressly acknowledges that it will use Providers service
solely as a means to publish it's website and share files with users
via FTP. Customers must ensure that they have local copies of all
content uploaded to Providers servers and should not use Providers
servers as a means of permanent storage, due to the volatile nature
of the Web and FTP server system. Customers bear the burden of
downloading all essential files from the Web and FTP servers to
their local personal computers at appropriate intervals. Providers
Web and FTP servers must never be construed as backups of essential
data and must never be used as such.
6.6 Backup
Copy of Data.
It is further expressly clear and agreed by the Customer that it is
the Customers entire responsibility to maintain local backup copies
of all their web content including all files, e-mails and databases
stored on the Providers servers and any other information which is
important to the Customer. In any circumstances, Customer must not
rely on Provider to provide backup of data to Customer.
6.7 Requests
for Customer Support.
Provider operates a Web based Help Desk to provide customer support
24 hours a day to all it's Customers. Customers are informed of the
address of the web based Help Desk in the welcome and login details
e-mail which is sent to the Customer upon signing up. A link to the
Help Desk is also provided on the Control Panel login page.
Customers acknowledges that they will use the Help Desk only as the
proper way to request customer support from Provider.
Provider will
acknowledge all customer support requests submitted via the Help
Desk only, within 2 hours of receiving such requests. Customers are
made aware that failing to use Help Desk to request customer support
may result in their requests being delayed or not processed at all.
Privacy
Statement: Customer also acknowledges that Provider can access
Customers account (including e-mail, web content, database, etc.)
and Customer automatically authorizes Provider to access their
account for the purpose of testing and providing necessary support.
6.8
Advertising.
Customer hereby agrees and allows Provider to advertise the Customer
as its Customer on its Website Portfolio, Brochures and Flyers,
Billboards, Newspaper, Radio and any other suitable communications
media for marketing purposes.
7.0 Provider
Obligations
7.1 99.999%
Network Uptime Assurance.
Provider will ensure 99.999% uninterrupted access to its servers to
all hosting customers who have purchased said service from Provider.
Should access to the servers become unavailable for a cumulative
period up to one hour in any one calendar month, Customer will
receive a refund equivalent to one day of Customer's pro-rated
Recurring Monthly Fees for that month.
Customer will
receive an additional refund of one day of the pro-rated Recurring
Monthly Fees for each additional hour, or portion thereof, of
unavailability. All refund calculations will be based on
unavailability in one-hour increments. This Agreement does not cover
outages caused by server component failure, equipment and/or events
outside our facility. This Service Level Agreement does not cover
outages due to scheduled or emergency network and/or facility
maintenance, which will be broadcast to all customers in advance.
Any and all
refunds to Customer will not and cannot exceed 100% of the
Customer's Recurring Monthly Fees for the month in which the refund
is paid.
This uptime
percentage is a monthly figure, and is calculated solely by Provider
based on data provided by external monitoring services contracted by
Provider to monitor its servers. Details of monitoring services
currently contracted by Provider to monitor its servers can be
obtained upon request.
7.2
Performance Assurance.
Provider will maintain its network in such a manner as to provide to
all customers the best possible performance on the Internet. In
order to achieve this, Provider makes the following guarantees to
all paying customers:
• 99.999% assured
uninterrupted transit to the Internet
• Zero packet
loss internal to Provider network
7.3 Temporary
Suspension.
The Customer agrees that it may be necessary for Provider to
temporarily suspend Services for technical reasons or to maintain
the Provider network, the Equipment or any other facilities, the
timing of which will be as determined by Provider. Such suspension
of the Services will not be an "interruption" of the Provider
Services for the purpose of calculating network availability or the
Customer's entitlement to credit for network interruption.
7.4 Emergency
Suspension.
Provider may interrupt the Provider Services at any time for any
duration of time, without penalty or liability for any claim by
Customer, where necessary to prevent improper or unlawful use of the
Provider Services, Provider service facilities or connections or
Provider network.
