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Legal and Privacy
Terms and Conditions for
Internet Services
1. DEFINITIONS
Agreement - the Agreement of which these Terms form part
Cancellation Charge - as set out below
Fees - as published by NCCnet (henceforth referred to as NCCnet)
from time to time
Customers must ensure payment is received on time as this can
affect renewal of your domain resulting in costly redemption
charges levied by the registrar or loss of the domain.
Intellectual Property - all patents, registered and unregistered
trade marks, trade and business names, copyright and rights in
the nature of copyright including property rights in relation to
compilations or databases, design rights and registered designs
and all applications for patents and registered trade marks and
registered designs (including in each case, all extensions and
renewals thereof)
Interest Rate - the base rate charged by Lloyds Bank from time
to time plus three per cent
Local Administration Costs - any registration and other costs
charged to NCCnet for the registration or attempted registration
of domain names
Order Form - the order form as displayed on this Internet web
site
Request - a request for registration of one or more domains
Service - the service provided by NCCnet under this Agreement,
as further defined in Clause 2
1.1
Commencement and Duration of this Agreement
1.1.1 This Agreement commences on the date you accept these
terms (by clicking on the "I accept" button during the
registration process) (the "Commencement Date") and will
continue for an initial term of 12 months (the "Initial Term")
and indefinitely thereafter unless terminated earlier by either
party in accordance with Clause 3 of this Agreement. Our
Acceptance may be subject to us performing a credit check on you
and being satisfied in all respects with the outcome of the
credit check.
2. THE SERVICE
2.1. Subject to payment of the Fees, the Local Administration
Costs, and the terms of this Agreement. NCCnet shall provide the
following (the "Service"):
2.1.1. on the Customer's behalf, the processing of Requests with
relevant domain authorities; and
2.1.2. such Additional Services as are agreed between the
parties including:
Internet access, any web site operated by NCCnet together with
the content, search facilities, personal web space, email,
newsgroups and other internet related services provided by
NCCnet which may be made available to users from time to time.
2.2 By accessing NCCnet you agree to be bound by these
conditions. These terms and conditions apply to all NCCnet
accounts. They set out the basis on which we offer our services
and should be read carefully. Your statutory rights are not
affected. 2.3 NCCnet's Service Commitment
NCCnet will use reasonable efforts to supply a continuous
service. However, NCCnet is not liable for any loss of data
resulting from delays outside of our control, missed or
non-deliveries, service interruptions or by errors or omissions
of the Customer. NCCnet is not responsible for any losses
suffered resulting from acts of god or force majeure including
civil unrest, riots, floods, drought, fire, war and imposing
legislation.You agree that NCCnet are not liable to you for any
special consequential damages which you may suffer as a result
of loss of business, contracts, profits, savings or otherwise.
NCCnet is unable to exercise control over material sent over the
internet and excludes all liability of any kind for the
reception by the Customer of inaccurate, misleading, offensive,
threatening or obscene material, or material that is in breach
of UK or other applicable law. NCCnet Customers are liable for
all charges levied by their telephone service provider arising
from the Customer's use of NCCnet's Internet access service.
From time to time NCCnet or its sub-contractors need to carry
out maintenance on the network, which may involve temporarily
shutting parts of it down. NCCnet will give as much notice as
possible and shall try to keep this work to the period specified
in the notice. NCCnet accepts no liability whatsoever arising
from such a suspension of the service.
3.
TERMINATION OF SERVICE
3.1 We may suspend the Service immediately upon breach by the
Customer of any of the terms and conditions of this agreement,
including, without limitation, late or non-payment of monies
due.
3.2 We may at any time (whether during the Initial Period or
otherwise) terminate this Agreement giving 90 days notice to
you.
3.3 We may at our sole discretion terminate this Agreement or
suspend the Services immediately, in the event that;
3.3.1 you fail to pay any charges for the Services; or
3.3.2 any credit card or direct debit details submitted by you
for payment are found not to be or cease to be valid
If we suspend the Services in accordance with this Clause 3.3,
we may, at any time following such suspension (and if the
circumstance in Clause 3.3 remains) immediately terminate the
Agreement.
3.4 You may terminate this Agreement on giving at least 1
month's notice in writing, such notice to be effective no
earlier than the end of the Initial Term (which is the first 12
months period from the Commencement Date). You must pay all Fees
for the Services until the date on which the termination notice
expires.
