Web Hosting – Terms & Conditions

You indicate acceptance of these terms and conditions of service by using hosting services with Bing Digital Consultancy Ltd.  By way of example, if  we serve your website files into the public domain using our services, these terms and conditions apply.

These terms and conditions will not be varied for individual customers.

1 DEFINITIONS
1.1 In this Agreement the following words and expressions shall have the following meanings:
1.1.1 “downtime” means any service interruption in the availability to visitors of the Website;
1.1.2 “intellectual property rights” means patents, trade marks, design rights, applications for any of the foregoing, copyright, topography rights, database rights, rights in know-how, trade or business names and other similar rights or obligations, whether registrable or not in any country;
1.1.3 “Bing Digital” means Bing Digital Consultancy Ltd company registration number 9347532
1.1.4 “IP address” stands for internet protocol address which is the numeric address for the server;
1.1.5 “ISP” stands for internet service provider;
1.1.6 “server” means the computer server equipment operated by Bing Digital in connection with the provision of the Services;
1.1.7 “the Services” means web hosting, domain name registration, email and any other services or facilities provided by Bing Digital.
1.1.8 “spam” means sending unsolicited and/or bulk emails;
1.1.9 “virus” means a computer programme that copies itself or is copied to other storage media, including without limitation magnetic tape cassettes, memory chips, electronic cartridges, optical discs and magnetic discs, and destroys, alters or corrupts data, causes damage to the user’s files or creates a nuisance or annoyance to the user and includes without limitation computer programs commonly referred to as “worms” or “trojan horses”;
1.1.10 “visitor” means a third party who has accessed the Website;
1.2 Product specifications will be offered at request.
1.3 Words denoting the singular shall include the plural and vice versa and words denoting any gender shall include all genders.
1.4 The headings of the paragraphs of this Agreement are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of or to affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.

2 INTRODUCTION
2.1 The Customer wishes to provide Bing Digital with data that will be hosted on Bing Digital’s servers and made accessible via the Internet.
2.2 Bing Digital provides web hosting services and has agreed to host the Customer’s data upon the following terms and conditions.

3 DUTIES
3.1 Bing Digital shall provide to the Customer the Services specified in their order subject to the following terms and conditions.
3.2 The Customer shall deliver to Bing Digital the website and the software used in the website which is owned by the Customer, or licensed to him by a third party or Bing Digital (“the Customer Software), in a format specified by Bing Digital.

4 CHARGES ,PAYMENT AND MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
4.1 Payment methods include credit cards (including MasterCard and Visa), debit cards (including Maestro (Switch), Solo, Visa Electron and Visa Delta) and direct debits
4.2 Bing Digital do not accept cheque payments, but we do accept bank transfers : Bank: HSBC, Sort Code: 40-31-06 Account: 42656248
4.3 The Charges are exclusive of VAT, which if payable at checkout. Bing Digital are registered for VAT and our VAT number is 202235760.
4.4 Bing Digital shall be entitled to charge interest in respect of late payment of any sum due under this Agreement, which shall accrue from the date when payment becomes due from day to day until the date of payment at a rate of 8% per annum above the base rate of the Bank of England from time to time in force.
4.5 Bing Digital do not provide credit facilities.
4.6 From time to time Bing Digital may make enquiries on the Customers company, proprietor or directors of the Customers company with credit reference agencies. These agencies may record that a search has been made and share this information with other businesses.
4.7 Bing Digital provide “Money-Back Guarantees” on certain products. Should your product qualify for this guarantee please raise a support ticket within 30 days of placing your order for a full refund. This guarantee excludes domain names and SSL which may not be cancelled once ordered. Customers are limited to using the money-back guarantee once.
4.8 Pro-rata refunds will not be issued for services that are cancelled before the end of the term.
4.9 Should your chosen payment method fail Bing Digital will attempt to settle your invoice using any other payment facilities available on your account.
4.10 All services will renew until cancelled by the customer. Bing Digital emails the customers primary email address prior to renewal of services, it is the customers responsibility to cancel services prior to renewal as no refund can be made once renewal has occurred. Customers must notify us at least 72 hours before a service is renewed if they wish to cancel that service. The cancellation process must be fully completed by you before your account is cancelled.
4.11 All services must be paid for in advance by means of cleared funds using the methods outlined above.

