Terms of Service

Terms of Service

This is an agreement between Webs4u Design & Hosting, d/b/a Webs4uDesign.com, as well as its partners and affiliates on the one hand, and the user of Webs4u Design & Hosting’s products and services on the other hand. In this Agreement “You” and “Your” refer to you or any agent, employee, servant or person authorized to act on your behalf. “We”, “Us” and “Our” refer to Webs4u Design & Hosting as well as its subsidiaries and sister companies (collectively, “Webs4u”). This Agreement explains our obligations to you, and explains your obligations to us for various services offered by Webs4u. When you use your account or permit someone else to use it to purchase or otherwise acquire access to additional Webs4u service(s) or products or to cancel your Webs4u services (even if we were not notified of such authorization), this Agreement covers such service or actions.

1.Term of Agreement; Modification

You agree that Webs4u may modify this Agreement and the services it offers to You from time to time. You agree to be bound by any changes Webs4u may reasonably make to this Agreement when such changes are made. If You have purchased services or products from Webs4u, the term of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect as long as You take advantage of and use the products or services.

2. Accurate Information

You agree to maintain accurate information by providing updates to Webs4u, as needed, while You are using Webs4u’s products and services. You agree You will notify Webs4u within five (5) business days when any change of the information You provided as part of the application and/or registration process changes. Failure by You, for whatever reason, to respond within five (5) business days to any inquiries made by Webs4u to determine the validity of information provided by You will constitute a material breach of this Agreement. If You provide any information that is inaccurate, not current, false, misleading or incomplete, or if Webs4u has reasonable grounds to suspect that Your information is inaccurate, not current, false, misleading or incomplete, Webs4u has the absolute right, in its sole discretion, to terminate its Services and close Your account.

3. Privacy

You can view Webs4u’s Privacy Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference, as it is applicable to all Webs4u products and services. The Privacy Policy sets out Your rights and Webs4u’s responsibilities with regard to Your personal information. Webs4u will not use Your information in any way inconsistent with the purposes and limitations provided in the Privacy Policy.

4. Prohibited Activities:
  • You agree not to engage in unacceptable use of any of Webs4u products and/or services, which includes, without limitation, use of Webs4u products and/or services to: (i) disseminate or transmit unsolicited messages, chain letters, unsolicited commercial email or unreasonably large volumes of email on a daily basis, provided, Webs4u, in its sole discretion, may permit You, if You have a legitimate purpose and after written request, to send more email than Webs4u’s standard SMTP relay limit; (ii) disseminate or transmit any material that, to a reasonable person may be abusive, obscene, pornographic, defamatory, harassing, grossly offensive, vulgar, threatening or malicious; (iii) disseminate or transmit files, graphics, software or other material, data or work that actually or potentially infringes the copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other intellectual property right of any person; (iv) create a false identity or to otherwise attempt to mislead any person as to the identity, source or origin of any communication; (v) export, re-export or permit downloading of any message or content in violation of any export or import law, regulation or restriction of the United States and its agencies or authorities, or without all required approvals, licenses and/or exemptions; (vi) interfere, disrupt or attempt to gain unauthorized access to any computer system, server, network or account for which You do not have authorization to access or at a level exceeding Your authorization; (vii) disseminate or transmit any virus, trojan horse or other malicious, harmful or disabling data, work, code or program; (viii) engage in any other activity deemed by Webs4u to be in conflict with the spirit or intent of this Agreement or any Webs4u policy; or (ix) use Your server as an “open relay” or similar purposes. This includes but is not limited to pirated software, hacking programs or archives, warez and mp3 sites and IRC bots. Webs4u is the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.
  • Violations of system or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability. Examples include, but are not limited to the following: unauthorized access, use, probe, or scan of a systems security or authentication measures, data or traffic. Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks. Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting.
  • It is a violation for anyone to employ posts or programs which consume excessive CPU time or storage space; permits the use of mail services, mail forwarding capabilities, POP accounts, or auto responders other than for the user’s own account; or resell access to CGI scripts installed on our servers. Webs4u prohibits the running of a public recursive DNS service on any Webs4u server. All recursive DNS servers must be secured to allow only internet network access or a limited set of IP addresses. Webs4u actively scans for the presence of public DNS services and reserves the right to remove any servers from the network that violate this restriction.
  • You are responsible for ensuring that there is no excessive overloading of Webs4u’s DNS system or servers. In the event that You exceed Your allotted bandwidth and thereby overload Webs4u’s DNS or servers, You shall be assessed any and all fees, costs and penalties associated with such overloading. You may not use Webs4u’s servers and Your Server Account as a source, intermediary, reply to address, or destination address for mail bombs, Internet packet flooding, packet corruption, denial of service, or other abusive activities. Server hacking or other perpetration of security breaches is prohibited and Webs4u reserves the right to immediately remove sites that contain information about hacking or links to such information. Use of your server account as an anonymous gateway is prohibited, as is Your use of Webs4u products and/or services to restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Internet. You acknowledge and agree that Webs4u has the right to remove Your server content temporarily or permanently from its dedicated servers if Webs4u is the recipient of activities that threaten the stability of its network.
  • You agree not to provide free services such as free hosting, free subdomains or free email accounts. Account holders found violating this section will be terminated immediately and all payments forfeited.
5. Storage and Security

