TERMS & CONDITIONS
This New Vision Development Corp. Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") describe
the proper kinds of conduct and prohibited uses of New Vision Development Corp.'s
hosting services (the "Services"). This AUP is not exhaustive
and New Vision Development Corp. reserves the right to modify this AUP at any time,
effective upon posting of the modified AUP at www.New Vision Development Corp..com.
By registering for and using the Services, and thereby accepting
the terms and conditions of this AUP, you agree to abide by these
conditions as modified from time to time. Any violation of the AUP
may result in the suspension or termination of your account or such
other action as New Vision Development Corp. deems appropriate.
Server Abuse
Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server, or customer,
of New Vision Development Corp. is strictly prohibited.
Unauthorized use of other people's accounts or computers New Vision Development Corp.
will strongly react to any use or attempted use of an Internet account
or computer without the owner's authorization. Such attempts include
"Internet scamming" (tricking other people into releasing
their passwords), password robbery, security hole scanning etc.
Any unauthorized use of accounts or computers by a New Vision Development Corp.
customer, whether or not the attacked account or computer belongs
to New Vision Development Corp., will result in action against the attacker. Possible
actions include warnings, account suspension or cancellation, and
civil or criminal legal action, depending on the seriousness of
the attack.
IMPORTANT NOTE: New Vision Development Corp. has the right to discontinue
service, or deny access to anyone who violates our Policies or the
terms and conditions shown below WITHOUT WARNING OR PRIOR NOTICE.
No refunds of fees paid will be made if account termination is due
to violation of the terms outlined below.
Customers may not run IRC, bots or clients on shared servers.
Unacceptable uses also include, but are NOT limited to: Bulk emailing,
unsolicited emailings, newsgroup spamming, illegal content, copyright
infringement, trademark infringement, warez, cracks, software serial
numbers, and/or anything else determined by New Vision Development Corp. to be unacceptable
use of New Vision Development Corp.'s services including abuse of server resources.
All hosting accounts may be terminated that include the following
content or which have links to the following content:
" Providing material that is grossly offensive to the Web community
including blatant expressions of bigotry, racism or hatred.
" Promoting or providing instructional information about illegal
activities, or promoting physical harm or injury against any group
or individual.
" Displaying material that exploits children under 18 years
of age.
" Acts of copyright infringement including offering pirated
computer programs or links to such programs, information used to
circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, including
serial or registration numbers for software programs, or any type
of cracker utilities.
Bandwidth Traffic
Each plan with New Vision Development Corp. comes with a pre determined bandwidth usage
amount. In the event that your account exceeds the bandwidth limitations
included with your account you will be billed at $3.00 per 1GB/month
If you want to pre-pay for bandwidth overages, you will need to
pay $2.00 per 1GB/month.
You will receive a notice on Tuesday morning detailing your bandwidth
usage.
You will have 7 days
to pay for your overages. If you do not pay for your overages your
site will be disabled within 7 days of your first notice.
Unsolicited Email (Spam)
Unsolicited commercial advertisements (spam) are not allowed in
e-mail, and will likely result in account cancellation.
New Vision Development Corp. takes a zero-tolerance approach to spam originating
from our servers or for spam advertising of domains hosted on our
servers.
The following activities are not allowed:
" Unsolicited bulk or commercial messages ("spam").
This includes, but is not limited to, bulk mailing of commercial
advertising, informational announcements, charity requests, petitions
for signatures, and political or religious tracts. Such messages
may only be sent to those who have explicitly requested it from
your domain.
" Forging, altering or removing electronic mail headers is
prohibited. Any domain sending stealth spam will be terminated without
warning and without refund.
" Sending numerous copies of the same or substantially similar
message with the intent to disrupt a server or account ("mail
bombing").
" Spamming Newsgroups: Commercial advertisements are unwelcome
in most Usenet discussion groups and on most e-mail mailing lists.
Inappropriate posting may result in account cancellation. See the
newsgroup or mailing list's charter for whether advertising is allowed
or not. "Spamming," or sending a message to many different
off-topic newsgroups, is particularly unethical and will be treated
as such.
" Mail may not be used to harass or intimidate others. Harassment,
whether through language, frequency of messages, or size of messages,
is prohibited. Sending a single unwelcome message may be considered
harassment. If a recipient asks to stop receiving e-mail, you must
not send that person any further messages.
" Providing spamware (software used to send bulk email or software
used to harvest email addresses) or links to sites providing spamware
is strictly prohibited and subject to demand for removal or account
cancellation.
Note: If you use the services of another provider (including but
not limited to the use of address lists obtained from a third party
vendor or provider) to promote a web site hosted by or through New Vision Development Corp.
