You
must accept the terms of this Agreement in order to use the
Services.
NOTWITHSTANDING, BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT
YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS
AND CONDITIONS CONTAINED HEREIN AS WELL AS ALL ACCEPTABLE USE
POLICIES INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE.
Universal Site Management reserves
the right to change or modify any of the terms and conditions
contained in this Agreement, any Addendums and any policy
or guideline incorporated by reference at any time and from
time to time in its sole discretion, and to determine whether
and when any such changes apply to both existing or future
customers. Any changes or modification will be effective upon
posting of the revisions on the Universal Site Management
Web site (the "Site"). Your continued use of Services
following Universal Site Management's posting of any changes
or modifications will constitute your acceptance of such changes
or modifications.
1. Term and Payment for Services
1.1. Term This Agreement shall
be for an "Initial Term" as chosen by you in the
Order Form located on this Site at the time you register for
the Services. This Agreement will be automatically renewed
(the "Renewal Term") at the end of the Initial Term
for the same period as the Initial Term unless you provide
Universal Site Management with notice of termination thirty
(30) days prior to the end of the Initial Term or the Renewal
Term. You must provide Universal Site Management with your
notice of termination by clicking on the "Cancel Service"
button located on the Site or as otherwise provided by this
Agreement. Upon clicking on the "Cancel Service"
button, you will be asked to provide Universal Site Management
with sufficient customer identification information so that
Universal Site Management may properly identify you and your
account. Any notice of termination will be effective following
thirty (30) days after Universal Site Management's receipt
thereof.
1.2. Termination Policy If you
terminate your receipt of the Services prior to the end of
the Initial Term or the Renewal Term, whichever is then applicable,
(a) Universal Site Management will not refund to you any fees
paid in advance of such termination and (b) you shall be required
to pay 100% of Universal Site Management's standard bodyregular
charge for each month remaining in the term, unless otherwise
expressly provided in this Agreement. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, if you terminate your receipt of Managed Hosting
Services prior to the end of the first thirty (30) days of
the Initial Term, you are entitled to a refund of the fees
you paid in advance for the bodyregular Services, not including
any set-up fees. Your termination request or notice must be
submitted to Universal Site Management in the manner described
in Section 1.1. Universal Site Management may terminate this
Agreement at any time and for any reason by providing to you
written notice thirty (30) days prior to the date of termination.
If Universal Site Management terminates this Agreement, Universal
Site Management will refund to you the pro-rata portion of
pre-paid fees attributable to Services (excluding set-up fees)
not yet rendered as of the termination date unless otherwise
expressly provided in this Agreement.
1.3 Default and Cure In the event
that either party hereto defaults in the performance of any
of its material duties or obligations under this Agreement,
including failure to make any payments due under this Agreement,
and such default is not cured within five (5) days after written
notice is given to the defaulting party specifying the default,
then the party not in default, after given written notice
thereof to the defaulting party, may terminate this Agreement.
1.4. Charges You agree to pay for
all charges attributable to your use of the Services at the
then current Universal Site Management prices, which shall
be exclusive of any applicable taxes. You are responsible
for the payment of all federal, state, and local sales, use,
value added, excise, duty and any other taxes assessed with
respect to the Services, other than taxes based on Universal
Site Management's net income.
1.5. Payment All charges for Services
must be paid in advance according to the then current prices
applicable to the Services. Upon entering this Agreement,
you must choose to pay either by direct charge to a credit
or debit card, or receive an invoice and submit subsequent
payment. If you choose to pay by credit or debit card upon
registering for the Services, you thereby authorize Universal
Site Management to charge your credit or debit card to pay
for any charges that may apply to your account. You agree
that Universal Site Management may accumulate any supplemental
charges, incurred by you in your use of the Services ("Supplemental
Charges") until such charges exceed $20 and then charge
your account. You must notify Universal Site Management of
any changes to your card account (including, without limitation,
applicable account number or cancellation or expiration of
the account), your billing address, or any information that
may prohibit Universal Site Management from charging your
account. If you choose to be invoiced upon registration for
Services, Universal Site Management will invoice you for the
Services applicable to the period for which you have registered
for the Services. Universal Site Management may also create
periodic invoices for any applicable Supplemental Charges
associated with your use of the Services. Universal Site Management
will send you a statement reflecting the accumulated invoices.
You agree to pay to Universal Site Management the amount indicated
in each invoice by the due date reflected on that invoice.
