1: Definitions
In this Contract:

“Authorized User” means anyone the Customer allows to use the 
Service.

“IPD SERVICES” means IPD SERVICES of P.O. Box 2938 Oak 
Harbor, Washington State, U.S.A.

“Contract” means this Services Agreement.

"Customer" means the person named on the Registration Form 
and anyone reasonably appearing to IPD SERVICES to be acting 
with that person's authority or permission.

“Fee” means the fees specified in the hosting contract. Payments 
accepted by IPD SERVICES include: Cash, Check, Money Order 
or PaypPal. 

"Internet" means the global data network comprising 
interconnected networks using the TCP/IP protocol suite.

“Service” means that service or service which is detailed in the 
on-line registration form.


2: Duration
This Contract begins on the date that the Customer completes the 
hosting contract and will continue until terminated in accordance 
with this Contract.

3: Provision of the Service
3.1 IPD SERVICES will in return for the Fee provide the Customer 
with the Service on the terms of this Contract. Nothing under this 
Agreement shall affect your statutory rights in particular under the 
Consumer Credit Act 1974 or the Data Protection Act 1998.
3.2 IPD SERVICES will use reasonable endeavors to provide the 
Service by any date agreed with the Customer but all dates are 
estimates and IPD SERVICES has no liability for any failure to 
meet any date.

3.3 IPD SERVICES will provide the Service with the reasonable 
skill and care of a competent provider of services which are the 
same or similar to the Services.

3.4 It is technically impracticable to provide a fault free Service and 
IPD SERVICES does not undertake to do so. IPD SERVICES will 
however use its best efforts to procure the repair any reported 
faults as soon as it reasonably can.

3.5 Occasionally IPD SERVICES may:
(a) change the technical specification of the Service;
(b) suspend the Service for operational reasons such as repair, 
maintenance or improvement of the Service or because of an 
emergency.

3.6 The Customer is responsible for providing suitable computer 
hardware, software and telecommunications equipment and 
services necessary to access and use the Service. This Contract 
does not include the provision of telecommunications services 
necessary to connect to the Service or to obtain access to the 
Internet.

3.7 The Customer is responsible for the acts and omissions of all 
Authorized Users in connection with the Service and is liable for 
any failure by any Authorized User to perform or observe the terms 
and conditions of this Contract.



4: Security
4.1 The Customer is responsible for the security and proper use of 
all user names and passwords used in connection with the Service 
(including changing passwords on a regular basis) and must take 
all necessary steps to ensure that they are kept confidential, 
secure, used properly and not disclosed to unauthorized people.

4.2 The Customer must immediately inform IPD SERVICES if 
there is any reason to believe that a user name or password has or 
is likely to become known to someone not authorized to use it or is 
being or is likely to be used in an unauthorized way.

4.3 The Customer must not change or attempt to change a user 
name or alias. If a Customer forgets or loses a password or user 
name the Customer must contact IPD SERVICES and satisfy such 
security checks as IPD SERVICES may operate.

4.4 IPD SERVICES reserves the right to suspend user name and 
password access to the Service if at any time IPD SERVICES 
considers that there is or is likely to be a breach of security.

4.5 IPD SERVICES reserves the right (at its sole discretion) to 
require the Customer to change any or all of the passwords used 
by the Customer in connection with the Service

4.6 The Customer must immediately inform IPD SERVICES of any 
changes to the information the Customer supplied when registering 
for the Service.

4.7 IPD SERVICES reserves the right to disclose the name, 
address and other contact details of the Customer upon 
reasonable request in writing from any law enforcement agency 
and/or third party (or solicitors acting on behalf of either of the 
foregoing), where it reasonably appears to IPD SERVICES that 
such information is required by such party to establish, exercise or 
defend legal rights included, without limitation, for the purpose of or 
in connection with actual or prospective legal proceedings or 
obtaining legal advice.

5: Use of the Service
5.1 The Service is provided solely for the Customer's own use 
(including use by Authorized Users) and the Customer will not sell 
or attempt to sell the Service (or any part or facility of it) to any third 
party.

