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Terms Of Use
Rev.
24 October, 2002
1. Introduction
- The following terms comprise
an Agreement between Engine Room Digital Marketing, Inc. and its
subsidiary EZ Site Launch Internet Services Ltd. (together the
"Company") and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (B&GCA)
member organization ("B&GCA Member Organization ") named in
the account registration form for services that the Company is providing under this Agreement.
- A separate, agreement
between Engine Room Digital Marketing Ltd., and Boys & Girls
Clubs of America governs the use of the bgcweb
brand, the exclusive template designs it represents, and the access
to information needed to validate member organization standing.
Boys & Girls Clubs of America is not a party to this agreement
and Boys & Girls Clubs of America is not responsible for the
Company's or the B&GCA Member Organization obligations under
this Agreement.
- System Requirements for
the use of bgcweb and its associated applications are as
follows:
-
- Internet
Connectivity
- Windows 9X/2000/XP
- Internet Explorer 5.0 &
Up
- Netscape Navigator 6.0 &
Up - Limited Administration Functionality
- Apple Mac -Not Supported
- Internet
Connectivity
- Windows 9X/2000/XP
- Internet Explorer
5.0 & Up
- Netscape Navigator
6.0 & Up
- Apple Mac
OS8X & Up
2. Compliance
with the Law
- B&GCA Member Organization
agrees NOT to use bgcweb to post, transmit, re-transmit,
store, or link to material that:
- promotes violence
or satanic practice
- violates any local,
state, federal or non-United States law or regulation, including
but not limited to those governing:
- copyright,
trade secret, patent or other intellectual property protection
- software
licensing
- pornography
and pornographic related content and merchandising
- threat,
libel, defamation and other adverse actions against any individual,
group or entity (collectively, "Persons")
- obscenity
and indecency
- B&GCA Member
Organization agrees to determine the laws or regulations applicable
to its use of the bgcweb.
3. Appropriate
Use
B&GCA Member
Organization and the Company agree to use bgcweb only in
a manner consistent with its purpose.
To illustrate, B&GCA Member Organization and the Company agree
NOT to use bgcweb services to encourage, effect, or abet:
- using, storing, or
transferring pirated software, "hacker" programs, archives of
"Warez Sites," game rooms or Multi-User Dimensions, Internet
Relay Chat Robots, Egg Drop programs, or any sort of illegal software
or shareware
- introducing
viruses, worms, or other malicious programs into Company's networks
or servers
- accessing
data, through monitoring or any other means, that is not addressed
to or intended for the B&GCA Member Organization
- circumventing
user authentication, logging into a Company server or account
without express authority, or in any similar way breaching Internet
communication
- using port scans,
flood pings, packet spoofing, forged routing information or any
other means of disrupting Internet communication
- interfering with
or denying service to any user other than B&GCA Member Organization's
host (for example, denial of service attack)
- using
programs, scripts, and commands, message traffic, or any other
means to interfere with or disable terminal sessions
- altering,
removing or in any way modifying or tampering with Company created
log files or taking any similar action to circumvent or alter
Company monitoring, bandwidth tracking, and utilization analysis
- purposely
and knowingly furnishing false, invalid, or misleading information
to the Company
- engaging
in any form of unsolicited marketing in violation of applicable
law
- sending "junk
mail," mass advertising, "e-mail spam," any other form of unsolicited
commercial e-mail messages (UCE) to parties who have not asked
to receive such messages and are not previous or existing B&GCA
Member Organization clients
This expressly prohibits:
- sending UCE referencing an e-mail
address for any domain hosted by the Company
- sending UCE referencing a domain hosted
by the Company
- sending UCE referencing an Internet
Protocol address hosted by the Company
- posting on
Internet Relay Chat, ICQ, or any other public chat
system, advertisements that contains an e-mail address
- hosted by the Company, a domain hosted
by the Company, or an Internet Protocol address belonging
to the Company.
The Company will charge B&GCA Member
Organization $300.00 for each instance of a verifiable reported
UCE and may immediately suspend or terminate bgcweb subscription
immediately.
- harassing any
party by e-mail message language, size, or frequency or by any
other means
- improperly using mail
header information for improper purposes or forging mail header
information
- soliciting mail for
any e-mail address other than a poster's account with the intent
to harass or to collect replies
- creating or forwarding
"chain letters" or other "pyramid schemes" of any type
- originating unsolicited
e-mail from within the Company networks (or other Internet Service
Provider networks) to advertise any service hosted by or connected
to the Company's network.
4. Customer Service
Company and B&GCA
Member Organization mutually agree that their respective agents
will NOT engage in abusive, threatening, obscene or harassing communication
during service calls and disputes.
5. Bandwidth Utilization
- The Company agrees
in good faith to provide unlimited Web capacity to B&GCA Member
Organization so long as:
- B&GCA Member
Organization site uses and stores only information related to
the Web site at the Internet Protocol address Company provides
- B&GCA Member
Organization does NOT use or store Web pages, files or data
for other Internet
Protocol
addresses or domain names at its bgcweb site
- B&GCA Member
Organization does NOT use its bgcweb site as a repository
for file, data or "Warez group" download transfers
- B&GCA Member
Organization does NOT adversely affect the Company network,
its business operations, or its other B&GCA Member Organization
relationships by conducting activities not permitted by this
Agreement
- If the B&GCA Member
Organization does not comply with these requirements, the Company
may take action needed immediately to restore equitable treatment
of all its customers and may cancel B&GCA Member Organization
subscription and remove B&GCA Member Organization site from
Company servers.
