Users and customers of Services provided by hosting.cinchnette.co.uk must accept the terms and conditions of business set out below.

By using our products/services, You agree to be bound by our policies as described herein and in our Privacy Policy and our Acceptable Use Policy. We reserve the right to change and modify the Terms of Service at any time with or without giving notice. You accept responsibility for checking and familiarizing Yourself with the current Terms of Service. If You do not comply with the current Terms of Service, Your service will be terminated.

We make no representation that the domain name you wish to register is capable of being registered by or for you or that it will be registered in your name. You should not assume registration of your requested domain name(s) until you have been notified that it has been registered.

The registration and use of your domain name is subject to the terms and conditions of use applied by the relevant naming authority; ICANN in the case of .COM/NET/ORG and Nominet in the case of domain names ending with .UK you shall ensure that you are aware of those terms and conditions and that you comply with them. You shall have no right to bring any claim against us in respect of refusal to register a domain name. Any administration charge paid by you to us shall be non-refundable notwithstanding refusal by the naming authority to register your desired name.

We shall have no liability in respect of the use by you of any domain name; any dispute between you and any other person must be resolved between the parties concerned in such dispute. If any such dispute arises, we shall be entitled, at our discretion and without giving any reason, to withhold, suspend or cancel the domain name. We shall also be entitled to make representations to the relevant naming authority but will not be obliged to take part in any such dispute.

We shall not release any domain to another provider unless full payment for that domain has been received by us. All charges payable by you for the Services shall be in accordance with the scale of charges and rates published from time to time by us on our website and shall be due and payable in advance of our service provision.

Without prejudice to our other rights and remedies under this Agreement, if any sum payable is not paid on or before the due date, we shall be entitled forthwith to suspend the provision of Services to you.

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.

If you fail to pay any sums due to us as they become due, we may suspend the Services and/or terminate this Agreement forthwith without notice to you.

If you break any of these terms and conditions and you fail to correct the breach within seven (7) days following written notice from us specifying the breach, we may terminate this Agreement forthwith.

If you are a and you go into insolvent liquidation or suffer the appointment of an administrator or administrative receiver or enter into a voluntary arrangement with your creditors, we shall be entitled to terminate this Agreement forthwith.

On termination of this Agreement or suspension of the Services we shall be entitled immediately to block your Web Site and to remove all data located on it. We shall be entitled to delete all such data but we may, at our discretion, hold such data for such period as we may decide to allow you to collect it at your expense, subject to payment in full of any amounts withstanding and payable to us.

Information We Collect

Cinchnette Hosting may collect information about you as follows:

1. By registering an account, we may collect information provided at the time of registration (name, company name, address, telephone number, and email address).
2. By linking our services to a third-party account, we may collect information from that account such as any authentication tokens involved in authorization.
3. If you contact us, we may collect data regarding your correspondence.
4. We may collect details of your transactions involved in the fulfillment of orders. Cinchnette Hosting does not store your financial information on our systems. Your financial information is stored with our third-party payment processors. Cinchnette Hosting does, however, have access to, and may retain, your information through our third-party payment processors.
5. When you visit our website we may capture your IP address, time of and duration of visit, and time and duration of the pages on our website that you view. We may tie this information to personally identifiable information we have about you.
6. When using our services, we may collect information about your utilization, such as processor, memory, storage, and network usage.

Use of Information

We will use your personally identifiable information only as follows:

1. For transaction processing.
2. To provide customer support.
3. To provide, maintain, improve, and expand our services.
4. To understand and analyze how you use our services.
5. For fraud checking, reporting, and other screening methods involving third-party companies in order to verify information submitted to us.
6. To enforce the Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) in the detection, prevention, and resolving of abuse.
7. For IP usage reporting to ARIN.
8. To announce special offers or provide other information from time to time via email/sms/push notification in browser.
9. To improve our service and the marketing of our service. For example, we may use the information we gather from user surveys, demographic data, and website visits to help us improve or target our website and customize your visit.

