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Yarmouth Designs issues this document. The company shall be known throughout this document as Yarmouth Designs.

Use of Yarmouth Designs Service constitutes acceptance and agreement to our TOS (Terms of Service). All service provisions are subject to the TOS (Terms of Service) of Yarmouth Designs.

The TOS may be changed from time to time at the discretion of Yarmouth Designs. The client understands that changes to the TOS by Yarmouth Designs shall not be grounds for non-payment.

Yarmouth Designs agrees to provide the client with web hosting services for a monthly or annual fee. Yarmouth Designs will never require clients to advertise for Yarmouth Designs on their website in any way shape or form unless agreed upon, such as a non-profit organisation receiving complimentary hosting. Clients are allowed to use Yarmouth Designs services for personal and/or business/commercial websites or content.

Content:
All services provided by Yarmouth Designs may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any United Kingdom (or any other country) law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material that is threatening or obscene, material that is "adult only" content, or material protected by trade secrets and other statue. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Yarmouth Designs from any claims resulting from the use of the service which damages the subscriber or any other party.

Adult Content:
Yarmouth Designs does not allow adult membership "xxx" related websites, pornography and sex-related content on its servers. Nor do we allow adult subscription or membership based "pay sites". This includes sexual content, or links to adult content hosted elsewhere. This is also true for sites that promote any illegal activity or content that may be damaging to our servers or any other server on the Internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited. Yarmouth Designs will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Educational adult websites, dating sites, and adult e-commerce stores are allowed. If you are in any doubt we strongly recommend checking with Yarmouth Designs support before hosting such websites. Yarmouth Designs will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Some Examples of Unacceptable Content:

• Adult / Pornographic
• Hacking programs / Hacking Archives / Hacking Information
• Warez Sites
• Spam / Spamming Software
• Distribution or Transmission of Obscene or Indecent Speech or Materials
• Violation of indecency and obscenity laws can result in criminal penalties.

Intellectual Property Rights:
Material accessible to you through Yarmouth Designs's Services may be subject to protection under United Kingdom (or any other country) copyright laws, or laws protecting trademarks, trade secrets or proprietary information. Except when expressly permitted by the owner of such rights, you must not use the Yarmouth Designs Service in a manner that would infringe, violate, dilute or misappropriate any such rights, with respect to any material, which you access or receive through the Yarmouth Designs Network. If you use a domain name in connection with the Yarmouth Designs Service or similar service, you must not use that domain name in violation of any trademark, service mark, or similar rights of any third party.

SPAM and Unsolicited Email:
Yarmouth Designs takes a zero tolerance approach to the sending of Unsolicited Email (SPAM). Very simply this means that Clients of Yarmouth Designs may not use or permit others to use our service for sending SPAM Emails. Clients of Yarmouth Designs may not host, or permit hosting of, sites or information that is advertised by SPAM from other services. Violations of this policy carry severe penalties, including termination of service.

If a customer is found to be in violation of our SPAM policy, Yarmouth Designs may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend or terminate a customer's account. In addition, Yarmouth Designs may impose a £100 penalty for each spam policy violation. Yarmouth Designs solely reserves the right to refuse or cancel service to known spammers. Lastly, Yarmouth Designs reserves the right to determine what violates this policy. As such, any violation may result in cancellation of services without refund.

"Catch All" Email Accounts:
Yarmouth Designs does not allow the use of "catch all" email accounts. This is the practise of This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. directing all mail to a single mailbox. This practice is out-of-date and causes extreme surges of spam, both for you and for our spam filtering servers. To use an email address you must login to your control panel and create the required mailbox, catch-all mailboxes are banned and if found will be removed without notice or your account disabled.

SpamExperts Spam Filtering Limits:
Some domain names may receive such a high volume of spam email that it will not be possible for us to provide SpamExperts filtering service to them, due to the extreme usage. While SpamExperts is a dedicated system for handling huge volumes of spam it does have limits. Should the amount of spam or number of mailboxes in use on a domain break what Yarmouth Designs believes to be 'fair use' limits for your hosting package then we will inform you that SpamExperts services will not be continued for your domain or an upgrade of package may be suggested. SpamAssassin will be supplied in replacement to SpamExperts.

