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Terms
Of Service Agreement
1.
Term and Payment for Services
1.1.
Term. This Agreement shall be in effect for
an "Initial Term" as specified by you when
you submit the electronic order form at the
time you register for the Services. This
Agreement will be automatically renewed (the
"Renewal Term") at the end of the Initial
Term for the same period as specified in the
Initial Term unless you change the Renewal
Term using the online control panel or
cancel your service in accordance with our
current cancellation policy posted on our
website. The "Initial Term" for all
dedicated server and dedicated server add-on
equipment (i.e. memory, processors, disk
drives) shall have a minimum "Initial Term"
of (3) three months. Upon canceling the Services, you
may asked to provide ASPwebhosting.com with
personally identifiable information so that
ASPwebhosting.com may properly identify you
as person authorized to cancel your
account. Any notice of termination will be
effective upon receipt of the cancellation
request electronically via our website or by
telephone to our billing department.
1.2.
Termination Policy. If you terminate the
Services prior to the end of the Initial
Term or the Renewal Term, whichever is then
applicable, any payment due to
ASPwebhosting.com or refund due to Customer
will be governed by the current cancellation
policy posted on our website and will be
based upon the current plan type for your
service. The posted cancellation policy will
govern all payments due. You acknowledge and
agree that Termination of your account for
violation of ASPwebhosting.com's Acceptable
Use Policy constitutes your waiver of any
refund due even if you have made a
prepayment. You agree to provide
ASPwebhosting.com a 30 day advance notice of
your intent to cancel your service.
1.3 Default
and Cure. In the
event that either party hereto defaults in
the performance of any of its material
duties or obligations under this Agreement,
including failure to make any payments due
under this Agreement, and such default is
not cured within ten (10) days after written
notice is given to the defaulting party
specifying the default, then the party not
in default, after given written notice
thereof to the defaulting party, may
terminate this Agreement.
1.4.
Billing Cycles.
ASPwebhosting.com provides customers several
billing cycles from which to choose when
signing up for service, including, but not
limited to (a) monthly billing, (b)
quarterly billing, and (c) annual billing.
ASPwebhosting.com will bill Customer on a
recurring basis according to the billing
cycle selected by the Customer. The Customer
may change the billing cycle using the
online control panel at any time prior to
the next billing period. The Customer
understands that ASPwebhosting.com has no
obligation to refund any prepayment made by
the Customer should the customer choose to
change the billing cycle after a payment has
been made.
1.5.
Charges. You agree to
pay for all charges attributable to your use
of the Services at the then current
ASPwebhosting.com prices, which shall be
exclusive of any applicable taxes. You are
responsible for the payment of all federal,
state, and local sales, use, value added,
excise, duty and any other taxes assessed
with respect to the Services, other than
taxes based on ASPwebhosting.com's net
income.
1.6. Payment.
All charges for Services must be paid in
advance according to the then current prices
applicable to the Services. Upon entering
this Agreement, you choose to pay by direct
charge to a credit or debit card and receive
an electronic receipt for each transaction
processed by ASPwebhosting.com. If you
choose to pay by credit or debit card upon
registering for the Services, you thereby
authorize ASPwebhosting.com to charge your
credit or debit card to pay for any charges
that may be attributed to your use of the
Services. You agree that ASPwebhosting.com
may accumulate any supplemental charges,
incurred by you in your use of the Services
("Supplemental Charges") until such charges
exceed $10 and then charge your account.
You must notify ASPwebhosting.com of any
changes to your card account (including,
without limitation, applicable account
number or cancellation or expiration of the
account), your billing address, or any
information that may prohibit
ASPwebhosting.com from charging your
account. If you fail to pay any fees and
taxes within seven (7) days from applicable
due date for credit card payments, the
Customer account shall be put into a
suspension period of an additional seven (7)
days. During this time Customer access to
the services may be restricted. If during
this seven (7) day suspension period,
Customer provides valid payment information
and pays the balance due in-full, service
will be reinstated upon the processing of
the new payment information. In addition,
your failure to fully pay any fees and taxes
within fourteen (14) days after the
applicable due date will be deemed a
material breach of this Agreement,
justifying ASPwebhosting.com's suspension of
its performance of the Services and/or
termination of this Agreement. You are
responsible for any fees associated with
reinstatement of Services. Any such
suspension or termination would not relieve
you from paying past due fees plus
interest. In the event of collection
enforcement, you will be liable for any
costs associated with such collection,
including, without limitation, reasonable
attorneys' fees, court costs and collection
agency fees.
