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IMPORTANT NOTICE: *All Payments To Prestige Technologies LLC are refundable for up to 30 days. Prestige Technologies LLC (“The Company”) agrees to furnish services to the Subscriber, subject to the following TOS (Terms of Service). Use of Prestige Technologies LLC Services constitutes acceptance and agreement to Prestige Technologies LLC AUP as well as Prestige Technologies LLC’s TOS (Terms of Service). All provisions of this contract are subject to the TOS (Terms of Service) of Prestige Technologies LLC and AUP (Acceptable Use Policy). The AUP may be changed from time to time at the discretion of the Company. Subscriber understands that change to the AUP by the Company shall not be grounds for early contract termination or non-payment. This Agreement shall be construed in all respects in accordance with the laws of the state of New Jersey, county of Bergen, applicable to contracts enforceable in that state.
  1. Disclosure to Law Enforcement: The AUP specifically prohibits the use of our service for illegal activities. Therefore, Subscriber agrees that the Company may disclose any and all subscriber information including assigned IP numbers, account history, account use, etc. to any law enforcement agent who makes a written request without further consent or notification to the Subscriber. In addition, Prestige Technologies LLC shall have the right to terminate all service set forth in this Agreement.
  2. Service Rates: Subscriber acknowledges that the nature of the service furnished and the initial rates and charges have been communicated to Subscriber. Subscriber is aware that the Company may prospectively change the specified rates and charges from time to time. The promotional offer is contingent upon Company achieving and maintaining its cost of service goals including but not limited to rates charged to company by its suppliers.
  3. Payment: Establishment of this service is dependent upon receipt by the Company of payment of stated charges. Subsequent payments are due on the anniversary date of the contract term for that contract term’s service. The above applies to all accounts and services provided by Prestige Technologies LLC.
  4. Payments and Fees: Credit cards that are declined for any reason are subject to a $1.00 declination fee. Service will be interrupted on accounts that reach 10 days past due. Service interrupted for nonpayment is subject to a reconnect charge equaling the anniversary dates payment. Accounts not paid by due date are subject to a $25.00 late fee. Accounts that are not collectable by Prestige Technologies LLC may be turned over to an outside collection agency for collection. If your account is turned over for collection, you agree to pay the company a “Processing and Collection” Fee of not less than 18% of your outstanding debt. If you desire to cancel your account, please follow the proper procedure to do this as outlined in this TOS.
  5. Refund and Disputes: All payments to Prestige Technologies LLC are refundable for up to 30 days. This includes the one time setup fee and subsequent charges regardless of usage. All overcharges or billing disputes must be reported within 60 days of the time the dispute occurred. If you dispute a charge to your credit card issuer that, in Prestige Technologies LLC’s sole discretion is a valid charge under the provisions of the TOS and/or AUP, you agree to pay Prestige Technologies LLC an “Administrative Fee” of not less than $50 and not more than $150.
  6. Failure to Pay: The Company may temporarily deny service or terminate this Agreement upon the failure of Subscriber to pay charges when due. Such termination or denial will not relieve Subscriber of responsibility for the payment of all accrued charges, plus reasonable interest and any collection fees.
  7. Account Cancellation:All requests for canceling accounts must be made either through your Customer Control Center or in writing. You must provide at least 30 days notice but not more than 60 days notice. Please send written cancellation requests to:Prestige Technologies LLCAtt: AccountsPO Box 5274Somerville, NJ 08876Your cancellation notice must contain your customer account ID and for virtual hosting the primary domain name of the account to be cancelled.
  8. Subscriber acknowledges that the service provided is of such a nature that service can be interrupted for many reasons other than the negligence of the company and that damages resulting from any interruption of service are difficult to ascertain. Therefore, subscriber agrees that the company shall not be liable for any damages arising from such causes beyond the direct and exclusive control of the company. Subscriber further acknowledges that the company’s liability for its own negligence may not in any event exceed an amount equivalent to charges payable by subscriber for services during the period damages occurred. In no event shall the company be liable for any special or consequential damages, loss or injury.
  9. New Domain Accounts: All new web hosting accounts involving new domains will be set up and entered into our DNS servers immediately. Due to the nature of the Internet, however, it may require up to 7 days before your domain is available on the Internet.
  10. Transfer of Domains: New web hosting accounts which involve the transfer of a domain from another provider to Prestige Technologies LLC will be configured on our servers immediately. Due to the process that changes the Name Server information for your domain, however, your domain may continue to point to your previous provider for up to 7 days. In some cases, such transfers may take up to sixty (60) days. Due to the unpredictable nature of the transfer process, no guarantees are made regarding the amount of time a specific transfer may take. If the customer cancels service during the transfer period for any reason, all charges are considered earned.
