General Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the "Agreement") are an agreement between Vinsar.Net ("us", "our", or the “Company”) and you ("User" or "you" or "your"). This Agreement sets forth the general terms and conditions of your use of the products and services made available by Vinsar.Net and of the Vinsar.Net website (collectively, the "Services"). By using the Services, you agree to be bound by this Agreement. If you do not agree to abide by the terms of this Agreement, you are not authorized to use or access the Services.

1.) Additional Policies and Agreements
Use of the Services is also governed by the following policies, which are incorporated by reference. By using the Services, you also agree to the terms of the following policies.
Privacy Notice
Mailing Policy
Copyright Infringement Policy
Additional terms may also apply to certain Services, and are incorporated by reference herein as applicable. For example, if you register a domain name with us, then the Domain Registration Agreement will also apply to you and would be incorporated herein.

2.) Account Eligibility
A.) By registering for or using the Services, you represent and warrant that:
i.) You are eighteen (18) years of age or older. The Services are intended solely for Users who are eighteen (18) years of age or older. Any registration, use of or access to the Services, by anyone under eighteen (18) is unauthorized and is a violation of this Agreement.
ii.) If you use the Services on behalf of another party you agree that you are authorized to bind such other party to this Agreement and to act on such other party's behalf with respect to any actions you take in connection with the Services.
B.) It is your responsibility to provide accurate, current, and complete information on the registration forms, including an email address that is different from the domain you are signing up under. If there is ever an abuse issue or we need to contact you, we will use the primary email address we have on file. It is your responsibility to ensure that the contact information for your account, including any domain accounts is accurate, correct and complete at all times. Vinsar.Net is not responsible for any lapse in the Services, including without limitation, any lapsed domain registrations due to outdated contact information being associated with the domain. If you need to verify or change your contact information, you may utilize the Vinsar.Net Billing and Support Portal to update your contact information. Providing false contact information of any kind may result in the termination of your account. In dedicated server purchases or certain other cases, you may be required to provide government issued identification and possibly a scan of the credit card used for verification purposes. Failure to provide the information requested may result in your order being denied.
C.) You agree to be fully responsible for all use of your account and for any actions that take place through your account. It is your responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of your password and other information related to the security of your account.
D.) Any dedicated IP order in addition to those provided with a hosting package may be subject to IP justification. IP justification practices are subject to change to remain in compliance with the policies of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). We reserve the right to deny any dedicated IP request based on insufficient justification or current IP utilization.
E.) The Service and any data you provide to Vinsar.Net is hosted in the United States (U.S.) unless otherwise provided. If you access the Service from outside of the U.S., you are voluntarily transferring information (potentially including personally-identifiable information) and content to the U.S. and you agreeing that our collection, use, storage and sharing of your information and content is subject to the laws of the U.S., and not necessarily of the jurisdiction in which you are located.

Transfers
Our transfers team will make every effort to help you move your site to us; however, we can not make guarantees of the transfer process. We provide this as a courtesy service and can not make guarantees regarding its availability or the amount of time it may take as each host is configured a little differently. We will try our best, however, in some cases we may be unable to assist you in a transfer of data from an old host.

3.) Content
All services provided by Vinsar.Net may only be used for lawful purposes. The laws of the State of Delhi and the Republic of India apply.

The customer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Vinsar.Net from any claims resulting from the use of our services.

Use of our services to infringe upon any copyright or trademark is prohibited. This includes but is not limited to unauthorized copying of music, books, photographs, or any other copyrighted work. The offer of sale of any counterfeit merchandise of a trademark holder will result in the immediate termination of your account. If you believe that your copyright or trademark is being infringed upon, please email abuse@vinsar.net with the information required. A list of required information may be found here. If the request is of a licensing issue, we may require further documentation.

Examples of unacceptable material on all Shared, Reseller, Semi-Dedicated and Dedicated Servers include:
IRC Bots, Proxy Scripts / Anonymizers, Pirated Software / Warez, imagedumps (similar to photobucket), filedumps, RapidLeech (similar to rapidshare), or banner-ad services such as commercial banner ad rotation, commercial audio streaming (more than one or two streams), Escrow, High-Yield Interest Programs(HYIP) or related sites, Investment sites (FOREX, egold exchange), sale of any controlled substance without prior proof of appropriate permit(s), AutoSurf sites, Bank Debentures, Bank Debenture Trading Programs, Prime Banks Programs, lottery sites, muds / rpg's, hate sites, hacker focused sites/archives/programs, or sites promoting illegal activities, IP Scanners, Brute Force Programs, Mail Bombers and Spam Scripts. Forums that distribute or link to warez content is prohibited.

