Terms &
Conditions of Business
Terms & Conditions of Website
Development
I.
Designs on the Web Ltd. (the Designers) agrees to provide
the web site design services outlined in the above proposal and
the Client agrees to pay the costs set out above in accordance
with these terms and conditions.
II.
The Designers exercises no control whatsoever over the
accuracy, legality or otherwise of information provided by the
Client for inclusion of their (the Client's) web pages. The
contents of the pages (exclusive of header and footer
information) are solely the responsibility of the Client or
other party contracting with the Designers for its display. The
contents of header and footer information on any page, including
hyperlinks to other pages or services, are the responsibility
and in the sole control of the Designers. The Designers accepts
no responsibility for any errors, omissions in any of the
content on the site.
III.
THE DESIGNERS DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES WITH
RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION AND SERVICE, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FULFILLMENT OF ANY
PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AUTHORITY OR NON INFRINGEMENT.
IV.
IN NO EVENT WILL THE DESIGNERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES RELATING TO THE
PRODUCTS OR SERVICES ADVERTISED IN THE CLIENT'S WEBSITE OR FROM
ANY ACTIONS RELATING TO COPYRIGHT OF MATERIAL SUPPLIED BY THE
CLIENT.
V.
Where a site is to be uploaded to an area of web space
including any registered domain name or names not owned or
rented by the Designers, in providing a password and/or account
number, the Client hereby agrees that:
a.
They (the Client) has and will continue to have legal
ownership to the web space at the declared Uniform Resource
Locator (URL) and
b.
They (the Client) have completed all legal requirements
and payments concerning the rental or hiring of the declared
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and in the event of the
termination of this agreement for any reason the Client will be
solely entitled to and responsible for the registration of the
relevant domain name or names from the effective date of that
termination with the legal owner of the web space. The Designers
will not be liable for any action arising from non-payment of
monies to the legal owners of the web space at the declared URL.
The Designers hereby agree not to disclose any password or
account number provided by a Client to a third party without
express permission from the Client. Further, no password will be
changed from that provided by the Client by the Designers,
without prior written approval of the Client.
VI.
Where it is agreed between the Designers and the Client
that a website will be loaded to an area of web space owned or
rented by the Designers, the Client's web page or pages will
be hosted for a period of twelve months from date of the
Designers invoice to the Client for the design service ordered
herein. Termination of hosting arrangements will occur at the
end of the twelve-month period, unless payment for a further
period is received before the expiry of the aforementioned
period. Rates for renewal will be those extant at that time. The
Designers reserve the right not to renew any hosting
arrangements made hereunder but agree to take all necessary
steps to facilitate the transfer of the Client’s web page or
pages in a compatible format to the Client.
VII.
The Designers reserve the right to refuse to include in
any page, information either textual or graphical, that in their
opinion may be considered abusive, indecent, offensive, illegal,
defamatory or menacing or in breach of confidence, copyright,
privacy, trade marks or any other rights of a third party.
VIII.
Unless specifically agreed otherwise, payment is required
in full from the Client for all design and services ordered on
completion of the design process, prior to publication to the
Internet or no later than
eight (8) weeks after receipt of the initial deposit, whichever
occurs first.
Late payments shall incur interest at 4% above Lloyds Bank base
rate of interest calculated on a daily basis from the due date
until the Client makes payment in full.
IX.
Unless explicitly stated, website registration and
promotion forms no part of any contract between the Client and
Designs on the Web Ltd., or its employees or agents.
X.
The Designers will
not be held responsible for the removal or inclusion of any page
or pages of a Client's website in any search engine or internet
directory resulting from any attempt by the Client or a third
party to affect directory listings by completing multiple
registration of a page or pages.
XI.
If the project is
terminated by the Client for any reason after completion of
first draft website design, the Designers remain entitled to
full payment of agreed-upon fee. If the project is terminated
prior to first draft completion, the Designers remain entitled
to full payment of all hours invested by myself prior to the
termination of the project. Deposits and retainers may only be
applied to future project billing and are not refundable.
XII.
The Designer
reserves the right to terminate a project with a Client at any
time without prior notification if it finds the Client in breach
of these terms and conditions.
XIII.
Where one or more
terms of this contract are held to be void or unenforceable for
whatever reason, any other terms of the contract not so held
will remain valid and enforceable at law.
XIV.
This agreement shall
be governed by the English law and each of the parties agrees to
for the benefit of the other party to be subject to the
exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts in respect of any
dispute or claim arising from this agreement. This agreement is
void where prohibited by law.
XV.
By accepting a
quotation or making a payment of invoice to use the services
supplied, the Client acknowledges to have read, understand, and
accept the Terms and Conditions of this Agreement, and agrees to
be legally binding by these Terms and Conditions.
Terms & Conditions of
Website Hosting Services
1. Introduction
The Website Owner including subsidiaries and affiliates offer
website hosting and database hosting services subject to the
terms and conditions set out in these terms and conditions,
the privacy policy and any other relevant terms and
conditions, policies and notices which may be applicable to
supply of hosting services.