If you fail to pay any fees and taxes by the applicable due
date for credit card or invoice payments, late charges of
the lesser of one and one-half per cent (1.5%) per month or
the maximum allowable under applicable law but at no time
less than $15 shall also become payable by you to Universal
Site Management. In addition, your failure to fully pay any
fees and taxes within five (5) days after the applicable due
date will be deemed a material breach of this Agreement, and
Universal Site Management may, in addition to any other remedy
it may have: (i) suspend its performance of the Services and/or
terminate this Agreement; and/or (ii) take possession and
ownership of any of your property (including any and all intellectual
property) in Universal Site Management's possession at the
time of such non-payment and liquidate such property in any
reasonable manner in partial or full satisfaction of any unpaid
amounts. You agree to sign any documents to facilitate such
a transfer of your property and, in the event that Universal
Site Management is unable for any reason to secure your signature
to any document required for such transfer, you hereby irrevocably
designate and appoint Universal Site Management and its authorized
officers and agents as your agent and attorney-in-fact to
act on your behalf to execute such documents. Any such suspension
or termination of the Services would not relieve you from
paying past due fees plus interest. In the event of collection
enforcement, you will be liable for any costs associated with
such collection, including, without limitation, reasonable
attorneys' fees, court costs and collection agency fees.
2. Use of Services
2.1. Applicable Use Policy The
Universal Site Management Acceptable Use Policy (the "Usage
Policy") govern the general policies and procedures for
use of the Services. The Usage Policy is posted on Universal
Site Management's Web site (or such other location as Universal
Site Management may specify) and may be updated from time-to-time.
YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY READ THE USAGE POLICY. BY USING THE SERVICES,
YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THE USAGE POLICY AND
ANY MODIFICATIONS. Universal Site Management RESERVES THE
RIGHT TO TERMINATE YOUR ACCOUNT FOR ANY VIOLATION OF THE USAGE
POLICY OR THIS AGREEMENT.
2.2. Material and Product Requirements
Unless we have agreed otherwise in a separate agreement, you
must ensure that all material and data placed on Universal
Site Management's equipment is in a condition that is "server-ready,"
which is in a form requiring no additional manipulation by
Universal Site Management. Universal Site Management will
make no effort to validate any of this information for content,
correctness or usability. If your material is not "server-ready",
Universal Site Management has the option at any time to reject
this material. Universal Site Management will notify you of
its refusal of the material and afford you the opportunity
to amend or modify the material to satisfy the needs and/or
requirements of Universal Site Management. Use of the Services
requires a certain level of knowledge in the use of Internet
languages, protocols and software. This level of knowledge
varies depending on the anticipated use and desired content
of your Web site. You must have the necessary knowledge to
create and maintain a Web site. It is not Universal Site Management's
responsibility to provide this knowledge or customer support
outside of the Services agreed to by you and Universal Site
Management.
2.3. Bandwidth and Storage Usage
You agree that use of the Services under this Agreement will
not exceed the bandwidth and storage usage limits set out.
If you use any bandwidth or storage space in excess of the
agreed upon number of megabytes per month, you agree to pay
the associated additional charges.
3. Enforcement
3.1. Investigation of Violations Universal Site Management
may investigate any reported or suspected violation of this
Agreement, its policies or any complaints and take any action
that it deems appropriate and reasonable under the circumstance
to protect its systems, facilities, customers and/or third
parties. Universal Site Management will not access or review
the contents of any e-mail or similar stored electronic communications
except as required or permitted by applicable law or legal
process.
3.2. Actions Universal Site Management
reserves the right and has absolute discretion to restrict
or remove from its servers any content that violates this
Agreement or related policies or guidelines, or is otherwise
objectionable or potentially infringing on any third party's
rights or potentially in violation of any laws. If we become
aware of any possible violation by you of this Agreement,
any related policies or guidelines, third party rights or
laws, Universal Site Management may immediately take corrective
action, including, but not limited to, (a) issuing warnings,
(b) suspending or terminating the Service, (c) restricting
or prohibiting any and all uses of content hosted on Universal
Site Management's systems, and/or (d) disabling or removing
any hypertext links to third party Web sites, any of your
content distributed or made available for distribution via
the Services, or other content not supplied by Universal Site
Management which, in Universal Site Management's sole discretion,
may violate or infringe any law or third-party rights or which
otherwise exposes or potentially exposes Universal Site Management
to civil or criminal liability or public ridicule. It is Universal
Site Management's policy to terminate repeat infringers. Universal
Site Management's right to take corrective action, however,
does not obligate us to monitor or exert editorial control
over the information made available for distribution via the
Services. If Universal Site Management takes corrective action
due to such possible violation, Universal Site Management
shall not be obligated to refund to you any fees paid in advance
of such corrective action.