Scripting, Applications and Background-running Programs:
We do not allow background-running programs. This includes any IRC related software such as bouncers and bots. We provide a hosting service not a shell service. You are not allowed to compile and run software on our hosting servers.

You are free to use any scripts (such as php, cgi or perl) you wish provided they do not affect the normal operations of the server and they are not mentioned specifically below.

Scripts that are commonly known for causing server disruption include large cgi-based message forums, auctions, galleries, and banner exchanges. In the event a script affects normal server and/or administrative operations, Yarmouth Designs reserves the right to disable the account pending client cooperation and resolution.

Scripts we do not allow include:

• Chat servers/scripts of any kind are strictly prohibited.
• Formmail scripts specifically using the filename "formmail" are prohibited.
• Formmail and contact forms are acceptable providing the script is not named "formmail" for its filename and providing that you maintain the latest version of the script and it remains secure and un-abused by spammers.

We do allow you to have ONE remote MySQL user if requested. The user must have a fixed, non changing, IP address for us to grant access to. You can request a remote MySQL user via our helpdesk.

Network Security:
Customers may not use the Yarmouth Designs Network to attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of any host, network, or account. This includes, but is not limited to, accessing data not intended for the customer, logging into a server or account the customer is not expressly authorized to access, password cracking, probing the security of other networks in search of weakness, or violation of any other organization's security policy. Customers may not attempt to interfere or deny service to any user, host, or network. This includes, but is not limited to, flooding, mail bombing, or other deliberate attempts to overload or crash a host or network. Yarmouth Designs will cooperate fully with investigations of violations of systems or network security at other sites, including cooperating with law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations. Users who violate system or network security may incur criminal or civil liability.

Physical Security:
For security reasons Yarmouth Designs operates 'closed' datacentre facilities. Physical access to any servers or related equipment at any Yarmouth Designs locations is not permitted. Only fully authorised Yarmouth Designs staff are permitted access to work onsite at these facilities.

Support Boundaries:
Yarmouth Designs provides weekday technical support to its Clients.

Yarmouth Designs limits technical support to its area of expertise, this is providing web hosting services and related features. Yarmouth Designs does not offer support for application specific issues such as php programming, cgi programming, html, website design and development or any other such issue. If you host multiple websites for your own clients, Yarmouth Designs does not provide technical support for YOUR Clients.

Any additional work you may require from Yarmouth Designs staff which does not fall within usual support boundaries is charged at a rate of £50 GBP per hour, in 30 minute increments. All charges will be discussed before work commences on a per incident basis. Examples of work beyond the boundaries of normal support include: site scripting problems, script installation, website design and development.

Cancellations:
Requests for cancellation must be submitted via e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  Your cancellation will be confirmed by Yarmouth Designs.

Cancellation must be received at least 14 days before your next invoice due date. Yarmouth Designs will then stop all recurring payments and you will not be charged again. If any invoices are overdue on your account then these must be settled prior to submitting your cancellation request.

Changing a domains DNS to another provider or transferring a domain away from Yarmouth Designs does not constitute a hosting cancellation request. A cancellation request must be submitted via the billing area and confirmed by Yarmouth Designs.

The customer acknowledges that, termination of the agreement for any reason will result in Yarmouth Designs ceasing to provide the applicable services, with the consequences that flow from such cessation, including (but not limited to), deletion of data .e.g. hosting account(s), mail boxes and backups.

Payment:
Establishment of this service is dependant upon receipt by Yarmouth Designs of payment of all stated charges. Subsequent payments are due on a reoccurring date that coincides with the date of signup (monthly or yearly terms).

Service may be interrupted on accounts that fall overdue (such as a credit card being declined or expired). Yarmouth Designs may, at its sole discretion, charge a fee of £15.00GBP to reinstate a suspended account.

When payment is declined from your chosen payment method we will send an email notification and retry payment the following day, this will occur 3 times over a 3-5 day period. After this period if we have not received payment or had notice from you that the due payment is in hand, your account will be suspended or terminated at the sole discretion of Yarmouth Designs.

It is very important you keep your email address and telephone numbers on file with us current. Failure to keep us updated with accurate contact information may mean important communications don’t reach you, resulting in suspension or termination of your hosting account.