  11. Support Boundaries: Prestige Technologies LLC provides 24 x 7 technical support to our subscribers via the support section of the prestigetechnologies.com website. The following are our guidelines when providing support: Prestige Technologies LLC provides support related to your server or virtual site physically functioning. Prestige Technologies LLC does not offer tech support for application specific issues such as cgi programming, html, or similar issues. If you are in need of support related to cgi programming, html, or similar issues, Prestige Technologies LLC does offer consultation on such issues at a rate of $75 per hour. Please contact accounts@prestigetechnologies.com if you are interested in Prestige Technologies LLC programming services.Prestige Technologies LLC does not provide technical support for YOUR customers. If you can email, we encourage you to email Support@prestigetechnologies.com for assistance. If you are able to get online and have other questions, the answers may be on our support page at http://support. prestigetechnologies.com/ clientsupport/  – we encourage you to check there first. Lastly, the Help files in the program you are using may have the answer to your question so please do investigate these resources before contacting tech support.
  12. SPAM and Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE): Prestige Technologies LLC takes a zero tolerance approach to the sending of Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) or SPAM over our network. Very simply this means that customers of Prestige Technologies LLC may not use or permit others to use our network to transact in UCE. Customers of Prestige Technologies LLC may not host, or permit hosting of, sites or information that is advertised by UCE from other networks. Violations of this policy carry severe penalties, including termination of service.
  1. Violation of Prestige Technologies LLC SPAM policy will result in severe penalties. Upon notification of an alleged violation of our SPAM policy, Prestige Technologies LLC will initiate an immediate investigation (within 48 hours of notification). During the investigation, Prestige Technologies LLC may restrict customer access to the network to prevent further violations. If a customer is found to be in violation of our SPAM policy, Prestige Technologies LLC may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend or terminate customer’s account. Further, Prestige Technologies LLC reserves the right to pursue civil remedies for any costs associated with the investigation of a substantiated policy violation. Prestige Technologies LLC will notify law enforcement officials if the violation is believed to be a criminal offense.
  2. First violations of this policy will result in an “Administrative Fee” of $250 and your account will be reviewed for possible immediate termination. A second violation will result in an “Administrative Fee” of $500 and immediate termination of your account. Users who violate this policy agree that in addition to these “Administrative” penalties, they will pay “Research Fees” not to exceed $175 per hour that Prestige Technologies LLC personnel must spend to investigate the matter. PLEASE, DO NOT SPAM from your account.
  3. As our Customers are ultimately responsible for the actions of their clients over the Prestige Technologies LLC network, it is advisable that Customers develop a similar, or stricter, policy for their clients.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: BEGINNING IMMEDIATELY, anyone using Prestige Technologies LLC services to engage in any “spam” activities or cause any of our IP space to be listed in any of the various Spam Databases will have their services immediately terminated. The services will not be reconnected until such time that you agree to remove ANY and ALL traces of the offending material immediately upon reconnection and agree to allow us access to your account(s) to confirm that all material has been COMPLETELY removed. Severe violations may result in immediate and permanent removal of the account(s) without notice to the customer. Any account(s) guilty of a second violation WILL be immediately and permanently removed from our service without notice.
  1. Network
    1. IP Address Ownership: If Prestige Technologies LLC assigns Customer an Internet Protocol address for Customer’s use, the right to use that Internet Protocol address shall belong only to Prestige Technologies LLC, and Customer shall have no right to use that Internet Protocol address except as permitted by Prestige Technologies LLC in its sole discretion in connection with the Services, during the term of this Agreement. Prestige Technologies LLC shall maintain and control ownership of all Internet Protocol numbers and addresses that may be assigned to Customer by Prestige Technologies LLC, and Prestige Technologies LLC reserves the right to change or remove any and all such Internet Protocol numbers and addresses, in its sole and absolute discretion. Our allocation of IP addresses is limited by ARIN’s new policies. These new policies state that use of IP addresses for IP based virtual hosts will not be accepted as justification for new IP addresses. What this means to you is that you MUST use name-based hosting where possible. We will periodically review IP address usage, and if we find that clients are using IP addresses where name-based hosting could be used, we will revoke authorization to use those IP addresses that could be used with name-based hosting.
    2. Bandwidth and Disk Usage: Customer agrees that bandwidth and disk usage shall not exceed the number of megabytes per month for the Services ordered by Customer on the Order Form (the “Agreed Usage”). Prestige Technologies LLC will monitor Customer’s bandwidth and disk usage. Prestige Technologies LLC shall have the right to take corrective action if Customer’s bandwidth or disk usage exceeds the Agreed Usage. Such corrective action may include the assessment of additional charges, disconnection or discontinuance of any and all Services, or termination of this Agreement, which actions may be taken is in Prestige Technologies LLC sole and absolute discretion. If Prestige Technologies LLC takes any corrective action under this section, Customer shall not be entitled to a refund of any fees paid in advance prior to such action. In the event that a customer exceeds the included allocation, Prestige Technologies LLC may, at its sole discretion, collect a deposit, in an amount determined by Prestige Technologies LLC, against customer’s billing information on file with Prestige Technologies LLC.