3.5 Either party may terminate this Agreement immediately, on
notice, if the other commits a material breach of this Agreement
and fails to remedy the breach within 28 days of a written
notice to do so.
3.6 Upon termination or expiration of this Agreement
registration to any of our Services or those of third parties
provided in the course of and/or for the purposes of the Service
will cease at such time as the provision of the Service ends.
3.7 NCCnet reserves the right to cancel the free service to a
Customer if the service has not been used by the Customer for a
period of 60 days.
4. DOMAIN REGISTRATION SERVICES
Domain Names are registered by NCCnet with the relevant Naming
Authority under the Customer's details given at time of
registration. Once NCCnet have accepted the order for domain
registration by the Customer, the Domain Name is the property of
the Customer for a minimum of two years and cannot be revoked.
The Customer shall maintain all future registration payments for
their Domain Name until such time that written notice of
cancellation is submitted to NCCnet fourteen days prior to the
renewal date. Otherwise NCCnet will charge or invoice all
Customers that have purchased a new Domain name through NCCnet
on expiry of their current registration period.NCCnet Customers
can transfer their registered domain name from NCCnet to another
hosting company at any time. NCCnet will charge an
administration fee of £29.99 + VAT to effect the transfer.If
your account is in arrears ,i.e. payment is due your domain name
will not be transferred out until all dues have been paid.
NCCnet will endeavour to process all transfers on which the
administration fee has been paid within 5 working days of the
written request from the customer.NCCnet does not warrant or
guarantee that the domain name applied for will be registered in
your name or is capable of being registered by you. Accordingly,
you should take no action in respect of your requested domain
name(s) until you have checked the WHOIS database (see below) to
see the status of your registration. All invoices posted to
customers are confirmation of payment made only. Invoices are
not a confirmation of domain registration, which can only be
determined by checking the WHOIS database. NCCnet accepts no
liability for consequential loss of earnings and revenue
incurred due to loss of service and/or loss of registration of
the domain.For UK (".uk") domain names NCCnet Customers must
agree to the terms and conditions of the UK domain name
registrar, Nominet UK. These terms and conditions can be found
at
Nominet.
UK Companies are not eligible to add the optional Privacy
Protection service to .uk extensions and no
refund will be given where a company has purchased this service.
For top-level domain names (".com", ".net", ".org", ".biz"
& ".info") or in fact any other extension, NCCnet Customers must
check and agree to the terms and conditions of the international
domain name registrars, e.g. INWW (Internet Names Worldwide) &
Enom. These terms and conditions can be found at the website of
the registrar.
5. WEBSITE
HOSTING SERVICES
Hosting solutions offered by NCCnet are, as stated during the
signup process, supplied on a minimum one year subscription
basis. Customers wishing to cancel their hosting solution may do
so within seven working days of inception without giving a
reason and without incurring any penalty. After this period, if
a Customer wishes to cancel their contract before culmination,
payment for the full years hosting fee, regardless of duration
of service used, must be submitted to NCCnet together with
written confirmation of cancellation fourteen days prior to the
renewal date.
Customers who
have undertaken a hosting solution and decide to transfer their
hosting to a different hosting provider must submit full payment
for the years hosting subscription to cancel their service with
NCCnet as well as the mandatory £29.99 + VAT release fee
(subject to change) to administer the domain name release with
the Registrar. NCCnet will endeavour to complete the release
process within 5 working days of the written request and payment
from the customer.
6. CHARGES
6.1.1. The Customer shall pay in pounds sterling to NCCnet the
Fees, inclusive of the Local Administrative Costs incurred by
NCCnet in processing a Request or Requests.
6.1.2. Subject to Clauses 6.7 and 7.2 the Fees and Local
Administrative Costs shall be paid by the Customer as set out on
the Order Form without set off or counterclaim.
6.1.3. The Customer acknowledges that the Local Administration
Costs may differ from the amount or amounts (if any) previously
indicated by NCCnet as a result of changes in pricing by the
relevant domain authority and/or of changes in the exchange
rates, and agrees that:
6.1.3.1. NCCnet shall, in relation to each request, charge the
Customer the Local Administration Costs as published by NCCnet
from time to time or a sum in pounds sterling equal to the
actual Local Administrative Costs charged to NCCnet
whichever is the higher.
