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Terms of Service
Loose Foot Computing Limited, hereinafter referred to as LFC, is a provider of Internet web site hosting and associated services. LFC acts as a neutral provider of hosting services to its customers (also known as subscribers).
A subscriber's use of LFC's services constitutes the subscriber's acceptance of all LFC policies, including but not limited to, its Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy and Privacy Statement. LFC reserves the right to revise its policies at any time without notice. A subscriber's use of LFC services subsequent to policy changes posted on LFC's web site, www.lfchosting.com, constitutes the subscriber's acceptance of any additional or modified terms that result from those changes.
Adult material/pornography or linking to adult material/pornography is strictly prohibited on LFC's network. Subscribers hosting web sites of this nature will have these sites removed from LFC's servers and hosting accounts closed without notice. It remains at LFC's discretion to determine what inappropriate content for our service is.
Subscribers sending unsolicited e-mail (spam) will have their accounts closed immediately without reasoning, even if the e-mail was not sent using LFC's servers but was in any way related to the content housed on LFC's servers.
LFC reserves the right to immediately cancel any subscriber's hosting account at any time and without notice if it causes harm or poses a threat to LFC's network, servers, company, subscribers or customers of its subscribers including their respective reputation, integrity, and security. Sites of inappropriate nature or that utilize spamming will not be tolerated. LFC cannot be held responsible for the content of any files on our network.
LFC will not be responsible for any damages that its subscribers, their businesses, customers or any other parties may suffer. LFC makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for the services it provides.
The subscriber hereby agrees to pay LFC on a recurring basis in accordance with:
- The payment method, including but not limited to, credit card, Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), check, money order, bank draft or wire transfer, chosen.
- The fee schedule associated with the recurring term cycle (payment schedule), including but not limited to, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual, and hosting package chosen.
Furthermore, LFC retains the right to monitor the usage of the various computing resources provided with the subscriber's hosting package. In the event that a subscriber has exceeded the quotas for any of the resources applicable to the selected hosting package, the subscriber agrees to pay LFC according to its standard resource usage overage rates. This also applies during any initial free trial period provided by LFC. The quota for bandwidth resource usage for an individual subscriber is effectively that of their single web hosting account with the greatest quota, rather than the sum of the bandwidth of all accounts belonging to the subscriber.
Standard recurring subscription fees are collected at the beginning of each recurring term cycle. Fees for additional usage of computing resources beyond those provided with the subscriber's hosting package are collected at the beginning of the next recurring term cycle, or sooner if the additional usage grows to a size that, at LFC's discretion, warrants earlier collection.
LFC reserves the right to conduct "credit checks" and carry out other measures to verify the legitimacy and credit of its subscribers and the payment method(s) that they supply. In the case of subscribers paying by credit card, LFC Hosting may conduct a "pre-authorization" whenever new credit card information is supplied. This "pre-authorization" is typically in the amount of the subscription fees for the entire term chosen by the subscriber. Although it does not represent a real charge to the subscriber's credit card, it may appear on the credit card statement for several days, or longer, at the discretion of the credit card company.
Subscribers using the Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) payment method hereby warrant and guarantee that all persons whose signatures are required to sign on their bank account(s) have read and agree in full to LFC's Pre-Authorized Payment Authorization - Terms and Conditions.
Reselling of services provided by LFC to third parties is prohibited with any hosting package other than the "Reseller Package".
LFC provides its subscribers with the option of electing to pay a lower subscription fee in exchange for agreement to a longer term for the engagement of LFC services. This longer term is typically, but not necessarily, one year, six months or three months in duration. All subscription fees are recurring and, unless the subscriber cancels the service agreement (given successful completion of the appropriate cancellation and confirmation procedures outlined below) prior to the completion of the recurring term cycle will automatically renew and the subscriber will be re-billed for the upcoming term according to LFC's fee schedule in place at the time of renewal. If the subscriber changes the selected hosting package prior to the completion of the recurring term cycle, the new fee schedule will not take effect until the completion of this term cycle.
Subscribers agreeing to a term longer than one month and whom cancel their services (given successful completion of the appropriate cancellation and confirmation procedures outlined below) prior to the completion of the recurring term cycle agree to pay a termination fee to LFC equal to: [ 33% of the basic monthly subscription fee schedule - assuming no fees for additional usage of computing resources beyond those provided with the subscriber's hosting package - effective at the time of initiation of the term cycle ] multiplied by [ the number of whole months remaining in the term cycle following the completion of the cancellation and confirmation procedures outlined below ]. For example, a subscriber who agrees to a term of one year, and desires to cancel his/her services eight months into that term cycle, will pay a termination fee of 33% of the equivalent of four month's basic service at the selected package fee structure effective when the term began.
Subscribers cancelling their services part-way through a one-month segment of their recurring term cycle are not eligible for a prorated refund for the remainder of the given month. Similarly, subscribers on a monthly recurring term cycle are not eligible for a refund upon cancellation of service. Subscribers who take advantage of special promotions conditional upon a particular recurring term are excluded from this termination fee structure, and are not eligible for a refund upon cancellation. This does not apply to LFC's standard offers of "One Free Trial Month with No Commitment" and standard advertised reduced subscription fees for terms longer than one month.
Subscribers who reengage their service agreement with LFC following cancellation and payment of termination fees are eligible to have the termination fees credited back in full to their account.
LFC requires that all requests for cancellation of services be made in the form of a written request (paper or electronic) to our Accounts Department. In order to protect its subscribers against identity theft, LFC also requires that all cancellation requests be confirmed. Upon an initial cancellation request, the LFC Accounts Department will reply with a request to confirm the initial request and a short quality assurance questionnaire. The subscriber hereby agrees that a request for cancellation of services will not be deemed effective until such time as these procedures, including confirmation, are completed, and that a termination fee may apply, as outlined above.
Finally, LFC wishes to emphasize that in using any LFC service, subscribers indemnify LFC for any violation of the service agreement, law, or LFC policy, that results in loss to LFC or the bringing of any claim against LFC by any third-party. This means that if LFC is sued because of a subscriber's or customer of a subscriber's activity, the subscriber will pay any damages awarded against LFC, plus costs and reasonable attorneys' fees.
Any complaints about a subscriber's violation of LFC's policies should be directed to abuse@lfchosting.com.
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