Important Legal Agreements
Rope Host provides web hosting to clients worldwide, and we have a responsibility to protect each client and to provide the best services available. All clients of Rope Host are subject to the following terms of service:
Indemnification Policy
Clients will be held responsible for any actions performed by their account whether done by the account holder or by others. If server security is compromised, the account holder is responsible for all violations of these Terms of Service (so-called herein) and rope host' Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP"), including SPAM, and all disconnect and reconnect fees associated with violations. On dedicated servers, rope host does not harden or enable additional server security software outside of operating system defaults except if full server management is chosen.
The following terms constitute an agreement between you and Rope Host Limited. ("rope host"). These Terms of Service govern your use of the services provided by rope host (the "Services").
BY USING THE SERVICES YOU SIGNIFY THAT YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF SERVICE, including that you agree to transact with us electronically, that you consent to the information practices disclosed in our AUP, and that you consent to resolve in Liverpool, United Kingdom any dispute that you may have with us, our suppliers, or the Services. Please note that we offer the Services "AS IS" and without warranties.
These Terms of Service govern your relationship with us and our suppliers. We may change these Terms of Service at any time, as we deem appropriate. If we make changes that we believe will have a material impact on your use of the Services, we will let you know by sending you an email if we have a current email address for you, and by noting on our website that these Terms of Service has been updated. If you disagree with the changes to these Terms of Service, discontinue your use of the Services. Your ongoing use of any Services after the changes take effect signifies your agreement to the new terms. We encourage you to review these Terms of Service regularly.
Rope Host Responsibilities
Rope Host agrees to furnish services, which are paid for in advance by the client, to the client, subject to complete compliance with the AUP and these Terms of Service. rope host reserves the right to refuse services to any potential client and/or to deny renewal of Services to any existing client, at the sole discretion of rope host.
Changing TOS & AUP
Rope Host' Terms of Service and AUP are both subject to change at any time and without notice at the sole discretion of Rope Host. A change in policy shall not be grounds for early contract termination or non-payment. The client recognizes that the nature of the service supplied and the initial rates and charges have been communicated to the client. The client is aware that from time to time rates may change based on the availability of hardware, overall market conditions or other factors. Clients will be notified of any increases in rates or charges before the billing renewal date on which such increases will take effect.
Non-Payment / Service Interruption
Services interrupted for non-payment may be subject to a 15% late fee. Data stored on a client's services will not be available to the client until reconnection is established or alternative arrangements are made to the sole satisfaction of rope host. Clients deactivated for non-payment or charge-back are subject to their data being destroyed seven (7) days from suspension/charge-back date. rope host is not responsible for data integrity, regardless of circumstance. Rope Host shared hosting, reseller hosting and cloud VPS already have free cloud backup however we do recommend purchasing Rope Host cloud backup services with your websites and servers.
Refunds / Charge-Backs
Rope Host provides 30 days money-back guarantee on our shared hosting services, however, the setup fee will be deducted from the refunds, if any. Prepayments and account credit are ineligible to be refunded, or transferred to alternate accounts. Any charge disputes must be reported directly to rope host within forty-five (45) days of the date in which the charge originally occurred. If a charge which is deemed valid by rope host, and validated by our Terms of Service or AUP, is disputed to a financial institution by performing a charge-back, then the client agrees to pay an 'Administrative Fee' of $600 in addition to the original amount of funds which were reclaimed.
Service Suspensions
In the event a service is suspended for non-payment, it will be subject to termination seven (7) days from the time of suspension. At which time, a termination fee of 15% will be applied to the account which must be paid within 15 days to avoid full account suspension. Rope Host assumes no liability for the integrity of the data stored on a suspended server.
Service Cancellations
Rope Host requires a six (6) day notice of cancellation before the billing renewal date for the upcoming billing cycle, submitted via support ticket. A six (6) day notice before the upcoming billing date is also required for any downgrades. All client data will be destroyed immediately after the cancellation date. If the notice of cancellation is not provided within five (6) days, the service will still be canceled after 5 days of invoice overdue however a termination fee of $30 will be applied to the account and must be paid within 15 days to avoid full account suspension.
Rope Host Resellers may cancel their services up to twenty-four (24) hours after the service's billing renewal date. After twenty-four (24) hours, the service can still be requested to be canceled by the reseller, however, the termination fee of 15% will be applied to the account and must be paid within 15 days to avoid full account suspension.
Client Fraud
In the event, fraud is discovered the fraudulent account, and all related accounts, are subject to immediate suspension or termination at the sole discretion of rope host. All information available to Rope Host about the fraudulent account/service shall be submitted to both local authorities, as well as any financial institutions involved. All fraudulent orders are investigated, and all fraudulent clients will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, whether within the United Kingdom, the United States, or any other country.