At all times, You shall bear full risk of loss and damage to Your server and all of Your server content. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of Your password and account information. You acknowledge and agree that You are solely responsible for all acts, omissions and use under and charges incurred with Your account or password or in connection with the server or any of Your server content displayed, linked, transmitted through or stored on the server. You shall be solely responsible for undertaking measures to: (i) prevent any loss or damage to Your server content; (ii) maintain independent archival and backup copies of Your server content; (iii) ensure the security, confidentiality and integrity of Your server content transmitted through or stored on Webs4u servers; and (iv) ensure the confidentiality of Your password. Webs4u’s servers are not an archive and Webs4u shall have no liability to You or any other person for loss, damage or destruction of any of Your content. The services offered by Webs4u are not intended to provide a PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant environment and therefore should not be utilized as such without further compliance activity. Webs4u shall have no liability to You or any other person for Your use of Webs4u products and/or services in violation of these terms.

6. Non-exclusive License

If You have licensed software from Webs4u, Webs4u grants You a limited, non-exclusive, nontransferable and non-assignable license to use the software for such purposes as are ordinary and customary. You are free to use the software on any computer, but not on two or more computers at one time. You agree to not alter or modify the software. You agree You are not authorized to combine the software with any other software program, create derivative works based upon the software, nor are You authorized to integrate any plug-in or enhancement which uses or relies upon the software. You further agree not to reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to uncover the source code.
Webs4u reserves all rights to the software. The software and any copies You are authorized to make are the intellectual property of Webs4u. The source code and its organization are the exclusive property of Webs4u and the software is protected by copyright law. Except as expressly provided for in this section, this Agreement does not grant You any rights in the software and all rights are reserved by Webs4u.
Any such software and services are provided to You “as is” without warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties or conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

7. Webs4u Account

Webs4u will host an account for You corresponding with the purchaed, leased or provided domain name(s) and for the period of time corresponding with the payment plan chosen by You. The contract will automatically renew at the end of The Term unless otherwise specified by You. Once the account cancellation request is received and we process the request as per the account holders consent, the agreement between You and Webs4u is officially terminated. We reserve the right to remove the account from the web server at any time thereafter. Webs4u will NOT host the site for any time period left once the cancellation request has been received and processed. It is Your responsibility to make sure that You and Your respective clients have access to all their files and relevant data before initiating the cancellation request. Webs4u shall not be responsible for any loss of data once the account recurring billing has been cancelled.

