Indemnification Upon requesting an account from WDPublications
the subscriber, and subscribers agents, agree to indemnify and hold WDPublications
its officers, directors, employees, agents, distributors, affiliates, and all
other persons or entities acting in any capacity on WDPublications' behalf
harmless from any claims, losses, or damages, including legal fees, from any
claims or liabilities arising from the use of the service which damages the
subscriber, its agents, or any other party.
Illegal Content All services may be used for lawful
purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data
or material in violation of any United States Federal, State or City law, as
well as the participation or promotion of violence, racism, or other
defamatory content of any kind are prohibited.
Adult-Only Content and Pornography Pornography is
prohibited throughout the WDPublications Network. This includes sex-related
content and/or merchandise as well as links to pornography, sex-related
content, and/or merchandise. In general, frontal nudity (not for science,
health, fine art, or general educational purposes) and/or content meant to
sexually arouse is prohibited. Such accounts are subject to deletion without
notice and may not receive a refund. Child Pornography of any kind is
prohibited on all servers and will be reported to the authorities if found. If
you are unsure whether or not your site falls into this category feel free to
contact us with a description and link for review. WDPublications reserves the
right to determine what violates this policy.
Scripts You are free to use any scripts you wish
provided they do not affect the normal operations of the server. Scripts that
are commonly known for causing server disruption include large cgi-based
message forums, auctions, and banner exchanges. In the event a script affects
normal server and/or administrative operations, WDPublications reserves the
right to disable the account pending client cooperation and resolution.
The following message forums are NOT allowed on our
servers:
Ultimate BBS (all versions)
Ikonboard (all versions)
Yet Another Bulletin Board (YaBB)
CGI CGI should be run from within your cgi-bin at
all times. WDPublications does allow an override for scripts that are not able
to run from within the cgi-bin however WDPublications reserves the right to
disable any account, that is not running their CGI scripts from within the cgi-bin,
if normal operations are being affected.
Chat Chat Servers of any kind are strictly
prohibited. Chat scripts, especially CGI and/or PHP scripts, have proven to be
disruptive on community servers and can hinder the performance of normal
delivery for other Site Owners. For this reason chat scripts/clients, that are
not Java Based or hosted by a third party provider, are also not permitted on
the WDPublications Servers.
SSI All SSI calls should be made from files that are
in accordance with established naming conventions. This means all SSI calls
should originate from files that are named with the .shtml or .shtm file
extensions. (FileName.shtml or FileName.shtm). WDPublications reserves the
right to disable any SSI that is not being called from a file with the .shtml
or .shtm extension.
Mailing Lists WDPublications has allocated special
servers and tools to ensure proper delivery of mailing lists and normal email.
It is important that you use these tools accordingly. All full packages
include access to the pre-installed Mailman Mailing List Software. Large
mailing lists, (those exceeding 500 subscribers) sent using the WDPublications
Services, must be sent using the mailing list tools that have been
pre-installed for this purpose. If your mailing list exceeds 1,500 addresses
you should contact WDPublications requesting permission to send the mailing
through the WDPublications servers prior to sending any messages. Sending a
large mailing through mailing list software other than our pre-installed
software can adversely affect the flow of email. Should such a large mailing
disrupt normal services or create unacceptable server loads, the account
associated with the mailing risks termination.
Unauthorized Daemons An Unauthorized Daemon is any
process that continuously runs in the background that is not started or
operated by WDPublications. Any account found to be operating any programs
and/or daemons that open listening sockets, whether TCP, UDP, or Unix are
expressly forbidden and will be terminated at WDPublications' discretion.
Only daemons that have the express written permission of WDPublications
are permitted to operate on the WDPublications servers, however WDPublications
reserves the right to periodically terminate them for server memory
reclamation purposes. This reclamation period is generally every 24 hours but
varies depending upon the current operating status of the servers. If any WDPublications
approved daemons start to exhibit operating problems, WDPublications reserves
the right to terminate the daemon immediately and restrict its ability to
restart. Once a daemon is restricted the client would need to obtain
permission once again to restart the daemon.
BOTS WDPublications does not allow bots of any kind
to be operated on the WDPublications servers. This includes IRC servers, IRC
bots, proxies, anonymizers, and web transversal spiders.
Pirating You may not use any part of the WDPublications
Network and/or Services to transfer illegal, copyrighted, trademarked,
patented, or trade secret material without the prior permission of the author
or owner. This includes pirating software (warez), cracks and/or registration
codes, in addition to offering links, directories, and redirections, to other
sites that do so. If WDPublications finds that this is occurring on your
account it will be viewed as grounds for immediate termination.
Malicious Hacking, Cracking, and Scanning et al
Accessing content, services, computers, accounts, or networks belonging to WDPublications,
or another party, illegally and/or without authorization, or attempting to
penetrate security measures of WDPublications or other parties (often known as
"cracking") is prohibited and will result in immediate account
termination.
Absolutely no cracking and/or scanning tools, source code,
scripts, binaries and/or hacking/cracking type of activity, content, tools, or
anything of a related nature, that might be used as a precursor to an
attempted system penetration (i.e. port or stealth scans, or other information
gathering tools/activity), is permitted on any of the WDPublications servers
and/or Network.
