(Terms & Conditions can also be known as TOS and Terms of Service)

GreatHosts.co.uk Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") is provided to give our customers and users a clear understanding of what GreatHosts.co.uk expects of them while using the service. All users of GreatHosts.co.uk Internet services: those who access some of our Services but do not have accounts, as well as those who pay a service fee to subscribe to the Services, must comply with this AUP and our Terms of Service
Use of GreatHosts.co.uk Service constitutes acceptance and agreement to GreatHosts.co.uk's AUP as well as GreatHosts.co.uk T&C (Terms of Service). All payments to GreatHosts.co.uk are Non-refundable.
We support the uncensored flow of information and ideas over the Internet and do not actively monitor subscriber activity under normal circumstances. Similarly, we do not exercise editorial control over the content of any web site, e-mail transmission, newsgroups, or other material created or accessible over or through the services, except for certain proprietary Web sites. However, in accordance with our TOS (Terms of Service), we may remove any materials that, in our sole discretion, may be illegal, may subject us to liability, or which may violate this AUP. GreatHosts.co.uk may cooperate with legal authorities and/or third parties in the investigation of any suspected or alleged crime or civil wrongdoing. Your violation of this AUP may result in the suspension or immediate termination of either your GreatHosts.co.uk account or other actions WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE.
This document is intended to provide a basic understand of GreatHosts.co.uk's Acceptable Use Policy. The following are guidelines for the establishment and enforcement of GreatHosts.co.uk's AUP:
· Ensure reliable service to our customers
· Ensure security and privacy of our systems and network, as well as the networks and systems of others
· Comply with existing laws
· Maintain our reputation as a responsible service provider
· Encourage responsible use of the Internet and discourage activities which reduce the usability and value of Internet services
· Preserve the value of Internet resources as a conduit for free expression and exchange of information
· Preserve the privacy and security of individual users
GreatHosts.co.uk intends to provide its customers access to everything the Internet has to offer. While the GreatHosts.co.uk is firmly committed to the principles of free speech, certain activities that may be damaging to the resources of both the GreatHosts.co.uk and the Internet and cannot be permitted under the guise of free speech. The resources of the GreatHosts.co.uk and the Internet are limited, and abuse of these resources by one user has a negative impact on the entire community.
We do not routinely monitor the activity of accounts except for measurements of system utilization, the preparation of billing records and during technical support requests. However, in our efforts to promote good citizenship within the Internet community, we will respond appropriately if we become aware of inappropriate use of our service.
You may not use your account to publish material, which GreatHosts.co.uk determines, at its sole discretion, to be unlawful, indecent or objectionable. For purposes of this policy, "material" refers to all forms of communications including narrative descriptions, graphics (including photographs, illustrations, images, drawings, logos), executable programs, video recordings, and audio recordings.
If an GreatHosts.co.uk account is used to violate the Acceptable Use Policy or our TOS, we reserve the right to terminate your service without notice. We prefer to advise customers of inappropriate behaviour and any necessary corrective action, however, flagrant violations of the Acceptable Use Policy will result in immediate termination of service. Our failure to enforce this policy, for whatever reason, shall not be construed as a waiver of our right to do so at any time.
As a member of our network community, you must use your Internet access responsibly. If you have any questions regarding this policy, please contact us.
Violations of Acceptable Usage Policy
The following constitute violations of this AUP:
1. Illegal use: GreatHosts.co.uk services may not be used for illegal purposes, or in support of illegal activities. GreatHosts.co.uk reserves the right to cooperate with legal authorities and/or injured third parties in the investigation of any suspected crime or civil wrongdoing.
2. Harm to minors: Use of the GreatHosts.co.uk service to harm, or attempt to harm, minors in any way, including, but not limited to child pornography.
3. Threats: Use of the GreatHosts.co.uk service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that threatens or encourages bodily harm or destruction of property.
4. Harassment: Use of the GreatHosts.co.uk service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that harasses another.
5. Fraudulent activity: Use of GreatHosts.co.uk service to make fraudulent offers to sell or buy products, items, or services, or to advance any type of financial scam such as "pyramid schemes," "ponzi schemes," and "chain letters."
6. Forgery or impersonation: Adding, removing or modifying identifying network header information in an effort to deceive or mislead is prohibited. Attempting to impersonate any person by using forged headers or other identifying information is prohibited. The use of anonymous remailers or nicknames does not constitute impersonation.
7. Unsolicited commercial e-mail / Unsolicited bulk e-mail (SPAM): Use of the GreatHosts.co.uk service to transmit any unsolicited commercial or unsolicited bulk e-mail is expressly prohibited. Violations of this type will result in the immediate termination of the offending GreatHosts.co.uk account
8. E-mail / News Bombing: Malicious intent to impede another person's use of electronic mail services or news will result in the immediate termination of the offending GreatHosts.co.uk account.
9. E-mail / Message Forging: Forging any message header, in part or whole, of any electronic transmission, originating or passing through the GreatHosts.co.uk service is in violation of this AUP.
