Hosting Policy

   

Acceptable Usage Agreement and Terms of Service

 

Content:
All services provided by EIRSITE may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any Irish or European Law, United States Federal, State or City 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 EIRSITE from any claims resulting from the use of the service which damages the subscriber or any other party.

 
Note: Pornography and sex-related merchandising are prohibited on any server. This includes sexual content, or direct links to adult content elsewhere. This is also true for sites that promote any illegal activity or content that may be damaging to our servers or any other server on the internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited. EIRSITE will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

 

Examples of non-acceptable content or links

 
Pirated software

  • Hackers programs or archives, Warez Sites, Porn, Spamming Software, Sites without English (this is because content of site cannot be verified) Sites may be given special permission, simply email the webmaster first.

EIRSITE will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

 

Traffic Guidelines
Due to the unique resource characteristics and traffic patterns associated with certain types of sites, the following are limited to 1 to 10 gigs* (on average, close to a 10,000 - 150,000 hits* per month) of free traffic/bandwidth per month [ * - depending which hosting plan you are on]:

  • Sub hosting - any domain housing additional users, Shareware, sound, video, image and multimedia archives, Mirror sites, Distribution points, Any site whose primary purpose is file distribution, All sites with files other than plain text webpages

Accounts that go over the allowed free traffic will be charged €10 per gig. Sites must pre-pay this fee, and site is subject to suspension if bandwidth is unpaid for.

 

Additional Terms:

  • You MUST maintain a separate current copy of all data stored on eirsite.com servers on your own computer. The client is responsible for keeping a complete and current copy of their web site files as backup on a remote system (not on eirsite.com Web Hosting servers).

  • You MUST retrieve your E-Mail from our servers within 7 days and keep your e-mail accounts clean. Any E-Mail Accounts containing e-mail that is stored on our servers for more than 7 days may be deleted without notice. Any E-Mail Account found to contain a virus will be deleted without notice.

  • You MUST use the service only for lawful purposes.

  • You MUST comply at all times with our policies. In agreeing, you understand that the policies can and will change periodically without notice. A complete and updated list or our policies is located publicly at: http://eirsite.com/policy.htm

  • You MUST NOT use or install any type of script that does any of the following: Enable Chat, Enable Telnet Access, Redirect visitors to different parts of your site based upon the domain name (better known as redirection scripts, intended to enable users to give people their own domain names by detecting the domain name they are typing in, and then redirecting them into another section of the site... usually a directory), spamming, smurfing, sniffing, hacking, or any other illegal act.

  • You MUST download to your home computer and keep any necessary backup of all raw access logs each month. In order to conserver webspace, any and all access log files from the previous month will be deleted on the first of each month.

   

Background Running Programs:
As a general rule we do not allow 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.

 

IRC:
We do not allow you to link to or use IRC or IRC bots such as eggdrop, and BitchX on our servers.

 

Spam Or Unsolicited E-Mail:
Our servers may not be the source, intermediary, or destination address involved in the transmission of spam, flames, or mail bombs. Your domain may not be referenced as originator, intermediary, or reply-to address in any of the above. SPAMMING sites on other servers which in turn contain links to a domain on our servers is prohibited. We consider spam any mass unsolicited message in the mediums of Bulletin Boards, Newsgroups, Email and any other online medium. In other words, do not email someone if they do not know you. Also, you are not allowed to sell or promote spam or spam related products on your site. If you are found to have spammed, then we will immediately, without warning, disable your domain. We reserve the right to refuse or cancel service to known spammers. Lastly, we reserve the right to determine what violates this policy. EIRSITE will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.
As such, any violation will result in immediate deactivation of services without refund.

Abuse:

 

Any attempts to undermine, slander, libel, threaten, or cause harm to a EIRSITE 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.

Indemnification:

 

Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold EIRSITE harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney's fees asserted against EIRSITE, 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 EIRSITE against liabilities arising out of;

 

  1. Any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with EIRSITE 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 EIRSITE to the amount paid for service.

 

Free Software Scripts
EIRSITE is not responsible for any aspect of third party scripts/themes or add-on software supplied free with EIRSITE Hosting packages. We do not provide support for same. All trademarks are owned by their respective companies.

 

Payments and Fees:
Payment is due on the defined annual recurring billing date of each year. Cheques that are declined for any reason are subject to a €20 declination fee. Service will be interrupted on accounts that reach 90 days past due. Service interrupted for non-payment will be terminated.

 

Delinquent Accounts:
EIRSITE may temporarily deny service or terminate this Agreement upon failure of Customer to pay charges when due. Such termination or denial will not relieve Customer of responsibility for the payment of all accrued service fees, or any collection fees.

 

Account Cancellation, Refunds and Disputes:

All requests for canceling any service / services must be made in writing to EIRSITE giving 30 days notice of cancellation. Confirmation receipt of cancellation will be sent within 24 hours.

EIRSITE reserves the right to cancel the service at any time. In this event customers will be entitled to a pro rata refund based upon the remaining period of service. If a customer contravenes EIRSITE's terms of service a refund will not be issued in the event of a cancellation. Customers may cancel their account at any time. Any incentives offered to customers when opening the account will also be cancelled. Customers may be given the option to purchase services which were offered as start-up incentives in the result of a cancellation. Keeping Your Domain Name see here also  Fees charged on a prepay basis are non-refundable, unless the service is cancelled by EIRSITE. In addition some accounts incur set-up fees, these charges are also non-refundable.

All billing disputes must be reported within 30 days of the time the dispute occurred.

 

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Disclaimer
EIRSITE will not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer. EIRSITE makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services we provide. EIRSITE disclaims any warranty or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from delays, and any and all service interruptions caused by EIRSITE and its employees. EIRSITE reserves the right to change or update policies without notice.

If any terms or conditions are failed to be followed it will result in grounds for immediate account deactivation.

 

Content Management Software
Customers using EIRSITE CONTENT MANAGER or Web Page Publisher software are bound by the Terms of the Software License Agreement which can be seen at this address;-
http://www.eirsite.com/cm/cm-license.html 

 

   

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