2. Use
of Services
2.1.
Applicable Use Policy. The
ASPwebhosting.com Acceptable Use Policy (the
"AUP") governs the general policies and
procedures for use of the Services. The AUP
is posted on ASPwebhosting.com's Web site
(or such other location as ASPwebhosting.com
may specify) and may be updated from
time-to-time. YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY READ THE
AUP. BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO BE
BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THE AUP AND ANY
MODIFICATIONS. ASPWEBHOSTING.COM RESERVES
THE RIGHT TO TERMINATE YOUR ACCOUNT FOR ANY
VIOLATION OF THE AUP OR THIS AGREEMENT.
2.2. Material
and Product Requirements. Unless we have
agreed otherwise in a separate agreement,
you must ensure that all material and data
placed on ASPwebhosting.com's equipment is
in a condition that is "server-ready," which
is in a form requiring no additional
manipulation by ASPwebhosting.com.
ASPwebhosting.com will make no effort to
validate any of this information for
content, correctness or usability. If your
material is not "server-ready",
ASPwebhosting.com has the option at any time
to reject this material. ASPwebhosting.com
will notify you of its refusal of the
material and afford you the opportunity to
amend or modify the material to satisfy the
needs and/or requirements of
ASPwebhosting.com. Use of the Services
requires a certain level of knowledge in the
use of Internet languages, protocols and
software. This level of knowledge varies
depending on the anticipated use and desired
content of your Web site. You must have the
necessary knowledge to create and maintain a
Web site. It is not ASPwebhosting.com's
responsibility to provide this knowledge or
customer support outside of the Services
agreed to by you and ASPwebhosting.com.
2.3. Bandwidth
and Storage Usage. You agree that use of
the Services under this Agreement will not
exceed the bandwidth and storage usage
limits as described on our website for your
current plan type. If you use any bandwidth
or storage space in excess of the agreed
upon number of megabytes per month, you
agree to pay the associated additional
charges.
2.3.1. Disk
Space Management. You agree that
ASPwebhosting.com may utilize certain tools
both automated and manual in design that
allow ASPwebhosting.com's support staff to
maximize the efficiency of disk space
utilization within Customers account space.
These tools will be used to compress and
archive customer log files for the account for the
purpose of maximizing useable disk space
within the account. If Customer requires
archived data for statistical analysis
purposes or for local copy retention,
customer may request that an archived log
file set be provided by the
ASPwebhosting.com support staff. The
default schedule for archiving of customer log files
is set at one (1) day. and archives are
stored on an archive server every one (1)
week. You agree that ASPwebhosting.com has
no liability to you in the event any
customer log file is not available to you at
any particular time.
2.3.2 Email Services. You
agree that ASPwebhosting.com has the right
to purge email messages from all email boxes
when the email has been stored for 30 days
or more. You agree that it is your
responsibility to download and archive email
messages and ASPwebhosting.com has no
responsibility to you for storing any email
message. You also understand and agree that
email messages may be lost, improperly
routed, improperly delivered, inadvertently
deleted or not delivered at all. You agree
that ASPwebhosting.com has no liability to
you for the delivery of email, failure to
deliver email, failure to store email or ay
other circumstance upon which an email may
not be available to you. You also agree to
abide by our acceptable use policy with
regards to email services.
2.3.3 Advertising via SPAM.
You agree that you will not advertise your
website via Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE
or SPAM). You agree you will not permit any
third party or affiliate to advertise your
website or services via UCE or SPAM. You
also agree that ASPwebhosting.com may take
any action it deems necessary to protect
it's network and/or services from being
disrupted or blocked due to your website
being advertised by UCE or SPAM, including,
but not limited to the following actions:
interruption of service, cancellation of
service without obligation of refund.