6.1.4. The Customer recognises that the Local Administrative
Costs represent only the initial costs for the registration of a
domain name, and that continued use of a domain name by the
Customer is likely to expose the customer to additional charges
payable to the local domain name registry.
6.1.5. The Customer acknowledges that occasionally unforeseen
charges are incurred in processing Requests. NCCnet shall obtain
the Customer's written consent before incurring such charges.
6.1.6. If the Customer fails to make payment on the due date
then without prejudice without any other right or remedy NCCnet
may have, it shall be entitled to charge interest (both before
and after any judgment) on the amount unpaid from day to day at
the rate of 3% above the base rate from time to time of
Barclays.
6.1.7. If any cheque, paid to NCCnet by the Customer in payment
of the Request and/or Services, is returned by the bank as
unpaid for any reason, registration and/or the service will be
suspended pending payment of the outstanding account in full
together with a "returned cheque" charge of Twenty Five GBP
(£25) excl. VAT
6.1.8. Subject to Clause 6 the Customer shall pay the Fees,
Local Administration Costs and any other charges referred to in
Clause 5.5 above notwithstanding that the Request is
unsuccessful or discontinued unless the lack of domain name
registration is wholly attributable to NCCnet's negligence or
willful default.
6.1.9. Where Customers wish to transfer the TAG in relation to
their .uk domain away from NCCnet the Customer shall pay in
pounds sterling to NCCnet the Transfer Fees as published by
NCCnet from time to time.
6.1.10.1. The Customer acknowledges that with regard to the
purchase of virtual hosting services, whether purchased annually
or multi-year, from NCCnet Eighty Per Cent (80%) of the Fees
relate to administration and set up charges and are
non-refundable. Twenty Per Cent (20%) of the Fees relate to the
ongoing cost for the virtual hosting service. Any cancellation
of annual or multi-year virtual hosting services is granted at
the discretion of NCCnet and will be calculated on a pro rata
basis of the Twenty Per Cent (20%). Renewals of any annual or
multi-year virtual hosting services will be on the same Eighty
Per Cent (80%) Twenty Per Cent (20%) basis.
6.1.10.2 The customer acknowledges that in regard to the
cancellation of virtual hosting purchased on a monthly basis,
from NCCnet, no refund will be payable on a pro-rata basis or
otherwise.
6.1.10.3 The customer acknowledges that in regard to the
cancellation of EShop virtual hosting purchased on a monthly
basis, from NCCnet, no refund will be payable on a pro-rata
basis or otherwise.
6.1.11. The Customer will be responsible for the payment of any
Fees set by Nominet UK in the retrieval of the domain name(s)
and any Fees and Local Administration Costs due to NCCnet for
the renewal of the domain name(s) as published from time to
time.
6.1.12. If a Customer wishes to renew a domain name(s),
registered through Melbourne IT Ltd, that has been set to
Registrar status, 'Registrar Lock', due to non-payment of the
renewal on the due date, then the Customer agrees to pay NCCnet
a Registrar Lock Administration Fee together with the Fees and
Local Administration Costs for the renewal of the domain name(s)
as published from time to time by NCCnet Internet Limited.
Definition of Registrar Lock is 15 (fifteen) days from the
expiry date the domain is deactivated and set to Registrar
status, Registrar Lock, for a period of twenty five (25) days.
6.1.13. If a Customer wishes to renew a domain name(s)
registered through Melbourne IT Ltd, as referred to in clause
6.1.12, that has been set to Registrar status, Redemption
Period, due to non-payment of the renewal on the due date, then
the Customer agrees to pay NCCnet a Redemption Period
Administration Fee together with the Fees and Local
Administration Costs for the renewal of the domain name(s) as
published from time to time by NCCnet together with any Fee set
by ICAAN as published from time to time by NCCnet Internet
Limited. Definition of Redemption Period is on the fortieth
(40th) day after expiry the domain is set to Registry status,
Redemption Period, for thirty (30) days. If the domain is not
restored within thirty (30) days then domain is set by the
Registry to Registry Hold pending deletion for five (5) days
when the domain is then made available for re-registration. The
Customer accepts that if the domain enters Registry Hold there
is no action NCCnet can take to restore this domain.6.2 CARD
CHARGES
6.2.1 You agree to pay us the charges as detailed in the Order
Form (the "Charges").
