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The 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.
1. AGREEMENT. In this Registration Agreement ("Agreement")
"you" and "your" refer to each customer, "we", us" and "our" refer to
Tucows.com Inc. and "Services" refers to the domain name registration
provided by us as offered through FRONTLINE Multimedia Inc., the Registration
Service Provider ("RSP"). This Agreement explains our obligations to you,
and explains your obligations to us for various Services
2. SELECTION OF A DOMAIN NAME. You represent
that, to the best of the your knowledge and belief, neither the registration of
the SLD 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 service(s) 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 the Registration Agreement will remain in full
force during the length of the term of your Domain Name Registration. Should you
choose to renew or otherwise lengthen the term of your Domain Name Registration,
then the term of this Registration Agreement will be extended accordingly. This
Agreement will remain in full force during the length of the term of your Domain
Name Registration as selected, recorded, and paid for upon registration of the
Domain Name. Should you choose to renew or otherwise lengthen the term of your
Domain Name Registration, then the term of this Registration Agreement will be
extended accordingly. Should you transfer your domain name or should the domain
name otherwise be transferred due to another Registrar, the terms and conditions
of this contract shall cease and shall be replaced by the contractual terms in
force for the purpose of registering domain names then in force between SLD holders
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 ICANN Uniform 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 http://www.opensrs.org/legal/udrp.shtml. 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. For any dispute, you agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts
of The Province of Ontario.
9. ICANN POLICY. You agree that your
registration of the SLD name shall be subject to suspension, cancellation, or
transfer pursuant to any ICANN-adopted policy, or pursuant to any registrar or
registry procedure not inconsistent with an ICANN-adopted policy, (1) to correct
mistakes by Registrar or the Registry in registering the name or (2) for the resolution
of disputes concerning the SLD name.
10. AGENCY. Should you intend
to license use of a domain name to a third party you shall nonetheless be the
SLD holder 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 SLD. You shall accept liability for harm caused by
wrongful use of the SLD, unless you promptly disclose the identity of the licensee
to the party providing you reasonable evidence of actionable harm. 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 states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for
consequential or incidental damages, in such states, 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. In no event shall our maximum
liability exceed five hundred ($500.00) dollars.
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 without limitation Network Solutions, Inc., and the directors, officers,
employees and agents of each of them, including attorney's fees, of third parties
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 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. The person named as administrative contact at
the time the controlling user name and password are secured shall be the owner
of the domain name. You agree that prior to transferring ownership of your domain
name to another person (the Transferee") you shall require the Transferee to agree,
in writing to be bound by all the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Your
domain name will not be transferred until we receive such written assurances or
other reasonable assurance that the Transferee has been bound by the contractual
terms of this Agreement (such reasonable assurance as determined by us in our
sole discretion) along with the applicable transfer fee. If the Transferee fails
to be bound in a reasonable fashion (as determine by us in our sole discretion)
to the terms and conditions in this Agreement, any such transfer will be null
and void.
15. BREACH. You agree that failure to abide by any provision
of this Agreement, any operating rule or policy or the Dispute Policy provided
by us, 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.
Any other information which we request from you at registration is voluntary.
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
ICANN, to the registry administrators, and to other third parties as ICANN 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 ICANN 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 access or disclosure, alteration or destruction
of that information.
20. REVOCATION. Your wilful provision of inaccurate
or unreliable information, your wilful 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 SLD 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@frontlinehosting.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 Inc. Registrant Affairs Office 96 Mowat
Avenue Toronto, Ontario M6K 3M1 or FRONTLINE Multimedia Design Domain
Name Registrations 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. 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.
Updated: February 22, 2003
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