Terms & Conditions
Active Independent Marketing Terms and Conditions
You indicate acceptance of these terms and conditions of service by placing an order with AIM. These terms and conditions will not be varied for individual customers.
1 DEFINITIONS
1.1 In this Agreement the following words and expressions shall have the following meanings:
1.1.1 "Downtime" means any service interruption in the availability to visitors of the Website;
1.1.2 "Intellectual Property Rights" means patents, trade marks, design rights, applications for any of the foregoing, copyright, topography rights, database rights, rights in know-how, trade or business names and other similar rights or obligations, whether registrable or not in any country;
1.1.3 "AIM" means Active Independent Marketing.
1.1.4 "IP address" stands for Internet Protocol address which is the numeric address for the server;
1.1.5 "ISP" stands for Internet Service Provider;
1.1.6 "Server" means the computer server equipment in connection with the provision of the Services;
1.1.7 "The Services" means the Grid100 software provided under licence by AIM.
1.1.8 "Spam" means sending unsolicited and/or bulk emails;
1.1.9 "Virus" means a computer programme that copies itself or is copied to other storage media, including without limitation magnetic tape cassettes, memory chips, electronic cartridges, optical discs and magnetic discs, and destroys, alters or corrupts data, causes damage to the user's files or creates a nuisance or annoyance to the user and includes without limitation computer programs commonly referred to as "worms" or "Trojan horses";
1.1.10 "Visitor" means a third party who has accessed the Website;
1.1.11 “Participant” means a third party who the Customer has an agreement with to supply advertising;
1.2 Product specifications and details may be found at www. aim4websites.com.
1.3 Words denoting the singular shall include the plural and vice versa and words denoting any gender shall include all genders.
1.4 The headings of the paragraphs of this Agreement are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of or to affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.
2 INTRODUCTION
2.1 The Customer wishes to provide AIM with data that will be hosted on the servers and made accessible via the Internet.
2.2 AIM provides the website and web hosting services and has agreed to host the Customer's data upon the following terms and conditions.
3 DUTIES
3.1 AIM shall provide to the Customer the Services specified in their order subject to the following terms and conditions.
3.2 AIM shall lease the Services to the Customer on a 12 month basis.
3.3 AIM will provide on-going technical support to the Customer relating directly to the functionality of the Services.
3.4 The Customer is responsible under their own terms and conditions to provide advertising for the Participants during the specified term.
3.5 The Services contain a free draw and this should not be used as a primary incentive to obtain advertising.
3.6 The Customer is responsible for providing the free draw prizes as specified.
4 CHARGES, PAYMENT AND MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
4.1 Payment methods include credit cards (including MasterCard, Visa), debit cards (including Switch/Maestro) via Paypal and Cheque or Bank Transfer via on-line invoice.
4.2 AIM do not accept postal orders, cash or any other form of payment other than those outlined in 4.1
4.3 The Charges are exclusive of VAT unless otherwise stated.
4.4 AIM shall be entitled to charge interest in respect of late payment of any sum due under this Agreement, which shall accrue from the date when payment becomes due from day to day until the date of payment at a rate of 8% per annum above the base rate of the Bank of England from time to time in force.
4.5 AIM does not provide credit facilities.
4.6 From time to time AIM may make enquiries on the Customers’ company, proprietor or directors of the Customers’ company with credit reference agencies. These agencies may record that a search has been made and share this information with other businesses.
4.7 Should your chosen payment method fail AIM will attempt to settle your invoice using any other payment facilities available on your account.
4.8 All services will continue until cancelled by the customer in writing as outlined in Clause 11.
5 IP ADDRESSES
5.1 AIM shall maintain control and ownership of the IP address that is assigned to the Customer as part of the Services and reserves the right in its sole discretion to change or remove any and all IP addresses.
5.2 Where AIM changes or removes any IP address it shall use its reasonable endeavours to avoid any disruption to the Customer.
