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ID Protection Service Agreement
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE ID PROTECTION SERVICE
AGREEMENT (FOR THE SAKE OF SIMPLICITY, FROM HEREON WE WILL REFER TO IT
AS "AGREEMENT"). YOU AGREE WITH ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS IN THIS
AGREEMENT IN ORDER TO USE THE ID PROTECTION SERVICES (WHICH FROM HEREON
WILL BE REFERRED TO AS "IDP SERVICES"). YOU AGREE THAT SNAPPY
COMMUNICATIONS INC. CAN CHANGE THIS AGREEMENT BY POSTING THE CHANGED
AGREEMENT ON THE WEB PAGE FROM WHERE YOU PURCHASED THE IDP SERVICES.
YOU AGREE THAT ANY NEW, DIFFERENT OR ADDITIONAL FEATURES THAT CHANGE
THE IDP SERVICES WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE SUBJECT TO THIS AGREEMENT. YOU
AGREE THAT ALL NEW, UPDATED OR ADDITIONAL FEATURES THAT CHANGE IN SOME
WAY THE IDP SERVICES WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE SUBJECT TO THIS AGREEMENT.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND
ALL THE CHANGES TO THE AGREEMENT HERETO, DO NOT USE OR CONTINUE USING
THE IDP SERVICES. IF YOU CONTINUE TO USE THE IDP SERVICES AFTER THIS
AGREEMENT HAS BEEN UPDATED AND THE CHANGES POSTED ONLINE, YOU WILL
AUTOMATICALLY BE SUBJECT TO THE NEW TERMS AND CONDITIONS POSTED.
This Agreement is by and between Snappy
Communications, Inc., a Florida corporation, and You, Your heirs,
executors, administrators, agents, successors and assigns ("You,"
"Your," and other appropriate formatives). This Agreement will define
the exact terms and conditions of Your relationship with Snappy
Communications, Inc. and Your use of the IDP Services. You confirm that
You have read and understand and agree to be bound by all terms and
conditions specified in this Agreement for transactions entered into by:
You on Your behalf;
anyone acting as Your agent or representative;
anyone
who uses the account from which You want to obtain the IDP Services,
whether or not the transactions are on Your behalf and/or authorized by
You.
You agree that You will be bound by representations
made by third parties You use to obtain the IDP Services. You also
agree to follow the terms and conditions, established by the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"), including the Uniform Dom#ain Name Dispute Resolution Policy and any policy which ICANN may enforce, regarding WHOIS information.
THE IDP SERVICES
If
you subscribe to the IDP Services, your name, postal and email address,
phone and fax numbers shall be kept confidential and hidden, falling
subject to Section 5 of this Agreement. The following information
(instead of your personal details) will be thereafter publicly
available in the "Whois" section for each IDP Domain:
Snappy
Communications Inc.'s email and postal address, phone and facsimile
number for the registrant, administrative, technical and billing
contacts ("IDP Addresses");
The primary and secondary domain name servers You have designated for the IDP Domain;
The IDP Domain's original registration and expiration date;
The
identity of Your registrar and the status of the IDP Domain with the
registrar (such as: "Active", "Registrar Lock",
"ClientTransferProhibited", etc.).
While
You will not be listed as the registrant of the IDP Domain, Snappy
Communications, Inc. will not control the IDP Domain(s). You will
retain your right to sell or transfer each IDP Domain; You will retain
your right to control and set the DNS settings for the IDP Domain(s);
You will retain your right to renew each IDP Domain name registration
upon expiration and You will still be responsible for any and all
monetary or other legal claims, connected with Your IDP Domain(s),
subject to the remaining sections of this Agreement.
IMPORTANT:
THE IDP SERVICE IS NOT A MAIL FORWARDING SERVICE. You agree that You
will not give to any third party the IDP Addresses for the intention of
having the third party send communications to you via the Snappy
Communications, Inc. IDP Service. Third parties can obtain the IDP
Addresses listed in the Whois Information of their own accord, but You
agree that You will not provide the IDP Addresses to such third parties.