2.3.4 Spam Filtering Services. You
agree that ASPwebhosting.com has the right
to purge messages determined to be spam from all
Spam Folders in your email boxes when the email
has been stored for 7 days or more. You understand and agree that
email messages may be lost, improperly
routed, improperly delivered, inadvertently
deleted or not delivered at all. You agree
that ASPwebhosting.com has no liability to
you for the delivery of email, failure to
deliver email, failure to store email or ay
other circumstance upon which an email may
not be available to you. You also agree to
abide by our acceptable use policy with
regards to email services.
2.4. Load
Balanced Server Uptime guarantee.
ASPwebhosting.com shall make all reasonable
attempts to provide 100% Service
availability ("Uptime"). This uptime shall
be monitored by ASPwebhosting.com, and upon
customer request, a written summary of any
downtime incurred within the previous month
shall be provided to the customer. The 100%
uptime shall be monitored and computed as
the aggregate uptime of each calendar month.
In the case that ASPwebhosting.com fails to
provide uptime equal to 99.9993% during any
calendar month, upon receipt of a written
request from customer, ASPwebhosting.com
shall issue customer a credit for service
equal to, but not exceeding the amount paid
by customer for the Services, excluding any
fees for bandwidth, excess disk space, labor
or other charges not included in the
customers selected plan. In no event, shall
the credited amount for any period of
unscheduled downtime exceed the amount paid
to ASPwebhosting.com in one calendar month
for the base services provided for the
customers selected plan type.
2.5.
Dedicated Server Uptime guarantee.
ASPwebhosting.com shall make all reasonable
attempts to provide 100% Service
availability ("Uptime"). This uptime shall
be monitored by ASPwebhosting.com, and upon
customer request, a written summary of any
downtime incurred within the previous month
shall be provided to the customer. The 100%
uptime shall be monitored and computed as
the aggregate uptime of each calendar month.
In the case that ASPwebhosting.com fails to
provide uptime equal to 99.993% during any
calendar month, upon receipt of a written
request from customer, ASPwebhosting.com
shall issue customer a credit for service
equal to, but not exceeding the amount paid
by customer for the Services, excluding any
fees for bandwidth, excess disk space, labor
or other charges not included in the
customers selected plan. In no event, shall
the credited amount for any period of
unscheduled downtime exceed the amount paid
to ASPwebhosting.com in one calendar month
for the base services provided for the
customers selected plan type.
2.6. Shared
Uptime Guarantee. ASPwebhosting.com shall
make all reasonable attempts to provide 100%
Service availability ("Uptime"). The 100%
uptime shall be monitored and computed as
the aggregate uptime of each calendar month.
In the case that ASPwebhosting.com fails to
provide uptime equal to 99.93% during any
calendar month, upon receipt of a written
request from customer, ASPwebhosting.com
shall issue customer a credit for service
equal to, but not exceeding the amount paid
by customer for the Services, excluding any
fees for bandwidth, excess disk space, labor
or other charges not included in the
customers selected plan. In no event, shall
the credited amount for any period of
unscheduled downtime exceed the amount paid
to ASPwebhosting.com in one calendar month
for the base services provided for the
customers selected plan type.
2.7.
ASPwebhosting.com may from time to time
schedule maintenance periods resulting in
Service interruptions. These maintenance
periods will be announced in advance via
e-mail to the primary technical contact for
the account. Unless an exemption request is
provided in writing from customer within 24
hours of the time the maintenance notice is
sent by ASPwebhosting.com, customer agrees
these maintenance periods shall be exempt
from the uptime guarantee contained herein,
and a credit will be provided only in the
event that the scheduled downtime extends
beyond the announced maintenance window.
ASPwebhosting.com agrees to make all
reasonable effort to limit direct
maintenance on customer equipment to no more
than two (2) times each month. The
preferred maintenance window will be Sunday
morning from 12:01AM EST to 2:01AM EST.
