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In these Terms and Conditions:

1.1 "Agreement" means any agreement made subject to these Conditions which shall incorporate these Conditions.

1.2 "Company" means X9 Internet, a division of Megathrills Limited, Unit 12, Morehouse Business Park, Ditchling Road, Wivelsfield, West Sussex, UK.

1.3 "Customer" means any person or organisation with whom the Company enters into an Agreement subject to these conditions.

1.4 "Password" means the alpha numeric characters chosen and used exclusively by the Customer at his own risk for the purpose of securing and maintaining the exclusivity of his access to the Company's Network.

1.5 "Service" means the services described in the current Company literature and web site together with such Value Added Services to be provided by the Company to the Customer. Representations made by the Company's representatives will not form part of this agreement unless confirmed in writing prior to accepting service as stipulated by the Company's representative.

1.6 "Value Added Service" means the provision of a service other than simple hosting that may be detailed in the current Company brochure or web site.

1.7 "Network Operator" means the legal entity or entities responsible for operation of a communications network.

1.8 "The Company's Network" means the network owned and operated by The Company for the purpose of connecting The Customer's Web Space to The Internet.

1.9 "Sub Domain" means a domain name which is permanently attached to a top or second level domain name or other owned by the Company and used for the purpose of allocating Sub Domains to the Company and its Customers, such remaining the property of the Company at all times.

1.10 "Web Space" means the allocation of a partitioned area on the Company's computer hard drive onto which the Customer may upload and download files which is connected to the Internet.

2. ACCEPTANCE OF APPLICATION

The Company reserves the right to refuse any application for subscription or service.

Subject to these Conditions the Company will:

3.1 Connect the Customer to the Company's network Internet points and service.

3.2 Domain registrations can take 4 working days from point of payment and receipt of full details.

3.2.1 If registering a domain name within the .uk Top Level Domain (a "Domain Name"), you also enter into a contract of registration with Nominet UK on their terms and conditions. Although this is a separate contract such terms form part of our general terms and conditions.

3.3 Web Site hosting can take up to 4 days from point of payment until they are fully operational.

3.4 Provision of Connectivity to the Customer shall be made as soon as reasonably possible. Any date indicated by the Company as a date for connection is an estimate only and may be liable to change without prior notification to the Customer. Accordingly the Company will not be responsible for any delay in connection beyond such a date.

4. RIGHT TO CHANGE USERNAME, INTERNET ADDRESS AND PASSWORD

The Company shall have the right to change the Customers' User name, internal Address and or Password allocated by the company for the purpose of essential network maintenance enhancement modernisation or other work deemed necessary to the operation of the Internet.

5. PAYMENTS

5.1 Monthly rental/hosting Charges for the Service shall be paid by the Customer to the Company by means of a standing order paid monthly in advance unless any other payment method has been agreed in writing between the Company and the Customer. Cash payments are not accepted.

5.2 Quarterly (every three months) or yearly (every 12 months) or 2 yearly (every 24 months) rental/hosting Charges for the Service shall be paid by the Customer to the Company either by means of a standing order or by cheque or credit card on presentation of a Company invoice for a term of service. Cash payments are not accepted. When a Company invoice has been generated for a term of service, this invoice is due for payment immediately and must be paid by the Customer no later than thirty (30) days from the date of issue.

5.3 Domain registrar (fees imposed by Nominet, Networksolutions etc., or any other domain registrar) and Company registration fees for UK and other domains become due immediately and must be paid no later than seven (7) days from invoice or thirty (30) days from the date of registration, else ownership of any such domain will remain with the Company.

5.4 The Company reserves the right to vary from time to time all charges with one months notice to the Customer except the Internet web hosting rental which will only be varied at the end of the 12 month or 24 month period or any other minimum period as had been agreed upon by The Company and The Customer.

5.5 Itemised details of excess bandwidth and any other relevant charges may be made available to the Customer if ordered in advance and the Company reserves the right to make an additional charge for this service.

5.6 All payments shall be due to the Company on presentation of invoice unless otherwise specified on the invoice at the Company's main office or at such other address as may from time to time be specified by the Company on this web site. The Company may by written notice at any time require the Customer to pay all charges by Direct Debit on the 7th day after posting of the invoice.

5.7 Interest payable on demand whether before or after judgement shall accrue from day to day on overdue amounts at the rate of 4% above base rate if applicable.

6. USAGE

The Customer hereby agrees to:

6.1 Refrain from using the Company's systems for the propagation, distribution, housing, processing, storing, or otherwise handling in any way material protected by copyrights, or lewd, obscene, or pornographic material, or any other material which we deem to be objectionable, including, but not limited to, pornography, satanic materials, and any and all materials of an adult nature. The designation of any materials as such described here is left entirely to the discretion of the Company.