10. Usenet SPAMing: GreatHosts.co.uk has a zero tolerance policy for the use of its network for the posting of messages or commercial advertisements, which violate the rules, regulations, FAQ or charter of any newsgroups or mailing list. Commercial messages that are appropriate under the rules of a newsgroup or mailing list or that are solicited by the recipients are permitted.
11. Unauthorized access: Use of the GreatHosts.co.uk service to access, or to attempt to access, the accounts of others, or to penetrate, or attempt to penetrate, security measures of GreatHosts.co.uk or another entity's computer software or hardware, electronic communications system, or telecommunications system, whether or not the intrusion results in the corruption or loss of data, is expressly prohibited and the offending GreatHosts.co.uk account is subject to immediate termination.
12. Copyright or trademark infringement: Use of the GreatHosts.co.uk service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other proprietary rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material, the digitisation and distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted sources, and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software.
13. Collection of personal data: Use of the GreatHosts.co.uk service to collect, or attempt to collect, personal information about third parties without their knowledge or consent.
14. Network disruptions and unfriendly activity: Use of the GreatHosts.co.uk service for any activity which affects the ability of other people or systems to use GreatHosts.co.uk Services or the Internet. This includes "denial of service" (DOS) attacks against another network host or individual user. Interference with or disruption of other network users, services or equipment is prohibited. A Subscriber may not, through action or inaction, allow others to use their network for illegal or inappropriate actions. A Subscriber may not permit their account, through action or inaction, to be configured in such a way that gives a third party the capability to use their account in an illegal or inappropriate manner. Unauthorized entry and/or use of another company and/or individual's computer system will result in immediate account termination. GreatHosts.co.uk will not tolerate any subscriber attempting to access the accounts of others, or penetrate security measures of other systems, whether or not the intrusion results in corruption or loss of data.
15. Fraud: Involves a knowing misrepresentation or misleading statement, writing or activity made with the intent that the person receiving it will act upon it.
16. Infringement of Copyright, Patent, Trademark, Trade Secret, or Intellectual Property Right: Distribution and/or posting of copyrighted or the aforementioned infringements will not be tolerated.
17. Distribution of Viruses: Intentional distributions of software that attempts to and/or causes damage, harassment, or annoyance to persons, data, and/or computer systems are prohibited. Such an offense will result in the immediate termination of the offending account.
18. Inappropriate Use of Software: Use of software or any device that would facilitate a continued connection, i.e. pinging, while using GreatHosts.co.uk services could result in suspension service.
19. Third Party Accountability: GreatHosts.co.uk subscribers will be held responsible and accountable for any activity by third parties, using their account, that violates guidelines created within the Acceptable Use Policy.
20. It is absolutely forbidden to host pornographic content or IRC servers on our servers. Accounts found hosting this material will be subject to immediate cancellation without refund
21. IRC networks: It is absolutely forbidden to host an IRC server that is part of or connected to another IRC network or server. Servers found to be connecting to or part of these networks will be immediately removed from our network without notice. The server will not be reconnected to the network until such time that you agree to completely remove any and all traces of the irc server, and agree to let us have access to your server to confirm that the content has been completely removed. Any server guilty of a second violation will result in immediate account termination.
Security
You are responsible for any misuse of your account, even if the inappropriate activity was committed by a friend, family member, guest or employee. Therefore, you must take steps to ensure that others do not gain unauthorized access to your account. In addition, you may not use your account to breach security of another account or attempt to gain unauthorized access to another network or server.
· Your password provides access to your account. It is your responsibility to keep your password secure.
· Sharing your password and account access with unauthorized users is prohibited. You should take care to prevent others from using your account since you will be held responsible for such use
· Attempting to obtain another user's account password is strictly prohibited, and may result in termination of service.
· You must adopt adequate security measures to prevent or minimize unauthorized use of your account.
· You may not 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 or making use of a server or account you are not expressly authorized to access, or probing the security of other networks. Use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security is prohibited. Examples of these tools include, but are not limited to, password guessing programs, cracking tools or network probing tools.
· You may not attempt to interfere with service to any user, host or network ("denial of service attacks"). This includes, but is not limited to, "flooding" of networks, deliberate attempts to overload a service, and attempts to "crash" a host.
· Users who violate systems or network security may incur criminal or civil liability. GreatHosts.co.uk will cooperate fully with investigations of violations of systems or network security at other sites, including cooperating with law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations.