6. Billing and
Payments
B&GCA Member
Organization agrees:
- That
the Company may bill all monies due under this agreement at rates
then published in U.S. Dollars to the credit card filed with the
Company during registration
- that
a $35 one-year domain reactivation fee is due after 12 months
or when domain expires, whichever comes first.
7. Termination
B&GCA Member Organization
agrees that the Company may immediately terminate this agreement
and delete B&GCA Member Organization's entire bgcweb
site from its hardware when:
- B&GCA Member Organization
defaults payment of any charges due (has balances past due 90
days or more)
B&GCA
Member Organization agrees to be responsible for all costs of
collection, including reasonable attorney's fees and court costs,
in event of a default for nonpayment of any amounts due the
Company.
- B&GCA
Member Organization breaches any term of this agreement and B&GCA
Member Organization fails to cure such breach within a reasonable
time after notice of such breach
8. Domain Registration
- B&GCA Member Organization
agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of the Uniform
Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Policy") adopted by
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN")
and incorporated here by reference (see.www.icann.org/udrp/udrp-rules-24oct99.htm).
- B&GCA Member Organization
agrees that by permitting the Company to register a domain name
through the Company, the B&GCA Member Organization establishes
a relationship with the registrar separate from the Company and
from this Agreement
- B&GCA Member Organization
agrees to transfer administrative Domain Name Server control of
the domain hosted to the Company, i.e., to permit the Company
to update the domain name registration of any domain hosted by
the Company to list the Company's domain name servers as the hosting
entity. The Company does not provide extended access to its network
through non-authoritative Domain Name Server means for any purpose
other than initial account setup. B&GCA Member Organization
retains all ownership rights to the domain.
9.Technical Support
B&GCA Member Organization
agrees that:
- the Company cannot provide technical support for
any software or script, other than variable name changes, that
the B&GCA Member Organization installs
- the Company hosts the
Web site and supports the use and functionality of this Web application
and associated elements, including but not limited to content
manager, e-mail and web calendar, both through a toll free number
(9am - 5pm EST Monday-Friday) and e-mail (24 hours, 7 days a week).
10. Confidentiality
- B&GCA Member
Organization and the Company acknowledge that this Agreement may
result in shared access to confidential and protected information
with value that disclosure to third parties could diminish or
that must be protected in accordance with applicable privacy and
other personal data and information protection laws and regulations.
- B&GCA Member Organization
and the Company consequently agree:
- that each will reasonably
protect the confidential and proprietary information of the
other
- that neither will
use or disclose the confidential and proprietary information
of the other it in any way to benefit itself or any third party
- that upon termination
of this Agreement both will return the confidential and proprietary
information of the other or destroy it
- that their mutual
commitment to the confidential and proprietary information of
the other shall survive the termination of the Agreement
11. B&GCA Member
Organization Company Relationship
B&GCA Member Organization
and the Company acknowledge that this Agreement does NOT create
a relationship between Company and B&GCA Member Organization
in the nature of a partnership, joint venture, editor/publisher
or otherwise. Both parties acknowledge and agree that the Company
has no interaction with the data or substance of B&GCA Member
Organization's Web Site, except as necessary to maintain the Web
Site.
12. B&GCA Member
Organization Indemnification of the Company
B&GCA
Member Organization agrees to indemnify and hold the Company harmless
from any third party lawsuit, claim, charge, or expense, including
reasonable attorney fees and costs of defense, for any matter arising
from or relating to B&GCA Member Organization use of bgcweb,
excluding
any third party claims arising as a result of Company's breach of
this Agreement, willful misconduct, gross negligence, violation
of any law or regulation, including, without limitation, all laws
or regulations with respect to privacy and personal data and information,
or Company's breach of its confidentiality obligations.
13.
Disclaimers
- Unless otherwise
expressly stated in this agreement, neither the Company nor its
employees, agents, resellers third party information providers,
merchants licensers or the like, make any warranties, including:
- merchantability or
fitness for a particular purpose
- freedom from
error
- freedom from loss
of data
- freedom from service
interruption under any circumstance
- accuracy
- reliability
- B&GCA Member Organization
agrees that the sole cumulative liability of the Company and all
claims made by the B&GCA Member Organization, regardless of
form, shall NOT exceed the total amount of all fees and charges
paid to the company by the B&GCA Member Organization. The
foregoing limitation shall not apply to B&GCA Member Organization's
claims arising from Company's willful misconduct, gross negligence,
Company's violation of any law or regulation, including, without
limitation, all laws or regulations with respect to privacy and
personal data and information, or Company's breach of its confidentiality
obligations.
14. Legal Jurisdiction
B&GCA Member
Organization and the Company agree:
- that
this Agreement shall be governed in all respects under the laws
of the State of New York applicable to contracts made, accepted
and performed wholly in New York, without application to principles
of conflict of laws
- that
the sole venue and jurisdiction for any disputes arising from
this Agreement shall be the appropriate federal or state court
located in the State of New York.
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