This Agreement is between castordor.com and the person/persons who use our web hosting and domain services. Please read carefully to ensure you understand our terms before purchasing any of our products or services.
castordor.com is a property of Castordor (NEQ: 2275092346).
PAYMENTS
Renewal notices are emailed 7 days before the actual renew date in your account. castordor.com is committed to not increasing the renewal rate of any service unless absolutely required (increase in servers cost, licenses cost, payment gateway fees, or anything else out of our control).
Although we are based in Canada our website currency is USD. Your particular billing cycle corresponds to the contract length that was initially chosen at setup. Your account will automatically renew at this length unless canceled beforehand.
Payments are non-refundable if your account does not follow our terms and conditions and acceptable usage policy.
REFUND POLICY
For Shared Hosting, we do offer 30 days money-back guarantee after the first payment has been made, on request, and on the first order only. To request a refund, please open a support ticket in the billing department. If your account does not follow our terms and conditions/acceptable usage policy, there will be no refund.
You agree and acknowledge that it is your sole responsibility to cancel any payment subscription at PayPal or any other payment gateway after a cancellation or termination of your service. Failure to cancel such a subscription may end up adding funds to your account at castordor.com which may not be refundable.
GRACE PERIOD
Shared hosting accounts that are 5 days past due will be automatically suspended. Accounts reaching 45 days past due are automatically terminated. When an account is terminated for non-payment, all files and databases related to the account are deleted and are not retrievable.
SERVER ABUSE
Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server or customer of castordor.com is strictly prohibited.
castordor.com 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 theft, security hole scanning, etc.
Any unauthorized use of accounts or computers by you, whether or not the attacked account or computer belongs to castordor.com, will result in action against you. Possible actions include warnings, account suspension or cancelation, as well as civil or criminal legal action, depending on the seriousness of the attack.
IMPORTANT NOTE – castordor.com 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 a violation of the terms outlined below.
you may not run IRC or bots on shared hosting servers. Unacceptable uses also include, but are NOT limited to Bulk emailing, unsolicited emailing, newsgroup spamming, upload scripts, illegal pornographic content (legal pornographic content is allowed), illegal content, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, warez sites (including links to/from), cracks, software serial numbers, proxy-relaying, link farming (the act of or by use of scripts), link grinding, link-only sites, spamdexing, FFA (Free-For-All) and/or anything else determined by castordor.com to be unacceptable use of our services including abuse of server resources.
Shared hosting accounts may also be terminated if it includes the following content or has links to the following content: Providing material that is grossly offensive to the Web community including blatant expressions of bigotry, racism, hatred, or profanity; promoting or providing instructional information about illegal activities; 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.
AUP
Customers agree to use our services under the Acceptable Usage Policy which is here by incorporated with this agreement. Customers agree that castordor.com holds the right to change their AUP at any time to meet web hosting standards and laws. Amendments to the AUP are effective on the earlier of castordor.com notice to Customer that an amendment has been made, or the first day of any Renewal Term that begins subsequent to the amendment. The customer agrees to cooperate with castordor.com’s reasonable investigation of any suspected violation of the AUP. In the event of a dispute between castordor.com and Customer regarding the interpretation of the AUP, castordor.com commercially reasonable interpretation of the AUP shall govern.
CUSTOMER INFORMATION
Customer represents and warrants to castordor.com that the information he, she, or it has provided and will provide to castordor.com for purposes of establishing and maintaining the service is accurate. If Customer is an individual, Customer represents and warrants to castordor.com that he or she is at least 18 years of age. castordor.com may rely on the instructions of the person listed as the Primary Customer Contact on the Order with regard to the Customer’s account until the Customer has provided a written notice changing the Primary Customer Contract.
UNSOLICITED EMAIL & SPAMMING
Unsolicited commercial advertisements (‘SPAM’) are not allowed in e-mail, and will likely result in account cancelation. castordor.com takes a zero-tolerance approach to SPAM originating from its servers or for spam advertising of domains hosted within our network. If found, your account may be suspended or terminated.