Acceptable material on Dedicated Servers:
Proxy Scripts / Anonymizers, Image Hosting sites, sites with pornographic material, and muds / rpg's

We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. Any material that, in our judgment, is obscene or threatening is prohibited and will be removed from our servers with or without notice.

Failure to respond to email from our abuse department within 24 hours may result in the suspension or termination of your services. All abuse issues must be dealt with via troubleticket/email and will have a response within 24 hours.

If in doubt regarding the acceptability of your site or service, please contact us at abuse@vinsar.net and we will be happy to assist you.

Potential harm to minors is strictly forbidden, including but not limited to child pornography or content perceived to be child pornography:

Any site found to host child pornography or linking to child pornography will be suspended immediately without notice.

Resellers: we will suspend the site in question and will notify you so you may terminate the account. We will further monitor your activity; more than one infraction of this type may result in the immediate termination of your account.

Direct customers: Your services will be terminated with or without notice.

Violations will be reported to the appropriate law enforcement agency.

It is your responsibility to ensure that scripts/programs installed under your account are secure and permissions of directories are set properly, regardless of installation method. When at all possible, set permissions on most directories to 644 or as restrictive as possible. Users are ultimately responsible for all actions taken under their account. This includes the compromise of credentials such as username and password. It is required that you use a secure password. If a weak password is used, your account may be suspended until you agree to use a more secure password. Audits may be done to prevent weak passwords from being used. If an audit is performed, and your password is found to be weak, we will notify you and allow time for you to change/update your password.

4.) Zero Tolerance Spam Policy
We take a zero tolerance stance against sending of unsolicited e-mail, bulk emailing, and spam. "Safe lists" and "double opt-in" will be treated as spam. Any user who sends out spam will have their account terminated with or without notice.
Please read this for our generalized mail policy.

Sites advertised via SPAM (Spamvertised) may not be hosted on our servers. This provision includes, but is not limited to SPAM sent via fax, email, instant messaging, or usenet/newsgroups. No organization or entity listed in the ROKSO may be hosted on our servers. Any account which results in our IP space being blacklisted will be immediately suspended and/or terminated.

Vinsar.Net reserves the right to require changes or disable as necessary any web site, account, database, or other component that does not comply with its established policies, or to make any such modifications in an emergency at its sole discretion.

Vinsar.Net reserves 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 entirely at the discretion of Vinsar.Net.

If your actions have caused any IP addresses of any of Vinsar.Net's servers to be placed on any blacklists or any other email filtering software systems, a Rupees 5000.00 charge will be added to your account in addition to Rupees 3500.00 per hour beyond the first hour for administrative charges incurred to remove and protect our servers and IP addresses from any blacklists or other email filtering software systems.

5.) Payment Information
You agree to supply appropriate payment for the services received from Vinsar.Net, in advance of the time period during which such services are provided. You agree that until and unless you notify Vinsar.Net of your desire to cancel any or all services received, those services will be billed on a recurring basis.

Cancellations must be done in writing via the cancellation form provided in the client dashboard. Once we receive your cancellation and have confirmed all necessary information with you via e-mail, we will inform you that your account has been canceled. At this time, your account with us has been canceled. If you do not hear back from us or receive an e-mail confirming this cancellation, please contact us immediately.

As a client of Vinsar.Net, it is your responsibility to ensure that your payment information is up to date, and that all invoices are paid on time. Vinsar.Net provides a 5 day grace period from the time the invoice is due and when it must be paid. Any invoice that is overdue for 5 days and not paid will result account suspension until the account balance has been paid in full along with the late payment fee that is 5% of the total amount. Any account that is overdue for 14 days and has not paid will be automatically terminated. Any account automatically terminated under this provision will be assessed a Rupees 1200.00 late fee.

