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Terms of Service

Date of last revision: July 15, 2008.

Thank you for choosing PhanXcraft, a Web Design and Hosting Firm.  PhanXcraft Web Services and network (collectively, "PhanXcraft" or "the Service") is operated by Henry Price and several managed design associates (collectively, "us", "we", or " the Company").  By accessing, using or subscribing to any of our services at www.phanxcraft.com (the "Site"), you (the "User" or "Client") signify that you have read, understand and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms of Service", "Terms of Use", or "Agreement"), whether or not you are a registered customer of PhanXcraft.  We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add or delete portions of these Terms of Use at any time without further notice.  If we do this, we will post the changes to these Terms of Use on this page and will indicate at the top of this page that date these terms were last revised.  Your continued use of the Service or the Site after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms of Use.  If you do not agree to abide by these or any future Terms of Use, do not use or access (or continue to use or access) the Service or the Site.  It is your responsibility to regularly check the Site to determine if there have been changes to these Terms of Use and to review such changes.

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF SERVICE CAREFULLY AS THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, REMEDIES AND OBLIGATIONS.  THESE INCLUDE VARIOUS LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS, AND A DISPUTE RESOLUTION CLAUSE THAT GOVERNS HOW DISPUTES WILL BE RESOLVED.

This Terms of Service is divided into three sections outlined by the type of service.  Please use the following links to jump to the service in which you are using.


Section A: Web Design/Development Services

The following outlines the Agreement for the services we provide including: formatting HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and text; ASP, PHP, Cold Fusion, and JavaScript coding, debugging, customization, and programming; Flash animation, interactivity, Action Script development, debugging, and programming; and Image, Graphic, and Logo editing, design, and creations. (collectively, "Web Design")

1. Authorization. The client is engaging the freelance web development services of the Company, as an independent contractor for the specific project of Web Design and/or improving a world wide website to be installed on the client's web space on a web hosting service's computer. The client hereby authorizes the the Company to access this account, and authorizes the web hosting service to provide  the Company with "write permission" for the client's webpage directory, cgi-bin directory, and any other directories or programs which need to be accessed for this project. The client also authorizes the Company to publicize their completed website to Web search engines, as well as other Web directories and indexes.

2. Legal Stuff. We do not warrant that the functions contained in these webpages or the Internet website will meet the client's requirements or that the operation of the webpages will be uninterrupted or error-free. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the webpages and website is with client. In no event will the Company be liable to the client or any third party for any damages, including any lost profits, lost savings or other incidental, consequential or special damages arising out of the operation of or inability to operate these webpages or website, even if the Company has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

3. Copyrights and Trademarks. The client represents to the Company and unconditionally guarantees that any elements of text, graphics, photos, designs, trademarks, or other artwork furnished to the Company for inclusion in webpages are owned by the client, or that the client has permission from the rightful owner to use each of these elements, and will hold harmless, protect, and defend the Company and its subcontractors from any claim or suit arising from the use of such elements furnished by the client.

4. Copyright to Webpages. Copyright to the finished assembled work of webpages produced by the Company is owned by the Company. Upon final payment of this contract, the client is assigned rights to use as a website the design, graphics, and text contained in the finished assembled website. Rights to photos, graphics, source code, work-up files, and computer programs are specifically not transferred to the client, and remain the property of their respective owners. The Company and its subcontractors retain the right to display graphics and other Web design elements as examples of their work in their respective portfolios.

5. Credit. The Company shall have the right to include a credit line, or "powered by logo", with a live link to PhanXcraft's website on any website developed by the Company at the very bottom of each page. The Client shall not, without written approval, remove this credit line after work has finished.

6. Payment of Fees. Fees are due and payable to PhanXcraft on the following schedule: 50% deposit, 50% upon completion.  Payment in full is due before final website is transferred to the client's permanent host.

7. Search Engines. If requested we will submit your completed website to the leading search engines and provide basic consultation on search engine promotion. We are not responsible for your search engine rankings, or marketing of any kind.

8. Termination. Either party, both the Client or the Company, may terminate this Agreement upon giving written notice to the other as specified below. Upon termination the Company may retain any initial payment and the Client shall pay the Company for all hours expended on the Project, up to the date of termination, at the Company’s standard service rates.

9. Refunds. Once a project has been designed in full according to the agreed upon project, no refunds are given after design has been approved. If more than the agreed upon number of hours is provided, along with any revisions, no deposit is refunded. Refunds are available for unused portions of the initial deposit once service has been terminated.

10. Timelines. After deposit is given and project has been generally outlined, we will provide you will an estimated time of completion. This completion time WILL NOT take effect until all content is received required on your part. Without content from you, the design job can not be fully understood or planned out. If you decide to take a break from the project without informing the Company, and then pop back up a month later, we can not guarantee you will still be first in line for design work. We will do our best to work you back into the schedule as time permits. Clients that disappear longer than 2 months, the project will be cancelled without refund.

