Privacy and Policies

This Services Agreement (the “Agreement”) contains the complete terms and conditions which govern your subscription of Web hosting, e-Commerce and other Internet-related services provided by Adopt-A-Press  (the “Services”).

As used in this Agreement, “Adopt-A-Press ” means Adopt-A-Press  and “Client”, “you”, or “your” means you. By clicking on the “Order Now” button, you acknowledge that you have read the Agreement, and you agree to its terms and conditions and all policies posted on the Adopt-A-Press  web site. As referred to in this Agreement, “Site” refers to a World Wide Web site and “Adopt-A-Press  Site” refers to the Site located at the URL http://www.adoptapress.com, or any other successor Sites owned or maintained by Adopt-A-Press .

1. Appropriate Use of The Service. Adopt-A-Press  provides the Services exclusively and makes no effort to edit, control, monitor or restrict the content of data other than as necessary to provide such Services.

Client Content. Client agrees that it will not distribute, electronically transmit or display any materials supplied by Client – or through Client by a third party – to any Adopt-A-Press  server in connection with Client’s use of the Services which: violate any state, federal or foreign laws or regulations infringe on any intellectual property rights (e.g. copyright, trademark, patent or other proprietary rights) of Adopt-A-Press  or any third party are defamatory, slanderous or trade libelous, threatening or harassing content of any type file sharing music, software, bit torrents, video or pictures that contains copyright proxy server software (any type) used to hide users IP or cache content are discriminatory based on gender, race, age or promotes hate contain any type of pornography or illegal drugs or substances violate any Adopt-A-Press  policy posted on the Adopt-A-Press  Site including, but not limited to, our Acceptable Use and Privacy Policy contain viruses or other computer programming defects which result in damage to Adopt-A-Press , it’s servers or any third party Disk Space/Data Transfer. The Client may occupy only the amount of disk space on the Adopt-A-Press  Server and utilize no more than the network data transfer that is allocated by Adopt-A-Press . Additional fees will be charged for exceeding the disk space and/or network bandwidth allowance of your selected plan.

Spam Policy. Client shall not use our Services for chain letters, junk mail, spamming, bulk mailing (more than 50 recipients) advertising or any use of distribution or mailing lists to any person who has not given specific permission to be included in such a process. Client also shall not engage in any unsolicited email practices using Adopt-A-Press  Servers or other infrastructure, or otherwise, that mentions or reference any domain hosted on Adopt-A-Press  servers or parked on Adopt-A-Press  DNS servers.

Server Loads. Client agrees that any hosting account that uses excessive CPU or Memory resources (25% or more) for a sustained period of time (ten minutes or more) may be suspended at any time without notice. Adopt-A-Press  reserves the right to terminate sites that are repeatedly using excessive resources at any time with prior notification. Adopt-A-Press  will provide the offer to backup the clients data and FTP the tarball to the clients chosen destination server.

Licensed Software Only. Client agrees to use only properly licensed third party software in connection with Client’s use of the Services.

Back-Up Files and Processing. Adopt-A-Press  takes all reasonable steps to safeguard the Adopt-A-Press  Servers and the data contained there-in, however Adopt-A-Press  will not be responsible for any loss of Client data or DNS records stored or intended to be stored on the Adopt-A-Press  Servers and/or back-up devices. The Client will not be entitled to any form of compensation from Adopt-A-Press  in the event of loss of data. You as the client are responsible for your own backups. Whilst Adopt-A-Press  actively performs a variety of backups daily, there may be times when the backups fail or become unavailable. As such the final responsibility for all your data stored on Adopt-A-Press  Servers is ultimately your own. By acknowledging and signing your agreement you free Adopt-A-Press  from any legal action in the event of data loss and you agree that you will not be entitled to any form of compensation for said loss.

Software Updates. The client agree’s that applications and scripts installed using Fantastico or uploaded are the responsibility of the client and must be kept up-to-date. Failure to do so may expose our servers to possible exploits and costs to restore services may be recovered from the client of the site initially affected.

