Terms
and Conditions
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1 Our contract
By using or subscribing to our site or its products and services you enter into
a binding contract with us on the following terms and conditions.
2 Supplying the software
All graphics content, scripts, programs etc supplied by us in the development of
your site or software is made on a non-exclusive basis. Furthermore any third
party software we provide will be subject to additional terms and conditions.
3 Our promises
3.1 We will permit you to access, use and interact with our site subject to
these terms and conditions.
3.2 We will:
3.2.1 exercise reasonable care in compiling our site;
3.2.2 use reasonable efforts to make our site available to you at all times; and
3.2.3 take the steps set out in our privacy policy to endeavour to secure any
personal data and credit card information you give us.
4 Exclusions and limitations
4.1 We do not represent or warrant that access to our site, or any part of it
will be uninterrupted, reliable or fault free.
4.2 We do not represent or warrant to you that our site or any of its contents
will be accurate, complete or reliable.
4.3 We do not represent or warrant that:
4.3.1 any services (whether or not provided by us) will be provided with due
care and skill; or
4.3.2 any goods (whether or not provided by us) will be of merchantable quality
or will be fit for any purpose (even if that purpose has been previously
notified to us).
4.4 To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all liability (whether arising in
contract, tort or otherwise and whether or not due to our negligence) which we
may otherwise have to you as a result of:
4.4.1 any technical, factual, textual or typographical inaccuracies, errors or
omissions on or relating to our site or any information on our site;
4.4.2 the unavailability of our site (or any part of it), goods or services;
4.4.3 any delay in providing, or failure to provide or make available, goods or
services or any negligent provision of goods or services;
4.4.4 any goods not being of merchantable quality or fit for their intended
purpose; or
4.4.5 any misrepresentation on or relating to our site, the goods or the
services (other than a fraudulent misrepresentation made by us or on our
behalf).
4.5 Our maximum liability to your business in respect of your use of our site or
any services we provide or make available to you through or in relation to our
site will be the amount of any subscription fees paid on behalf of your business
during the year in which the liability arose. You agree that we shall have no
liability for indirect or consequential losses, loss of data, income or profits
or damages for loss of or damage to property.
4.6 You agree that each of these limitations is reasonable having regard to the
nature of our site.
4.7 None of the above exclusions shall affect any statutory rights which are not
capable of being excluded. However, in such case our obligation, where permitted
by law, will be limited to the re-supply of our site, good or service to you.
4.8 We will not be held liable for any posting, transmission or reception of
information supplied by you, which infringes United Kingdom or International
laws or regulations. You accept full liability for such material.
4.9 We do not allow any of the following content to be stored on our servers:
Illegal Material - This includes copyrighted works, commercial audio, video, or
music files, and any material in violation of any United Kingdom or
International laws or local regulations.
Adult Material - Includes all pornography, erotic images, or otherwise lewd or
obscene content. The designation of "adult material" is left entirely to the
discretion of 1st Class Software
Warez - Includes pirated software, ROMS, emulators, phreaking, hacking, password
cracking. IP spoofing, etc., and encrypting of any of the above. Also includes
any sites which provide "links to" or "how to" information about such material.
any file which is not used directly in relation to the display of web content
you may not promote either spamming, violence, discrimination or illegal
activities.
your site shall not host news groups or chat rooms directly on our servers
Domains which break these conditions may be removed without notice or
compensation and you will be fully liable for such activities.
4.10 All hosting accounts are to be used by the primary owner only. Account
holders are not permitted to resell, store or give away web-hosting services of
their website to other parties. Web hosting services are defined as allowing a
separate, third party to host content on the owner's web site. Exceptions to
this include ad banners, classified ads and personal ads. Customers may however
resell our Reseller packages.
4.11 Order acceptance and the completion of the contract between you and us will
take place on the dispatch of the Products ordered to you unless we have
notified you that we do not accept your order or you have cancelled your order.
Non-acceptance of an order may be a result of one of the following:
The product you ordered being unavailable from stock
Our inability to obtain authorisation for your payment
The identification of a pricing or product description error
You not meeting the eligibility to order criteria set out in the main Terms and
Conditions
4.11 Please also see our Acceptable Use Policy
4.12 Each of the above exclusions or limitations shall be construed as a
separate, and severable, provision of these terms and conditions.
