Hosting Terms

Hosting Terms.

What does "unlimited disk space, data transfer, and email storage" mean?

It's pretty straightforward: Customers who use Urchin Design can obtain free disk space, data transfer, and email storage if they use their services consistently with these paragraphs.

What is appropriate usage?

Urchin Design is designed to serve the web hosting needs of small, independently owned and operated businesses in a single country. It is not appropriate to use our services to support large enterprises or internationally based businesses with a sustained demand that places undue burden on our systems or negatively impacts use by small, independently owned and operated businesses. Urchin Design is a shared web hosting service, which means that a number of customers' web sites and other email or storage services are hosted from the same server. Urchin Design uses abuse controls to help ensure that use of our services does not adversely affect the performance of our system or other customers' sites. It is not appropriate to use an account primarily as an online storage space or for archiving electronic files.

Disk space:

If you use your services consistently with the Terms of Service and these paragraphs, your site can grow as large as necessary to meet your small business needs, but to ensure a great experience for all, we will place some constraints on how fast you can grow. The vast majority of our customers' sites grow at rates well within our rules, but our abuse controls may cause a brief delay while we evaluate if expansion is appropriate.

Data transfer:

In most cases, if you use our services consistently with the Terms of Service and these paragraphs, visitors to your web site will be able to download and view as much content from your site as they like. However, in certain circumstances, our server processing power, server memory, or abuse controls could limit downloads from your site. You can also upload as much as content as you like each month, subject only to the Terms of Service and the rules that control how fast your site can grow (see above).

Email storage:

You do not have to worry about hitting a storage limit if you use our services consistently with the Terms of Service and these paragraphs. Urchin Design will increase your space along with your appropriate small business needs, but our abuse controls may impact the rate of growth or your folder size, and there may be a short delay while we assess your usage. In some cases, creating additional folders or subfolders will help ensure that the system works well for everyone.

Data Backups:

You acknowledge that it is solely your responsibility to regularly back-up and maintain copies of your data outside of Urchin Design's network. Urchin Design is not responsible for any data loss or corruption, including that resulting from: (i) our authorized actions, (ii) those actions you take using the Services, (iii) hardware failures, (iv) any software or other technology failures, or (v) account termination, cancellation, or suspension.

All Urchin Design servers have redundant hard drives for real-time RAID 1 mirrored backups. We also provide off-server backups. These server backups are stored for the last 30 days on a best-effort basis. To do a restore from one of these backups, use the Server Rewind feature in cPanel.

If you require assistance from our us in retrieving backups, please contact us. In the request, please specify what you want to restore, and we will make a best effort to restore your data.

We recommend that you maintain your own backups as well. If you create full or partial backups using the cPanel Backup feature, however, please do not save multiple copies of backups on your hosting account.

Acceptable Use Policy & Terms of Service

The following is the entire Acceptable User Policy ("AUP") agreement between Urchin Design ("Urchin Design") and the personal or corporate account holder ("YOU/YOUR/Customer"). Urchin Design provides World Wide Web Hosting, Marketing, and Development. Urchin Design has certain legal and ethical responsibilities consisting with the use of its servers and equipment involved in these services. Urchin Design general policy is to act as a provider of Internet presence. Urchin Design reserves the rights to suspend or cancel a customer's access to any or all services provided by Urchin Design when we decide that the account has been inappropriately used.

