The use of services from MyTechWiz.com, LLC [hereafter
referred to as "MyTechWiz"] constitutes agreement to these terms. You may
view our
Privacy Policy here.
1.) Account Setup / Email on file
We will setup your account after we have received payment and we and/or our
payment partner(s) have screened the order(s) in case of fraud. It is your
responsibility to provide us with an email address which is not @ the
domain(s) you are signing up under. If there is ever an abuse issue or we
need to contact you, the primary email address on file will be used for this
purpose. It is your responsibility to ensure the email address on file is
current or up to date at all times. Providing false contact information of
any kind may result in the termination of your account. In dedicated server
purchases or high risk transactions, it will be necessary to provide
government issued identification and possibly a scan of the credit card used
for the purchase. If you fail to meet these requirements, the order may be
considered fraudulent in nature and be denied.
Transfers
Our transfers team will make every effort to help you move your site to us.
However, transfers are provided as a courtesy service, and we can not make
guarantees regarding the availability, possibility, or time required to
complete an account transfer. Each hosting company is configured
differently, and some hosting platforms save data in an incompatible or
proprietary format, which may make it extremely difficult if not impossible
to migrate some or all account data. We will try our best, but in some cases
we may be unable to assist you in a transfer of data from an old host.
The free transfer services are available for 30 days from
your sign up date. Transfers outside of the 30 day free period will incur a
charge; please contact a member of the transfers department with specific
details to receive a price quote.
2.) Content
All services provided by MyTechWiz may only be used for lawful purposes. The
laws of the State of Florida, the State of Alabama, and the United States of
America apply.
The customer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless MyTechWiz
from any claims resulting from the use of our services.
Use of our services to infringe upon any copyright or
trademark is prohibited. This includes but is not limited to unauthorized
copying of music, books, photographs, or any other copyrighted work. The
offer of sale of any counterfeit merchandise of a trademark holder will
result in the immediate termination of your account. Any account found to be
in violation of another's copyright will be expeditiously removed, or access
to the material disabled. Any account found to be in repeated violation of
copyright laws will be suspended and/or terminated from our hosting. If you
believe that your copyright or trademark is being infringed upon, please
email abuse@MyTechWiz.com with the information required. A list of required
information may be found
here. If the request is of a licensing
issue, we may require further documentation.
Using a shared account as a backup/storage device is
not permitted, with the exception of one cPanel backup of the same
account. Please do not take backups of your backups.
Examples of unacceptable material on all hosting accounts
include:
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Topsites
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IRC Scripts/Bots
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Proxy Scripts/Anonymizers
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Pirated Software/Warez
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Image Hosting Scripts (similar to Photobucket or Tinypic)
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AutoSurf/PTC/PTS/PPC sites
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IP Scanners
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Bruteforce Programs/Scripts/Applications
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Mail Bombers/Spam Scripts
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Banner-Ad services (commercial banner ad rotation)
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File Dump/Mirror Scripts (similar to rapidshare)
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Commercial Audio Streaming (more than one or two streams)
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Escrow/Bank Debentures
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High-Yield Interest Programs (HYIP) or Related Sites
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Investment Sites (FOREX, E-Gold Exchange, Second
Life/Linden Exchange, Ponzi, MLM/Pyramid Scheme)
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Sale of any controlled substance without prior proof of
appropriate permit(s)
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Prime Banks Programs
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Lottery Sites
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MUDs/RPGs/PPBGs
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Hateful/Racist/Harassment oriented sites
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Hacker focused sites/archives/programs
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Sites promoting illegal activities
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Forums and/or websites that distribute or link to warez/pirated/illegal
content
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Bank Debentures/Bank Debenture Trading Programs
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Fraudulent Sites (Including, but not limited to sites
listed at aa419.org & escrow-fraud.com)
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Mailer Pro
Examples of unacceptable material on all Dedicated servers
include:
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IRCD (irc servers)
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IRC Scripts/Bots
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Pirated Software/Warez
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IP Scanners
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Bruteforce Programs/Scripts/Applications
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Mail Bombers/spam Scripts
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Escrow
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High-Yield Interest Programs (HYIP) or Related Sites
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Investment Sites (FOREX, E-Gold Exchange, Second
Life/Linden Exchange, Ponzi, MLM/Pyramid Scheme)
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Sale of any controlled substance without prior proof of
appropriate permit(s)
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Prime Banks Programs
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Lottery Sites
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Hateful/Racist/Harassment oriented sites
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Hacker focused sites/archives/programs
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Sites promoting illegal activities
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Forums and/or websites that distribute or link to warez/pirated/illegal
content
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Bank Debentures/Bank Debenture Trading Programs
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Fraudulent Sites (Including, but not limited to sites
listed at aa419.org & escrow-fraud.com)
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Mailer Pro
MyTechWiz services, including all related equipment,
networks and network devices are provided only for authorized customer use.