A service charge, equal to the charge incurred by Yarmouth Designs, will be charged to your account for each cheque, chargeback, disputed payment, or any other form of payment that is returned to Yarmouth Designs unpaid.

Refunds and Disputes:
All payments to Yarmouth Designs are non-refundable. This includes any setup fee and subsequent charges regardless of usage. If you dispute a charge that, in Yarmouth Designs's sole discretion is a valid charge under the provisions of this TOS, you agree to pay Yarmouth Designs an Administrative Fee for costs associated with pursuing that payment.

If you are paying annually for hosting services and cancel early before your 12 months of service is over, we will issue a pro-rata refund for full unused months at time of cancellation. Yarmouth Designs does not charge or refund days or part-months.

Yarmouth Designs does not offer any kind of "money back guarantee" or initial "trial period".

All domain name registration fees are non-refundable, in whole or in part, even if your domain name registration is suspended, cancelled or transferred prior to the end of your term. Pleae be careful when ordering as spelling mistakes and 'typos' cannot be corrected or refunded.

VAT and Payment Currency:
UK and EU clients will be billed in GBP (Pounds Sterling) and prices include VAT. Clients in the rest of the world will be billed in USD with VAT not applicable to our USD pricing.

If you are a VAT registered business in another EU member state then you must supply your VAT registration number for VAT to be zero-rated. If your VAT registration number is not supplied or cannot be confirmed as valid then VAT at the UK rate will apply.

Product Pricing:
Yarmouth Designs reserves the right to change the pricing of products and/or services at any time.

Invoicing:
Yarmouth Designs does not provide paper or hard-copy invoices. PDF invoices are sent via email and available in your billing area.

Domain Name Expiry and Redemption Fees:
Yarmouth Designs is not liable for expiry or loss of your domain name.

Before a domain expires you will be reminded to renew your domain by email to the address we hold on file for you. We strongly recommend keeping an eye on your renewal dates in your billing area and your diary too. On the date a domain expires it will be deactivated by the registry, and no longer display your website. Once a domain is deactivated and expired you will have somewhere between 5 and 30 days to contact us to renew the domain name at our regular renewal rates.

Redemption Period - After between 5 and 30 days have passed since the expiry date of your domain, the domain is placed in its "redemption period" and to renew the domain at this stage will cost $250 USD (approx £179 GBP) +VAT. This is a cost charged by the registry and passed on to you by us. Redemption periods last between 30 and 60 days, and then the domain is released to the public so anyone can re-register your domain and you will lose it.

Domain Transfers:
Any domain name registered by Yarmouth Designs (as your registrar) is yours to keep. You can transfer your domain name to a different registrar at any time once the domain is 90 days old - Newly registered domains do have a 90 day waiting period where they cannot be transferred from Yarmouth Designs to a different registrar.

The same 90 day 'no transfer' window applies when an expired domain is renewed or restored after being in the registry redemption period. Once 90 days have passed from renewing such domains they are then free to be transferred again.

Free Website Migration Service:
Yarmouth Designs offers a free migration service from other hosting companies. The success of this service is dependent on the type and quality of the hosting being used as the source for your data. We do not guarantee the quality of migrations, which are offered on a best effort basis, and are largely dependent on the responsiveness and level of testing to be completed by the client.

Migrations are performed in a single batch. If you have 100 websites then we will arrange a window to migrate all 100 sites together. It is not feasible to perform migrations site-by-site over large periods of time, unless special terms are agreed with your account manager as part of the on-boarding process.

Any additional work you may require from Yarmouth Designs staff which does not fall within usual migration boundaries is charged at a rate of £50 GBP per hour, in 30 minute increments. All charges will be discussed before work commences on a per incident basis.

Moving between Yarmouth Designs Services:
When upgrading your service with Yarmouth Designs if a change in server type is required we can usually extend our free migration service to help make the move as painless as possible.

When downgrading (or making significant and frequent changes) it will not always be possible to offer a free migration service, and reasonable charges will be applicable to migration work where the client does not wish to migrate themselves.