3.3. Disclosure Rights To comply
with applicable laws and lawful governmental requests, to
protect Universal Site Management's systems and customers,
or to ensure the integrity and operation of Universal Site
Management's business and systems, Universal Site Management
may access and disclose any information it considers necessary
or appropriate, including, without limitation, user profile
information (i.e., name, e-mail address, etc.), IP addressing
and traffic information, usage history, and content residing
on Universal Site Management's servers and systems. Universal
Site Management also reserves the right to report any activity
that it suspects violates any law or regulation to appropriate
law enforcement officials, regulators, or other appropriate
third parties.
4. Intellectual Property Rights
4.1. Your License Grant to Universal Site Management You hereby
grant to Universal Site Management a non-exclusive, worldwide,
and royalty-free license for the Initial Term and any Renewal
Term to use your content as necessary for the purposes of
rendering and operating the Services to you under this Agreement.
You expressly (a) grant to Universal Site Management a license
to cache materials distributed or made available for distribution
via the Services, including content supplied by third parties,
and (b) agree that such caching is not an infringement of
any of your intellectual property rights or any third party's
intellectual property rights.
4.2. Universal Site Management
Materials and Intellectual Property All materials, including
but not limited to any computer software (in object code and
source code form), data or information developed or provided
by Universal Site Management or its suppliers or agents pursuant
to this Agreement, and any know-how, methodologies, equipment,
or processes used by Universal Site Management to provide
the Services to you, including, without limitation, all copyrights,
trademarks, patents, trade secrets and other proprietary rights
are and will remain the sole and exclusive property of Universal
Site Management or its suppliers, including but not limited
to any software programs, inventions, products and/or technology
innovations and methodologies utilized, developed, or disclosed
by Universal Site Management during the term of this Agreement.
Unauthorized copying, reverse engineering, decompiling, and
creating derivative works based on the any such software is
expressly forbidden except as permitted in this Agreement.
You may be held legally responsible for violation of any patent
rights, copyright or trade secret rights that is caused or
encouraged by failure to abide by the terms of this Agreement.
4.3. Trademarks You hereby grant
to Universal Site Management a limited right to use your trademarks,
if any, for the limited purpose of permitting Universal Site
Management to fulfill its duties under this Agreement. This
is not a trademark license and no other rights relating to
the trademarks are granted by this Agreement. Specifically,
but without limitation, the rights granted by this Agreement
do not include the right to sublicense use of your trademarks
or to use your trademarks with any other products or services
outside the scope of the Services provided under this Agreement.
The limited trademark use rights granted under this section
terminate upon termination of this Agreement.
5. Warranty; Warranty Disclaimer
5.1. Customer and/or Third Party Acts Universal Site Management
is not responsible in any manner for any nonconforming Services
to the extent caused by you or your customers. In addition,
Universal Site Management is not responsible for loss or corruption
of data in transmission, or for failure to send or receive
data due to events beyond Universal Site Management's reasonable
control.
5.2. No Express or Implied Warranty
ALL SERVICES, SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTS PROVIDED BY Universal Site
Management UNDER THIS AGREEMENT ARE PROVIDED WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED WARRANTY IN FACT OR IN LAW, WHATSOEVER. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE
AND AGREE THAT Universal Site Management EXERCISES NO CONTROL
OVER, AND ACCEPTS NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR, THE CONTENT OF THE
INFORMATION PASSING THROUGH Universal Site Management'S COMPUTERS,
NETWORK HUBS AND POINTS OF PRESENCE, OR THE INTERNET. Universal
Site Management DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE OPERATION OF THE
SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR COMPLETELY
SECURE, AND DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO PATENT,
COPYRIGHT, TRADE SECRET OR TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT. ALL SERVICES
PERFORMED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT ARE PERFORMED "AS IS"
AND WITHOUT WARRANTY AGAINST FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE INCLUDING,
WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY FAILURE DUE TO COMPUTER HARDWARE OR
COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THIS
AGREEMENT, Universal Site Management DOES NOT MAKE AND HEREBY
DISCLAIMS, AND YOU HEREBY WAIVE ALL RELIANCE ON, ANY REPRESENTATIONS
OR WARRANTIES, ARISING BY LAW OR OTHERWISE, REGARDING THE
SERVICES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR CONDITIONS
OF QUALITY, AND ANY WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO PATENT, COPYRIGHT,
TRADESECRET OR TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT.
