Terms and Conditions

General Terms of Service

Whereas, LeadingDomains Web Hosting is an information provider connected to the Internet LeadingDomains Web Hosting offers storage and transfer services over the Internet through access to its Web Server;

Whereas, Customer seeks to utilize LeadingDomains Web Hosting’s server for its own purposes;

Whereas, the parties acknowledge that the Internet is neither owned nor controlled by any one entity; therefore, LeadingDomains Web Hosting can make no guarantee that any given reader shall be able to access LeadingDomains Web Hosting’s server at any given time.

LeadingDomains Web Hosting represents that it shall make every good faith effort to ensure that its server is available as widely as possible and with as little service interruption as possible;

Now therefore, in consideration of the mutual promises contained herein, the parties agree as follows;

Financial Arrangements

  1. Customer agrees to a thirty (30) day contract minimum beginning upon commencement of service. Exact contract duration is decided upon at signup.
  2. Customer agrees that all charges and fees associated with an account are their sole responsibility.
  3. If the customer wishes to cancel LeadingDomains shared Web Hosting services within ninety-seven (97) days of the initial signup they shall be able to do so for any reason (aside from disablement for Terms of Service or Spam Policy violations) and have their money promptly refunded.
  4. Services provided by 3rd parties and LeadingDomains partners are not part of the 97-day refund policy and no early ending credit applies. Billing will stop at end of term during which the service is cancelled.
  5. At the end of the contract term, the contract will automatically renew for the original contract length indefinitely until cancelled in writing or via the web panel. After the first 97 days a cancelled account will be cancelled before the next payment is due and no more billing will occur nor will any payment be refunded, even for unused portions. If any non-refundable charges have already been incurred, they must be paid before the account may be cancelled.
  6. “97-Day Money-Back Guarantee” offer only applicable to credit card payments for shared web hosting. Other forms of payment are non-refundable. Refunds can only be processed for shared hosting. Domain registrations (including the value of any used free domain registrations included with the plan) are not refundable under any circumstances. SSL certificates are non-refundable. The value of any AdWords credit or other third-party add-ons is non-refundable. See domain registration agreement for more information.
  7. Violations of LeadingDomains’s Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, or Spam Policy may, at LeadingDomains’s discretion, result in immediate and permanent disablement without refund.
  8. Disputed charges (“chargebacks”) associated with any LeadingDomains account may, at LeadingDomains’s discretion, result in immediate and permanent disablement.
  9. LeadingDomains will use commercially reasonable efforts to make LeadItems available 99.9% of the time during each monthly billing cycle. If LeadingDomains is unable to meet this service level, you will be eligible to receive a credit to apply to future LeadItems billing cycles based upon the Unavailability for that month.
    1. For the purposes of this agreement, Unavailability means that either (a) the LeadItems service is unresponsive, or (b) LeadItems returns a server error response to valid user requests for more than 60 seconds of consecutive requests.
    2. Unavailability that is a result of scheduled maintenance is excluded from these conditions and will not be considered for service credit calculations. Scheduled maintenance is defined as maintenance that is announced at least 5 days in advance, and does not exceed one hour in any month.
    3. Service credits will be calculated as a percentage of the bill for the billing cycle that the Unavailability occurred. The percentage for the credit will be calculated by dividing the number of minutes of Unavailability by the total number of minutes in that billing cycle.
    4. Service credits must be claimed within 14 days of the Unavailability occurring by submitting a support ticket. Include as much detail as required to document the Unavailability.

Taxes

  1. LeadingDomains Web Hosting shall not be liable for any taxes or other fees to be paid in accordance with or related to purchases made from Customer or LeadingDomains Web Hosting’s server. Customer agrees to take full responsibility for all taxes and fees of any nature associated with such products sold.