8. Legal Purposes

The web hosting and reseller hosting account and/or related electronic services can only be used for legal purposes under all applicable international, federal, provincial, and municipal laws. The intent of Webs4u is to provide space to serve web documents, not as an off- site storage area for electronic files and is governed by our Disk Usage Provision, set out in Section 10 of the Acceptable Use Policy. Violations of these or any other provisions of this Agreement may result in termination of the services provided by Webs4u, with or without the grant of a notice or cure period, such notice or cure period to be granted at the sole discretion of Webs4u based upon the severity of the violation. Webs4u reserves the right to refuse service if any of the content within, or any links from, the Account Holder’s website is deemed illegal, misleading, or obscene, or is otherwise in breach of Webs4u’s then current Acceptable Use Policy, in the sole and absolute opinion of Webs4u.

9. Rates and Prices

You acknowledge that the nature of the service furnished and the rates and charges have been communicated to You. You are aware that Webs4u reserves the right to change the specified rates and charges from time to time.

10. Account Use

You agree to follow generally accepted rules of “Netiquette” when sending e-mail messages or posting to newsgroups. You are responsible for security of your password. Webs4u will not change passwords to any account without proof of identification, which is satisfactory to Webs4u, which may include written authorization with signature. In the event of any partnership break-up, divorce or other legal problems that includes You, You understand that Webs4u will remain neutral and may put the account on hold until the situation has been resolved. Under no circumstances will Webs4u be liable for any losses incurred by You during this time of determination of ownership, or otherwise. The You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Webs4u from any and all claims arising from such ownership disputes.

11. Safe Use

You agree not to harm Webs4u, its reputation, computer systems, programming and/or other persons using Webs4u.com’s services. Webs4uDesign.com reserves the right to select the server for Account Holder’s website for best performance. You understand that the services provided by Webs4u are provided on a shared server. In order to keep our servers running at optimal levels, any sites running a process that uses more than 25% of all available system resources for 60 seconds or longer will be required to move up to VPS Hosting or Dedicated Server solution, or to be hosted elsewhere. This upgrade may result in an automatic upgrade to a higher-level pricing plan corresponding with the elevated use requirements. Alternatively, Webs4u reserves the right to suspend services on that specific account until the higher usage may be accommodated. A failure by You to agree to and comply with the terms of this provision may result in the termination of the services provided to You without any refunds of the unused prepaid portion of the fees.

12. Third Party Content

If You elect to sell or resell advertising or web space to a third party then You will be responsible for the contents of that advertising and the actions of that third party. Webs4u has the absolute right to reject any advertising or other third party content that is illegal, offensive or otherwise in breach of the then current Webs4u policy or agreement. Such content may result in the suspension or in the immediate termination of Your account. You are responsible for monitoring all domain transfers, renewal and orders. In the event that an error occurs the account holder must notify Webs4u immediately of the error. In no event shall Webs4uDesign.com be liable to the Account Holder for any damages resulting from or related to any failure or delay of domain registration, transfer or renewal.

13. Domain Lease

Webs4u’s “Free Domain for the First Year” service offers You a free domain name for the first year of the web hosting account that should be hosted on Webs4u servers. The domain name is registered under Webs4u’s name, owned by Webs4u for that first year, is the property of Webs4u for the first year, and is managed by Webs4u on Your behalf. Webs4u employs privacy protection services provided by WhoisGuard on all domain names. Webs4u may substitute the client’s information into the whois database upon client request. Free domain names must be hosted on the servers of Webs4u only for the first year. At the end of the first year you will take full control over the domain names for an annual fee of each domain name at current market pricing.

In the case of an upgrade to a plan with fewer free domain names, it is possible to keep up to 8 domains with Webs4u for the discounted yearly renewal cost of $5.95 each. The remaining free domains are to be transferred to your ownership for $12 each. In the event of hosting cancellation ALL the free domains can be transferred out for $12 each.
Important: We cannot register domain names with the “.co.uk” extension for You but can host them. These rules are in place to prevent the abuse of our free domain registration offer. Please email our sales department should you have any confusion regarding this promotional offer.