Customer acknowledges that ASPwebhosting.com
may from time to time be required to perform
emergency maintenance activities, including,
but not limited to, installing security
patches, service packs and other related
updates to hardware and software, to the
network and supporting equipment. Customer
agrees that these emergency maintenance
activities fall outside of the scope of
customer operated equipment and may lead to
downtime and latency beyond the control of
ASPwebhosting.com. Customer waives all
claims relating to these unannounced
indirect maintenance outages.
3.
Enforcement
3.1.
Investigation of Violations.
ASPwebhosting.com may investigate any
reported or suspected violation of this
Agreement, its policies or any complaints
and take any action that it deems
appropriate and reasonable under the
circumstance to protect its systems,
facilities, employees, customers and/or
third parties. ASPwebhosting.com will not
access or review the contents of any e-mail
or similar stored electronic communications
except as required or permitted by
applicable law or legal process or permitted
by the owner of said e-mail or stored
electronic communications.
3.2. Actions.
ASPwebhosting.com reserves the right and has
absolute discretion to restrict or remove
from its servers any content that violates
this Agreement, the AUP or related policies
or guidelines, or is otherwise objectionable
or potentially infringing on any third
party's rights or potentially in violation
of any laws. If ASPwebhosting.com becomes
aware of any possible violation by you of
this Agreement, the AUP or any related policies or
guidelines, third party rights or laws,
ASPwebhosting.com may immediately take
corrective action, including, but not
limited to, (a) issuing warnings, (b)
suspending or terminating the Service, (c)
restricting or prohibiting any and all uses
of content hosted on ASPwebhosting.com's
systems, and/or (d) disabling or removing
any hypertext links to third-party Web
sites, any of your content distributed or
made available for distribution via the
Services, or other content not supplied by
ASPwebhosting.com which, in
ASPwebhosting.com's sole discretion, may
violate or infringe any law or third-party
rights or which otherwise exposes or
potentially exposes ASPwebhosting.com to
civil or criminal liability or public
ridicule. It is ASPwebhosting.com's policy
to terminate repeat infringers.
ASPwebhosting.com's right to take corrective
action, however, does not obligate us to
monitor or exert editorial control over the
information made available for distribution
via the Services. If ASPwebhosting.com
takes corrective action due to such possible
violation, ASPwebhosting.com shall not be
obligated to refund to you any fees paid in
advance of such corrective action, nor does
such action eliminate customer
responsibility to pay for Services rendered
but not yet paid, including, but not limited
to, excess bandwidth charges, excess disk
space usage, labor or other related
services.
3.3.
Disclosure Rights. To comply with applicable
laws and lawful governmental requests, to
protect ASPwebhosting.com's systems and
customers, or to ensure the integrity and
operation of ASPwebhosting.com's business
and systems, ASPwebhosting.com may access
and disclose any information it considers
necessary or appropriate, including, without
limitation, user profile information (i.e.,
name, e-mail address, etc.), IP addressing
and traffic information, usage history, and
content residing on ASPwebhosting.com's
servers and systems. ASPwebhosting.com also
reserves the right to report any activity
that it suspects violates any law or
regulation to appropriate law enforcement
officials, regulators, or other appropriate
third parties.
4.
Intellectual Property Rights
4.1. Your
License Grant to ASPwebhosting.com. You
hereby grant to ASPwebhosting.com a
non-exclusive, worldwide, and royalty-free
license for the Initial Term and any Renewal
Term to use your content as necessary for
the purposes of rendering and operating the
Services to you under this Agreement. You
expressly (a) grant to ASPwebhosting.com a
license to store, cache or archive
materials distributed or made available for
distribution via the Services, including
content supplied by third parties, and (b)
agree that such storing, caching and
archiving is not an infringement of any of
your intellectual property rights or any
third party's intellectual property rights.
4.2.
