At Precious Seconds, we value our customers and wish to provide them
with a positive experience. To offer you the best service possible,
all customers need to follow the same rules and guidelines. These
policies are intended to make Precious Seconds service available to
all our customers as consistent and efficient as possible.
User-Supplied Content
All services may be used for lawful purposes only. Through Precious
Seconds service, you may have access to chat areas, bulletin boards,
webpage's, email, or other services that enable you to send or post
materials ("content") and make that content available to others. You
must not submit, publish, or display on the network any defamatory,
inaccurate, abusive, obscene, infringing, or threatening content. In
addition, you may not submit, publish, or display any content that
violates any US Federal, State, or Local Law. You are solely
responsible for the content you make accessible through the Precious
Seconds network. You may not use the service to assist any other
person or entity to violate any Federal, State, or Local Laws,
Ordinances, or Regulations.
Precious Seconds is not obligated to monitor the network to examine
available content. You hereby acknowledge that if we are made aware
of content that is determined to be, in its sole discretion,
unacceptable, undesirable, offensive, indecent, obscene, excessively
violent, or otherwise objectionable, Precious Seconds has the right,
but not the obligation, to edit, remove, or deny access to such
content. Precious Seconds may disclose any content or records
concerning a customer's account as required to satisfy any Law,
Regulation, Governmental Request, or Court Order.
Pornography and sex-related merchandising are prohibited on all
Precious Seconds servers. This includes sites that may infer sexual
content, display nudity, or link to adult content elsewhere. This is
also true for sites that promote any illegal activity or content
that may be damaging to Precious Seconds servers or any other server
on the Internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited. In
addition, any site selling or promoting bulk email service is not
allowed. Below are some examples of non-acceptable content or links:
- Adult Sites - Any erotic or pornographic material, links to adult
sites, or advertisements for adult sites.
- Pirated Software (Warez) - Any software that is copyrighted and not
freely available for distribution without cost: i.e. ROMs, ROM
Emulators, and MPEG Layer 3 files (MP3s).
- Copyright Violations - Violation of copyrights held by individuals
and corporations or other entities can result in civil and criminal
liability for the infringer.
Hacking/Phreaking - Includes sites with material, links, or
resources for hacking, phreaking, viruses, anarchy, or any type of
site that promotes or participates in willful harm to internet sites
or providers.
Network Security
Customers may not use the Precious Seconds network with an attempt
to circumvent user authentication or security of any host, network,
or account. This includes, but is not limited to, accessing data not
intended for the customer, logging into a server or account the
customer is not expressly authorized to access, password cracking,
probing the security of other networks in search of weakness, or
violation of any other organization's Security Policy. Customers may
not attempt to interfere or deny service to any user, host, or
network. This includes, but is not limited to, flooding, mail
bombing, or other deliberate attempts to overload or crash a host or
network. Precious Seconds will cooperate fully with investigations
of violations of systems or network security at other sites,
including cooperating with Law Enforcement Authorities in the
investigation of suspected criminal violations. Users who violate
system or network security may incur criminal or civil liability.
CGI Scripts
Each Precious Seconds account comes fully equipped with its own
pre-configured CGI-Bin. Customers are free to use any CGI-Scripts
provided with their account or add any additional ones they require.
Any CGI-Scripts deemed to be adversely affecting the server
performance or the network integrity may be shut down without prior
notice. CGI-Script sharing with domains not hosted by Precious
Seconds is not allowed.
Chat Rooms
Precious Seconds prohibits its customers from installing outside
chat rooms on their domain, as these tend to be a resource problem.
Precious Seconds does provide its customers a choice of java chat
rooms to choose from for a nominal monthly charge. These chat rooms
were designed to meet the growing needs of customers and function
without hindering the performance of the servers for others.
Server Resources
Any website that uses a high amount of server resources (such as,
but not limited to CPU time, memory usage, and network resources)
will be given an option of either upgrading their service level or
reducing the resource used to an acceptable level.
Background Running Programs
Background Daemons in general are prohibited. Precious Seconds will
consider requests on a per application basis. If allowed, extra
charges will be assessed based on resource requirements for system
maintenance.
IRC
Precious Seconds prohibits its customers from operating IRC or IRC
Bots on any of the servers in the Precious Seconds Network.
Backups / Restores
As a courtesy, Precious Seconds provides a backup service on shared
hosting accounts. You can request our administrators to run a backup
of your site or any files for a one-time charge. Although Precious
Seconds tries to ensure these backups are complete and accurate, we
cannot guarantee data integrity. It is possible that a site and/or
file may not be able to be restored without our knowledge. Precious
Seconds recommends that the customer periodically and frequently
backup their site to their local computer. A backup may not be
included with a dedicated server type plan. We recommend that
dedicated server customers purchase a backup option to protect data.
