Terms of Use
By nature of owning a W3 Web Hosting account, You accept these Terms & Conditions.
Definitions
- "Agreement" means any agreement to which these terms & conditions are incorporated.
- "W3 Web Hosting" means W3 Web Hosting Limited and any associated group companies with registered office at 13 Ridgewell Grove, Hornchurch, RM12 5AG company number 09911673.
- "Package" means a collection of Services
- "Prices" means the Prices for the Services set out in order form or as otherwise notified to You.
- "Services" means the Services to be provided by W3 Web Hosting.
- "You/Your" means the person or company who purchases Services from W3 Web Hosting.
Duration and Renewal of Services
- Services for which payment is required on a monthly basis are available for fixed 12 month, 24 month or 36 month minimum contract periods. Unless specifically stated to the contrary in the details of the Service and/or Package You purchase, the minimum contract term on all Packages shall be 12 months
- When Entering into a contract as a consumer (not in the course of conducting business) the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 allow you to cancel the Contract at any time within seven working days, beginning on the day after you receive written confirmation of our acceptance of your order. However, by placing your order for the Services, you agree to us commencing supply of those Services before the seven working days cooling off period has expired. As a result, you will not have the right to cancel the Contract under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000.
Cancellations
- When entering into a contract as a consumer (not in the course of conducting business) the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulation 2013 (“the regulations) allow you to cancel the Contract at any time within 14 days, beginning on the day after you receive written confirmation of our acceptance of your order. However, by placing your order for the Services, you agree to us commencing supply of those Services before the 14 days cooling off period has expired. As a result, you will not have the right to cancel the Contract under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulation 2013.
- For the avoidance of doubt, any use of the Services and/or any Package in the course of conducting business shall give rise to you being a non-consumer and the provisions of this Agreement affecting the statutory consumer protection you would otherwise be afforded as a consumer shall not apply.
- You are entitled to cancel the services by contacting W3 Web Hosting' cancellation team no more than 30 days prior to the expiry of your minimum contract term , and no less than one working day prior to the next payment date of that service. Once W3 Web Hosting accept your cancellation request you will be provided with written confirmation of cancellation requests will not be deemed to have been received and accepted until we have issued our written confirmation to you.
- W3 Web Hosting reserves the right to cancel and/or suspend Your Service at any time without notice if You breach these General Terms & Conditions and/or our Acceptable Use Policy.
Refunds
- Charges due on a pre-pay basis (together with account set-up fees, where applicable), are non-refundable.
- In the event that W3 Web Hosting cancels Your Service for reasons other than Your breach of contract, You will be entitled to a pro rata refund based upon the remaining period of Your current contract term.
- If You contravene Your Agreement with W3 Web Hosting, a refund will not be issued in the event of a cancellation.
- Domain credits are non-refundable as they enable the purchase of domain names at discounted Prices, based on an up-front commitment.
- Credit notes can only be used for payment (or partial payment) of Your Service, and are non-refundable.
- Unused reseller funds on account will only be recoverable when the account is closed
Payment
- All Services and Packages must be paid for in advance in accordance with the specific provisions of that Service or Package. In signing up for a W3 Web Hosting account You agree to commit to the contract for the fixed term. It is not possible to provide early payment and terminate the contract prior to the expiry of the fixed term.
- Payment will be due on the basis of the Service and/or Package You have selected. If You have purchased Services or Packages then payment will be required monthly in advance. If You have purchased Services on a fixed 12 month, 24 month or 36 month basis then You will be required to pay on the payment plan You selected, paying in advance or by way of monthly installments in advance throughout the year.
- You will be invoiced automatically for the next pre-paid period on the basis of your current payment plan at the expiry of the current pre-paid period unless You have cancelled the Services in accordance with clause 3.1. Payment of the Price will be taken via the payment method specified within the control panel and will be non-refundable. In cases of failed payment, the invoice will become due and payable to W3 Web Hosting in its entirety.
- W3 Web Hosting reserves the right to change the Prices and/or nature of its Services by giving You written notice of those changes. Notice of changes to Prices and/or Services will be given by e-mail to the e-mail address held in Your W3 Web Hosting Account. If You have already purchased a particular Service then the change in the Price or nature of that Service will only become effective when the Service reaches the end of its current term. You will be charged the new Price when the Service is automatically renewed at the end of the current term.
- All payments must be made in UK pounds sterling, inclusive of applicable taxes.
