BakoWeb Terms of Service

 

 

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All services provided by BakoWeb.com may only be used for lawful purposes. The laws of the State of California & Texas, and the United States of America apply.

The customer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless BakoWeb.com or BakoWeb.info 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@BakoWeb.com with the information required.  If the request is of a licensing issue, we may require further documentation.

Examples of unacceptable material include:
IRC Bots, Proxy Scripts / Anonymizers, Pirated Software / Warez, image, filedump, or banner-ad services (similar to rapidshare, photobucket, or commercial banner ad rotation), topsites, 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.

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 48 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 48 hours.

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

ABSOLUTLY NO CHILD PORN ALLOWED:   ALL MODELS MUST BE 18 YEARS OLD OR OLDER:   Potential harm to minors is strictly forbidden, including but not limited to child pornography or content perceived to be child pornography (Lolita):   Any site found to host child pornography or linking to child pornography will be suspended immediately without notice.  Violations will be reported to the appropriate law enforcement agency.

Scripts & Permissions:   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 755 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.


3.) 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.

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.

BakoWeb 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.

BakoWeb 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 BakoWeb.

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

Once we receive your cancellation and have confirmed all necessary information with you via e-mail/ticket, 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 BakoWeb, it is your responsibility to ensure that your payment information is up to date, and that all invoices are paid on time. BakoWeb 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 in a 10% late fee and/or an account suspension until account balance has been paid in full.

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 us.

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

5.) Backups and Data Loss
Your use of the service is at your sole risk. BakoWeb 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 BakoWeb servers.

6.) Cancellations and Refunds
BakoWeb reserves the right to cancel the account at any time with or without notice.

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 a cancellation form. BakoWeb gives you a 15 day money back guarantee. There are no refunds on administrative fees, installation fees for custom software, coupons, special offers, or domain name purchases. If you signed up for an account using a coupon, start up package, or a special offer you are not eligible for our 15 day money back guarantee.

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. If you signed up for an account using a coupon, start up package, or a special offer you are not eligible for our 15 day money back guarantee.

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

7a.) Resource Usage
User may not:
a) Use 10% or more of system resources for longer then 30 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

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")

Exceeding the CPU and Memory resources limits does not constitute grounds for suspension or termination however accounts that constantly exceed the limit on a regular basis may cause your account to be flagged for review.

7b.) INODES
The use of more than 40,000 inodes on any shared account may potentially result in suspension. Accounts found to be exceeding the 40,000 inode limit will automatically be removed from our backup system to avoid over-usage. Every file on your account uses up 1 inode.

Simply exceeding the limit does not constitute grounds for suspension however accounts that constantly create and delete large numbers of files on a regular basis or causing file system damage may cause your account to be flagged for review.

8a.) Money back Guarantee

Each of BakoWeb's shared accounts have a 15 day money back guarantee on them. If you are not completely satisfied with our services within the first 15 days of your service, you will be given a full refund of the contract amount. Remember, this is only for monthly shared or reseller packages and does not apply to administrative fees, installation fees for custom software, start up packages, coupons, special offers, or domain name purchases. If you signed up for an account using a coupon, start up package, or a special offer you are not eligible for our 15 day money back guarantee.

8b.) Uptime Guarantee
If your shared server has a physical downtime that is not within the 98% uptime you may receive one month of credit on your account. Approval of the credit is at the discretion of BakoWeb dependant upon 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 us with justification. All requests must be made in writing via email.

9.) Shared (non-reseller accounts)
Shared accounts may not resell web hosting to other people, if you wish to resell hosting you must use a reseller account.  Currently BakoWeb does not sell reseller accounts.

9a.)  Affiliate Program: 
Abuse of our Affiliate program, such as but not limited to; spamming out your member link, or anything that causes harm to the good name of BakoWeb, will not be tolerated, and will result in removal from our Affiliate Program.  BakoWeb reserves the right to determine what constitutes an abuse. 

10.) 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 BakoWeb.com, and the right to increase the amount of resources given to plans at any time.

11a.) Indemnification
Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold BakoWeb harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney's fees asserted against BakoWeb, 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 BakoWeb against liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with BakoWeb; (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 BakoWeb's server.

11b.) Arbitration
By using any BakoWeb services, you agree to binding arbitration. If any disputes or claims arise against BakoWeb or its subsidiaries, such disputes will be handled by an arbitrator of BakoWeb'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.

12.) Disclaimer

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

13.) Disclosure to law enforcement
BakoWeb 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.

14.) Changes to the TOS
BakoWeb reserves the right to revise its policies at any time with or without notice.