7.5 Full
Maintenance Suspension.
It is Provider policy to perform comprehensive and full maintenance
on its servers from time to time. One comprehensive or full
maintenance per year will typically be performed on each hosted
server, and minor maintenance may be performed more frequently.
Operations that may be performed as part of full maintenance include
(inter-alia) the following:
* Installation of operating system updates and patches.
* Updates and patches of Control Panel and other applications.
* Software diagnostics.
* Disk storage replacement & optimization.
A Full Maintenance on Provider Servers may require server downtime,
depending on what tasks need to be performed. It is agreed,
understood and accepted by the Customer that the Customer may be
asked to re-initialize databases, re-upload content and re-create
e-mail accounts again and from scratch on Provider servers, as a
result of a full maintenance. The Customer will be informed at least
48 hours in advance of a full maintenance and that if such an action
is required on behalf of the Customer. The Customer assumes full
responsibility of taking any and all measures possible to reinstate
its data back on the servers after the Customer is informed of the
completion of the full maintenance and that the servers are ready.
At no material time Provider assumes responsibility of reinstating
the Customers data back on the servers, except where it was
particularly and exceptionally requested by the Customer in writing
and agreed by Provider in writing before the full maintenance
started. Provider does not bind itself to accept such a request,
without incurring any liability whatsoever. However, in exceptional
circumstances Provider may accept to reinstate data for the Customer
and charge the Customer a fee.
8.0
Notifications of Violation and Account Suspension
Provider reserves
the right to monitor each Customer or user's activities to determine
if a violation of this Agreement has occurred.
First violation:
Any Customer, which Provider determines to have violated any element
of this Agreement and/or Acceptable Use Policy, shall receive an
e-mail, warning them of the violation. The service may be subject at
Provider discretion to a temporary suspension pending a User's
agreement in writing, to refrain from any further violations.
Second Violation:
Customers that Provider determines to have committed a second
violation of any element of this Agreement and/or Acceptable Use
Policy shall be subject to immediate suspension or termination of
service without further notice.
Any accounts
suspended under the above clause will attract a "re-activation fee".
This fee will be determined at time of re-activation.
9.0
Termination of Hosting Service by Provider
If Customer
breaches any of its obligations under this Agreement, then Provider
may terminate this Agreement by giving Customer notice of
termination, and termination will take effect immediately when
notice is given.
No refunds of fees paid will be made if account
termination is due to a violation of any of the clauses of this
Agreement.
9.0.1 Denial
of Service
Provider reserves
the right to refuse service to anyone at any time WITHOUT GIVING ANY
REASON WHATSOEVER. Provider reserves the right not to accept a new
hosting order from a Customer should Provider feels that accepting
an hosting order from that specific Customer will not be in the good
interest of Provider.
10.0
Termination of Hosting Service by Customer
10.1
Cancellation within the first 45 days.
Customer may decide to cancel this Agreement prior to the end of the
term. If the Customer cancels the Agreement within the first 45
(forty-five) days of the Agreement Term, specified in service
invoice, the Customer will be entitled to a refund of the amount
paid - less Rs 300.00 for the domain name registration fees, which
are not refundable. Provider will refund the full amount paid, if
the domain name was not registered by Provider.
10.2 Refund
Procedure within the first 45 days.
Should the Customer want to cancel the Hosting account and this
Agreement within the first 45 days, Customer must inform Provider of
such cancellation in writing and giving a valid and plausible reason
for the cancellation. Provider upon receipt of the request will
undertake to refund the Customer the hosting fee paid less domain
name registration charges within 30 days of receiving the request.
Only first-time accounts are eligible
for a refund. For example, if a Customer has had an account with
Provider before, then cancelled and signed up again, then the
Customer will not be eligible for a refund or if Customer has opened
a second account with Provider.
10.3
Cancellation after the first 45 days.
If the Customer cancels the Agreement after the first 45
(forty-five) days of the Agreement term, specified in service
invoice, Provider shall not refund any fees paid in advance of such
cancellation. Customer will be required to pay 100% of Provider's
standard monthly charge for each month remaining in the term.
