This Dedicated Server Service Agreement ("Agreement") is by and between InfoQuest Technologies, Inc., a/an Pennsylvania corporation ("INFOQUEST"), and you and your heirs, assigns, agents and contractors (collectively, "You") and is effective as of the date of electronic execution. This Agreement sets forth the terms and conditions of Your use of INFOQUEST's Dedicated Server services (collectively, the "Dedicated Services") and represents the entire agreement between You and INFOQUEST. By using INFOQUEST's Dedicated Services, You acknowledge and agree that You have read, understand, acknowledge and agree to be bound by all the terms and conditions of this Agreement, along with any new, different or additional terms, conditions or policies, including, but not limited to, the Universal Terms of Service that INFOQUEST may establish from time to time.
In addition to transactions entered into by You on Your behalf, You also agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement for transactions entered into on Your behalf by anyone acting as Your Agent, and transactions entered into by anyone who uses the account You've established with INFOQUEST, whether or not the transactions were on Your behalf. You acknowledge that INFOQUEST’s acceptance of any application made by You for Services provided by INFOQUEST will take place at INFOQUEST’s offices located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
1. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE
INFOQUEST currently provides Dedicated Services to its customers for a monthly fee. INFOQUEST will provide You an account on INFOQUEST's Dedicated Services servers, provided, however, You abide by the terms and conditions set forth herein and in each of INFOQUEST's policies and procedures.
LICENSE OF YOUR SERVER CONTENT
INFOQUEST grants to You, and You accept from INFOQUEST, a non-exclusive, worldwide and royalty free license to copy, display, use and transmit on and via the Internet Your server content in connection with INFOQUEST's performance or enforcement of this Agreement.
AVAILABILITY OF SERVICES
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, INFOQUEST shall use commercially reasonable efforts to provide the Dedicated Services on a twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week basis throughout the term of this Agreement. You agree that from time to time the Dedicated Services may be inaccessible or inoperable for any reason, including, without limitation: (i) equipment malfunctions; (ii) periodic maintenance procedures or repairs that INFOQUEST may undertake from time to time; or (iii) causes beyond the control of INFOQUEST or that are not reasonably foreseeable by INFOQUEST, including, without limitation, interruption or failure of telecommunication or digital transmission links, hostile network attacks, network congestion or other failures. You further agree that the availability of the Dedicated Services may be inaccessible during periods of time for which You have scheduled upgrades or downgrades to your Dedicated Services server. You agree that INFOQUEST has no control of availability of the Dedicated Services on a continuous or uninterrupted basis.
DATA BACKUP
INFOQUEST may offer additional features and add on services such as a Data Backup service. You acknowledge and agree that purchasing such additional features and add on services may require additional down time to install and maintain. You further acknowledge and agree that in utilizing the Data Backup service, You shall be subject to a maximum disk usage and bandwidth usage as identified by INFOQUEST. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, INFOQUEST shall use commercially reasonable efforts to provide Data Backup services on a twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week basis throughout the term of this Agreement. You acknowledge and agree that from time to time the Data Backup services may be inaccessible or inoperable for any reason, including without limitation: (i) equipment malfunctions; (ii) periodic maintenance procedures or repairs that INFOQUEST may undertake from time to time; or (iii) causes beyond the control of INFOQUEST or that are not reasonably foreseeable by INFOQUEST, including, without limitation, interruption or failure of telecommunication or digital transmission links, hostile network attacks, network congestion or other failures.
SERVER CONTENT
You shall be solely responsible for providing, updating, uploading and maintaining Your server content and any and all files, backups, pages, data, works, information and/or materials on, within, displayed, linked or transmitted to, from or through Your server, including, without limitation, trade or service marks, images, photographs, illustrations, graphics, audio clips, video clips, email or other messages, meta tags, domain names, software and text. Your server content shall also include any registered domain names provided by You or registered on behalf of You in connection with the Dedicated Services.
INFORMATION SHARED WITH PARTNERS
As a condition of purchasing and using "Virtual Dedicated Server" and/or "Dedicated Server" plans, You acknowledge and agree that INFOQUEST may provide Your personal information to their partners, as required to provide the plans for which You are purchasing.
2. YOUR OBLIGATIONS
You acknowledge and agree that INFOQUEST shall have the right to seek justification in connection with Your use of the Dedicated Services, specifically Your purchase of IP addresses, and that You shall be obligated to provide any and all information reasonably sought by INFOQUEST pursuant to such justification. You acknowledge and agree that You are required to begin using at least eighty percent (80%) of Your purchased IP addresses within thirty (30) days of assignment of such IP addresses to You. In the event You do not begin using at least eighty percent (80%) of Your assigned IP addresses, You acknowledge and agree that INFOQUEST shall have the right to reclaim any unused IP addresses after the expiration of such thirty (30) day period. In connection with such purchase, You acknowledge and agree that Your name and justification may be disclosed to certain registries, including, but not limited to, the American Registry of Internet Numbers, in accordance with policies promulgated by any and all such registries and such information may be displayed on the Whois.
