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Terms of Service
AlphaOne Technology ("The
Company") agrees to furnish services to the Subscriber, subject to the
following TOS (Terms of Service).
Use of AlphaOne Technology Service constitutes acceptance and agreement to
AlphaOne Technology's Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
as well as AlphaOne Technology's TOS (Terms of Service).
All provisions of this contract are subject to the TOS (Terms of Service)
of AlphaOne Technology, and
AUP (Acceptable Use Policy). The
AUP
may be changed from time to time at the discretion of the Company.
Subscriber understands that change to the AUP by the Company shall not be
grounds for early contract termination or non-payment.
This Agreement shall be construed in all respects in accordance with the
laws of the state of Illinois, county of Cook applicable to contracts
enforceable in that state.
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Disclosure to Law
Enforcement: The
AUP specifically prohibits the use of our
service for illegal activities. Therefore, Subscriber agrees that the
Company may disclose any and all subscriber information including assigned
IP numbers, account history, account use, etc. to any law enforcement
agent who makes a written request without further consent or notification
to the Subscriber. In addition AlphaOne Technology shall have the right to
terminate all service set forth in this Agreement.
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Service
Rates: Subscriber acknowledges that the nature of the service
furnished and the initial rates and charges have been communicated to
Subscriber. Subscriber is aware that the Company may prospectively change
the specified rates and charges from time to time. The promotional offer
is contingent upon Company achieving and maintaining its cost of service
goals including but not limited to rates charged to company by its
suppliers.
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Payment:
Establishment and continuation of this service is dependent upon receipt by the Company of
payment of stated charges by 12:01pm on the date due as indicated by any
applicable invoices.
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Payments
and Fees: Credit cards that are declined for any reason are subject to
a $2.00 declination fee. Any payments made with personal or company checks
are not applied as payment on an account until said check has been cleared
by the issuing bank. Service deactivated for non-payment is subject to a
$20 reactivation charge. Service will be deleted on accounts that reach 30
days past due. Re-registration is required for the deleted service.
Accounts that are not collectable by AlphaOne Technology may be turned over to an
outside collection agency for collection. If your account is turned over
for collection, you agree to pay the company a "Processing and Collection"
Fee of not less than $50. If you desire to cancel your account, please
follow the proper procedures:
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At least 15 days prior to the date your account is due to re-bill,
submit your user name, domain name and account administrator email
address in a Ticket to BILLING in our Customer Support Center
www.alphaone-tech.com/tech-support .
OR telephone us at
847-238-3108 during normal business hours.
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Failure to Pay: The Company may temporarily deny service or terminate
this Agreement upon the failure of Subscriber to pay charges when due.
Such termination or denial will not relieve Subscriber of responsibility
for the payment of all accrued charges, plus reasonable interest and any
collection fees.
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Subscriber acknowledges that the service provided is of such a nature that
service can be interrupted for many reasons other than the negligence of
the company and that damages resulting from any interruption of service
are difficult to ascertain. Therefore, subscriber agrees that the company
shall not be liable for any damages arising from such causes beyond the
direct and exclusive control of the company. Subscriber further
acknowledges that the company's liability for its own negligence may not
in any event exceed an amount equivalent to charges payable by subscriber
for services during the period damages occurred. In no event shall the
company be liable for any special or consequential damages, loss or injury
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Support Boundaries: AlphaOne Technology, provides 24 x 7 technical support
to our subscribers (except for few holidays and short company meetings
when we close our center.) We limit our technical support to our area of
expertise. The following is our guidelines when providing support:
AlphaOne Technology provides support related to your server or virtual site physical
functioning. AlphaOne Technology does not offer tech support for application
specific issues such as cgi programming, html or any other such issue.
AlphaOne Technology does not provide technical support for YOUR customers. The Help files in the
program you are using may have the answer to your question so please do
investigate these resources before calling tech support or initiating a
trouble ticket.
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SPAM and Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE): AlphaOne Technology takes a
zero tolerance approach to the sending of Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE)
or SPAM over our network. Very simply this means that customers of
AlphaOne Technology may not use or permit others to use our network to transact in UCE.
Customers of AlphaOne Technology may not host, or permit hosting of, sites or
information that is advertised by UCE from other networks. Within 72
hours, upon request,
customers must supply electronically validated proof for any "opt in" mailing
lists they have used to send commercial Email from AlphaOne Technology's
servers. Proof MUST consist of individual "opt in" Emails or forms for
each address on the mailing list. Emails must contain verifiable header
information. Forms must contain IP addresses and be date and time stamped. Violations of
this policy carry severe penalties, including termination of service.