- W3 Web Hosting reserves the right to suspend all Services until payment is received in full and all outstanding debt is cleared. Any non-payment of a recurring invoice may be subject to a £20 administration charge. You are responsible for all money owed on the account from the time it was established until W3 Web Hosting accepts Your cancellation request. You are responsible for any additional costs incurred by W3 Web Hosting in the collection of outstanding debt.
- You are required to have a valid email address and credit/debit card and/or PayPal account registered to Your account at all times, failure to do so will result in automatic suspension of Your account. If You cancel Your credit/debit card and/or PayPal account for any reason You must immediately notify W3 Web Hosting and provide details of a current valid payment card and/or PayPal Account.
- Payments processed by PayPal are subject to PayPal's terms and conditions of Service, and W3 Web Hosting makes no representations or warranties with respect to those Services.
- No bills or invoices will be sent by regular mail. All invoices will be sent directly to You via email shortly after the purchase or automated renewal transaction is completed.
- If You fail to pay all Prices due, W3 Web Hosting reserves the right to interrupt, suspend or cancel the Services to You. Such interruption, suspension or cancellation does not relieve You from paying all contractually obligated invoices to W3 Web Hosting.
- Please refer to W3 Web Hosting Service Specific Terms & Conditions including, but not limited to, the Domain Name terms of Service for Domain Name for specific payment policies.
- Any unused Credit notes on Your Account will be taken in payment of Your Service. Where the value of the unused Credit note is less than the total payment due, the remainder of the balance will be taken from the current payment method on Your account.
Chargebacks
- If You withdraw any payments made via a bank, credit card or PayPal account (a "chargeback") W3 Web Hosting will either defend such chargebacks directly with the card issuer, or take appropriate steps to recover the original monies from You in addition to an administration fee of £20+VAT for each inappropriate chargeback raised.
- If a chargeback is made, W3 Web Hosting reserves the right to immediately interrupt, suspend or cancel all services within your Account. Such interruption, suspension or cancellation does not relieve You from paying all contractually obligated invoices to W3 Web Hosting.
Appropriate Service use
- W3 Web Hosting reserves the right to refuse Service and/or access to its servers and/or Services to anyone.
- W3 Web Hosting does not allow any content which breaches our Acceptable Use Policy to be stored on its servers.
- W3 Web Hosting reserves the right to remove content from the Services or suspend the Services immediately where it reasonably suspects such content breaches the Acceptable Use Policy.
- W3 Web Hosting shall notify You if it becomes aware of any allegation that You breach the Acceptable Use Policy.
- Refusal of Service based on the content being contrary to our Acceptable Use Policy is entirely at the discretion of W3 Web Hosting.
- W3 Web Hosting reserves the right to move Your data to a different server with no prior notice.
- In the event that W3 Web Hosting removes data or content from the Services and/or suspends Your site pursuant to clause 7.2, and later reinstates such content and/or resumes the Services, You shall indemnify W3 Web Hosting against all damages, losses and expenses arising as a result of any action or claim that such content and/or data and/or the Services Your site breaches the Acceptable Use Policy.
Scheduled maintenance
To guarantee optimal performance on the servers, it is necessary for W3 Web Hosting to perform routine maintenance. Such maintenance often requires taking W3 Web Hosting Services off-line, typically performed during off-peak hours. W3 Web Hosting will give You advance notice of maintenance requiring the Services to be taken off-line whenever possible by publishing notice on the W3 Web Hosting website.
Support
- We will endeavour to provide a continuous high quality service. If You experience problems with Your Service, You should consult W3 Web Hosting support website and search for a resolution to Your problem in w3 Web Hosting Knowledge Base. You will also find W3 Web Hosting contact details on W3 Web Hosting support website at https://www.w3webhosting.net/contact-us
- Please note we may require suspension of some of W3 Web Hosting Services for short scheduled periods to carry out maintenance or repair to W3 Web Hosting Services. Information concerning scheduled downtime is available on the W3 Web Hosting support website, as are details of any interruptions to W3 Web Hosting Services.
Reselling of Services
- All Services are intended for use by the primary owner only, should you choose to resell, store or give away web-hosting Services to other parties You agree that such activity will be undertaken at your own risk. You also accept responsibility for ensuring that all end users abide by these terms of service. W3 Web Hosting accept no liability to you or any third parties for losses arising from the Reselling of services as detailed in 10.1.
- W3 Web Hosting reserve the right to suspend access to the automated management facilities of the Reseller account including the API (Application Programming Interface) if a customer's use is deemed to be affecting the platform for which W3 Web Hosting delivers the Services.
Database Usage
If You exceed the limits on W3 Web Hosting database products (MS SQL and MySQL) then we will automatically charge You for the additional space You use at W3 Web Hosting current Prices. For example if You have a 150MB database and 200MB is in use at any point during a month then we will charge for the extra 50MB in that month.