The following activities are not allowed: SPAM, which 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 – 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 cancelation. See the newsgroup or mailing list’s charter for whether advertising is allowed or not. 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.
NOTE – If you use the services of another provider to promote a website hosted by or through castordor.com (‘spamvertising’), then the provisions of the above policy shall apply as if the SPAM were sent through our servers.
99.9% UPTIME GUARANTEE
(1.) COVERAGE – This 99.9% uptime guarantee applies to any Customer in good financial standing with castordor.com at the time of a service outage.
(2.) SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT (‘SLA’) & SPECIFICATIONS – castordor.com endeavors to have the content of your website available for HTTP access 99.9% of the time. Network downtime (‘unavailability’) is defined as 100% packet loss from castordor.com to its backbone providers. Downtime is measured past 10 minutes after notification of network failure via castordor.com’s online ticketing system.
castordor.com’s administrators will determine the end of the downtime by a traceroute to your machine from outside the castordor.com network.
(3.) SHARED HOSTING CREDITS – In the event that your website is unavailable for less than 99.9%, castordor.com will credit, on your request only, the following month’s service fee as follows. Your credit shall be retroactive and measured 24 hours a day of a calendar month, with the maximum credit not exceeding 100% of the monthly service charge for the affected month.
– 95% to 99.89% – your account will be credited 10% of your monthly hosting fee, on request.
– 90% to 94.9% – your account will be credited 50% of your monthly hosting fee, on request.
– 89.9% or below – your account will be credited 100% of your monthly hosting fee, on request.
Credit shall not be provided to you in the event that you have any outage resulting from:
– scheduled maintenance as posted from time to time at castordor.com,
– your behavior or the performance or failure of your equipment, facilities, or applications,
– circumstances beyond castordor.com’s reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of any governmental body, DDoS attack, war, insurrection, sabotage, embargo, fire, flood, strike or other labor disturbance, interruption of or delay in transportation, unavailability of interruption or delay in telecommunications or third-party services, including DNS propagation, domain name registration/transfer, failure of third party software or hardware or inability to obtain raw materials, supplies, or power used in or equipment needed for the provision of your web site,
– you breaking any agreement policy in castordor.com’s ‘Terms & Conditions and AUP’ causing a machine to fail as a result.
To request a credit, please open a support ticket in the billing department. If no ticket is open then no credit will be applied.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT BOUNDARIES
castordor.com provides technical support for you that encompasses our area of expertise only. Such expertise includes assistance, troubleshooting, and debugging of our cPanel control panel interface, servers within our immediate responsibility, and any other hosting-related issues.
We do our best to help with scripts, templates, and programming languages. However, under no circumstances is castordor.com obligated to help you in the installations of new application modules, templates, and/or programming languages, nor in providing assistance for any errors produced by any applications that have been modified by you previously.
CGI SCRIPTS
Each shared hosting account comes with its own CGI-BIN. You are free to use any CGI scripts you wish, however, we reserve the right to disable any CGI script that affects normal shared hosting server operation without prior notice.
INDEMNIFICATION
Customer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless castordor.com, castordor.com’s affiliates, and each of their respective officers, directors, agents, and employees from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, fines, punitive damages, amounts in interest, expenses and disbursements of any kind and nature whatsoever (including reasonable attorneys fees) brought by a third party under any theory of legal liability arising out of or related to the actual or alleged use of Customer’s services in violation of applicable law or the AUP by Customer or any person using Customer’s login information, regardless of whether such person has been authorized to use the services by Customer.
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless castordor.com against liabilities arising of:
(1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with castordor.com’s server.
(2) any material supplied by the customer infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party
(3) copyright infringement
(4) any defective products sold to customers from castordor.com’s server.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
castordor.com does not warrant or represent that the services and/or backups will be uninterrupted, error-free, completely safe, or completely secure. To the extent permitted by applicable law, castordor.com disclaims any and all warranties including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. To the extent permitted by applicable law, all services are provided on an “As Is” basis.