Accounts initiating any activity or containing
code/scripts/binaries etc that appear to be for the purpose of violating or
disrupting the services and/or content of others will be terminated
immediately without notice and without refund. WDPublications may also report
any activity of this nature to the proper authorities as well as providing any
information WDPublications may have to assist the authorities in contacting
the party responsible for storing, using, or otherwise assisting with this
type of activity, or the storage of these types of tools.
Spam - Advertising, Solicitation and Name Harvesting
WDPublications is proud to have a strict "NO-Spam" policy. Sending
spam is a direct violation of WDPublications' Terms of Service and is cause
for immediate termination without refund.
WDPublications considers spam to be any unsolicited email,
often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to mailing lists,
individuals, or newsgroups among other mediums. Any account found to be
associated with the delivery of spam will be immediately terminated without
warning and without refund. WDPublications reserves the right to refuse or
cancel service to known spammers.
Forging or misrepresenting message headers, whether in
whole or in part, to mask the originator of the message is prohibited.
You may not use WDPublications to send unsolicited
advertising, promotional material, or other forms of solicitation to any other
WDPublications Subscribers, except in those specified areas that are
designated for such a purpose, unless you receive the express permission of
the Subscriber. You may not use WDPublications to collect or harvest email
addresses of other Subscribers without the express prior permission of the
Subscriber. Any such violation will result in immediate termination of
services without refund.
Mailing lists and mass outgoing email is acceptable and
many times profitable however, WDPublications requires that you send such
messages only to those who have explicitly requested to receive them. Lastly, WDPublications
reserves the right to determine what violates this policy.
Public Distribution At times, many site owners enjoy
giving away the services they purchase from WDPublications. WDPublications
also enjoys helping others as that is the true spirit of the Internet. After
all, it's free information that makes this medium so great. Unfortunately not
everything is free. As such, if you choose to give away and/or sell any
service provided by WDPublications, within or in addition to your account, WDPublications
does reserve the right to contact you and request/demand it stop if the
resources being used are above and beyond the reasonable usage of an account
on a community server.
WDPublications has agreed to host/service you and your
account(s) only. It is best, if you are distributing images, to have the
visitor download the image and store it on their own server. The same applies
to any files and scripts that may be stored within your account. All users
permitted access to the services provided by WDPublications, via your account,
are also bound by the WDPublications Terms of Service. If these users violate
the WDPublications Terms of Service your account would be placed in jeopardy
and at risk of termination.
Excessive Resource Usage and/or Abuse Each account
is given a clearly defined amount of resources including disk space and
bandwidth. Depending on the severity of the violation, when an account uses
more resources than has been allocated the account will be charged accordingly
for the extra usage. If the resource abuse is excessive, WDPublications
reserves the right to deactivate the account pending client cooperation and
resolution.
Any account that affects the normal operation of any of the
services provided by WDPublications including, but not limited to,
administrative tasks, technical support, MySQL Services, server access,
network speed, content or email delivery, may be deactivated without notice in
an effort to restore normal operations.
In the event of account deactivation, WDPublications
remains the final authority in determining whether or not the account will be
reactivated. The severity of the violation, as well as the account holder's
cooperation and ability to prevent future violations, will be considered by WDPublications
when determining whether or not the account will be reactivated.
Listed Packages and Pricing WDPublications's listed
packages and/or pricing may change at any time. If you have chosen to pre-pay
for your account, the cost of the service already paid for will not be
affected by any price changes whether they are raised or lowered.
Refusal of Service WDPublications reserves the right
to refuse or cancel service at its sole discretion. Failure to follow any
terms or conditions established by WDPublications may result in immediate
termination without refund.
Payment Policies, Fees, Refunds
Full payment is required before any hosting service is
rendered, which includes renewals. All payment-due notices will be sent by
electronic mail. No bills or invoices will be sent by postal mail or fax.
Prepayment is due each anniversary following the prorated date the account was
established. Billing will continue until you cancel your hosting account. You
may cancel at anytime.
We do give refunds for full months unused, should you want
to cancel prepaid service. If you decide to cancel after prepayment, you will
not receive a refund for the current month in use (We do not give partial
months refunds). If you have prepaid and received a multi-month discount, upon
cancellation we will figure the refund retroactively withdrawing the discount
back to the start date of the contract. This will result in paying
full-undiscounted price for the months used and refunding the balance. This
only applies to cancellation by the client. If WDPublications does
cancellation due to restrictions violation, there will be no refund. WDPublications
will only allow for the discount if cancellation is not the fault of the
client, as determined by WDPublications.
Account Cancellation
We are sorry to see you go. If there is anything we can to
do to keep you as a customer, please let us know. To cancel your account,
please send an email to sales@WDPublications.Net and provide us with the
following information below. We need to verify your account information and
the reason for your cancellation so we can improve our services. Phone
requests will not constitute acceptance of any cancellation.
Your domain name:
Server name:
Username:
Password:
Reason of cancellation:
If Client has a balance due at the time of cancellation,
this balance must be paid in full. Cancellation does not absolve Client of any
outstanding financial obligations.
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