Managed Dedicated & Cloud Servers:
Dedicated & Cloud server customers should also read and agree to the following before signing up for service with Yarmouth Designs:

Our dedicated and cloud solutions include server management in the monthly fee. Yarmouth Designs defines server management as general maintenance, updates and security hardening of core packages to ensure the server performs as expected. We also include additional administrative duties (such as installing custom server software requirements or accommodating customer requests) of up to 2 hours per month with your server. Additional management work, over this 2 hour inclusive, incurs a service fee based on a £70GBP/hour (+VAT) labour rate, billed in half-hour increments with a half-hour minimum charge.

Dedicated server specifications may vary over time as technology changes. All hardware provided by Yarmouth Designs to the customer will be of comparable specification and performance to those shown on the Yarmouth Designs website.

Yarmouth Designs will make all reasonable efforts to satisfy the customer's requests for technical and/or administrative changes to the customer's dedicated servers. Certain tasks, such as repairing software/system faults caused by the customer, or installing certain additional software packages, may, at the sole discretion of Yarmouth Designs, incur a service fee based on a £50GBP/hour labour rate, billed in half-hour increments with a half-hour minimum charge.

Customers are responsible for and subject to all software vendor licensing terms, conditions, restrictions, and limitations. It is the customer's responsibility to ensure conformance to and abide by the specific terms and conditions of each application's licensing agreements.

Yarmouth Designs does not guarantee the offsite backups of your server. We take CDP backups as a precaution but cannot guarantee their availability, usability, or integrity. We schedule 4 backups per day but due to the number of variables which can dictate the speed a successful backup can be obtained it may not be possible to get 4 full backups on any given day, backups are therefore scheduled on a best effort basis which may vary from day to day. Yarmouth Designs can accept no responsibility for any loss of data or consequences arising from this. Yarmouth Designs always advises clients to take their OWN back ups of all data regularly for your own disaster recovery requirements.

Cancellation of any dedicated or cloud server must be made at least 14 days before your monthly billing date. Failure to provide enough notice may result in a further month's fee being due.

Once a server has been cancelled we will provide you with written email confirmation of the cancellation. Without written confirmation from Yarmouth Designs your service will not have been correctly cancelled and continue to fall due for payment on your monthly billing date as arranged upon commencement of your service.

Dedicated & Cloud servers are exempt from the following sections of our normal TOS:

• Adult Content - You are allowed to host tasteful adult content on dedicated servers.
• Background-running Programs - You can run background processes on dedicated servers.
• Banned Scripts - We do not enforce the banning of any scripts on dedicated servers.

Abuse:
Any attempts to undermine, slander, libel, threaten, or cause harm to a Yarmouth Designs server, customer, employee, or the company directly is strictly prohibited and is grounds for immediate termination without refund. In addition, we will pursue all attempts to the fullest extent of the law.

Refusal of Service:
Yarmouth Designs reserves the right at its sole discretion to refuse or cancel service. Violation of any of Yarmouth Designs's TOS could result in a warning, suspension, or account termination. Accounts terminated due to policy violations will not be refunded. Domains terminated due to policy violations will not be released to the customer.

Information Disclosure Policy:
Yarmouth Designs will not otherwise disclose its customers' personal and account information unless Yarmouth Designs has reason to believe that disclosing such information is necessary to identify, make contact with, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing harm or interfering with the rights or property of Yarmouth Designs, Yarmouth Designs' customers, or others, or where Yarmouth Designs has a good faith belief that the law requires such disclosure.

Yarmouth Designs also will not, except for reasons stated below, disclose to third parties the contents of any electronic mail, electronic communications, or other electronic data that Yarmouth Designs stores or transmits for its customers. The circumstances under which Yarmouth Designs will disclose such electronic customer communications or data are when: * it is necessary in order to provide service to the customer * it is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of Yarmouth Designs and its customers * it is required to cooperate with dispute policies, court orders, warrants, or other legal processes that Yarmouth Designs determines in its sole discretion to be valid and enforceable * it is necessary to provide to a law enforcement agency when the contents appear to pertain to the commission of a crime

Privacy Policy
It is the policy of Yarmouth Designs to not disclose any personal information or account data to third parties without prior consent of the individual unless instructed to do so by a court of law or other legal warrant/document.

Yarmouth Designs will in the normal course of its business collect personal information from clients and prospective clients, for the purposes of billing, customer service, provision of information, as well as other legitimate business reasons. This information may be stored in a number of ways including electronic and paper formats.