Termination. Adopt-A-Press  reserves the right to refuse service to anyone. Adopt-A-Press , in its sole discretion, may immediately terminate this Agreement if Client engages in any of the foregoing. To report any unacceptable behavior by a third party using the Services, please contact abuse@adoptapress.com

2. Domain Names. Domain Name Registrations are for the period of 1 Year. Domain names are subject to availability and as per policy of the respective Domain Name Authority. The client agrees to accurately provide all details to the best of their knowledge to assist with the application.

Domain Name Transfers. Domain Name Transfers can only be processed with the Domain Name Password (Auth-Info for .au & EPP for .com/.net etc). Domains (.com/.net/.org etc) will be renewed for a further 1 year period. The clients accept that domain name transfers will be rejected if the domain name has been recently registered or transferred within the last 30 days or is in Domain Locked status. Domain Transfers will also be rejected if the Client Authorization email sent by the registry is not responded to.

3. Payment Obligations. Service Fees. Adopt-A-Press  shall either (i) debit the Client’s credit card (when such information is provided by the Client), or (ii) produce an invoice which will be delivered to the Client by email with additional payment methods. All new accounts must be paid prior to the new account becoming active on our servers. Domain name registration fees must be paid upfront before the domain name will be registered. Adopt-A-Press  accepts no responsibility for domain names registered by another party prior to the Client paying the outstanding amount. On-going invoices will be issued seven (7) days prior to the due date. A reminder will be issued three (3) days after the due date. The account will be automatically suspended ten (10) days after the due date, and a notice will be issued advising of the suspension. Adopt-A-Press  shall be entitled to immediately terminate this Agreement thirty (30) days after non-payment or from failure to make timely payments. If Client terminates this Agreement in accordance with Section 5 here under, Client shall be responsible for any outstanding fees owed to Adopt-A-Press  and agrees to pay any and all fees incurred by Client. Because the Services are provided on a monthly basis, unless a contract is in place, 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 Adopt-A-Press  for such Services, refunds will be issued for any unused full month portions less one month of the Services upon Clients request. Therefore, if the Client’s account is cancelled at any point during the one (1) year term, the Client will be entitled to a refund for all but one of the full months remaining after notice given by the 25th of the preceding month.

Late payments. Any payment not received within 14 days after due date may incur a late payment fee of 5% of their current invoice. Customer also shall pay to Adopt-A-Press all expenses incurred by Adopt-A-Press  in exercising any of its rights under this Agreement or applicable law with respect to a Payment Default or other breach by Customer, including, but not limited to, reasonable Solicitors fees and the fees of any collection agency retained by Adopt-A-Press .

Taxes. Customer will be responsible for and will pay in full, any taxes and similar fees now in force or enacted in the future imposed on the transaction and/or the delivery of Services.

Domain Names. If Client chooses to register a domain name(s) through Adopt-A-Press , Client acknowledges and agrees that Client will pay a registration fee(s) to register the domain name(s) with the applicable domain name registrar. Adopt-A-Press  does not offer refunds for domain name registrations for any reason, including misspelling of the domain name. Domain name registration fees must be paid up front. Adopt-A-Press  accepts no responsibility for domain names registered by another party prior to the Client paying any outstanding amount.

Refunds. Web hosting customers of Adopt-A-Press are eligible for a 30 day full money back guarantee. Should the customer choose to take advantage of the 30 day money back guarantee, all monies the customer paid for their hosting services will be refunded to them. If the customer has paid their fees via money order or cheque, a cheque will be issued and sent to the customer’s address on file. If the customer has paid for hosting services using a credit card, all monies will be refunded by the same method to which it was paid.

Note: this policy does not apply to domain names or SSL certificates.

4. Client Liability and Indemnification Liability. The parties agree that in no event shall Adopt-A-Press  be liable to any third party for Client’s breach or alleged breach of any of the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement. Client agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Adopt-A-Press  from any and all expenses, losses, liabilities, damages or third party claims resulting from Client’s breach or alleged breach of any Client obligations set forth hereunder.