6 ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
6.1 The Services may be used for lawful purposes only and the Customer may not submit, publish or display any content that breaches any law, statute or regulation. In particular the Customer agrees not to:
6.1.1 Use the Services in any way to send unsolicited commercial email or "spam", or any similar abuse of the Services;
6.1.2 Send email or any type of electronic message with the intention or result of affecting the performance of any computer facilities;
6.1.3 Publish, post, distribute or disseminate defamatory, obscene, indecent or other unlawful material or information, or any material or information which infringes any Intellectual Property Rights (for the avoidance of doubt this includes licensed software distributed as Grid 100), on the Website or via the Services
6.1.4 Threaten, abuse, disrupt or otherwise violate the rights (including rights of privacy and publicity) of others;
6.1.5 Engage in illegal or unlawful activities via the Website or through the Services;
6.1.6 Make available or upload files to the Website or to the Services that the Customer knows contain a virus, worm, Trojan or corrupt data; or
6.1.7 Obtain or attempt to obtain access, through whatever means, to areas of AIM's network or the Services which are identified as restricted or confidential. This includes leaving your home directory whilst using SSH access to servers.
6.1.8 Operate or attempt to operate IRC bots or other permanent server processes.
6.2 The Customer has full responsibility for the content of the Website. For the avoidance of doubt, AIM is not obliged to monitor, and will have no liability for, the content of any communications transmitted by virtue of the Services.
6.3 If the Customer fails to comply with the Acceptable Use Policy outlined in Clause 6.1 AIM shall be entitled to withdraw the Services and terminate the Customer's account without notice.
6.4 The Customer has full responsibility for the terms and conditions supplied with the Services.
6.5 The Customer warrants not to copy the Services or use in any other manner without the express permission of AIM.
7 ALTERATIONS AND UPDATES
All alterations and updates to the Services shall be made by the Customer using the online account management facility, FTP access or SSH access where available. The Customer will be issued with a user name and password in order to access the account. The Customer must take all reasonable steps to maintain the confidentiality of this user name and password. If the Customer reasonably believes that this information has become known to any unauthorised person, the Customer agrees to immediately inform AIM and the password will be changed.
8 WARRANTIES
8.1 AIM warrants and represents to the Customer that the Customer’s use of the Services in accordance with this Agreement will not infringe the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party and that AIM has the sole rights to license the Services to the Customer.
8.2 All conditions, terms, representations and warranties that are not expressly stated in this Agreement, whether oral or in writing or whether imposed by statute or operation of law or otherwise, including, without limitation, the implied warranty of satisfactory quality and fitness for a particular purpose are hereby excluded. In particular and without prejudice to that generality, AIM shall not be liable to the Customer as a result of any viruses introduced or passed on to the Customer.
9 INDEMNITY
The Customer agrees to indemnify and hold AIM and its employees and agents harmless from and against all liabilities, legal fees, damages, losses, costs and other expenses in relation to any claims or actions brought against AIM arising out of any breach by the Customer of the terms of this Agreement or other liabilities arising out of or relating to the Website.
10 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
10.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude or limit AIM's liability for death or personal injury resulting from AIM's negligence or that of its employees, agents or sub-contractors.
10.2 The entire liability of AIM to the Customer in respect of any claim whatsoever or breach of this Agreement, whether or not arising out of negligence, shall be limited to the charges paid for the Services under this Agreement in respect of which the breach has arisen.
10.3 In no event shall AIM be liable to the Customer for any loss of business, loss of opportunity or loss of profits or for any other indirect or consequential loss or damage whatsoever. This shall apply even where such a loss was reasonably foreseeable or AIM had been made aware of the possibility of the Customer incurring such a loss.
11 TERM AND TERMINATION
11.1 This Agreement will become effective on the date the service is ordered and shall continue until terminated by either party in writing of its intention to terminate the Agreement.
11.2 The Customer is required to give notice to all Participants of either 12 months’ or the remaining period of advertising whichever is sooner prior to terminating the Agreement with AIM.
11.2 AIM shall have the right to suspend or terminate this Agreement if the Customer fails to make any payment when it becomes due. The Customer is responsible for their Agreement with all Participants.
11.3 Either party may terminate this Agreement forthwith by notice in writing to the other if:
11.3.1 The other party commits a material breach of this Agreement and, in the case of a breach capable of being remedied, fails to remedy it within a reasonable time of being given written notice from the other party to do so; or
11.3.2 The other party commits a material breach of this Agreement which cannot be remedied under any circumstances; or
11.3.3 The other party passes a resolution for winding up (other than for the purpose of solvent amalgamation or reconstruction), or a court of competent jurisdiction makes an order to that effect; or
11.3.4 The other party ceases to carry on its business or substantially the whole of its business; or
11.3.5 The other party is declared insolvent, or convenes a meeting of or makes or proposes to make any arrangement or composition with its creditors; or a liquidator, receiver, administrative receiver, manager, trustee or similar officer is appointed over any of its assets.