MyTechWiz systems may be monitored for all lawful purposes, including to
ensure that use is authorized, for management of the system, to facilitate
protection against unauthorized access, and to verify security procedures,
survivability, and operational security. During monitoring, information may
be examined, recorded, copied and used for authorized purposes. Use of
MyTechWiz system(s) constitutes consent to monitoring for these purposes.
We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. Any
material that, in our judgment, is obscene, threatening, illegal, or
violates our terms of service in any manner may be removed from our servers
(or otherwise disabled), with or without notice.
Failure to respond to email from our abuse department within
48 hours may result in the suspension or termination of your services. All
abuse issues must be dealt with via email and will have a response within 48
hours.
If in doubt regarding the acceptability of your site or
service, please contact us at abuse@MyTechWiz.com and we will be happy to
assist you.
Potential harm to minors is strictly forbidden, including
but not limited to child pornography or content perceived to be child
pornography (Lolita):
Any site found to host child pornography or linking to child
pornography will be suspended immediately without notice.
We will suspend the site in question and will notify you so
you may terminate the account. We will further monitor your activity; more
than one infraction of this type may result in the immediate termination of
your account.
Violations will be reported to the appropriate law
enforcement agency.
It is your responsibility to ensure that
scripts/programs installed under your account are secure and permissions of
directories are set properly, regardless of installation method. When at all
possible, set permissions on most directories to 755 or as restrictive as
possible. Users are ultimately responsible for all actions taken under their
account. This includes the compromise of credentials such as user name and
password. It is required that you use a secure password. If a weak password
is used, your account may be suspended until you agree to use a more secure
password. Audits may be done to prevent weak passwords from being used. If
an audit is performed, and your password is found to be weak, we will notify
you and allow time for you to change/update your password.
3.) Zero Tolerance Spam Policy
We take a zero tolerance stance against sending of unsolicited e-mail, bulk
emailing, and spam. "Safe lists" and purchased lists will be treated as
spam. Any user who sends out spam will have their account terminated with or
without notice.
Please read
http://www.MyTechWiz.com/mailpolicy.html for our generalized mail
policy.
Sites advertised via SPAM (Spamvertised) may not be hosted
on our servers. This provision includes, but is not limited to SPAM sent via
fax, email, instant messaging, or usenet/newsgroups. No organization or
entity listed in the
ROKSO may be hosted on our servers. Any
account which results in our IP space being blacklisted will be immediately
suspended and/or terminated.
MyTechWiz reserves the right to require changes or disable
as necessary any web site, account, database, or other component that does
not comply with its established policies, or to make any such modifications
in an emergency at its sole discretion.
MyTechWiz reserves the right to charge the holder of the
account used to send any unsolicited e-mail a clean up fee or any charges
incurred for blacklist removal. This cost of the clean up fee is entirely at
the discretion of MyTechWiz.
4.) Payment Information
You agree to supply appropriate payment for the services received from
MyTechWiz, in advance of the time period during which such services are
provided. You agree that until and unless you notify MyTechWiz of your
desire to cancel any or all services received, those services will be billed
on a recurring basis.
Cancellations must be done in writing via the email address
you provided at sign-up. Once we receive your cancellation and have
confirmed all necessary information with you via e-mail, we will inform you
in writing (typically email) that your account has been canceled. Your
cancellation confirmation will contain a ticket/tracking number in the
subject for your reference, and for verification purposes. You should
immediately receive an automatic "Your request has been received..." email
with a tracking number. An employee will confirm your request (and process
your cancellation) shortly thereafter. If you do not hear back from us, or
do not receive the automatic confirmation email within a few minutes after
submitting your cancellation, please contact us immediately via
phone.