Any person may request a copy of personal information pertaining to themselves, which shall be provided free of charge after reasonable proof of identity. Any personal information held on our systems will be deleted on request and after reasonable proof of identity

We may also store information about you using cookies which we can later access when you visit our websites at a later date. If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to your system administrator who will be able to help you locate and remove these cookies. If you want to stop cookies being stored on your computer in future, please refer to your browser manufacturer's instructions by clicking "Help" in your browser menu. Please note that taking either of these measures may prevent you accessing features offered from our sites.

As with most websites, when you visit one of our sites, we will log your IP address and time of access which may be used later for research or fault investigation processes.

Complaints Procedure
Yarmouth Designs always strives to provide the highest standards of customer service. However, in the unlikely event of you having a complaint we will always do everything possible to ensure it is dealt with quickly and fairly.

Please contact us on the telephone number below to speak to someone from the department you feel is most relevant to your complaint (support, sales or billing).

Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Telephone: 01493 249293

If our team are unable to resolve your complaint they will refer the issue to someone at director level. Upon receipt of your complaint the director will investigate thoroughly and respond back to you directly.

If you prefer to put the complaint in writing please use our UK postal address.

Please include your account domain name and as much detail as possible in your request, so we can fully investigate your concerns before contacting you. Finally, please note that postal complaints may take longer to process and we would always advise customers (wherever possible) to contact us directly by email or telephone.

Indemnification:
Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold Yarmouth Designs (or it's employee's/owners) harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable legal fees asserted against Yarmouth Designs, its agents, its customers, officers and employees, that may arise or result from any service provided or performed or agreed to be performed or any product sold by customer, it's agents, employees or assigns. Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Yarmouth Designs against liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with Yarmouth Designs server; (2) any material supplied by customer infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party and (3) copyright infringement. Customer agrees to limit the liability of Yarmouth Designs to the amount paid for service.

Disclaimer:
Yarmouth Designs will not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer. Yarmouth Designs makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services we provide. Yarmouth Designs disclaims any warranty or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service interruptions caused by Yarmouth Designs and its employees. Yarmouth Designs makes no "uptime" guarantees. The Client agrees that Yarmouth Designs shall not be liable for any damages as a result of loss of hosting services or hosted data. The Client further acknowledges that Yarmouth Designs's liability for its own negligence is zero, and Yarmouth Designs may not be held responsible. Liability or Damages in any event may not exceed an amount equivalent to charges payable by Client for services during the period damages occurred. In no event shall Yarmouth Designs be liable for any special or consequential damages, loss of revenue or injury.

Yarmouth Designs can accept no responsibility for any loss of data or consequences arising from this. Yarmouth Designs always advises clients to back up their site data regularly for their own protection. Yarmouth Designs does not guarantee its own backups of customer data and is not liable for any loss of data, loss of backups or inability to restore service after implementing its disaster recovery plan.

Yarmouth Designs furthermore expects that its customers who provide hosting services (resellers) to others will ensure its customers fully comply with all applicable laws and this Yarmouth Designs TOS. A reseller's client's failure to comply with those laws and our TOS will violate this policy.

If a customer provides hosting services (resellers) to others and decides to cancel their reseller hosting account with Yarmouth Designs then Yarmouth Designs will not be responsible for maintaining hosting for the resellers customers. Yarmouth Designs has no agreement or responsibility to any resold services. Resold services to others are your own responsibility.

All communications (emails, verbal or written) are between Yarmouth Designs and the client. These communications are private and are therefore not to be shared with any other parties.

This agreement is made between the customer (as specified in the customer details section when placing your order) and Yarmouth Designs. If you are purchasing hosting on behalf of another party please ensure you specify the account owners details in the customer details section. Yarmouth Designs will only be able to communicate with regards to the account with the registered customer and not a third-party.

Finally, Yarmouth Designs wishes to emphasise that in accepting services, customers indemnify Yarmouth Designs for the violation of any law or Yarmouth Designs policy that results in loss to Yarmouth Designs or the bringing of any claim against Yarmouth Designs. This means that if Yarmouth Designs is sued because of activities of the customer that violate any law, or this policy, the customer will pay any damages awarded against Yarmouth Designs, plus costs and reasonable legal fees.

Failure to comply with any of our terms of service will result in grounds for immediate account deactivation or removal.