Invoices that have been paid more than once with multiple Paypal Subscriptions can only be added as credit towards the account and cannot be refunded via Paypal. If you require assistance with this provision, please contact sales@vinsar.net.

Vinsar.Net reserves the right to change the monthly payment amount and any other charges at anytime.

6.) Backups and Data Loss
Your use of the service is at your sole risk. Vinsar.Net is not responsible for files and/or 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 Vinsar.Net servers. While Vinsar.Net does maintain backups of your files and/or data we accept no responsibility should backups be unavailable for any reason including but not limited to data corruption, hardware failure, or negligence. All cPanel backup files, backup-*.tar.gz and cpmove-*.tar.gz, older than 72 hours will be removed from the server automatically.

7.) Cancellations and Refunds
Cancellations must be submitted via our Billing and Support system at https://crm.vinsar.net. Cancellations requested via e-mail will not be honored. Dedicated server cancellations must be submitted at least 10 days prior to your renewal date. Vinsar.Net reserves the right to cancel any account at any time with or without notice. After 30 days a prorated refund may be given at Vinsar.Net's discretion.

There are no refunds for services other than shared/reseller Web Hosting.

Any abuse of our staff in any medium or format will result in the suspension or termination of your services.

Customers may cancel at any time via the cancellation form in your client dashboard. Vinsar.Net gives you an unconditional 30 day money back guarantee on managed shared hosting, and reseller solution's. There are no refunds on dedicated servers, administrative fees, install fees for custom software, or domain name purchases. Refund requests after the intitial 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.

Violations of the Terms of Service will waive the refund policy.

8.) Resource Usage
User may not:
a) Use 25% or more of system resources for longer then 120 seconds. There are numerous activities that could cause such problems; these include: CGI scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc.
b) Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.
c) Run any type of web spider or indexer (including Google Cash / AdSpy) on shared servers.
d) Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
e) Run any bit torrent application, tracker, or client. Please note that you may link to torrents off server, but may not host or store them.
f) Participate in any file-sharing/peer-to-peer activities
g) Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike, half-life, battlefield1942, etc
h) Run cron entries with intervals of less than 15 minutes without prior written approval.

When using PHP include functions for including a local file, include the local file rather than the URL. Instead of include("http://yourdomain.com/include.php") use include("include.php")

9.) 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. You will be billed for bandwidth usage beyond your allocated amount at the rate of Rupees 250.00 per gigabyte. Unused transfer in one month cannot be carried over to the next month.

10a.) Money back Guarantee
On dedicated servers, colocation, lifetime plans, and design services 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.

Each of Vinsar.Net's managed shared, reseller, and semi-dedicated servers carry a 30 day unconditional money back guarantee. If you are not completely satisfied with our services within the first 30 days of your service, you will be given a full refund of the contract amount. Remember, this is only for shared, reseller, and semi-dedicated packages and does not apply to dedicated servers, administrative fees, install fees for custom software, or domain name purchases. Any domain name registered for free is valued at Rupees 975.00 and will not be refunded.

10b.) Uptime Guarantee
If your shared or reseller server has a physical downtime that falls short of the 99% (in a month) uptime guarantee, you may receive seven (7) days of credit on your account. This uptime guarantee does not apply to planned maintenance. Approval of any credit is at the sole discretion of Vinsar.Net and may be dependent upon the justification provided. Third party monitoring service reports may not be used for justification due to a variety of factors including the monitor's network capacity/transit availability. The uptime of the server is defined as the reported uptime from the operating system and the Apache Web Server which may differ from the uptime reported by other individual services. To request a credit, please contact our Billing department (billing@vinsar.net) with justification within thirty (30) days of physical downtime. Uptime guarantees only apply to shared and reseller solutions. Dedicated servers & VPS are covered by a network guarantee in which the credit is prorated for the amount of time the server is down which is not related to our uptime guarantee.

11.) Reseller: Client Responsibility
Resellers are responsible for supporting their clients. Vinsar.Net does not provide support to our Reseller's Clients. If a reseller's client contacts us, we reserve the right to place the client account on hold until the reseller can assume their responsibility for their client. All support requests must be made by the reseller on their clients' behalf for security purposes. Resellers are also responsible for all content stored or transmitted under their reseller account and the actions of their clients. Vinsar.Net will hold any reseller responsible for any of their clients actions that violate the law or these terms of service.