LIMITATION OF DAMAGES
Neither party shall be liable to the other for any lost profits or any indirect, special incidental, consequential or punitive loss or damage of any kind, or for damages that could have been avoided by the use of reasonable diligence, arising in connection with the agreement, even if the party has been advised or should be aware of the possibility of such damages.
Notwithstanding anything else in the agreement to the contrary, the maximum aggregate liability of castordor.com and any of its employees, agents, or affiliates, under any theory of the law (including breach of contract, tort, strict liability, and infringement) shall be a payment of money not to exceed the amount payable by customer for the three months service.
SUSPENSION OF SERVICES/TERMINATION
Customer agrees that castordor.com may suspend services to Customer without notice and without liability if:
(i) castordor.com reasonably believes that the services are being used in violation of the AUP;
(ii) Customer fails to cooperate with any reasonable investigation of any suspected violation of the AUP;
(iii) castordor.com reasonably believes that the suspension of service is necessary to protect its network or its other customers as requested by law enforcement or regulatory agency.
Customer shall pay castordor.com a reasonable reinstatement fee if service is following a suspension of service under this subsection.
If you break our terms and conditions/acceptable usage policy we hold the right to cancel any services. We will never cancel any services without trying our best to resolve the problem with you. However in extreme cases such as an account containing child pornography we hold the right to cancel services without any prior warning. We do not refund any accounts breaking our terms and conditions/acceptable usage policy. For example, if we cancel your shared hosting account during your first month for breaching copyright, we will not refund you for the first month. This is to prevent people from signing up for our services with the intention of breaching our terms.
REQUEST FOR CUSTOMER INFORMATION
Customer agrees that castordor.com may, without notice to Customer, (i) report to the appropriate authorities any conduct by Customer or any of Customer’s customers or end-users that castordor.com believes violates applicable law, and (ii) provide any information that it has about Customer or any of its customers or end-users in response to a formal or informal request from law enforcement or regulatory agency or in response to a formal request in a civil action that on its face meets the requirements for such a request.
BACKUP COPY
The customer agrees to maintain a current copy of all content hosted by castordor.com not withstanding any agreement by castordor.com to provide backup services.
CHANGES TO castordor.com’S NETWORK
Upgrades and other changes in castordor.com’s network, including, but not limited to changes in its software, hardware, and service providers, may affect the display or operation of Customer’s hosted content and/or applications. castordor.com reserves the right to change its network at its commercially reasonable discretion, and castordor.com shall not be liable for any resulting harm to the Customer.
NOTICES
Notices to castordor.com under the Agreement shall be given via support ticket in a client account. Notices to Customer shall be given via electronic mail to the individual listed as the Primary Customer Contact on the Order. Notices are deemed received on the day transmitted, or if that day is not a business day, on the first business day following the day delivered. Customer may change his, her, or its notice address by a notice given in accordance with this Section.
FORCE MAJORED
castordor.com shall not be in default of any obligation under the Agreement if the failure to perform the obligation is due to any event beyond castordor.com’s control, including, without limitation, significant failure of a portion of the power grid, significant failure of the Internet, DDoS attack, natural disaster, war, riot, insurrection, epidemic, strikes or other organized labor action, terrorist activity, or other events of a magnitude or type for which precautions are not generally taken in the industry.
GOVERNING/LAW DISPUTES
The Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the province of Quebec, exclusive of its choice of law principles, and the laws of Canada, as applicable. The Agreement shall not be governed by the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods.