14. Fees, Payment and Refund

As consideration for the products and/or services purchased by You and provided to You by Webs4u, You agree to pay Webs4u at the time You order. All fees are due immediately and are non-refundable unless otherwise expressly noted, even if Your services are suspended, terminated, or transferred prior to the end of the term of service. Webs4u expressly reserves the right to modify pricing through email notification and/or notice on its website. You may receive a refund within the initial 30 days after sign up if you cancel a web hosting or business hosting account. If you cancel a VPS hosting account, you may receive a refund within the initial 30 days after sign up. If the account holder cancels after the time period specified, there will be no refund given. Refunds do NOT apply to dedicated servers, dedicated IP addresses, SSL certificates, WHMCS, Blesta, cPanel, VPS/dedicated server management or domain registration related fees. Important: If the client cancels within the first 30 days and has registered new domain names with us during this time period, Webs4u will charge the client a one time fee of $10.87 per domain name (.com, .net) or $9.69 per domain name (.org, .info, .us, .biz) before the refund. Alternatively the domain name can be transferred out to the clients property at a cost of $12 per one domain transfer. These terms are in place to prevent abuse of our free domain name(s) service.

15. Billing

If You signed up for a monthly payment plan, Your monthly billing date will be determined based on the day of the month You purchase the products or services. If that date falls after the 28th of the month, then Your billing date will be the 28th of each month. If You signed up for an annual (or longer) payment plan, and You elected the automatic renewal option, Webs4u will automatically renew Your services when they come up for renewal and will take payment in accordance with the designated payment method at Webs4u’s then current rates.
If for any reason Webs4u is unable to charge Your account for the full amount owed Webs4u for the products and/or services provided, or if Webs4u is charged a penalty for any fee it previously charged to You, You agree that Webs4u may pursue all available remedies in order to obtain payment. If You pay by credit card and if for any reason Webs4u is unable to charge Your credit card with the full amount of the services provided, or if Webs4u is charged back for any fee it previously charged to the credit card You provided, You agree that Webs4u may pursue all available remedies in order to obtain payment. You agree that among the remedies Webs4u may pursue in order to effect payment, shall include but will not be limited to, immediate cancellation without notice to You of any domain names or products and/or services registered or renewed on Your behalf. Webs4u reserves the right to charge a reasonable administrative fee for administrative tasks outside the scope of its regular services, including additional costs that it may incur in providing the services and pass these costs along to You.

16. Affiliate Program Terms:
  • All commissions are 1-time payout.
  • Payout levels vary on a monthly basis depending on how many customers you refer to us.
  • Payouts are made at the end of each month for active orders older than 45 days of the moneyback guarantee period.

While all purchases are processed in US dollars, Webs4u may provide an estimated conversion price to currencies other than US dollars. You acknowledge and agree that the pricing displayed during the checkout process is an estimate. Due to potential slight time delays between actual purchase and the payment settlement, the actual price charged may fluctuate. Accordingly, Webs4u makes no representations or warranties that the actual price will be the same or substantially similar to the actual price You will pay and You waive any and all claims based upon any discrepancy between the estimate and the actual price. In addition, you may be charged VAT, based on the country indicated in Your billing address section. Any amounts to be charged will appear during the checkout process.

17. Limitation of Liability; Waiver and Release

The services offered by Webs4u are being provided on an “AS IS” and Webs4u expressly disclaims any and all warranties, whether express or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, to the fullest extent permitted or authorized by law. Without limitation of the foregoing, Webs4u expressly does not warrant that the Webs4u products and/or services will meet Your requirements, function as intended, or that the use of the provided services will be uninterrupted or error free. In no event shall Webs4u be liable for any or all direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits; or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including, but not limited to, negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of the services, even if Webs4u is aware of or has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