ASPwebhosting.com Materials and Intellectual
Property. All materials, including but not
limited to any computer software (in object
code and source code form), data or
information developed or provided by
ASPwebhosting.com or its suppliers or agents
pursuant to this Agreement, and any
know-how, methodologies, equipment, or
processes used by ASPwebhosting.com to
provide the Services to you, including,
without limitation, all copyrights,
trademarks, patents, trade secrets and other
proprietary rights are and will remain the
sole and exclusive property of
ASPwebhosting.com or its suppliers,
including but not limited to any software
programs, inventions, products and/or
technology innovations and methodologies
utilized, developed, or disclosed by
ASPwebhosting.com during the term of this
Agreement. Unauthorized copying, reverse
engineering, decompiling, and creating
derivative works based on the any such
software is expressly forbidden except as
permitted in this Agreement. You may be
held legally responsible for violation of
any patent rights, copyright or trade secret
rights that is caused or encouraged by
failure to abide by the terms of this
Agreement.
4.3.
Trademarks. You hereby grant to
ASPwebhosting.com a limited right to use
your trademarks, if any, for the limited
purpose of permitting ASPwebhosting.com to
fulfill its duties under this Agreement.
This is not a trademark license and no other
rights relating to the trademarks are
granted by this Agreement. Specifically,
but without limitation, the rights granted
by this Agreement do not include the right
to sublicense use of your trademarks or to
use your trademarks with any other products
or services outside the scope of the
Services provided under this Agreement. The
limited trademark use rights granted under
this section terminate upon termination of
this Agreement.
5.
Warranty; Warranty Disclaimer.
5.1. Customer
and/or Third Party Acts. ASPwebhosting.com
is not responsible in any manner for any
nonconforming Services to the extent caused
by you or your customers. In addition,
ASPwebhosting.com is not responsible for
loss or corruption of data in transmission,
or for failure to send or receive data due
to events beyond ASPwebhosting.com's
reasonable control.
5.2. No
Express or Implied Warranty. ALL SERVICES,
SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTS PROVIDED BY
ASPWEBHOSTING.COM UNDER THIS AGREEMENT ARE
PROVIDED WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTY IN FACT OR IN LAW, WHATSOEVER. YOU
ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT ASPWEBHOSTING.COM
EXERCISES NO CONTROL OVER, AND ACCEPTS NO
RESPONSIBILITY FOR, THE CONTENT OF THE
INFORMATION PASSING THROUGH
ASPWEBHOSTING.COM'S COMPUTERS, NETWORK HUBS
AND POINTS OF PRESENCE, OR THE INTERNET.
ASPWEBHOSTING.COM DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE
OPERATION OF THE SERVICES WILL BE
UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE. ALL SERVICES
PERFORMED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT ARE PERFORMED
"AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY AGAINST FAILURE
OF PERFORMANCE INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, ANY FAILURE DUE TO COMPUTER
HARDWARE OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS. EXCEPT
AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THIS AGREEMENT,
ASPWEBHOSTING.COM DOES NOT MAKE AND HEREBY
DISCLAIMS, AND YOU HEREBY WAIVE ALL RELIANCE
ON, ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES,
ARISING BY LAW OR OTHERWISE, REGARDING THE
SERVICES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION,
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR
CONDITIONS OF QUALITY, AND ANY WARRANTIES
WITH RESPECT TO PATENT, COPYRIGHT, TRADE
SECRET OR TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT.
5.3 Your
Warranties and Representations to
ASPwebhosting.com. You warrant, represent,
and covenant to ASPwebhosting.com that (a)
you are at least eighteen (18) years of age
or are a duly organized and validly existing
entity; (b) you possess the legal right and
ability to enter into this Agreement; (c)
you will use the Services only for lawful
purposes and in accordance with this
Agreement and all applicable policies and
guidelines; (d) you will be financially
responsible for the use of your account; (e)
you have acquired or will acquire all
authorization(s) necessary for hypertext
links to third-party Web sites or other
content; (f) you have verified or will
verify the accuracy of materials distributed
or made available for distribution via the
Services, including, without limitation,
your content, descriptive claims,
warranties, guarantees, nature of business,
and address where business is conducted, and
(g) your content does not and will not
infringe or violate any right of any third
party (including any intellectual property
rights) or violate any applicable law,
regulation or ordinance.
