Kholifa Network provides Web Hosting for
Bangladeshi Peoples, and we have a responsibility to protect each client and to
provide the best services available. All clients of Kholifa Network’s are
subject to the following terms of service:
The
use of services from Kholifa Network constitute agreement to these terms.
1. Account Setup /
Email on file
we will setup your account after we have
received payment and we and/or our payment partner(s) have screened the
order(s) in case of fraud. It is your responsibility to provide us with an
email address which is not @ the domain(s) you are signing up under. If there
is ever an abuse issue or we need to contact you, the primary email address on
file will be used for this purpose. It is your responsibility to ensure the
email address on file is current or up to date at all times. If you have a
domain name registered with Kholifa Network, it is your responsibility to
ensure that the contact information for your domain account and your actual
domain name(s) is correct and up-to-date. Kholifa Network is not responsible
for a lapsed registration due to outdated contact information being associated
with the domain. If you need to verify or change this information, you should
contact our sales team via email or Support Ticket. Providing false contact
information of any kind may result in the termination of your account. In
dedicated server purchases or high-risk transactions, it will be necessary to
provide government issued identification and possibly a scan of the credit card
used for the purchase. If you fail to meet these requirements, the order may be
considered fraudulent in nature and be denied.
Transfers: Our transfers
team will make every effort to help you move your site to us. However,
transfers are provided as a courtesy service, and we cannot make guarantees
regarding the availability, possibility, or time required to complete an
account transfer. Each hosting company is configured differently, and some
hosting platforms save data in an incompatible or proprietary format, which may
make it extremely difficult if not impossible to migrate some or all account
data. We will try our best, but in some cases, we may be unable to assist you
in a transfer of data from an old host. The free transfer services are
available for 30 days from your sign-up date. Transfers outside of the 30-day
free period will incur a charge; please contact a member of the transfers
department with specific details to receive a price quote.
2. Content:
All services provided by Kholifa Network
may only be used for lawful purposes. The laws of the Bangladesh Cyber Act 2006
and any further amended laws apply.
The customer agrees to indemnify and hold
harmless Kholifa Network from any claims resulting from the use of our
services. Use of our services to infringe upon any copyright or trademark is
prohibited. This includes but is not limited to unauthorized copying of music,
books, photographs, or any other copyrighted work. The offer of sale of any
counterfeit merchandise of a trademark holder will result in the immediate termination
of your account. Any account found to be in violation of another’s copyright
will be expeditiously removed, or access to the material disabled. Any account
found to be in repeated violation of copyright laws will be suspended and/or
terminated from our hosting. If you believe that your copyright or trademark is
being infringed upon, please email [email protected] with the information
required. If the request is of a licensing issue, we may require further
documentation. Using a shared account as a backup/storage device is not
permitted, with the exception of one Web-Panel backup of the same account.
Please do not take backups of your backups.
Examples
of unacceptable material servers include:
**AutoSurf/PTC/PTS/PPC
sites
**Bruteforce
Programs/Scripts/Applications
**Commercial
Audio Streaming (more than one or two streams)
**Topsites
**IRC Scripts/Bots
**Pirated Software/Warez
**Image Hosting Scripts (similar to Photobucket or Tinypic)
**Proxy
Scripts/Anonymizers
**IP Scanners
**Mail Bombers/Spam Scripts.
**Bank
Debentures/Bank Debenture Trading Programs.
**Banner-Ad services (commercial banner ad rotation).
**Broadcast
or Streaming of Live Sporting Events (UFC, FIFA, NFL, MLB, NBA, WWE, WWF etc).
**Escrow/Bank
Debentures.
**File Dump/Mirror Scripts (similar to rapid share).
**Forums and/or websites that distribute or link to warez/pirated/illegal
content.
**Fraudulent Sites (Including, but not limited to sites listed at aa419.org
& escrow-fraud.com).
**Hateful/Racist/Harassment oriented sites.
**Hacker focused sites/archives/programs.
**High-Yield Interest Programs (HYIP) or Related Sites.
**Investment Sites (FOREX, E-Gold Exchange, Second Life/Linden Exchange, Ponzi,
MLM/Pyramid Scheme).