If you register an account through an affiliate referral link, we may share information with your referrer to let them know that you used their referral to order service.

We may also place a “cookie” that will identify you to us as a repeat visitor or a customer when you visit our website. A cookie is an alphanumeric identifier that is unique to your browser. The cookie will identify your browser to us when you visit our website so that we may customize your visit.

We will not provide any personally identifiable information about you to any third-party other than:

1. Law enforcement or regulatory agency as requested via subpoena;
2. a potential business acquirer as part of any proposed merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of assets, or similar transaction, or in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which information is transferred to one or more third-parties as one of our business assets;
3. third parties who perform services on our behalf (such as payment processing), subject to the third party agreeing with us that it will keep your personally identifiable information confidential;
4. a fraud detection/prevention service such as FraudRecord or MaxMind;
5. as otherwise needed to protect or enforce the rights of others.

Updating, Deleting and Downloading Your Data

You may update your data at any time either through the client area Account section or by submitting a support ticket. We may require proof of identification in order to change certain data fields.

You may request that Cinchnette Hosting export your personal data by opening a support ticket.

Cinchnette Hosting will not delete any data required to comply with our legal obligations and financial requirements, or any data required to resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Communication

We may contact you directly or through a third-party service provider regarding products or services you have ordered from us. We may also send you marketing emails if you have opted-in through the client area. Communication methods may include: email, text (SMS) message, IRC chat, push notifications, or automated phone calls.

Affiliates

Affiliates may not mask, hide or modify the affiliate link. It must be used as displayed in the client area. You may not spam or advertise in areas or sections of websites that breach the rules of the displaying site. Doing so will result in the link being reported.

Refund Policy

If you are unhappy with any aspect of our service, please contact our support department who will attempt to rectify the situation. If the problem cannot be fixed and you are unhappy with the service you are entitled to a refund within 30 days. There are no refunds past the 30 day period. Refunds are not available for .COM, .NET, .ORG or any other domain names, SSL Certificates, Domain Transfer In fees, Domain Transfer Out fees, Bulk SMS Fund, Domain Reseller Fund, or any other products or services provided by hosting.cinchnette.co.uk through other companies. No refunds are provided for VPS or Dedicated servers under any circumstances. No refunds will be made if we terminate your hosting or other services due to violation of our Acceptable Use Policy or any other violation of our Terms and Conditions, except as may be provided therein. This does not affect your statutory rights. Credit on your account cannot be refunded and must be used for purchases and renewals. Dedicated servers are except from the 30 day refund. Refunds will be issued at our discretion. Setup fees are non-refundable. Accounts purchased under a promotion, with or without a promo code, are excluded from the 30 day money back guarantee. Any funds sent to hosting.cinchnette.co.uk which are in excess of the amount owed can only be reimbursed in credit and cannot be refunded.

Cinchnette Hosting does not offer any refunds for shared & reseller hosting for cancellations that occur after 30 days. And also, change of mind not applicable in 30 days. For monthly services such as VPS/Dedicated servers, there are no partial or full refunds. But if you have subscribed for any of this for more than one month, you will get full refund for unused periods. There is no refund for web services such as web design & development, web templated/themes, technical assistance, etc.

SLA Conditions

If your service drops below 98% uptime in any given month you will be credited with one free month. This must be claimed within 7 days of our monitoring dropping below this level. Any planned maintenance work is except from this guarantee and will be ignored. Dedicated servers currently have no SLA. Uptime level is calculated by our status page and monitors only.

Free Domain Conditions

A free domain name will be registered for you with any hosting package for any period of time. Only one domain will be registered free of charge per account. Minimum hosting term of 3 months, after which you will be free to transfer the domain to another host should you wish. The domain also may not be transferred to another client during this time. If you cancel your hosting before the 3 month paid period hosting.cinchnette.co.uk reserve the right to cancel or resell your domain. The offer applies to .com, .net, .biz, .co.uk, .org.uk and .me.uk domains only.

