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Name Dropper is also referred to as 'the company' in these terms and conditions.
1.
It is important that our clients use our services and the Internet in general, responsibly and courteously at all times. Most of our clients do so and seldom need to refer to the Terms of Service.
2. Use of our service/s constitutes acceptance of all terms and conditions herein.
3.
These terms and conditions assume a certain level of knowledge in the use of Internet languages, protocols and software. In signing up to our service/s the client agrees that he or she has the necessary knowledge to create and maintain their own web space or that they will engage someone with that knowledge to create and maintain their web space and if they require technical support from Name Dropper such technical support will be chargeable at the company's prevailing rates.
4.
It is a prerequisite of domain name registration that you read and accept the Terms and Conditions that govern the use of your chosen domain name. Use of Name Dropper's facilities and/or services signifies your acceptance of this prerequisite.
4(a)
Although we double check domain name registration requests manually before submitting them to the relevant Registry, this is strictly a double-checking service and should not be construed as a guarantee of any kind, nor does it guarantee anything at all in terms of a domain name registration. What we do is what we say we do: we double check the details submitted to us for incorrect entries that may conflict with the rules and regulations governing the use of a specific domain name at any given time.
4(b) When Name Dropper registers a domain name on behalf of a
client, whether through a 3rd party or not, it is understood that ultimately, it is the Registrant's responsibility to ensure all registration and other required fees have been paid. Name
Dropper reserves the right to withhold services on any domain name ordered until settlement of all debts due or claims under the company's contract with the registrant are satisfied.
5. We reserve the right to refuse an application for a hosting
account or to deactivate an existing account should we feel there is probable cause for doing so, such probable cause including spam or unacceptable load on server resources. Name Dropper
shall be the sole arbiter of what constitutes probable cause.
6. Affronts to Etiquette
Unacceptable activities include spamming (sending unsolicited
advertising to those with which the customer has no existing business relationship, posting off-topic advertising in newsgroups); spoofing (using a return email address which is not
the valid reply address of the sender or sending an email message which does not contain enough information to enable the recipient to identify the party who is really sending the
message; passive spamming (promoting a web site hosted by Name Dropper by spamming from some other source), trolling (posting controversial messages in newsgroups to generate
responses), mailbombing (inundating a user with email without any serious intent to correspond), generating a higher volume of outgoing mail than a normal user (over 10% of available system
resources), and subscribing someone else to an electronic mailing list without that person's permission. A message is considered unsolicited if it is posted in violation of a newsgroup
charter or sent to a recipient who has not requested the message. Making an email address available to the public does not constitute a request to receive messages. Distribution of
mass emailing programs is also prohibited. All recipients on a mailing list must have personally subscribed. Mailing lists may not be used to distribute unsolicited email. Any customer
repeatedly "mailbombing" or who attracts such behavior may have their account terminated forthwith. If you are not sure if your
actions will be in violation of these terms and conditions, please ask first by emailing regs@namedropper.co.uk
7. Age
In general, the client must be over 18 years of age to obtain our
services. Anyone under this age must make this known to info@namedropper.co.uk before attempting to use our facilities.
8. Abuse of the legal rights of others
Examples of unacceptable activities include posting private
information about a person without their consent, infringing intellectual property rights, defaming a person or business, and knowingly making available code which will have a deleterious
effect on third party computers. Name Dropper supports free speech on the Internet, and will not suspend or cancel a customer's account simply because it disagrees with the views
expressed by the customer. Where there are allegations that a customer's on-line activity has violated the legal rights of a third
party, Name Dropper will not substitute itself for a court of law in deciding tort claims raised by the third party.
9. Abuse of the law
Name Dropper's services may be used for lawful purposes only.
Illegality includes but is not limited to: drug dealing; attempting without authorization to access a computer system; pirating
(distributing copyrighted material in violation of copyright law, specifically MP3s, MPEG's, ROMs, and ROM emulators); gambling; schemes to defraud; trafficking in obscene material;
sending a message or having content that is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person; threatening bodily harm or
damage to individuals or groups; violating international export restrictions; stalking; or violating other international laws such as
the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or the Economic Espionage Act. Linking to illegal material is also prohibited. Name Dropper reserves the right to
check system files, email, and other data on our servers for illegal content and materials, or for any other reasons deemed necessary.
10. Pornography
Pornography, or links to such material, is not an acceptable use
of Name Dropper's servers.
11. Abuse of Name Dropper's Server Resources
Running programs in the background of a Name Dropper server without prior written authorization, or running chat rooms, Internet Relay Chat, IRC bots, and the like are not acceptable uses of
Name Dropper's servers. Further, any sustained load of five percent (5%) or more of our system resources is an undue burden on our system and is unacceptable. If your usage ever exceeds
five percent (5%) of system resources for a prolonged period of time, your account may be terminated immediately and without prior notice. In addition, accounts using excess amounts of
bandwidth will be billed accordingly for additional load upon the system.