Disclaimers of Liability; Indemnification
WE PROVIDE THE SERVICES "AS IS", "WITH ALL FAULTS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." WE AND OUR SUPPLIERS MAKE NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR GUARANTEES ABOUT THE SERVICES. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE AND OUR SUPPLIERS DISCLAIM IMPLIED WARRANTIES THAT THE SERVICES ARE MERCHANTABLE, OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, ACCURATE, FIT FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NEED, OR NON-INFRINGING. WE AND OUR SUPPLIERS DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE EFFECTIVE, RELIABLE, ACCURATE OR MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES (EITHER DIRECTLY OR THROUGH THIRD-PARTY NETWORKS) AT TIMES OR LOCATIONS OF YOUR CHOOSING. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION GIVEN BY A ROPE HOST LTD. REPRESENTATIVE SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws that this contract cannot change. You use the Services at your own risk.
YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR ANY DISPUTE WITH US OR OUR SUPPLIERS IS THE CANCELLATION OF YOUR ACCOUNT. IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR, OUR AFFILIATES' AND OUR SUPPLIERS' AGGREGATE AND CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE USE OF THE SERVICES EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF FEES, IF ANY, THAT YOU PAID DURING THE PERIOD DURING WHICH SUCH CLAIMS AROSE. WE, OUR AFFILIATES, AND OUR SUPPLIERS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES. THESE EXCLUSIONS APPLY TO ANY CLAIMS FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK STOPPAGE, COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL DAMAGES OR LOSSES, EVEN IF WE KNEW OR SHOULD HAVE KNOWN OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES OR JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR THE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, IN SUCH STATES OR JURISDICTIONS, OUR LIABILITY, AND THE LIABILITY OF OUR AFFILIATES AND SUPPLIERS, SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless us, our employees, contractors, officers, directors, agents, affiliated companies, and suppliers, from all liabilities, claims, and expenses, including attorneys' fees, which arise from your use or misuse of the Services. We reserve the right to assume control of the defense of any third party claim that is subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will cooperate with us in asserting any available defenses.
Abuse/Spam/Bulk Email Policy
Rope Host reserves the right to deny mail delivery from any servers hosted on our network if they are believed to be involved in SPAM or SPIM activities. This includes spam support services such as DNS or spamvertised web sites. Our abuse department will locate abusive accounts based on public blacklist monitors, abuse reporting from external networks, and other means. If our abuse department receives a report or otherwise becomes aware of abuse-related activities active on our network, we will identify the account the abuse was initially sent from (via IP and in some cases by domain) and create a ticket on behalf of the user who occupies the account with information regarding the abuse such as logs describing the abuse and an explanation of what abuse took place.
The following actions will be taken on a case-by-case basis:
- An abuse ticket serves as notification that our abuse department has received reports of abuse originating from the server. We require a client response to ALL abuse tickets within 48 hours of the ticket being opened. Typically no service will be suspended or filtered within the first 12 hours of an abuse ticket being opened. If a response is not received within 48 hours, or the server is determined to be abusive (or likely to be abusive in the case of spam blacklistings) after the ticket is opened, our abuse technicians may filter or disable ports or IPs assigned to the server temporarily to prevent further abuse until a response is received.
- If a response has not been received to an abuse ticket within 48 hours of being opened, the specific hosting account is eligible for suspension and may be completely disabled until we receive a response.
- Habitual neglect of abuse occurring on a client's account may lead to service termination or longer-term port filters as some blacklistings can take several weeks to time out or be removed.
Rope Host reserves the right to refuse services to any client whose account(s) have been fined or terminated for abuse-related activities. If an IP range or IP address has been blacklisted as a result of excessive abuse reports, rope host reserves the right to issue a fine of $300 and immediately terminate the service.
Compromised cloud or dedicated servers issued abuse notifications: If our abuse department suspects that abuse reports associated with a client's cloud or dedicated server are a result of the server's security being compromised, our abuse department will offer the following options:
- At the discretion of our abuse department, we will typically offer the ability to log in to the server and remedy the security compromise while leaving the abusive traffic filtered.
- Offer an Operating System reinstallation, setting the configuration back to the original state it was provisioned in.
- If Operating System reinstallation is not accepted as an option, rope host may offer to manually retrieve/repair the files on the server if its self managed, at a fee to be assessed and paid before any work being done. We will do it for free if the full server management option is chosen.
- Habitual security compromises that result in abusive traffic being transmitted or received from the server may result in service termination.
If a client wishes to dispute any abuse reports or any fine assessed in connection with abuse reports or blacklistings, the client must provide rope host with an explanation via Client account ticketing system within 3 days of the abuse ticket being opened.
DMCA Complaints
Rope Host handles all Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") complaints very seriously, and will thoroughly investigate each complaint received. rope host reserves the right to pursue civil remedies for any costs associated with the investigation of a substantiated policy violation.
The following actions will be taken on a case-by-case basis:
- A ticket is opened as a warning, providing 48 hours to resolve the situation.