(spamvertising), then the provisions of the above Policy shall apply
as if the spam were sent through our servers.
Penalty: Depending on the severity of your SPAMMING, New Vision Development Corp.
reserves the right to charge you between $1.00 - $100.00 PER SPAM
sent through our network. Your web site content will also be confiscated
and it will be NEVER returned to you.
CGI Scripts
(This section does not apply to managed dedicated or colocation
servers.) Each shared Unix web hosting account comes with its own
cgi-bin, in which you are free to use any* CGI scripts you wish.
All CGI scripts (Perl scripts with a .pl or .cgi extension) intended
for use on shared Windows 2000 web hosting accounts are subject
to approval by our NT Administrators.
*See the Server Resource Abuse section.
Server Resource Abuse
(This section does not apply to managed dedicated or colocation
servers.) Shared server accounts are limited in use of the amount
of server resources. Shared server resource abuse includes any process
or service usage that affects normal shared server operation, resources
or connectivity, and which causes a server to become overloaded.
Shared server resources include CPU and memory usage, number of
concurrent processes, number of concurrent port or database connections
and total bandwidth. Possible causes of server resource abuse include,
but are not limited to, the use of: CGI, Perl, Sendmail, mySQL,
MSSQL, PHP, ASP, COLDFUSION, HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP. If server
resource abuse is detected, possible actions include, but are not
limited to: disabling of the offending script or scripts, disabling
of the specific service, disabling of the entire account or account
cancellation. If server overload is a result of server resource
abuse, these actions will be taken without prior notice or warning.
Chat Rooms
We do not allow clients to install their own chat rooms within
a shared hosting account, without approving it with the New Vision Development Corp.
Support Team. Most chat rooms tend to be large system hogs and we
cannot allow it as an account option. However, we do provide a choice
of Java chat rooms for a small extra charge that will more than
fill your needs and run without hindering the performance of the
machine for others. Note: Parachat chat rooms do not apply to this
rule. They are perfectly fine to install.
Abuse of SMTP Mail Server
We do not allow clients to send more than 2000 pieces of e-mail
per day from a shared hosting account. If you do send more than
2000 pieces of e-mail per day, your account will be placed on hold
for Network Abuse. If you are sending legitimate e-mails and they
total more than 2000 per day your account will be moved to a special
server that is specifically designed to handle high volumes of e-mail.
You will be charged $50.00/month in addition to your regular hosting
charges if your account is moved to this server. Please contact
noc@New Vision Development Corp..com to have your domain moved.
Background Running Programs
We may allow programs to run continually in the background. These
are considered on a one-to-one basis and an extra charge will be
incurred based on system resources used and operational maintenance
needed. (this section does not apply to managed dedicated servers)
IRC
We currently do not allow IRC IRC clients or IRC bots to be operated
on any of our servers. In addition, IRC servers are not permitted
on our network. Anyone found to be in violation of this policy risks
immediate account termination.
Excessive Use/Overages
You will not exceed the bandwidth, storage and E-mail usage limits
outlined by your particular web hosting package. If you use any
bandwidth or storage space in excess of the agreed upon number of
megabytes per month or if you exceed E-Mail storage and attachment
size limitations, New Vision Development Corp. may, in its sole discretion, assess
you with additional charges. If New Vision Development Corp. elects to take any corrective
action, New Vision Development Corp. will not refund any unused pre-paid fees. Your
use of your account and access to it is your responsibility. You
are responsible for any unauthorized access to your account resulting
in bandwidth, storage and/or E-mail usage exceeding the limits outlined
in your particular web hosting package specifications and resultant
charges. Bandwidth overages are currently billed at $3/GB/month.
Disk space overages are currently billed at $.25/MB/month. Email
attachments overages are currently billed at $.10 per email over
10MB.
Payment Policies
All accounts are set up on a pre-pay basis. Setup fees may be charged
for all new accounts and major account changes and are non-refundable.
All pricing is guaranteed for the term of pre-payment. New Vision Development Corp.
reserves the right to change prices at any time, unless other terms
have been agreed upon. Any account not brought current within a
week (7 days) of e-mail notice or exceeding this time frame in any
way is subject to suspension. The customer is responsible for all
money owed on the account from the time it was established to the
time that the customer notifies New Vision Development Corp. at http://New Vision Development Corp..com/Order/cancel.htm
to request for termination of services. All payment is in U.S. currency.
New Vision Development Corp. will bill each client $20.00 per returned check, per
wire transfer received and per credit card chargeback received.
All New Vision Development Corp. accounts are setup on anniversary billing cycles.