Delivery of Services

Immediately upon successful payment, you will receive an automated receipt from our systems. Please print an retain a copy of this and retain in a safe place for future reference. Your unique customer username will be on this receipt and should be used for an enquires to hosting.cinchnette.co.uk. Please note that we aim to deliver all goods as soon as signup is complete. If we will be unable to adhere to this you will be informed via email or telephone or both. Payment will be deducted when services are delivered. All orders are delivered electronically via email, If you have any questions about your order please contact us at [email protected]. Our trading hours are 365 Days a Year, 24/7. Normally we will respond within 1 hours of receiving your enquiry. The services available on this site are subject to both export and or import restrictions. Please check regulations in the country you are in to see if these products are allowed for import into your country. We will not add charges to customers using either VISA or MasterCard card schemes. The final price will be the same regardless of payment method.

Web Hosting

These Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policies (“Terms and Policies”) are an essential part of your relationship with hosting.cinchnette.co.uk. By using your hosting.cinchnette.co.uk account, you agree to all of the Terms and Policies set out in this document.

Data Backup / Preservation

In the event of data loss, Our default action will be to restore Your services to their “day one” state. We endeavour to maintain backups of Your data for Our use in restoring services as needed. These backups may or may not be available to You, at Our discretion, unless You have explicitly purchased backup services from Us. Any complimentary backup files provided to You will be a raw copy of Your data; it is Your responsibility to restore Your data. If You have purchased backup services from Us, We will restore backups to Your services with Us; We will not restore backups to any third-party service or network. Additionally, We do not guarantee that backups will be restorable, either to Our network or to a third party. We do not guarantee that Our backup will restore Your data to any specific point in time. We will not offer compensation for data loss or costs resulting from data loss unless You have explicitly purchased backup services from Us. If You have purchased backup services from Us, Our liability shall be limited to the monthly subscription price of Your service with Us.

Note: VPS/VDS/Dedicated server user doesn’t have any data backup option includes by default. Nor even any backup of the VPS/VDS/Dedicated server customer’s data is stored on Cinchnette Hosting’s side for any disaster recovery purpose. So, it’s always the customer’s responsibility to create their backup strategy.

But backup solutions can be provided/provisioned via the 3rd party vendor with additional pricing according to the 3rd party vendor’s terms/solutions.

General Terms and Policies

The Service is provided to authorized persons or organizations (referred to in this document as “Subscriber” or “you”). Any use of the service is subject to any restrictions listed below. By using the Service, you agree to be bound by all of these Terms and Policies. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms and Policies, you must cancel your account immediately and May not thereafter use or attempt to use the Service.

Coverage – If you are an individual Subscriber, these Terms and Policies apply to all persons who gain access through your account. If you are a commercial Subscriber, these Terms and Policies apply to all your employees, agents and/or customers. In either instance, a violation of these Terms and Policies by anyone using your account will be treated as a violation by you.

Prices and Charges – hosting.cinchnette.co.uk provides the use of cPanel and domain control panels to you free of charge, but if through misuse or through abuse on your part we incur any charges, we reserve the right to pass these charges on to you.

Term – The Service is provided to you for as long as you wish to use it, however, we withhold the right to terminate the service if you use it in a way that violates the terms of use.

Backups – Cinchnette Hosting carries out 1 complimentary backup per day, these backups are strictly for our own use in case of a server failure or disaster recovery purposes. However, you can also log in to the backup server to restore files. This is not meant as a replacement for keeping your own backups and we are not responsible for the loss of data. You are responsible for Your own data. We shall not be responsible for data loss. We do not create backups of High Storage plans and We do not recommend using these plans for critical hosting. You are responsible for Your own data.