5 Site charges
5.1 You agree to pay our charges at the rate applicable from time to time.
Prices are in Pounds Sterling and are liable to change without notice. As well
as our secure online payment system we accept cheques, postal orders and money
orders and these should be made payable to 'First Class Software Ltd'. If
payment is made from outside UK it must include any encashment charges that may
apply.
5.2 If you fail at any time to pay any charges due in accordance with these
terms and conditions we may, in our discretion and without prejudice to our
other rights, deny you access to those areas of our site which are exclusively
available to our customers. We need not provide you with advance notice in such
circumstances.
5.3 All products and services must be paid for in advance (unless agreed in
writing by us and accompanied by an authorised Purchase Order). Goods remain the
property of us until payment in full is received. Services will be withdrawn if
payment is not received by the invoice due date. Software products may have
additional terms and conditions specified in an accompanying Licence.
5.4 Our charges do not include travelling / subsistence costs (if required).
6 Links to other sites and Advertising banners
6.1 Certain links, including hypertext links, in our site will take you outside
our site. Links are provided for your convenience and inclusion of any link does
not imply endorsement or approval by us of the linked site, its operator or its
content. We are not responsible for the content of any site outside our own
site.
6.2 If the products or services supplied by us include those from third parties
(for example Internet Service Providers, Domain and Web hosting companies etc.)
then their terms and conditions also apply.
6.3 We reserve the right to refuse or remove adverts / links / classifieds at
any time, without notice depending upon content, the usage of the site to which
they refer or for any other reason.
6.4 If we design your site it will be stated on the home page of your site (with
a link back to our site).
7 Termination of contract
7.1 We may terminate your contract immediately if you are in material breach of
any of these terms and conditions and in particular upon any failure by you to
pay our charge in accordance with these terms and conditions. You may terminate
your contract at any time on 30 days notice to us.
7.2 Any rights that have accrued to either party at the date of termination will
remain enforceable after termination.
7.3 Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server or a customer of ours is
strictly prohibited and will result in the termination of your contract.
7.4 We reserve the right to suspend or cancel your access to any or all services
provided by us if we decide that your account has been used inappropriately.
7.5 We reserve the right to cancel our service at any time. All fees paid in
advance of cancellation will be on a pro-rata basis and paid by us if we
institute our right of cancellation. Any violation of policies which results in
extra costs will be billed to you (i.e. transfer, space etc.). You can cancel
and receive a full refund during the first 7 days after an order is placed. If
the order includes registration of Domain names, then those names will become
our property. Due to security concerns, all account cancellations must be done
in writing via snail mail or fax with a valid signature of the primary contact
of the account, account name, reason for cancellation. If payment was made by
cheque or bank transfer, the zip/postal code of the primary contact must be
included. Payment will normally be made by cheque within 15 days of receipt of
cancellation.
8.1 Unlimited use policy
High bandwidth usage: we offer an unlimited use policy on some accounts by
maintaining very large ratios of bandwidth per customer. In rare cases, we may
find a customer to be using server resources to such an extent that he or she
may jeopardize server performance and resources for other customers. In such
instances, we reserve the right to impose the High Resource User Policy for the
consideration of all customers.
8.2 High Resource User Policy
Resources are defined as bandwidth and/or processor utilisation. We may
implement the following policy at our sole discretion: If your site is found to
be monopolising the resources available we reserve the right to suspend that
site immediately. This policy will only implemented in extreme circumstances and
is intended to prevent the misuse of our servers. Customers may be offered an
option whereby we will continue to host their site under certain additional
conditions or for an additional fee.
9 General
9.1 Third party rights
Where in these terms representations and warranties are made to us and to
suppliers of goods and services through our site, you acknowledge and agree that
such representations and warranties are intended to grant rights to, and operate
for the benefit of, all such suppliers and that each such supplier may rely upon
and enforce such representations and warranties against you by virtue of the
Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
9.2 Variations
We reserve the right at any time without notice to revise the content of our
site (including the services offered by us) and these terms and conditions. Any
changes to these terms and conditions will be posted on our site and by
continuing to use our site following any such change you will signify that you
agree to be bound by the revised terms and conditions of use.