6.2.2 We will send you your first bill shortly after we begin
providing the Service. We will send you a further bill according
to the interval you requested at the initial registration, but
we may send you a bill at anytime. We will send bills to the
address on your registration details or any other address you
ask us to. We also reserve the right to issue bills by e-mailing
these bills to you every month (although we reserve the right to
send you a bill by e-mail at any time).
6.2.3 During the registration process, we will ask you to
complete/provide a payment by credit card to enable us to
collect payments for your account, and for any additional
services that we may provide to you. If you seek to discharge
your account in a manner other than by way of direct debit or
credit card (e.g. cheque or cash) we reserve the right to levy
an additional administration charge of 10% subject to a £25
minimum.
6.2.4 You must pay all charges and rentals in accordance with
your credit card authority, or if, for some reason, your credit
card payment fails, in accordance with the time for payment
detailed in your bill.
Failure to pay.
6.2.5.1 If your electronic payment is rejected, or becomes, or
is, invalid or unavailable, thereby preventing us from
recovering the sums due under your account within 4 days
following the due date for payment, we reserve the right
immediately to withdraw your access to the Services. You may
also be charged an administration fee of £25.
6.2.5.2 In these circumstances, you will be sent a letter giving
you 10 days in which to arrange for your account to be
discharged in full.
6.2.5.3 If, in response to our letter, you provide us with your
valid payment details so as to enable us to collect the sums due
on your account, we will re-apply for payment. If your proposed
electronic payment method is still rejected, invalid or
unavailable, or if your account remains outstanding for any
other reason, 18 days after the original due date for payment,
then (i) you will be charged a further administration fee of £25
together with a fee for the submission of a further warning
letter (£25), and (ii) a letter will be sent to you requesting
the discharge of your account in full, and/or for appropriate
arrangements to be made with us for your account to be
discharged, which must be effected within 7 days from the date
of this letter, failing which we reserve the right to refer your
outstanding account to NCCnet's credit control department.
6.2.5.4 If your account remains unpaid for a period of 25 days
after the original due date for payment, a security deposit of
three times your average monthly invoice will be required before
we reinstate your Service.
6.2.5.5 If your account remains unpaid for a period of 32 days
after the original due date for payment, your service will then
be terminated and your account will be referred to NCCnet's
credit control department for it to take the appropriate action
to collect the outstanding sums.
6.2.5.6 If we are required to instruct our solicitors or other
professional advisers to collect any outstanding sums on your
account, you will be responsible for, and we will look to you to
discharge, those costs that are incurred by us in taking such
action.
6.2.6 You must ensure that the account holder's name is the same
as the name on the payment details that are provided.
6.3 If invoices have not been paid 7 days prior to the renewal
date, we will automatically charge customers using card details
that we hold. I
6.4 All prices apply on new customers only.
6.5 Please note that our prices are dependant on the registrar
prices and from time to time we may change the price to reflect
any changes in their prices to us. This affects new
registrations as well as domain renewals.
7. CANCELLATION CHARGES
7.1. The Customer shall be entitled to cancel a Request subject
to the following terms:
7.2. if NCCnet has not started processing the Request, the
Request will be cancelled subject to the Customer paying a
cancellation charge of Twenty Five GBP (£25) excl. VAT;
8. PAYMENTS
8.1 Credit/Debit Card
Customers who request to pay by credit or debit card can choose
to pay annually, quarterly or monthly where offered.
8.2 Customers paying monthly or quarterly are still bound to the
cancellation rules as stipulated within these terms and
conditions.
