Dixie Web Design & Hosting's Terms of Use & Service

All services provided by Dixie Web Design & Hosting may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any United States Federal, State or City law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material that is threatening or obscene, material that is "adult only" content, or material protected by trade secrets and other statue. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Dixie Web Design & Hosting from any claims resulting from the use of the service which damages the subscriber or any other party.
Non-Acceptable Content

Pornography and sex-related merchandising are prohibited on any server. This includes sexual content, or direct links to adult content elsewhere. This is also true for sites that promote any illegal activity or content that may be damaging to our servers or any other server on the internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited. Dixie Web Design & Hosting will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Examples of non-acceptable content or links

  • Pirated software
  • Hackers programs or archives
  • Warez Sites
  • Porn
  • Spamming Software

Distribution and/or Transmission of Obscene or Indecent Speech or Materials Violation of indecency and obscenity laws can result in criminal penalties.

Dixie Web Design & Hosting will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Refunds

Payments for Dixie Web Design & Hosting's hosting packages can be refunded within 31 days of the activation of the hosting service. Domain name registrations are non-refundable.

Refunds after the 31 day period after activation of the service can be issued at Dixie Web Design & Hosting's sole discretion on a case-by-case basis.

Services support

Dixie Web Design & Hosting provides support for its online services to the extent that the services are functional. Dixie Web Design & Hosting is not responsible for unavailability of its services caused by misconfiguration or errors on the side of the customer.

Loss of Data

Your use of Dixie Web Design & Hosting's service is at your sole risk. Dixie Web Design & Hosting is not responsible for any files and/or data residing on your hosting account. You agree to take full responsibility for files and data transferred and to maintain appropriate backup of files and data stored on Dixie Web Design & Hosting's servers.

Disclaimer

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

Traffic Guidelines

All of Dixie Web Design & Hosting's hosting packages are limited to an indicated rate of data transfer of free traffic per month.

Sites that go over the allocated traffic (data transfer) will receive an email stating the need to upgrade their services. Sites must pay this fee at the beginning of the next month, and site is subject to suspension if bandwidth is unpaid for.

Background Running Programs:

We do not allow background running programs.

IRC: We currently do not allow you to link to or use IRC or IRC bots such as eggdrop, and BitchX on our servers.

CGI Scripts

Dixie Web Design & Hosting accounts do not comes with pre-installed scripts in the CGI-BIN. Customers are free to use any CGI-scripts provided with their account or add any additional ones they require. Any CGI-scripts deemed to be adversely affecting the server performance or the network integrity may be shut down without prior notice. CGI-script sharing with domains not hosted by Dixie Web Design & Hosting is not allowed.

Server Resources

Any web site that uses a high amount of server resources (such as, but not limited to CPU time, memory usage, and network resources) can be suspended without notice, and then may be given an option of either upgrading their service level or reducing the resource used to an acceptable level.

Intellectual Property Rights

Material accessible to you through Dixie Web Design & Hosting's Services may be subject to protection under the United States or other copyright laws, or laws protecting trademarks, trade secrets or proprietary information. Except when expressly permitted by the owner of such rights, you must not use the Dixie Web Design & Hosting Service in a manner that would infringe, violate, dilute or misappropriate any such rights, with respect to any material, which you access or receive through the Dixie Web Design & Hosting Network. If you use a domain name in connection with the Dixie Web Design & Hosting Service or similar service, you must not use that domain name in violation of any trademark, service mark, or similar rights of any third party.

Network Security

Customers may not use the Dixie Web Design & Hosting Network with an attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of any host, network, or account. This includes, but is not limited to, accessing data not intended for the customer, logging into a server or account the customer is not expressly authorized to access, password cracking, probing the security of other networks in search of weakness, or violation of any other organization's security policy. Customers may not attempt to interfere or deny service to any user, host, or network. This includes, but is not limited to, flooding, mail bombing, or other deliberate attempts to overload or crash a host or network. Dixie Web Design & Hosting will cooperate fully with investigations of violations of systems or network security at other sites, including cooperating with law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations. Users who violate system or network security may incur criminal or civil liability.