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Violation of AlphaOne's SPAM policy will result in severe
penalties. Upon notification of an alleged violation of our SPAM policy,
AlphaOne
will initiate an immediate investigation (within 48 hours of
notification). During the investigation,
AlphaOne Technology
may restrict customer access to the network to prevent further
violations. If a customer is found to be in violation of our SPAM
policy, AlphaOne
Technology
may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend or terminate customer's
account. Further, AlphaOne Technology reserves the
right to pursue civil remedies for any costs associated with the
investigation of a substantiated policy violation.
AlphaOne Technology
will notify law enforcement officials if the violation is believed to be
a criminal offense.
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First violations of this policy will result in an "Administrative Fee"
of $250 and your account will be reviewed for possible immediate
termination. A second violation will result in an "Administrative Fee"
of $500 and immediate termination of your account. Users who violate
this policy agree that in addition to these "Administrative" penalties,
they will pay "Research Fees" not to exceed $175 per hour that
AlphaOne Technology
personnel must spend to investigate the matter. PLEASE, DO NOT SPAM from
your account.
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As
our Customers are ultimately responsible for the actions of their
clients over the AlphaOne Technology network, it
is advisable that Customers develop a similar, or stricter, policy for
their clients.
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Anyone hosting websites or services on their server or given Web space
that support spammers or cause any of our IP space to be listed in any
of the various Spam Databases will have their account immediately
removed from our network. The server or the given Web space will not be
reactivated until such time that you agree to remove ANY and ALL traces of the offending material immediately upon reactivation
and agree to allow us access to the server or the given Web space to
confirm that all material has been COMPLETELY removed. Severe
violations may result in immediate and permanent removal of the server
or the given Web space from our network without notice to the customer.
Any server or a given Web space guilty of a second violation WILL
be immediately and permanently removed from our network without notice
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Network
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IP Address Ownership: If
AlphaOne Technology
assigns Customer an Internet Protocol address for Customer's use, the
right to use that Internet Protocol address shall belong only to
AlphaOne Technology,
and Customer shall have no right to use that Internet Protocol address
except as permitted by
AlphaOne Technology
in its sole discretion in connection with the Services, during the term
of this Agreement. AlphaOne Technology shall
maintain and control ownership of all Internet Protocol numbers and
addresses that may be assigned to Customer by
AlphaOne Technology,
and AlphaOne
Technology
reserves the right to change or remove any and all such Internet
Protocol numbers and addresses, in its sole and absolute discretion. Our
allocation of IP addresses is limited by ARIN's new policies. These new
policies state that use of IP addresses for IP based virtual hosts will
not be accepted as justification for new IP addresses. What this means
to you is that you MUST use name-based hosting where possible. We
will periodically review IP address usage, and if we find that clients
are using IP addresses where name-based hosting could be used, we will
revoke authorization to use those IP addresses that could be used with
name-based hosting.
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Disk Usage: Customer agrees that disk
usage shall not exceed the number of megabytes per month for the
Services ordered by Customer on the Order Form (the "Agreed Usage").
AlphaOne Technology
will monitor Customer's disk usage.
AlphaOne Technology
shall have the right to take corrective action if Customer's disk usage exceeds the Agreed Usage. Such corrective action may
include the assessment of additional charges, disconnection or
discontinuance of any and all Services, or termination of this
Agreement, which actions may be taken is in
AlphaOne Technology's
sole and absolute discretion. If
AlphaOne Technology
takes any corrective action under this section, Customer shall not be
entitled to a refund of any fees paid in advance prior to such action.
In the event that a customer exceeds the included allocation,
AlphaOne Technology may, at
its sole discretion, collect a deposit, in an amount determined by
AlphaOne Technology, against
customer's credit card on file with
AlphaOne Technology.
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System and Network Security: Users are prohibited from violating
or attempting to violate the security of the
AlphaOne Technology
Network. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or
criminal liability. AlphaOne Technology will
investigate occurrences, which may involve such violations and may
involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting
Users who are involved in such violations. These violations include,
without limitation:
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Accessing data not intended for such User or logging into a server or
account, which such User is not authorized to access.
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Attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or
network or to breach security or authentication measures without
proper authorization.
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Attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network,
including, without limitation, via means of overloading, "flooding",
"mail bombing" or "crashing".
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Forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information
in any e-mail or newsgroup posting.
