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Bargain Host provides World Wide Web page hosting. Bargain Host reserves the right to suspend or cancel a customer's access to any or all services provided by Bargain Host when Bargain Host decides that the account has been inappropriately used or otherwise.


SERVER USE
Personal accounts are to be used by the primary owner only. Personal account holders are not permitted resell, store or give away web-hosting services of their website to other parties. Web hosting services are defined as allowing a separate, third party to host content on the owner's web site. Exceptions to this include ad banners, classified ads, and personal ads.

Bargain Host reserves the right to refuse service and /or access to its servers to anyone.


Bargain Host do not allow any of the following content to be stored on its servers:

Restricted Scripts - We will suspend any accounts found to be using popular bulletin boards such as yabb.cgi, ikonboard.cgi. Due to heavy resource usage by these scripts we will not allow them on our servers, you must use the bulletin board scripts provided with your hosting account.

Illegal Material - This includes copyrighted works, commercial audio, video, or music files, and any material in violation of any Federal, State or Local regulation.


Adult Material - Includes all pornography, erotic images, or otherwise lewd or obscene content.


Warez - Includes pirated software, ROMS, emulators, phreaking, hacking, password cracking. IP spoofing, etc., and encrypting of any of the above. Also includes any sites which provide "links to" or "how to" information about such material.


HIGH RESOURCE USER POLICY

Resources are defined as bandwidth and/or processor utilization.

Bargain Host may implement the following policy to its sole discretion:

When a website is found to be monopolising the resources available Bargain Host reserves the right to suspend that site immediately. This policy is only implemented in extreme circumstances and is intended to prevent the misuse of our servers.


PAYMENT POLICIES
All accounts are set up on a prepay basis. Although Bargain Host reserves the right to change prices of accounts or services at any time all pricing is guaranteed for the period of prepayment. Payment is due yearly following the date the account was established, you will not be charged again after this period unless you wish to continue using our services, an email reminder will be sent out 30 days before payments are due.

Invoices will be sent directly to customers via email shortly after the online purchase has been made.

PAYMENT OPTIONS
In order to streamline our accounting procedures and keep costs down Bargain Host runs a limited number of payment options.

Credit / Debit Cards:
Bargain Host accepts all major Credit Cards including Mastercard, Visa, Discover, Switch & Solo.

DOMAIN REGISTRATION
Domain names will be registered automatically on receipt of cleared payments and will be registered in the owners name. If you have made a spelling error there is no refunds on domain name, but we can normally rectify any miss-spelled domains within 3 days of notice.

CANCELLATION AND REFUNDS
Bargain Host 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 membership less domain registration costs. In the event of Bargain Host terminating a customers account due to a situation beyond Bargain Host's control, the customer is not entitled to a refund. In this event Bargain Host will attempt to offer an alternative service at Bargain Host's own sole discretion. Bargain Host's does not guaranteed that an alternative service will be offered or be available to the customer.

If a customer contravenes Bargain Host' terms of service a refund will not be issued in the event of a cancellation by Bargain Host and/or the customer.

Customers may cancel their account at any time. Fees charged on a prepay basis are non-refundable. Customers are not entitled to receive a refund if the Customer cancels the account prior to the renewal date. In addition accounts that incur domain name registration fees are also non-refundable.

INDEMNIFICATION
Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold Bargain Host harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney's fees asserted against Bargain Host, 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, its agents, employees or assigns. Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Bargain Host against liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with Bargain Host' server; (2) any material supplied by 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 Bargain Host's server.


DISCLAIMER
Bargain Host will not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer. Bargain Host makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services we provide. Bargain Host disclaims any warranty or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from delays, nondeliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service interruptions caused by Bargain Host and its employees. Bargain Host reserves the right to revise its policies at any time.

Any illegal activity, including adult content, links to adult content web sites, spamming or hacking will result in your site being shut down and all your files deleted without warning.

ANTI-SPAM POLICY
BargainHost defines spam as any type of unsolicited commercial email (UCE) or unsolicited bulk email (UBE) for any purpose. This includes, but is not limited to, the following items:

Using a non-existent return email address when sending commercial solicitations.
Mail-bombing (sending numerous messages to the same user).
Subscribing someone else to a mailing list without that person's permission.
Posting the same article to multiple off-topic newsgroups.
Sending, being involved in sending, or employing a third party to send mail which advertises or mentions a site hosted at BargainHost to users that have not specifically requested this mail.
Any kind of forged header information.
Lists which include "harvested" addresses.
" Targeted" email lists.
Using a script on your site to send bulk or unsolicited e-mail.
Using an autoresponder at your site to send bulk or unsolicited e-mail.
Sending mail to users who have not specifically requested to receive such mail, including opt-out mailing lists.
Distributing or advertising software designed to aid in the delivery of UCE.
Please note that this includes all domain names, IP addresses, and e-mail addresses at a site. Any of the above items would be considered a violation of our policy.

Sending unsolicited commercial email may be acceptable under the circumstances outlined below:


You should have a prior relationship with the person receiving the email, and they should be aware that they will be receiving email from your domain.
If you have a subscription list, there should be a confirmation email sent to the address before that address is added.
There should always be a way to quickly and easily unsubscribe from the list included in each email, and all unsubscription requests should be quickly honored.
A valid "From:" and "Reply to" address must be included with each message.
If a client is found in violation of the above no-spam policy, the offending account may be terminated without notice, and no refund will be issued. In the event that BargainHost at any time reasonably believes that the Customer is in breach of any of the terms and conditions or is using BargainHost services in an unacceptable manner, BargainHost may immediately terminate their account without liability. At the time of termination, the Customer shall be responsible for the entire amount of the most recent statement and any excess usage charges at the time of termination.

Please contact our Abuse Department to report spam by a BargainHost customer, or for other questions regarding this policy. When reporting spam, please include the full headers of the email messages that you are making a complaint about. The information in the headers of email messages is important in confirming the origin of the offending email.

BargainHost reserves the right to make amendments or changes to this policy.

If you have any questions about this policy, please contact abuse@bargainhost.co.uk