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Acceptable user policies
All services provided by Smoky Mountian Hosting may be used for lawful
purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any
information,
data or material in violation of any United States Federal, State or
City
law or International law is prohibited.
This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material we
judge to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade
secret
and other statue. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless
Smoky Mountian Hosting from any claims resulting from the use of the
service
which damages the subscriber or any other party.
Note: Pornography and sex-related merchandising is prohibited on all
our
servers. This includes sites that may infer sexual content, or link to
adult
content elsewhere. This is also true for sites that promote any illegal
activity or content that may be damaging to our servers or any other
server on the Internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited.
Examples of unacceptable content or links: Pirated software, Hacker's
programs or archives, Warez Sites, IRC Bots,Mp3.
Background Running Programs
We may allow programs to run continually in the background . These are
considered on a one-to-one basis and an extra charge will be incurred
based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed.
Contact hostmaster@kndenterprises.com for detail.
IRC
We currently do not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers.
Commercial Advertising - E-mail
Spamming, or the sending of unsolicited e-mail, from an Smoky Mountian
Hosting
server or using an e-mail address that is maintained on an Smoky
Mountian Hosting machine is STRICTLY prohibited. Smoky Mountian Hosting
will be the
sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.
Smoky Mountian Hosting shall be the sole arbiter of what is and is not
a violation
of these acceptable use policies. Smoky Mountian Hosting reserves the
right to
terminate an account at any time and for any reason that causes harm to
any Smoky Mountian Hosting customer's web sites.
Smoky Mountian Hosting reserves the right to delete all content and
files upon
termination. Smoky Mountian Hosting reserves the right to withhold any
pre-paid
funds for any site removed for violations of these policies. Smoky
Mountian Hosting reserves the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend
service at our
sole discretion.
Smoky Mountian Hosting reserves the right to change these Policies
without prior
notice or warning. Non-enforcement of any part of these Policies does
not
constitute consent.
All complaints will be investigated promptly
Payment Obligations
Service Fees. By the First (1st) of each month, Smoky Mountian Hosting
shall
either (i) debit Client's credit card (where such information is
provided by
Client) or (ii) deliver by e-mail or regular mail an invoice to Client
in
accordance with the applicable Services fees for services rendered for
the
current month. Where an invoice is delivered to Client, Client shall
remit
payment to Smoky Mountian Hosting by no later than the 10th of the
month. If
payment is not received by the due date, a $10 late fee will be
charged. If
payment is not received by the 25th, the account will be cancelled
until
the past due amount, late fee, reinstatement fee and next months charge
is paid. Smoky Mountian Hosting shall be entitled to
immediately terminate this
Agreement for Client's failure to make timely payments to Smoky
Mountian Hosting. If Client terminates this Agreement in accordance
with the
regulations stated below, Client shall be responsible for any
outstanding
fees owed to Smoky Mountian Hosting and agrees to pay any and all fees
incurred
by Client. Because the Services are provided on a monthly basis, Client
will be responsible for Service fees incurred each month regardless of
when Client provides notice of termination. Thus, for example, if
Client
provides notice to terminate on the 15th of a particular month, Client
will
still owe fees for the entire month and such fees will not be pro-rated
or
refunded. If Client has retained the Services for one (1) year and has
pre-paid Smoky Mountian Hosting for such Services, refunds will NOT be
issued
for any unused service fees. Therefore, if Client's account is
cancelled at
any point during the one (1) year term, Client will NOT be entitled to
a
refund for the months remaining. Domain Names. If Client
chooses to
register a domain name(s) through Smoky Mountian Hosting, Client
acknowledges
and agrees that Client will pay a registration fee(s) to register the
domain
name(s) with the applicable domain name registrar. Smoky Mountian
Hosting
does not offer refunds for domain name registrations for any reason,
including misspelling of the domain name.
Term, Termination and Reinstatement
Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, this Agreement shall be
effective on the date you register for the Services, and shall continue
in
effect on a month-to-month basis unless otherwise specified by separate
agreement (the "Term") unless terminated earlier pursuant to the
provisions of this Section. Either party will have the right to
terminate this
Agreement upon notice to the other party. If Client is terminating this
Agreement, Client must notify Smoky Mountian Hosting by the 25th of the
month
in writing that they wish to cancel. Any notification after
the 25th will
result in client be responsible for another month of service.
If KnD
terminates clients account due to non-payment, Client shall be allowed
to
re-instate Client's use of the Services after paying a Fifty Dollar
($50)
re-instatement fee, any past due amount and late fees, and one month's
service fees before re-instatement. Once payment has been
received,
Client's account will be activated within Forty-Eight (48) business
hours.
Smoky Mountian Hosting will maintain an archival copy of Client's Web
site for
Fourteen (14) days
Refund Policy
Smoky Mountian Hosting maintains a strict refund policy. The following
defines
your rights to a refund:
You may cancel your web hosting account within 30
days if unsatisfied.
When cancelling your account you have to indicate
the exact reason for a refund request.
Refunds will not be processed if you cannot provide
a clear reason as to why you want one.
Refund requests after 30 days will be ignored!
If you do not wish to renew your account for the next
month, you must notify us of this by the 25th of this
month. Example. If you want to cancel starting in
May, you must let us know by April 25. Any
cancellation after this date will be considered an
automatic renewal for the next month
Any chargebacks initiated by non-fullfillment of a
refund request will be ignored. We will prosecute
you for initiating a chargeback. A chargeback ius
when you dispute a charge even though you have
given us authorization to charge your card and you
do not come to us to get it resolved before going to
the credit card company.
Any chargebacks will automatically cause your
credit card number to be black listed on a merchants
black list which will render your credit card useless
on 90% of the Internet.
Domain registrations are strictly non-refundable, if
we get a chargeback for the domain registration fee
then that domain name will be revoked and your
credit card will be black listed.
Smoky Mountian Hosting reserves the right to change this policy at any
time
without any prior notice
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