Web Hosting Terms of Service

The use of services from Wesfed.com ("Wesfed Multimedia", "Wesfed", "Wesfed Hosting", "Wesfedhosting.com", "We", "Our", "Us", "Company") constitutes agreement to these terms.

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. Granted we are able to transfer data from server to server, we will transfer all the files and sub-directories from your home directory as well as your databases. However it is your responsibility to setup mysql users as well as edit any configuration files your site(s) might have in order for them to work with the new databases on the Wesfed server.

The free transfer services are available for 40 days from your sign up date. Transfers outside of the 40 day free period will incur a charge; please contact a member of the transfers department via transfers@wesfed.com with specific details to receive a price quote.

2.) Content

All services provided by Wesfed may only be used for lawful purposes. The laws of the State of Montana, State of Florida, the State of Texas, the State of Chicago, and the United States of America apply.

The customer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Wesfed 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@wesfed.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 are:

• Topsites
• IRC Scripts/Bots
• Proxy Scripts/Anonymizers
• Pirated Software/Warez
• Image Hosting Scripts (similar to Photobucket or Tinypic)
• AutoSurf/PTC/PTS/PPC sites
• IP Scanners
• Bruteforce Programs/Scripts/Applications
• Mail Bombers/Spam Scripts
• Banner-Ad services (commercial banner ad rotation)
• File Dump/Mirror Scripts (similar to rapidshare)
• Commercial Audio Streaming (more than one or two streams)
• Escrow/Bank Debentures
• High-Yield Interest Programs (HYIP) or Related Sites
• Investment Sites (FOREX, E-Gold Exchange, Second Life/Linden Exchange, Ponzi, MLM/Pyramid Scheme)
• Sale of any controlled substance without prior proof of appropriate permit(s)
• Prime Banks Programs
• Lottery Sites
• MUDs/RPGs/PBBGs
• Hateful/Racist/Harassment oriented sites
• Hacker focused sites/archives/programs
• Sites promoting illegal activities
• Forums and/or website(s) that distribute or link to warez/pirated/illegal content
• Bank Debentures/Bank Debenture Trading Programs
• Fraudulent Sites (Including, but not limited to sites listed at aa419.org & escrow-fraud.com)
• Mailer Pro

Wesfed services, including all related equipment, networks and network devices are provided only for authorized customer use. Wesfed 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 Wesfed system(s) constitutes consent to monitoring for these purposes.

Any account found connecting to a third party network or system without authorization from the third party is subject to suspension. Access to networks or systems outside of your direct control must be with expressed written consent from the third party. Wesfed may, at its discretion, request and require documentation to prove access to a third party network or system is authorized.

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 support ticket/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@wesfed.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.

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.wesfed.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.

Wesfed 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.

Wesfed 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 Wesfed.

4.) Payment Information

You agree to supply appropriate payment for the services received from Wesfed, in advance of the time period during which such services are provided. You agree that until and unless you notify Wesfed of your desire to cancel any or all services received, those services will be billed on a recurring basis. This includes when accounts are suspended. When an account's invoices are paid outside of the 10 day grace period, invoices will not be automatically generated. However, after the customer notifies Wesfed of his or intent to resume service, invoices will be manually generated and payment expected for the time the account was suspended.

Cancellations must be done in writing via the cancellation form provided. 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. If you do not hear back from us within 24 hours of your cancellation notice, please re-submit your cancellation notice. 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 Wesfed, it is your responsibility to ensure that your payment information is up to date, and that all invoices are paid on time. Wesfed 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 account suspension until account balance has been paid in full. The $10 late fee is applied in addition to whatever else is owed to Wesfed for services rendered. Access to the account will not be restored until payment has been received, and then at our discretion.

It is the customer's responsibility to notify our billing department via email at department@wesfed.com after paying for a domain renewal and to ensure the email is received and acted upon. Domain renewal notices and invoices are provided as a courtesy reminder and Wesfed cannot be held responsible for failure to renew a domain or failure to notify a customer about a domain's renewal.

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 billing@wesfed.com. Paypal chargebacks are not allowed and doing so could end your account in suspension.

Wesfed reserves the right to change the monthly payment amount and any other charges at anytime, with or without your consent.

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. Wesfed 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 Wesfed servers. Backups will not be provided for accounts that have been suspended or terminated for any reason unless otherwise agreed to in writing by Wesfed.

6.) Cancellations and Refunds

Wesfed reserves the right to cancel, suspend, or otherwise restrict access to 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 cancellation form. Wesfed gives you an unconditional 40 day money back guarantee on managed shared hosting for any customer who paid the first invoice with a credit card or with Paypal.

The following methods of payments are non-refundable, and refunds will be posted as credit to the hosting account:

• Bank Wire Transfers
• Western Union Payments
• Checks
• Money orders

There are no refunds on administrative fees, install fees for custom software, or domain name purchases. Refund requests after the initial 40 days will not be refunded.