11.4 Any rights to terminate this Agreement shall be without prejudice to any other accrued rights and liabilities of the parties arising in any way out of this Agreement as at the date of termination.
11.5 On termination all data held in the customers account will be deleted.
12 ASSIGNMENT
12.1 AIM may assign or otherwise transfer this Agreement at any time.
12.2 The Customer may not assign or otherwise transfer this Agreement or any part of it without AIM's prior written consent.
13 FORCE MAJEURE
Neither party shall be liable for any delay or failure to perform any of its obligations if the delay or failure results from events or circumstances outside its reasonable control, including but not limited to acts of God, strikes, lock outs, accidents, war, fire, the act or omission of government, highway authorities or any telecommunications carrier, operator or administration or other competent authority, the act or omission of any Internet Service Provider, or the delay or failure in manufacture, production, or supply by third parties of equipment or services, and the party shall be entitled to a reasonable extension of its obligations after notifying the other party of the nature and extent of such events.
14 SEVERANCE
If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason by any Court of competent jurisdiction such provision shall be severed and the remainder of the provisions hereof shall continue in full force and effect as if this Agreement had been agreed with the invalid illegal or unenforceable provision eliminated.
15 NOTICES
Any notice to be given by either party to the other may be sent by either email, fax or recorded delivery to the address of the other party as appearing in this Agreement or such other address as such party may from time to time have communicated to the other in writing, and if sent by email shall unless the contrary is proved be deemed to be received on the day it was sent or if sent by fax shall be deemed to be served on receipt of an error free transmission report, or if sent by recorded delivery shall be deemed to be served 2 days following the date of posting.
16 ENTIRE AGREEMENT
This Agreement contains the entire Agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter and supersedes any previous agreements, arrangements, undertakings or proposals, oral or written. This Agreement may be updated without notice.
17 GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and the parties hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
18 DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION
18.1 Domain names are not deemed to be successfully registered until they appear in the relevant “whois” database of the top level domain name registrar. In the event that a domain name is unavailable when we attempt to register it AIM will provide a full refund for that domain name.
18.2 Please view terms and conditions for individual domain name registrars.
19 SCRIPTING
Heart Internet are not responsible for customer programming issues other than ensuring that programming languages such as Perl, PHP and ASP are installed and functioning on the web hosting system.
20 PRIVACY
20.1 We will collect personal information from you for the following purposes: to receive payment from you, to run the Service, to register domain names on your behalf, to send you marketing information in the future (with your consent), and to maintain our accounts and records.
20.2 We will not pass your personal information to any other organisation, except:
20.2.1 Where we employ the services of a third party in order to operate an aspect of our service (including but not limited to payment processing and domain name registration),
20.2.2 To comply with any applicable law or valid legal process (including but not limited to requests by government agencies), if required to do so by the police or the courts, or if placed on legal notice to do so, or if we believe you may be in breach of our Terms and Conditions.
20.2.3 We may set cookies on your browser in order to enable you to use the service. We will not use these cookies to track your browsing or infringe your privacy.
21 DATA TRANSFER
21.1 Web hosting accounts include a certain amount of data transfer, if you exceed this amount in any one month your account will be deactivated until you have upgraded to an account that has more data transfer included.
21.2 Web hosting accounts are prohibited from hosting file distribution websites (including but not limited to music, video and software), adult content orientated websites, hosting banners, graphics or cgi scripts for other websites, storing pages, files or data as a repository for other websites or personal computers, giving away web space under a domain, sub domain or directory.
22 SERVER USAGE
Should your account use more than 5% of the servers processing power and as a result have a detrimental effect on other customers we will discuss with you alternative solutions for your hosting requirements.
23 WEBSPACE USAGE
Web space is available for genuine web site content, content must be linked into web pages. Customers are prohibited from using the server as a file/backup repository. Customers are expected to employ good house keeping when maintaining their account.