    3. System and Network Security: Users are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Prestige Technologies LLC Network. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. Prestige Technologies LLC will investigate occurrences, which may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting Users who are involved in such violations. These violations include, without limitation:
      1. Accessing data not intended for such User or logging into a server or account, which such User is not authorized to access.
      2. Attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization.
      3. Attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of overloading, “flooding”, “mail bombing” or “crashing”.
      4. Forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting.
      5. Taking any action in order to obtain services to which such User is not entitled.
  1. Notification of Violation:
    1. Prestige Technologies LLC is under no duty to look at each customer’s or user’s activities to determine if a violation of the AUP has occurred, nor do we assume any responsibility through our AUP to monitor or police Internet-related activities.
    2. First violation: Any User, which Prestige Technologies LLC determines to have violated any element of the Acceptable Use Policy, shall receive an email, warning them of the violation. The service may be subject, at Prestige Technologies LLC’s discretion, to a temporary suspension pending a User’s agreement in writing, to refrain from any further violations.
    3. Second Violation: Users that Prestige Technologies LLC determines to have committed a second violation of any element of the Acceptable Use Policy shall be subject to immediate suspension or termination of service without further notice.
    4. We reserve the right, to drop the section of IP space involved in Spam or Denial-of-Service complaints if it is clear that the offending activity is causing great harm to parties on the Internet. In particular, if open relays are on your network or a customer’s network, or if denial of service attacks are originating from your network. In certain rare cases, we may have to do this before attempting to contact you. If we do this, we will contact you as soon as is feasible.
  1. Suspension of Service or Cancellation: Prestige Technologies LLC reserves the right to suspend network access to any customer if in the judgment of the Prestige Technologies LLC network administrators the customer’s server is the source or target of the violation of any of the other terms of the AUP or for any other reason which Prestige Technologies LLC chooses. If inappropriate activity is detected, all accounts of the Customer in question will be deactivated until an investigation is complete. Prior notification to the Customer is not assured. In extreme cases, law enforcement will be contacted regarding the activity. The customer will not be credited for the time the customer’s sites were suspended.
  2. Prestige Technologies LLC reserves the right to amend its policies at any time. All Sub-Networks, resellers and managed servers of Prestige Technologies LLC must adhere to the above policies. Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate Cancellation. You will be held responsible for the actions of your clients in the matter described on these Terms and Conditions. Therefore, it is in your best interest to implement a similar or stricter Terms and conditions or otherwise called Acceptable Terms of use policy.
  3. Indemnification: Prestige Technologies LLC wishes to emphasize that in agreeing to the Prestige Technologies LLC Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and Terms of Service (ToS), customer indemnifies Prestige Technologies LLC for any violation of the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and Terms of Service (ToS) that results in loss to Prestige Technologies LLC or the bringing of any claim against Prestige Technologies LLC by any third-party. This means that if Prestige Technologies LLC is sued because of a customer’s or a customer of a customer’s activity, the customer will pay any damages awarded against Prestige Technologies LLC, plus all costs and attorney’s fees.
  4. Miscellaneous Provisions: You must provide us with, and keep current, good contact information for you. E-mail and telephone contacts are used, in that order of preference.
    1. A waiver by the Company of any breach of any provision of this Agreement by Subscriber shall not operate as or be construed as a continuing or subsequent waiver thereof or as a waiver of any breach of any other provision thereof.
    2. Subscriber shall not transfer or assign this Agreement without the prior written consent of the Company. Company may assign Agreement at anytime without consent from or notice to Subscriber. Company reserves right to cancel customers rights under this contract at anytime without further obligation.
    3. Prestige Technologies LLC takes no responsibility for any material input by others and not posted to the Prestige Technologies LLC Network by Prestige Technologies LLC. Prestige Technologies LLC is not responsible for the content of any other websites linked to the Prestige Technologies LLC Network; links are provided as Internet navigation tools only. Prestige Technologies LLC disclaims any responsibility for any such inappropriate use and any liability to any person or party for any other person or party’s violation of this policy.
    4. Prestige Technologies LLC is not responsible for any damages your business may suffer. Prestige Technologies LLC does not make implied or written warranties for any of our services. Prestige Technologies LLC denies any warranty or merchantability for a specific purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service interruptions caused by Prestige Technologies LLC.
    5. It is absolutely forbidden to host pornographic content or IRC servers on Virtual Server Accounts without prior written approval from Prestige Technologies LLC. Virtual Server Accounts found hosting this material will be subject to immediate cancellation without refund.
  5. Responsibility for Content: You, as Prestige Technologies LLC’s customer, are solely responsible for the content stored on and served by your Prestige Technologies LLC site.