HubNut Terms & Conditions of Service
 

 
Service Agreement for HubNut Hosting Services


The Terms and Conditions below are to protect our customers from the activities of others and do not affect your rights & obligations under the consumer protection laws currently in force, including, but not limited to:

  • The Trade Descriptions Act 1968.
  • The Consumer Credit Act 1974.
  • The Sale of Goods Act 1979.
  • The Supply of Goods & Services Act 1982.
  • The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 & The 1994 Regulations.
  • The Consumer Protection Act 1987.
  • Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000.

Use of a HubNut Hosting Account or Service acknowledges that you have read and agreed to the following Terms and Conditions:

General

  • All accounts are operated according to our 'Acceptable Usage Policy'.

  • Commercial use of web and ftp space is permitted.

  • You may not store more data in your account than your allotted virtual server space.

  • Your virtual server (inc FTP and SSH access) is for your personal use only. You must not divulge the password to any other person, and you should take reasonable precautions to ensure that it is not discovered by other people.

  • Data stored on our servers is not guaranteed to be backed up. It is recommended that you keep an independent backup of all data stored on your virtual server.

  • You may not run server processes (eg. talkers/IRC Bots) from your virtual server.

  • When your account is closed, all files (including web pages, etc.) will be deleted.

  • We reserve the right to remove material deemed inappropriate from your web pages, without prior notice.

  • We reserve the right to cancel your account at any time without notice if our Terms and Conditions are deemed by us to have been broken.

  • You will be held responsible for and accept responsibility for any defamatory, confidential, secret or other proprietary material available via your page(s).

  • We will carry out our work with reasonable care and skill and within a reasonable time but due to the nature of our industry we cannot guarantee availability of our services in respect to down-time and lost data.  You are highly recommended to use the online backup feature to back up your own data.  In the result of non-availability of service or data loss, our total aggregate liability to you for any claim in contract, tort, negligence or otherwise arising out of or in connection with the provision of the services shall be limited to the charges paid by you in respect of the services which are the subject of any such claim.  This does not affect your rights as a consumer.

  • You shall indemnify us and keep us indemnified and hold us harmless from and against any breach by you of these terms of business and any claim brought against us by a third party resulting from the provision of services by us to you and your use of the services and the server, without limitation.  

  • By logging into your account, or uploading files to it, you are indicating your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.

SSH
  • SSH shell accounts are made available for editing and setting up your web site. It is not a development platform for issues unrelated to your web site.

  • You must not leave you home directory at any time.

  • You must not attempt to gain the privileges of another user.

  • Interfering with the following files will result in your ssh access being removed - .bash_history - .bash_logout - .bash_profile - .bashrc.

Virtual Control Panels
  • Any attempt to use the Virtual Control Panel for purposes other than it's intended use will result in your account being terminated.

  • Any attempt to obtain the source code and internal functionality of the Virtual Control Panel will result in legal action.

Data Transfer
  • HubNut Limited offers a set usage policy per package by maintaining very large ratios of bandwidth per customer.  If your data transfer reaches the point where it has an adverse affect on other clients we reserve the right to disable your site until you can reduce your usage.

  • Each virtual server includes 1000Mb of data transfer per month, if you use more than this amount then you agree to pay for this bandwidth at a rate of 5p per MB.  Extra data transfer may be pre-purchased at a discount.

 

 

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