Your particular billing cycle corresponds to the contract length
that was initially chosen at setup. Your account will automatically
renew at this length. There is no fee to change to a shorter billing
cycle at the end of the current cycle. However, if you wish to change
to a shorter billing cycle, during a current cycle, there will be
a $20.00 fee. Please contact the billing department at billing@New Vision Development Corp..com
should you wish to change your anniversary billing cycle. Any account
that is not brought current prior to deactivation will be charged
a $25.00 reactivation fee as well as a $15.00 late charge, per domain
deactivated. In addition, if your credit card declines for any reason
New Vision Development Corp. will charge your account an additional $1.00 service
charge every time your card is declined. New Vision Development Corp. may impose
a debt service charge equal to one and one-half percent (1.5%) of
the overdue balance (or such lesser amount as may be required by
law) for each month or fraction thereof the overdue amount remains
unpaid. All taxes, fees and governmental charges relating to the
Services provided hereunder (other than income taxes of New Vision Development Corp.)
shall be paid by Customer.
Cancellation
New Vision Development Corp. reserves the right to cancel service at any time. All
fees paid in advance of cancellation will be pro-rated and paid
by New Vision Development Corp. if New Vision Development Corp. institutes it's right of cancellation.
Any violation of policies which results in extra costs will be billed
to the customer (i.e. transfer, space etc.)
All of New Vision Development Corp.'s web hosting plans are backed by a 30 day money
back guarantee. If you are not completely satisfied with our services
or support within the first 30 days of your contract, you will be
given a full refund of the contract amount excluding setup fees,
domain registration fees, add-on/upgrade fees and overages. Setup
fees are refundable only if the account order is canceled prior
to account activation. For web hosting contracts of 3 months or
less, the full contract amount less any setup fees and overages
will be refunded if New Vision Development Corp. is notified within the first 30
days following activation. No refund is available after the 30th
day. For web hosting contracts longer than 3 months, a refund equal
to one half of the contract amount less any setup fees and overages
will be given if New Vision Development Corp. is notified prior to the first day
of the third month of the contract term. If you cancel prior to
the end of your contract term and you received special pre-pay rates,
your hosting fees will be adjusted so that you pay the regular,
non-discounted monthly fees. No refunds for any reason will be given
once the third month of the contract term has begun. This policy
does not apply to any additional services such as overages, referrer
logs, real audio/video, additional disk space, additional pop accounts,
etc. Due to security concerns, all account cancellations must be
done via our cancellation forms at
http://New Vision Development Corp..com/Order/cancel.htm. Phone
or email requests will not constitute acceptance of any cancellation.
Refunds will be made by company check or issued back to your credit
card within 30 days of receipt of cancellation. To receive your
refund, you must terminate this Agreement in the manner described
in above and cease using the Services. New Vision Development Corp.
must receive your termination notice from
http://New Vision Development Corp..com/Order/cancel.htm within
the 30-day period. Your must fill out every field on the cancellation
form including why you are not satisfied with the Services.
Liability and Obligations on Cancellation
If the Agreement expires or is cancelled for any reason, New Vision Development Corp.
is not liable to you because of the expiration or cancellation for
compensation, reimbursement or damages on account of the loss of
prospective profits, anticipated sales, goodwill or on account of
expenditures, investments, leases or commitments in connection with
your business, or for any other reason whatsoever flowing from the
termination or expiration. If you terminate this Agreement, New Vision Development Corp.
will not relieve you of any obligations to pay fees and costs accrued
before the termination date or any other amounts you owe to New Vision Development Corp.
under this Agreement.
Material and Product Requirements
You must ensure that all material and data placed on New Vision Development Corp.'s
equipment is in a condition that is "server-ready," which
is in a form requiring no additional manipulation by New Vision Development Corp..
New Vision Development Corp. will make no effort to validate any of this information
for content, correctness or usability. If your material is not "server-ready",
New Vision Development Corp. may reject this material. New Vision Development Corp. will notify you
of its refusal of the material and afford you the opportunity to
modify the material to satisfy New Vision Development Corp.'s requirements. Use of
the Services requires a certain level of knowledge in the use of
Internet languages, protocols and software. This level of knowledge
varies depending on the anticipated use and desired content of your
Web site. You must have the necessary knowledge to create and maintain
a Web site. New Vision Development Corp. does not provide this knowledge or customer
support outside of the Services.