2. Glossary of Terms
We
includes the Website Owner - www.designsontheweb.com -
("Website" or "Website Owner" or "we" or "us" or "our") or any
party acting on the Website Owner's implicit instructions.
You
("you", "your", "Customer") includes the person purchasing the
services or any party acting on the customer's instructions.
Server
means the computer server equipment operated by us in
connection with the provision of the Services.
Web Site
means the area on the Server allocated by us to you for use by
you as a site on the Internet.
In consideration of the mutual covenants herein, the parties
agree to the following, which shall apply during the term of
this agreement
3. Web Site Hosting And Email
3.1
We make no representation and give no warranty as to the
accuracy or quality of information received by any person via
the Server and we shall have no liability for any loss or
damage to any data stored on the Server.
3.2 You shall effect and maintain adequate insurance
cover in respect of any loss or damage to data stored on the
Server.
3.3 You represent, undertake and warrant to us that you
will use the Web Site allocated to you only for lawful
purposes. In particular, you represent, warrant and undertake
to us that.
3.3.1 You will not use the Server in any manner which
infringes any law or regulation or which infringes the rights
of any third party, nor will you authorise or permit any other
person to do so.
3.3.2 You will not post, link to or transmit:
(a) any material which is unlawful, threatening, abusive,
malicious, defamatory, obscene, blasphemous, profane or
otherwise objectionable in any way.
(b) any material containing a virus or other hostile computer
program.
(c) any material which constitutes, or encourages the
commission of, a criminal offence or which infringes any
patent, trade mark, design right, copyright or any other
intellectual property right or similar rights of any person
which may subsist under the laws of any jurisdiction.
3.3.3
You will not send bulk email whether opt-in or otherwise from
our network. Nor will you promote a site hosted on our network
using bulk email.
3.3.4 You will not employ programs which consume
excessive system resources, including but not limited to
processor cycles and memory.
3.4 We reserve the right to remove any material which
we deem inappropriate from your web site without notice. We do
not host Warez or illegal MP3 content.
3.5 You shall keep secure any identification, password
and other confidential information relating to your account
and shall notify us immediately of any known or suspected
unauthorised use of your account or breach of security,
including loss, theft or unauthorised disclosure of your
password or other security information.
3.6 You shall observe the procedures which we may from
time to time prescribe and shall make no use of the Server
which is detrimental to our other customers.
3.7 You shall procure that all mail is sent in
accordance with applicable legislation (including data
protection legislation) and in a secure manner.
3.8 In the case of an individual User, you warrant that
you are at least 16 years of age and if the User is a company,
you warrant that the Services will not be used by anyone under
the age of 16 years.
3.9 Any access to other networks connected to
www.designsontheweb.com must comply with the rules appropriate
for those other networks.
3.10 While we will use every reasonable endeavour to
ensure the integrity and security of the Server, we do not
guarantee that the Server will be free from unauthorised users
or hackers and we shall be under no liability for non-receipt
or misrouting of email or for any other failure of email.
4. Service Availability
4.1
We shall use our reasonable endeavours to make available to
you at all times the Server and the Services but we shall not,
in any event, be liable for interruptions of Service or
down-time of the Server.
4.2 We shall have the right to suspend the Services at
any time and for any reason, generally without notice, but if
such suspension lasts or is to last for more than 7 days you
will be notified of the reason.
4.3 The Services provided to you hereunder and your
account with us cannot be transferred or used by anyone other
than you. No more than one log-in session under any one
account may be used at any time by you. If you have multiple
accounts, you are limited to one login session per system
account at any time; user programs may be run only during
log-in sessions. If your account is found to have been
transferred to another party, or shows other activity in
breach of this sub clause, we shall have the right to cancel
the account and terminate the Services and/or this Agreement
immediately.
5. Payment
5.1
All charges payable by you for the Services shall be in
accordance with the scale of charges and rates published from
time to time by us on our web site and shall be due and
payable in advance of our service provision. We reserve the
right to change pricing at any time although all pricing is
guaranteed for the period of pre payment.
5.2 Payment is due each anniversary month, quarter or
year following the date the Services were established until
closure notice is given. If you choose to pay by credit or
debit card you authorise www.designsontheweb.com to debit your
account renewal fees from your card.
5.3 All payments must be in UK Pounds Sterling.
5.4 If your cheque is returned by the bank as unpaid
for any reason, you will be liable for a "returned cheque"
charge of £25.00.
5.5 Without prejudice to our other rights and remedies
under this Agreement, if any sum payable is not paid on or
before the due date, we shall be entitled forthwith to suspend
the provision of Services to you.
5.6 If an account goes unpaid for at least seven days,
a £10.00 late payment fee will be applied.
5.7 If an account goes unpaid for at least ten days,
the account and its associated services are suspended. A
£120.00 charge will be applied upon account reactivation to
cover administration costs.