PROVISION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
You
agree that for each IDP Domain, You will provide Snappy Communications
Inc. with the current details and that you will maintain them current
and accurate:
Your name, address, email and postal address, phone and fax numbers;
The
name, address, email and postal address, phone and fax numbers for the
IDP Domain's administrative, technical, and billing contacts;
The primary and secondary domain name servers for the IDP Domain;
You agree to:
- update this information as soon as it changes;
- reply
in up to five (5) business days to any inquiries made by Snappy
Communications Inc. to determine the validity of the information You
have provided;
- promptly reply to messages regarding correspondence sent to or involving Your IDP Domain(s), as defined in section 6 below.
FEES AND RENEWALS
If,
on the due date Snappy Communications Inc. has not received renewal or
other fees, you agree that Snappy Communications Inc. can try to
contact You, but is not obliged to do so, and You agree that Snappy
Communications Inc. can suspend or terminate the IDP Services as a
result of non-payment.
Snappy
Communications, Inc. can charge reasonable fees for administrative
tasks for services, not falling into the already defined ones. These
include, but are not limited to, customer service issues that require
personal service and disputes that require legal services. You are
responsible for covering all fees and taxes associated with using
Snappy Communications, Inc.'s services. Payments shall be made by
credit card or PayPal. You agree that charges will appear on Your
credit card statement under "PayPal Hosting" or "PayPal Hosting and
Domains", depending on whether the credit card statement is restricted
to 11 or 19 symbols. All fees are non-refundable.
If
there is a charge back for a fee, which has been already covered, You
agree that Snappy Communications, Inc. can, without notice, pursue all
available remedies in order to obtain payment for that fee. Without
limitation on other remedies which may be available under such
circumstances, You agree that Snappy Communications, Inc. may assume
complete ownership of the IDP Domain(s), that the IDP Domain(s) can be
sold to third parties, or that the IDP Domain(s) can be pointed to an
IP address of Snappy Communications, Inc.'s own choice, and that Snappy
Communications, Inc. can immediately cancel Your Account and all other
services provided to You.
IMPORTANT TERMS
REGARDING THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE TERM OF THE IDP SERVICES AND THE
REGISTRATION TERM OF THE ASSOCIATED IDP DOMAIN: Your IDP Services term
begins on the date when Your purchase of IDP Services is accepted by
the Snappy Communications, Inc. and it will run for the time period you
have chosen (by default, one year). The IDP Services term can be
different from the registration term of the IDP Domain. If the domain,
for which the IDP Service is activated, expires and is deleted before
the end of the term of the IDP Service, then the IDP Service associated
with this domain will end when the IDP Domain is deleted and there will
be no refund for the unused portion of the IDP Services. If the IDP
Services term ends while the registration term for the IDP Domain is
still ongoing, then the IDP Services will no longer be available until
they are renewed and the personal information specified in section 2
will be listed as the WHOIS information for the (then former) IDP
Domain. All communication forwarding services (specified in section 6)
will no longer be provided.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES AND WARRANTIES
It's
Your responsibility to keep all information provided by You in relation
to this Agreement truthful, complete, current and accurate and to
maintain all information in this status for the term of this Agreement.
You agree that You will be using the IDP service in good faith and that
You have no information, knowledge or reason to consider that Your IDP
Domain or the content found at all the IP Addresses associated with it
violate or conflict with legal rights of a third party or a third
party's trademark or trade name. You warrant that neither the IDP
Service nor the domain associated with the IDP Service are to be used
in connection with any of the activities defined in section 5 of this
Agreement, or used for the transmission of unsolicited Spam emails.
