Privacy Policy | Terms
Kihada Hosting gathers only the domain name (IP address logged as well), but not the e-mail address of visitors to our Web page.
The information we gather is used for internal review and is then discarded, used to improve the content of our services, used to customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor and to benefit that user.
With respect to cookies: We use cookies to ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads
If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending us e-mail at hosting@www.kihada.ca
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will contact you before we use your data for these new purposes to notify you of the policy change and to provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses.
With respect to security: We always use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our site.
If you feel that this site is not following any information in our privacy policy, you may contact us at the below address: hosting@www.kihada.ca
Kihada Hosting:Terms of Service
This policy represents the IconHosting Terms of Service (“TOS”) in its entirety and supercedes any other written or oral policy. This policy defines the terms of service all customers agree to when they sign-up for hosting services with IconHosting. IconHosting reserves the exclusive right to revise, change or amend any portion of this Policy at any time, without advance notification to customers.
Customers using any services offered by IconHosting consent to be bound by and must comply with all policies in this TOS. At the sole discretion of IconHosting. Any violators of this TOS may have their services cancelled without refund and/or, if deemed appropriate, be legally prosecuted.
General Provisions
In consideration for IconHosting maintaining one or more accounts (each “Account”), you agree to the following terms of service.
Definitions
- “We” “Us” or “Provider” IconHosting.
- IconHosting – A British Columbia Business
- “You” “Your” “Client” Customer” or “Member.”
Each person or entity who applies for internet service or is a designate of any one who applies for internet service.
Disclaimer of Warranty
The Internet is a complex network of equipment, services and providers of information, thus the Service may not be available to you at all times. However, Kihada Kreative Hosting offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee. This is valid for only the connection. Kihada Kreative Hosting will pursue all resources and channels available to maintain maximum uptime, however, Kihada Kreative Hosting is not responsible for any down time caused by client’s error.
Kihada Kreative Hosting MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE) WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES IT PROVIDES. Neither Kihada Kreative Hosting nor any one else involved in the provision of Service is liable to you or any third-party for direct or indirect damages resulting from the use, non-use of services provided herein, whether or not such damages resulted from the negligence of IconHosting, even if IconHosting has been advised to the possibility of such damages.
Services provided by IconHosting
Kihada Kreative Hosting will provide Internet server rental (“the Service”) to its members for the express purpose of allowing customers to provide http Internet content to the general public. The Service allows Kihada Kreative Hosting members to maintain Internet websites, receive and maintain e-mail accounts and access web space via FTP to upload files for their websites. Kihada Kreative Hosting members will use the provided services in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws of the Province of British Columbia and the Canadian Federal Law. Kihada Kreative Hosting provides the Services exclusively and makes no effort to edit, control, monitor or restrict the content of data other than as necessary to provide such Services. Kihada Kreative Hosting reserves the right to refuse customers from utilization of its services, without notification. If any of the below activities are committed, IconHosting can terminate client’s account without notification.
a. Client Content: Client agrees that webpages and files uploaded to servers will not violate any province, federal or foreign laws or regulations; infringe on any intellectual property rights of Kihada Kreative Hosting or any third party; be defamatory, slanderous or trade libelous; be threatening or harassing; be discriminatory based on gender, race, age; promote hate; or contain viruses or other computer programming defects which result in damage to Kihada Kreative Hosting or any third party. Customers may not run IRC, bots or clients. Unacceptable uses also include: Bulk unsolicited emailing, unsolicited emailings, newsgroup spamming, child porn or links to such sites, cgi/php proxy scripts, copyrighted MP3, storing personal backups and/or cPanel backup files, illegal content, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, warez, cracks, software serial numbers. IconHosting will be the sole and final arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this policy. Kihada Kreative Hosting does not normally monitor the contents of clients servers, however if suspicion occurs, Kihada Kreative Hosting reserves the right to investigate and terminate the clients subscription to the service.
b. Bandwidth Usage: Kihada Kreative Hosting offers a generous amount of data transfer per month. Bandwidth is calculated on a recurring 30 days. Sites that use over the given limit in 30 days will automatically be suspended. There is a daily transfer cap of total bandwidth divided by the number of days in the current month. If you exceed your bandwidth limit for any given month, your account will be suspended until you upgrade, warning e-mail’s are sent out before your account reaches the maximum.
c. Excessive Resource User Policy: Resources are defined as bandwidth, memory and/or processor utilization. A website is considered using “Excessive amounts of resources” when it monopolies the resources available using 10% or more of system resources for longer than 60 seconds. There are numerous problems that could cause such problems, this includes but not limited to: cgi scripts, FTP, HTTP, etc. A site that consumes over the account limit of bandwidth is also considered “excessive resources”. This policy is only implemented in extreme circumstances and is intended to prevent the misuse of our servers. The client whom is using “excessive resources” will be asked to upgrade his/her package to one of our semi-dedicated or dedicated server packages. IconHosting will be the sole and final arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this policy. Kihada Kreative Hosting does not suspend accounts utilizing their given space or bandwidth allotments. Suspensions will only occur if client violates above restrictions.
