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terms and conditions of this Agreement are in addition to our general terms and
conditions of service which may be viewed on our web site at frontlinehosting.com
or a copy of which will be sent to you upon request.
In order
that a party may hold a valid .ca domain name registration, TUCOWS, requires
that all registrants adhere to certain terms and conditions. As an organisation
or individual applying to register, transfer or renew an .ca domain name
via the agency of Frontline Multimedia Inc. and/or TUCOWS you accordingly
agree as follows:
1. AGREEMENT. In this Registration Agreement ("Agreement") , "we",
us" and "our" refer to TUCOWS Inc. and “Services” refers to the domain
name registration, transfer or renewal services provided by us as offered
through Frontline Multimedia Inc., the Registration Service Provider (“RSP”).
CIRA shall refer to the entity granted the exclusive right to administer
the registry for .ca domain name registrations.
2. SELECTION OF A DOMAIN NAME. You represent that, to the best of the your
knowledge and belief, neither the registration of the domain name nor the manner
in which it is directly or indirectly used infringes the legal rights of a third
party and that the domain name is not being registered for any unlawful purpose.
3. FEES. As consideration for the Services you have selected, you agree
to pay to us, or your respective RSP who remits payment to us on your behalf,
the applicable fees. All fees payable hereunder are non-refundable. As further
consideration for the Services, you agree to: (1) provide certain current, complete
and accurate information about you as required by the registration process and
(2) maintain and update this information as needed to keep it current, complete
and accurate. All such information shall be referred to as account information
("Account Information"). You, by completing and submitting this Agreement represent
that the statements in your application are true.
4. TERM. You
agree that this Agreement will remain in full force during the term of your domain
name registration as selected, recorded, and paid for upon registration of the
domain name. Should you choose to renew the term of your domain name registration,
then the term of this Agreement will be extended accordingly. Should you transfer
your domain name or should the domain name otherwise be transferred to another
Registrar, the terms and conditions of this contract shall cease and shall be
replaced by the contractual terms in force between domain name registrants and
the new Registrar.
5. MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT. You agree, during
the period of this Agreement, that we may: (1) revise the terms and conditions
of this Agreement; and (2) change the services provided under this Agreement.
Any such revision or change will be binding and effective immediately on posting
of the revised Agreement or change to the service(s) on our web site, or on notification
to you by e-mail or regular mail as per the Notices section of this agreement.
You agree to review our web site, including the Agreement, periodically to be
aware of any such revisions. If you do not agree with any revision to the Agreement,
you may terminate this Agreement at any time by providing us with notice by e-mail
or regular mail as per the Notices section of this agreement. Notice of your termination
will be effective on receipt and processing by us. You agree that, by continuing
to use the Services following notice of any revision to this Agreement or change
in service(s), you shall abide by any such revisions or changes. You further agree
to abide by the CIRA dispute resolution policy (“Dispute Policy”) as amended from
time to time. You agree that, by maintaining the reservation or registration of
your domain name after modifications to the Dispute Policy become effective, you
have agreed to these modifications. You acknowledge that if you do not agree to
any such modifications, you may request that your domain name be deleted from
the domain name database.
6. MODIFICATIONS TO YOUR ACCOUNT. In
order to change any of your account information with us, you must use your account
identifier and password that you selected when you opened your account with us.
Please safeguard your account identifier and password from any unauthorized use.
In no event will we be liable for the unauthorized use or misuse of your account
identifier or password.
7. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTE POLICY. If you reserved
or registered a domain name through us, or transferred a domain name to us from
another registrar, you agree to be bound by the Dispute Policy which is incorporated
herein and made a part of this Agreement by reference. The current version of
the Dispute Policy may be found at the CIRA website. Please take the time to familiarize
yourself with this policy.
8. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTES. You agree that,
if the registration or reservation of your domain name is challenged by a third
party, you will be subject to the provisions specified in the Dispute Policy in
effect at the time of the dispute. You agree that in the event a domain name dispute
arises with any third party, you will indemnify and hold us harmless pursuant
to the terms and conditions contained in the Dispute Policy.
9. CIRA
POLICY. You agree that your registration of the domain name shall be subject
to suspension, cancellation, or transfer pursuant to any CIRA-adopted policy,
or pursuant to any registrar or registry procedure not inconsistent with an CIRA-adopted
policy, (1) to correct mistakes by a registrar or the registry in registering
the name or (2) for the resolution of disputes concerning the domain name.
10. AGENCY. Should you intend to license use of a domain name to a third
party you shall nonetheless be the domain name registrant of record and are therefore
responsible for providing your own full contact information and for providing
and updating accurate technical and administrative contact information adequate
to facilitate timely resolution of any problems that arise in connection with
the domain name. You shall accept liability for harm caused by wrongful use of
thedomain name. You also represent that you have provided notice of the terms
and conditions in this Agreement to the third party and that the third party agrees
to the terms of Disclosure and Use of Registration Information (sections 18 and
19 of this Agreement).
