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Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and Terms of
Service (TOS)
Thinknepal issues this document. The company shall be known throughout
this document as Thinknepal. |
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All Payments To Thinknepal
Have a 30-day Money Back Guarantee. Thinknepal agrees to provide the
client web hosting for a monthly/semi-annual/annual fee. Thinknepal will
never require clients to advertise for Thinknepal on their website in
any way shape or form unless agreed upon such as a non-profit
organization receiving complimentary hosting. Clients are allowed to use
the service for business/commercial or personal websites or content. |
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All services
provided by Thinknepal may be used for lawful purposes only.
Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information,
data or material in violation of any United States (or any
other country) law is prohibited. This includes, but is not
limited to: copyrighted material, material that is
threatening or obscene, material that is "adult only"
content, or material protected by trade secrets and other
statue. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless
Thinknepal from any claims resulting from the use of the
service which damages the subscriber or any other party.
Examples of
Non-Acceptable Contents or Links
Pirated
software
Hacking programs or archives
Warez Sites
Illegal MP3's
Spamming Software |
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Background Running Programs
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We do not allow
background-running programs. This includes any IRC related software such
as bouncers and bots. In certain cases we may allow programs to run
continually in the background, these are considered on a one to one
basis and an extra charge will be incurred based on system resources
used and operational maintenance needed. |
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Banned Scripts |
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You are free to
use any scripts you wish provided they do not affect the
normal operations of the server and they are not mentioned
specifically below. Scripts that are commonly known for
causing server disruption include large cgi-based message
forums, auctions, and banner exchanges. In the event a
script affects normal server and/or administrative
operations, Thinknepal reserves the right to disable the
account pending client cooperation and resolution.
Scripts we do
not allow include:
Chat servers/scripts of any kind are strictly prohibited.
Distribution and/or Transmission of Obscene or Indecent
Speech or Material. Violation of indecency and obscenity
laws can result in criminal penalties. |
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Intellectual Property Rights
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Material accessible to you
through Thinknepal's Services may be subject to protection under the
United States of America (or any other country) copyright laws, or laws
protecting trademarks, trade secrets or proprietary information. Except
when expressly permitted by the owner of such rights, you must not use
the Thinknepal Service in a manner that would infringe, violate, dilute
or misappropriate any such rights, with respect to any material, which
you access or receive through the Thinknepal Network. If you use a
domain name in connection with the Thinknepal Service or similar
service, you must not use that domain name in violation of any
trademark, service mark, or similar rights of any third party. |
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Defamation |
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Defamatory
speech distributed over the Internet can result in civil
liability for the defamer. |
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Refusal of Service |
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Thinknepal reserves the
right at its sole discretion to refuse or cancel service. Violation of
any of Thinknepal's Rules and Regulations could result in a warning,
suspension, or possible account termination. Accounts terminated due to
policy violations will not be refunded. Free domains which have been
granted for customers paying annually are released to the customer at
the end of there hosting period. Domains terminated due to policy
violations will not be released to the customer. |
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Spam or Unsolicited E-Mail |
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You must not
use the Thinknepal Network, Thinknepal equipment or any
Thinknepal email address in connection with the transmission
of spam, flames, mail bombs, or substantially similar,
unsolicited email messages. Your domain may not be
referenced as originator, intermediary, or reply-to address
in any of the above. This prohibition extends to the sending
of unsolicited mass mailings from another service that in
any way implicates the use of the Thinknepal Network,
Thinknepal equipment or any Thinknepal email address. A
message is considered unsolicited if it is posted in
violation of a newsgroup charter or if it is sent to a
recipient who has not requested or invited the message. For
purposes of this provision, merely making one's email
address accessible to the public will not constitute a
request or invitation to receive messages.
If you are
found to have spammed, Thinknepal reserves the right to
disable your domain without warning. In addition, Thinknepal
may impose a $50 penalty for each spam policy violation.
