1. AGREEMENT. In this Service Agreement
("Agreement") "you" and "your" refer
to each customer, "we", us" and "our" refer to Tucows.com and "Services" refers
to the services provided by us as offered through zwnet.com, the
Registration Service Provider ("RSP"). This Agreement explains
our obligations to you, and explains your obligations to us for
various Services. By selecting our Services you have agreed to
establish an account with us for such Services. When you use your
account or permit someone else to use it to purchase or otherwise
acquire access to additional Services or to cancel your Services
(even if we were not notified of such authorization), this Agreement
covers such service or actions. By using the Services under this
Agreement, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to be bound
by all terms and conditions of this Agreement and any pertinent
rules or policies that are or may be published by us.
2. SELECTION OF A DOMAIN NAME. We cannot and do not check to see
whether the domain name you select, or the use you make of the
domain name, infringes legal rights of others. We urge you to investigate
to see whether the domain name you select or its use infringes
legal rights of others, and in particular we suggest you seek advice
of competent counsel. You may wish to consider seeking one or more
trademark registrations in connection with your domain name. You
should be aware that there is the possibility we might be ordered
by a court to cancel, modify, or transfer your domain name. You
should be aware that if we are sued or threatened with lawsuit
in connection with your domain name, we may turn to you to hold
us harmless and indemnify us.
3. FEES, PAYMENT AND TERM. As consideration
for the services you have selected, you agree to pay us the applicable
service(s) fees. All fees payable hereunder are non-refundable
unless we provide otherwise. As further consideration for the
Services, you agree to: (1) provide certain current, complete
and accurate information about you as required by the registration
process and (2) maintain and update this information as needed
to keep it current, complete and accurate. All such information
shall be referred to as account information ("Account Information"). You hereby grant us the right
to disclose to third parties such Account Information. The Registrant,
by completing and submitting the Domain Name Registration Agreement
("Registration Agreement"), represents that the statements in its
application are true and that the registration of the selected
Domain Name, so far as the Registrant is aware, does not interfere
with or infringe upon the rights of any third party. The Registrant
also represents that the Domain Name is not being registered for
any unlawful purpose.
4. MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT. You agree,
during the period of this Agreement, that we may: (1) revise
the terms and conditions of this Agreement; and (2) change the
services provided under this Agreement. Any such revision or
change will be binding and effective immediately on posting of
the revised Agreement or change to the service(s) on our web
site, or on notification to you by e-mail or regular mail as
per the Notices section of this agreement, Section 20. You agree
to review our web site, including the Agreement, periodically
to be aware of any such revisions. If you do not agree with any
revision to the Agreement, you may terminate this Agreement at
any time by providing us with notice by e-mail or regular mail
as per the Notices section of this agreement, Section 20. Notice
of your termination will be effective on receipt and processing
by us. You agree that, by continuing to use the Services following
notice of any revision to this Agreement or change in service(s),
you abide by any such revisions or changes. You further agree to
abide by the ICANN Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy ("Dispute
Policy") as amended from timeto time. You agree that, by maintaining
the reservation or registration of your domain name after modifications
to the Dispute Policy become effective, you have agreed to these
modifications. You acknowledge that if you do not agree to any
such modifications, you may request that your domain name be deleted
from the domain name database.
5. MODIFICATIONS TO YOUR ACCOUNT. In order to change any of your
account information with us, you must use your Account Identifier
and Password that you selected when you opened your account with
us. Please safeguard your Account Identifier and Password from
any unauthorized use. In no event will we be liable for the unauthorized
use or misuse of your Account Identifier or Password.
6. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTE POLICY. If you reserved
or registered a domain name through us, or transferred a domain
name to us from another registrar, you agree to be bound the Dispute
Policy which is incorporated herein and made a part of this Agreement
by reference. The current version of the Dispute Policy may be
found at our web site : This should be
a copy of the ICANN Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy found at http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp-policy-24oct99.htm .
Please take the time to familiarize yourself with such policy.
7. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTES. You agree that, if the registration or
reservation of your domain name is challenged by a third party,
you will be subject to the provisions specified in the Dispute
Policy in effect at the time of the dispute. You agree that in
the event a domain name dispute arises with any third party, you
will indemnify and hold us harmless pursuant to the terms and conditions
contained in the Dispute Policy. For any dispute, you agree to
submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of your domicile, the
courts of the geographic location indicated by your WHOIS information
for your domain name, and the courts of _______________________.
8. AGENTS. You agree that, if an agent for you (i.e., an Internet
Service Provider, employee, etc.) purchased our Services on your
behalf, you are nonetheless bound as a principal by all terms and
conditions herein, including the Dispute Policy.
9. ANNOUNCEMENTS. We reserve the right to distribute information
to you that is pertinent to the quality or operation of our services
and those of our service partners. These announcements will be
predominately informative in nature and may include notices describing
changes, upgrades, new products or other information to add security
or to enhance your identity on the Internet.
10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. You agree that our entire liability,
and your exclusive remedy, with respect to any Services(s) provided
under this Agreement and any breach of this Agreement is solely
limited to the amount you paid for such Service(s). We and our
contractors shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental,
special or consequential damages resulting from the use or inability
to use any of the Services or for the cost of procurement of substitute
services. Because some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation
of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such states,
our liability is limited to the extent permitted by law. We disclaim
any and all loss or liability resulting from, but not limited to:
(1) loss or liability resulting from access delays or access interruptions;
(2) loss or liability resulting from data non-delivery or data
mis-delivery; (3) loss or liability resulting from acts of God;
(4) loss or liability resulting from the unauthorized use or misuse
of your Account Identifier or Password; (5) loss or liability resulting
from errors, omissions, or misstatements in any and all information
or services(s) provided under this Agreement; (6) loss or liability
resulting from the development or interruption of your Web site
or email service. The registrant agrees that we will not be liable
for any loss of registration and use of registrant's domain name,
or for interruption of business, or any indirect, special, incidental,
or consequential damages of any kind (including lost profits) regardless
of the form of action whether in contract, tort (including negligence),
or otherwise, even if we have been advised of the possibility of
such damages. In no event shall our maximum liability exceed five
hundred ($500.00) dollars.
11. INDEMNITY. You agree to release, indemnify, and hold us, our
contractors, agents, employees, officers, directors and affiliates
harmless from all liabilities, claims and expenses, including attorney's
fees, of third parties relating to or arising under this Agreement,
the Services provided hereunder or your use of the Services, including
without limitation infringement by you, or someone else using the
E-mail Service with your computer, of any intellectual property
or other proprietary right of any person or entity, or from the
violation of any of our operating rules or policy relating to the
service(s) provided. You also agree to release, indemnify and hold
us harmless pursuant to the terms and conditions contained in the
Dispute Policy. When we are threatened with suit by a third party,
we may seek written assurances from you concerning your promise
to indemnify us; your failure to provide those assurances may be
considered by us to be a breach of your Agreement and may result
in deactivation of your domain name.
12. BREACH. You agree that failure to abide by
any provision of this Agreement, any operating rule or policy or
the Dispute Policy provided by us, may be considered by us to be
a material breach and that we may provide a written notice, describing
the breach, to you. If within thirty (30) calendar days of the
date of such notice, you fail to provide evidence, which is reasonably
satisfactory to us, that you have not breached your obligations
under the Agreement, then we may delete the registration or reservation
of your domain name or terminate your e-mail account without further
notice. Any such breach by you shall not be deemed to be excused
simply because we did not act earlier in response to that, or any
other breach by you.
13. NO GUARANTY. You agree that, by registration or reservation
of your chosen domain name, such registration or reservation does
not confer immunity from objection to either the registration,
reservation, or use of the domain name.
14. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES. You agree
and warrant that the information that you provide to us to register
or reserve your domain name or register for other Services is,
to the best of your knowledge and belief, accurate and complete,
and that any future changes to this information will be provided
to us in a timely manner according to the modification procedures
in place at that time. You agree that your use of our Services
is solely at your own risk. You agree that such Service(s) is
provided on an "as is," "as available" basis.
we expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express
or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties
of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
We make no warranty that the Services will meet your requirements,
or that the Service(s) will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or
error free; nor do we make any warranty as to the results that
may be obtained from the use of the Service(s) or as to the accuracy
or reliability of any information obtained through the our e-mail
service or that defects in the Services software will be corrected.