5.3 Your Warranties and Representations
to Universal Site Management You warrant, represent, and covenant
to Universal Site Management that (a) you are at least eighteen
(18) years of age or are a duly organized and validly existing
entity; (b) you possess the legal right and ability to enter
into this Agreement; (c) you will use the Services only for
lawful purposes and in accordance with this Agreement and
all applicable policies and guidelines; (d) you will be financially
responsible for the use of your account; (e) you have acquired
or will acquire all authorization(s) necessary for hypertext
links to third-party Web sites or other content; (f) you have
verified or will verify the accuracy of materials distributed
or made available for distribution via the Services, including,
without limitation, your content, descriptive claims, warranties,
guarantees, nature of business, and address where business
is conducted, and (g) your content and/or any software that
you install or provide does not and will not infringe or violate
any right of any third party (including any intellectual property
rights) or violate any applicable law, regulation or ordinance.
6. Limitation and Exclusion of Liability
6.1. Limitations IN NO EVENT SHALL Universal Site Management
HAVE ANY LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FOR DAMAGE, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS
TO, ALTERATION, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OF INFORMATION PROVIDED
TO Universal Site Management, DISTRIBUTED OR MADE AVAILABLE
FOR DISTRIBUTION VIA THE SERVICES. Universal Site Management
SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR OTHERWISE
FOR CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR PUNITIVE
DAMAGES EVEN IF Universal Site Management HAS BEEN ADVISED
OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN ANY EVENT, THE LIABILITY
OF Universal Site Management TO YOU FOR ANY REASON AND UPON
ANY CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT ACTUALLY
PAID TO Universal Site Management BY YOU UNDER THIS AGREEMENT
DURING THE THIRTY (30) DAYS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE
ON WHICH SUCH CLAIM ACCRUED. THIS LIMITATION APPLIES TO ALL
CAUSES OF ACTION IN THE AGGREGATE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION,
TO BREACH OF CONTRACT, BREACH OF WARRANTY, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, MISREPRESENTATIONS, AND OTHER TORTS. THE FEES FOR
THE SERVICES SET BY Universal Site Management UNDER THIS AGREEMENT
HAVE BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE BASED UPON THIS ALLOCATION
OF RISK. ACCORDINGLY, YOU HEREBY RELEASE Universal Site Management
FROM ANY AND ALL OBLIGATIONS, LIABILITIES, AND CLAIM IN EXCESS
OF THE LIMITATION STATED IN THIS SECTION 6.1. BECAUSE SOME
STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, IN SUCH STATES, OUR
LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
6.2. Interruption of Service You
hereby acknowledge and agree that Universal Site Management
will not be liable for any temporary delay, outages or interruptions
of the Services. Further, Universal Site Management shall
not be liable for any delay or failure to perform its obligations
under this Agreement, where such delay or failure results
from any act of God or other cause beyond its reasonable control
(including, without limitation, any mechanical, electronic,
communications or third-party supplier failure).
6.3. Maintenance You hereby acknowledge
and agree that Universal Site Management reserves the right
to temporarily suspend services for the purposes of maintaining,
repairing, or upgrading its systems and network. Universal
Site Management will use best efforts to notify you of pending
maintenance however at no time is under any obligation to
inform you of such maintenance.
7. Indemnification You will defend,
indemnify and hold harmless Universal Site Management and
its officers, directors, shareholders, employees, consultants,
agents, affiliates and suppliers (an "Indemnitee")
from any and all threatened or actual claims, demands, causes
of action, suits, proceedings (formal or informal), losses,
damages, fines, penalties, liabilities, costs and expenses
of any nature, including attorneys' fees and court costs,
sustained or incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee
by any person, firm, corporation, governmental authority,
partnership or other entity by reason of or arising out of
or relating to: (i) your violation or breach of any term,
condition, representation or warranty of this Agreement or
any applicable policy or guideline; (ii) your conduct, including
but not limited to your negligence, gross negligence, or willful
misconduct; (iii) your use of the Services, including any
improper or illegal uses; (iv) any claim by a former employee
of yours whose employment has been or may be terminated in
connection with or as a result of the execution of this Agreement
and performance of the Services by Universal Site Management;
or (v) any claim relating to your services or products, or
your installation and/or use of any third-party software,
including but not limited to advertising, product liability
claims or infringement of any trademark, copyright, patent,
trade secrets or non-proprietary right of a third party (including,
without limitation, defamation, libel, or violation of privacy
or publicity).