5 IP ADDRESSES
5.1 Bing Digital shall maintain control and ownership of the IP address that is assigned to the Customer as part of the Services and reserves the right in its sole discretion to change or remove any and all IP addresses.
5.2 Where Bing Digital changes or removes any IP address it shall use its reasonable endeavours to avoid any disruption to the Customer.

6 SOFTWARE LICENCE AND RIGHTS
6.1 If the Customer requires use of software owned by or licensed to Bing Digital (“Bing Digital’s software”) in order to use the Services, Bing Digital grants to the Customer and its employees, agents and third party consultants and contractors, a royalty-free, world-wide, non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to use Bing Digital Software in object code form only, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, this Agreement does not transfer or grant to the Customer any right, title, interest or intellectual property rights in Bing Digital Software.
6.2 In relation to Bing Digital’s obligations under this Agreement in connection with the provision of the Services, the Customer grants to Bing Digital a royalty-free, world-wide, non-exclusive licence to use the Customer Software and all text, graphics, logos, photographs, images, moving images, sound, illustrations and other material and related documentation featured, displayed or used in or in relation to the website (“the Content”). For the avoidance of doubt, this Agreement does not transfer or grant to Bing Digital any right, title, interest or intellectual property rights in the Customer Software or the Content.
6.3 The Customer undertakes that he will not himself or through any third party, sell, lease, license or sublicense Bing Digital Software.
6.4 Bing Digital may make such copies of the Customer Content as may be necessary to perform its obligations under this Agreement, including back up copies of the Content. Upon termination or expiration of this Agreement, Bing Digital shall destroy all such copies of the Content and other materials provided by the Customer as and when requested by the Customer.

7 SERVICE LEVELS AND DATA BACKUP
7.1 Bing Digital shall use its reasonable endeavours to make the server and the Services available to the Customer 100% of the time but because the Services are provided by means of computer and telecommunications systems, Bing Digital makes no warranties or representations that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free and Bing Digital shall not, in any event, be liable for interruptions of Service or downtime of the server.
7.2 Bing Digital carries out data backups for use by Bing Digital in the event of systems failure. Bing Digital do not provide data restoration facilities for individual customers. Even though every effort is made to ensure data is backed up correctly Bing Digital accepts no responsibility for data loss or corruption.

8 ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
8.1 The website and use of the Services may be used for lawful purposes only and the Customer may not submit, publish or display any content that breaches any law, statute or regulation. In particular the Customer agrees not to:
8.1.1 use the Services or the website in any way to send unsolicited commercial email or “spam”, or any similar abuse of the Services;
8.1.2 send email or any type of electronic message with the intention or result of affecting the performance of any computer facilities;
8.1.3 publish, post, distribute or disseminate defamatory, obscene, indecent or other unlawful material or information, or any material or information which infringes any intellectual property rights (for the avoidance of doubt this includes licensed software distributed as Warez), via the Services or on the Website;
8.1.4 threaten, abuse, disrupt or otherwise violate the rights (including rights of privacy and publicity) of others;
8.1.5 engage in illegal or unlawful activities through the Services or via the Website;
8.1.6 make available or upload files to the website or to the Services that the Customer knows contain a virus, worm, trojan or corrupt data; or
8.1.7 obtain or attempt to obtain access, through whatever means, to areas of Bing Digital’s network or the Services which are identified as restricted or confidential. This includes leaving your home directory whilst using SSH access to servers.
8.1.8 operate or attempt to operate IRC bots or other permanent server processes.
8.1.9 You must not run your network interface(s) in promiscuous mode or run packet sniffing software within your Dedicated Server or VPS/Cloud.
8.1.10 You must not run any programs or software designed to locate vulnerabilities on other servers, including “port scanning” and “password sniffing” software.
8.1.11 You must not attempt to “spoof” traffic or attempt to acquire IP addresses other than those specifically assigned to your individual Dedicated Server or VPS product within your Control Panel.
8.1.12 You must not run DHCP services on the open network.
8.2 The Customer has full responsibility for the content of the Website. For the avoidance of doubt, Bing Digital is not obliged to monitor, and will have no liability for, the content of any communications transmitted by virtue of the Services.
8.3 If the Customer fails to comply with the Acceptable Use Policy outlined in Clause 8.1 Bing Digital shall be entitled to withdraw the Services and terminate the Customer’s account without notice.