12.) Shared (non-reseller accounts) / Semi-dedicated Servers
Shared and semi-dedicated accounts may not resell web hosting to other people, if you wish to resell hosting you must use a reseller account.

13.) Dedicated Servers
Vinsar.Net reserves the right to reset the password on a dedicated server if the password on file is not current so that we may do security audits as required by our datacenter and internal company policies. It is the responsibility of the client to ensure that there is a valid email address and current root password on file for their dedicated server on file to prevent downtime from forced password resets. Vinsar.Net reserves the right to audit servers as needed and to perform administrative actions at the request of our datacenter. Dedicated servers are NOT backed up by us and it is the responsibility of the client to maintain backups or have a solution for this. You may purchase an additional hard drive and maintain backups to it as the most simple solution. Please contact sales@vinsar.net if you wish to obtain a secondary hard drive. It is your responsibility to maintain backups.

14.) Price Change
The amount you pay for hosting will never increase from the date of purchase without prior notice. We reserve the right to change prices listed on Vinsar.Net, and the right to increase the amount of resources given to plans at any time.

15a.) Indemnification
Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold Vinsar.Net harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney's fees asserted against Vinsar.Net, 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 Vinsar.Net against liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with Vinsar.Net; (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 Vinsar.Net's server.

15b.) Force Majeure
Neither party is liable for any default or delay in the performance of any of its obligations under this Agreement (other than failure to make payments when due) if such default or delay is caused, directly or indirectly, by forces beyond such party's reasonable control, including, without limitation, fire, flood, acts of God, labor disputes, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, interruptions of transportation or communications, supply shortages or the failure of any third party to perform any commitment relative to the production or delivery of any equipment or material required for such party to perform its obligations hereunder.

15c.) Arbitration
By using any Vinsar.Net services, you agree to binding arbitration. If any disputes or claims arise against Vinsar.Net or its subsidiaries, such disputes will be handled by an arbitrator of Vinsar.Net's choice. All decisions rendered by that arbitrator will be binding and final. You are also responsible for any and all costs related to such arbitration.

16.) Disclaimer
Vinsar.Net shall not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer. Vinsar.Net makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services we provide. Vinsar.Net 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 Vinsar.Net and its employees.

17.) Limited Warranty
THE SERVICES PROVIDED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE BASIS." EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION, VINSAR.NET AND OUR AFFILIATES, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS AND LICENSORS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, FOR THE SERVICES PROVIDED HEREUNDER. VINSAR.NET AND OUR AFFILIATES, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS AND LICENSORS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES (I) THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR FREE OR COMPLETELY SECURE; (II) AS TO THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICES; OR (III) AS TO THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY OR CONTENT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED THROUGH THE SERVICES. VINSAR.NET AND OUR AFFILIATES, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS AND LICENSORS ARE NOT LIABLE, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY, FOR THE CONTENT OF ANY DATA TRANSFERRED EITHER TO OR FROM USERS OR STORED BY USERS ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICES. THE TERMS OF THIS SECTION SHALL SURVIVE ANY TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT.

18.) Disclosure to law enforcement
Vinsar.Net may disclose any subscriber information to law enforcement agencies without further consent or notification to the subscriber upon lawful request from such agencies.
We will cooperate fully with law enforcement agencies.

19.) Severability
If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, the other provisions of this Agreement will remain in full force and effect. Any provision of this Agreement held invalid or unenforceable only in part or degree will remain in full force and effect to the extent not held invalid or unenforceable.

20.) Headings.
The headings herein are for convenience only and are not part of this Agreement.

21.) Changes to the Agreement or the Services
A.) Vinsar.Net may modify, add, or delete portions of this Agreement at any time. If we have made significant changes to this Agreement, we will post a notice on the Vinsar.Net website for at least thirty (30) days after the changes are posted. Any revisions to this Agreement will become effective when posted unless otherwise provided. You agree to any modification to this Agreement by continuing to use the Services after the effective date of any such modification.
B.) Vinsar.Net reserves the right to modify, change, or discontinue any aspect of the Services at any time.

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