You represent and warrant to INFOQUEST that: Your content does not and shall not contain any content, materials, data, work, trade or service mark, trade name, link, advertising or services that actually or potentially violate any applicable law or regulation or infringe or misappropriate any proprietary, intellectual property, contract or tort right of any person and that You own Your server content and all proprietary or intellectual property rights therein, or have express written authorization from the owner to copy, use and display the content on and within Your server account. You also represent and warrant that the server content being hosted by INFOQUEST shall not be used in connection with any illegal activity.
You are responsible for ensuring that there is no excessive overloading of INFOQUEST's DNS system or servers. In the event that You exceed Your allotted bandwidth and thereby overload INFOQUEST's DNS or servers, You shall be assessed any and all fees, costs and penalties associated with such overloading. You may not use INFOQUEST's servers and Your Server Account as a source, intermediary, reply to address, or destination address for mail bombs, Internet packet flooding, packet corruption, denial of service, or other abusive activities. Server hacking or other perpetration of security breaches is prohibited and INFOQUEST reserves the right to remove sites that contain information about hacking or links to such information. Use of your server account as an anonymous gateway is prohibited, as is Your use of the Dedicated Services to restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Internet. You acknowledge and agree that INFOQUEST has the right to remove Your server content temporarily or permanently from its dedicated servers if INFOQUEST is the recipient of activities that threaten the stability of its network.
You agree not to engage in unacceptable use of any of the Dedicated Services, which includes, without limitation, use of the Dedicated Services to: (i) disseminate or transmit unsolicited messages, chain letters, unsolicited commercial email or unreasonably large volumes of email on a daily basis, provided, INFOQUEST, in its sole discretion, may permit You, if You have a legitimate purpose and after request, to send more email than INFOQUEST's standard SMTP relay limit; (ii) disseminate or transmit any material that, to a reasonable person may be abusive, obscene, pornographic, defamatory, harassing, grossly offensive, vulgar, threatening or malicious; (iii) disseminate or transmit files, graphics, software or other material, data or work that actually or potentially infringes the copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other intellectual property right of any person; (iv) create a false identity or to otherwise attempt to mislead any person as to the identity, source or origin of any communication; (v) export, re-export or permit downloading of any message or content in violation of any export or import law, regulation or restriction of the United States and its agencies or authorities, or without all required approvals, licenses and/or exemptions; (vi) interfere, disrupt or attempt to gain unauthorized access to any computer system, server, network or account for which You do not have authorization to access or at a level exceeding Your authorization; (vii) disseminate or transmit any virus, trojan horse or other malicious, harmful or disabling data, work, code or program; (viii) engage in any other activity deemed by INFOQUEST to be in conflict with the spirit or intent of this Agreement or any INFOQUEST policy; or (ix) use Your server as an "open relay" or similar purposes.
INFOQUEST prohibits the running of a public recursive DNS service on any INFOQUEST server. All recursive DNS servers must be secured to allow only internet network access or a limited set of IP addresses. INFOQUEST actively scans for the presence of public DNS services and reserves the right to remove any servers from the network that violate this restriction.
STORAGE AND SECURITY
At all times, You shall bear full risk of loss and damage to Your server and all of Your server content. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of Your password and account information. You acknowledge and agree that You are solely responsible for all acts, omissions and use under and charges incurred with Your account or password or in connection with the server or any of Your server content displayed, linked, transmitted through or stored on the server. You shall be solely responsible for undertaking measures to: (i) prevent any loss or damage to Your server content; (ii) maintain independent archival and backup copies of Your server content; (iii) ensure the security, confidentiality and integrity of Your server content transmitted through or stored on INFOQUEST servers; and (iv) ensure the confidentiality of Your password. INFOQUEST's servers and Dedicated Services are not an archive and INFOQUEST shall have no liability to You or any other person for loss, damage or destruction of any of Your content.
In the event You terminate this Agreement or Your use of the Dedicated Services, then moving Your server content off of the INFOQUEST dedicated servers is Your responsibility. INFOQUEST will not transfer or FTP Your server content to another provider. In the event Your use of the Dedicated Services is terminated, INFOQUEST will not transfer or manage Your Dedicated Services or Your server content.