d. No “Spam”: UCE/UBE or “Spam” originating from a server located on our network or associated with a Kihada Kreative Hosting server is not tolerated. This includes any e-mail that promotes web sites hosted on a server located on the Kihada Kreative Hosting network but is sent from an e-mail address not associated with that Kihada Kreative Hosting account. Client shall not use their Kihada Kreative Hosting services for chain letters, junk mail, bulk-email, or any use of distribution lists to any person who has not given specific permission to be included in such a process. Kihada Kreative Hosting reserves the right to deactivate or terminate any account(s) upon any indication of such activity without notice. There will be a $400 clean up fee if an account was suspended for policy violation.
e. False Information: Client agrees not to post false or inaccurate information to news groups in violation of the news groups. rules and regulations. If any news groups or service provider contact IconHosting concerning unethical, false or unlawful activities by you, Kihada Kreative Hosting reserve the right to terminate your service without notice.
f. Licensed Software Only: Client agrees to use only properly licensed third party software in connection with Client’s use of the Services.
g. Back-Up Files: Kihada Kreative Hosting provides the tools needed to create back ups of account data. It is the responsibility of the customer to keep up-to-date archives of their backed up data. Kihada Kreative Hosting currently does not utilize any back-up services and is not responsible for any lost data.
Payment, Renewal, Cancellations
a. Payment Obligations: Full payment is required in advance before hosting service is established. Kihada Kreative Hosting sends out invoices that are due every pay period. You are given fifteen (15) days to fully pay the invoice. You warrant and represent that the information you supply in the Order Form (or other information that Kihada Kreative Hosting may require) is accurate and truthful. All payment-due notices will be sent by e-mail. No bills or invoices will be sent by postal mail or fax. If payment was not received by the due-date, your account will be suspended and possibly sent to collections. To have your account re-established, you will need to pay the monthly fees, plus any late fee’s. There is a $35 fee for bounced cheques and a $45 processing fee for chargebacks. All fees mentioned are in Canadian (cad) funds.
b. Renewals: Your account will be automatically renewed under the same time and fee structure unless you give written notice to Kihada Kreative Hosting thirty (30) days before the renewal date that you do not wish to renew or make changes to such account.
c. Cancellation & Refunds: Should you become unsatisfied with our services within the first 30 days of your account activation, Kihada Kreative Hosting will refund your hosting fee subject to the money back guarantee terms listed in this agreement. Refunds are not available for shared/reseller pre-paid accounts and after the 30 days of account activation. You may however cancel your account at any time. You will need to contact customer service 30 days before your renewal date and verify information before cancellation takes place. You will be charged in full for the entire month in which you canceled your account. Accounts which have negative balances will be sent to collections and all services will be terminated, including domain registrations. Customers wishing to switch their FREE domain to another registrar or cancel their service are subject to a $100 domain release fee. Refunds are never available for domain registrations, control panel licenses (cPanel, Plesk, etc) setup fees or dedicated servers.
99.9% Service Level Agreement “SLA”
Kihada Kreative Hosting offers its clients a 99.9% network uptime guarantee for customer satisfaction purposes and also to ensure that your business is running problem free. Kihada Kreative Hosting will try to maintain maximum uptime. Kihada Kreative Hosting is not responsible for any downtime caused by the client. We experience 99.9% uptime on all servers and network equipment over a 12 month period. That 00.1% is equal to approximately 9 hours of downtime in a year, not even a full day. We are well within this limit and will do our best of course to avoid any downtime on our shared hosting network.
Web Design and Development Refund
IconHosting requires 50% of the estimated website project cost in advance and the balance upon acceptance of product but prior to upload to your server. For all projects less than $500, we require 100% payment. We ask that intellectual property rights be respected: Our product ownership stays with us unless it is paid for in full. We do not offer refund for pre approved design work.
Due to the.
- Easily duplicated nature of software systems.
- Extensive amounts of irreversible effort performed to ensure that products and services and up to par.
- Intangible nature of our products and services that cannot be returned.
- Payment terms established in all product/service contracts…there will be absolutely NO REFUNDS. All sales are final, and we do not offer cash refunds,
exchanges, account credits, or retroactive negotiation for charges already incurred.
Third Party Script Assistance
Kihada Kreative Hosting retains the right not to assist clients with third party applications. This includes any script uploaded by the client, installed using cPanel, it’s scripts library or any installer within. Any assistance, support, or troubleshooting provided by Kihada Kreative Hosting for ANY third party script or application will be subject to a $90/hour service fee.
30-Day Money Back Guarantee
Kihada Kreative Hosting offers an unconditional 30-day money back guarantee that covers cancellations of an web hosting account made during the first 30 days of service, due to the inability to deliver satisfactory services. No refunds are available after 30 days. In order to cancel service, you must contact Kihada Kreative Hosting, As a part of our strive to achieve industry leading customer satisfaction, the customer will be refunded all hosting charges minus any setup fees which are non-refundable via PayPal. The guarantee does not apply to accounts with non-use, misuse, and/or abuse of this agreement. Please be aware that there are no pro-rated refunds after the first 30 days of service.Domain name registrations, setup fees & dedicated server fees are also non-refundable. Any questions regarding the 30-day money back guarantee should be forwarded to hosting@www.kihada.ca