9.3 Credit card security and registration
We use a secure server that implements Secure Socket Layer technology (certified
to the standard for encrypted credit card transactions stipulated by Verisign
Inc) to prevent any person from gaining access to your credit card or
registration information whilst it is on our site or being transmitted across
the internet.
If you discover that goods or services have been ordered from a supplier over
our site using your credit card details in circumstances where you had not
agreed to or authorised this, then (provided you have not, through failure to
take reasonable care, allowed an unauthorised person to gain access to your
credit card details, purchaser ID or password) our suppliers are required to
refund to you the money they receive provided that:(a) you inform your credit
card company and us of the unauthorised purchase as soon as you discover it; and
(b) you co-operate with your credit card company, the supplier, us and, if
necessary, the police in relation to the unauthorised use.
9.4 Taxes
We have made every effort to make clear whether the quoted prices for goods and
services available through our site include any relevant tax or duty or do not.
Prices exclude VAT (Value Added Tax - currently at 17.5%) unless otherwise
stated.
9.5 The use of your information
You agree that we may collect, store, and use information about you in
accordance with our privacy policy. You acknowledge and agree to be bound by the
terms of our privacy policy.
9.6 Copyright
All rights in the design, text, graphics and other material on our site and the
selection or arrangement thereof are the copyright of us or other third parties
(whereby appropriate permissions have been obtained from the copyright owner).
If you supply graphical or other content for a web site then you warrant that
you have copyright ownership of such content or the appropriate permission has
been obtained from the copyright owner.
Permission is granted to electronically copy and print in hard copy portions of
our site solely in connection with the acquisition of goods or services through
our site. Any other use of materials on our site (including reproduction for
purposes other than those noted above and alteration, modification,
distribution, or republication) without our prior written permission is strictly
prohibited.
Unless agreed in writing by a Director of 1st Class Software any web site
designed by us will remain our copyright.
9.7 Trade marks
Officeease is a trademark of First Class Software Ltd. All other trade marks,
product names and company names or logos used in our site are our property or
that of their respective owners. No permission is given by us in respect of the
use of any such trade marks, get-up, product names, company names, logos or
titles and such use may constitute an infringement of the holder’s rights.
9.8 Access
We reserve the right in our sole discretion to deny users access to our site or
any part of our site without notice and to decline to provide the service to any
user that is in breach of these terms and conditions of use.
9.9 Events beyond our control
We shall not be liable to you for any breach of these terms and conditions of
use or any failure to provide or delay in providing our services through our
site resulting from any event or circumstance beyond our reasonable control
including, without limitation, strikes, lock-outs and other industrial disputes,
breakdown of systems or network access, fire, explosion or accident.
9.10 Applicable law and jurisdiction
These terms and conditions (and any dispute, controversy, proceedings or claim
of whatever nature arising out of or in any way relating to them or their
formation) shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law
and, for these purposes, the parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive
jurisdiction of English courts.
9.11 Unenforceability
The enforceability or otherwise of any provisions of these terms and conditions
shall not affect the enforceability of the rest of these terms and conditions.
9.12 Content of site
We reserve the right not to design or publish material on the Internet, which we
consider unsuitable.
9.13 Late or non-payment for services
We reserve the right to seek our legal costs on an indemnity basis for the
recovery of a late payment or the non-payment for our services. We may also seek
to recover interest on the amount due at the rate of 4% over the base rate of
Barclays Bank at the time the payment becomes due.
10 Definitions
In these terms and conditions:
10.1 ‘our site’ means our presence on the Internet;
10.2 ‘our’,‘we’ and ‘us’ means 1st Class Software, which is a business name of
First Class Software Ltd. Registered in England under company number 3431283
and, where applicable, its officers, employees and authorised agents; and
10.3 ‘you’ and ‘your’ include any business with which you are associated and on
behalf of which you use our site (‘your business’).
1st Class Software is a business name of First Class Software Ltd. Registered in
England number 3431283
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