SERVICE DISCONTINUANCE
In the event of any of the following:
If the IDP Domain(s) is (are) alleged to violate any third party's legal rights, trademark, copyright interests or trade name;
If You violate any section of this Agreement;
If You breach any section of the Domain Registration Agreement;
If
necessary to comply with any applicable laws, government rules or
requirements, subpoenas, court orders or law enforcement requests; If Snappy Communications, Inc. is
named as a defendant in, or investigated in anticipation of, any legal
or administrative proceeding arising out of Your use of the IDP
Services or an IDP Domain; If necessary to comply with
ICANN's Dispute Resolution Policy or other policies enforced by ICANN
(including policies which may preclude using a service such as ID
Protect); If necessary to avoid any
financial loss or legal liability (civil or criminal) on the part of
Snappy Communications, Inc., its parent companies, subsidiaries,
affiliates, shareholders, agents, officers, directors and employees; OR if it comes to Snappy
Communications, Inc.'s attention that You are alleged to be using the
IDP Services for the purpose of engaging in, participating in,
sponsoring or hiding Your involvement in illegal or morally
objectionable activities, including but not limited to, activities
which are designed, intended to or otherwise:
appeal primarily to prurient interests;
defame, embarrass, harm, abuse, threaten, or harass;
violate state or federal laws of the United States and/or foreign territories;
involve hate crimes, terrorism or child pornography;
are tortuous, vulgar, obscene, invasive of a third party's privacy, race, ethnicity, or are otherwise objectionable;
impersonate the identity of a third party;
harm minors in any way;
relate
to or transmit viruses, Trojan Horses, access codes, backdoors, worms,
timebombs or any other code, routine, mechanism, device or item that
corrupts, damages, impairs, interferes with, intercepts or
misappropriates any software, hardware, firmware, network, system, data
or personally identifiable information,
THEN
You
understand and agree that Snappy Communications, Inc. has the absolute
right and power, in its sole discretion and without any liability to
You whatsoever, to suspend the IDP Services, close Your Account,
terminate the provision of the IDP Services, list the information You
provided in section 2 as the Whois information or provide the
information You provided in section 2 to a claimant, resolve any and
all third party claims, whether threatened or made, arising out of Your
use of the IDP Domain(s), or take any other action which Snappy
Communications, Inc. deems necessary.
In
the event Snappy Communications, Inc. takes any of the actions set
forth above or in the event You elect to cancel the IDP Services for
any reason, any fees paid by You for the IDP Services will NOT be
refunded.
You also agree and understand
that Snappy Communications, Inc. can, in its sole discretion and with
no liability to You, cancel the IDP Service during the first thirty
(30) days after Your purchase of the IDP Services, and/or suspend all
Your rights under this Agreement and display the original WHOIS
information until a resolution of the dispute or investigation of
allegations raised against You is reached.
FORWARDING COMMUNICATIONS
You
agree and understand that Snappy Communications, Inc. has the right to
review communications sent to the IDP Addresses associated with Your
IDP Domain. For communications received via certified or traceable
courier mail (such as UPS, FedEx, or DHL), or first class U.S. postal
mail which does not appear to be unsolicited commercial mail ("Spam"),
Snappy Communications, Inc. will either i) forward such communication
to You or ii) attempt to send you a scanned copy of the communication
in order to consult with You about whether to forward the communication
to You or not. You specifically acknowledge that Snappy Communications,
Inc. may choose not to contact You regarding (and not forward to You)
first class postal mail or email, fax, postal mail or telephone
communications which appear to be unsolicited communications which
offer or advertise the sale of goods or services or which solicit
charitable contributions, or communications which appear to arise from
Your having used the IDP Services as a general mail forwarding service
(see section 1, above). You authorize Snappy Communications, Inc. to
either discard and ignore all such communications or return them to
sender unopened. You agree to waive any and all claims arising from
Your failure to receive communications directed to Your domain name but
not forwarded to You by Snappy Communications, Inc., including failures
which arise from Snappy Communications, Inc.'s mistake in judging
whether a communication appears to be an unsolicited communication.