Server Abuse

Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server or customer of Urchin Design is strictly prohibited. Urchin Design will strongly react to any use or attempted use of an Internet account or computer without the owner's authorization. Such attempts include "Internet scamming" (tricking other people into releasing their passwords), password theft, security hole scanning, etc. Any unauthorized use of accounts or computers by YOU, whether or not the attacked account or computer belongs to Urchin Design, will result in action against YOU. Possible actions include warnings, account suspension or cancelation, as well as civil or criminal legal action, depending on the seriousness of the attack. IMPORTANT NOTE - Urchin Design has the right to discontinue service, or deny access to anyone who violates our policies or the terms and conditions shown below WITHOUT WARNING or PRIOR NOTICE. No refunds of fees paid will be made if account termination is due to violation of the terms outlined below. YOU may not run IRC, bots or clients on shared servers. Unacceptable uses also include, but are NOT limited to: Bulk emailing, unsolicited emailing, newsgroup spamming, pornographic content, illegal content, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, warez sites (including links to/from), cracks, software serial numbers, proxy-relaying, link farming (the act of or by use of scripts), link grinding, link-only sites, spamdexing, FFA (Free-For-All) and/or anything else determined by Urchin Design to be unacceptable use of our services including abuse of server resources. WEB APPLICATIONS and WEB ACCESSIBLE SCRIPTS - All web applications that are out-of-date and actively being exploited will be shut down immediately without prior notice. YOU are responsible for and should evaluate YOUR web-based applications and scripts on a regular basis to ensure their security and orderliness.

Shared hosting accounts may also be terminated if it includes the following content or have links to the following content: Providing material that is grossly offensive to the Web community including blatant expressions of bigotry, racism, hatred, or profanity; promoting or providing instructional information about illegal activities; promoting physical harm or injury against any group or individual; displaying material containing obscene nudity or pornographic material (not applicable to managed dedicated servers); displaying material that exploits children under 18-years of age; acts of copyright infringement including offering pirated computer programs or links to such programs; information used to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, including serial or registration numbers for software programs, or any type of cracker utilities.

Storage Space Abuse

Urchin Design will not tolerate any form of storage space abuse. At least 90% of YOUR web pages ("HTML") must be 'linked' with files (GIF, JPEG, etc.) stored on Urchin Design servers. Website that are found to contain either/or no HTML documents, a large number of unlinked files are subject to files deletion or account cancelation at the discretion of Urchin Design Management ("MANAGEMENT"), with or without prior notice. If YOU do not qualify for the free service, disk space will go unmonitored until YOU reach the amount allocated to YOUR specific web hosting plan ("PLAN"). Thereafter, normal website data storage costs R2.00/1MB/month will be billed to YOUR account. If you want to pre-pay for disk space overages, you will be billed R1.00/1MB/month. YOU will have 3 days to pay for your overages. Failure to do so will result in YOUR website being disabled within 3 days of YOUR first notice. This does not apply to co-location clients. Co-location clients will be billed for the overages based on switch reports. Co-location clients must pay for the overages IMMEDIATELY once billing or Urchin Design has the sole decision to deactivate any and all servers. Urchin Design will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Bandwidth Abuse

The intention of Urchin Design is to provide a large bandwidth to transfer web documents, and not an offsite storage area for electronic files. If YOU violate this condition, YOU will be notified and given 48 hours to remedy the problem. Failure to do so will result in YOU being billed for the overages. If YOU do not qualify for the free service, traffic will go unmonitored until YOU reach the amount of quota allocated to YOUR specific PLAN. Thereafter, normal data transfer cost of R50.00/1GB/month will be billed to YOUR account. If YOU want to pre-pay for bandwidth overages, YOU will be billed R25.00/1GB/month. YOU will have 3 days to pay for your overages. Failure to do so will result in YOUR website being disabled within 3 days of YOUR first notice. This does not apply to co-location clients. Co-location clients will be billed for the overages based on switch reports. Co-location clients must pay for the overages IMMEDIATELY once billing or Urchin Design has the sole decision to deactivate any and all servers. Urchin Design will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Unsolicited Email & Spamming