**Mailer
Pro
**MUDs/RPGs/PBBGs
**Lottery/Gambling
Sites
**Prime Banks Programs
**Sale of any controlled substance without prior proof of appropriate permit(s)
**Sites promoting illegal activities etc.
Kholifa Network services, including all
related equipment, networks and network devices are provided only for
authorized customer use. Kholifa Network systems may be monitored for all
lawful purposes, including ensuring that use is authorized, for management of
the system, to facilitate protection against unauthorized access, and to verify
security procedures, survivability, and operational security. During
monitoring, information may be examined, recorded, copied and used for
authorized purposes. Use of Kholifa Network system(s) constitutes consent to
monitoring for these purposes. Any account found connecting to a third party
network or system without authorization from the third party is subject to
suspension. Access to networks or systems outside of your direct control must
be with expressed written consent from the third party. Kholifa Network may, at
its discretion, request and require documentation to prove access to a third
party network or system is authorized. We reserve the right to refuse service
to anyone. Any material that, in our judgment, is obscene, threatening,
illegal, or violates our terms of service in any manner may be removed from our
servers (or otherwise disabled), with or without notice. Failure to respond to
email from our abuse department within 48 hours may result in the suspension or
termination of your services. All abuse issues must be dealt with via trouble ticket/email
and will have a response within 48 hours.
Sites hosted on Kholifa Network
service(s) are regulated only by Bangladeshi law. Given this fact, and pursuant
to Section 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act, we do not remove allegedly
defamatory material from domains hosted on our service(s). The only exception
to this rule is if the material has been found to be defamatory by a court, as
evidenced by a court order. Kholifa Network is not in a position to investigate
and validate or invalidate the veracity of individual defamation claims, which
is why we rely on the legal system and courts to determine whether or not
material is indeed considered defamatory. In any case in which a court order
indicates material is defamatory, libelous, or slanderous in nature; we will
disable access to the material. Similarly, in any case in which a Bangladesh
Court has placed an injunction against specified content or material; we will
comply and remove or disable access to the material in question.
The language of Section 230(c) of the
Communications Decency Act fundamentally states that Internet services
providers like kholifa.com and many of Kholifa Network other webhosting
services and brands are republishes and not the publisher of content. Our
service merely provides a hosting platform and space on which to host content,
and any creation or publication of content on our services is the sole
responsibility of the third-party user which creates or publishes the content.
Therefore, kholifa.com should not be held liable for any allegedly defamatory,
offensive or harassing content published on sites hosted under kholifa.com
webhosting service(s).
If in doubt regarding the acceptability
of your site or service, please contact us at [email protected] and we will be
happy to assist you.
Potential harm to minors is strictly
forbidden, including but not limited to child pornography or content perceived
to be child pornography (Lolita): Any site found to host child pornography or
linking to child pornography will be suspended immediately without notice.
Direct customers: Your services
will be terminated with or without notice. Violations will be reported to the
appropriate law enforcement agency. It is your responsibility to ensure that
scripts/programs installed under your account are secure and permissions of
directories are set properly, regardless of installation method. When at all
possible, set permissions on most directories to 755 or as restrictive as
possible. Users are ultimately responsible for all actions taken under their
account. This includes the compromise of credentials such as user name and
password. It is required that you use a secure password. If a weak password is
used, your account may be suspended until you agree to use a more secure
password. Audits may be done to prevent weak passwords from being used. If an
audit is performed, and your password is found to be weak, we will notify you
and allow time for you to change/update your password.
3. Zero Tolerance
Spam Policy:
We take a zero-tolerance stance against
sending of unsolicited e-mail, bulk emailing, and spam. Safe lists and
purchased lists will be treated as spam. Any user who sends out spam will have
their account terminated with or without notice.
Sites advertised via SPAM may not be
hosted on our servers. This provision includes, but is not limited to SPAM sent
via fax, phone, email, instant messaging, or UseNet/newsgroups. No organization
or entity listed in the ROKSO may be hosted on our servers. Any account which
results in our IP space being blacklisted will be immediately suspended and/or
terminated.