18. Indemnification

Accordingly, You for Yourself and all of Your heirs, personal representatives, predecessors, successors and assigns, hereby fully release, remise, and forever discharge Webs4u and all affiliates of Webs4u, and all officers, agents, employees, and representatives of Webs4u, and all of their heirs, personal representatives, predecessors, successors and assigns, for, from and against any and all claims, liens, demands, causes of action, controversies, offsets, obligations, losses, damages and liabilities of every kind and character whatsoever, including, but not limited to, any action omission, misrepresentation or other basis of liability founded either in tort or contract and the duties arising thereunder, whether known or unknown, relating to or arising out of, or in any way connected with or resulting from, the products and services and Your acquisition and use thereof, including, but not limited to, the provision of the Webs4u products and/or services by Webs4u and its agents and employees. Further, You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Webs4u harmless from any loss, liability, damages or expense, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of any breach of any representation or warranty provided herein, any negligence or willful misconduct by You, or any allegation that Your account infringes a third person’s copyright, trademark or proprietary or intellectual property right, or misappropriates a third person’s trade secrets. This indemnification is in addition to any indemnification required of You elsewhere. Should Webs4u be notified of a pending law suit, or receive notice of the filing of a law suit, Webs4u may seek a written confirmation from You concerning Your obligation to defend, indemnify Webs4u. Your failure to provide such a confirmation may be considered a breach of this agreement. You agree that Webs4u shall have the right to participate in the defense of any such claim through counsel of its own choosing. You agree to notify Webs4u of any such claim promptly in writing and to allow Webs4u to control the proceedings. You agree to cooperate fully with Webs4u during such proceedings.

19. Termination

You agree that You will be responsible for notifying Webs4u should You desire to terminate Your use of Webs4u’s Services. Notification of Your intent to terminate must be provided to Webs4u no earlier than 10 days prior to Your billing date but no later than three days prior to Your billing date.

20. Notices

You agree that any notices required to be given under this Agreement by us to you will be deemed to have been given if delivered in accordance with the account and/or domain name WHOIS information you have provided.

21. Legal Age

You attest that you are of legal age to enter into this Agreement.

22. Final Agreement

This Agreement, together with all modifications, constitute the complete and exclusive agreement between you and us, and supersede and govern all prior proposals, agreements, or other communications. This Agreement may not be amended or modified by you except by means of a written document signed by both you and an authorized representative of us.

23. No Agency Relationship

Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed as creating any agency, partnership, or other form of joint enterprise between the parties hereto. Each party shall ensure that the foregoing persons shall not represent to the contrary, either expressly, implicitly, by appearance or otherwise.

24. Waiver

The failure of us to require your performance of any provision hereof shall not affect the full right to require such performance at any time thereafter; nor shall the waiver by us of a breach of any provision hereof be taken or held to be a waiver of the provision itself.

25. Enforceability

In the event that any provision of this Agreement shall be unenforceable or invalid under any applicable law or be so held by applicable court decision, such unenforceability or invalidity shall not render this Agreement unenforceable or invalid as a whole. We will amend or replace such provision with one that is valid and enforceable and which achieves, to the extent possible, our original objectives and intent as reflected in the original provision.

26. Assignment and Resale

Except as otherwise set forth herein, your rights under this Agreement are not assignable or transferable. Any attempt by your creditors to obtain an interest in your rights under this Agreement, whether by attachment, levy, garnishment or otherwise, renders this Agreement voidable at our option. You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or otherwise exploit for any commercial purposes any of the Services (or portion thereof) without Webs4u’s prior express written consent.

27. Force Majeure

Neither party shall be deemed in default hereunder, nor shall it hold the other party responsible for, any cessation, interruption or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder due to causes beyond its control including, but not limited to: earthquake; flood; fire; storm; natural disaster; act of God; war; terrorism; armed conflict; labor strike; lockout; boycott; supplier failures, shortages, breaches, or delays; or any law, order regulation, direction, action or request of the government, including any federal, state and local governments having or claiming jurisdiction over Webs4u, or of any department, agency, commission, bureau, corporation or other instrumentality of any federal, state, or local government, or of any civil or military authority; or any other cause or circumstance, whether of a similar or dissimilar nature to the foregoing, beyond the reasonable control of the affected party, provided that the party relying upon this section (i) shall have given the other party written notice thereof promptly and, in any event, within five (5) days of discovery thereof and (ii) shall take all steps reasonably necessary under the circumstances to mitigate the effects of the force majeure event upon which such notice is based; provided further, that in the event a force majeure event described in this Section extends for a period in excess of thirty (30) days in the aggregate, Webs4u may immediately terminate this Agreement.