8.3 Payment by cheque is only permitted for customers paying
annually. An invoice will be sent to customers thirty days in
advance of the renewal date. We reserve the right to levy an
additional administration charge of 10% subject to a £25 minimum
9. STANDARDS
OF CONDUCT
Websites containing pornography and/or sex-related merchandising
are prohibited on NCCnet servers. Sites containing nudity for
purposes other than educational or health/well-being topics are
not permitted on NCCnet servers. NCCnet reserve the right to
suspend and/or delete any site found to contain such material
from our servers without prior notice. No refund of monies paid
to NCCnet for hosting in respect of this site will be due and
the Customers account will be terminated. Final decision on
content deemed to be unsuitable will be that of NCCnet and no
correspondence will be entered into. Spamming, or the sending of
unsolicited email, from a NCCnet server or using an email
address that is maintained on a NCCnet machine is strictly
prohibited. Any Customer found to be using a NCCnet service for
such purposes may have their account terminated without
notice.NCCnet Customers may only use the Internet for lawful
purposes and must agree not to knowingly use the service for the
transmitting or uploading/downloading of material that is
obscene, pornographic, threatening, offensive, defamatory,
inaccurate, deliberately misleading, in breach of confidence or
in breach of any UK law. Any breach of these obligations will
allow NCCnet to terminate the Customers account immediately. The
Customer must keep their username and password secure and not
let them become public knowledge and that the password will not
be stored anywhere on a computer in plain text, that if the
password becomes known to another unauthorised person they will
inform NCCnet immediately. The Customer agrees to fully and
effectively indemnify NCCnet against all losses, costs, actions,
proceedings, claims, damages, expenses, (including legal
expenses) or liabilities, howsoever suffered or incurred
directly by NCCnet in consequence of the Customers breach or
non-observance of all points contained herein. The Customer
shall defend and pay all costs, damages, awards, fees (including
legal expenses) and judgments awarded against NCCnet arising
from breach or breaches of points above. NCCnet may in its
absolute discretion defend such claims and may compromise such
claims with the consent of the Customer, such consent not to be
unreasonably withheld. The Customer shall provide NCCnet with
the assistance necessary to defend such claims, at the Customers
sole expense. The Customer agrees that they will not re-sell,
sub-lease, reassign or transfer the NCCnet connection. NCCnet
reserve the right to terminate the service if it is suspected
that contravention of these terms has taken place.
10. COMPLAINTS
NCCnet undertake to deal with all complaints quickly,
efficiently and confidentially and will strive to achieve an
amicable solution efficiently and with the minimum of delay
incurred to our Customer. Complaints about our service may be
submitted in writing to the address below or by email to
complaints@NCCnet.co.uk11. SOFTWARE AGREEMENT
NCCnet may supply, as part of this agreement, licensed and
unlicensed programs, protected by copyright law. Your right to
use the software is limited to the terms and conditions enclosed
with each program.
12. HARDWARE RETURNS POLICY
12.1. A customer wanting to make a warranty claim on an item of
Faulty ADSL hardware will need to return the item for assessment
- a return pack will need to be ordered at £7.95 + VAT.
12.2. A customer wanting an immediate replacement will be
required to purchase a new item, NCCnet will refund the purchase
price should the assessment reveal the device to be faulty.
13. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
13.1 Replacement or refund (at the option of NCCnet) is the
exclusive remedy if there is a defect. In no event shall NCCnet
or the other software providers be liable for indirect,
incidental or consequential damages, including without
limitation, loss of income, data, use or information.
13.2 Nothing in this Agreement excludes each party's liability
with respect to death and personal injury resulting from the
negligence of that party, its employees, agents or
subcontractors or for fraudulent misrepresentation or under the
tort of deceit.
13.3 Neither party shall be liable to the other, either in
contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise for direct or
indirect loss of profits, business or anticipated savings, nor
for any indirect or consequential loss or damage or for any
destruction of data.
13.4 Subject to Clauses 14.1 and 14.2, our liability to you in
contract, tort, negligence or otherwise arising out of or in
connection with this Agreement shall for any one incident of
series of related incidents be limited to the annual fees paid
by you to us in the year in which the liability first arose.
13.5 We are under no obligation to edit, review or modify
Customer Information or Third Party Content. However, we reserve
the right to remove any Customer Information or Third Party
Information without notice. For the avoidance of doubt we do not
pro-actively monitor messages that you may post on our managed
sites, but we reserve the right to remove such message at our
sole discretion.