11. Late Payments. After completion of a website project, maintenance is billed at the given rates depending on the type of changes required. If payment is not received in a reasonable time frame, which shall be up to two weeks from project's completion, we hold the right to charge you an additional late fee of a total of $25, if and when any further maintenance or services is required from us.

 


Section B: Web Hosting Services

PhanXcraft (the "Company", "We" or "Us") agrees to furnish web hosting services (the "Service") to you (the "Subscriber"), subject to the following Terms of Service.

1. Acceptable Use. If an account is used to violate this policy, we reserve the right to terminate your service without notice. The following constitute violations of this Acceptable Use:

  1. Illegal Use: Our services may not be used for illegal purposes, or in support of illegal activities. We reserve the right to cooperate with legal authorities and/or injured third parties in the investigation of any suspected crime or civil wrongdoing.
     
  2. Harm to Minors: Use of our service to harm, or attempt to harm, minors in any way, including, but not limited to child pornography.
     
  3. Threats: Use of the our service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that threatens or encourages bodily harm or destruction of property.
     
  4. Harassment: Use of the our service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that harasses another.
     
  5. Fraudulent Activity: Use of our service to make fraudulent offers to sell or buy products, items, or services, or to advance any type of financial scam such as "pyramid schemes," "ponzi schemes," and "chain letters."
     
  6. Forgery or Impersonation: Adding, removing or modifying identifying network header information in an effort to deceive or mislead is prohibited. Attempting to impersonate any person by using forged headers or other identifying information is prohibited. The use of anonymous remailers or nicknames does not constitute impersonation.
     
  7. Unsolicited Commercial E-mail / Unsolicited Bulk E-mail (SPAM): Use of the our service to transmit any unsolicited commercial or unsolicited bulk e-mail is expressly prohibited. Violations of this type will result in the immediate termination of the offending account.

    IMPORTANT NOTICE: Anyone hosting websites or services on our servers that support spammers or cause any of our IP space to be listed in any of the various Spam Databases will have their account immediately removed from our servers.
     
  8. Unauthorized Access: Use of our service to access, or to attempt to access, the accounts of others, or to penetrate, or attempt to penetrate, security measures of our or another entity's computer software or hardware, electronic communications system, or telecommunications system, whether or not the intrusion results in the corruption or loss of data, is expressly prohibited and the offending account is subject to immediate termination.
     
  9. Copyright or Trademark Infringement: Use of our service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other proprietary rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material, the digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books, or other copyrighted sources, and the unauthorized transmittal of copyrighted software.
     
  10. Collection of Personal Data: Use of our service to collect, or attempt to collect, personal information about third parties without their knowledge or consent.
     
  11. Network Disruptions and Unfriendly Activity: Use of our service for any activity which affects the ability of other people or systems to use our services or the internet. This includes "denial of service" (DOS) attacks against another network host or individual user. Interference with or disruption of other network users, services or equipment is prohibited. It is the Member's responsibility to ensure that their network is configured in a secure manner. A Subscriber may not, through action or inaction, allow others to use their network for illegal or inappropriate actions. A Subscriber may not permit their network, through action or inaction, to be configured in such a way that gives a third party the capability to use their network in an illegal or inappropriate manner. Unauthorized entry and/or use of another company and/or individual's computer system will result in immediate account termination. We will not tolerate any subscriber attempting to access the accounts of others, or penetrate security measures of other systems, whether or not the intrusion results in corruption or loss of data.
     
  12. Fraud: Involves a knowing misrepresentation or misleading statement, writing or activity made with the intent that the person receiving it will act upon it.
     
  13. Infringement of Copyright, Patent, Trademark, Trade Secret, or Intellectual Property Right: Distribution and/or posting of copyrighted or the aforementioned infringements will not be tolerated.
     
  14. Distribution of Viruses: Intentional distributions of software that attempts to and/or causes damage, harassment, or annoyance to persons, data, and/or computer systems are prohibited. Such an offense will result in the immediate termination of the offending account.
     
  15. Inappropriate Use of Software: Use of software or any device that would facilitate a continued connection, i.e. pinging, while using our services could result in suspension of service.
     
  16. Third Party Accountability: Our subscribers will be held responsible and accountable for any activity by third parties, using their account, that violates guidelines created within this Agreement.
     

2. Security
You are responsible for any misuse of your account, even if the inappropriate activity was committed by a friend, family member, guest or employee. Therefore, you must take steps to ensure that others do not gain unauthorized access to your account. In addition, you may not use your account to breach security of another account or attempt to gain unauthorized access to another network or server.