5. Terms, Termination & Reinstatement. Terms & Termination are 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 4. Either party will have the right to terminate this Agreement upon notice to the other party. All cancellation requests must be received by the 25th of the respective month of cancellation. Sections 3 – 8 shall survive termination or expiration of this Agreement.

Suspension. If Adopt-A-Press  suspends any type of account for non-payment, Client shall be allowed to re-instate Client’s use of the Services within Five (5) business days of suspension upon approval from Adopt-A-Press  and the receipt of full payment of balances due.

Termination. If a Client terminates their account, Adopt-A-Press  will disable and remove the account(s) the day the client specifies the cancellation to take place and all archives of the clients website(s) and files will be removed. Should the client be in arrears for 30 days or more, as per section 2, the clients site(s) may be terminated without further notice and Adopt-A-Press  will not maintain or provide an archival copy of the Clients Web site(s) or files of any type. It is the sole responsibility of the Client to backup and copy any data off the server prior to the date provided in their cancellation notice or termination date.

6. Taxes. Client will pay and indemnify and hold Adopt-A-Press  harmless from any and all taxes associated with or arising from Client’s use of the Services, including any penalties and interest and any costs associated with the collection or withholding thereof.

7. Disclaimer of Warranty. The services, the Adopt-A-Press  site, including without limitation, all products and services displayed or offered on the Adopt-A-Press  site, and all text, graphics, links and applications are provided to client on an ‘as is’ basis and without warranty of any kind. Adopt-A-Press  disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to each of the foregoing, without limitation, any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement or arising from a course of dealing. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Adopt-A-Press  specifically disclaims any warranty that: the services will be uninterrupted or error-free, defects will be corrected as soon as possible there are no viruses or other harmful components the security methods employed will be sufficient.

8. Limitation of Liability. In no event shall Adopt-A-Press  be liable for damages resulting from loss of data, profits, use of the Adopt-A-Press  site or any Adopt-A-Press  products or services, or for any incidental, indirect, punitive, or consequential damages in connection with this agreement or in connection with any products or services provided here under. In no event shall Adopt-A-Press cumulative liability exceed an amount greater than one hundred dollars ($100.00).

9. Miscellaneous Notices. Any notices or communication under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed delivered to the party receiving such communication at the address specified below:

1. on the delivery date if delivered personally to the party, or a representative of the party;
2. one business day after deposit with a commercial overnight carrier, with written verification of receipt;
3. five business days after the mailing date, whether or not received, if sent by postal mail, return receipt requested;
4. on the delivery date if transmitted by confirmed facsimile. If posting correspondence to Adopt-A-Press  please use the following address details: Adopt-A-Press, 130 Inverness Plaza  #340, Birmingham, AL 35242.

10. Agreement. If any of the provisions, or portions thereof, of this Agreement are found to be invalid under any applicable statute or rule of law, then, that provision notwithstanding, this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and such provision or portion thereof shall be deemed omitted. This Agreement (including the Exhibits, attachments and/or addenda, if any,) represents the entire agreement of the parties with respect of the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior and/or contemporaneous agreements or understandings, written or oral between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof.

This Agreement and the rights granted and obligations undertaken here under may not be transferred, assigned or delegated in any manner by Client, but may be so transferred, assigned or delegated by Adopt-A-Press . Any waiver or any provision of this Agreement, or a delay by any party in the enforcement of any right here under, shall neither be construed as a continuing waiver nor create an expectation of non-enforcement of that or any other provision or right. In any legal proceeding between the parties under this Agreement, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its costs, expenses and reasonable attorneys’ fees.

This Agreement is made under and shall be governed by the laws of the United States, and the state of Alabama except with regard to it’s conflict of law rules. This Agreement and Adopt-A-Press ‘s policies are subject to change by Adopt-A-Press  without notice. Continued usage of the Services after a change to this Agreement by Adopt-A-Press  or after a new policy is implemented and posted on the Adopt-A-Press  Site constitutes your acceptance of such change or policy. We encourage you to regularly check the Adopt-A-Press  Site for any changes or additions.