GreatHosts.co.uk (UK) Web Hosting Services

Where the context admits: "We" & "Us" includes GreatHosts of: GreatHosts.co.uk UK Web Hosting Services, United Kingdom and GreatServices of: GreatServices.co.uk, United Kingdom or any party acting on GreatHosts.co.uk's implicit instructions. "You" includes the person purchasing the Services or any party acting on the customer's instructions. "Server" means the computer server equipment operated by us in connection with the provision of the Services. "Web Site" means the area on the Server allocated by us to you for use by you as a site on the Internet.

The relationship entered into between you and us is governed by these following terms, which shall apply during, and where necessary after, the period of the commercial relationship between you and us.
1. Web Site Hosting And Email
1.1. We make no representation and give no warranty as to the accuracy or quality of information received by any person via the Server and we shall have no liability for any loss or damage to any data stored on the Server.
1.2. You represent, undertake and warrant to us that you will use the Web Site allocated to you only for lawful purposes and to promptly inform us if this clause or any subclause of this clause has been breached or you become aware that they may have been breached. In particular, you represent, warrant and undertake to us.
1.2.1. You will not use the Server in any manner which infringes any law or regulation or which infringes the rights of any third party, nor will you authorise or permit any other person to do so.
1.2.2. you will not upload, post, link to or transmit:
1.2.2.1. any material which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, malicious, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, blasphemous, profane or otherwise objectionable in any way.
1.2.2.2. any material containing a virus or other hostile computer program.
1.2.2.1. any material which constitutes, or encourages the commission of, a criminal offence or which infringes any patent, trade mark, design right, copyright or any other intellectual property right or similar rights of any person which may subsist under the laws of any jurisdiction.
1.2.2.4. any material which is forbidden by our acceptable use policy
1.2.1. you will not send bulk email whether opt-in or otherwise from our network. Nor will you promote a site hosted on our network using bulk email.
1.2.4. you will not employ programs which consume excessive system resources, including but not limited to processor cycles and memory.
1.2.5. any file you store on the Server will be reachable via a hyperlink from a page on your site.
1.1. We reserve the right to remove any material which we deem inappropriate from your Web Site without notice to you.
1.4. You shall keep secure any identification, password and other confidential information relating to your account and shall notify us immediately of any known or suspected unauthorised use of your account or breach of security, including but not limited to loss, theft or unauthorised disclosure of your password or other security information.
1.5. You shall observe the procedures which we may from time to time prescribe and shall make no use of the Server which is detrimental to our other customers.
1.3. You shall procure that all mail is sent in accordance with applicable legislation (including data protection legislation) and in a secure manner.
1.4. In the case of an individual User, you warrant that you are at least 18 years of age and if the User is a company, you warrant that the Services will not be used by anyone under the age of 18 years.
1.8. Any access to other networks connected to GreatHosts.co.uk must comply with the rules appropriate for those other networks.
1.6. While we will use every reasonable endeavour to ensure the integrity and security of the Server, we do not guarantee that the Server will be free from unauthorised users or hackers and we shall be under no liability for non-receipt or misrouting of email or for any other failure of email.
1.7. No more than one log-in session under any one account may be used at any time by you. If you have multiple accounts, you are limited to one login session per system account at any time.