9 ALTERATIONS AND UPDATES
All alterations and updates to the website shall be made by the Customer using the online account management facility, FTP access or SSH access where available. The Customer will be issued with a user name and password in order to access the account. The Customer must take all reasonable steps to maintain the confidentiality of this user name and password. If the Customer reasonably believes that this information has become known to any unauthorised person, the Customer agrees to immediately inform Bing Digital and the password will be changed.

10 WARRANTIES
10.1 The Customer warrants and represents to Bing Digital that Bing Digital’s use of the Content or the Customer Software in accordance with this Agreement will not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party and that the Customer has the authority to license the Content and the Customer Software to Bing Digital as set out in Clause 6.2.
10.2 All conditions, terms, representations and warranties that are not expressly stated in this Agreement, whether oral or in writing or whether imposed by statute or operation of law or otherwise, including, without limitation, the implied warranty of satisfactory quality and fitness for a particular purpose are hereby excluded. In particular and without prejudice to that generality, Bing Digital shall not be liable to the Customer as a result of any viruses introduced or passed on to the Customer.

11 INDEMNITY
The Customer agrees to indemnify and hold Bing Digital and its employees and agents harmless from and against all liabilities, legal fees, damages, losses, costs and other expenses in relation to any claims or actions brought against Bing Digital arising out of any breach by the Customer of the terms of this Agreement or other liabilities arising out of or relating to the Website.

12 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
12.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude or limit Bing Digital’s liability for death or personal injury resulting from Bing Digital’s negligence or that of its employees, agents or sub-contractors.
12.2 The entire liability of Bing Digital to the Customer in respect of any claim whatsoever or breach of this Agreement, whether or not arising out of negligence, shall be limited to the charges paid for the Services under this Agreement in respect of which the breach has arisen.
12.3 In no event shall Bing Digital be liable to the Customer for any loss of business, loss of opportunity or loss of profits or for any other indirect or consequential loss or damage whatsoever. This shall apply even where such a loss was reasonably foreseeable or Bing Digital had been made aware of the possibility of the Customer incurring such a loss.

13 TERM AND TERMINATION
13.1 This Agreement will become effective on the date the service is ordered and shall continue until terminated by either party in writing of its intention to terminate the Agreement.
13.2 Bing Digital shall have the right to terminate this Agreement with immediate effect by notice in writing to the Customer if the Customer fails to make any payment when it becomes due.
13.3 Either party may terminate this Agreement forthwith by notice in writing to the other if:
13.3.1 the other party commits a material breach of this Agreement and, in the case of a breach capable of being remedied, fails to remedy it within a reasonable time of being given written notice from the other party to do so; or
13.3.2 the other party commits a material breach of this Agreement which cannot be remedied under any circumstances; or
13.3.3 the other party passes a resolution for winding up (other than for the purpose of solvent amalgamation or reconstruction), or a court of competent jurisdiction makes an order to that effect; or
13.3.4 the other party ceases to carry on its business or substantially the whole of its business; or
13.3.5 the other party is declared insolvent, or convenes a meeting of or makes or proposes to make any arrangement or composition with its creditors; or a liquidator, receiver, administrative receiver, manager, trustee or similar officer is appointed over any of its assets.
13.4 Any rights to terminate this Agreement shall be without prejudice to any other accrued rights and liabilities of the parties arising in any way out of this Agreement as at the date of termination.
13.5 On termination all data held in the customers account will be deleted.

14 ASSIGNMENT
14.1 Bing Digital may assign or otherwise transfer this Agreement at any time.
14.2 The Customer may not assign or otherwise transfer this Agreement or any part of it without Bing Digital’s prior written consent.

15 FORCE MAJEURE
Neither party shall be liable for any delay or failure to perform any of its obligations if the delay or failure results from events or circumstances outside its reasonable control, including but not limited to acts of God, strikes, lock outs, accidents, war, fire, the act or omission of government, highway authorities or any telecommunications carrier, operator or administration or other competent authority, the act or omission of any Internet Service Provider, or the delay or failure in manufacture, production, or supply by third parties of equipment or services, and the party shall be entitled to a reasonable extension of its obligations after notifying the other party of the nature and extent of such events.

16 SEVERANCE
If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason by any Court of competent jurisdiction such provision shall be severed and the remainder of the provisions hereof shall continue in full force and effect as if this Agreement had been agreed with the invalid illegal or unenforceable provision eliminated.

17 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 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 2 days following the date of posting.

