Web Hosting Terms of Service

The following Terms of Service govern the use of Creative Graphics’s web hosting service. Violation of these Terms of Service may result in suspension or termination of your service. In the event of a dispute between you and Creative Graphics regarding the interpretation of these Terms of Service, Creative Graphics’s interpretation, in its reasonable commercial judgment, shall govern.

The following is the entire Terms of Service (ToS) agreement between Creative Graphics and the personal or corporate account holder. Creative Graphics provides World Wide Web Hosting, web design and other services. Creative Graphics has certain legal and ethical responsibilities consisting with the use of its servers and equipment involved in these services. Creative Graphics’s general policy is to act as a provider of web hosting. Creative Graphics reserves the rights to suspend or cancel a customer’s access to any or all services provided by Creative Graphics when we decide that the account has been inappropriately used.

Payment

Payment is upfront for the following month. Should a client not make payment within 30 days, Creative Graphics reserves the right to immediately suspend the hosting service offered without warning.

What is Appropriate Usage?

Creative Graphics is designed to serve the web hosting needs of small, independently owned and operated businesses in a single country. Should we find that your use of our services causes a disruption to other clients, we will suggest an appropriate product offering.

Creative Graphics is a shared web hosting service, which means that a number of customers’ web sites and other email or storage services are hosted from the same server. Creative Graphics uses abuse controls to help ensure that use of our services does not adversely affect the performance of our system or other customers’ sites. It is not appropriate to use an account primarily as an online storage space or for archiving electronic files. We accept no responsibility in any way whatsoever for lost data or information.

Disk Space

Customers may not initiate the following (below), if any customer does, Creative Graphics reserves the right to terminate the account with no refund. Depending on the situation there will/won’t be warnings sent.
a) Use 25% or more of system CPU resources for longer then 90 seconds or 1% of the servers CPU resources for longer than 5 minutes. There are numerous activities that could cause such problems; these include: CGI scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc.
b) Use of any kind of distributed computing software, including but not limited to SETI@home, Node Zero and Folding@home.
c) Run any type of interactive real-time chat applications that require server resources. Remotely-hosted services are allowed.
d) Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons.
e) Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
f) Run any file sharing, bit torrent or other P2P network services, client or server software.
g) Run any gaming servers such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Battlefield 1492 etc

Email Storage

You do not have to worry about hitting a storage limit if you use our services consistently with the Terms of Service and our acceptable usage policy. Creative Graphics will increase your space along with your appropriate small business needs, but our abuse controls may impact the rate of growth or your folder size, and there may be a short delay while we assess your usage. In some cases, creating additional folders or subfolders will help ensure that the system works well for everyone. You will always be allowed to use as much disk space is applied to your account.

Unlimited

You may have noticed all of our accounts come with unlimited email accounts, sub-domains, FTP accounts and SQL databases. This is subject to how much disk space your account has. So you can create as many emails, sub-domains etc as you want as long as it’s within your disk space limit.

Offensive Content

You may not publish or transmit via Creative Graphics’s service any content that Creative Graphics reasonably believes:
a) constitutes child pornography;
b) constitutes pornography;
c) is excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence, or contains harassing content or hate speech;
d) is unfair or deceptive under the consumer protection laws of any jurisdiction, including chain letters and pyramid schemes;
e) is defamatory or violates a person’s privacy;
f) creates a risk to a person’s safety or health, creates a risk to public safety or health, compromises national security, or interferes with a investigation by law enforcement;
g) improperly exposes trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information of another person;
h) is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections;
i) clearly infringes on another person’s trade or service mark, patent, or other property right;
j) promotes illegal drugs, violates export control laws, relates to illegal gambling, or illegal arms trafficking;
k) is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws applicable to you or to Creative Graphics;
l) is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may result in retaliation against Creative Graphics by offended viewers;

Creative Graphics does not accept material such as:
a) Proxy, Warez, Escrow, High Yield Investment Programs (HYIP), illegal Gambling and Lottery sites.
b) Content ‘published or transmitted’ via Creative Graphics’s service includes Web content, e-mail, bulletin board postings, chat, and any other type of posting or transmission that relies on any Internet service provided by Creative Graphics.
* Creative Graphics can terminate service for any of the above reasons and it’s at Creative Graphics’s sole discretion to issue a refund.

Security

You must take reasonable security precautions. You must protect the confidentiality of your password, and you should change your password periodically.

Bulk Commercial Email

Bulk commercial email, mailing lists and email reflectors are not allowed on Creative Graphics’s servers. For any emails sent from your Creative Graphics account you must adhere to the following rules:

  1. a) Your intended recipients have given their consent to receive e-mail via some affirmative means, such as an opt-in procedure;
    b) Your procedures for soliciting consent include reasonable means to ensure that the person giving consent is the owner of the e-mail address for which the consent is given;
    c) You may not obscure the source of your e-mail in any manner.
    d) You otherwise comply with the CAN SPAM Act and other applicable law.

These policies apply to messages sent using your Creative Graphics service, or to messages sent from any network by you or any person on your behalf that directly or indirectly refer the recipient to a site hosted via your Creative Graphics service. In addition, you may not use a third party e-mail service that does not practice similar procedures for all its customers.

Unsolicited E-Mail

You may not send any unsolicited e-mail, either in bulk or individually, to any person who has indicated that they do not wish to receive it. You must comply with the rules of any other network you access or participate in using your Creative Graphics’s services.

Material Protected By Copyright

You may not publish, distribute, or otherwise copy in any manner any music, software, art, or other work protected by copyright law unless:
a) you have been expressly authorized by the owner of the copyright for the work to copy the work in that manner.
b) you are otherwise permitted by established United States copyright law to copy the work in that manner.

Creative Graphics will terminate the service of repeat copyright infringers.

Other

You must have valid and current information on file with your domain name registrar for any domain hosted on the Creative Graphics network.

Disclaimer

Creative Graphics is under no duty, and does not by these Terms of Service undertake a duty, to monitor or police our customers’ activities and disclaims any responsibility for any misuse of the Creative Graphics network.

Internet Abuse

You may not engage in illegal, abusive, or irresponsible behaviour, including:

  1. a) Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures (including those belonging to Creative Graphics and its customers) without express authorization of the owner of the system or network;
    b) monitoring data or traffic on any network or system without the authorization of the owner of the system or network;
    c) Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks;
    d) Use of an Internet account or computer without the owner’s authorization, including, but not limited to Internet scanning (tricking other people into releasing their passwords), password robbery, security hole scanning, and port scanning;
    e) Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting; or
    f) Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against the Creative Graphics network.
    g) Use of Creative Graphics’s network in a way that unreasonably interferes with Creative Graphics’s other customers use of the network

Newsgroup, Chat Forums, Other Networks

You must comply with the rules and conventions for postings to any bulletin board, chat group or other forum in which you participate, such as IRC and USENET groups including their rules for content and commercial postings. These groups usually prohibit the posting of off-topic commercial messages, or mass postings to multiple forums.