DRM Development, Inc. Terms of Use
DOMAIN PARKING / RESERVATIONS
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1. There is a charge for indefinite parking of domains on DRM Development,
Inc. servers or to transfer to another service provider.
2. Domain Parking does NOT include Web Space or Virtual Hosting. You are not
provided with the option to submit your own DNS entries as we are NOT a Registrar
and therefore assume that you wish to obtain your hosting services directly
through DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC.
3. Domain name payments are non-refundable. The 30 day money back guarantee
only applies to the hosting portion of your service. Once a domain name is
registered, the WHOIS database stores the information and is kept there for
a period of one year, until the date of renewal. Payment will NOT be credited
back.
4. In the event there is a mis-spelling of a domain name, while being registered
online, you as the customer must register the correct spelling of that name.
There are NO refunds issued for mis-spelled domain names.
GENERAL
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1. DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. claims no control whatsoever over the content of the
information passing through the DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. WEB SYSTEM. DRM DEVELOPMENT,
INC. makes no warranties of any kind, whether expressed or implied, for the
service it is providing. DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. also disclaims any warranty
of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
2. DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. will not be responsible for any damage you suffer. This includes loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries, or service interruptions caused by its own negligence or your errors or omissions.
3. DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. WEB HOSTING SYSTEM may only be used for lawful purposes. Transmission of any material in violation of any Federal, Provincial or local regulation is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to copyrighted material, material legally judged to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade secret.
4. We have the right to refuse to host adult content and to remove it from our servers at any time. Further, you are not permitted to distribute material promoting hatred against individuals or groups or any content which may be deemed to be illegal according to the laws of your country of residence. We reserve the right to decline requests for web space rentals and to cancel any account at our discretion. You are also not permitted to distribute material promoting any form of network abuse (such as bulk spam mailers, sniffers, or hacking tools).
5. At DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. and its officer's discretion, access to DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. WEB HOSTING SYSTEM may be revoked at any time for abusive conduct on the system and/or the Internet and its resources as a whole. Sending spam (unsolicited email) from a domain or about a domain is considered abuse of the system and will result in the termination of your account. DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. and its officers are deemed as authority to define abusive conduct to the system, and definitions may periodically change or be amended to previous ones.
6. You may not compile or install binary files other than the ones provided on the system. We do not make C compilers available for our web clients, and the PERL binaries provided will *not* have networking support (for example, socket.ph, ftp.pl, etc.) However, if there is any program which you'd like added to the available system binaries or scripts please check with your sales representative to arrange approval.
7. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. from any claims resulting from your use of the service which damages you or another party.
8. Use of any information obtained via DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. WEB HOSTING SYSTEM is at your own risk. DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. specifically denies any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through its services.
9. Telnet and Shell Access is strictly prohibited.
10. You may use ftp to access your home directory for the purpose of installing and editing your web pages as often as necessary.
11. These Terms and Conditions supersede all previous representations understandings or agreements and shall prevail notwithstanding and variance with terms and conditions of any order submitted.
12. If the disk usage, transfer limit or number of email accounts of a hosted package is exceeded, the user's account will be charged for extra bandwidth, disk space and/or email accounts according to our present pricing policy. Warning messages will be emailed to users as they exceed 80% and 90% of their package s respective bandwidth and disk space limits. Annual accounts that incur extra usage charges will be invoiced separately. If payment for extra usage is not received within two weeks of the invoice date, the expiry date of the account will be adjusted according to the amount outstanding.
13. Without prior notification, DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. reserves the right to suspend or terminate accounts, remove or modify any files which are deemed to be a threat to the functionality or existence of DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. WEB HOSTING SYSTEM.
14. DRM Development, Inc. will provide a 30 day money back guarantee. The 30 days start from the earliest of - the day we receive the electronic order form, the day customer signs up via fax. In any case, the set-up fee, extra bandwidth and extra storage space charges are not refundable.
15. Cancellations will NOT generate ANY refund.
16. Miva Merchant license keys are nonrefundable.
17. If any DRM Development, Inc. account is generating web traffic considered
unusually high, we may require the site to be placed on a Heavy User server
Virtual Server. We reserve the right to make this determination at our discretion.
18. Use of DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. WEB HOSTING SYSTEM constitutes acceptance
of these Terms and Conditions.
DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC., SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT (SLA)
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NETWORK UPTIME GUARANTEE
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Service Uptime. DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC.'s target uptime for the Service is 99.9%
of the time in every calendar month. DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. also guarantees
that the email services, web serving services, DNS services, and the DRM DEVELOPMENT,
INC. network will be available and function for a minimum of 99.9% of the time,
not including scheduled maintenance windows. DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC.'s, multi-redundant
network architecture permits operation without service degradation or CUSTOMER
interruption in the case of maintenance or equipment failure.
DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. will use commercially reasonable efforts to meet or exceed
service levels. If DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. fails to meet the foregoing 99.9%
service levels set out below in a rolling two month period, then CUSTOMER will
be entitled to receive a credit for such outage in accordance with the schedule
below. CUSTOMER will be entitled to deduct said credit for such amounts otherwise
payable to DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. hereunder, calculated in accordance with the
table below for each month (computed by reference to a 31 day month), if more
than 20% of the CUSTOMER users are affected. If the actual availability for
any three month period is less than 98.00%, CUSTOMER will have the right to
terminate this Agreement for breach of contract.
Availability % Monthly Service Credit
99.40 - 99.70 10%
99.00 - 99.40 20%
98.00 - 99.00 30%
97.00 - 98.00 40%
96.00 - 97.00 50%
95.00 - 96.00 60%
Maintenance Services. DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. will provide maintenance as long
as this agreement is in effect without charge. Maintenance windows are scheduled
at times which least impact our CUSTOMERS based on minimal overall activity
on the DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. web hosting systems which may vary from month
to month.
Notwithstanding the preceding, DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. reserves the right, in
its reasonable discretion, to perform any emergency work outside of any Maintenance
Windows in order to keep the DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. System functioning in accordance
with appropriate Service Levels. If advance notice has been provided, periods
of time the Service is unavailable during Emergency maintenance windows will
not be included in calculating the service levels actually achieved. Software
and hardware failures resulting from a third party intrusion (i.e. denial of
service attacks) are excluded from the uptime guarantee. Private label DNS
(domain name servers) require 3 DNS entries, the third of which is DRM DEVELOPMENT,
INC.'S generic DNS. DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. also does not provide any service
guarantees for Microsoft Access, ASP, Cold Fusion or Miva. Website or email
services downtime resulting from misuse by the CUSTOMER'S end users will not
be recorded as downtime when calculating credits.
Credits for affected websites must be applied for within 60 days of the occurrence
of the problem. DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC.'S Technical Services will be responsible
for problem investigation and will provide a written response to the CUSTOMER
explaining the results of their investigation. In the event there is a dispute
of findings, DRM DEVELOPMENT, INC. reserves the right to make the final decision
on whether credits will be provided to the CUSTOMER.