TERMS OF SERVICE – ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY – SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT – PRIVACY POLICY
 
 

Subject to the terms of this Agreement, and contingent on Customer’s satisfaction of Datapack.net credit approval requirements, Datapack.net agrees to provide the web hosting services described in the Order for the fees stated in the Order.

 

Payments

(a) Fees.

Fees are payable in advance on the first day of each billing cycle. Customer’s billing cycle shall be monthly, quarter, semi-annually, annually, or bi-annually as indicated on the Order, beginning on the Service Commencement Date. Datapack.net may require payment for the first billing cycle before beginning service. If the Order provides for credit/debit card billing, Customer authorizes Datapack.net to bill subsequent fees to the credit/debit card on or after the first day of each successive billing cycle during the Term of this Agreement; otherwise Datapack.net will invoice Customer via electronic mail to the Primary Customer Contact listed on the Order. Invoiced fees may be issued on or before the 1st day of each billing cycle, and the fees shall be due on the 7th day following invoice date, but in no event earlier than the first day of each billing cycle.

Payments must be made in Euro. Customer is responsible for providing Datapack.net with changes to billing information (such as credit card expiration, change in billing address) at its option, Datapack.net may accrue charges to be made to a credit/debit card.

Datapack.net may suspend the service without notice if payment for the service is overdue. Customer agrees to pay Datapack.net reasonable reinstatement fee following a suspension of service for non-payment, and to pay Datapack.net reasonable costs of collection of overdue amounts, including collection agency fees, attorney fees and court costs.

(b) Fee Increases.

Datapack.net may increase its fees at any time and at its sole discretion for services even within a current contract if there is any material change with respect to any service provided to Datapack.net by any local government, municipality, utility provider, bandwidth provider, or control panel operator.

b1) Auto Upgrades.

Datapack.net may upgrade a customer’s hosting package to the next available package to maintain service if the customer exceeds their current package limits. Datapack.net will bill the customer for the upgrade.

 

Disclaimer of Warranties

Datapack.net DOES NOT WARRANT OR REPRESENT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR COMPLETELY SECURE. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW Datapack.net DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS.

 

Limitation of Damages

NEITHER PARTY SHALL BE LIABLE TO THE OTHER FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, OR ANY 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 AGREEMENT, EVEN IF THE PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OR SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING ELSE IN THE AGREEMENT TO THE CONTRARY, THE MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF Datapack.net AND ANY OF ITS EMPLOYEES, AGENTS OR AFFILIATES, UNDER ANY THEORY OF LAW (INCLUDING BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, AND INFRINGEMENT) SHALL BE A PAYMENT OF MONEY NOT TO EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAYABLE BY CUSTOMER FOR THREE MONTHS OF SERVICE.

 

Suspension/Termination

(a) Suspension of Service.

Customer agrees that Datapack.net may suspend services to Customer without notice and without liability if: (i) Datapack.net reasonably believes that the services are being used in violation of the AUP; (ii) Customer fails to cooperate with any reasonable investigation of any suspected violation of the AUP; (iii) Datapack.net reasonably believes that the suspension of service is necessary to protect its network or its other customers, or (iv) as requested by a law enforcement or regulatory agency. Customer shall pay Datapack.net reasonable reinstatement fee if service is reinstituted following a suspension of service under this subsection.

(b) Termination.

The Agreement may be terminated by Customer prior to the expiration of the Initial Term or any Renewal Term without further notice and without liability if Datapack.net fails in a material way to provide the service in accordance with the terms of the Agreement and does not cure the failure within ten (10) days of Customer’s written notice describing the failure in reasonable detail. The Agreement may be terminated by Datapack.net prior to the expiration of the Initial Term or any Renewal Term without further notice and without liability as follows: (i) upon ten (10) days notice if Customer is overdue on the payment of any amount due under the Agreement; (ii) Customer materially violates any other provision of the Agreement, including the AUP, and fails to cure the violation within thirty (3) days of a written notice from Datapack.net describing the violation in reasonable detail; (iii) upon one (1) days notice if Customer’s Service is used in violation of a material term of the AUP more than once, or (iv) upon one (1) days notice if Customer violates Section 5 (Customer Information) of this Agreement. Either party may terminate this agreement upon ten (10) days advance notice if the other party admits insolvency, makes an assignment for the benefit of its creditors, files for bankruptcy or similar protection, is unable to pay debts as they become due, has a trustee or receiver appointed over all or a substantial portion of its assets, or enters into an agreement for the extension or readjustment of all or substantially all of its obligations.

Back Up Copy

Customer agrees to maintain a current copy of all content hosted by Datapack.net  notwithstanding any agreement by Datapack.net to provide back up services.