5.2 The Service must not be used by the Customer or any 
Authorized User in a way that does not comply with:
(a) the terms of any legislation or any license applicable to the 
Customer or that is in any way unlawful;
(b) the Hosting Contract.

5.3 The Service must not be used by the Customer or any 
Authorized User:
(a) fraudulently, in connection with a criminal offence, or otherwise 
unlawfully;
(b) to send, receive, upload, download, use or re-use any 
information or material which is offensive, abusive, indecent, 
defamatory, obscene or menacing, or in breach of confidence, 
copyright, trademark, service mark, patent, privacy or any other 
rights;
(c) to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
(d) to transmit knowingly or recklessly any electronic material 
(including viruses) through the Service which shall cause or is likely 
to cause detriment or harm, in any degree, to computer systems 
owned by IPD SERVICES or other Internet users;
(e) to send or provide unsolicited advertising or promotional 
material or to receive responses to any unsolicited advertising or 
promotional material sent or provided using the Service by any 
third party; or
(f) other than in accordance with the acceptable use policies of any 
connected networks.
5.4 The Customer must not use a user name or alias that infringes 
the rights of any person in a corresponding trademark or name. 
IPD SERVICES reserves the right to require the Customer to 
select a replacement user name or alias and may either refuse to 
provide or may suspend Service if, in IPD SERVICES's opinion, 
there are reasonable grounds for IPD SERVICES to believe that 
the user name or alias is, or is likely to be, used for a dishonest 
purpose, offensive, abusive, defamatory, obscene, or in violation 
of any person's intellectual property or similar rights.

5.5 If the Customer, an Authorized User or anyone else, with or 
without the Customer's knowledge or approval, uses the Service in 
contravention of paragraphs 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, IPD SERVICES may 
treat the contravention as a material breach of this Contract which 
cannot be remedied for the purposes of paragraph 12.

6: Internet
The Service does not provide or include access to the Internet. 
The Customer's use of the Internet is solely at the Customer's risk 
and subject to all applicable laws, and IPD SERVICES has no 
responsibility for any information, software, services or other 
materials accessed or obtained by the Customer using the 
Internet.

7: Indemnification
7.1 The Customer hereby agrees to indemnify and to hold IPD 
SERVICES harmless from and against any claim brought by a third 
party resulting from the use of the Service by a third party or by the 
Customer and in respect of all losses, costs, actions, proceedings, 
claims, damages, expenses (including reasonable legal costs and 
expenses), or liabilities, whatsoever suffered or incurred by IPD 
SERVICES in consequence of the Customer's breach or 
non-observance of the Contract.

7.2 The Customer shall defend and pay all costs, damages, 
awards, fees (including any reasonable legal fees) and judgments 
awarded against IPD SERVICES arising from the above claims 
and shall provide IPD SERVICES with notice of such claims, full 
authority to defend, compromise or settle such claims and 
reasonable assistance necessary to defend such claims, at the 
Customer's sole expense.

7.4 This paragraph 7 shall remain in effect for three years after the 
termination of this Contract.

8: Confidential information
(a) Each party hereto (i) shall use the same care and discretion, but 
in no event less than reasonable care and discretion, to prevent 
disclosure, publication or dissemination of the other party’s 
Confidential Information (defined below) as it employs with similar 
information of its own and (ii) shall not use, reproduce, distribute, 
disclose or otherwise disseminate the Confidential Information 
except in connection with the performance of its obligations under 
this Agreement.
(b) As used in this Agreement the term ‘Confidential Information’ 
means any and all data and information relating to the business of 
the disclosing party (i) of which the receiving party becomes aware 
as a consequence of or through this Agreement; (ii) which has 
value to the disclosing party and is not generally known by its 
competitors; (iii) which is treated by the disclosing party as 
confidential and (iv) which has been reduced to tangible form and 
marked clearly and conspicuously with a legend identifying its 
confidential or proprietary nature, provided, however, that 
Confidential Information does not include any data or information 
which is already known to the receiving party, or which (1) has 
become generally known to the public through no wrongful act of 
the receiving party; (2) has been rightfully received by the receiving 
party from a third party without restriction on disclosure and without, 
to the knowledge of the receiving party, a breach of an obligation of 
confidentiality running directly or indirectly to the other party hereto; 
(3) has been disclosed pursuant to a requirement of a 
governmental agency or of law without similar restrictions or other 
protection against public disclosure, or is required to be disclosed 
by operation of law; (4) is independently developed by the 
receiving party without use, directly or indirectly, of the Confidential 
Information received from the other party hereto; or (5) is furnished 
to a third party by the disclosing party hereunder without restrictions 
on the third party’s right to disclose the information. Confidential 
Information may include, but is not limited to, information relating to 
the products, processes or financial affairs of the disclosing party.
9: Limitation of Liability