11. ANNOUNCEMENTS. We and the RSP reserve
the right to distribute information to you that is pertinent to the quality or
operation of our services and those of our service partners. These announcements
will be predominately informative in nature and may include notices describing
changes, upgrades, new products or other information to add security or to enhance
your identity on the Internet.
12. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. You
agree that our entire liability, and your exclusive remedy, with respect to any
Services(s) provided under this Agreement and any breach of this Agreement is
solely limited to the amount you paid for such Service(s). We and our contractors
shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential
damages resulting from the use or inability to use any of the Services or for
the cost of procurement of substitute services. Because some jurisdictions do
not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental
damages, in such jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the extent permitted
by law. We disclaim any and all loss or liability resulting from, but not limited
to: (1) loss or liability resulting from access delays or access interruptions;
(2) loss or liability resulting from data non-delivery or data mis-delivery; (3)
loss or liability resulting from acts of God; (4) loss or liability resulting
from the unauthorized use or misuse of your account identifier or password; (5)
loss or liability resulting from errors, omissions, or misstatements in any and
all information or services(s) provided under this Agreement; (6) loss or liability
resulting from the interruption of your Service. You agree that we will not be
liable for any loss of registration and use of your domain name, or for interruption
of business, or any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of
any kind (including lost profits) regardless of the form of action whether in
contract, tort (including negligence), or otherwise, even if we have been advised
of the possibility of such damages.
13. INDEMNITY. You agree to
release, indemnify, and hold us, our contractors, agents, employees,officers,
directors and affiliates harmless from all liabilities, claims and expenses, including
attorney's fees, from claims by third parties, including but not limited to the
RSP and CIRA relating to or arising under this Agreement, the Services provided
hereunder or your use of the Services, including without limitation infringement
by you, or someone else using the Service with your computer, of any intellectual
property or other proprietary right of any person or entity, or from the violation
of any of our operating rules or policy relating to the service(s) provided. You
also agree to release, indemnify and hold us harmless pursuant to the terms and
conditions contained in the CIRA Dispute Policy. When we are threatened with suit
by a third party, we may seek written assurances from you concerning your promise
to indemnify us; your failure to provide those assurances may be considered by
us to be a breach of your Agreement and may result in deactivation of your domain
name.
14. TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP. Any transfer of ownership in and
to a domain name registration shall be affected in accordance with CIRA policies
and procedures.
15. BREACH. You agree that failure to abide by
any provision of this Agreement, any operating rule or policy or the Dispute Policy,
may be considered by us to be a material breach and that we may provide a written
notice, describing the breach, to you. If within thirty (30) calendar days of
the date of such notice, you fail to provide evidence, which is reasonably satisfactory
to us, that you have not breached your obligations under the Agreement, then we
may delete the registration or reservation of your domain name. Any such breach
by you shall not be deemed to be excused simply because we did not act earlier
in response to that, or any other, breach by you.
16. NO GUARANTEE.
You agree that, by registration or reservation of your chosen domain name, such
registration or reservation does not confer immunity from objection to either
the registration, reservation, or use of the domain name.
17. DISCLAIMER
OF WARRANTIES. You agree that your use of our Services is solely at your own
risk. You agree that such Service(s) is provided on an "as is," "as available"
basis. We expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied,
including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness
for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We make no warranty that the Services
will meet your requirements, or that the Service(s) will be uninterrupted, timely,
secure, or error free; nor do we make any warranty as to the results that may
be obtained from the use of the Service(s) or as to the accuracy or reliability
of any information obtained through the Service or that defects in the Service
will be corrected. You understand and agree that any material and/or data downloaded
or otherwise obtained through the use of Service is done at your own discretion
and risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer
system or loss of data that results from the download of such material and/or
data. We make no warranty regarding any goods or services purchased or obtained
through the Service or any transactions entered into through the Service. No advice
or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from us or through the
Service shall create any warranty not expressly made herein.
18. INFORMATION.
As part of the registration process, you are required to provide us certain information
and to update us promptly as such information changes such that our records are
current, complete and accurate. You are obliged to provide us the following information:
(i) Your name and postal address (or, if different, that of the domain name holder);
(ii) The domain name being registered; (iii) The name, postal address, e-mail
address, and voice and fax (if available) telephone numbers of the administrative
contact for the domain name; (iv) The name, postal address, e-mail address, and
voice and fax (if available) telephone numbers of the billing contact for the
domain name. (v) The Internet Protocol number of the primary name server and secondary
name server(s) for each domain name registration and the corresponding names of
those name servers. Any voluntary information we request is collected such that
we can continue to improve the products and services offered to you through your
RSP.
