Terms Of Service
The following are Billyhost.com Web Hosting's Terms of Service
policies. All users agree to these policies when they sign up for
service, and are expected to meet the provisions of these
agreements.
Billyhost.com Web hosting reserves the right to change this Policy
at any time, so please, check this page frequently or when in doubt.
Billyhost.com Web Hosting's Policies, Guidelines, and Disclaimers
are intended for all domains residing on Billyhost.com Web Hosting's
servers. By using our web hosting services, you agree to comply with
our policies. Billyhost.com Web Hosting has a zero-tolerance policy
with regard to all Unacceptable Content and Behavior and no
exceptions will be made to these policies. Billyhost.com Web hosting
strives to provide the best possible service to all our customers,
and therefore, we will not tolerate any unlawful activity or abuse
on our servers. We respect freedom of speech and expression unless
it is harmful to others. These policies are imposed to protect you,
other Billyhost.com Web Hosting customers and us against such harm.
Privacy statement
We take your privacy very seriously. We fully understand the need
for security in a public forum such as the internet.
Therefore, any information provided to Billyhost.com Web Hosting by
you will be used only for the purpose of contacting you regarding
your inquiry, transferring of services or the setting up of
accounts.
It will never be sold, published, given, loaned or used in any other
manner.
This web site also contains links to other sites. Please be aware
that Billyhost.com Web Hosting is not responsible for the privacy
practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you
leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web
site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by
Billyhost.com Web Hosting.
Account Setup
We will setup your account after we have received payment and we
and/or our payment partner(s) have screened the order(s) in case of
fraud. It is your responsibility to provide us with an email address
which is not @ the domain(s) you are signing up under.
Content
Billyhost.com Web Hosting's services may be used for lawful purposes
only. Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in
violation of any applicable laws or regulations is prohibited.
Linking to illegal material is also prohibited..
Examples of unacceptable material:
Pornography and sex-related merchandising; trafficking in obscene
material; sending a message or having content that is obscene, lewd,
lascivious, filthy, or indecent with intent to annoy, abuse,
threaten, or harass another person
Schemes to defraud
Pirated software, pirating (distributing copyrighted material in
violation of copyright law, specifically MP3s, MPEG's, ROMs, and ROM
emulators)
Threatening bodily harm or damage to individuals or groups
Violating U.S. export restrictions
Stalking
Spamming - (sending unsolicited advertising to those with which the
customer has no existing business relationship, posting off-topic
advertising in newsgroups)
Spoofing (using a return email address which is not the valid reply
address of the sender or sending an email message which does not
contain enough information to enable the recipient to identify the
party who is really sending the message.
Trolling (posting controversial messages in newsgroups to generate
responses)
Mailbombing (inundating a user with email without any serious intent
to correspond)
Subscribing someone else to an electronic mailing list without that
person's permission.
Distribution of mass emailing programs
Server broadcast messages or any message sent on an intrusive basis
to any directly or indirectly attached network
Attempt to circumvent any user authentication or security of host,
network, or account.
Probing the security of any network
Promulgation of viruses
IRC Bots
Warez Sites
Hate sites
Hack programs and archives
Or violating other State / Provincial or federal laws, including the
Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,
or the Economic Espionage Act.
Zero Tolerance Spam Policy
We take a zero tolerance stance against sending of unsolicited
e-mail, bulk emailing, and spam. "Safe lists" and "double optin"
will be treated as spam. Any user who sends out spam will have their
account terminated without notice.
We reserve the right to require changes or disable as necessary any
web site, account, database, or other component that does not comply
with this policy, at its sole discretion. We also reserves the right
to make any such modifications in an emergency at our sole
discretion.
We reserve the right to charge the holder of the account used to
send any unsolicited e-mail a clean up fee. This cost of the clean
up fee is left entirely to the discretion of Billyhost.com. All
rights reserved.
Payment Information
You agree to supply appropriate payment for the services received
from us, in advance of the time period during which such services
are provided. You agree that until and unless you notify
Billyhost.com of your desire to cancel any or all services received,
those services will be billed on a recurring basis.
We reserve the right to change the monthly payment amount and any
other charges at anytime.
Backups and Data Loss
Your use of the service is at your sole risk. We are not responsible
for files and data residing on your account. You agree to take full
responsibility for files and data transferred and to maintain all
appropriate backup of files and data stored on our servers.
Cancellation and Refunds
We reserve the right to cancel the account at any time.
Customers may cancel at any time. We give you an unconditional 30
day money back guarantee on managed shared hosting. 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 example, 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.
Resource Usage
Users may not initiate the following:
a) Use 25% or more of system resources for longer then 90 seconds.
There are numerous activities that could cause such problems; these
include: CGI scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc.
b) Run any type of interactive real-time chat applications that
require server resources. Remotely-hosted services are fully
allowed.
c) Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in
time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.
d) Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay
Chat) network.
e) Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike, half-life,
battlefield1492, etc
Bandwidth Usage
You are allocated a monthly bandwidth allowance. This allowance
varies depending on the hosting package you purchase. Should your
account pass the allocated amount we reserve the right to suspend
the account until the start of the next allocation, suspend the
account until more bandwidth is purchased at an additional fee,
suspend the account until you upgrade to a higher level of package,
terminate the account and/or charge you an additional fee for the
overages. Unused transfer in one month cannot be carried over to the
next month.
Money back Guarantee
On dedicated servers, and co-location no full refund will be
honored, the 30 day money back guarantee does not apply. We reserve
the right to refund a prorated amount or no refund at all.
Price Change
The amount you pay for hosting will never increase from the date of
purchase. We reserve the right to change prices listed on our site,
and the right to increase the amount of resources given to plans at
any time.
Indemnification
Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold us
harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and
claims, including reasonable attorney's fees asserted against us,
its agents, its customers, officers and employees, that may arise or
result from any service provided or performed or agreed to be
performed or any product sold by customer, its agents, employees or
assigns. Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless any
liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to person or property
caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection
with us; (2) any material supplied by customer infringing or
allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party; (3)
copyright infringement and (4) any defective products sold to
customers from Billyhost.com's server.
Disclaimer
We will not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer.
We make no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services
we provide. We disclaims any warranty or merchantability or fitness
for a particular purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from
delays, no deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service
interruptions caused by us and our employees.
Changes to the TOS
We reserve the right to revise its policies at any time without
notice.