Thinknepal solely reserves the right to refuse or cancel
service to known spammers. Lastly, Thinknepal reserves the
right to determine what violates this policy. As such, any
violation may result in cancellation of services without
refund. |
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Abuse |
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Any attempts to
undermine, slander, libel, threaten, or cause harm to a
Thinknepal server, customer, employee, or the company
directly is strictly prohibited and is grounds for immediate
termination without refund. In addition, we will pursue all
attempts to the fullest extent of the law. |
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Indemnification |
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Customer agrees
that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold Thinknepal
(or it's employee's/owners) harmless from any and all
demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including
reasonable legal fees asserted against Thinknepal, 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, it's
agents, employees or assigns. Customer agrees to defend,
indemnify and hold harmless Thinknepal against liabilities
arising out of; (1) any injury to person or property caused
by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection
with Thinknepal server; (2) any material supplied by
customer infringing or allegedly infringing on the
proprietary rights of a third party and (3) copyright
infringement. Customer agrees to limit the liability of
Thinknepal to the amount paid for service. |
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Free Domain Offers |
When this offer
is being run and you have a valid promo code:
The terms & conditions for our free domain name offer are
plain and simple. We will register the domain name for 1
year on your behalf. All we ask is that you stay hosting
with us for a minimum of 3 months. If you decide to leave
before 3 months and you want to take the domain with you we
will only release it once you have paid our normal domain
registration fee. If you stay for 3 months or longer and
then decide to leave you are free to take the domain at no
charge. |
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Refund and Cancellation Policy |
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For payment,
Thinknepal accept MasterCard, Visa, American Express or
Paypal. Thinknepal invoices exclusively via e-mail.
Thinknepal do not send out invoices via postal services.
You may cancel
your account at any time and receive a full refund
(excluding any setup fees or domain name registrations fees
incurred) if cancelled within our thirty (30) day money-back
guarantee period.
If after thirty
(30) days you wish to cancel your hosting account, you will
receive no refund of any monies already paid to Thinknepal.
However, if
customer cancels fifth teen (15) days before recurring
monthly billing date customer will not be billed for the
next month and all payments thereafter will be cancelled
with immediate effect. |
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Late Payment |
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Any account
whose payment status is not current as of the start of the
next billing period is deemed late. Generally, customers are
given a 3 day grace period after which the account is put on
suspension.
You will
receive a payment reminder everyday from the start of your
payment due date. If after 7 days payment has not been
received or we have not been contacted regarding payment,
your account will be terminated without any further notice.
Reactivation of closed accounts due to delinquency incurs a
$15 reactivation fee as well as payment of the balance due
in full. For late payments please email
billing@thinknepal.com to arrange
payment. |
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Cancellation |
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You must
use only one of following methods to deliver a official
written notice of cancellation: Please e-mail
billing@thinknepal.com On receipt
your account will be pending cancellation within 24 hours.
please include your Name, domain name, username, password
and your reason for canceling. |
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Disclaimer |
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Thinknepal will
not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer.
Thinknepal makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or
implied for services we provide. Thinknepal disclaims any
warranty or merchantability or fitness for a particular
purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from delays,
non-deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service
interruptions caused by Thinknepal and its employees.
Thinknepal makes a 99.99% Uptime guarantee.
Thinknepal
keeps backups of key server systems only. Thinknepal can
accept no responsibility for any loss of data or
consequences arising from this. Thinknepal always advises
clients to back up their site data regularly for its own
protection.
Thinknepal
furthermore expects that its customers who provide hosting
services (resellers) to others will ensure its customers
fully comply with all applicable laws concerning the privacy
of online communications and any other policy of Thinknepal.
A customer's failure to comply with those laws will violate
this policy.
If a customer
provides hosting services (resellers) to others and decides
to cancel their reseller hosting account with Thinknepal
then Thinknepal will not be responsible for maintaining
hosting for the resellers customers.
Finally,
Thinknepal wishes to emphasize that in accepting services,
customers indemnify Thinknepal for the violation of any law
or Thinknepal policy, that results in loss to Thinknepal or
the bringing of any claim against Thinknepal. This means
that if Thinknepal is sued because of activities of the
customer that violate any law, or this policy, the customer
will pay any damages awarded against Thinknepal, plus costs
and reasonable legal fees. |
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Failure to comply with any of
our terms & conditions will result in grounds for immediate
account deactivation.
Thinknepal reserves the right to change, edit, or update the
policies contained in this document, along with the content
on our website including the prices on our services at any
time for any reason without notice. |
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