Unsolicited commercial advertisements ("SPAM") are not allowed in e-mail, and will likely result in account cancelation. Urchin Design takes a zero-tolerance approach to SPAM originating from its servers or for spam advertising of domains hosted within our network. If found, we will charge YOU up to R200 per unsolicited email message sent and delete YOUR account with any prior notice. The following activities are not allowed: SPAM, which includes, but is not limited to, bulk mailing of commercial advertising, informational announcements, charity requests, petitions for signatures, and political or religious tracts (such messages may only be sent to those who have explicitly requested it from your domain); Forging, altering or removing electronic mail headers - any domain sending stealth spam will be terminated without warning and without refund. Sending numerous copies of the same or substantially similar message with the intent to disrupt a server or account ("mail bombing"); Spamming Newsgroups: Commercial advertisements are unwelcome in most Usenet discussion groups and on most e-mail mailing lists. Inappropriate posting may result in account cancelation. See the newsgroup or mailing list's charter for whether advertising is allowed or not. Sending a message to many different off-topic newsgroups, is particularly unethical and will be treated as such; Mail may not be used to harass or intimidate others. Harassment, whether through language, frequency of messages, or size of messages, is prohibited. Sending a single unwelcome message may be considered harassment. If a recipient asks to stop receiving e-mail, YOU must not send that person any further messages. NOTE - If YOU use the services of another provider to promote a website hosted by or through Urchin Design ("spamvertising"), then the provisions of the above policy shall apply as if the SPAM were sent through our servers. 99.99%

Acceptable Use Policy

1. Purpose

Thank you for your business. This is Urchin Design CC’s (“Urchin Design”, “we”, or “our”) Acceptable Use Policy. This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) discusses expectations we have for you and your obligations when using our Services (as defined in the Terms of Service.) Urchin Design is in the business of facilitating communication between computer networks. Our goal is to allow our users complete access to everything the Internet has to offer, and to help them build their businesses. This AUP facilitates this goal by governing your use of the Services. Because of the evolving nature of the Internet, our business, and the various ways in which our, equipment, technology or network may be abused, abusive activities not set out in this AUP may still be prohibited. For the same reason, we reserve the right to update this AUP from time-to-time. The most recent version will always be posted here.

2. Urchin Design's Hosting Policies; Third Party Policies

  1. This AUP and our other Policies are part of your contract with us, and governs your use of our network and resources and our provision of the Services (as defined in the Terms of Service.) If you are a customer, you’ve agreed to abide by our Policies when you checked “I agree” to our Terms of Service. If you are not our direct customer, you agree to abide by this AUP by using the Services provided by or through us.

  2. You are bound by policies from third parties that provide services to you through Urchin Design. You are strongly encouraged to review such policies prior to agreeing to be bound by this AUP. We will provide you with additional information about those policies on request.

3. Appropriate Use of Urchin Design Services

Intellectual property rights are respected. The terms of our Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Policy, for the process to notify us regarding potential intellectual property rights infringement. You are required to comply with U.S. laws governing copyrights, trademarks, patents, and other laws governing your use of the Services and intellectual property.

4. Prohibited Uses

  1. Unsolicited commercial email, or SPAM, is prohibited. Our network is not designed to be used for mailing lists with over five hundred (500) recipients and you may not send an email to more than five hundred (500) recipients.  If you need to send an email to over five hundred (500) recipients, please contact our Support Team for a list of other service providers that can assist with this task. Even if you send email to fewer than five hundred (500) recipients, we will consider your mail to be unsolicited, or SPAM, if it results in a number of complaints to us, disrupts our network, or subjects us to unfavorable action by other Internet providers. Please review the “CAN-SPAM Act” and ensure that any commercial email you send complies with this Act. Email that is “CAN-SPAM compliant” may still otherwise be prohibited by our AUP. If you believe one of our customers is engaged in spamming, please send an email containing all headers, and your contact information, to: info(at)urchindesign.co.za (replace “(at)” with “@”).

  2. Certain content is prohibited. You are responsible for any content transmitted, or accessed, using our network. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. You may not use our network to directly facilitate the violation of any particular law or regulation or this AUP. The activities listed below are meant to provide you with examples of activities and content that are strictly prohibited by this AUP. Use of our network to host content related to or to engage in the following activities is strictly prohibited.

