Media Fortress agrees to provide the services stated for the price agreed at any given time. We do not miss lead customers with hidden costs unlike many other web hosting companies.

All customers are responsible for monitoring their storage space and bandwidth transfer each month. Customers who go over the limit of their account will be sent an email with the option to either upgrade their account or reduce store and or storage. If customers continue to go over we will do everything possible to fix the problem. We do hold to right to ban accounts for continuous problems. If customers sign up for an account and cancel it within the first month they will still be charged for the full first month.

Renewal notices are emailed seven days before the actual renew date in your account. If you are using a credit card you will not have to worry about manual payments. All accounts are set up on a pre-pay basis. If payment is not received within 7 days a 10% loading fee will be added. Accounts not paid on time without notification prior to due date will be suspended. Accounts will not be have suspension removed until invoice is paid in full. YOU are responsible for all fees owed on the account from the time it was established to the time that YOU notify Media Fortress to request for termination of services. YOUR particular billing cycle corresponds to the contract length that was initially chosen at setup. YOUR account will automatically renew at this length unless cancelled before hand. There is no fee for cancelled accounts that have been paid for yearly. If you cancel an account on the monthly billing cycle Media Fortress can not refund any payments made before.

All annual payments are non refundable once the 30 day money back guarantee has passed. The only time your annual plan will end is if your account does not comply with our terms of service/acceptable usage policy. Both monthly and annual payments are non-refundable if your account does not follow our terms of service/acceptable usage policy.

Customers must acknowledge that the amount of the services bought is based on customers agreement to pay the fee for the initial term or renewal term.

All cancellations must be made through the client area. There are no exceptions to this rule. Media Fortress is not responsible for non cancelled accounts. Media Fortress may choose to keep accounts on our server until cancellation via client area is made and you will be billed for this service. This does not gurantee that data can be retrieved after a 30 day period.

Should you not cancel service in correct manner, you will be billed. Media Fortress is unable to monitor changes to DNS of any client and therefore you can not presume we know your intentions. Media Fortress may choose to hire a collection agency should outstanding invoices not be paid.

Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server or customer of Media Fortress is strictly prohibited.

Media Fortress 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 Media Fortress, 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 – Media Fortress 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.

YOU may not run IRC, bots or clients on shared servers. Unacceptable uses also include, but are NOT limited to: Bulk emailing, unsolicited emailing, newsgroup spamming, upload scripts (Rappidleach), pornographic content, 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 Media Fortress to be unacceptable use of our services including abuse of server resources.

WEB APPLICATIONS and WEB ACCESSIBLE SCRIPTS – All web applications that are out-of-date and actively being exploited will be shut down immediately without prior notice. YOU are responsible for and should evaluate YOUR web-based applications and scripts on a regular basis to ensure their security and orderliness.

Shared hosting accounts may also be terminated if it includes the following content or have 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 containing obscene nudity or pornographic material (not applicable to managed dedicated servers); 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.

The intention of Media Fortress is to provide a large bandwidth to transfer web documents, and not an offsite storage area for electronic files. If YOU violate this condition, YOU will be notified and given 48 hours to remedy the problem. Failure to do so will result in YOU being billed for the overages.

Traffic will go unmonitored until YOU reach the amount of quota allocated to YOUR specific PLAN. Media Fortress will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Unsolicited commercial advertisements (“SPAM”) are not allowed in e-mail, and will likely result in account cancelation. Media Fortress 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 deleted.

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 Media Fortress (“spamvertising”), then the provisions of the above policy shall apply as if the SPAM were sent through our servers.

(1.) COVERAGE – This 99.99% uptime guarantee applies to any Customer in good financial standing with Media Fortress at the time of a service outage.

(2.) SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT (“SLA”) & SPECIFICATIONS – Media Fortress endeavors to have the content of YOUR website available for http access by any party in the world 99.99% of the time. Network downtime (“unavailability”) is defined as 100% packet loss from Media Fortress to its backbone providers. Downtime is measured past 10 minutes after notification of network failure via Media Fortress’s online ticketing system. If the ticketing system itself is unreachable, the ticket must be started by calling the Media Fortress NOC.

Media Fortress’s administrators will determine the end of the downtime by a traceroute to YOUR machine from outside the Media Fortress network.

(3a.) SHARED HOSTING CREDITS – In the event that YOUR website is unavailable for less than 100%, Media Fortress will credit the following month’s service fee as follows. YOUR credit shall be retroactive and measured in 24 hours a day of a calendar month, with the maximum credit not exceeding 50% of the monthly service charge for the affected month.

– 95% to 99.9% – YOUR account will be credited 10% of your monthly hosting fee

– 90% to 94.9% – YOUR account will be credited 20% of your monthly hosting fee

– 89.9% or below – YOUR account will be credited 50% of your monthly hosting fee (3b.)

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 Media Fortress,

– your behavior or the performance or failure of your equipment, facilities or applications,

– circumstances beyond Media Fortress’s reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of any governmental body, 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 provision of your web site,

– YOU breaking any agreement policy in Media Fortress’s “Terms & Conditions and AUP” causing a machine to fail as a result.

Media Fortress provides technical support for YOU that encompasses within 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.

Unlike many hosting companies We do our best to help with scripts, templates and programing languages. However, under no circumstances is Media Fortress 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.

Each shared web hosting account comes with its own CGI-BIN. YOU are free to use any CGI scripts YOU wish, however we reserve the rights to disable any CGI script that effects normal shared server operation without prior notice.