Grounds for Suspension and Termination

You agree to comply with these Terms and Policies. Any violation of either, these Terms and Policies or the other rules, regulations or policies noted above may serve as cause for hosting.cinchnette.co.uk to suspend or terminate your account. You agree that hosting.cinchnette.co.uk has the right, with or without notice, to suspend or terminate your account upon the first or subsequent occurrence of any of the following

* Using the Service in a way, which constitutes a violation of any applicable statute, law, court order, tariff, regulation, or treaty (including, but not limited to, intellectual property, communications, privacy, criminal and international law)

* Hosting websites dedicated to pornography, Legal/illegal adult content isn’t allowed in any kind of hosting/server.

* Using the Service in a manner intended to abuse or violate the privacy or property rights of others, including but not limited to sending of unsolicited bulk e-mail (“spamming”); this ground for suspension or termination is separate from and in addition to the fees which will result from such activity. You agree to pay a cleanup fee of $30 per hour if any of our server IP addresses appear on a blacklist as a result of spam from your account.

* Using your hosting as a file or image hosting service.

* Using the Service in an attempt to break security, or so as to actually break the security of any computer network (including the Service itself), or to access an account, message, or file which does not belong to you.

* Using your account as a backup service. All files must be part of your website and must be linked to your account. Dedicated server clients are except for this.

* Using the Service in such a way as to forge or misrepresent headers, addresses, or other identification in electronic mail or websites, or using any other method to disguise the sender’s identity or location. This includes the hosting of Proxy Server applications.

* Uploading, linking to or storing warez, cracks or other pirated software.

* Assisting in or directly distributing copyrighted material.

* Excessively using the Service in such a way as to limit the bandwidth available to others.

For any Web Hosting service, the suspension is applicable for a 1-day invoice overdue and termination is applicable for 7 days invoice overdue.

* Providing fake or incomplete contact details, including name, postal address and telephone number.

* Using the Service to operate server programs, including, but not limited to mail servers, IRC servers, game servers, ftp servers, Web servers, or streaming audio/video servers.

* Using the Service for unauthorised relays through any third party systems.

* Attempting, in any way, to interfere with or deny service to any user or any host on the Internet.

* Performing a chargeback on any transactions past or present will result in account suspension until resolved. If a chargeback is issued we reserve the right to remove your account any deny any future business.

* Using the Service for mail bombing, which includes any instance where multiple messages are sent to a specific destination with the intent to render the recipient and/or the electronic system serving that recipient dysfunctional.

* Using the Service to add or attempt to add addresses to any mailing list (yours or a third party’s) without the explicit positive consent of the addressee(s).

* Attempting to cancel, supersede, or otherwise interfere with email other than your own.

* Engaging in harassment, whether through language, frequency, or size of messages, either with email or website content.

* Using the Service to engage in syn flood attacks, which are defined as overburdening a recipient computer system by sending a high volume of spurious data which effective impedes or totally disables functionality of the recipient system(s), or any other methods of denial-of-service attacks.

* Furnishing false data on your sign-up form, contract, or online application, including providing fraudulent credit card or other payment information.

* No bill credit will be given for a period of suspension. In the event of termination of your use of the Service under this section, hosting.cinchnette.co.uk may at its sole discretion retain any or all amounts you have paid for use of the Service as liquidated damages for your actions.

* Security – You agree not to access or attempt to access private areas of the Service. You agree to notify hosting.cinchnette.co.uk as soon as you become aware of an unauthorized use of your account and/or any breach or attempted breach of security on the Service.

* Intellectual Property – hosting.cinchnette.co.uk does not undertake to examine or review messages, files, or other materials, which are accessible through, pass through, or reside on the Service. Complaints regarding alleged copyright infringement can be sent to [email protected].