2. Service Availability
2.1. We shall use our reasonable endeavours to make available to you at all times the Server and the Services but we shall not, in any event, be liable for interruptions of Service or down-time of the Server.
3. Payment
3.1. All charges payable by you for the Services shall be in accordance with the scale of charges and rates published from time to time by us on our web site, errors and omissions accepted and shall be due and payable in advance of provision of the Services.
3.2. We reserve the right to change pricing at any time although all pricing is guaranteed for the period of pre payment.
3.3. Payment is due each anniversary month, quarter or year following the date the Services were established until closure notice is given in accordance with 4.4. If you choose to pay by credit or debit card you authorise GreatHosts.co.uk to debit your account renewal fees from your card according to the third party poviders.
3.4. All payments must be in UK Pounds Sterling.
3.5. Without prejudice to our other rights and remedies under this Agreement, if any sum payable is not paid on or before the due date, we shall be entitled but not obliged forthwith to suspend the provision of Services to you.
4. Termination And Refunds
4.1. We shall be entitled to suspend the Services and/or terminate this Agreement forthwith without notice to you If you:
4.1.1. fail to pay any sums due to us as they fall due.
4.1.2. break any of these terms and conditions.
4.1.3. are a company and you go into liquidation or suffer the appointment of an administrator or administrative receiver or enter into a voluntary arrangement with your creditors.
4.2. No refunds will be made under any circumstances for Services suspended in accordance with 4.1.
4.3. We reserve the right to suspend the Services and/or terminate this Agreement at any time. In the event of this You will be entitled to a pro rata refund based upon the remaining period of prepayment.
4.4. You may cancel the Services at any time. To do so you must request cancellation of the Services in writing including your account username and password. We will cancel the Services within 2 working days of receipt of your request.
4.5. If you decide to request a refund in the first seven day of service you will receive a refund of the basic hosting price, set-up fees are non-refundable. 4.5.1. You will not be entitled to a refund if you have previously held an account with GreatHosts.co.uk. 4.6..Where payment has been made by credit or debit card, any refund will only be issued to the same payment provider account.
4.7. On termination of this Agreement or suspension of the Services we shall be entitled immediately to stop access to your Web Site and to remove all data located on the Server.
5. Indemnity
5.1. You shall indemnify us and keep us indemnified and hold us harmless from and against any breach by you of these terms of business and any claim brought against us by a third party resulting from the provision of Services by us to You and your use of the Services and the Server including, without limitation, all claims, actions, proceedings, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, expenses (including reasonable legal costs and expenses), howsoever suffered or incurred by us in consequences of your breach or non-observance of any of the terms of this Agreement.
6. Limitation Of Liability
6.1. All conditions, terms, representations and warranties relating to the Services supplied under this Agreement, whether imposed by statute or operation of law or otherwise, that are not expressly stated in these terms and conditions including, without limitation, the implied warranty of satisfactory quality and fitness for a particular purpose are hereby excluded to o the extent applicable under UK law, subject always to sub clause 6.2.
6.2. Nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude our liability for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence.
6.3. Our total aggregate liability to you for any claim in contract, tort, negligence or otherwise arising out of or in connection with the provision of the Services shall be limited to the charges paid by you in respect of the Services which are the subject of any such claim.
6.4. In any event no claim shall be brought unless you have notified us of the claim within one month of it arising.
6.5. In no event shall we be liable to you for any loss of business, contracts, profits or anticipated savings or for any other indirect or consequential or economic loss whatsoever.
7. Notices
7.1. Any notice to be given by either party to the other may be sent by either email, fax or recorded delivery to the address of the other party as appearing in this Agreement or ancillary application forms or such other address as such party may from time to time have communicated to the other in writing, and if sent by email shall unless the contrary is proved be deemed to be received on the day it was sent or if sent by fax shall be deemed to be served on receipt of an error free transmission report, or if sent by recorded delivery shall be deemed to be served two days following the date of posting.
8. Non-Waiver
8.1 Any forbearance or failure by us to enforce a contractual provision to which you are subject shall not affect our right to require such performance at any subsequent time, nor shall the waiver or forbearance by us of any breach of any provisions of the agreement herein be taken to be or held to be a waiver of the provision or provisions itself of themselves.
9. Law
9.1. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and you hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
10. Headings
10.1. Headings are included in this Agreement for convenience only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.
11. Entire Agreement
11.1. These terms and conditions together with any documents expressly referred to in them, contain the entire Agreement between us relating to the subject matter covered and supersede any previous Agreements, arrangements, undertakings or proposals, written or oral: between us in relation to such matters. No oral explanation or oral information given by any party shall alter the interpretation of these terms and conditions. In agreeing to these terms and conditions, you confirm that you have not relied on any representation other than those expressly stated in these terms and conditions and you agree that you shall have no remedy in respect of any misrepresentation that has not been made expressly in this Agreement.

GreatHosts.co.uk (UK) Web Hosting Services

General Privacy statement

GreatHosts.co.uk respects the privacy of the personal information given to us, therefore personal details such as your name, street address and e-mail address, or any other business or personal information you may provide WILL NOT BE GIVEN OUT TO ANY THIRD PARTIES PERSONS OR COMPANIES, NOR WILL ANY INFORMATION BE SOLD OR GIVEN AS A GIFT TO ANYONE OUT SIDE OF GreatHosts.co.uk

Sites linked off GreatHosts.co.uk

GreatHosts.co.uk site contains many links to other Internet interest sites on the Internet operated by other webmasters and companies. Therefore GreatHosts.co.uk cannot control information nor the way other sites regulate their readers' personal information. GreatHosts.co.uk cannot be held responsible for the privacy policies or content of other web sites. However GreatHosts.co.uk has taken time and care to make sure the links provided are to genuine sites of a responsible nature.
We urge you where possible to read their PRIVACY POLICY and reassure yourself that your information is safe BEFORE giving out your personal details. Many sites share their information with other sites and use words such as 'generally we do not share information', are careful this means they have and if the need would again sell or let others have access to your email address. GreatHosts.co.uk does NOT do this, we have no need to share visitor information with others, or sell users information.
GreatHosts.co.uk allows a user to email a URL to a friend. For this to work you need to enter your friends. This information IS NOT SAVED we do NOT store this it strictly a peer-to-peer process and does not involve GreatHosts.co.uk or third party applications or companies. This is a safe feature for you to pass on the word and share what you find, nothing sinister.

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