Customer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Media Fortress, Media Fortress’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 log on information, regardless of whether such person has been authorized to use the services by Customer.

YOU AGREE TO DEFEND,INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS Media Fortress AGAINST LIABILITIES ARISING OF:

(1) ANY INJURY TO PERSON OR PROPERTY CAUSED BY ANY PRODUCTS SOLD OR OTHERWISE DISTRIBUTED IN CONNECTION WITH Media Fortress’S SERVER.

(2) ANY MATERIAL SUPPLIED BY THE 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 Media Fortress’S SERVER.

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 Media Fortress 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.

Customer agrees that Media Fortress may suspend services to Customer without notice and without liability if: (i) Media Fortress 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) Media Fortress reasonably believes that the suspension of service is necessary to protect its network or its other customers, or (iv) as requested by a law enforcement or regulatory agency. Customer shall pay Media Fortress reasonable reinstatement fee if service is Media Fortress following a suspension of service under this subsection.

The Agreement may be terminated by Customer prior to the expiration of the Initial Term or any Renewal Term without further notice and without liability if Media Fortress fails in a material way to provide the service in accordance with the terms of the Agreement and does not cure the failure within ten (10) days of Customer’s written notice describing the failure in reasonable detail. The Agreement may be terminated by Media Fortress prior to the expiration of the Initial Term or any Renewal Term without further notice and without liability as follows: (i) upon five (5) days notice if Customer is overdue on the payment of any amount due under the Agreement; (ii) Customer materially violates any other provision of the Agreement, including the AUP, and fails to cure the violation within thirty (30) days of a written notice from Media Fortress describing the violation in reasonable detail; (iii) upon one (1) days notice if Customer’s Service is used in violation of a material term of the AUP more than once, or (iv) upon one (1) days notice if Customer violates Section 5 (Customer Information) of this Agreement. Either party may terminate this agreement upon five (5) days advance notice if the other party admits insolvency, makes an assignment for the benefit of its creditors, files for bankruptcy or similar protection, is unable to pay debts as they become due, has a trustee or receiver appointed over all or a substantial portion of its assets, or enters into an agreement for the extension or readjustment of all or substantially all of its obligations.

If you break our terms of service/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 of service/acceptable usage policy. For example if we cancel your hosting account during your first month for breaching copyright, we will not refund you for the first month. This is to prevent people signing up for our services with the intention of breaching our terms.

Media Fortress 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 effect 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.

We have various special promotions that include a domain name. The cost of this domain name is usually covered by the first month’s payment. As a result of this our promotions are not refundable and are not covered by our 30-day money back guarantee.

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 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 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.

YOU expressly

(i) grant to Media Fortress a license to cache the entirety of YOUR website, including content supplied by third parties, hosted by Media Fortress 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.

Media Fortress shall maintain and control ownership of all IP numbers and addresses that may be assigned to YOU by Media Fortress. Media Fortress reserves, in its sole discretion, the right to change or remove any and all such IP numbers and addresses.

YOU agree to pay Media Fortress prior to the effectiveness of the desired domain name registration, the then-current amount set forth in the Media Fortress 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. Media Fortress 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 Media Fortress 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 Media Fortress) in connection with the payments of the registration fee for YOUR domain name registration, YOU agrees and acknowledges that the domain name registration shall be transferred to Media Fortress 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. Media Fortress will reinstate YOUR domain name registration solely at Media Fortress’s discretion, and subject to our receipt of the initial registration or renewal fee and our then-current reinstatement fee.

Transfer domain registrar to Media Fortress

YOU agree to pay Media Fortress prior to the effectiveness of the desired domain name transfer request, the then-current amount set forth in the Media Fortress 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

Media Fortress 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 Media Fortress 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 Media Fortress) in connection with the payments of the registration fee for YOUR domain name registration, YOU agrees and acknowledges that the domain name registration shall be transferred to Media Fortress 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. Media Fortress will reinstate YOUR domain name registration solely at Media Fortress discretion, and subject to our receipt of the initial registration or renewal fee and our then-current reinstatement fee.

Transfer domain away from Media Fortress

Media Fortress 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 Media Fortress 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.

Media Fortress reserves the right to refuse service to anyone. YOU may only use Media Fortress 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 the Australia, 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 not limiting 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 Media Fortress management.

If illegal content or usage is found, the account will be suspended and/or terminated. YOU agree that Media Fortress 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 Fremont, California, and any dispute will be litigated or arbitrated in Fremont, California. Defendants further waive all objections to venue and acknowledge that venue in any such litigation will be held in Fremont courts. IN NO EVENT SHALL Media Fortress’S MAXIMUM LIABILITY EXCEED FIVE HUNDRED ($500.00) DOLLARS.

Media Fortress follows the strict guidelines of our customer privacy statement. Please make sure you understand this statement fully.

You are entitled to claim our 30 day-money back guarantee providing you meet the following requirements.

– You must claim during the first 30 days of using our services

– Your are subject to our terms of service and acceptable usage policy

Our special promotions are excluded from our 30-day money back guarantee.

If a domain name was included as part of the plan the value of this domain name will not be refundable. You will however be compensated for the rest of the cost.

– If you provide us with the correct first name, second name & email address used by your friend or family member during signup

– If you claim within 10 days of your friend or family members signup date.

If you friend or family member cancels their service with us the commissions will end.