Kholifa Network reserves the right to
require changes or disable as necessary any web site, account, database, or
other component that does not comply with its established policies, or to make
any such modifications in an emergency at its sole discretion.
Kholifa Network reserves the right to charge the holder of the account used to
send any unsolicited e-mail a cleanup fee or any charges incurred for blacklist
removal. This cost of the cleanup fee is entirely at the discretion of Kholifa
Network.
4. Payment
Information:
You agree to supply appropriate payment
for the services received from Kholifa Network, in advance of the time period
during which such services are provided. You agree that until and unless you
notify Kholifa Network of your desire to cancel any or all services received,
those services will be billed on a recurring basis. This includes when accounts
are suspended. When an account’s invoices are paid outside of the 5 day grace
period, invoices will not be automatically generated. However, after the
customer notifies Kholifa Network of his or intent to resume service, invoices
will be manually generated and payment expected for the time the account was
suspended.
Cancellations must be done in writing via
the cancellation form provided. Once we receive your cancellation and have
confirmed all necessary information with you via e-mail, we will inform you in
writing (typically email) that your account has been canceled. Your
cancellation confirmation will contain a ticket/tracking number in the subject
for your reference, and for verification purposes. You should immediately
receive an automatic “Your request has been received “email with a tracking
number. An employee will confirm your request (and process your cancellation)
shortly thereafter. If you do not hear back from us, or do not receive the
automatic confirmation email within a few minutes after submitting your
cancellation, please contact us immediately via phone. We require that
cancellations of service are done through the online form to (a) confirm your identity,
(b) confirm in writing you are prepared for all files/emails to be removed, and
(c) document the request. This process reduces the likelihood of mistakes,
fraudulent/malicious requests, and ensures you are aware that the files,
emails, and account may be removed immediately after a cancellation request is
processed.
As a client of Kholifa Network, it is
your responsibility to ensure that your payment information is up to date, and
that all invoices are paid on time. You agree that until and unless you notify Kholifa
Network of your desire to cancel any or all services received (by the proper
means listed in the appropriate section of the Terms of Service), those
services will be billed on a recurring basis, unless otherwise stated in
writing by Kholifa Network. Kholifa Network reserves the right to bill your
credit card or billing information on file with us. Kholifa Network provides a
5 day grace period from the time the invoice is generated and when it must be
paid. Any invoice that is outstanding for 5 days and not paid will result in a 200tk
late fee and/or an account suspension until account balance has been paid in
full. The 200tk late fee is applied in addition to whatever else is owed to Kholifa
Network for services rendered. Access to the account will not be restored until
payment has been received.
It is the customer’s responsibility to
notify our sales team via email at [email protected] after paying for a domain
renewal and to ensure the email is received and acted upon. Domain renewal
notices and invoices are provided as a courtesy reminder and Kholifa Network
cannot be held responsible for failure to renew a domain or failure to notify a
customer about a domain’s renewal. Subsequently, domain renewals are billed and
renewed 30 days before the renew date. It is the customer’s responsibility to
notify our sales team via email at [email protected] for any domain
registration cancellation. No refunds can be given, once a domain is renewed.
All domain registrations, and renewals are final. Invoices that have been paid
more than once with multiple Subscriptions can only be added as credit towards
the account and cannot be refunded. If you require assistance with this
provision, please contact [email protected]
Kholifa Network reserves the right to
change the monthly payment amount and any other charges at any time.
5. Backups and Data
Loss:
Your use of this service is at your sole
risk. Our backup service is run on Saturday of each week, overwrites any of our
previous backups made, and only one week of backups are kept. This service is
provided to you as a courtesy. Kholifa Network is not responsible for files
and/or data residing on your account. You agree to take full responsibility for
files and data transferred and to maintain all appropriate backup of files and
data stored on Kholifa Network.