    1. Topsites;

    2. IRC scripts/bots, IRCD (irc servers), AutoSurf/PTC/PTS/PPC sites;

    3. IP scanners, Bruteforce Programs/Scripts/Applications;

    4. Mail Bombers/Spam Scripts;

    5. File Dump/Mirror Scripts (similar to rapidshare);

    6. Anonymous or Bulk SMS Gateways;

    7. Websites or links to websites advocating human violence and hate crimes;

    8. Websites promoting illegal activities. or linking to other websites that promote illegal activities;

    9. selling, or otherwise disseminating, pornography or other erotic material, regardless of its literary merit;

    10. hosting adult thumbnail galleries/banner exchanges;

    11. lottery/gambling or chain letters, regardless of content, and regardless of your citizenship;

    12. advertising, advocating or operating High-Yield Interest Programs (HYIP) , Ponzi or Pyramid schemes, prime banks programs, Bank Debentures/Bank Debenture Trading Programs, or Related Sites;

    13. fraudulent sites (Including, but not limited to sites listed at aa419.org & escrow-fraud.com).

    14. broadcasting or streaming of live sporting events (UFC, NASCAR, FIFA, NFL, MLB, NBA, WWE, WWF, etc.) or television;

    15. cryptocurrency/bitcoin miners;

    16. impersonating another user or otherwise falsifying one’s user name in email, Usenet postings, on Internet Relay Chat (IRC), or with any other Internet service;

    17. dox or posting personally identifiable information such as addresses and phone numbers of individuals with the hope of causing damage or harm to said person. This does not cover Government officials when providing contact email addresses or the representatives work phone;

    18. content that promotes or advocates human trafficking in any way shape or form as determined by Urchin Design's sole discretion, sites that promote prostitution, or escort services;

    19. network unfriendly activity (ex: attempts to interfere with our network or network connections or which adversely affect the ability of other people or systems to use our network or the Internet);

    20. creating, posting or sending Warez, Roms, CD-Keys, cracks, passwords, serial numbers, Internet viruses, worms or Trojan horses, engaging in denial of service attacks, or hosting content that is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections;

    21. posting links to prohibited items, facilitating a violation of our Policies, or instructing others in illegal or prohibited activities; and

    22. setting up or using (via the Service) proxies, proxy scripts/anonymizers of any kind.

Uptime Guarantee

(1.) COVERAGE - This 99.99% uptime guarantee applies to any Customer in good financial standing with Urchin Design at the time of a service outage. (2.) SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT ("SLA") & SPECIFICATIONS - Urchin Design endeavors to have the content of YOUR website available for http access by any party in the world 99.99% of the time. Network downtime ("unavailability") is defined as 100% packet loss from Urchin Design to its backbone providers. Downtime is measured past 10 minutes after notification of network failure via Urchin Design's online ticketing system. If the ticketing system itself is unreachable, the ticket must be started by calling the Urchin Design NOC.
Urchin Design's administrators will determine the end of the downtime by a traceroute to YOUR machine from outside the Urchin Design network. (3a.) SHARED HOSTING CREDITS - In the event that YOUR website is unavailable for less than 100%, Urchin Design will credit the following month's service fee as follows. YOUR credit shall be retroactive and measured in 24 hours a day of a calendar month, with the maximum credit not exceeding 50% of the monthly service charge for the affected month. Monthly Uptime Credit:

  • 95% to 99.9% - YOUR account will be credited 10% of your monthly hosting fee
  • 90% to 94.9% - YOUR account will be credited 20% of your monthly hosting fee
  • 89.9% or below - YOUR account will be credited 50% of your monthly hosting fee (3b.)