8. Miscellaneous
8.1 Confidentiality The parties each agree that all Confidential
Information (as defined below) communicated to it by the other
is done so in confidence and will be used only for the purposes
of this Agreement and will not be used to compete with the
other party or disclosed to any third party without the prior
written consent of the other party except as permitted under
this Agreement. "Confidential Information" means
all information in any form, including, without limitation,
printed or verbal communications and information stored in
printed, optical or electromagnetic format, which relates
to the Services; or computer, data processing or electronic
commerce programs and software; electronic data processing
applications, routines, subroutines, techniques or systems;
information which incorporates or is based upon proprietary
information of either party; or information concerning business
or financial affairs, product pricing, financial conditions
or strategies, marketing, technical systems of either party;
or any information concerning customers or vendors of either
party; or any data exchange between a party and any customers
or vendors. Exceptions to Confidential Information include
(1) information in the public domain; (2) information developed
independently by a party without reference to information
disclosed under this Agreement; or (3) information received
from a third party without restriction and/or breach of this
or a similar Agreement. It is not a violation of this provision
to disclose Confidential Information in compliance with any
legal, accounting or regulatory requirement beyond the control
of either Party or, but in such case, prior to disclosure,
the disclosing Party shall give written notice to the other
Party to permit that Party an opportunity to challenge such
disclosure. If either Party is subpoenaed, such Party shall
give written notice to the other Party to permit that Party
an opportunity to challenge the disclosure of Confidential
Information. Upon the termination of this Agreement and upon
written request of the disclosing Party, each Party shall
promptly return all Confidential Information of the other
Party. This provision shall survive the termination of this
Agreement for two (2) years.
8.2. Notices All notices, reports,
requests, or other communications given pursuant to this Agreement
shall be made in writing, shall be delivered by hand delivery,
overnight courier service, fax, or electronic mail, shall
be deemed to have been duly given when delivered.
8.3. Choice of Law and Forum THIS
AGREEMENT, WILL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
AND THE STATE OF TEXAS, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO RULES GOVERNING
CHOICE OF LAWS. ANY ACTION RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT MUST
BE BROUGHT IN THE FEDERAL OR STATE COURTS LOCATED IN TEXAS,
AND YOU IRREVOCABLY CONSENT TO THE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURTS.
8.4. Entire Agreement This Agreement
and all policies and guidelines incorporated in this Agreement
by reference constitutes the entire Agreement of the parties
and may not be modified or altered orally but only by an agreement
in writing signed by both parties.
8.5. No Fiduciary Relationship;
No Third-Party Beneficiaries Universal Site Management is
not the agent, fiduciary, trustee or other representative
of you. Nothing expressed or mentioned in or implied from
this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give to
any person other than the parties hereto any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim under or in respect to this Agreement.
This Agreement and all of the representations, warranties,
covenants, conditions and provisions hereof are intended to
be and are for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties
hereto.
8.6. Assignments You may not transfer
or assign your rights, duties, or obligations under this Agreement
without Universal Site Management's prior written consent.
Universal Site Management may assign its rights and obligations
under this Agreement and may utilize affiliate and/or agents
in performing its duties and exercising its rights under this
Agreement, without your consent. Subject to that restriction,
this Agreement will be binding on, inure to the benefit of,
and be enforceable against the parties and their respective
successors and assignees.
8.7. No Waiver Universal Site Management's
failure to enforce the strict performance of any provision
of this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of Universal
Site Management's right to subsequently enforce such provision
or any other provisions under this Agreement.
8.8. Severability If any provision
of this Agreement is deemed illegal, invalid, void or otherwise
unenforceable in whole or in part, that provision shall be
severed or shall be enforced only to the extent legally permitted,
and the remainder of the provision and the Agreement shall
remain in full force and effect. If any provision of this
Agreement is deemed to be invalid, void or unenforceable only
with respect to a particular application, such term or provision
shall remain in full force and effect with respect to all
other applications.
8.9. Survival All provisions of
this Agreement relating to your warranties, intellectual property
rights, limitation and exclusion of liability, your indemnification
obligations and payment obligations shall survive the termination
or expiration of this Agreement
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