19. DISCLOSURE AND USE OF REGISTRATION INFORMATION. You agree
and acknowledge that we will make domain name registration information you provide
available to CIRA, to the registry administrators, and to other third parties
as CIRA and applicable laws may require or permit. You further agree and acknowledge
that we may make publicly available, or directly available to third party vendors,
some, or all, of the domain name registration information you provide, for purposes
of inspection (such as through our WHOIS service) or other purposes as required
or permitted by CIRA and the applicable laws. You hereby consent to any and all
such disclosures and use of, and guidelines, limits and restrictions on disclosure
or use of, information provided by you in connection with the registration of
a domain name (including any updates to such information), whether during or after
the term of your registration of the domain name. You hereby irrevocably waive
any and all claims and causes of action you may have arising from such disclosure
or use of your domain name registration information by us. You may access your
domain name registration information in our possession to review, modify or update
such information, by accessing our domain manager service, or similar service,
made available by us through your RSP. We will not process data about any identified
or identifiable natural person that we obtain from you in a way incompatible with
the purposes and other limitations which we describe in this Agreement. We will
take reasonable precautions to protect the information we obtain from you from
our loss, misuse, unauthorized accessor disclosure, alteration or destruction
of that information.
20. REVOCATION. Your willful provision of
inaccurate or unreliable information, your willful failure promptly to update
information provided to us, or your failure to respond for over fifteen calendar
days to inquiries by us concerning the accuracy of contact details associated
with the your registration shall constitute a material breach of this Agreement
and be a basis for cancellation of the domain name registration.
21. RIGHT
OF REFUSAL. We, in our sole discretion, reserve the right to refuse to register
or reserve your chosen domain name or register you for other Services within thirty
(30) calendar days from receipt of your payment for such services. In the event
we do not register or reserve your domain name or register you for other Services,
or we delete your domain name or other Services within such thirty (30) calendar
day period, we agree to refund your applicable fee(s). You agree that we shall
not be liable to you for loss or damages that may result from our refusal to register,
reserve, or delete your domain name or register you for other Services.
22. SEVERABILITY. You agree that the terms of this Agreement are severable.
If any term or provision is declared invalid or unenforceable, that term or provision
will be construed consistent with applicable law as nearly as possible to reflect
the original intentions of the parties, and the remaining terms and provisions
will remain in full force and effect.
23. NON-AGENCY. Nothing contained
in this Agreement or the Dispute Policy shall be construed as creating any agency,
partnership, or other form of joint enterprise between the parties.
24.
NON-WAIVER. Our failure to require performance by you of any provision
hereof shall not affect the full right to require such performance at any time
thereafter; nor shall the waiver by us of a breach of any provision hereof be
taken or held to be a waiver of the provision itself.
25. NOTICES.
Any notice, direction or other communication given under this Agreement shall
be in writing and given by sending it via e-mail or via regular mail. In the case
of e-mail, valid notice shall only have been deemed to have been given when an
electronic confirmation of delivery has been obtained by the sender. In the case
of e-mail notification to us or to the RSP to lhutz@tucows.com or sales@frontline-multimedia.com
or, in the case of notice to you, at the e-mail address provided by you in your
WHOIS record. Any e-mail communication shall be deemed to have been validly and
effectively given on the date of such communication, if such date is a business
day and such delivery was made prior to 4:00 p.m. EST, otherwise it will be deemed
to have been delivered on the next business day. In the case of regular mail notice,
valid notice shall be deemed to have been validly and effectively given 5 business
days after the date of mailing and, in the case of notification to us or to the
RSP shall be sent to:
TUCOWS Com Co Registrant Affairs Office 96 Mowat Avenue Toronto, Ontario
M6K 3M1 or FRONTLINE Multimedia Design Domain Name Registration 3550
Clayton St. Port Coquitlam, B.C. V3B 4R1 and
in the case of notification to you shall be to the address specified in the “Administrative
Contact” in your WHOIS record.
26. ENTIRETY. You agree that this
Agreement, the rules and policies published by us and the Dispute Policy are the
complete and exclusive agreement between you and us regarding our Services. This
Agreement and the Dispute Policy supersede all prior agreements and understandings,
whether established by custom, practice, policy or precedent.
27. GOVERNING
LAW. This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted and enforced in accordance
with the Laws of Province of Ontario and the FEDERAL Laws OF Canada applicable
therein without reference to rules governing choice of laws. Any action relating
to this Agreement must be brought in Ontario and you irrevocably consent to the
jurisdiction of such courts.
28. INFANCY. You attest that you are
of legal age to enter into this Agreement.
29. INCONSISTENCIES WITH
CIRA. In the event that this Agreement may be inconsistent with any term,
condition , policy or procedure of CIRA, the term, condition, policy or procedure
of CIRA shall prevail.
30. Acceptance of Agreement. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE
THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU
HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF THE SERVICE AND ARE NOT RELYING
ON ANY REPRESENTATION AGREEMENT., GUARANTEE OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH
IN THIS AGREEMENT. You must also agree to the terms and conditions set down
by Tucows Inc. who is the domain name Registrar for your .ca domain name and for
whom Frontline Multimedia Design is the Registration Service Provider ("RSP").
Updated: March15, 2002
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