Material Products

  1. Customer will provide LeadingDomains Web Hosting with material and data in a condition that is “server-ready”, which is in a form requiring no additional manipulation on the part of LeadingDomains Web Hosting. LeadingDomains Web Hosting shall make no effort to validate this information for content, correctness or usability.
  2. Use of LeadingDomains Web Hosting’s service requires a certain level of knowledge in the use of Internet languages, protocols, and software. This level of knowledge varies depending on the anticipated use and desired content of Customer’s Webspace by the Customer.
  3. The following examples are offered:
    1. Web Publishing: requires a knowledge of HTML, properly locating and linking documents, FTPing Web space contents, Graphics, text, Sound, image mapping, etc.
    2. CGI-Scripts: requires a knowledge of the UNIX environment, TAR & GUNZIP commands, Perl, CShell scripts, permissions, etc.
  4. The Customer agrees that he or she has the necessary knowledge to create Customer’s Webspace. Customer agrees that it is not the responsibility of LeadingDomains Web Hosting to provide this knowledge or Customer Support outside of the defined service of LeadingDomains Web Hosting.
  5. LeadingDomains Web Hosting will exercise no control whatsoever over the content of the information passing through the network, provided that it adheres to all other conditions set forth in our Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy documents.
  6. LeadingDomains Web Hosting reserves the right to police its network to verify compliance with all agreed upon Terms.
  7. The Customer agrees to cooperate in any reasonable investigations into their adherence to all agreed upon Terms. Failure to cooperate is grounds for immediate disablement of all accounts/service plans.
  8. LeadingDomains Web Hosting reserves the right to disconnect any website or server deemed to present a security threat to LeadingDomains’s customers, servers, or network.
  9. The opening of multiple accounts or service plans in order to bypass any restrictions or overage charges set forth by LeadingDomains is grounds for termination of all services.
  10. LeadingDomains Web Hosting makes no warranties or representations of any kind, whether expressed or implied for the service it is providing. LeadingDomains Web Hosting also disclaims any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose and will not be responsible for any damages that may be suffered by the Customer, including loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries or service interruptions by any cause or errors or omissions of the Customer. Use of any information obtained by way of LeadingDomains Web Hosting is at the Customer’s own risk, and LeadingDomains Web Hosting specifically denies any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through its services. Any mention of connection speeds associated with LeadingDomains’s services represents the maximum achievable speed. LeadingDomains does not guarantee that the customer will achieve the maximum connection speed at all times, as this depends on a variety of factors (including your own internet connection!). LeadingDomains Web Hosting expressly limits its damages to the Customer for any non-accessibility time or other down time to the pro-rata monthly charge during the system unavailability.
  11. LeadingDomains Web Hosting specifically denies any responsibilities for any damages arising as a consequence of such unavailability. In the event that this material is not “Server-ready”, LeadingDomains Web Hosting may, at its option and at any time, reject this material, including but not limited to after it has been put on LeadingDomains Web Hosting’s Server. LeadingDomains Web Hosting agrees to notify Customer immediately of its refusal of the material and afford Customer the opportunity to amend or modify the material to satisfy the needs and/or requirements of LeadingDomains Web Hosting. If the Customer fails to modify the material, as directed by LeadingDomains Web Hosting, within a reasonable period of time, which shall be determined between the parties themselves, the contract shall be deemed to be terminated.
  12. All domain names registered through LeadingDomains or its previous domain registration site, domainitron.com, that are ‘parked’ or are otherwise not immediately associated with a LeadingDomains hosting plan will be automatically pointed to a “Coming Soon” web page which informs visitors that the registrant has recently registered their domain name via LeadingDomains.com. The Coming Soon web page may be modified at any time by LeadingDomains without prior notice to you and may include such things as, without limitation, links to additional products and services offered by LeadingDomains.

Trademarks & Copyrights

  1. Customer warrants that it has the right to use the trademarks and copyrights applicable to all content and/or products being made available through the customer’s account.

Hardware, Equipment, & Software

  1. The customer is responsible for and must provide all telephone, computer, hardware and software equipment and services necessary to access LeadingDomains Web Hosting.
  2. LeadingDomains Web Hosting makes no representations, warranties or assurances that the Customer’s equipment will be compatible with the LeadingDomains Web Hosting service.