13.6 We exclude all liability of any kind in respect of:
13.6.1 Customer Information, Third Party Content, Content and
any other material on the Internet which can be accessed using
the Service and we are not responsible in any way for any goods
(including software) or services provided by third parties
advertised, sold or otherwise made available by means of the
Service or on the Internet;
13.6.2 the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose
of any Content; and
13.6.3 the acts or omissions of other providers of
telecommunications or Internet services (including Domain Name
registration authorities) or for faults in or failures of their
equipment
14 FORCE
MAJEURE
14.1 Neither party will be liable to the other for any failure
to deliver the Service or for any breach by it of this
Agreement, where such failure or breach is due to a reason
outside the reasonable control of such party, including, but not
limited to: lightning, exceptionally severe weather, fire,
explosion, war, industrial disputes, government action or
regulation or national or local emergency. If such failure to
deliver continues for more than 3 months after the commencement
of such failure, then either party may terminate this Agreement
on notice in writing to the other party.
15 GENERAL
PROVISIONS
15.1 We may change the provisions of this Agreement (including
the charges) at any time, provided that we will give you notice
of the changes at least 14 days before the change is to take
effect at which time you may terminate this Agreement if the
change materially affects the Service.
15.2 This Agreement represents the entire understanding between
the parties in relation to its subject matter and supersedes all
agreements and representations made by either party, whether
oral or written.
15.3 The parties acknowledge and agree that:
15.3.1 the parties have not been induced to enter into this
Agreement by any representation, warranty or other assurance not
expressly incorporated into it; and
15.3.2 in connection with this Agreement the parties' only
rights and remedies in relation to any representation, warranty
or other assurance are for breach of this Agreement and that all
other rights and remedies are excluded, except in the case of
fraud.
15.4 This Agreement does not create any rights under the
Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 that are
enforceable by any person who is not a party to it but this does
not affect any right or remedy of a third party which exists or
is available apart from that Act.
15.5 Notices given under this Agreement must be in writing and
may be delivered by hand, courier or first class post, by fax or
e-mail to the following addresses:
(a) to us at the relevant address provided during the
registration process for NCCnet or any alternative address which
NCCnet notifies to you;
(b) to you at the relevant postal or email address provided as
part of the details which you submit during the registration
process or any alternative address that you provide to NCCnet
via the 'My Account' pages.
15.6 Neither party may assign sub-contract or transfer any of
their rights or obligations under this Agreement without the
prior written consent of the other party, except that NCCnet may
assign or transfer its rights and/or obligations to any
Affiliate from time to time without the prior written consent of
the Supplier.
15.7 If any part, term or provision of this Agreement is held to
be illegal or unenforceable the validity or enforceability of
the remainder of this Agreement will not be affected.
15.8 If either party delays in acting upon a breach of this
Agreement that delay will not be regarded as a waiver of that
breach. If either party waives a breach of this Agreement that
waiver is limited to that particular breach.
16 LAW
16.1 This Agreement will be governed by and construed and
interpreted in accordance with the law of England and Wales and
the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English
Courts.
16.2 The Customer and NCCnet both agree to submit to the
exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. The Customer and
NCCnet both agree that a court may strike out or override any
part of these terms and conditions if it considers them to be
illegal, unenforceable or unfair and in such cases enforce only
the terms and conditions as if the offending clause or clauses
had never been contained in them.
This does not
affect your statutory rights.
17 SSH ACCESS
17.1 We reserve the right to modify this policy at anytime
without prior notification
17.2 It is your responsibility to keep your password safe and
secure.
17.3 The following types of processes (or any related processes)
may not berun/hosted on any NCCnet server without explicit
permission:
* Emech Bots (or Eggdrops with multiple server scripts)
* XDCC Bots or XDCC Bot Hubs
* Seti @ Home Clients
* ShoutCast Servers
* OpenNAP Clients/Servers
* Any server hosting anything illegal, such as "Litmus" bots
* Malicious code
* Binaries of ANY sort
* Exploints
Users are forbidden from using their accounts on the NCCnet or
affiliate networks for any activity that may be considered
illegal. This is at the discretion of either NCCnet and/or law
enforcement. Addition programs, such as "Root Kits" or other
programs that try to break the security of our server and gain
"super-user" privileges or try to destroy data are also
forbidden. Programs such as "Flooders" or "floodnets" which try
to utilize NCCnet's IP addresses in an "attack" on an IRC server
or other host are forbidden. Accounts found running these types
of programs will be suspended immediately without prior
notification, at the discretion of the admin.