10.4 Renewal
after expiry of 1 year.
If the Customer wants to renew the hosting service after the expiry
of the 1 year hosting period, the Customer must notify Provider in
writing of the renewal of hosting service by sending an e-mail or
registered letter to Provider. Failure on part of the Customer to
inform Provider of it's intention to renew the hosting service, will
be construed as a fact that the Customer does not want to continue
with the hosting service for another 1 year and Provider will not
renew the domain name and also will have the right to delete
Customers account from its servers.
11.0 Network
Interference by Third Party
Customer
acknowledges that using a web service has its risks and accepts all
such risks when using a web service (including e-mail) offered by
Provider and any unauthorized or illegal use of the Provider Network
or any inter-connected network by third parties. Provider will use
reasonable commercial efforts to assure a reasonable level of
security for its network, however it provides no warranties, makes
no representations, and accepts no liability for the unauthorized or
illegal access or interference with the Customer's network.
12.0
Electronic Commerce
The Customer is
solely responsible for all aspects of their online store or
e-business. This includes, but not limited to:
• The accuracy of
statements and materials related to your products and/or services.
• The accurate
calculation and application of shipping, sales/value added tax and
any other applicable taxes or charges.
• Processing
Customer orders, inquiries and complaints.
• Maintaining the
confidentiality of your Customer's credit card numbers and private
information.
13.0 IP
Address Ownership
It is possible
for the Customer to have their Shared IP address hosting account
converted to Fixed IP address hosting account, but the Customer will
have to justify why they need a Fixed IP address with their hosting
and provide valid reasons. Provider is governed by the Fixed IP
address rules, as set by ARIN and needs to provide this information
to ARIN at anytime. ARIN requires that all IPs use be justified
since IPs are limited and can't be allocated to all running servers
worldwide. Reference is made to section 4.2.3.7 in the ARIN
numbering manual.(http://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#four237).
All IP addresses
provided to the Customer remain the property of Provider and
Provider retain the right, if necessary, to alter or altogether
change IP addresses already assigned to Customers hosting account.
Customer shall be
notified of any such change with a 24 hours notice by email or other
means for the purpose of network management.
14.0
Limitation of Liability & Customer Acknowledgement
Provider is not
responsible for any damages your business may suffer by subscribing
to any of its services. Provider does not make implied or written
warranties for any of its services. Provider denies any warranty or
merchantability for a specific purpose. This includes loss of data
resulting from delays, non-deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and
all service interruptions caused by Provider.
On-line (Internet) problems occur
continuously. There might come a time when the Customer cannot
access their website, e-mail, or any other service. This is not
necessarily due to Provider. Perhaps Customer's Internet Service
Provider (ISP) is experiencing technical difficulties, or there
might be a routing problem between Customer's ISP and Provider,
making communication difficult or impossible. Provider cannot bear
the responsibility of such problems. Provider uses specialized
monitoring agents to determine the uptime of its service, and not
any one Customer's experience.
Customer
acknowledges and agrees neither Provider nor any of its members,
shareholders, directors, officers, employees, agents,
representatives or resellers will be liable for any special,
indirect, consequential, punitive or exemplary damages, or damages
(including but not limited to damages for loss of profits or
savings, loss of data, or loss of use) in connection with this
Agreement and/or Acceptable Use Policy or by virtue of clauses 6.2,
7.1 and 7.5 of this Agreement. If, despite the foregoing
limitations, Provider or any of its members, shareholders,
directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives or resellers
should become liable to Customer or any other person in connection
with this Agreement and/or Acceptable Use Policy for ANY REASON,
then the maximum aggregate liability of Provider, its members,
shareholders, directors, officers, employees, agents,
representatives or resellers for all such things and to all such
parties will be limited to the lesser of the actual amount of loss
or damage suffered by the claimant or the amount payable by Customer
to Provider for three months of service under this Agreement.