Managed Dedicated Servers

For managed dedicated server Customers, if the uptime is between 98.9% and 99.9% for any particular month, credit shall be retroactive and equivalent to the difference between the guaranteed level of availability of the Customer's services during the month and the calculated actual level of availability of the Customer's services, multiplied by the actual charges incurred by YOU for the services during that monthly period. In addition, for managed dedicated servers, YOU may be entitled to additional credits as calculated below measured 24-hours a day in a calendar month, with the maximum credit not to exceeding 25% of the monthly service charge for the affected month. In order for YOU to receive a credit on YOUR account, YOU must request such credit within seven (7) days after YOU experienced the downtime. You must request credit by sending an e-mail message to billingsupport@Urchin Design. For security, the body of this message must contain YOUR account number, the dates and times of the unavailability of YOUR website, and such other customer identification requested by Urchin Design. Credits will usually be applied within sixty (60) days of YOUR credit request. Credit to YOUR account shall be YOUR sole and exclusive remedy in the event of an outage. (4.) RESTRICTIONS - Credit shall not be provided to YOU in the event that you have any outage resulting from:

  • scheduled maintenance as posted from time to time at Urchin Design,
  • your behavior or the performance or failure of your equipment, facilities or applications,
  • circumstances beyond Urchin Design's reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of any governmental body, war, insurrection, sabotage, embargo, fire, flood, strike or other labor disturbance, interruption of or delay in transportation, unavailability of interruption or delay in telecommunications or third party services, including DNS propagation, domain name registration/transfer, failure of third party software or hardware or inability to obtain raw materials, supplies, or power used in or equipment needed for provision of your web site,
  • YOU breaking any agreement policy in Urchin Design's "Terms & Conditions and AUP" causing a machine to fail as a result.

Technical Support Boundaries

Urchin Design provides technical support for YOU that encompasses within our area of expertise only. Such expertise includes assistance, troubleshooting, and debugging of our cPanel control panel interface, servers within our immediate responsibility and any other hosting related issues. However, in under no circumstances is Urchin Design neither obligated to help YOU in the installations of new application modules, templates and/or programming languages, nor in providing assistance for any errors produced by any applications that have been modified by YOU previously. We will only provide assistance in making sure any EasyApps applications that are installed through the cPanel control panel interface are installed as directed.

CGI Scripts

Each shared web hosting account comes with its own CGI-BIN. YOU are free to use any CGI scripts YOU wish, however we reserve the rights to disable any CGI script that effects normal shared server operation without prior notice. (this section does not apply to managed dedicated servers)

Chat Rooms

We do not allow YOU to install YOUR own chat rooms within a shared hosting account, without approving it with Urchin Design. This includes, but not limited to, chat applications written in PHP, Perl, CGI, Python, Ruby, etc. Any web application that provides 'real-time' chat is also not permitted. Most chat rooms tend to be large system hogs and we cannot allow it as an account option. However, web based forums such as vBulletin, phpBB or similar forum scripts are acceptable.

File Server

Urchin Design installed and provides special file-servers in our network infrastructure for YOUR benefit as a means of storage for electronic files and applications that are not dynamically generated and is downloadable in nature. Files such as MP3, AVI, MID, MIDI, MPG, MPEG, MOV, ZIP, RAR, EXE and anything else we deemed as downloadable and not dynamically generated scripting languages are to be stored within these file-servers, away from the web-servers. This Policy does not apply for image files formats such as JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP. In addition, all electronic files stored within Urchin Design's file-servers must be legally-owned and be accompanied with a valid license and/or copyright. This include and is not limiting to MP3, AVI, MID, MIDI, MPG, MPEG, MOV, EXE, ISO. Should we discover any unlicensed and/or illegal files within YOUR account, the files will be subjected to deletion without any further notifications. File-servers will not be backed up. YOU are advised to have YOUR own backup locally or elsewhere other than within the Urchin Design's servers. If YOU are found to not adhere to this Policy, the offending material(s) will be deleted from YOUR hosting account without any prior notice. This service is only available for Urchin Design's SHARED-HOSTING customers

SMTP Mail Server Abuse

We do not allow YOU to send outbound mail to more than 20 recipients at any one given time and/or more than 1,000 pieces of e-mail per day from a shared hosting account with a maximum filesize of 10MB per email message. If YOU violate Urchin Design policies persistently in email activities, YOUR account will be suspended and deleted.