* Continuing a specific identification of the allegedly infringing material and the location(s) on hosting.cinchnette.co.uk facilities where the materials are to be found. Upon receipt of such written notice, hosting.cinchnette.co.uk will expeditiously remove or block access to the allegedly infringing material, and provide notice to the person who had posted that material. If hosting.cinchnette.co.uk receives a notification from that person indicating that the claim of infringement was based upon mistake or misidentification, hosting.cinchnette.co.uk will send you a copy of that notification. Unless you notify hosting.cinchnette.co.uk of appropriate court action to restrain the alleged infringement, the challenged material will then be restored or otherwise made accessible again.

* Liability – You agree that use of the Service is at your own risk. Except for information, products, or services clearly identified as being supplied by hosting.cinchnette.co.uk, neither hosting.cinchnette.co.uk nor any of its affiliate controls, provides, operates, or is in any way responsible for any information, products, or services accessible through the Service. hosting.cinchnette.co.uk neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy of third-party material(s), and you agree that hosting.cinchnette.co.uk is not responsible for any loss or damage caused by your use of, or reliance on, such material(s). You understand and agree that you have sole responsibility for your posting of any information or material to any site or newsgroup on the Internet, including but not limited to postings to Web sites, whether residing on hosting.cinchnette.co.uk equipment or not, postings to newsgroups, and participation in any on-line chat sessions. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless hosting.cinchnette.co.uk and its employees, and other customers and subscribers from and against any claims, losses, costs, liability, damages or expenses arising out of your postings.

* You agree that, should you use the Service to send or receive voice communications, hosting.cinchnette.co.uk is not acting as a telecommunications carrier or telephone, that there is no representation made by hosting.cinchnette.co.uk as to the suitability of the Service for such use, and that all risk of connection, transmission quality, and accuracy of communications is solely on you, and that hosting.cinchnette.co.uk has no liability of any sort for the failure or lack of quality of such use of the Service.

* You agree to be liable for any damages or loss of service which results in damages to hosting.cinchnette.co.uk as a result of any spamming or other violations of Section 5 above. These damages include, but are not limited to, system shut downs, retaliatory attacks or data flooding, and loss of peering arrangements. You agree that hosting.cinchnette.co.uk may pursue any such claims against you in Court.

* You agree that in no event will hosting.cinchnette.co.uk have financial liability to you.

* Warranty – hosting.cinchnette.co.uk MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, REGARDING THE SERVICE, OR ANY SOFTWARE OR OTHER MATERIAL AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICE, REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU MAY HAVE TOLD hosting.cinchnette.co.uk ABOUT YOUR INTENDED USE OF THE SERVICE. NO ORAL ADVICE OR INFORMATION GIVEN BY hosting.cinchnette.co.uk OR ITS EMPLOYEES SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY OR OTHERWISE ALTER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.

* THE SERVICE AND ANY SOFTWARE PROVIDED TO YOU BY hosting.cinchnette.co.uk ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS, AS AVAILABLE” BASIS; hosting.cinchnette.co.uk DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THEY WILL BE ERROR-FREE AND/OR UNINTERRUPTED, OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. hosting.cinchnette.co.uk DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE SECURITY OR BACK-UP OF ANY OF YOUR DATA WHICH MAY BE STORED ON THE SERVICE.

Resource Usage

User may not, Use 10% or more of system resources for longer then 60 seconds. There are numerous activities that could cause such problems; these include: CGI scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc. Run any type of interactive real-time chat applications that require server resources. Remotely-hosted services are fully allowed. Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD. Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network. Run any bit torrent application, tracker, or client. Participate in any file-sharing/peer-to-peer activities Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike, half-life, battlefield1492, etc Run cron entries with intervals of less than 15 minutes You may create your own backup of your account from your control panel however these may only be stored for up to 7 days. Please download archives to a local source and remove them from your account.

Excessive Utilization of Resources

We monitor and curtail resource usage that is outside the allotted resources. We, at Our sole discretion, will take action against You if You use excessive resources. Such action may include, but is not limited to, billing for resources used, account suspension and account termination.