17.4 Accounts may not use more than allotted bandwidth specified
per account per month. Accounts which use more than the allotted
amount will be required to pay the fee for extra bandwidth
usage. Accounts which have gone over their monthly bandwidth
limit may be turned off until the excessive bandwidth usage has
been paid for, at the admin's discretion. Bandwidth usage is
metered by the shell account system, based on UserID, which logs
both incoming and outgoing traffic on any IP address. NCCnet
reserves the right to modify this policy without prior
notification at any time.
17.5 No process or user may utilize an excessive amount of CPU
usage for more than 5 minutes. Processes using more than half
(30%) of the total CPU power for more than five (5) minutes will
be killed, at the discretion of the admin.
17.6 Processes utilizing more than a necessary amount of "Random
Access Memory" may be killed, at the discretion of the admin.
Privacy Policy
We are committed to protecting your privacy. We will only use
the information that we collect about you lawfully (in
accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998).
We collect information about you for 2 reasons: firstly, to
process your order and second, to provide you with the best
possible service. NCCnet will not distribute, offer or share
this information to any other third party whatsoever unless
required to do so by a legal obligation.
We may contact you by email from time to time regarding service
information which you need to be aware of. This can include
service renewals, upgrades or additional services which may
benefit your existing service agreement with NCCnet.
The type of information we will collect about you includes:
your name
address
phone number
email address
credit/debit card details (unless paying by another method)
We will never collect sensitive information about you without
your explicit consent.
The information we hold will be accurate and up to date. You can
check the information that we hold about you by emailing us at
info@NCCnet.net
If you find any inaccuracies we will delete or correct it
promptly.
The personal information which we hold will be held securely in
accordance with our internal security policy and the law.
If you have any questions/comments about this privacy statement,
you should email us at
info@NCCnet.co.uk
We recognise the
privacy concerns of users of the internet and wants to make your
experience of our websites satisfying and safe. Our goal is to
provide you with a productive experience while allowing you to
control your privacy and giving you a means to voice any
questions or concerns you may have.
This statement discloses the privacy policy for our sites and
does not extend to any external sites that we are linked to.
This privacy policy follows industry standard practices and
answers the following questions:
What information do we gather/track about you
What we do with the information we gathers/tracks
With whom do we share the information we gathers/tracks
What you can do to correct or update the personal information
you have provided us
What is our policy on deactivating or removing your name from
its database
What if I have further requests
Information Gathered
We do not collect personal information about you unless
you voluntarily provide it to us and we collect, process and use
personal information only for performing the relevant service
selected by you. That information will be gathered when you come
onto our site to: provide feedback in an online survey; request
product information; request a contact from a sales
representative; request a contact from technical support;
request miscellaneous information; and/or register product
configuration on our web site. The personal information that may
be gathered includes your name, fax, telephone number, Home/Work
address and e-mail address. You may also be asked for further
information about yourself such as your job category and your
industry type, your company name and job title, and the number
of people in your company. When you purchase products we will
collect your credit card number, billing address and credit card
expiration date. If you do not wish to divulge credit card or
other personal information over the Internet, you may place an
order by telephone 0845 117 0366.
Use of the Information
Your information is held on our secure systems for use
only by our personnel who assist you in your use of our site for
a period of time reasonable in light of the purpose for which it
is processed. We provide your credit card information to the
credit card processing company to charge you for your purchases
and we provide your name and address to our distributor to ship
products to you. The distributor is not permitted to send your
information to anyone else. Please note, however, that we will
contact you about matters that affect your use of our site such
as the status of your orders for our products you buy.
Information Distribution
We will use best efforts to not transfer information
that personally identifies you to anyone else without your
knowledge and approval at the time it is collected from you. You
will also have the opportunity then to indicate whether you wish
to decline to receive promotional or marketing material about
other products and services of NCCnet or others.
Correcting, Updating, Deleting & Deactivating
Upon your request, we will assist you to review, to
delete or to correct or update your personal information that
you have previously provided.
Further Requests
If at any time you believe that we have not adhered to
our policy with respect to protecting your privacy, or if you
have questions regarding the collecting and/or use of your
personal information or regarding our privacy policy, please
contact us. Questions regarding this Privacy Policy should be
directed to the Webmaster. Please enter “privacy” in the subject
line.
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