The use of services from media1online.com, LLC
[hereafter referred to as "media1online"] constitutes
agreement to these terms. You may view our
Privacy Policy here.
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.
The free transfer services are available for 30 days
from your sign up date. Transfers outside of the 30 day
free period will incur a charge; please contact a member
of the transfers department with specific details to
receive a price quote.
2.) Content
All services provided by media1online may only be used
for lawful purposes. The laws of the State of Florida,
the State of Texas, and the United States of America
apply.
The customer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless
media1online 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
anothers 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@media1online.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 Shared and
Reseller servers include:
- 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/PPBGs
- Hateful/Racist/Harassment oriented sites
- Hacker focused sites/archives/programs
- Sites promoting illegal activities
- Forums and/or websites 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
Examples of unacceptable material on all Dedicated
servers include:
- IRCD (irc servers)
- IRC Scripts/Bots
- Pirated Software/Warez
- IP Scanners
- Bruteforce Programs/Scripts/Applications
- Mail Bombers/spam Scripts
- Escrow
- 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
- Hateful/Racist/Harassment oriented sites
- Hacker focused sites/archives/programs
- Sites promoting illegal activities
- Forums and/or websites 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
media1online services, including all related
equipment, networks and network devices are provided
only for authorized customer use. media1online 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
media1online system(s) constitutes consent to monitoring
for these purposes.
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 troubleticket/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@media1online.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.
Resellers: we will suspend the site in question and
will notify you so you may terminate the account. We
will further monitor your activity; more than one
infraction of this type may result in the immediate
termination of your account.
Direct customers: Your services will be terminated
with or 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.media1online.com/mailpolicy.html for our
generalized mail policy.
Please read
http://www.media1online.com/dedicated-mailpolicy.html
for our dedicated server 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.
media1online 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.
media1online 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 media1online.
4.) Payment Information
You agree to supply appropriate payment for the services
received from media1online, in advance of the time
period during which such services are provided. You
agree that until and unless you notify media1online of
your desire to cancel any or all services received,
those services will be billed on a recurring basis.
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. Your cancellation confirmation will contain a
ticket/tracking number in the subject for your
reference, and for verification purposes. You should
immediately receive an automatic "Your request has been
received..." email with a tracking number. An employee
will confirm your request (and process your
cancellation) shortly thereafter. If you do not hear
back from us, or do not receive the automatic
confirmation email within a few minutes after submitting
your cancellation, please contact us immediately via
phone. 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 media1online, it is your
responsibility to ensure that your payment information
is up to date, and that all invoices are paid on time.
media1online 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/or an account
suspension until account balance has been paid in full.
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
sales@media1online.com
media1online reserves the right to change the monthly
payment amount and any other charges at anytime.
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.
media1online 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 media1online servers.
6.) Cancellations and Refunds
media1online reserves the right to cancel 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. media1online gives you an
unconditional 45 day money back guarantee on managed
shared hosting, and reseller solutions 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 dedicated servers,
administrative fees, install fees for custom software,
or domain name purchases. Refund requests for shared and
reseller accounts after the initial 45 days will be
refunded on a prorated basis of any unused time.
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.
Violations of the Terms of Service will waive
the refund policy.
7. Resource Usage
User may not:
a) 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.
b) Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at
any point in time on the server. This includes any and
all daemons, such as IRCD.
c) Run any type of web spider or indexer (including
Google Cash / AdSpy) on shared servers.
d) Run any software that interfaces with an IRC
(Internet Relay Chat) network.
e) 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.
f) Participate in any file-sharing/peer-to-peer
activities
g) Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike,
half-life, battlefield1942, etc
h) 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.) Backup Limit
Any shared account using more than 20 gigs of disk space
will be removed from our off site weekly backup with the
the exception of Databases continuing to be backed up.
All data will continue to be mirrored to a secondary
drive which helps protect against data loss in the event
of a drive failure.
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
On dedicated servers and collocation no full refund will
be honored -- the 45 day money back guarantee does not
apply. We reserve the right to refund a prorated amount
or no refund at all.
Each of media1online's managed shared and reseller
servers carry a 45 day unconditional money back
guarantee on them. If you are not completely satisfied
with our services within the first 45 days of your
service, you will be given a full refund of the contract
amount. Remember, this is only for monthly shared or
reseller packages and does not apply to dedicated
servers, administrative fees, install fees for custom
software, or domain name purchases.
9b.) Uptime Guarantee
If your shared / reseller 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 media1online 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 sales@media1online.com
with justification. All requests must be made in writing
via email. Uptime guarantees only apply to shared /
reseller solutions. Dedicated servers are covered by a
network guarantee in which the credit is prorated for
the amount of time the server is down which is not
related to our uptime guarantee.
10.) Reseller: Client Responsibility
Resellers are responsible for supporting their clients.
media1online does not provide support to our Reseller's
Clients. If a reseller's client contacts us, we reserve
the right to place the client account on hold until the
reseller can assume their responsibility for their
client. All support requests must be made by the
reseller on their clients' behalf for security purposes.
Resellers are also responsible for all content stored or
transmitted under their reseller account and the actions
of their clients'. media1online will hold any reseller
responsible for any of their clients actions that
violate the law or the terms of service.
11.) Shared (non-reseller accounts) /
Semidedicated Servers
Shared accounts may not resell web hosting to other
people, if you wish to resell hosting you must use a
reseller account. Semi-dedicated servers are not backed
up. You must maintain your own backups.
12.) Dedicated Servers
media1online reserves the right to reset the password on
a dedicated server if the password on file is not
current so that we may do security audits as required by
our datacenter. It is the responsibility of the client
to ensure that there is a valid email address and
current root password on file for their dedicated server
on file to prevent downtime from forced password resets.
media1online reserves the right to audit servers as
needed and to perform administrative actions at the
request of our datacenter. Dedicated servers are NOT
backed up by us and it is the responsibility of the
client to maintain backups or have a solution for this.
You may purchase an additional hard drive and maintain
backups to it as the most simple solution. Please
contact sales@media1online.com if you wish to obtain a
secondary hard drive. It is your responsibility to
maintain backups.
13.) Price Change
The amount you pay for hosting will never increase from
the date of purchase. We reserve the right to change
prices listed on media1online.com, and the right to
increase the amount of resources given to plans at any
time.
14.) Coupons
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
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.
15a.) Indemnification
Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save
and hold media1online harmless from any and all demands,
liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including
reasonable attorney's fees asserted against media1online,
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
media1online against liabilities arising out of; (1) any
injury to person or property caused by any products sold
or otherwise distributed in connection with media1online;
(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 media1online's
server.
15b.) Arbitration By using any
media1online services, you agree to submit to binding
arbitration. If any disputes or claims arise against
media1online or its subsidiaries, such disputes will be
handled by an arbitrator of media1online's choice. An
arbitrator from the American Arbitration Association or
the National Arbitration Forum will be selected in the
state of Texas. 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.
16.) Disclaimer
media1online shall not be responsible for any damages
your business may suffer. media1online makes no
warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for
services we provide. media1online 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 media1online and its employees.
17.) Disclosure to law enforcement
media1online 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.
18.) Changes to the TOS
media1online reserves the right to revise its policies
at any time without notice.