6.
Limitation and Exclusion of Liability
6.1.
Limitations. IN NO EVENT SHALL
ASPWEBHOSTING.COM HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR
UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, OR ALTERATION, THEFT
OR DESTRUCTION OF INFORMATION DISTRIBUTED OR
MADE AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION VIA THE
SERVICES THROUGH ACCIDENT, FRAUDULENT MEANS
OR DEVICES. ASPWEBHOSTING.COM SHALL HAVE NO
LIABILITY UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR OTHERWISE
FOR CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, SPECIAL,
INCIDENTAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES EVEN IF
ASPWEBHOSTING.COM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN ANY EVENT,
THE LIABILITY OF ASPWEBHOSTING.COM TO YOU
FOR ANY REASON AND UPON ANY CAUSE OF ACTION
SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT ACTUALLY PAID
TO ASPWEBHOSTING.COM BY YOU UNDER THIS
AGREEMENT DURING THE THIRTY (30) DAYS
IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE ON WHICH SUCH
CLAIM ACCRUED. THIS LIMITATION APPLIES TO
ALL CAUSES OF ACTION IN THE AGGREGATE,
INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO BREACH OF
CONTRACT, BREACH OF WARRANTY, NEGLIGENCE,
STRICT LIABILITY, MISREPRESENTATIONS, AND
OTHER TORTS. THE FEES FOR THE SERVICES SET
BY ASPWEBHOSTING.COM UNDER THIS AGREEMENT
HAVE BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE BASED UPON
THIS ALLOCATION OF RISK. ACCORDINGLY, YOU
HEREBY RELEASE ASPWEBHOSTING.COM FROM ANY
AND ALL OBLIGATIONS, LIABILITIES, AND CLAIM
IN EXCESS OF THE LIMITATION STATED IN THIS
SECTION 6.1. BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT
ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF
LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL
DAMAGES, IN SUCH STATES, OUR LIABILITY IS
LIMITED TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
6.2.
Interruption of Service. You hereby
acknowledge and agree that ASPwebhosting.com
will not be liable for any temporary delay,
outages or interruptions of the Services.
Further, ASPwebhosting.com shall not be
liable for any delay or failure to perform
its obligations under this Agreement, where
such delay or failure results from any act
of God or other cause beyond its reasonable
control (including, without limitation, any
mechanical, electronic, communications or
third-party supplier failure).
7.
Indemnification. You will defend, indemnify
and hold harmless ASPwebhosting.com and its
officers, directors, shareholders,
employees, consultants, agents, affiliates
and suppliers (an "Indemnitee") from any and
all threatened or actual claims, demands,
causes of action, suits, proceedings (formal
or informal), losses, damages, fines,
penalties, liabilities, costs and expenses
of any nature, including attorneys' fees and
court costs, sustained or incurred by or
asserted against any Indemnitee by any
person, firm, corporation, governmental
authority, partnership or other entity by
reason of or arising out of or relating to:
(i) your violation or breach of any term,
condition, representation or warranty of
this Agreement or any applicable policy or
guideline; (ii) your conduct, including but
not limited to your negligence, gross
negligence, or willful misconduct; (iii)
your improper or illegal use of the
Services; (iv) any claim by a former
employee of yours whose employment has been
or may be terminated in connection with or
as a result of the execution of this
Agreement and performance of the Services by
ASPwebhosting.com; or (iii) any claim
relating to your services or products,
including but not limited to advertising,
product liability claims or infringement of
any trademark, copyright, patent, trade
secrets or non-proprietary right of a third
party (including, without limitation,
defamation, libel, or violation of privacy
or publicity).
8.