MISCELLANEOUS
Each party acknowledges and agrees that the other party retains exclusive ownership and rights in its trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, inventions, copyrights, and other intellectual property. Neither party may use the other party’s name or trademark without the other party’s prior written consent. The parties intend for their relationship to be that of independent contractors and not a partnership, joint venture, or employer/employee. Neither party will represent itself to be an agent of the other. Each party acknowledges that it has no power or authority to bind the other on any agreement and that it will not represent to any person that it has such power or authority. This Agreement may be amended only by a formal written agreement signed by both parties. The terms on the Customer’s purchase order or other business forms are not binding on castordor.com unless they are expressly incorporated into a formal written agreement signed by both parties. A party’s failure or delay in enforcing any provision of the Agreement will not be deemed a waiver of that party’s rights with respect to that provision or any other provision of the Agreement. A party’s waiver of any of its rights under the Agreement is not a waiver of any of its other rights with respect to a prior, contemporaneous, or future occurrence, whether similar in nature or not. The captions in the Agreement are not part of the Agreement but are for the convenience of the parties. The following provisions will survive expiration or termination of the Agreement: Fees, indemnity obligations, provisions limiting liability and disclaiming warranties, provisions regarding ownership of intellectual property, these miscellaneous provisions, and other provisions that by their nature are intended to survive termination of the Agreement. There are no third-party beneficiaries to the Agreement. Neither insurers nor the customers of resellers are third-party beneficiaries of the Agreement. The customer may not transfer the Agreement without castordor.com’s prior written consent. castordor.com’s approval for assignment is contingent on the assignee meeting castordor.com’s credit approval criteria. castordor.com may assign the Agreement in whole or in part. This Agreement together with the Order and AUP constitutes the complete and exclusive agreement between the parties regarding its subject matter and supersedes and replaces any prior understanding or communication, written or oral.
COPYRIGHT FILES
All files stored on castordor.com’s servers must be legally-owned and be accompanied by a valid license and/or copyright. This includes and is not limited to MP3, AVI, MID, MIDI, MPG, MPEG, MOV, EXE, ISO. Should we discover any unlicensed and/or illegal files within your account, the files will be subjected to deletion.
CANCELATION OF SERVICE
castordor.com reserves the right to cancel a service at any time. All fees paid in advance of cancellation will be pro-rated and paid by castordor.com if we institute our right of cancelation.
PROMOTIONAL RATES & SPECIAL OFFERS
castordor.com may offer subsequent promotional rates or special offers, the terms of which may or may not be more favorable than the terms and conditions for your Services. Any such promotions or modifications shall not affect your obligations under this Agreement. Promotional fees may be subject to additional terms and conditions which, to the extent they conflict with the terms of this Agreement, shall govern. Different promotional fees and special offers may not be combined together.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Material accessible to you through castordor.com’s services may be subject to protection under Canada or other copyright laws, or laws protecting trademarks, trade secrets, and proprietary information. Except when expressly permitted by the owner of such rights, you must not use castordor.com or its servers and network in a manner that would infringe, violate, dilute or misappropriate any such rights, with respect to any material that you access or receive through the castordor.com network. If you use a domain name in connection with castordor.com or a 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 castordor.com network in 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 you, logging into a server or account you are 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. You 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 crashes a host or network. castordor.com will cooperate fully with investigations for 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.
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
you will be solely responsible for the development, operation, and maintenance of your online store and products along with all content 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 therefrom.
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 website. 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 castordor.com a license to cache the entirety of your website, including content supplied by third parties, hosted by castordor.com 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
castordor.com shall maintain and control ownership of all IP numbers and addresses that may be assigned to you by castordor.com. castordor.com reserves, in its sole discretion, the right to change or remove any and all such IP numbers and addresses.
DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION
you agree to pay castordor.com prior to the effectiveness of the desired domain name registration, the then-current amount set forth in the castordor.com price schedule for the initial registration of the domain name and, should you choose to renew the registration, subsequent renewals of the registration. All fees are non-refundable, in whole or in part, even if your domain name registration is suspended, canceled, or transferred prior to the end of your then-current registration term. castordor.com reserves the right to change fees, surcharges, renewal fees or to institute new fees at any time, for any reason, at its sole discretion. Your requested domain name will not be registered unless and until we receive actual payment of the registration fee, and have confirmed your registration in an email from castordor.com to the email address indicated in your registration application. In the event of a chargeback by a credit card company (or similar action by another payment provider allowed by castordor.com) in connection with the payments of the registration fee for your domain name registration, you agree and acknowledges that the domain name registration shall be transferred to castordor.com 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. castordor.com will reinstate your domain name registration solely at castordor.com’s discretion, and subject to our receipt of the initial registration or renewal fee and our then-current reinstatement fee.
