Terms of Service

Byethost.com is a responsible free hosting company.
We require all of our customers read the terms and conditions below.


Byethost.com's services may only be used for lawful purposes. Transmission of any material in violation of International, Federal or State regulation is prohibited. This includes but is not limited to: material legally judged to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade secret laws.

If you are found in violation of the Byethost.com Hosting Acceptable Use Policy and Terms of Use, your account will be terminated without notice and you will forfeit all of the moneys that have been paid to Byethost.com.

Examples of content that is not acceptable on Byethost.com Servers: "Pirated software" or "Warez", "Hacker programs and/or archives", "IRC Bots",,"Copyrighted Mp3's".

You specifically agree to indemnify and hold Byethost.com harmless from any claims resulting from a breach of these terms, and/or their use of the service, which damages another.

The use of advert blocking tools / scripts is strictly prohibited.

Your site must recieve at least ONE (1) non-bot unique visitor per month. This is to save us collecting dead accounts.

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. Also , includes the use of copyrite material , without the copyrite holders permission , eg nullified scripts , etc.

Our free hosting plans are NOT for the following purposes :
File storage, File hosting, File Linking, Image Linking, Movie Hosting, Radio Blogs / Broadcasting, Signature Hosting, Trackers, Proxy or Relaying Services & Backup Storage.

Wap sites, eg web sites that promote the use of mobile phones to browse the stored content are not allowed on our free service. If you want to use one of these sites , please upgrade your account to a bronze plan.

We reserve the right to terminate any accounts that use excessive server load.



Spam

SPAM in any shape or form is NOT permitted and is grounds for immediate account termination (This is not limited to , but for example includes email soam, newsgroup spam, comment posting , etc ). Mailing lists via a mailing list manager are acceptable as from other users will not be tolerated.


IRC and Chat Rooms

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) traffic is not permitted on our servers in any of its many forms including, but not limited to: bots and IRC servers. Chat rooms may be allowed on per use basis, so please ask one of our support staff before setting one up. (Some cgi/perl based chat rooms over utilize the server processor.)


Web Site Hosting And Email

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.

You shall effect and maintain adequate insurance cover in respect of any loss or damage to data stored on the Server(s).

You represent, undertake and warrant to us that you will use the Web Site allocated to you only for lawful purposes. In particular, you represent, warrant and undertake to us that 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 authorize or permit any other person to do so.

You shall not post, link to or transmit: (a) Any material, which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, malicious, defamatory, obscene, pornography which does not comply with USA / European law, blasphemous, profane or otherwise objectionable in any way. (b) Any material containing a virus or other hostile computer program. (c) Any material which constitutes, or encourages the commission of, a criminal offense 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.

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 unauthorized use of your account or breach of security, including loss, theft or unauthorized disclosure of your password or other security information.

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.

you shall procure that all mail is sent in accordance with applicable legislation (including data protection legislation) and a secure manner.

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.

Any access to other networks connected to Byethost.com must comply with the rules appropriate for those other networks.

While we will use every reasonable endeavor to ensure the integrity and security of the Server, we do not guarantee that the Server will be free from unauthorized users or hackers and we shall be under no liability for non-receipt or misrouting of email or for any other failure of email.


Intellectual Property Rights

You shall obtain any and all necessary consents and clearances to enable you lawfully to make use of all and any intellectual property rights through the Services, including without limitation, clearance and/or consents in respect of your proposed domain name.


Backups

Your uploaded / imported / entered data is your data (be that in your virtual root , or in mysql), and we are not responsible for this in any form. Please ensure you have a backup strategy in place.


Service Availability

We shall use our reasonable endeavors 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.

We shall have the right to suspend the Services at any time and for any reason, generally without notice, but if such suspension lasts or is to last for more than 30 days you will be notified of the reason.

The Services provided to you here under and your account with us cannot be transferred or used by anyone other than you. No more than one login 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; user programs may be run only during login sessions. If your account is found to have been transferred to another party, or shows other activity in breach of this sub clause, we shall have the right to cancel the account and terminate the Services and/or this Agreement immediately.


Termination

Without in any way limiting our (Byethost.com) rights.

if you fail to pay any sums due to us as they fall due, we may suspend the Services and/or terminate this Agreement forthwith without notice to you.

if you break any of these terms and conditions, we may terminate this Agreement forthwith with no notice.

Free domain with Paid Hosting Plan

Free domain names which are included with Paid Hosting accounts are the property of Byethost Internet Ltd. Byethost will always retain ownership of free domain names we register. If requested, Byethost will allow the 'transfer' any free domains to an alternative hosting provider if a transfer administration fee is paid, which amounts to $29.99. Byethost reserves the right to cancel, transfer or sell domain names which are provided with paid hosting accounts. We reserve the right to renew or allow the expiration of domain names we register. Byethost is not responsible for abuse or any illegal content hosted or associated with a domain names we register, we reserve the right to terminate hosting services at any time.

if you are a company and you go into insolvent liquidation or suffer the appointment of an administrator or administrative receiver or enter into a voluntary arrangement with your creditors, we shall be entitled to terminate this Agreement forthwith without notice to you.

On termination of this Agreement or suspension of the Services we shall be entitled immediately to block your Web Site and to remove all data located on it. We shall be entitled to delete all such data but we may, at our discretion, hold such data for such period as we may decide to allow you to collect it at your expense, subject to payment in full of any amounts withstanding and payable to us. We shall further be entitled to post such notice in respect of the non-availability of your Web Site as we think fit.


Limitation Of Liability

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.

nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude our liability for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence.

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.

In any event no claim shall be brought unless you have notified us of the claim within one year of it arising.

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.


Notices

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.


Money Back Guarantee

Domain registrations are NOT refundable under any circumstance.


Headings

Headings are included in this Agreement for convenience only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.

Entire Agreement

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 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, which has not been made expressly in this Agreement


Misuse Of Resources

Including but not limited to employing applications which consume excessive CPU time. Chat/IRC, and web proxy scripts are not allowed on our network under any circumstances. CGI based message forums which use flat file databases are often found to use excessive system resources. If intend to run a high traffic CGI based message board please check with us. If your hosting account utilizes excessive resources ( more than 1% of free hosting accounts and more than 5% for pro hosting accounts) then we MAY contact you regards a solution.
If you are unsure about content you intend to place on our network, please check with us before you do. We reserve the right to determine what constitutes acceptable use. We may amend these terms of service with or without notice.


Reselling

Under NO circumstances may these services be resold or are they to be given out freely to users of your site, if you found reselling any of these services your account will be terminated immediately without notice.


Updates to this agreement

It is your responsibility to regularly check back on this agreement to ascertain if any changes have been made to this agreement.


You agree to abide by these terms and condition by applying to host with Byethost.com