 

Changes to Datapack.net Network

Upgrades and other changes in Datapack.net network, including, but not limited to changes in its software, hardware, and service providers, may affect the display or operation of Customer’s hosted content and/or applications. Datapack.net reserves the right to change its network in its commercially reasonable discretion, and Datapack.net shall not be liable for any resulting harm to Customer.

 

This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) governs the use of Datapack.net web hosting service. Violation of this AUP may result in suspension or termination of your service. In the event of a dispute between you and Datapack.net regarding the interpretation of this AUP,Datapack.net  interpretation, in its reasonable commercial judgment, shall govern.

Offensive Content

You may not publish or transmit via Datapack.net service any content that Datapack.net reasonably believes:

  • constitutes child pornography;
  • constitutes pornography or adult related material;
  • is excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence, or contains harassing content or hate speech;
  • is unfair or deceptive under the consumer protection laws of any jurisdiction, including chain letters and pyramid schemes;
  • is defamatory or violates a person’s privacy;
  • creates a risk to a person’s safety or health, creates a risk to public safety or health, compromises national security, or interferes with a investigation by law enforcement;
  • improperly exposes trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information of another person;
  • is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections;
  • clearly infringes on another person’s trade or service mark, patent, or other property right;
  • promotes illegal drugs, violates export control laws, relates to illegal gambling, or illegal arms trafficking;
  • is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws applicable to you or to Datapack.net; or
  • is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may result in retaliation against Datapack.net by offended viewers.

Content “published or transmitted” via Datapack.net service includes Web content, e-mail, bulletin board postings, chat, and any other type of posting or transmission that relies on any Internet service provided by Datapack.net.

Security

You must take reasonable security precautions. You may not provide free hosting services to your clients. You must protect the confidentiality of your password, and you should change your password periodically.

Resource Usage

Each customer is required to utilize as little server resources as possible, so as to allow for reasonable performance by all Datapack.net customers. Because server CPU and memory are shared resources, excessive consumption of these resources can interfere with or completely prevent normal service performance for other users. The Company reserves the right to suspend or terminate Services on any account that, at our sole discretion, is abusing server resources. Such suspension or termination can occur at anytime without prior warning, and for any or no reason.

Abusive Actions

Any and all abusive actions directed towards our staff will not be tolerated. If you use foul language, threaten us, or do anything else that we may find offensive, you will be subject to, at the Company’s sole discretion, suspension or termination of Services without refund, with or without notice. This includes, but is not limited to, threats to sue, slander, libel, publicly post, or chargeback.

Restriction on Storage Space Usage

All accounts are subject to the following restrictions on storage space usage:

  • Accounts must have valid, working websites, and not violate any previously subscribed terms
  • Accounts are not for use of mass storage of backups, files, audio, video, zip files or others at our discretion
  • Accounts are not for us of mass distribution of files, such as torrents or mirrors
  • Any account found violating these terms may be suspended or terminated without warning

 

 

Unsolicited E-Mail

You may not send any unsolicited e-mail, either in bulk or individually, to any person who has indicated that they do not wish to receive it.

You must comply with the rules of any other network you access or participate in using your Datapack.net services.

Material Protected by Copyright

You may not publish, distribute, or otherwise copy in any manner any music, software, art, or other work protected by copyright law unless:

  • you have been expressly authorized by the owner of the copyright for the work to copy the work in that manner;

Datapack.net will terminate the service of repeat copyright infringers.

Copyright Infringement Notice (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)

If you believe your copyright is being infringed by a person using the Datapack.net network, please send your notice of copyright infringement to abuse@datapack.net

Your notice must include the following:

  • A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
  • Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or if multiple copyrighted words at a single site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
  • Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit Datapack.net to locate the material;
  • Information reasonably sufficient to permit Datapack.net to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an e-mail address;
  • A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, the copyright owner’s agent, or the law;
  • A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Other

You must have valid and current information on file with your domain name registrar for any domain hosted on the Datapack.net network.

Internet Abuse

You may not engage in illegal, abusive, or irresponsible behavior, including:

  • Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures (including those belonging to Datapack.net and its customers) without express authorization of the owner of the system or network;
  • Monitoring data or traffic on any network or system without the authorization of the owner of the system or network;
  • Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks;
  • Use of an Internet account or computer without the owner’s authorization, including, but not limited to Internet scanning (tricking other people into releasing their passwords), password robbery, security hole scanning, and port scanning;
  • Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting; or
  • Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against the Datapack.net network.
  • Use of Datapack.net network in a way that unreasonably interferes with Datapack.net other customers use of the network

Shared & Reseller Hosting

Datapack.net guarantees that your website and services that directly affect its display to the Internet (such as HTTP or MySQL) will be accessible 99% of the time in any given calendar month.