Defamation

Defamatory speech distributed over the Internet can result in civil liability for the defamer.

Account Renewal and Domain Registration

Dixie Web Design & Hosting does not support expired hosting accounts or domains. We do not accept responsibility for any domains passed their expiration date.

Refusal of Service

Dixie Web Design & Hosting reserves the right at its sole discretion to refuse service to, or to cancel service of, any individual or organization. Violation of any of Dixie Web Design & Hosting's Rules and Regulations will result in a warning, suspension, or account termination. Accounts terminated due to policy violations will not be refunded regardless of the length of time the account has been activated.

Spam Or Unsolicited E-Mail

You must not use Dixie Web Design & Hosting equipment or any Dixie Web Design & Hosting email address in connection with the transmission of spam, flames, mail bombs, or substantially similar, unsolicited email messages. Your domain may not be referenced as originator, intermediary, or reply-to address in any of the above. This prohibition extends to the sending of unsolicited mass mailings from another service that in any way implicates the use of Dixie Web Design & Hosting equipment or any Dixie Web Design & Hosting email address. A message is considered unsolicited if it is posted in violation of a newsgroup charter or if it is sent to a recipient who has not requested or invited the message. For purposes of this provision, merely making one's email address accessible to the public will not constitute a request or invitation to receive messages.

If you are found to have spammed, without warning, Dixie Web Design & Hosting reserves the right to disable your domain. In addition, Dixie Web Design & Hosting may impose a $100 penalty for each spam policy violation. Dixie Web Design & Hosting solely reserves the right to refuse or cancel service to known spammers. Lastly, Dixie Web Design & Hosting reserves the right to determine what violates this policy. As such, any violation may result in cancellation of services without refund.

As such, any violation will result in immediate deactivation of services without refund.

Abuse

Any attempts to undermine, slander, libel, threaten, swear at, offend or cause harm to a Dixie Web Design & Hosting server, customer, employee, or the company directly is strictly prohibited and is grounds for immediate termination without refund. In addition, we will pursue all attempts to the fullest extent of the law.

 

Indemnification

Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold Dixie Web Design & Hosting harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney's fees asserted against Dixie Web Design & Hosting, its agents, its customers, officers and employees, that may arise or result from any service provided or performed or agreed to be performed or any product sold by customer, it's agents, employees or assigns. Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Dixie Web Design & Hosting against liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with Dixie Web Design & Hosting server; (2) any material supplied by customer infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party and (3) copyright infringement. Customer agrees to limit the liability of Dixie Web Design & Hosting to the amount paid for service.

Dixie Web Design & Hosting will not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer. Dixie Web Design & Hosting makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services we provide. Dixie Web Design & Hosting disclaims any warranty or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service interruptions caused by Dixie Web Design & Hosting and its employees. We reserves the right to amend or update these policies without notice. Failure to follow any terms and conditions may result in account deactivation.

Dixie Web Design & Hosting furthermore expects that its customers who provide Internet services to others will fully comply with all applicable laws concerning the privacy of online communications. A customer's failure to comply with those laws will violate this policy. Finally, Dixie Web Design & Hosting wishes to emphasize that in accepting services, customers indemnify Dixie Web Design & Hosting for the violation of any law or Dixie Web Design & Hosting policy, that results in loss to Dixie Web Design & Hosting or the bringing of any claim against Dixie Web Design & Hosting. This means that if Dixie Web Design & Hosting is sued because of activities of the customer that violate any law, or this policy, the customer will pay any damages awarded against Dixie Web Design & Hosting, plus costs and reasonable attorneys' fees.

If any terms or conditions are failed to be followed it will result in grounds for immediate account deactivation.

Dixie Web Design & Hosting reserves the right to change, edit, or update the policies contained in this document at any time for any reason without notice.