5.8 Once an account has a suspended status, Access to
files, databases and other content is explicitly denied. All
files, databases and other content including the account
itself is permanently deleted after ten days of account
suspension.
5.9 Should access to files, databases and other content
be required before they are deleted, account reactivation will
be required.
6. Termination
6.1
If you fail to pay any sums due to us as they fall due, we may
suspend the Services and/or terminate this Agreement forthwith
without notice to you.
6.2 If you break any of these terms and conditions we
may suspend the Services and/or terminate this Agreement
forthwith without notice to you.
6.3 If you are a company and you go into insolvent
liquidation or suffer the appointment of an administrator or
administrative receiver or enter into a voluntary arrangement
with your creditors, we shall be entitled to suspend the
Services and/or terminate this Agreement forthwith without
notice to you.
6.4 No refunds will be made for Services suspended in
accordance with 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3.
6.5 We reserve the right to suspend the Services and/or
terminate this Agreement at any time.
6.6 You may cancel the Services at any time.
6.7 You may be entitled to a complete refund of all
fees paid with the exclusion of dedicated server and data
transfer fees should you decide to cancel the Services, as
detailed under our Money Back Guarantee Policy. You will not
be entitled to a refund on this basis if you have previously
had an account with www.designsontheweb.com. It may be
necessary to with hold refund under the Money Back Guarantee
Policy if the account has utilised excessive resources, this
is at the sole discretion of www.designsontheweb.com.
6.8 Where payment has been made by credit or debit
card, any refund will only be issued to the same credit or
debit card.
6.9 On termination of this Agreement or suspension of
the Services we shall be entitled immediately to block your
Web Site and to remove all data located on it.
6.10 Termination / Transfer of annual or multiyear
virtual hosting services will be calculated on a pro rata
basis of twenty per cent (20%) of the annual hosting fee plus
a £30 administration fee.
7. Indemnity
7.1
You shall indemnify us and keep us indemnified and hold us
harmless from and against any breach by you of these terms of
business and any claim brought against us by a third party
resulting from the provision of Services by us to you and your
use of the Services and the Server including, without
limitation, all claims, actions, proceedings, losses,
liabilities, damages, costs, expenses (including reasonable
legal costs and expenses), howsoever suffered or incurred by
us in consequences of your breach or non-observance of this
Agreement.
8. Limitation Of Liability
8.1
All conditions, terms, representations and warranties relating
to the Services supplied under this Agreement, whether imposed
by statute or operation of law or otherwise, that are not
expressly stated in these terms and conditions including,
without limitation, the implied warranty of satisfactory
quality and fitness for a particular purpose are hereby
excluded, subject always to subclause 8.2.
8.2 Nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude
our liability for death or personal injury resulting from our
negligence.
8.3 Our total aggregate liability to you for any claim
in contract, tort, negligence or otherwise arising out of or
in connection with the provision of the Services shall be
limited to the charges paid by you in respect of the Services
which are the subject of any such claim.
8.4 In any event no claim shall be brought unless you
have notified us of the claim within one year of it arising.
8.5 In no event shall we be liable to you for any loss
of business, contracts, profits or anticipated savings or for
any other indirect or consequential or economic loss
whatsoever
9. Revisions
9.1
www.designsontheweb.com reserves the right to revise, amend,
or modify these Terms and Conditions, and any of our other
policies and agreements at any time and in any manner. Notice
of any revision, amendment, or modification will be posted in
accordance with our Terms and Conditions.
10. Notices
10.1
Any notice to be given by either party to the other may be
sent by either email, fax or recorded delivery to the address
of the other party as appearing in this Agreement or ancillary
application forms or such other address as such party may from
time to time have communicated to the other in writing, and if
sent by email shall unless the contrary is proved be deemed to
be received on the day it was sent or if sent by fax shall be
deemed to be served on receipt of an error free transmission
report, or if sent by recorded delivery shall be deemed to be
served two days following the date of posting.
11. Applicable Law
11.1
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with English law and you hereby submit to the
non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
12. Headings
12.1
Headings are included in this Agreement for convenience only
and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of
this Agreement.
13. Entire Agreement
13.1
These terms and conditions together with any documents
expressly referred to in them, contain the entire Agreement
between us relating to the subject matter covered and
supersede any previous Agreements, arrangements, undertakings
or proposals, written or oral: between us in relation to such
matters. No oral explanation or oral information given by any
party shall alter the interpretation of these terms and
conditions. In agreeing to these terms and conditions, you
have not relied on any representation other than those
expressly stated in these terms and conditions and you agree
that you shall have no remedy in respect of any
misrepresentation which has not been made expressly in this
Agreement.
14. Comments or Questions.
14.1
If you have any questions, comments or concerns arising from
the website, the privacy policy or any other relevant terms
and conditions, policies and notices or the way in which we
are handling your personal information please contact us.