Miscellaneous
8.1
Confidentiality. The parties each agree
that all Confidential Information (as
defined below) communicated to it by the
other is done so in confidence and will be
used only for the purposes of this Agreement
and will not be used to compete with the
other party or disclosed to any third party
without the prior written consent of the
other party except as permitted under this
Agreement. "Confidential Information" means
all information in any form, including,
without limitation, printed or verbal
communications and information stored in
printed, optical or electromagnetic format,
which relates to the Services; or computer,
data processing or electronic commerce
programs and software; electronic data
processing applications, routines,
subroutines, techniques or systems;
information which incorporates or is based
upon proprietary information of either
party; or information concerning business or
financial affairs, product pricing,
financial conditions or strategies,
marketing, technical systems of either
party; or any information concerning
customers or vendors of either party; or any
data exchange between a party and any
customers or vendors. Exceptions to
Confidential Information include (1)
information in the public domain; (2)
information developed independently by a
party without reference to information
disclosed under this Agreement; or (3)
information received from a third party
without restriction and/or breach of this or
a similar Agreement. It is not a violation
of this provision to disclose Confidential
Information in compliance with any legal,
accounting or regulatory requirement beyond
the control of either Party or, but in such
case, prior to disclosure, the disclosing
Party shall give written notice to the other
Party to permit that Party an opportunity to
challenge such disclosure. If either Party
is subpoenaed, such Party shall give written
notice to the other Party to permit that
Party an opportunity to challenge the
disclosure of Confidential Information.
Upon the termination of this Agreement and
upon written request of the disclosing
Party, each Party shall promptly return all
Confidential Information of the other
Party. This provision shall survive the
termination of this Agreement for two (2)
years.
8.2.
Notices. All notices, reports, requests, or
other communications given pursuant to this
Agreement shall be made in writing, shall be
delivered by hand delivery, overnight
courier service, fax, or electronic mail,
shall be deemed to have been duly given when
delivered.
8.3.
Choice of Law and Forum. THIS AGREEMENT,
WILL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE UNITED
STATES AND THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, WITHOUT
REFERENCE TO RULES GOVERNING CHOICE OF
LAWS. ANY ACTION RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT
MUST BE BROUGHT IN THE FEDERAL OR STATE
COURTS LOCATED IN KENTUCKY, AND YOU
IRREVOCABLY CONSENT TO THE JURISDICTION OF
SUCH COURTS.
8.4. Entire
Agreement. This Agreement and all policies
and guidelines incorporated in this
Agreement by reference constitutes the
entire Agreement of the parties and may not
be modified or altered orally but only by an
agreement in writing signed by both parties.
8.5. No
Fiduciary Relationship; No Third-Party
Beneficiaries. ASPwebhosting.com is not the
agent, fiduciary, trustee or other
representative of you. Nothing expressed or
mentioned in or implied from this Agreement
is intended or shall be construed to give to
any person other than the parties hereto any
legal or equitable right, remedy or claim
under or in respect to this Agreement. This
Agreement and all of the representations,
warranties, covenants, conditions and
provisions hereof are intended to be and are
for the sole and exclusive benefit of the
parties hereto.
8.6.
Assignments. You may not transfer or assign
your rights, duties, or obligations under
this Agreement without ASPwebhosting.com's
prior written consent. ASPwebhosting.com
may assign its rights and obligations under
this Agreement and may utilize affiliate
and/or agents in performing its duties and
exercising its rights under this Agreement,
without your consent. Subject to that
restriction, this Agreement will be binding
on, inure to the benefit of, and be
enforceable against the parties and their
respective successors and assignees.
8.7. No
Waiver. ASPwebhosting.com's failure to
enforce the strict performance of any
provision of this Agreement will not
constitute a waiver of ASPwebhosting.com's
right to subsequently enforce such provision
or any other provisions under this
Agreement.
8.8.
Severability. If any provision of this
Agreement is deemed illegal, invalid, void
or otherwise unenforceable in whole or in
part, that provision shall be severed or
shall be enforced only to the extent legally
permitted, and the remainder of the
provision and the Agreement shall remain in
full force and effect. If any provision of
this Agreement is deemed to be invalid, void
or unenforceable only with respect to a
particular application, such term or
provision shall remain in full force and
effect with respect to all other
applications.
8.9.
Survival. All provisions of this Agreement
relating to your warranties, intellectual
property rights, limitation and exclusion of
liability, your indemnification obligations
and payment obligations shall survive the
termination or expiration of this Agreement.
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