Background Running Programs

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. (This section does not apply to managed dedicated servers).

IRC

We currently do not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers. IRC servers are not permitted on our network. YOU can however, install IRC clients on managed dedicated servers. The installation and/or execution of a script and/or binary that runs in the background or listens to any given port are also strictly prohibited.

Payment Policies

All accounts are set up on a pre-pay basis. Setup fees are charged for all new accounts as well as major account changes and are non-refundable. All pricing is guaranteed for the term of pre-payment. Urchin Design reserves the right to change prices at any time, unless other terms have been agreed upon. Any account not brought current within a week (7 days) of e-mail notice or exceeding this time frame in any way is subject to suspension. YOU are responsible for all fees owed on the account from the time it was established to the time that YOU notifies Urchin Design to request for termination of services. All payment is in South African Rand. currency. Urchin Design will bill each client R350 per returned check, per wire transfer received and per credit card chargeback received. All Urchin Design accounts are setup on anniversary billing cycles. YOUR particular billing cycle corresponds to the contract length that was initially chosen at setup. YOUR account will automatically renew at this length. There is no fee to change to a shorter billing cycle at the end of the current cycle. However, if you wish to change to a shorter billing cycle during a current cycle, there will be a R350.00 fee. Please contact the billing department should you wish to change your anniversary billing cycle.

Cancelation of Service

Urchin Design reserves the right to cancel a service at any time. All fees paid in advance of cancellation will be pro-rated and paid by Urchin Design if we institutes our right of cancelation. Any violation of policies which results in extra costs billed to YOU (i.e. transfer, space etc.). All of Urchin Design's PLANS are backed by a 30-day money back guarantee. If YOU are not completely satisfied with our services or support within the first 30 days of YOUR contract, YOU will be given a full refund of the contract amount excluding setup fees, domain registration fees, add-on/upgrade fees and overages. Setup fees are refundable only if the account order is canceled prior to account activation. If YOU cancel, the full contract amount less any setup fees and overages will be refunded if Urchin Design is notified within the first 30 days following activation. This policy does not apply to any additional services such as overages, referrer logs, real audio/video, additional disk space, additional pop accounts, domain registration fees, etc. For credit card payment, refunds will be made to a PayPal account made available by the Customer after the 120th day. Refund policy will not be made available to Customers using wire transfers. All account cancelations must be done via our cancelation form at YOUR hosting account control panel. Phone or email requests will not constitute acceptance of any cancelation.

Promotional Rates & Special Offers

Urchin Design may offer subsequent promotional rates or special offers, the terms of which may or may not be more favorable than the terms and conditions for YOUR Services. Any such promotions or modifications shall not affect YOUR obligations under this Agreement. Promotional fees may be subject to additional terms and conditions which, to the extent they conflict with the terms of this Agreement, shall govern. Different promotional fees and special offers may not be combined together.

Intellectual Property Rights

Material accessible to you through Urchin Design's services may be subject to protection under the United States or other copyright laws, or laws protecting trademarks, trade secrets and proprietary information. Except when expressly permitted by the owner of such rights, YOU must not use Urchin Design or its servers and network in a manner that would infringe, violate, dilute or misappropriate any such rights, with respect to any material that you access or receive through the Urchin Design network. If YOU use a domain name in connection with Urchin Design or similar service, YOU must not use that domain name in violation of any trademark, service mark, or similar rights of any third party.