We require that cancellations of service are done through the online form to
(a) confirm your identity, (b) confirm in writing you are prepared for all
files/emails to be removed, and (c) document the request. This process
reduces the likelihood of mistakes, fraudulent/malicious requests, and
ensures you are aware that the files, emails, and account may be removed
immediately after a cancellation request is processed.
As a client of MyTechWiz, it is your responsibility to
ensure that your payment information is up to date, and that all invoices
are paid on time. MyTechWiz provides a 10 day grace period from the time the
invoice is generated and when it must be paid. Any invoice that is
outstanding for 10 days and not paid will result in a $10 late fee and/or an
account suspension until account balance has been paid in full.
Invoices that have been paid more than once with multiple
Paypal Subscriptions can only be added as credit towards the account and
cannot be refunded via Paypal. If you require assistance with this
provision, please contact
sales@MyTechWiz.com
MyTechWiz reserves the right to change the monthly payment
amount and any other charges at anytime.
5.) Backups and Data Loss
Your use of this service is at your sole risk. Our backup service is
provided to you as a courtesy. MyTechWiz is not responsible for files and/or
data residing on your account. You agree to take full responsibility for
files and data transferred and to maintain all appropriate backup of files
and data stored on MyTechWiz servers.
6.) Cancellations and Refunds
MyTechWiz reserves the right to cancel the account at any time with or
without notice.
Any abuse of our staff in any medium or format will
result in the suspension or termination of your services.
Customers may cancel at any time via a email. MyTechWiz
gives you an unconditional 45 day money back guarantee on managed shared
hosting.
The following methods of payments are non-refundable, and
refunds will be posted as credit to the hosting account:
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Bank Wire Transfers
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Western Union Payments
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Checks
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Money orders
There are no refunds on dedicated servers, administrative
fees, install fees for custom software, or domain name purchases. Refund
requests for accounts after the initial 45 days will be refunded on a
prorated basis of any unused time.
Only first-time accounts are eligible for a refund. For
example, if you've had an account with us before, canceled and signed up
again, you will not be eligible for a refund or if you have opened a second
account with us.
Violations of the Terms of Service will waive the
refund policy.
7. Resource Usage
User may not:
a) Use 25% or more of system resources for longer then 90 seconds. There are
numerous activities that could cause such problems; these include: CGI
scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc.
b) Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on
the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.
c) Run any type of web spider or indexer (including Google Cash / AdSpy) on
shared servers.
d) Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
network.
e) Run any bit torrent application, tracker, or client. You may link to
legal torrents off-site, but may not host or store them on our shared
servers.
f) Participate in any file-sharing/peer-to-peer activities
g) Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike, half-life,
battlefield1942, etc
h) Run cron entries with intervals of less than 15 minutes When using PHP
include functions for including a local file, include the local file rather
than the URL. Instead of include("http://yourdomain.com/include.php") use
include("include.php")
7b.) INODES
The use of more than 250,000 inodes on any shared account may potentially
result in a warning first, and if no action is taken future suspension.
Accounts found to be exceeding the 50,000 inode limit will automatically be
removed from our backup system to avoid over-usage. Every file (a webpage,
image file, email, etc) on your account uses up 1 inode.
Sites that slightly exceed our inode limits are unlikely to
be suspended; however, accounts that constantly create and delete large
numbers of files on a regular basis, have hundreds of thousands of files, or
cause file system damage may be flagged for review and/or suspension. The
primary cause of excessive inodes seems to be due to users leaving their
catchall address enabled, but never checking their primary account mailbox.
Over time, tens of thousands of messages (or more) build up, eventually
pushing the account past our inode limit. To disable your default mailbox,
login to cPanel and choose "Mail", then "Default Address", "Set Default
Address", and then type in: :fail: No such user here.