The
Whois directory generally requires an email address for every purchased
domain name registration. When You purchase IDP Services, Snappy
Communications, Inc. creates an email address for that domain, which
will look like this - "dsa343wqef432@whois-shield.com". From there on,
when a message is sent to the email address listed as the IDP Address,
Snappy Communications, Inc. will forward the messages to the email
address You listed in section 2. If the email address you have provided
us with becomes non-functioning or if email sent to the address
bounces, Snappy Communications, Inc. is not bound to try to contact You
through other means.
Your Obligation to Reply to messages from Snappy Communications, Inc.:
If
Snappy Communications, Inc. receives a communication (email or general
mail) which may warrant if forwarded to You, Snappy Communications,
Inc. will send an email to the email address You provided as Your
personal email address when filling the domain's Whois information.
This email message will identify the sender of the message and the date
received. You will have seventy-two (72) hours to decide whether to
have the message(s) forwarded to you. If you do not respond within this
time period, the communication(s) will not be forwarded and discarded.
The method of forwarding will be determined by Snappy Communications,
Inc. Forwarding of the messages may not be immediate; there can be a
delay and communication(s) may be aggregated to be forwarded together,
if there are a lot of them received. Snappy Communications, Inc. can
begin charging fees for forwarding communications or may change the
method of forwarding the correspondence without notice;
If
You do not respond to the messages sent from Snappy Communications,
Inc. regarding communications received at the IDP Address, Snappy
Communications, Inc. may immediately reveal the information You
provided as the original Whois data and/or cancel the IDP Services.
This means that Whois lookups will display Your name, postal address,
email address and phone number. This action will be taken because
Snappy Communications, Inc. will not get involved in legal or other
matters between You and third parties.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
SNAPPY
COMMUNICATIONS, INC. SHALL NOT BE LIABLE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES FOR
ANY SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT
OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR THE DOMAIN NAME
REGISTRATION SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: DAMAGES FOR LOST
PROFITS, LOSS OF USE, LOST DATA, LOSS OF PRIVACY, DAMAGES TO THIRD
PARTIES. THIS LIMITED LIABILITY CLAUSE SHALL APPLY EVEN IF SNAPPY
COMMUNICATIONS, INC. HAS BEEN NOTIFIED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY
CLAIMS. IN NO EVENT SHALL SNAPPY COMMUNICATIONS INC.'S MAXIMUM
LIABILITY EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY YOU FOR THE SERVICE OR THE
PRODUCT. SNAPPY COMMUNICATIONS INC.'S LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE
EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW IN STATES THAT DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES.
You also understand and agree that Snappy Communications, Inc. will disclaim any loss or liability resulting from:
the inadvertent disclosure or theft of Your personal information;
access delays or interruptions to our web site or the web sites of affiliated parties;
data non-delivery or misdelivery between You and Snappy Communications, Inc.;
the failure for whatever reason to renew the IDP Services;
the unauthorized use of Your Account or any of Snappy Communications, Inc.'s services;
deletion
of, failure to store, failure to process or act upon email messages
sent to or forwarded to either You or the email address listed for Your
IDP Domain;
processing of updated information regarding Your Account;
any act or omission caused by You or Your agents (whether authorized by You or not).
You
also agree to release, defend, indemnify and hold harmless Snappy
Communications, Inc. and its parent companies, subsidiaries,
affiliates, shareholders, agents, directors, officers and employees
from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities, losses,
damages or costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, coming from or
related in any way to this Agreement, the IDP Services, the web sites
of the Service Providers, Your Account, and/or Your use of Your IDP
Domain.
TERM OF AGREEMENT
The
term of this Agreement begins on the date Your purchase of the IDP
Services is accepted by Snappy Communications, Inc. The term shall run
for a time period for which You ordered the IDP Services, unless
terminated or suspended sooner according to the terms of this
Agreement. Sections 6 (Forwarding Communications) and 7 (Limitation of
Liability) shall survive any termination or expiration of this
Agreement.
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