  • Your password provides access to your account. It is your responsibility to keep your password secure.
  • Sharing your password and account access with unauthorized users is prohibited. You should take care to prevent others from using your account since you will be held responsible for such use. Attempting to obtain another user's account password is strictly prohibited, and may result in termination of service.
  • You must adopt adequate security measures to prevent or minimize unauthorized use of your account.
  • You may not attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of any host, network or account. This includes, but is not limited to, accessing data not intended for you, logging into or making use of a server or account you are not expressly authorized to access, or probing the security of other networks. Use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security is prohibited. Examples of these tools include, but are not limited to, password guessing programs, cracking tools or network probing tools.
  • You may not attempt to interfere with service to any user, host or network ("denial of service attacks"). This includes, but is not limited to, "flooding" of networks, deliberate attempts to overload a service, and attempts to "crash" a host.
  • Users who violate systems or network security may incur criminal or civil liability. We will cooperate fully with investigations of violations of systems or network security at other sites, including cooperating with law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations.

3. Payment:
Establishment of this service is dependent upon receipt by the Company of payment of stated charges. Subsequent payments are due on the first of the month for that month's service.

4. Payments and Fees:
Accounts that are past due will be disabled without notice until further payment is received. Accounts not paid by due date may be subject to a $10.00 late fee before reactivated.

4. Payment due date:
Payments for hosting services and other recurring monthly services are due before the 1st day of beginning of the month. (For example payment for November is due anytime before the 1st day of November.) Accounts that are not paid before the 1st may be disabled temporarily without notice. Accounts not paid by due date are subject to a $10.00 late fee.

5. Refund and Disputes:
Refund will only be granted for complete months that you have not yet used. In other words we will not refund the current month's service, but we will refund your money for months you paid in advanced. All overcharges or billing disputes must be reported within 60 days of the time the dispute occurred.

6. Failure to Pay:
The Company may temporarily deny service or terminate this Agreement upon the failure of Subscriber to pay charges when due. Such termination or denial will not relieve Subscriber of responsibility for the payment of all accrued charges, plus reasonable interest and any collection fees.

7. Account Cancellation:
All requests for canceling accounts must be made in writing with at least 30 days notice but not more than 60 days prior written notice and sent to billing@phanxcraft.com. You must present all account information to cancel.

Subscriber acknowledges that the service provided is of such a nature that service can be interrupted for many reasons other than the negligence of the company and that damages resulting from any interruption of service are difficult to ascertain. Therefore, subscriber agrees that the company shall not be liable for any damages arising from such causes beyond the direct and exclusive control of the company. Subscriber further acknowledges that the company's liability for its own negligence may not in any event exceed an amount equivalent to charges payable by subscriber for services during the period damages occurred. In no event shall the company be liable for any special or consequential damages, loss or injury.

8. Bandwidth and Disk Usage:
Customer agrees that bandwidth and disk usage shall not exceed the number of megabytes per month for the Services ordered by Customer on the Order Form (the "Agreed Usage"). We will monitor Customer's bandwidth and disk usage. We shall have the right to take corrective action if Customer's bandwidth or disk usage exceeds the Agreed Usage. Such corrective action may include the assessment of additional charges, disconnection or discontinuance of any and all Services, or termination of this Agreement, which actions may be taken is in our sole and absolute discretion. If we take any corrective action under this section, Customer shall not be entitled to a refund of any fees paid in advance prior to such action.

9. System and Network Security:
Users are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the our network. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. We will investigate occurrences, which may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting Users who are involved in such violations. These violations include, without limitation: Accessing data not intended for such User or logging into a server or account, which such User is not authorized to access. Attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization. Attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of overloading, "flooding", "mail bombing" or "crashing". Forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting. Taking any action in order to obtain services to which such User is not entitled.

10. Notification of Violation:
We are under no duty to look at each customer's or user's activities to determine if a violation has occurred, nor do we assume any responsibility to monitor or police Internet-related activities. First violation: Any User, which we determine to have violated any element of this policy, shall receive an email, warning them of the violation. The service may be subject at our discretion to a temporary suspension pending a User's agreement in writing, to refrain from any further violations. Second Violation: Users that we determine to have committed a second violation of any element of this policy shall be subject to immediate suspension or termination of service without further notice. We reserve the right, to drop the section of IP space involved in Spam or Denial-of-Service complaints if it is clear that the offending activity is causing great harm to parties on the Internet. In particular, if open relays are on your network or a customer's network, or if denial of service attacks are originating from your network. In certain rare cases, we may have to do this before attempting to contact you. If we do this, we will contact you as soon as is feasible.
 


Section C: Additional Services

This section shall be populated with additional details outlining our other services.

 


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