12. Fees
All domain name or hosting fees are payable in advance and
non-refundable under any circumstances.Vat will be added if applicable.
13. Hacking/Cracking
Name Dropper will report illegal activities to the appropriate
regulatory, administrative, and/or governmental authorities.
The following examples of unacceptable behavior are
non-exclusive and are provided for guidance purposes only. If you are unsure if your actions will be a violation of our policies please email regs@namedropper.co.uk for clarification.
Server broadcast messages or any message sent on an intrusive
basis to any directly or indirectly attached network, attempts to circumvent any user authentication or security of host, network,
or account. Accessing data not intended for user. Probing the security of any network. Spawning dozens of processes. Port scans, ping floods, packet spoofing, forging router information,
Denial of Service attacks, sniffers, flooding, spoofing, ping bombing, smurfs, winnuke, land, teardrop. Promulgation of viruses. IRC bots such as eggdrop or BitchX. Any activity,
whether or not the intrusion results in the corruption or loss of data, will be investigated and appropriate action taken. The presence of any of these programs, whether or not run, may
result in action against the user including suspension or termination.
14. Client Responsibilities
The client is responsible for all activity originating from their
account unless proven to be the victim of outside hacking or address forgery. The client is responsible for securing their username and password. Use of Name Dropper's services
requires a certain level of knowledge in the use of Internet languages, protocols, and software. (See also Clause 3 above)
This level of knowledge varies depending on the anticipated use and desired content of the web space by the client. The following examples are offered: Web Publishing:
requires knowledge of HTML, properly locating and linking documents, FTPing Web contents, Graphics, text, sound, image mapping, etc. FrontPage
web publishing: knowledge of the FrontPage tools as well as Telnet and FTP understanding and capability. CGI-Scripts: requires a knowledge of the UNIX environment, TAR & GUNZIP
commands, Perl, CShell scripts, permissions, etc. Mail: a use of mail clients to receive and send mail, etc. The client agrees that
he or she has the necessary knowledge to create and maintain their web space or that they will engage someone with that knowledge to create and maintain their web space. The Client
agrees that it is not the responsibility of Name Dropper to provide this knowledge or support outside matters specific to Name Dropper's servers and that any technical support or assistance
above and beyond these matters will be chargeable at the company's prevailing rates.
15. Backups
It is the client's responsibility to maintain local copies of their web
content. If loss of data occurs due to an error, the company will use its best endeavours to recover the data but no guarantees are
made of any kind, either expressed or implied, as to the integrity of any backups made. Backups are made for server restoration
purposes only. It is the account holder's responsibility to ensure backups of their web site and all other data transferred by themselves.
16. IP Addresses
Name Dropper maintains control of all or any IP addresses
assigned to the client and reserves in its sole discretion the right to change or remove such IP numbers and addresses.
17. Limitation of Liability
We cannot guarantee that our service will never be faulty but we
will endeavour to correct faults as soon as we reasonably can. We will also endeavour to make the Service available 24 hours a day 7 days a week but from time to time faults may occur which
affect this level of availability. Name Dropper shall not be responsible for any claimed damages, including incidental or consequential damages, which may arise from Name Dropper's
servers going off-line or being unavailable for any reason whatsoever. Furthermore, the company shall not be responsible for any claimed damages, including incidental or consequential
damages, resulting from the corruption or deletion of any web site from one of Name Dropper's servers.
18. Name Dropper reserves the right to terminate an account
if any activity on that account threatens or jeopardises the company's servers and/or other account holders or if the company is in dispute with the client and such dispute cannot be
resolved amicably. In any event, Name Dropper shall be the sole arbiter of what is and is not a violation of the acceptable use policies herein. Name Dropper reserves the right to delete all
content and files upon termination and reserves the right to withhold any pre-paid funds for any site removed for violations of
these policies. Name Dropper reserves the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend one or all of its services to any individual or company at our sole discretion.
19. Name Dropper may change or update these Terms and
conditions from time to time to accommodate changes in the market or Internet protocols. If you wish to keep updated with any such changes please revisit this page at regular intervals.
Non-enforcement of any part of these Terms of Service does not constitute consent. In any event, Name Dropper will be the sole arbiter in any dispute and by signing up to the company's
services the client is deemed to have accepted this proviso.
20. Violations of these Terms of Service should be referred to abuse@namedropper.co.uk
All complaints will be investigated promptly.
NB: Additional terms and conditions may be displayed elsewhere relating to particular Content.
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