6.2 Refrain from transferring any illegal material to or from other users of the service and the other privately owned and operated services to which the Company may from time to time provide access.

6.3 Refrain from using our network to send bulk email from an acquired email list to promote a site or product.

6.4 Refrain from sending menacing, offensive, abusive or annoying messages whilst using the service.

6.5 Not divulge their password to any third party and use all reasonable endeavours to keep the same confidential and inaccessible to third parties.

6.6 Keep the Company informed of any change to the Customer's address and other such information as may effect the payment of charges due.

6.7 Immediately cease to use and return any Internet Addresses owned by and allocated by the Company to the Customer on termination of this Agreement.

6.8 Not to use or permit the usage of the service in an unlawful manner or in contradiction of published legislation and regulations governing the Internet.

7. RESOURCE USAGE

The Customer hereby agrees to not initiate the following:

7.1 Use 25% or more of total system resources for longer then 90 seconds. There are numerous activities that could cause such problems, but the main offenders are CGI and PHP scripts.

7.2 Run any type of interactive real-time chat applications that require server resources. Remotely-hosted services are fully allowed.

7.3 Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.

7.4 Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.

7.5 Run any bit torrent.

7.6 Run any gaming servers such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Battlefield1492, etc.

8. LIABILITY

The Company shall not be liable for any loss or damage howsoever caused:

8.1 Economic loss, including loss of profits, business revenue and goodwill.

8.2 Any claim made against the Customer by another third party.

8.3 Any loss or damage to the Customer caused by or arising from any act or omission of the Customer, the Company, any PTO or Value Added Service supplier.

8.4 Any act caused as a result of force majeure or beyond the Company's control.

8.5 The Company makes no warranties, either expressed or implied, including but without being limited to any warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose.

8.6 The company takes no responsibility for materials posted in its users accounts, even if such materials are set up and/or maintained by the Company. This includes responsibility for accuracy of information and potential copyright infringement. All such responsibilities fall on the Customer.

9. CHANGES TO THE SERVICE.

If any Network Operator shall discontinue the provision of telecommunications services to the Company or shall alter by modification, expansion, improvement, maintenance or repair of the telecommunications services or any part thereof provided to the Company, the Company shall be entitled to discontinue, alter, modify, expand, improve, maintain, repair, suspend, disconnect or otherwise change the Services as necessary.

10. SUSPENSION

The Service may be suspended or suspended during peak times by the Company without notice and without prejudice to the company's Rights of Termination under Clause 10 in the event.

10.1 Failure by the Customer to make any payment to be made to the Company on its due date for payment.

10.2 If the Customer does or suffers anything to be done which jeopardises the service or any network to which it is from time to time connected.

10.3 If the Customers credit limit has been exceeded or if the Customer is otherwise in breach of these Terms and Conditions.

10.4 No such suspension shall affect the liability of the Customer to pay charges and other amounts to the Company, and without limitation, the Annual Subscription Charge will continue to accrue. During suspension the Company reserves the right to refuse to release the User's Internet Address as issued by the company.

11. TERMINATION

This Agreement shall remain in force for a minimum period of 12 months from acceptance of Customer's application being the date on which the company's order form was signed by the Customer or the date when the Customer first used Service or 24 months if such was the term to which the Customer agreed to by signing/or agreeing to an Agreement or accepting service or making use of a domain made available by the Company registered for the Customer. Termination can be effected as follows:

11.1 By the Customer, The Customer may terminate this Agreement by giving 3 month's notice after the termination of this agreement. Email notification will not be accepted as notice of termination of Agreement.

11.2 By the Company. The Company may terminate this Agreement at any time and without notice

(a) if the Customer commits any breach of this Agreement including but without limitation non-payment of the Rental or Domain registration Payments.

(b) by at least 1 months written notice to the Customer.

11.3 The Company reserves the right to invalidate any Customer's User name and Internet Address issued to the Customer following termination of this Agreement.

11.4 Domain name hosting and transfer request for DNS records must be in writing with the authorised signature of the domain owner. There is no charge for the transfer unless the Customer had obtained a domain name registered under the Company's Name Protection Scheme as per section 12.4 of this agreement. Transfer fees for domains registered under the Company's Name Protection Scheme are due before transfer is initiated.

11.5 No refund of Subscription Payments will be made to the Customer upon termination of the Agreement by either the Company or the Customer

12. RIGHTS ON TERMINATION

12.1 Termination of the Agreement shall not affect any pre-existing liability of the Customer or affect any right of the Company to recover damages or pursue any other remedy in respect of any breach by the Customer of the Agreement.

12.2 On termination of the Agreement right to the use of the Internet IP Address allocated by the company shall revert to the Company.