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Taking any action in order to obtain services to which such User is
not entitled
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Notification of Violation:
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AlphaOne Technology is under
no duty to look at each customer's or user's activities to determine if
a violation of the
AUP has occurred, nor do we assume any
responsibility through our AUP to monitor or police Internet-related
activities.
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First violation: Any User, which
AlphaOne Technology
determines to have violated any element of this
Acceptable
Use Policy, shall receive an email, warning them of the
violation. The service may be subject at
AlphaOne Technology's
discretion to a temporary suspension pending a User's agreement in
writing, to refrain from any further violations.
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Second Violation: Users that
AlphaOne Technology
determines to have committed a second violation of any element of this
Acceptable Use Policy shall be subject to immediate suspension or
termination of service without further notice.
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We
reserve the right, to drop the section of IP space involved in Spam or
Denial-of-Service complaints if it is clear that the offending activity
is causing great harm to parties on the Internet. In particular, if open
relays are on your network or a customer's network, or if denial of
service attacks are originating from your network. In certain rare
cases, we may have to do this before attempting to contact you. If we do
this, we will contact you as soon as is feasible
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Suspension of Service or Cancellation:
AlphaOne Technology
reserves the right to suspend network access to any customer if in the
judgment of the AlphaOne
Technology network
administrators the customer's server or the given Web space is the source
or target of the violation of any of the other terms of the
AUP
or for any other reason which
AlphaOne Technology
chooses. If inappropriate activity is detected, all accounts of the
Customer in question will be deactivated until an investigation is
complete. Prior notification to the Customer is not assured. In extreme
cases, law enforcement will be contacted regarding the activity. The
customer will not be credited for the time the customer's machines were
suspended.
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AlphaOne Technology reserves the
right to amend its policies at any time. All Sub-Networks, resellers and
managed servers of AlphaOne Technology must adhere to
the above policies. Failure to follow any term or condition will be
grounds for immediate Cancellation. You will be held responsible for the
actions of your clients in the matter described on these Terms and
conditions. Therefore, it is in your best interest to implement a similar
or stricter Terms and conditions or otherwise called Acceptable Terms of
use policy.
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Indemnification:
AlphaOne Technology wishes to
emphasize that in agreeing to the
AlphaOne Technology
Acceptable
Use Policy (AUP) and Terms of Service (ToS), customer
indemnifies AlphaOne
Technology for any violation
of the
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and Terms of Service (ToS) that
results in loss to AlphaOne Technology the bringing of
any claim against AlphaOne Technology by any
third-party. This means that if
AlphaOne Technology
is sued because of a customer's or a customer of a customer's activity,
the customer will pay any damages awarded against
AlphaOne Technology,
plus all costs and attorney's fees.
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Miscellaneous Provisions: You must provide us with, and keep current,
good contact information for you. E-mail, fax, and telephone contacts are
used, in that order of preference.
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A
waiver by the Company of any breach of any provision of this Agreement
by Subscriber shall not operate as or be construed as a continuing or
subsequent waiver thereof or as a waiver of any breach of any other
provision thereof.
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Subscriber shall not transfer or assign this Agreement without the prior
written consent of the Company. Company may assign Agreement at anytime
without consent from or notice to Subscriber. Company reserves right to
cancel customers rights under this contract at anytime without further
obligation.
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AlphaOne Technology takes no
responsibility for any material input by others and not posted to the
AlphaOne Technology
Network by AlphaOne
Technology.
AlphaOne Technology
is not responsible for the content of any other websites linked to the
AlphaOne Technology
Network; links are provided as Internet navigation tools only.
AlphaOne Technology
disclaims any responsibility for any such inappropriate use and any
liability to any person or party for any other person or party's
violation of this policy.
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AlphaOne Technology is not
responsible for any damages your business may suffer.
AlphaOne Technology
does not make implied or written warranties for any of our services.
AlphaOne Technology
denies any warranty or merchantability for a specific purpose. This
includes loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries, wrong
delivery, and any and all service interruptions caused by
AlphaOne Technology.
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It
is absolutely forbidden to host pornographic content or IRC servers on
all accounts. Any account found hosting this material will be subject to
immediate cancellation without refund
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No account may host a website for any group, organization or person
other than the account holder unless the account is designated as a
reseller or dedicated server. Any account violating this provision
will be suspended immediately and may be terminated at our discretion.
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Responsibility for Content: You, as
AlphaOne Technology's
customer, are solely responsible for the content stored on and served by
your AlphaOne Technology
server or the given Web space.
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