Content

You understand and agree that information and access available through the Service may include controversial, sexually explicit, or other material that may be offensive to you or users for whom you are responsible. hosting.cinchnette.co.uk has no responsibility for or control over such materials, and you take sole responsibility for using any available screening software or other methods of limiting access (specifically including the access of minors) to any material you may find objectionable.

Privacy

hosting.cinchnette.co.uk will not provide names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, or other personally identifiable information on any Subscriber to any third party without prior permission from that Subscriber, or as required under an appropriate court or administrative directive, including a facially valid subpoena, or as necessary to render the Service. hosting.cinchnette.co.uk may provide aggregate data on Subscribers to third parties in the operation of hosting.cinchnette.co.uk business.

Disputes

You agree that any dispute between you and hosting.cinchnette.co.uk arising out of your use of the Service on in any way based upon your subscription to and/or use of the Service which cannot be resolved between you and hosting.cinchnette.co.uk will be submitted by the aggrieved party for binding arbitration under the auspices of the English law.

Governing Law

These Terms and Policies are governed in all respects under English laws.

Cancellation Procedure

Cancellation requests must be submitted through the client area. To do this, click the icon next to the package you wish to cancel then press ‘Request Cancellation’. You must then complete and submit the form. Choosing an immediate cancellation means your service will be terminated with 24 hours of submitting the form. It is your responsibility to ensure any PayPal subscriptions you have setup are cancelled. No other forms of cancellation are accepted. Cancellations must be submitted before the invoice for that billing cycle is due. Failure to do so will result in the invoice being due. Cancellation requests can only be submitted if the account has no due invoices.

Resellers

Resellers may use their website for personal use or to sell to their own clients. Resellers cannot host free accounts under any circumstances. We will transfer up to 10 accounts free of charge. Each account thereafter is charged at $20 each. Discount Vouchers only one voucher can be used per transaction. If the order value is lower than the value of the voucher, the remaining amount is lost. Discount vouchers are restricted to one per customer. Vouchers can be redeemed against the purchase of any Shared, Reseller or Dedicated service.

Acceptable Use Policy for Linux VPS services:

The following are strictly prohibited uses and may result in immediate suspension and/or termination if discovered on Your account:

1. Minecraft and its variations and anything related to Minecraft including control panels or websites about Minecraft. (Yes, we mean it. We will not make any exceptions.)
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2. Chobots, Starbound, Runescape
3. Teamspeak and Mumble
4. Denial of Service (DoS) attacks
5. Port scanning
6. TOR/VPN/Proxy/Any kind of anonymity services (VPN and Proxy usage is fine if they are only used by the customer themselves.)
7. Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), including for Subscribers that are of foreign heritage and/or operating in a foreign country.
8. Torrents
9. Illegal downloads/Piracy
10. CamFrog
11. Virtual currency (*coin) mining
12. HentaiAtHome
13. IP spoofing
14. Fake/Replica product websites
15. World Community Grid
16. HYIP websites
17. Booter/Stresser websites
18. HitLeap or any artificial traffic creation
19. iBusinessPromoter or similar software
20. LIULIANGKUANG
21. Chinese private game servers or websites
22. Nested Virtualization
23. Anything related to ZenCash
24. Any kind of high CPU, IO and network usage

Amendments   

These Terms and Policies may be amended in any respect at any time by hosting.cinchnette.co.uk upon the posting of the amended Terms and Policies on the terms of use section of the Service. Your continued use of the Service will be deemed consent to any such amended Terms and Policies. If you do not wish to continue to use the Service as a result of any such amended Terms and Policies, you may provide notice of your wish to terminate your use of the Service to hosting.cinchnette.co.uk

Complaints

We strive to provide a consistently excellent service. If You wish to make a complaint, please write to us by email at [email protected]. We will respond to Your complaint within 10 working days.

Note: Cinchnette Hosting management Keeps the right to change this TOS anytime without any prior notice.