- After 48 hours with no client response, connection to the IP address from the DMCA complaint will be disabled at the network level. At this time, rope host reserves the right to assess a $30 fine.
- After 72 hours with no resolution, services on the hosting account in question will be suspended.
- After 7 days of being suspended and the issue not having been resolved, services on the hosting account in question will be canceled and an Abuse Charge of $300 will be placed on the account. All client data will be destroyed immediately after the cancellation date.
Users who violate this policy and fail to resolve the situation within 48 hours agree that in addition to these administrative penalties, they will pay 'Research Fees' not to exceed $50 per hour that rope host personnel must spend to investigate the matter, to be charged only if claims are found to be valid.
Bandwidth Usage/Overages
Cloud and dedicated server clients agree to pay any bandwidth overage charges accrued on their account from the previous billing cycle. Bandwidth overage charges are billed per gigabyte at a rate of $0.30 (thirty cents) over the allotted bandwidth on the service. Rope Host reserves the right to suspend any account which does not pay bandwidth overage charges within 15 days. Rope Host is not responsible for spikes in bandwidth that are caused by a client's service for any reason. The client assumes liability for all bandwidth to and from their services. If issued an expected to exceed bandwidth notification, clients are required to make payment arrangements within 24 hours of that notification to prevent possible service interruption until adequate arrangements are made. These arrangements may include being required to pro-actively upgrade bandwidth.
Payment Verification
Clients agree to submit to identity verification measures, designed for both the security of the client as well as the security of rope host. The identity verification measures may include the emailing of two forms of government-issued identification to rope host, as well as a front and back copy of the credit card used for payment, as well as a copy of a utility bill with the billing address. In certain circumstances, additional identity verification may be required, in addition to the previously listed forms.
Client Publicity
Rope Host keeps all client information private and will not publicly disclose that they are providing services to the client unless permission is received on a case-by-case basis. Rope Host reserves the right to use client quotes for promotional uses. Such quotes will be anonymous unless the client agrees to the disclosure of their name.
All communications from rope host and the client are strictly confidential and for the intended use of the addressee only. Any disclosure, use or copying of the information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited and you agree to be held liable for damages if you violate this agreement, forward the information, post it or allow it to be posted online in public or private forums or venues.
Electronic Notifications
Your affirmative act of using the Services constitutes your electronic signature to these Terms of Service and your consent to enter into agreements with us electronically. You also agree that we may send to you in electronic form any privacy or other notices, disclosures, reports, documents, communications or other records regarding the Services (collectively, "Notices"). We can send you electronic Notices to the e-mail address that you provided to us during registration. The delivery of any Notice from us is effective when sent by us, regardless of whether you read the Notice when you receive it or whether you receive the delivery. You can withdraw your consent to receive Notices electronically by canceling or discontinuing your use of the applicable Services. To receive Notices electronically, you must have a personal computer with a modem connected to a communications source (telephone, wireless or broadband), and a Windows-based, Linux-based or a Macintosh-based operating system with an Internet browser. You will need a printer attached to your personal computer to print any Notices. You can retrieve an electronic copy and a printable version of this contract by clicking on the "Terms of Service" link on any web page that hosts any of the Services. All contracts completed electronically will be deemed for all legal purposes to be in writing and legally enforceable as a signed writing.
Entire Agreement
This contract and any supplemental terms, policies, rules, and guidelines posted on our website constitute the entire agreement between you and us and supersede all previous or contemporaneous written or oral agreements. If any part of these Terms of Service is held invalid or unenforceable, that portion shall be construed in a manner consistent with applicable law to reflect, as nearly as possible, the original intentions of the parties, and the remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect.
Law and Location for Resolving Disputes
You agree that the laws of United Kingdom and the Companies House UK govern this contract and any claim or dispute that you may have against us or any of our data centers, without regard to the conflict of laws rules thereunder, and that the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods Shall have no applicability. You further agree that any disputes or claims that you may have against us or our data centers will be resolved exclusively by a court located in Liverpool, United Kingdom. PLEASE NOTE THAT BY AGREEING TO THESE TERMS OF USE, YOU ARE: (1) WAIVING CLAIMS THAT YOU MIGHT OTHERWISE HAVE AGAINST US BASED ON THE LAWS OF OTHER JURISDICTIONS, INCLUDING YOUR OWN; (2) IRREVOCABLY CONSENTING TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF, AND VENUE IN, STATE OR FEDERAL COURTS IN USA WHERE YOUR SERVER IS HOSTED OVER ANY DISPUTES OR CLAIMS YOU HAVE WITH US RELATING TO OR ARISING OUR OF THE SERVICES, THE SERVICE OR THE AGREEMENT; AND (3) SUBMITTING YOURSELF TO THE PERSONAL JURISDICTION OF COURTS LOCATED IN UNITED KINGDOM TO RESOLVE ANY SUCH DISPUTES OR CLAIMS.