6. Cancellations and
Refund Policy:
Kholifa Network reserves the right to
cancel, suspends, or otherwise restrict access to the account at any time with
or without notice. Any abuse of our staff in any medium or format will result
in the suspension or termination of your services. Customers may request for
cancellation to [email protected] gives you an unconditional 30 days money
back guarantee on managed VPS / CMS & E-Commerce hosting.
The following methods of payments are
non-refundable, and refunds will be posted as credit to the hosting account:
**Bank
Wire Transfers
**Debit Card or Prepaid Card
**Western Union Payments
**Checks
**MFS (Bkash, Nagad, Rocket etc.)
There are no refunds on dedicated
servers, administrative fees, install fees for custom software, or domain name
purchases. Refund requests for managed VPS / CMS & E-Commerce Hosting
accounts after the initial 30 days will be refunded on a prorated basis of any
unused time.
Only first-time accounts are eligible for
a refund. For example, if you had an account with us before, canceled and
signed up again, you will not be eligible for a refund or if you have opened a
second account with us.
Violations of the Terms of Service will waive the refund policy.
7. Uptime Guarantee:
If your VPS / CMS & E-Commerce
Hosting has a physical downtime that is not within the 100% uptime you may
receive one month of credit on your account. Approval of the credit is at the
discretion of Kholifa Network dependent upon justification provided. Third
party monitoring service reports may not be used for justification due to a
variety of factors including the monitor’s network capacity/transit availability.
The uptime of the server is defined as the reported uptime from the operating
system and the Apache Web Server which may differ from the uptime reported by
other individual services. To request a credit, please contact [email protected]
with justification. All requests must be made in writing via email. Uptime
guarantees only apply to shared / reseller solutions. Dedicated servers are
covered by a network guarantee in which the credit is prorated for the amount
of time the server is down which is not related to our uptime guarantee.
8. Price Change:
The amount you pay for hosting will never
increase from the date of purchase. We reserve the right to change prices
listed on host.kholifa.com, and the right to increase the amount of resources
given to plans at any time.
9. Coupons:
Discounts and coupon codes are reserved
for first-time accounts *or first-time customers* only and may not be used
towards the purchase of a domain registration unless otherwise specified. If
you have signed up using a particular domain, you may not resign up for that
domain using another coupon at a later date. Any account found in violation of
these policies will be reviewed by our sales department and the appropriate
invoices will be added to the account. Coupon abuse will not be tolerated and
may result in the suspension or termination of the account. Coupons or
discounts are only valid towards the initial purchase, and do not affect the
renewal or recurring price.
10(A).
Indemnification:
Customer agrees that it shall defend,
indemnify, save and hold Kholifa Network harmless from any and all demands,
liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney’s fees
asserted against Kholifa Network, its agents, its customers, officers and
employees, that may arise or result from any service provided or performed or
agreed to be performed or any product sold by customer, its agents, employees
or assigns. Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Kholifa
Network against liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to person or
property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection
with Kholifa Network; (2) any material supplied by customer infringing or
allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party; (3) copyright
infringement and (4) any defective products sold to customers from Kholifa
Network’s server.
10(B). Arbitration:
Arbitration By using any Kholifa Network
services, you agree to submit to binding arbitration. If any disputes or claims
arise against Kholifa Network or its subsidiaries, such disputes will be
handled by an arbitrator of Kholifa Network’s choice. Arbitrators shall be
attorneys or retired judges and shall be selected pursuant to the applicable
rules. All decisions rendered by the arbitrator will be binding and final. The
arbitrator’s judgment is final and binding on all parties.
Kholifa Network shall not be responsible
for any damages your business may suffer. Kholifa Network makes no warranties
of any kind, expressed or implied for services we provide. Kholifa Network
disclaims any warranty or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
This includes loss of data resulting from delays, no deliveries, wrong
delivery, and any and all service interruptions caused by Kholifa Network and
its employees.
11. Disclosure to law
enforcement:
Kholifa Network may disclose any
subscriber information to law enforcement agencies without further consent or
notification to the subscriber upon lawful request from such agencies. We will
cooperate fully with law enforcement agencies.
12. Changes to the
TOS:
Kholifa
Network reserves the right to revise its policies at any time without notice.