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.

Violation(s) of the Terms of Service will waive the refund policy.

7. Resource Usage

User may not:

• 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.
• Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.
• Run any type of web spider or indexer (including Google Cash / AdSpy) on shared servers.
• Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
• 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.
• Participate in any file-sharing/peer-to-peer activities
• Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike, half-life, battlefield1942, etc.
• 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.) "Unlimited" Usage Policies and Definitions

Wesfed does not set an arbitrary limit or cap on the amount of resources you can use. In good faith and subject to these Terms, Wesfed makes every commercially reasonable effort to provide you with all the storage and bandwidth resources needed to power your account(s) successfully, as long as your use of the service complies with these Terms. By not setting limits on key resources, we are able to provide you with simple, consistent pricing as your website(s) grow. As a result, a typical website may experience periods of great popularity and resulting increased storage without experiencing any associated increase in hosting charges.

7d.) What "Unlimited" DOES NOT mean

Wesfed employs complex mechanisms to protect you and our servers from abuse. Wesfed's offering of "unlimited" services is not intended to allow you to unfairly or adversely impact the experience of the server or other users.

Wesfed's service is a shared hosting service, which means that multiple subscribers' website(s) are hosted from the same server and share server resources. Wesfed's service is designed to meet the typical needs of small business and home business website(s) in the United States. It is NOT intended to support the sustained demand of large enterprises, internationally based businesses, or non-typical applications better suited to a dedicated server.

Wesfed will make every commercially reasonable effort to provide you with additional resources to make your website(s) consistent with these Terms, including moving subscribers to bigger shared servers as necessary. However, in order to ensure a consistent and quality experience for all subscribers, Wesfed does place automated safeguards to protect against any one site growing too quickly and adversely impacting the system until Wesfed can evaluate said sites resource needs.

7e.) Unlimited Hosting Space (Disk Space)

Wesfed does not set arbitrary limits on the amount of disk space you can use for your account, nor does Wesfed charge additional fees based on an increased amount of storage used, provided your use of storage complies with these Terms. Please note, however, that the Wesfed service is designed to host website(s). Wesfed does NOT provide unlimited space for online storage, backups, or archiving of electronic files, documents, log files, etc., and any such prohibited use of the server will result in the termination of your account, with or without notice.

7f.) Unlimited File Transfer (Bandwidth)

Wesfed does not set arbitrary limits on the amount of visitor traffic a web site can receive or on the amount of content you can upload to your website(s) in a given month, nor does Wesfed charge additional fees based on increased use of bandwidth, as long as your use of the services complies with these Terms. In most cases, your website(s) will be able to support as much traffic as your website(s) can legitimately acquire. However, Wesfed reserves the right to limit processor time, bandwidth, or processes in cases where it is necessary to prevent negatively impacting other Subscribers

7g.) Unlimited Domain Hosting

Wesfed does not set arbitrary limits on the number of domain names you can associate with your web hosting account.

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

We reserve the right to refund a prorated amount or no refund at all.

Each of Wesfed's managed shared servers carry a 40 day unconditional money back guarantee on them. If you are not completely satisfied with our services within the first 40 calendar days of your service, and you paid your first invoice by credit card or paypal, you will be given a full refund of the contract amount. Remember, this is only for monthly shared packages and does not apply to administrative fees, install fees for custom software, hosting addons (including but not limited to: ssl certificates, dedicated ips, and domain names).

9b.) 99.9% Uptime Guarantee

If your shared 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 Wesfed 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 billing@wesfed.com with justification. All requests must be made in writing via email. Uptime guarantees only apply to shared hosting solutions.

10.) Shared Accounts

Shared accounts may not resell web hosting to other people, if you wish to resell hosting please contact Wesfed's sales department at sales@wesfed.com. We reserve the right to suspend your account at any time, without notice, if we feel you are, or have been, selling hosting to other people.

11.) Price Change

The amount you pay for your hosting will never increase from the date of purchase. We reserve the right to change prices listed on Wesfed.com, and the right to increase the amount of resources given to plans at any time.

12.) Coupons / Promotional Codes

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, or hosting addons, 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 Wesfed harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney's fees asserted against Wesfed, 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 Wesfed against liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with Wesfed; (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 Wesfed's server.

13b.) Arbitration

By using any Wesfed services, you agree to submit to binding arbitration. If any disputes or claims arise against Wesfed or its subsidiaries, such disputes will be handled by an arbitrator of Wesfed's choice. An arbitrator from the American Arbitration Association or the National Arbitration Forum will be selected in the state of Montana. 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.

14.) Disclaimer

Wesfed shall not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer. Wesfed makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services we provide. Wesfed 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 Wesfed and its employees.

15.) Disclosure to law enforcement

Wesfed 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.

16.) Changes to the TOS

Wesfed reserves the right to revise its policies at any time without notice.