3. TECHNICAL SUPPORT
In the event You elect to purchase INFOQUEST ’s Technical Support service, the follow terms and conditions shall apply to Your use of and INFOQUEST's obligations in connection with providing the Technical Support service (collectively, the “Support Services”). Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and each of INFOQUEST's policies and procedures, INFOQUEST shall use commercially reasonable efforts to attempt to provide the Support Services on a twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week basis throughout the term of this Agreement. You acknowledge and agree that from time to time the Support Services may be inaccessible or inoperable for any reason, including, without limitation: (i) equipment malfunctions; (ii) periodic maintenance procedures or repairs that INFOQUEST may undertake from time to time; or (iii) causes beyond the reasonable control of INFOQUEST or that are not reasonably foreseeable by INFOQUEST, including, without limitation, interruption or failure of telecommunication or digital transmission links, hostile network attacks, network congestion or other failures. You acknowledge and agree that INFOQUEST has no control over the availability of the Support Services on a continuous or uninterrupted basis.
INFOQUEST ’s RIGHTS
INFOQUEST explicitly reserves the right and sole discretion to: (i) modify its pricing, if desired by INFOQUEST ; (ii) establish limits and guidelines concerning the use of the Support Services; (iii) terminate Your use of the Support Services for use of the Support Services to unnecessarily or illegally harass INFOQUEST or third parties, non-payment of fees for the Support Services, activities designed to defame, embarrass, harm, abuse, threaten, slander or harass third parties, activities prohibited by the laws of the United States and/or foreign territories in which You conduct business, activities designed to encourage unlawful behavior by others, such as hate crimes, terrorism and child pornography, activities that are tortuous, vulgar, obscene, invasive of the privacy of a third party, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable in the sole opinion of INFOQUEST, activities designed to impersonate the identity of a third party, activities designed to harm minors in any way, and other activities whether lawful or unlawful that INFOQUEST determines, in its sole discretion, to be harmful to its other customers, operations, or reputation; (iv) terminate Your use of the Support Services if Your use of the Support Services may results in, results in, or is the subject of, legal action or threatened or proposed legal action, against INFOQUEST or any of its affiliates or partners, without consideration for whether such legal action or threatened or proposed legal action is eventually determined to be with or without merit; and (v) terminate Your use of the Support Services at any time and for any reason if deemed reasonably necessary by INFOQUEST. INFOQUEST has no obligation to monitor Your use of the Support Services, but reserves the right in its sole discretion to do so.
CHARGES FOR SUPPORT SERVICES
When INFOQUEST determines that charges shall apply for Your use of the Support Services, INFOQUEST shall charge You for Your use of the Support Services on a fifteen (15) minute incremental basis. Further, when INFOQUEST determines that a fee will be assessed for Your use of the Support Services, INFOQUEST reserves the right to charge any or all of the fees prior to the commencement of any work being performed.
THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE
Additionally, in the event You elect to install or seek assistance from INFOQUEST in connection with the installation of any third-party software, the following terms shall apply. You represent and warrant that You have the right to use and install such third-party software and that the third-party software does not and shall not infringe on the intellectual property rights of any other person or entity. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless INFOQUEST and its employees, officers and directors for, from and against any and all claims brought against INFOQUEST and its employees, officers and directors by a third-party alleging that such software infringes (i) the third-party’s rights or (ii) a U.S. patent, trademark, copyright or other intellectual property right, and shall pay all resulting costs, damages, expenses and reasonable attorneys’ fees that a court awards and settlements made by INFOQUEST in connection with any such claims.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY; WAIVER AND RELEASE
The Support Services are being provided “AS IS” and INFOQUEST expressly disclaims any and all warranties, whether express or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, to the fullest extent permitted or authorized by law. Without limitation of the foregoing, INFOQUEST expressly does not warrant that the Support Services will meet your requirements, function as intended, or that the use of the Support Service will be uninterrupted or error free. In no event shall INFOQUEST be liable for any or all direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits; or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including, but not limited to, negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of the Support Service, even if INFOQUEST is aware of or has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Accordingly, You for Yourself and all of Your heirs, personal representatives, predecessors, successors and assigns, hereby fully release, remise, and forever discharge INFOQUEST and all affiliates of INFOQUEST, and all officers, agents, employees, and representatives of INFOQUEST, and all of their heirs, personal representatives, predecessors, successors and assigns, for, from and against any and all claims, liens, demands, causes of action, controversies, offsets, obligations, losses, damages and liabilities of every kind and character whatsoever, including, but not limited to, any action omission, misrepresentation or other basis of liability founded either in tort or contract and the duties arising thereunder, whether known or unknown, relating to or arising out of, or in any way connected with or resulting from, the Support Services and Your acquisition and use thereof, including, but not limited to, the provision of the Support Services by INFOQUEST and its agents and employees.
Revised: 11/05/2007