If we fail to meet our Uptime Guarantee, you will be issued a credit equivalent to one (1) day of service per sixty (60) minutes downtime. The first 60 minutes (or 0.1%) of downtime per month are not counted towards any credit and the maximum credit available is one (1) month of service.

VPS, & Dedicated Servers

Datapack.net cannot guarantee 99% server uptime, but we can guarantee 99.9% network uptime in any given calendar month, for all VPS, Cloud Servers and Dedicated Servers.

If we fail to meet our Uptime Guarantee, you will be issued a credit equivalent to one (1) day of service per sixty (60) minutes downtime. The first 60 minutes (or 0.1%) of downtime per month are not counted towards any credit and the maximum credit available is one (1) month of service.

Cloud Hosting

Datapack.net guarantees that your website and services that directly affect its display to the Internet (such as HTTP or MySQL) will be accessible 99.9% of the time in any given calendar month.

If we fail to meet our Uptime Guarantee, you will be issued a credit equivalent to one (1) day of service per sixty (60) minutes downtime. The maximum credit available is one (1) month of service.

SLA Terms & Conditions

Credits are available only for future services/invoices and will not be issued as refunds.

All credit requests must be sent no later than the tenth (10th) day of the month following the SLA violation. Credits are issued based on the uptime for the previous calendar month only. For example, if you experienced less than 99.9% uptime in the month of November, you would need to submit your request for credit no later than December 10th. Requests not submitted within the required timeframe will not be accepted – no exceptions.

The following circumstances are not eligible for credit and are specifically excluded from our Uptime Guarantee: Scheduled Maintenance, DDoS or similar attack, hardware failure, third-party software failure, customer fault/error, issues with customer ISP, firewall blocks/bans, or any other circumstance beyond our reasonable control.

Datapack.net SLA policy does NOT apply to services such as: Static IP Addresses, SSL Certificates, Domain Registrations or Domain Transfers.

We reserve the right to deny any credit request for any or no reason.

 

This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect from you, what we do with the information, and our information security practices.

 

Information

When you sign up for our service, we will ask you to provide contact information such as your name, address, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and payment information such as credit card number and expiration date.

We may ask you to complete user surveys, and to provide certain demographic information, such as age, gender, special interests, etc. You do not have to provide this type of information to use our service if you do not want to.

If you contact us for customer support, we may also ask you for information about your operating system, software and other technical matters.

When you visit our Web site we will capture your IP Address, time of and duration of visit, and time and duration of the pages on our Web site that you view. We may tie this information to the personally identifiable information we have about you.

We will also place a cookie that will identify you to us as a repeat visitor or a customer when you visit our Web site. See “What is a Cookie” below. We may tie this cookie to the personally identifiable information we have about you.

If we send you an e-mail, we may include a marker that will allow identifying e-mail that is opened and viewed.

Use of Personally Identifiable Information

We will use your personally identifiable information only as follows:

  • For payment purposes and to provide customer support;
  • To announce special offers or provide other information from time to time via e-mail. We may also send e-mails announcing special offers by our third parties, but we will not provide the third parties with your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information. If you do not wish to receive these e-mails, you may opt out of future e-mails at any time by following the instructions included in the e-mail;
  • To improve our service and the marketing of our service. For example, we may use the information we gather from user surveys, demographic data, and web site visits to help us improve or target our Web site and customise your visit.

We will not provide any personally identifiable information about you to any other person other than:

  • a law enforcement or regulatory agency at their request;
  • a person or company who acquires our business;
  • third parties who perform services on our behalf (such as payment processing), subject to the third party agreeing with us that it will keep your personally identifiable information confidential;
  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates, or
  • As otherwise needed to protect or enforce or rights or the rights of others.

We absolutely do not transfer or sell your information for inclusion on third party e-mail or other marketing lists.

Use of Non-Personally Identifiable Information

We may share aggregate statistical data about our customers with third parties, such as advertisers or suppliers. This aggregate statistical data will not identify you personally.

What is a Cookie

A “cookie” is an alphanumeric identifier that is unique to your browser. The cookie will identify your browser to us when you visit our web site so that we may customise your visit.

Security of Your Information

We store your personally identifiable information and payment information in a database which has numerous protection policies in place to ensure its security. We encrypt some sensitive data such as passwords and/or but not limited to credit card numbers.

Children’s Privacy

Our service is not available to children under the age of 18, and we will not intentionally maintain information about anyone under the age of 13.