Transfer domain registrar to castordor.com
you agree to pay castordor.com prior to the effectiveness of the desired domain name transfer request, the then-current amount set forth in the castordor.com price schedule for the initial transfer request of the domain name. You agree and acknowledge that the domain name transfer will fail, and all fees are non-refundable, for the following reasons, but not limited to:
– No response from the Registered Name Holder or Administrative Contact
– Domain name in Registrar Lock Status
– Domain name registration period time expires or other constraints, other than during the first 60 days of initial registration or during the first 60 days after a registrar transfer.
castordor.com reserves the right to change fees, surcharges, renewal fees or to institute new fees at any time, for any reason, at its sole discretion. Your requested domain name will not be registered unless and until we receive actual payment of the registration fee, and have confirmed your registration in an email from castordor.com to the email address indicated in your registration application. In the event of a chargeback by a credit card company (or similar action by another payment provider allowed by castordor.com) in connection with the payments of the registration fee for your domain name registration, you agree and acknowledges that the domain name registration shall be transferred to castordor.com 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. castordor.com will reinstate your domain name registration solely at castordor.com discretion, and subject to our receipt of the initial registration or renewal fee and our then-current reinstatement fee.
Transfer domain away from castordor.com
castordor.com reserves all rights, without limitation, to reject the domain name transfer request for the following reasons, but not limited to:
– No response from the Registered Name Holder or Administrative Contact.
– Domain name in Registrar Lock Status and there is no request from Registered Name Holder or Administrative Contact for the status change.
– Domain name registration period time will be expiring in less than 60 days or other constraints, other than during the first 60 days of initial registration or during the first 60 days after a registrar transfer.
you agree and acknowledge that the failure or success of a domain name transfer will be his/her sole responsibility, and castordor.com will not be held liable for the failure of a domain name transfer for any reason.
Domain registrations are non-refundable. Please do not purchase the domain name until you are certain that it is exactly what you would like to buy.
FRAUDRECORD.COM
castordor.com utilizes FraudRecord.com to screen new orders for previous fraudulent activity and report existing clients who violate our Terms and Conditions. In case of a violation, you may be reported to FraudRecord.com for misbehavior using one-way hashed information.
LAWFUL PURPOSE
castordor.com reserves the right to refuse service to anyone. You may only use the castordor.com server for lawful purposes and our services may not be used for illegal purposes or in support of illegal activities. We reserve the right to cooperate with legal authorities and/or injured third parties in the investigation of any suspected crime or civil wrongdoing. If anything is not legal in Canada, it is not permitted to reside on our servers. Transmission, distribution, or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes but does not limit material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, or other intellectual property right used without proper authorization, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat or violates export control laws. Examples of non-acceptable content or links: ‘Pirated Warez’, OGG, AVI, MPEG, ISO, ‘Hacker programs or archives, ‘Copyrighted Digital Movie Copies (DIVX)’ and ‘Unlicensed MP3’. The designation of any materials as such described above is left entirely to the discretion of castordor.com management.
If illegal content or usage is found, the account will be suspended and/or terminated. You agree that castordor.com may disclose any and all your information including assigned IP numbers, account history, account use, etc. to any law enforcement agent who makes a written request without further consent or notification.
Regardless of the place of signing this agreement, you agree that for purposes of venue this contract is entered in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, and any dispute will be litigated or arbitrated in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Defendants further waive all objections to venue and acknowledge that venue in any such litigation will be held in Sherbrooke courts. IN NO EVENT SHALL castordor.com’S MAXIMUM LIABILITY EXCEED FIVE HUNDRED ($500.00) DOLLARS.
PRIVACY POLICY
castordor.com follows the strict guidelines of our customer privacy policy. Please make sure you understand this policy fully.