28. Headings

The section headings appearing in this Agreement are inserted only as a matter of convenience and in no way define, limit, construe or describe the scope or extent of such section or in any way affect such section.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Questions about the Terms of Service should be sent to us at terms@webs4udesign.com or by mail to:

Webs4u Design & Hosting
P.O. Box 3407
Asheboro NC 27204
United States

This document was last revised on February 21st, 2023.

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"So what exactly is a VPN?"

Get more from the Internet—especially privacy, anonymity and safety—by using an IPVanish VPN before you do anything online!

Who doesn’t love the Internet? It delivers information, answers, entertainment and connections to you, on demand, in seconds.

From anywhere and at any time from our desktop computers, laptops, smartphone and tablets.

It’s a life-saver for students of all ages, moms, businesses, organizations…everyone.

But the Internet is not perfect. It has some built-in flaws that make you vulnerable when you’re online. You should know that, because hackers, government and other snoopers and advertisers take full advantage of it.

A VPN changes that for you!

But you can make the Internet safer, more secure and definitely more private with the help of a VPN…a virtual private network.

You’ve probably been hearing more and more about VPNs for home use and travel. That’s because it’s more important than ever to be smarter and safer while you’re on the Internet.

More than that, don’t you want to go on the Internet without being tracked, monitored, and identified…without your knowledge? In today’s world, that freedom is getting harder to find.

A VPN…described.

Here’s a quick, helpful definition…and about all you need to know about a VPN.

  • An IPVanish VPN is a service that you sign up for online for a small monthly charge
  • Once you have an account, your VPN service should be “on” when you’re online
  • An IPVanish VPN, in action, takes your Internet connection and makes it more secure, helps you stay anonymous and helps you get around blocks and access censored sites.
  • The key to an IPVanish VPN is that it lends you a temporary IP address and hides your true IP address from every website or email you connect with

It’s Virtual…because it’s as if you have a private connection directly to any website or another computer you connect to.

It’s Private…because all your website visits and online activity is between you and the websites you visit.

It’s a Network…because you’re using a special network of VPN servers that covers the entire globe.

Your IP address is a potential problem. You may want to hide it.

Your IP address is a behind-the-scenes number your Internet provider assigns your computer that allows you to go anywhere on the Internet. It’s something like the house number on your home.

That’s the good news. The somewhat “bad” news is that your IP address also gives away your computing location, at home or on the road. That bothers a lot of computer users.

Why?

Because governments have tracked people down by their IP address, with the help of the person’s Internet Service Provider.

Also, online businesses of all kinds monitor activity coming from IP addresses. They may not know your name, but they know you like their website.

Online companies and networks can (and do) restrict someone’s access to a website based on where the user is located. Guess how they know where the user is? Right…the user’s IP address.

Finally, hackers can break into networks and sometimes take over devices through its IP address.

As hard as IT experts, Internet providers and technology companies try, the Internet is not as safe or private as you wish it should be.

As you can see, we don’t have nearly enough privacy, or security, as we’d like.

A virtual private network levels the playing field.

However, when you go online using an IPVanish VPN account, you tilt the scales in your favor. An IPVanish VPN account can instantly and continuously provide…

  • More privacy. Your connections cannot be linked to your computer…and you. You can visit any website and your ISP doesn’t know where you’ve been.
  • More security. VPN connections are super secure. The network is hack proof and all of your Internet activity is encrypted (coded) and unreadable in transit.
  • More website access. No more blocks or censorship. They can’t prevent from getting to websites based an IP address.
  • More anonymity. Your true IP address is hidden! You’re unidentifiable online because you’re constantly using a different IP address, never your own. In fact, it typically looks as if you’re in a different part of the world from where you really are.

Here’s the best part. Everything else about your Internet experience stays virtually the same.

But you will have so much more going for you.

Remember, you don’t need to switch the Internet Provider Service you use at home or the office to connect to the Internet.

You also don’t need to buy any new equipment, like a modem or router, or hire some squad of geeks to hook you up to anything.

It’s all done online. In minutes.

The more you know about the Internet, you’ll realize that using a VPN such as IPVanish is a smart idea.

The above information comes from whatismyipaddress.com