Guaranteed Uptime

  1. LeadingDomains guarantees 100% uptime. A failure to provide 100% uptime will result in customer compensation pursuant to guidelines established herein.
  2. Customer is entitled to compensation if Customer’s web site, databases, email, FTP, SSH or webmail become unusable as a result of failure(s) in LeadingDomains systems for reasons other than previously announced scheduled maintenance, coding or configuration errors on the part of the Customer.
  3. Customer will receive LeadingDomains credit equal to the Customer’s current hosting cost for 1 (one) day of service for each 1 (one) hour (or fraction thereof) of service interruption, up to a maximum of 10% of customer’s next pre-paid hosting renewal fee.
  4. LeadingDomains’s assessment of downtime begins when Customer opens a support ticket to report the problem.

LeadingDomains Dedicated Server and Leadingtech Stipulations

  1. Bandwidth pricing and measurement frequency is subject to change at LeadingDomains’s discretion. Customers affected by such changes will be notified no less than thirty (30) days in advance by LeadingDomains Web Hosting.
  2. LeadingDomains is under no obligation to compensate Customer for downtime, whether the downtime be caused by Customer, LeadingDomains Web Hosting, or LeadingDomains’s upstream providers.
  3. Customer agrees that dedicated server payments are NONREFUNDABLE. For example, if Customer submits payment for twelve (12) months of service, service will be provided for twelve (12) months and will not be refunded if Customer chooses to discontinue service with LeadingDomains mid-way through the term. Leadingtech services will be billed on a monthly basis; existing Leadingtech customers may remain on a pre-paid billing plan, but new customer accounts will be subject to a usage-billing plan. Termination or upgrades of Leadingtech services will result in the following refund and billing procedures:
    • Pre-Paid Billing Leadingtech Plan: Any termination or upgrade will result in a refund of the prorated value of the plan for the last billing period.
    • Usage-Billing Leadingtech Plan: Any termination will result in the customer being billed for usage, rounded up to the nearest hour.
  4. Hardware upgrades to an existing ‘platform’ (platform defined as a motherboard/chassis combination) will be performed by LeadingDomains and shall incur an additional one-time labour fee of $120 as well as an increase to Customer’s standard monthly rate.
  5. Any hands-on labor necessitated by the customer (including, but not limited to, re-installing the operating system on the server) shall be performed by LeadingDomains and shall incur an additional one-time labor fee of $120 for each incident.
  6. LeadingDomains reserves the right to alter the dedicated server packages advertised on its website at its discretion. LeadingDomains is not required to upgrade Customers’ hardware or bandwidth allocation as a result of a pricing or service package change. There will be an additional charge of $200 associated for any such hardware upgrade requested by Customer. Customer will not be required to upgrade hardware as a result of a pricing change.
  7. For managed servers, LeadingDomains is responsible for the security of the network, the kernel, and the base operating system (defined as the standard set of debian packages that come installed with the server). LeadingDomains may take any steps it deems necessary at any time to protect the security of your server (this generally includes applying security patches as well upgrading the entire operating system).
  8. For unmanaged servers not using a “DreamCatcher” monitoring option, Customer is responsible for keeping the security of their system up to date. This includes but is not limited to the following requirements:
    1. the kernel will be patched within 7 days of any announced security hole relating to the kernel
    2. any security patches for all installed software must be applied within 7 days of their general announcement to the security community at large.
  1. LeadingDomains is not responsible for notifying unmanaged servers of the need to apply patches. Failure to comply with these requirements is grounds for termination of contract without refund. LeadingDomains reserves the right to take any action upon unmanaged dedicated servers it deems necessary at any time to protect the security and integrity of LeadingDomains’s network.

Age

  1. The Customer certifies that he or she is at least 18 years of age, or that their parent or legal guardian will act as the “customer” in terms of this contract.