Data
- All data created or stored by You within W3 Web Hosting' applications and servers are Your property. W3 Web Hosting shall allow access to such data by only authorised W3 Web Hosting personnel. W3 Web Hosting makes no claim of ownership of any web server content, email content, or any other type of data contained within the accountholder's server space or within applications on W3 Web Hosting' servers.
- W3 Web Hosting maintains backups of its servers and infrastructure pursuant to its own archiving and business continuity procedures. In the event of loss of or damage to your data relating to actions made by You or on Your behalf you will not be given access to any data stored as part of these procedures.
- In the event of loss of or damage to your data relating to a failure in W3 Web Hosting systems or servers, W3 Web Hosting will make reasonable commercial efforts to assist you in the restoration of your data, however You accept full responsibility for maintaining adequate backup copies of all your data.
- You shall indemnify W3 Web Hosting against all damages, losses and expenses arising as a result of any action or claim that the content or data of Your site or content or data accessed from or published as part of the Services infringes the intellectual property rights of a third party.
Uploads via scripting languages
We limit uploads made via scripting languages – including PHP, ASP and ASP.NET. Uploads made using PHP are limited to 20MB per file.
Passwords
- It is the account owner's responsibility to keep his/her password(s) confidential, and to change the password on a regular basis. W3 Web Hosting is not responsible for any data losses or security issues due to stolen passwords or any passwords that You have intentionally or accidentally disclosed to any third party. W3 Web Hosting recommends that You use passwords that contain numbers and symbols in order to prevent unauthorized users from guessing commonly-used choices (i.e. "12345", "password", etc.).
- You accept full responsibility for any purchases or modifications made within your control panel by You or by third parties using your account password.
Your personal details
- You warrant that the contact information that you provide to us on establishment of your account is correct, and that You accept responsibility for keeping this information up to date at all times. You agree that we may suspend access to your account and the Services if we reasonably believe that the information you have supplied is inaccurate.
- Please note that whilst Your email is primarily used for billing purposes, W3 Web Hosting reserves the right to email You information about its product offerings. You can unsubscribe from marketing communications within Your W3 Web Hosting control panel.
- W3 Web Hosting will not provide any of Your personal information to other companies or individuals without Your permission unless required to do so by law. However, W3 Web Hosting may need to provide Your name and delivery address to third parties that W3 Web Hosting may use for the purposes of delivering specific Services to You (e.g. customer support). For more information about how W3 Web Hosting will collect and use Your personal information please read W3 Web Hosting' privacy policy.
W3 Web Hosting Disclaimers and Warranties
- W3 Web Hosting does not back up your data/website and whilst every attempt would be made in the unlikely event of any corruption or hardware failure, W3 Web Hosting cannot guarantee to be able to replace lost data. This includes loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all Service interruptions caused by W3 Web Hosting.
- W3 Web Hosting makes no warranties or representations that any Service will be uninterrupted or error-free. You accept all Services provided hereunder "as is" without warranty of any kind.
- So far as permitted by law and particularly in respect of non-consumers, all implied conditions, warranties and terms (whether express or implied by statute, common law, custom or otherwise) including, but not limited to, those relating to the exercise of reasonable care and skill, fitness for purpose and satisfactory quality (where applicable) are hereby excluded in relation to each of the Services to be provided hereunder to the fullest extent permitted by law.
- For the avoidance of doubt, any use of the Services and/or any Package in the course of conducting business shall give rise to you being a non-consumer and the provisions of this Agreement affecting the statutory consumer protection you would otherwise be afforded as a consumer shall not apply.
Liability
- W3 Web Hosting shall not be liable for any loss or damage of whatsoever nature suffered by You arising out of or in connection with any breach of this Agreement by You or any act, misrepresentation, error or omission made by You or on Your behalf.
- W3 Web Hosting will not be liable for any indirect loss, consequential loss, loss of profit, revenue, data or goodwill howsoever arising suffered by You or for any wasted management time or failure to make anticipated savings or liability You incur to any third party arising in any way in connection with this Agreement or otherwise whether or not such loss has been discussed by the parties pre-contract or for any account for profit, costs or expenses arising from such damage or loss.
- So far as permitted by law and particularly in respect of non-consumers, all implied conditions, warranties and terms (whether express or implied by statute, common law, custom or otherwise) including, but not limited to, those relating to the exercise of reasonable care and skill, fitness for purpose and satisfactory quality (where applicable) are hereby excluded in relation to each of the Services to be provided hereunder to the fullest extent permitted by law.
