Terms and Conditions

The use of MC4-IT hosting services is governed by the below Terms and Conditions below.

This document was last updated on: Sunday, September 28, 2008.

1. Terms of Service

   MC4-IT provides worldwide webpage hosting. MC4-IT reserves the right to suspend or cancel a customer's access to any or all services provided by MC4-IT at any time without notice or reason. MC4-IT also reserves the right to cancel or suspend a customer’s account if they breach these Terms and Conditions.

2. Account-Holder Identification Information

   You agree that you, as the person legally responsible for all use of this account, are at least 18 years of age. If you are under 18 years of age, you need to have parental consent in order to sign up, and the account must be ordered by a parent or guardian, in their own name. You agree to supply MC4-IT with a current and truthful name, postal address, email address and telephone number for our records, and you have a continued obligation to keep this information current.

   MC4-IT reserves the right to refuse service to anyone without notice or reason.

3. Sharing or Reselling of account

   You are the individual solely responsible for all use of the account, whether someone you have given access to the account causes damage or not. You understand this includes but is not limited to; breach of the hosting account due to negligence on your part.

4. Account Setup

   We will setup your account after we have received payment and we and/or our payment partner(s) have screened the order(s) incase of fraud. It is your responsibility to provide us with an email address which is not @ the domain(s) you are signing up under.

5. No warranties

   MC4-IT makes no warranties or representations of any kind for the services being offered. The service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of title, non-infringement, or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. No advice or information given by MC4-IT or its agents or employees shall create a warranty. MC4-IT provides no warranty that the service will be uninterrupted or error free or that any information, software or other material accessible on the service is free from viruses or other harmful components. Under no circumstances shall MC4-IT be liable for any direct, indirect, special, punitive, or consequential damages that result in any way from your use of or inability to use the service, or for third parties' use of the service to access your Web space, or to access the Internet or any part thereof, or your or any third parties' reliance on or use of information, services, or merchandise provided on or through the service, or that result from mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files, errors, defects, delays in operation or transmission, or any failure of performance.

6. Resource Usage
   
   Users may not initiate the following:
   1. Run any process that requires more than 5Mb of memory space, more than 15 CPU seconds, or use more than 5% of all available system resources at any time.
   2. Run any type of interactive real-time chat applications that require server resources. Remotely-hosted services are fully allowed.
   3. Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.
   4. Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
   5. Run any process which interacts with the MySQL Database Management Server using persistent connections. The use of persistent connections to connect to the MySQL Database Management Server on MC4-IT servers is strictly prohibited. Any account found to be in violation of this policy will be immediately suspended.
7. Account Use
   
   MC4-IT does not allow any of the following content to be hosted:
   1. Illegal Material - This includes copyrighted works, commercial audio, video, or music files, and any material in violation of any Federal, State or Local regulation.
   2. Adult Material - Includes all pornography, or otherwise lewd or obscene content. The designation of "adult material" is left entirely to the discretion of MC4-IT.
   3. Warez - Includes pirated software, ROMS, emulators, phreaking, hacking, password cracking. IP spoofing, etc., and encrypting of any of the above. Also includes any sites which provide "links to" or "how to" information about such material.
   4. Other Material - Any material we feel to be abusive, effect or could effect the operation of the service and/or effect other internet users. The designation of "abusive" is left entirely to the discretion of MC4-IT. All rights reserved.
8. Zero Tolerance Spam Policy

   We take a zero tolerance stance against sending of unsolicited e-mail, commonly known as spam. Any user who sends out spam will have their account terminated without notice.

   MC4-IT reserves the right to require changes or disable as necessary any web site, account, database, or other component that does not comply with this policy, at its sole discretion. MC4-IT also reserves the right to make any such modifications in an emergency at our sole discretion.

   MC4-IT 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 left entirely to the discretion of MC4-IT. All rights reserved.

9. Mass-mailing lists

   No account hosted on MC4-IT servers may send in excess of one thousand (1000) emails per twenty-four (24) hours. Any account found in violation of this policy will be immediately suspended.

10. Payment Information

    You agree to supply appropriate payment for the services received from MC4-IT, in advance of the time period during which such services are provided. You agree that until and unless you notify MC4-IT of your desire to cancel any or all services received, those services will be billed on a recurring basis.

    MC4-IT reserves the right to change the annual payment amount and any other charges at anytime.

11. Backups and Data Loss

    Your use of the service is at your sole risk. MC4-IT is not responsible for files and 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 MC4-IT servers.

12. Cancellation and Refunds

    MC4-IT reserves the right to cancel the account at any time.

    Customers may cancel their account at any time. MC4-IT gives you an unconditional 15 day money back guarantee. Refund requests after 15 days will not be negotiated.

    Accounts cancelled/terminated by MC4-IT do not qualify for the 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.
    
    Either party can cancel given a month notice. No refund will be given for the residual left in the hosting account. If the account is terminated in breach of terms and conditions, all residual is forfeited.
    
    Accounts where MC4-IT purchased a domain on your behalf do not qualify for the money back guarantee. No refund will be given in this circumstance.
    
    Should MC4-IT decide to discontinue its hosting service, a refund of the residual will be given.

13. Bandwidth Usage

    You are allocated a monthly bandwidth allowance. This allowance varies depending on the hosting package you purchase. Should your account pass the allocated amount we reserve the right to suspend the account until the start of the next allocation, suspend the account until more bandwidth is purchased at an additional fee, suspend the account until you upgrade to a higher level of package, terminate the account and/or charge you an additional fee for the overages.

14. Indemnification

    Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold MC4-IT harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney's fees asserted against MC4-IT, 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 MC4-IT against liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with MC4-IT' server; (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 customer from MC4-IT server.

15. Disclaimer

    MC4-IT will not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer. MC4-IT makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services we provide. MC4-IT 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 MC4-IT and its employees.

16. Changes to the Terms and Conditions

    MC4-IT reserves the right to revise its policies at any time without notice.