14.1 No
Warranty
THE PROVIDER MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS,
GUARANTEES OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
WITH RESPECT TO ANY MATTER, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE WEBSITE
AND E-MAIL HOSTING SERVICE, ADVERTISING, THE FUNCTIONALITY,
PERFORMANCE OR RESULTS AND OTHER SERVICES, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS
THE WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND TITLE. PROVIDER SPECIFICALLY
DOES NOT WARRANT OR REPRESENT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE
UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR COMPLETELY SECURE. THE SERVICES ARE
PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS.
14.2
Limitation of Damages
NEITHER PARTY SHALL BE LIABLE TO THE
OTHER FOR LOST PROFITS OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND, OR FOR DAMAGES
THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED BY THE USE OF REASONABLE DILIGENCE,
ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH THE TERMS OF SERVICE, EVEN IF THE PARTY
HAS BEEN ADVISED OR SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY IN THE TERMS OF
SERVICE, PROVIDERS MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY, AND THAT OF
PROVIDERS AFFILIATES, AND EACH OF THE RESPECTIVE OFFICERS,
DIRECTORS, AGENTS, PARTNERS, SHAREHOLDERS AND EMPLOYEES OF PROVIDER
AND OF PROVIDERS AFFILIATES, UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY
(INCLUDING BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, AND
INFRINGEMENT) SHALL BE A PAYMENT OF MONEY NOT TO EXCEED THE AMOUNT
OF FEES PAID BY YOU FOR THE SERVICES FOR THE THREE MONTHS PRIOR TO
THE OCCURRENCE GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.
14.3 Common
Carrier
Provider and Customer agree that
Provider is solely acting as a common carrier in its capacity of
providing services hereunder, and is NOT a publisher of any material or
information and has no right to edit or censor the material at the
Servers in use by the Customer. Provider is not responsible nor
pre-approves any of Customer’s website content. All material
submitted by Customer for publication will be considered publicly
accessible. Provider does not screen in advance Customer's material
submitted to Provider for publication or published by Customer
itself. Provider's publication of material submitted by Customer
does not create any express or implied approval by Provider of such
material, nor does it indicate that such material complies with the
terms of this Agreement.
14.4 Force
Majeure
Provider shall not be liable to
Customer or any other person, firm or entity for any failure of
performance under this Agreement if such failure is due to any cause
or causes including, but not limited to strikes, riots, vandalism,
fires, inclement weather, third-party provider outages, cable-cuts ,
power crisis shortages, acts of terrorism, and or uncontrollable
acts of God, or other similar occurrences; any law, order,
regulation, direction, action or request of the Government of
Mauritius or of any other Government (including state and local
governmental agency, department, commission, court, bureau,
corporation or other instrumentality of any one or more of said
Governments) or of any civil or military authority; national
emergencies, insurrections, riots, wars; or strikes, lockouts, or
work stoppages or other labor difficulties; failures, shortages,
breaches or delays.
15.0 Indemnity
Customer will
indemnify and save harmless Provider and its members, shareholders,
directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives or resellers
from and against all damages, losses, costs and expenses (including
actual legal fees and costs), fines and liabilities incurred by or
awarded, asserted or claimed against Provider or any of its members,
shareholders, directors, officers, employees, agents,
representatives or resellers in connection with Customer's
negligence, activities or omissions, or breaches of its obligations
under this Agreement and/or Acceptable Use Policy, including claims
brought by a person using or relying upon any advice given or
publication produced and distributed by Customer.
16.0 Governing
Law
This Agreement
shall be interpreted in accordance with and be governed in all
respects by the laws of the Republic of Mauritius. The courts of the
Republic of Mauritius shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction to
entertain any action or proceeding brought by the parties in
connection with this Agreement and/or Acceptable Use Policy or any
alleged breach of this Agreement and/or Acceptable Use Policy. The
parties each attorney irrevocably to the jurisdiction of such
courts.