Intellectual Property Rights
Material accessible to you through New Vision Development Corp.'s services may be
subject to protection under the United States or other copyright
laws, or laws protecting trademarks, trade secrets or proprietary
information. Except when expressly permitted by the owner of such
rights, you must not use New Vision Development Corp. or its servers and network
in a manner that would infringe, violate, dilute or misappropriate
any such rights, with respect to any material, which you access
or receive through the New Vision Development Corp. network. If you use a domain
name in connection with New Vision Development Corp. or similar service, you must
not use that domain name in violation of any trademark, service
mark, or similar rights of any third party.
Network Security
Customers may not use the New Vision Development Corp. network with an 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 the customer, logging into a server or account
the customer is not expressly authorized to access, password cracking,
probing the security of other networks in search of weakness, or
violation of any other organization's security policy. Customers
may not attempt to interfere or deny service to any user, host,
or network. This includes, but is not limited to, flooding, mail
bombing, or other deliberate attempts to overload or crash a host
or network. New Vision Development Corp. 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. Users who violate system or network
security may incur criminal or civil liability. You are solely responsible
for any security breaches affecting servers or accounts under your
control. If your server or website is responsible for or involved
in an attack on or unauthorized access into another server or system,
New Vision Development Corp. will shut it down immediately. You will pay any charges
resulting from the cost to correct security breaches affecting New Vision Development Corp.
or any of its other customers.
Electronic Commerce
You will be solely responsible for the development, operation and
maintenance of your online store and products and all contents and
materials appearing online or on your products, including without
limitation (a) the accuracy and appropriateness of content and materials
appearing within the store or related to your products, (b) ensuring
that the content and materials appearing within the store or related
to your products do not violate or infringe upon the rights of any
third party, and (c) ensuring that the content and materials appearing
within the store or related to your products are not libelous or
otherwise illegal. You will be solely responsible for the final
calculation and application of shipping and sales tax. You will
also be solely responsible for accepting, processing, and filling
any customer orders, and for handling any customer inquiries or
complaints arising there from.
You are also responsible for the security of any customer credit
card numbers and related customer information you may access as
a result of conducting electronic commerce transactions through
your Web Site. You will keep all such information confidential and
will use the same degree of care and security as you use with your
confidential information.
Static / Dynamic Content Caching
You expressly (i) grant to New Vision Development Corp. a license to cache the entirety
of your Web Site, including content supplied by third parties, hosted
by New Vision Development Corp. under this Agreement and (ii) agree that such caching
is not an infringement of any of your intellectual property rights
or any third party's intellectual property rights.
IP Address Ownership
New Vision Development Corp. shall maintain and control ownership of all IP numbers
and addresses that may be assigned to you by New Vision Development Corp. and New Vision Development Corp.
reserves, in its sole discretion, the right to change or remove
any and all such IP numbers and addresses.
Domain Name Registration
Customer agrees to pay New Vision Development Corp. prior to the effectiveness of
the desired domain name registration, the then-current amounts set
forth in the New Vision Development Corp. price schedule for the initial registration
of the domain name and, should Customer choose to renew the registration,
subsequent renewals of the registration. All fees are non-refundable,
in whole or in part, even if Customer's domain name registration
is suspended, cancelled or transferred prior to the end of Customer's
then current registration term. New Vision Development Corp. reserves the right to
change fees, surcharges, renewal fees or to institute new fees at
any time, for any reason, at its sole discretion. Customer's requested
domain name will not be registered unless and until we receive actual
payment of the registration fee, and have confirmed Customer's registration
in an email from New Vision Development Corp. to the email address indicated in Customer's
registration application. In the event of a charge-back by a credit
card company (or similar action by another payment provider allowed
by New Vision Development Corp.) in connection with the payments of the registration
fee for Customer's domain name registration, Customer agrees and
acknowledges that the domain name registration shall be transferred
to New Vision Development Corp. as the paying entity for that registration to the
registry and that we reserve all rights regarding such domain name
including, without limitation, the right to make the domain name
available to other parties for purchase. New Vision Development Corp. will reinstate
Customer's domain name registration solely at New Vision Development Corp.'s discretion,
and subject to our receipt of the initial registration or renewal
fee and our then-current reinstatement fee.
Copyright Infringement
DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT
Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement
Pursuant to Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2), all
notifications of claimed copyright infringement on the New Vision Development Corp.
system or Web site should be sent ONLY to our Designated Agent.
NOTE: THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS PROVIDED SOLELY FOR NOTIFYING
New Vision Development Corp. THAT YOUR COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL MAY HAVE BEEN INFRINGED.