Termination

  1. This contract may be terminated by either party, without cause, by giving the other party 14 days written notice. LeadingDomains Web Hosting will accept termination by electronic mail. Notwithstanding the above, LeadingDomains Web Hosting may terminate service under this contract at any time, without penalty, if the Customer fails to comply with the terms of this contract, including non-payment. LeadingDomains Web Hosting reserves the right to charge a reinstatement fee.

Limited Liability

  1. Customer expressly agrees that use of LeadingDomains Web Hosting’s Server is at Customer’s sole risk. Neither LeadingDomains Web Hosting, its employees, affiliates, agents, third party information providers, merchants licensers or the like, warrant that LeadingDomains Web Hosting’s Server service will not be interrupted or error free; nor do they make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from the use of the Server service or as to the accuracy, reliability or content of any information service or merchandise contained in or provided through the LeadingDomains Web Hosting Server service, unless otherwise expressly stated in this contract.
  2. Under no circumstances, including negligence, shall LeadingDomains Web Hosting, its offices, agents or any one else involved in creating, producing or distributing LeadingDomains Web Hosting’s Server service be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages that result from the use of or inability to use the LeadingDomains Web Hosting Server service; or that results from mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files, errors, defects, delays in operation, or transmission or any failure of performance, whether or not limited to acts of God, communication failure, theft, destruction or unauthorized access to LeadingDomains Web Hosting’s records, programs or services. Customer hereby acknowledges that this paragraph shall apply to all content on LeadingDomains Web Hosting’s Server service.
  3. Notwithstanding the above, Customer’s exclusive remedies for all damages, losses and causes of actions whether in contract, tort including negligence or otherwise, shall not exceed the aggregate amount which Customer paid during the term of this contract and any reasonable legal fee and court costs.

Promotional Codes

  1. By using a promotional (“promo”) code you waive the option to indicate who referred you to LeadingDomains.
  2. You may not change/submit a promo code or referrer after you’ve finished signing up.
  3. Promo codes/referrers are for new customers only — if you use one you may not host on your account any domain ever previously hosted with LeadingDomains.

Indemnification

  1. Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold LeadingDomains Web Hosting harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, (“Liabilities”) asserted against LeadingDomains Web Hosting, its agents, its customers, servants 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 LeadingDomains Web Hosting against Liabilities arising out of
    1. any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with LeadingDomains Web Hosting’s Server;
    2. any material supplied by Customer infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party;
    3. copyright infringement;
    4. any defective product which Customer sold on LeadingDomains Web Hosting Server.

Sanctioned Countries

Customer agrees to comply with all applicable export and re-export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce, trade and economic sanctions maintained by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”) maintained by the Department of State. Specifically, Customer covenants that it shall not – directly or indirectly – sell, export, re-export, transfer, divert, or otherwise dispose of any products, software, or technology (including products derived from or based on such technology) received from LeadingDomains under this Agreement to any destination, entity, or person prohibited by the laws or regulations of the United States, without obtaining prior authorization from the competent government authorities as required by those laws and regulations. Customer agrees to indemnify, to the fullest extent permitted by law, LeadingDomains from and against any fines or penalties that may arise as a result of Customer’s breach of this provision. This export control clause shall survive termination or cancellation of this Agreement.

Other Agreements

Customer agrees to abide by the terms set forth in this document as well as other LeadingDomains policy documents including, but not limited to:

  1. Acceptable Use Policy
  2. Anti-Spam Policy
  3. Unlimited Policy

Customer also agrees to abide by all applicable Terms set forth by all LeadingDomains partners and subsidiaries.

Contract Revisions

Revisions to this Contract will be applicable to previous Contracts Revisions will be considered agreed to by the Customer on renewal of service as specified in Section – Financial Arrangements.

Transfer

Customer may not transfer this contract without the written consent of LeadingDomains Web Hosting.

Contract

These Terms and Conditions constitutes the entire Contract and understanding of the parties. Any changes or modifications to these Terms and Conditions of Contract thereto are agreed to by the both parties upon renewal of services.