Terms and Conditions

The use of MC4-IT services is governed by the below Terms and Conditions below.

This document was last updated on 18 April 2013.

1. Terms of Service

   MC4-IT provides website development and web page hosting. MC4-IT reserves the right to suspend or cancel a customer's access to any or all of its services at any time without notice or reason. MC4-IT also reserves the right to cancel or suspend a customer’s account if the customer breaches these Terms and Conditions.

2. Account-Holder Identification Information

   You agree to supply MC4-IT with a current and truthful name, postal address, email address and telephone number for our records, and you are obligated to keep this information current.

   MC4-IT reserves the right to refuse service to anyone without notice or reason.

3. Sharing or Reselling of account

   You are solely responsible for all use of the account, whether someone you have given access to causes damage or not. You understand this includes, but is not limited to, a breach of the hosting account due to negligence on your part.

4. Account Setup

   We will set up your account after we have received payment and we and/or our payment partner(s) have screened the order(s) in case of fraud. It is your responsibility to provide us with an email address that is not @ the domain(s) you are signing up under.

5. No warranties

   MC4-IT makes no warranties or representations of any kind for the services being offered. The service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of title, non-infringement, or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. No advice or information given by MC4-IT or its agents or employees shall create a warranty. MC4-IT provides no warranty that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free or that any information, software or other material accessible on the service is free from viruses or other harmful components. Under no circumstances shall MC4-IT be liable for any direct, indirect, special, punitive, or consequential damages that result in any way from your use of or inability to use the service or for third parties' use of the service to access your Web space, or to access the Internet or any part thereof, or your or any third parties reliance on or use of information, services, or merchandise provided on or through the service, or that result from mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files, errors, defects, delays in operation or transmission, or any failure of performance.

6. Account Use
   
   MC4-IT does not allow any of the following content to be hosted:
   1. Illegal Material - This includes copyrighted works, commercial audio, video, or music files, and any material violating any Federal, State or Local regulation.
   2. Adult Material - Includes all pornography or otherwise lewd or obscene content. The designation of "adult material" is left entirely to the discretion of MC4-IT.
   3. Warez - Includes pirated software, ROMS, emulators, phreaking, hacking, and password cracking. IP spoofing, etc., and encrypting of any of the above. It also includes any sites that provide "links to" or "how to" information about such material.
   4. Other Material - Any material we feel to be abusive, affect or could affect the operation of the service and/or affect other internet users. The designation of "abusive" is left entirely to the discretion of MC4-IT. All rights reserved.
      
      
7. Zero Tolerance Spam Policy

   We take a zero-tolerance stance against sending unsolicited e-mail, commonly known as spam. Any user who sends out spam will have their account terminated without notice.

   MC4-IT reserves the right to require changes or disable as necessary any website, account, database, or other component that does not comply with this policy at its sole discretion. MC4-IT also reserves the right to make any such modifications in an emergency at our sole discretion.

   MC4-IT reserves the right to charge the holder of the account used to send any unsolicited e-mail a clean-up fee. The cost of the “clean-up fee” is left entirely to MC4-IT's discretion. All rights reserved.

8. Mass-mailing lists

   No account hosted on MC4-IT servers may send more than one thousand (1000) emails per twenty-four (24) hours. Any account found in violation of this policy will be immediately suspended.

9. Payment Information

   You agree to supply appropriate payment for the services received from MC4-IT in advance of the time period during which such services are provided. You agree that until and unless you notify MC4-IT of your desire to cancel any or all services received, those services will be billed on a recurring basis.

10. Backups and Data Loss

    Your use of the service is at your sole risk. MC4-IT is not responsible for files and data residing on your account. You agree to take full responsibility for files and data transferred and to maintain all appropriate backups of files and data stored on MC4-IT servers.

11. Cancellation and Refunds

    MC4-IT reserves the right to cancel the account at any time.

    Either party can cancel, given a month's notice. No refund will be given for the residual left in the hosting account. If the account is terminated in breach of terms and conditions, all residual is forfeited.
    
    Accounts where MC4-IT purchased a domain on your behalf do not qualify for the money-back guarantee. No refund will be given in this circumstance.
    
    Should MC4-IT decide to discontinue its hosting service, a refund of the residual will be given.

12. Bandwidth Usage

    You are allocated a monthly bandwidth allowance. This allowance varies depending on the hosting package you purchase. Should your account pass the allocated amount, we reserve the right to suspend the account until the start of the next allocation, suspend the account until more bandwidth is purchased at an additional fee, suspend the account until you upgrade to a higher level of package, terminate the account and/or charge you an additional fee for the overages.

13. Indemnification

    You acknowledge and agree that you are using all services and facilities provided by MC4-IT at your own risk, and you agree to defend, indemnify, save and hold MC4-IT harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, costs, losses and claims, howsoever suffered, including but not limited to legal fees incurred by MC4-IT that may arise directly or indirectly from any services provided or agreed to be provided by MC4-IT to your or any product or services offered or sold by you to your clients. You agree that this indemnification extends to all aspects of the project, including but not limited to website content and site installation on your own or MC4-IT's servers. You also acknowledge and agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless MC4-IT against liabilities arising out of (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with MC4-IT's services and servers; (2) any material supplied by you infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party; (3) copyright infringement and (4) any defective products sold to you from MC4-IT servers.

14. Disclaimer

    MC4-IT will not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer. MC4-IT makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied, for services we provide. MC4-IT disclaims any warranty or merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose. This includes data loss resulting from delays, no deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service interruptions caused by MC4-IT and its employees.

15. Changes to the Terms and Conditions

    MC4-IT reserves the right to revise its policies at any time without notice.