9.1 IPD SERVICES accepts unlimited liability for death or personal 
injury resulting from its negligence and paragraphs 9.2 and 9.3 do 
not apply to such liability.

9.2 IPD SERVICES is not liable to the Customer, either in contract, 
tort (including negligence) or otherwise for direct or indirect loss of 
profits, business or anticipated savings, nor for any indirect or 
consequential loss or damage or for any destruction of data.

9.4 IPD SERVICES excludes all liability of any kind in respect of 
any material on the Internet which can be accessed using the 
Service and is not responsible in any way for any goods (including 
software) or services provided by third parties advertised, sold or 
otherwise made available by means of the Service or on the 
Internet.

9.5 IPD SERVICES is not liable to the Customer either in contract, 
tort (including negligence) or otherwise for the acts or omissions of 
other providers of telecommunications or Internet services 
(including domain name registration authorities) or for faults in or 
failures of their equipment.

9.6 Each provision of this Contract, excluding or limiting liability, 
operates separately. If any part is held by a court to be 
unreasonable or inapplicable, the other parts shall continue to 
apply.
10: Matters Beyond Reasonable Control
If IPD SERVICES is unable to perform any obligation under this 
Contract because of a matter beyond its reasonable control such 
as lightning, flood, exceptionally severe weather, fire, explosion, 
war, civil disorder, industrial disputes (whether or not involving its 
employees), or acts of local or central Government or other 
competent authorities, or events beyond the reasonable control of 
its suppliers, it will have no liability for that failure to perform.
11: Domain Names
If the Service includes the registration of an Internet domain name 
the Customer acknowledges and agrees that:
11.1 IPD SERVICES does not represent, warrant or guarantee that 
any domain name applied for by the Customer or on its behalf will 
be registered in its requested name or is capable of being 
registered by it or that the use of such domain name by it will not 
infringe any third party rights. Accordingly, the Customer should 
take no action in respect of its requested domain name(s) until it 
has been notified that its requested domain name has been duly 
registered and IPD SERVICES will not be liable for any such 
action taken by the Customer.
11.2 the registration of the domain name and its ongoing use by 
the Customer is subject to the relevant naming authority's terms 
and conditions of use and the Customer undertakes to IPD 
SERVICES that it will comply with such terms and conditions. The 
Customer hereby irrevocably waives any claims it may have against 
IPD SERVICES in respect of any decision of a naming authority to 
refuse to register a domain name and, without limitation, the 
Customer acknowledges and agrees that any administration or 
other charge paid by the Customer in respect of the registration of 
the domain name is non- refundable in any event.

11.3 IPD SERVICES accepts no responsibility in respect of the 
use of a domain name by the Customer and any dispute between 
the Customer and any other individual or organization regarding a 
domain name must be resolved between the parties concerned 
and IPD SERVICES will take no part in any such dispute. IPD 
SERVICES reserves the right, on becoming aware of such a 
dispute concerning a domain name, at its sole discretion and 
without giving any reason, to either suspend or cancel the relevant 
service associated with the domain name, and/or to make such 
representations to the relevant naming authority as it deems 
appropriate.