Network Security

Customers may not use the Urchin Design network with an attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of any host, network, or account. This includes, but is not limited to, accessing data not intended for YOU, logging into a server or account YOU are not expressly authorized to access, password cracking, probing the security of other networks in search of weakness, or violation of any other organization's security policy. YOU may not attempt to interfere or deny service to any user, host, or network. This includes, but is not limited to, flooding, mail bombing, or other deliberate attempts to overload or crash a host or network. Urchin Design will cooperate fully with investigations for violations of systems or network security at other sites, including cooperating with law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations. Users who violate system or network security may incur criminal or civil liability.

Electronic Commerce

YOU will be solely responsible for the development, operation and maintenance of YOUR online store and products along with all content and materials appearing online or on YOUR products, including without limitation: (a.) the accuracy and appropriateness of content and materials appearing within the store or related to YOUR products, (b.) ensuring that the content and materials appearing within the store or related to YOUR products do not violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party, and (c.) ensuring that the content and materials appearing within the store or related to YOUR products are not libelous or otherwise illegal. YOU will be solely responsible for the final calculation and application of shipping and sales tax. YOU will also be solely responsible for accepting, processing, and filling any customer orders, and for handling any customer inquiries or complaints arising there from. YOU are also responsible for the security of any customer credit card numbers and related customer information YOU may access as a result of conducting electronic commerce transactions through YOUR website. YOU will keep all such information confidential and will use the same degree of care and security as YOU use with your confidential information.

Static & Dynamic Content Caching

YOU expressly (i) grant to Urchin Design a license to cache the entirety of YOUR website, including content supplied by third parties, hosted by Urchin Design under this Agreement and (ii) agree that such caching is not an infringement of any of YOUR intellectual property rights or any third party's intellectual property rights.

IP Address Ownership

Urchin Design shall maintain and control ownership of all IP numbers and addresses that may be assigned to YOU by Urchin Design. Urchin Design reserves, in its sole discretion, the right to change or remove any and all such IP numbers and addresses.

Domain Name Registration

YOU agree to pay Urchin Design prior to the effectiveness of the desired domain name registration, the then-current amount set forth in the Urchin Design price schedule for the initial registration of the domain name and, should YOU choose to renew the registration, subsequent renewals of the registration. All fees are non-refundable, in whole or in part, even if YOUR domain name registration is suspended, canceled or transferred prior to the end of YOUR then current registration term. Urchin Design reserves the right to change fees, surcharges, renewal fees or to institute new fees at any time, for any reason, at its sole discretion. YOUR requested domain name will not be registered unless and until we receive actual payment of the registration fee, and have confirmed YOUR registration in an email from Urchin Design to the email address indicated in YOUR registration application. In the event of a chargeback by a credit card company (or similar action by another payment provider allowed by Urchin Design) in connection with the payments of the registration fee for YOUR domain name registration, YOU agrees and acknowledges that the domain name registration shall be transferred to Urchin Design as the paying entity for that registration to the registry and that we reserve all rights regarding such domain name including, without limitation, the right to make the domain name available to other parties for purchase. Urchin Design will reinstate YOUR domain name registration solely at Urchin Design discretion, and subject to our receipt of the initial registration or renewal fee and our then-current reinstatement fee. Transfer domain registrar to Urchin Design YOU agrees to pay Urchin Design prior to the effectiveness of the desired domain name transfer request, the then-current amount set forth in the Urchin Design price schedule for the initial transfer request of the domain name. YOU agree and acknowledge that the domain name transfer will fail, and all fees are non-refundable, for the following reasons, but not limited to:

  • No response from the Registered Name Holder or Administrative Contact
  • Domain name in Registrar Lock Status
  • Domain name registration period time expires or other constraints, other than during the first 60 days of initial registration or during the first 60 days after a registrar transfer