WE CAUTION YOU THAT UNDER FEDERAL LAW, IF YOU KNOWINGLY MISREPRESENT
THAT ONLINE MATERIAL IS INFRINGING, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO HEAVY
CIVIL PENALTIES. THESE INCLUDE MONETARY DAMAGES, COURT COSTS, AND
ATTORNEYS FEES INCURRED BY US, BY ANY COPYRIGHT OWNER, OR BY ANY
COPYRIGHT OWNER'S LICENSEE THAT IS INJURED AS A RESULT OF OUR RELYING
UPON YOUR MISREPRESENTATION. YOU MAY ALSO BE SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL
PROSECUTION FOR PERJURY.
DO NOT SEND ANY INQUIRIES UNRELATED TO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT (e.g.
REQUESTS FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OR CUSTOMER SERVICE, REPORTS OF
E-MAIL ABUSE, etc.) TO THE CONTACT LISTED BELOW. YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE
A RESPONSE IF SENT TO THAT CONTACT.
Written notification must be submitted to the following Designated
Agent:
New Vision Development Corp., Inc.
Legal Department
34East Main Street #305
Smithtown, NY 11787
Fax: 631-890-3732
copyright@NewVisionDevelopment.com
Under Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(3)(A), the Notification
of Claimed Infringement must include the following:
1. Physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act
on behalf of the copyright owner.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed
or a representative list if multiple works are involved.
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing
that should be removed or access to disabled and information reasonably
sufficient to enable the online service provider to locate the material
(usually a URL to the relevant page).
4. Information reasonably sufficient to allow the online service
provider to contact the complaining party (address, phone number,
e-mail address).
5. Statement that the complaining party has "a good faith belief
that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized
by the copyright owner, its agent or the law."
6. Statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and
under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized
to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
Lawful Purpose
New Vision Development Corp. reserves the right to refuse service to anyone. Customers
may only use New Vision Development Corp. server for lawful purpose. Transmission
of any material in violation of any Federal, State or Local regulation
is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to copyrighted
material, material legally judged to be threatening or obscene,
and material protected by trade secrets. The designation of any
materials as such described above is left entirely to the discretion
of New Vision Development Corp. management. Regardless of the place of signing this
agreement, the client agrees that for purposes of venue and jurisdiction
this contract was entered into and performed in Harris County, Texas,
and any dispute will be litigated or arbitrated in Harris County,
Texas. Customer further waives all objections to venue or jurisdiction
and acknowledges that venue and jurisdiction in any such litigation
will be held in Harris County Courts. IN NO EVENT SHALL New Vision Development Corp.'S
MAXIMUM LIABILITY EXCEED FIVE HUNDRED ($500.00) DOLLARS.
Indemnification
CUSTOMER AGREES THAT IT SHALL DEFEND, INDEMNIFY, SAVE AND HOLD
New Vision Development Corp. HARMLESS FROM ANY AND ALL DEMANDS, LIABILITIES, LOSSES,
COSTS AND CLAIMS, INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEY'S FEES ASSERTED
AGAINST New Vision Development Corp., ITS AGENTS, ITS CUSTOMERS, OFFICERS AND EMPLO
YEES, THAT MAY ARISE OR RESULT FROM ANY SERVICE PROVIDED OR PERFORMED
OR AGREED TO BE PERFORMED OR ANY PRODUCT SOLD BY CUSTOMER, IT'S
AGENTS, EMPLOYEES OR ASSIGNS. CUSTOMER AGREES TO DEFEND, INDEMNIFY
AND HOLD HARMLESS New Vision Development Corp. AGAINST LIABILITIES ARISING OUT OF;
(1) ANY INJURY TO PERSON OR PROPERTY CAUSED BY ANY PRODUCTS SOLD
OR OTHERWISE DISTRIBUTED IN CONNECTION WITH New Vision Development Corp.'S 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 New Vision Development Corp.'S
SERVER.
Disclaimer
New Vision Development Corp. WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES YOUR BUSINESS
MAY SUFFER. New Vision Development Corp. MAKES NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED
OR IMPLIED FOR SERVICES WE PROVIDE. New Vision Development Corp. DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY
OR MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THIS INCLUDES
LOSS OF DATA RESULTING FROM DELAYS, NON-DELIVERIES, WRONG DELIVERY,
AND ANY AND ALL SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS CAUSED BY New Vision Development Corp. AND
ITS EMPLOYEES. New Vision Development Corp. RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REVISE ITS POLICIES
AT ANY TIME.
ALL SUB-NETWORKS, RESELLERS AND DEDICATED SERVERS OF New Vision Development Corp.
MUST ADHERE TO THE ABOVE POLICIES.
FAILURE TO FOLLOW ANY TERM OR CONDITION WILL BE GROUNDS FOR
IMMEDIATE ACCOUNT DEACTIVATION. |