Commercial Advertising/Mass Mailings
You must not use the Precious Seconds network, Precious Seconds
equipment, or any Precious Seconds email address in connection with
the transmission of spam, flames, mail bombs, or substantially
similar, unsolicited email messages. Your domain may not be
referenced as originator, intermediary, or reply-to address in any
of the above. This prohibition extends to the sending of unsolicited
mass mailings from another service that in any way implicates the
use of the Precious Seconds network, Precious Seconds equipment or
any Precious Seconds email address. A message is considered
unsolicited if it is posted in violation of a newsgroup charter or
if it is sent to a recipient who has not requested or invited the
message. For purposes of this provision, merely making one's email
address accessible to the public will not constitute a request or
invitation to receive messages.
If you are found to have spammed, without warning, Precious Seconds
reserves the right to disable your domain. In addition, Precious
Seconds may impose a $100 penalty for each spam policy violation.
Precious Seconds solely reserves the right to refuse or cancel
service to known spammers. Lastly, Precious Seconds reserves the
right to determine what violates this policy. As such, any violation
may result in cancellation of services without refund.
Distribution and/or Transmission of Obscene, Indecent Speech or
Materials.
Violation of Indecency and Obscenity Laws can result in criminal
penalties.
Intellectual Property Rights
Material accessible to you through Precious Seconds services may be
subject to protection under the United States or other copyright
laws, or laws protecting trademarks, trade secrets, or proprietary
information. Except when expressly permitted by the owner of such
rights, you must not use the Precious Seconds service in a manner
that would infringe, violate, dilute, or misappropriate any such
rights, with respect to any material which you access or receive
through the Precious Seconds network. If you use a domain name in
connection with the Precious Seconds service or similar service, you
must not use that domain name in violation of any trademark, service
mark, or similar rights of any third party.
Defamation
Defamatory speech distributed over the Internet can result in civil
liability for the defamer.
Refusal of Service
Precious Seconds reserves the right at its sole discretion to refuse
or cancel service. Violation of any of Precious Seconds rules and
regulations could result in a warning, suspension, or possible
account termination. Accounts terminated due to policy violations
will not be refunded.
Service Cancellation
To authenticate a cancellation request, you must fill out the
online
cancellation form. If this is not possible, you may mail the
cancellation notice to Precious Seconds LLC, PO Box 1302,
Minnetonka, MN 55345. You must include your account email address,
account name, account password and the domain on which you want to
cancel the hosting.
We cannot accept cancellation requests over the phone for security
reasons.
30 Day Money Back Guarantee
Precious Seconds provides a thirty (30) day “no nonsense” money back
guarantee for all direct shared hosting accounts. If, for any
reason, you request cancellation before your first bill date,
Precious Seconds will refund to you the first month’s service cost,
plus applicable set-up fees. Please note that the set-up fees for
dedicated servers, private servers, and fees for resold domains are
non-refundable.
Annual Commitment/Prepayment
Precious Seconds will waive the set-up fees if the direct shared
hosting account is prepaid for one year. If you should cancel your
account before the expiration of the 12-month period, Precious
Seconds agrees to refund a prorated amount of the prepaid service
cost, minus the previously waived applicable set-up and
administrative fees, for which you will then be made responsible.
Indemnification
Customer agrees that it will protect, indemnify, save, and hold
Precious Seconds harmless from any and all stipulations,
liabilities, losses, expenses, and claims, as well as reasonable
attorney's fees assessed against Precious Seconds, its agents,
customers, officers, employees, and administration that may arise or
result from any service provided or performed or agreed to be
performed or any product sold by its customers, agents, employees,
or assigns. Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold Precious
Seconds harmless against liabilities arising out of: (1) any injury
to person or property caused by any products sold or distributed in
association with Precious Seconds services; (2) any material
furnished by customer infringing or allegedly infringing on the
proprietary rights of a third party; (3) copyright violation and any
defective products sold to a customer from Precious Seconds
services.
Disclaimer
Precious Seconds will not be responsible for any damages your
business may suffer. Precious Seconds makes no warranties of any
kind, expressed or implied, for services we provide. Precious
Seconds disclaims any warranty or merchantability or fitness for a
particular purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from
delays, non-deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service
interruptions caused by Precious Seconds and its employees. Precious
Seconds reserves the right to amend or update these policies without
notice. Failure to follow any terms and conditions may result in
account deactivation.
Precious Seconds furthermore expects that its customers who provide
Internet services to others will fully comply with all applicable
laws concerning the privacy of online communications. A customer's
failure to comply with those laws will violate this policy. Finally,
Precious Seconds wishes to emphasize that in accepting services,
customers indemnify Precious Seconds for the violation of any law or
Precious Seconds policy that results in loss to Precious Seconds or
the bringing of any claim against Precious Seconds. This means that
if Precious Seconds is sued because of activities of the customer
that violate any law, or this policy, the customer will pay any
damages awarded against Precious Seconds, plus costs and reasonable
attorneys' fees.
- Precious
Seconds LLC
- PO Box 1302
· Minnetonka, MN · 55345
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612-860-HOST (4678)
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