Urchin Design reserves the right to change fees, surcharges, renewal fees or to institute new fees at any time, for any reason, at its sole discretion. YOUR requested domain name will not be registered unless and until we receive actual payment of the registration fee, and have confirmed YOUR registration in an email from Urchin Design to the email address indicated in YOUR registration application. In the event of a chargeback by a credit card company (or similar action by another payment provider allowed by Urchin Design) in connection with the payments of the registration fee for YOUR domain name registration, YOU agrees and acknowledges that the domain name registration shall be transferred to Urchin Design as the paying entity for that registration to the registry and that we reserve all rights regarding such domain name including, without limitation, the right to make the domain name available to other parties for purchase. Urchin Design will reinstate YOUR domain name registration solely at Urchin Design discretion, and subject to our receipt of the initial registration or renewal fee and our then-current reinstatement fee. Transfer domain registrar away from Urchin Design Urchin Design reserves all rights, without limitation, to reject the domain name transfer request for the following reasons, but not limited to:

  • No response from the Registered Name Holder or Administrative Contact
  • Domain name in Registrar Lock Status and there is no request from Registered Name Holder or Administrative Contact for the status change
  • Domain name registration period time will be expiring in less than 60 days or other constraints, other than during the first 60 days of initial registration or during the first 60 days after a registrar transfer

YOU agree and acknowledge that the failure or success of a domain name transfer will be his/her sole responsibility, and Urchin Design will not be held liable for the failure of a domain name transfer for any reason.

Lawful Purpose

Urchin Design reserves the right to refuse service to anyone. YOU may only use Urchin Design server for lawful purposes and our services may not be used for illegal purposes or in support of illegal activities. We reserve the right to cooperate with legal authorities and/or injured third parties in the investigation of any suspected crime or civil wrongdoing. If anything is not legal in the United States of America, it is not permitted to reside on our servers. Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes but not limiting material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property right used without proper authorization, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws. Examples of non-acceptable content or links: "Pirated Warez", OGG, AVI, MPEG, ISO, "Hacker programs or archives", "Copyrighted Digital Movie Copies (DIVX)" and "Unlicensed MP3". The designation of any materials as such described above is left entirely to the discretion of Urchin Design management.

If illegal content or usage is found, the account will be suspended and/or terminated. YOU agree that Urchin Design may disclose any and all YOUR 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. Regardless of the place of signing this agreement, YOU agree that for purposes of venue this contract is entered in Cape Town, South Africa, and any dispute will be litigated or arbitrated in Cape Town, South Africa. Defendants further waive all objections to venue and acknowledge that venue in any such litigation will be held in Cape Town courts. IN NO EVENT SHALL Urchin Design'S MAXIMUM LIABILITY EXCEED FIVE HUNDRED (R500.00) RAND.

Indemnification

YOU AGREE THAT IT SHALL DEFEND, INDEMNIFY, SAVE AND HOLD Urchin Design HARMLESS FROM ANY AND ALL DEMANDS, LIABILITIES, LOSSES, COSTS AND CLAIMS, INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEY'S FEES ASSERTED AGAINST Urchin Design, 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 YOU, YOUR AGENTS, EMPLOYEES OR ASSIGNS. YOU AGREE TO DEFEND, INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS Urchin Design AGAINST LIABILITIES ARISING OUT OF: (1) ANY INJURY TO PERSON OR PROPERTY CAUSED BY ANY PRODUCTS SOLD OR OTHERWISE DISTRIBUTED IN CONNECTION WITH Urchin Design'S SERVER. (2) ANY MATERIAL SUPPLIED BY THE 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 Urchin Design'S SERVER.

Disclaimer

Urchin Design WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES YOUR BUSINESS MAY SUFFER. Urchin Design MAKES NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED FOR SERVICES WE PROVIDE. Urchin Design 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 Urchin Design AND ITS EMPLOYEES. Urchin Design RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REVISE ITS POLICIES AT ANY TIME. ALL SUB-NETWORKS, RESELLERS AND DEDICATED SERVERS OF Urchin Design MUST ADHERE TO THE ABOVE POLICIES. FAILURE TO FOLLOW ANY TERM OR CONDITION WILL BE GROUNDS FOR IMMEDIATE ACCOUNT CANCELATION.

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