12.3 In the event of termination of the Agreement by the Company on account of any breach of the terms and conditions thereof by the Customer the Company shall be entitled to the balance of all Annual Subscription Payments and other fees for services rendered on request by the customer, which would but for such termination have accrued due up to the earliest date on which the Agreement could have been terminated by the Customer in accordance with the terms hereof.

13. USERNAME AND INTERNET ADDRESS

13.1 The Company shall not be requested or required to release the User name Domain Name or Internet Address and may refuse to do so until this Agreement has been lawfully brought to an end and all sums due hereunder have been received by the Company, and the Customer has complied with all its obligations hereunder. Domain Names remain the property on the Company until all sums due have been received.

13.2 When Customer uses a Sub Domain name allocated to the Customer by the Company, that Sub Domain remains the property of the Company at all times.

13.3 By using any of the names made available by the Company, you agree to keep the Company and all their officers, directors and employees fully and effectively indemnified at all times and also indemnify them all accordingly against all costs claims liabilities actions and expenses arising directly or indirectly through your choice and use of the domain name or by any breach by you of your obligations contained herein.

13.4 Customers who wish to register a given domain name for the purpose of future usage can do so by using the Company's Internet address registration service referred to as the Name Protection Scheme. Such registrations are made by the Company on behalf of the Customer for a fee equivalent to the cost incurred by the Company.

14. NOTICES

14.1 Any notices to the Company under or in connection with this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be delivered by Royal mail post to the address listed in clause 1.2 or to such address as the Company may have notified to the other party via E-mail for that purpose.

14.2 Suspension notices for non-payment of charges will be deemed as delivered by facsimile to the relevant facsimile number given in the application or to such facsimile number as the Customer may have notified or by email to an address supplied by and agreed by the customer to be Customer's official email address.

14.3 Any notice shall be duly given, if given by prepaid first class mail, at the expiration of 48 hours after the envelope containing the same shall have been posted. In proving such service it shall be sufficient to prove that delivery was made or that the envelope containing such communication was properly addressed and posted as a prepaid first class letter.

15. EXPENSES OF THE COMPANY

The Customer shall pay to the Company all costs and expenses (so that any legal fees shall be based on an indemnity basis) incurred by the Company in enforcing any of these Conditions, or exercising any of its other rights and remedies under the Agreement, including (without prejudice to the generality) all costs incurred in tracing the Customer in the event that legal processes cannot be enforced at the address last notified to the Company.

16. NONWAIVER

The allowance of time to pay or any other indulgence by the Company in respect of payments due to it shall in no manner affect or prejudice his right to payment together with interest provided under these Conditions.

17. INVALIDITY

If this Agreement or any part thereof shall be adjudged for any reason to be void, unenforceable or ineffective but would be adjudged to be valid effective and enforceable if part of the wording were deleted or a provision were reduced in scope this Agreement shall continue with such modifications as may be necessary to make its provisions (or if such be the case its remaining provisions) valid effective and enforceable.

18. CLAUSE HEADINGS

Clause headings are for ease of reference and are not part of this Agreement and accordingly shall not affect its Conditions.

19. OTHER PRINTED OR STANDARD CONDITIONS

All Services are provided on the foregoing conditions which constitute the entirety of the Agreement to the exclusion of any other terms and conditions and no agreement terms and conditions contained in any document sent by the Customer to the Company shall be of any effect with respect to the Agreement unless expressly accepted by a duly authorised officer of the Company in writing. The Customer acknowledges that the Customer has not relied on and shall not be entitled to rescind the Agreement or to claim damages or any other remedy on the basis of any representation, warranty, undertaking or statement which is not set out in these Conditions including any representation made by or on behalf of the Company in relation to the Service which has induced the Customer to enter into this Agreement with the Company.

20. VARIATION

The Company reserves the right to vary these terms and conditions as a result of changes required by its operation or administration problems, new legislation, statutory instruments, Government regulations or licences. These Conditions may not otherwise be varied or waived except by express written agreement between both parties.

21. SERVICE LEVEL GUARANTEE

The Company warrants that its Internet network shall be accessible at a level of 99% per year. This warranty excludes failures outside The Company's network and the Customers network and or failures of or in the operation of customer owned hardware and or software. In the event of suspension of service due to a technical fault in the network or act of God, the Company will use all possible endeavour to resume service with minimum delay but will not be responsible for loss suffered by the Customer. The Company may suspend the service from time to time for necessary technical reasons and network upgrades outside the 99% warranty as above provided that 48 hours notice has been given to the Subscriber, that the period of suspension is not more than one hour and that the time that the suspension occurs is usually chosen to be between 0000 hours and 0600 hours local time.

22. LAW AND ARBITRATION

This agreement is subject to the laws of England under the jurisdiction of the Courts of England and any alteration to part of the agreement shall not invalidate the remainder.


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