- None of the clauses herein shall apply so as to restrict liability for death or personal injury resulting from the negligence of W3 Web Hosting, its employees or its sub-contractors.
W3 Web Hosting shall not be liable for any interruptions to the Services or outages arising directly or indirectly from:-
- Interruptions to the flow of data to or from the internet;
- Changes, updates or repairs to the network or software which it uses as a platform to provide the Services;
- The effects of the failure or interruption of Services provided by third parties;
Factors outside of W3 Web Hosting' reasonable control;
- Your actions or omissions (including, without limitation, breach of Your obligations set out in the Agreement) or those of any third parties
- Problems with Your equipment and/or third party equipment;
- Interruptions to the Services requested by You.
Force Majeure
W3 Web Hosting shall not be responsible for any failure to provide any Services or perform any obligation under the Agreement because of any act of God, strike, lock-outs or other industrial disputes (whether involving the workforce of W3 Web Hosting (or any other party) or compliance with any law of governmental or any other order, rule, regulation or direction, accident, fire, flood, storm or default of suppliers, work stoppage, war, riot or civil commotion, equipment or facilities shortages which are being experienced by providers of telecommunication Services generally, or other similar force beyond its reasonable control.
Non-Waiver
The failure of W3 Web Hosting to require Your performance of any provision shall not affect the full right to require such performance at any time thereafter; nor shall the waiver by W3 Web Hosting of a breach of any provision hereof be taken or held to be a waiver of the provision itself.
Survival
The provisions, terms, conditions representations, warranties, covenants, and obligations contained in or imposed by this Agreement which by their performance after the termination of this Agreement, shall be and remain enforceable notwithstanding termination of the Agreement for any reason. However, neither party shall be liable to other for damages of any sort resulting solely from terminating this Agreement in accordance with its terms but each party shall be liable for any damage from any breach by it of this Agreement.
Notice
You agree that any notice or communications required or permitted to be delivered under this Agreement by W3 Web Hosting to You shall be deemed to have been given if delivered by e-mail, inaccordance with the contact information You have provided.
Governing Law
Except as otherwise set forth in the Domain Dispute Policy, Your rights and obligations and all contemplated by this Agreement shall be governed by English law and You submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
Legal Fees
If any legal action or proceeding, including arbitration, relating to the performance or the enforcement of any provision of this Agreement is brought by any party to this Agreement, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover reasonable legal fees, expert witness fees, costs and disbursements, in addition to any other relief to which the prevailing party may be entitled.
Assignment
You shall not assign, sub-license or transfer Your rights or obligations under this Agreement to any third party without the prior written consent of W3 Web Hosting However, in the event that W3 Web Hosting consents to such an assignment, sub-license or transfer, then this Agreement shall ensure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties and their respective successorsand permitted assigns.
Entire Agreement
This Agreement constitutes the entire Agreement between the parties and agreements are representations or warranties, express or implied, statutory or otherwise and no agreements collateral here to than as expressly set or referred to herein. This Agreement supersedes any prior agreements, representations, statements, negotiations, understandings, proposals or undertakings, oral or written, with respect to the subject matter expressly set forth herein.
Amendment in Writing
We may update or amend these General Terms and Conditions, the Service Specific Terms & Conditions including any technical specification relating to the Services and/or Package, the Acceptable Use Policy, Privacy Policy and any information relating to the Services/Package from time to time to comply with law or to meet our changing business requirements. We will give You prior notice of any changes to the Agreement and You can choose to cancel the Services without penalty before the new terms affect you. Display of the modified terms and conditions shall be deemed to be notice to you. You also agree to review the terms and conditions regularly to ensure you are aware of any modifications.
Further Assurances
The parties shall execute such further and other documents and instruments and take such further and other actions as may be necessary to carry out and give full effect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
Relationship of the Parties
Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as creating an agency relationship, partnership or joint venture between the parties.
Joint and Several Obligations
If any party consists of more than one entity, their obligations hereunder are joint and several. No Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement does not provide and shall not be constructed to provide any third parties, with any remedy, claim, cause of action or privilege.
Severability
In the event that any provision of this Agreement shall be unenforceable or invalid under any applicable law or be so held by applicable court decision, such unenforceability or invalidity shall not render this Agreement unenforceable or invalid as a whole. W3 Web Hosting will amend or replace such provision with one that is valid and enforceable and which achieves, to the extent possible, the original objectives and intent of W3 Web Hosting as reflected in the original provision.
Governing Law
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of United Kingdom and you hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the United Kingdom courts.
Our Contact Details
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