18 ENTIRE AGREEMENT
This Agreement contains the entire Agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter and supersedes any previous agreements, arrangements, undertakings or proposals, oral or written. This Agreement may be updated without notice.

19 GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and the parties hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

20 DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION
20.1 Domain names are not deemed to be successfully registered until they appear in the relevant whois database of the top level domain name registrar. In the event that a domain name is unavailable when we attempt to register it Bing Digital will provide a full refund for that domain name, this will be the full limit of our liability.
20.2 Please return to the main terms and conditions area of this website to view terms and conditions for individual domain name registrars.
20.3 Bing Digital will make reasonable endeavours to renew domains where the renewal fee has been paid. In the event that we are unable to renew a domain name and that domain name is subsequently lost, the limit of our liability shall be the renewal fee for that domain name.

21 SCRIPTING
Bing Digital are not responsible for customer programming issues other than ensuring that programming languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby are installed and functioning on the web hosting system.

22 PRIVACY
To protect your privacy we will not distribute your details to third parties, unless required to do so by law.

23 BANDWIDTH
23.1 Web hosting accounts include a certain amount of bandwidth, if you exceed this amount in any one month your account will be deactivated until you have upgraded to an account that has more bandwidth included or until the start of the following month. Your bandwidth usage is shown in the Control Panel. On some packages bandwidth will be charged at £0.0006 per mb over the package quota
23.2 Dedicated Web hosting accounts that host file distribution (including but not limited to music, video and software) are limited to a maximum bandwidth of 300 GB per month, additional bandwidth can be added upon request.
23.3 Web hosting accounts are prohibited from hosting hardcore pornographic material, hosting graphics or scripts for other websites, storing pages, files or data as a repository for other websites or as a backup, giving away web space under a domain (including Resellers giving away free websites), sub domain or directory.

24 SERVER USAGE
24.1 Should your web hosting account use more than 5% of the servers processing power and as a result have a detrimental effect on other customers we will discuss with you alternative solutions for your hosting requirements.
24.2 Bing Digital does not allow proxy sites of any nature to be hosted on its network.

25 AFFILIATE PROGRAMME
Commission earned via the affiliate programme will only be paid by using a valid direct debit/credit mandate on your account. It is the customers responsibility to ensure they have this facility. In the event of the customer not being able to obtain this facility then no commission will be paid.

26 EMAIL NEWSLETTER
Bing Digital communicates with it’s customers via email and as such you agree to receive by email our regular newsletter which contains amongst other things changes to our terms and conditions, notification of major outages, updates to our products & features and special offers.

27 WEBSPACE USAGE
Unlimited web space offered on web hosting packages is available for genuine web site content, content must be linked into web pages. Customers are prohibited from using the server as a file/backup repository. Customers are expected to employ good house keeping when maintaining their account.

28 MAIL BOXES
Mail boxes for web hosting packages not accessed for 100 days or more will be deleted from the system.

29 RESELLER DEACTIVATED ACCOUNTS
When a Reseller disables a web hosting account, you agree that after 50 days this account may be deleted from the system without notice.

30 DEDICATED SERVERS
Bing Digital will provide the hardware, software and internet connectivity as listed on the order page. Bing Digital do not provide software installation, software patches or custom programming or non-hardware support.
All dedicated servers are subject to at least one months contract. Once the initial one month contract has expired dedicated servers can be cancelled with 30 days notice. Dedicated servers are excluded from the 30 day money back guarantee.
Customers should not use their dedicated server to host or maintain any prohibited content or links.
Prohibited content or links include (but are not limited to):
– Pirated software
– Hacking programs or archives
– Warez Sites
– Distribution of music files, video files, or any other material in which the account holder does not own the copyright.
– Sites not conforming to UK law.
– Our acceptable use policy above still applies.
Customers should not use their dedicated server for sending spam emails, nor should they host any site which has been advertised through spam emails whether or not the spam originated from the server.
Bing Digital are not responsible for backing up any data on Dedicated Servers.

31 FREE TRANSFER
Free transfer is Cpanel to Cpanel accounts only on a like for like basis. A charge will be made to transfer using FTP and phpMyAdmin
Sites should be checked thoroughly after transfer and any errors notified within 24hrs from nameserver change notification.

32 £1 Monthly Trial
Unless cancelled this service will auto renew to our Magento Core plan and will be billed monthly at the current rate.
A maximum of 3 trial accounts per customer

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