11.4 Any Internet Protocol address allocated by IPD SERVICES 
to the Customer shall at all times remain the sole property of IPD 
SERVICES and the Customer will have a non-transferable license 
to use such address for the duration of this Agreement. If this 
Agreement is terminated for whatever reason, the Customer's 
license to use the Internet Protocol address shall automatically 
terminate and thereafter it will not use such address.

12: Termination of this Contract by Notice
Either party may terminate this Contract on 14 days' notice to the 
other, without prejudice to any rights that may have accrued before 
termination. Upon termination (for whatever reason), IPD 
SERVICES may re-allocate any user names and aliases 
associated with the terminated Service.

13: Breaches of this Contract
13.1 Either party may terminate this Contract or the provision of 
Service under it without notice if the other:
(a) commits a material breach of this Contract, which is capable of 
remedy, and fails to remedy the breach within a reasonable time of 
a written notice to do so;
(b) commits a material breach of this Contract which cannot be 
remedied; or
(c) is repeatedly in breach of this Contract;

13.2 If any of the events detailed in paragraph 13.1 occur because 
of the Customer or an Authorized User, IPD SERVICES may 
suspend the Service without prejudice to its right to terminate this 
Contract. At its sole discretion, IPD SERVICES reserves the right 
to suspend or terminate any Authorized User's use of the Service 
as an alternative remedy to immediate termination of the Contract. 
This remedy is without prejudice to IPD SERVICES's right 
subsequently to suspend or terminate the contract. IPD 
SERVICES may refuse to restore Service which has been 
suspended under this paragraph until it has received assurances 
satisfactory to IPD SERVICES that the breach has been remedied 
and will not be repeated.

13.3 Termination under this paragraph is without prejudice to any 
rights that may have accrued before termination.

13.4 If either party delays in acting upon a breach of this Contract 
that delay will not be regarded as a waiver of that breach. If either 
party waives a breach of this Contract that waiver is limited to that 
particular breach.

13.5 Upon termination (for whatever reason), IPD SERVICES may 
re-allocate any user names and aliases associated with the 
terminated Service.

14: Changes to this Contract
IPD SERVICES can change the Conditions of this Contract at any 
time on 14 days' notice to the Customer.

15: Assignment
Neither party may assign or transfer any of its rights or obligations 
under this Contract, without the written consent of the other, except 
that IPD SERVICES may assign its rights or obligations (or both) 
to a IPD SERVICES Group Company without consent. [I put this in 
to allow for future changes of ownership]

16: Entire Agreement
This Contract contains the whole agreement between the parties 
and supersedes all previous written or oral agreements relating to 
its subject matter.

17: Notices
Notices given under this Contract may be delivered on-line or by 
e-mail. Additionally, IPD SERVICES may publish notices to the 
Customer via the IPD SERVICES website; notices will be deemed 
effective on the date of publication, or otherwise as notified to the 
Customer by IPD SERVICES. A notice from IPD SERVICES 
which is sent by e-mail to the Customer's e-mail address will be 
deemed effective 3 days after the date it is sent. A notice from the 
Customer to IPD SERVICES will be deemed effective when 
received by IPD SERVICES at the e-mail address notified by IPD 
SERVICES to the Customer.

18: Data Protection Consent
IPD SERVICES may collect, hold, control, use and transmit data 
obtained from and about you in the course of your using the 
Services and the IPD SERVICES web site. By accepting the terms 
and conditions of this Contract, the Customer grants IPD 
SERVICES and its agents processing data on IPD SERVICES's 
behalf, permission, in accordance with the Data Protection Acts 
1984 and 1998, to send the Customer unsolicited advertising and 
promotional material pertaining to other IPD SERVICES products 
and services and to third-party products and services selected by 
IPD SERVICES. The Customer may revoke permission to IPD 
SERVICES and its agents to send the Customer unsolicited 
advertising and promotional material pertaining either to other IPD 
SERVICES products and services or to third party products and 
services, or both, by notifying IPD SERVICES by e-mail of said 
revocation.

19: Law
This Contract is governed by the law of Washington State USA, 
and the Customer submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts 
of Washington State.

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