7c.) Backup Limit
Any shared account using more than 20 gigs of disk space will be removed
from our off site weekly backup with the the exception of Databases
continuing to be backed up. All data will continue to be mirrored to a
secondary drive which helps protect against data loss in the event of a
drive failure.
8.) Bandwidth Usage
You are allocated a monthly bandwidth allowance. This allowance varies
depending on the hosting package you purchase. Should your account pass the
allocated amount we reserve the right to suspend the account until the start
of the next allocation, suspend the account until more bandwidth is
purchased at an additional fee, suspend the account until you upgrade to a
higher level of package, terminate the account and/or charge you an
additional fee for the overages. Unused transfer in one month cannot be
carried over to the next month.
9a.) Money back Guarantee
On dedicated servers and collocation no full refund will be honored -- the
45 day money back guarantee does not apply. We reserve the right to refund a
prorated amount or no refund at all.
Each of MyTechWiz's managed shared servers carry a 45 day
unconditional money back guarantee on them. If you are not completely
satisfied with our services within the first 45 days of your service, you
will be given a full refund of the contract amount. Remember, this is only
for monthly shared packages and does not apply to dedicated servers,
administrative fees, install fees for custom software, or domain name
purchases.
9b.) Uptime Guarantee
If your shared / reseller server has a physical downtime that is not within
the 99.9% uptime you may receive one month of credit on your account.
Approval of the credit is at the discretion of MyTechWiz dependant upon
justification provided. Third party monitoring service reports may not be
used for justification due to a variety of factors including the monitor's
network capacity/transit availability. The uptime of the server is defined
as the reported uptime from the operating system and the Apache Web Server
which may differ from the uptime reported by other individual services. To
request a credit, please contact sales@MyTechWiz.com with justification. All
requests must be made in writing via email.
10.) Shared Servers
Hosting accounts may not resell web hosting to other people.
11.) Price Change
The amount you pay for hosting will never increase from the date of
purchase. We reserve the right to change prices listed on MyTechWiz.com, and
the right to increase the amount of resources given to plans at any time.
12.) Coupons
Discounts and coupon codes are reserved for first-time accounts *or
first-time customers* only and may not be used towards the purchase of a
domain registration unless otherwise specified. If you have signed up using
a particular domain, you may not resign up for that domain using another
coupon at a later date. Any account found in violation of these policies
will be reviewed by our sales department and the appropriate invoices will
be added to the account. Coupon abuse will not be tolerated and may result
in the suspension or termination of the account.
13a.) Indemnification
Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold MyTechWiz
harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims,
including reasonable attorney's fees asserted against MyTechWiz, its agents,
its customers, officers and employees, that may arise or result from any
service provided or performed or agreed to be performed or any product sold
by customer, its agents, employees or assigns. Customer agrees to defend,
indemnify and hold harmless MyTechWiz against liabilities arising out of;
(1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or
otherwise distributed in connection with MyTechWiz; (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 customers from MyTechWiz's server.
13b.) Arbitration By using any MyTechWiz
services, you agree to submit to binding arbitration. If any disputes or
claims arise against MyTechWiz or its subsidiaries, such disputes will be
handled by an arbitrator of MyTechWiz's choice. An arbitrator from the
American Arbitration Association or the National Arbitration Forum will be
selected in the state of Texas. Arbitrators shall be attorneys or retired
judges and shall be selected pursuant to the applicable rules. All decisions
rendered by the arbitrator will be binding and final. The arbitrator's award
is final and binding on all parties. The Federal Arbitration Act, and not
any state arbitration law, governs all arbitration under this Arbitration
Clause. You are also responsible for any and all costs related to such
arbitration.
16.) Disclaimer
MyTechWiz shall not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer.
MyTechWiz makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services
we provide. MyTechWiz disclaims any warranty or merchantability or fitness
for a particular purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from delays,
no deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service interruptions caused
by MyTechWiz and its employees.
17.) Disclosure to law enforcement
MyTechWiz may disclose any subscriber information to law enforcement
agencies without further consent or notification to the subscriber upon
lawful request from such agencies. We will cooperate fully with law
enforcement agencies.
18.) Changes to the TOS
MyTechWiz reserves the right to revise its policies at any time without
notice.