You understand and agree that any material and/or data downloaded
or otherwise obtained through the use of the our e-mail service
is done at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely
responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data
that results from the download of such material and/or data. We
make no warranty regarding any goods or services purchased or obtained
through the e-mail service or any transactions entered into through
the e-mail service. No advice or information, whether oral or written,
obtained by you from us or through the e-mail service shall create
any warranty not expressly made herein. Some jurisdictions do not
allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above
exclusions may not apply to you.
15. REVOCATION. You agree that we may delete your domain name
or terminate your right to use other Services if the information
that you provided to register or reserve your domain name or register
for other Services, or subsequently to modify it, contains false
or misleading information, or conceals or omits any information
we would likely consider material to our decision to register or
reserve your domain name. You agree that we may, in our sole discretion,
delete or transfer your domain name at any time.
16. RIGHT OF REFUSAL. We, in our sole discretion, reserve the
right to refuse to register or reserve your chosen domain name
or register you for other Services, or to delete your domain name
within thirty (30) calendar days from receipt of your payment for
such services. In the event we do not register or reserve your
domain name or register you for other Services, or we delete your
domain name or other Services within such thirty (30) calendar
day period, we agree to refund your applicable fee(s). You agree
that we shall not be liable to you for loss or damages that may
result from our refusal to register or reserve, or delete your
domain name or register you for other Services.
17. SEVERABILITY. You agree that the terms of this Agreement are
severable. If any term or provision is declared invalid or unenforceable,
that term or provision will be construed consistent with applicable
law as nearly as possible to reflect the original intentions of
the parties, and the remaining terms and provisions will remain
in full force and effect.
18. NON-AGENCY. Nothing contained in this Agreement or the Dispute
Policy shall be construed as creating any agency, partnership,
or other form of joint enterprise between the parties.
19. NON-WAIVER. Our failure to require performance by the Registrant
of any provision hereof shall not affect the full right to require
such performance at any time thereafter; nor shall the waiver by
us of a breach of any provision hereof be taken or held to be a
waiver of the provision itself.
20. NOTICES. Any notice, direction or other communication
given under this Agreement shall be in writing and given by sending
it via e-mail or via regular mail. In the case of e-mail, valid
notice shall only have been deemed to have been given when an electronic
confirmation of delivery has been obtained by the sender, in the
case of notice to us or to the RSP to dnsadmin@zwnet.com or, in
the case of notice to you, at the e-mail address provided by you
in your WHOIS record or as updated from time to time. Mail shall
be sent to dnsadmin@zwnet.com and to you at the mailing address
provided in your Affiliate application or as updated from time
to time. Any e-mail communication shall be deemed to have been
validly and effectively given on the date of such communication,
if such date is a business day and such delivery was made prior
to 4:00 p.m. (E.S.T Time) and otherwise on the next business day.
Any communication sent via regular mail shall be deemed to have
been validly and effectively given 5 business days after the date
of mailing.
21. ENTIRETY. You agree that this Agreement, the rules and policies
published us and the Dispute Policy are the complete and exclusive
agreement between you and us regarding our Services. This Agreement
and the Dispute Policy supersede all prior agreements and understandings,
whether established by custom, practice, policy or precedent.
22. GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be governed
by and interpreted and enforced in accordance with the LAWS OF
ONTARIO and the FEDERAL LAWS OF Canada applicable therein without
reference to rules governing choice of laws. Any action relating
to this Agreement must be brought in Toronto and you irrevocably
consent to the jurisdiction of such courts.
23. INFANCY. You attest that you are of legal age to enter into
this Agreement.
24. Acceptance of Agreement. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ
THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU HAVE
INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF PARTICIPATING IN THE
AFFILIATE NETWORK AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE
OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT. |