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1. AGREEMENT.
In this Registration Agreement ("Agreement")
"you" and "your" refer
to the registrant of each domain name registration,
"we", "us" and "our"
refer to Tucows Inc. and "Services"
refers to the domain name registration provided
by us as offered through SavHost, the Registration
Service Provider ("Reseller").
This Agreement explains our obligations
to you, and explains your obligations to
us for the Services.
2. SELECTION OF A
DOMAIN NAME. You represent that,
to the best of the your knowledge and belief,
neither this registration of a domain name
nor the manner in which it is directly or
indirectly to be used infringes upon the
legal rights of a third party and, further,
that the domain name is not being registered
for nor shall it at any time whatsoever
be used for any unlawful purpose whatsoever.
3. FEES. As
consideration for the Services, you agree
to pay Reseller the applicable service(s)
fees. All fees payable hereunder are non-refundable.
As further consideration for the Services,
you agree to: (1) provide certain current,
complete and accurate information about
you as required by the registration process,
and (2) maintain and update this information
as needed to keep it current, complete and
accurate. All such information shall be
referred to as account information ("Account
Information"). By submitting this Agreement,
you represent that the Account Information
and all other statements put forth in your
application are true, complete and accurate.
Both Tucows and the Registry reserve the
right to terminate your domain name registration
if: (i) information provided by you or your
agent is false, inaccurate, incomplete,
unreliable, misleading or otherwise secretive;
or (ii) you have failed to maintain, update
and keep your Account Information true,
current, complete, accurate and reliable.
You acknowledge that a breach of this Section
3 will constitute a material breach of our
Agreement which will entitle either us or
the Registry to terminate this agreement
immediately upon such breach without any
refund and without notice to you.
4. TERM. This
Agreement will remain in full force during
the length of the term of your Domain Name
Registration as selected, recorded, and
paid for upon registration of the Domain
Name. Should you choose to renew or otherwise
lengthen the term of your Domain Name Registration,
the term of this Registration Agreement
will be extended accordingly. Should the
domain name be transferred to another Registrar,
the terms and conditions of this contract
shall cease.
5. MODIFICATIONS
TO AGREEMENT. You agree that either
we or the Registry may: (1) revise the terms
and conditions of this Agreement; and (2)
change the services provided under this
Agreement. You agree to be bound by any
such revision or change which shall be effective
immediately upon posting on our web site
or upon notification to you by e-mail or
your country's postal service pursuant to
the Notices section of this Agreement. You
agree to review this Agreement as posted
on our web site periodically to maintain
an awareness of any and all such revisions.
If you do not agree with any revision to
the Agreement, you may terminate this Agreement
at any time by providing us with notice
by e-mail or postal service pursuant to
the Notices section of this Agreement. Notice
of your termination shall be effective after
processing by us. You agree that, by continuing
the use of Services following notice of
any revision to this Agreement or change
in service(s), you shall be bound by any
such revisions and changes. You further
agree to be bound by the ICANN Uniform Dispute
Resolution Policy ("Dispute Policy")
as presently written and posted on http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp-policy-24oct99.htm
and as such shall be amended from time to
time. You acknowledge that if you do not
agree to any such modifications, you may
request that your domain name be deleted
from the domain name database.
6. MODIFICATIONS
TO YOUR ACCOUNT. In order to change
any of your account information with us,
you must use your Account Identifier and
Password that you selected when you opened
your account with us. You agree to safeguard
your Account Identifier and Password from
any unauthorized use. In no event shall
we be liable for the unauthorized use or
misuse of your Account Identifier or Password.
7. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTE
POLICY. If you reserved or registered
a domain name through us, or transferred
a domain name to us from another registrar,
you agree to be bound by the Dispute Policy
that is incorporated herein and made a part
of this Agreement by reference. The current
version of the Dispute Policy may be found
at http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp-policy-24oct99.htm.
Please take the time to familiarize yourself
with this policy.
8. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTES.
You agree that, if the registration or reservation
of your domain name is challenged by a third
party, you will be subject to the provisions
specified in the Dispute Policy. You agree
that in the event a domain name dispute
arises with any third party, you will indemnify
and hold us harmless pursuant to the terms
and conditions contained in the Dispute
Policy. For any dispute, you agree to submit
to the jurisdiction of you, the registrant’s
domicile, and the courts where we, Tucows,
are located.
9. POLICY.
You agree that your registration of the
domain name shall be subject to suspension,
cancellation, or transfer pursuant to a
Tucows, Registry, ICANN or government-adopted
policy, or pursuant to any registrar or
registry procedure not inconsistent with
a Tucows, Registry, ICANN or government-adopted
policy, (1) to correct mistakes by us or
the Registry in registering the name or
(2) for the resolution of disputes concerning
the domain name.
10. AGENCY.
Should you intend to license use of a domain
name to a third party you shall nonetheless
be the domain name holder of record and
are therefore responsible for providing
your own full contact information and for
providing and updating accurate technical
and administrative contact information adequate
to facilitate timely resolution of any problems
that arise in connection with the domain
name. You shall accept liability for harm
caused by wrongful use of the domain name.
You represent that you have provided notice
of the terms and conditions in this Agreement
to any third party licensee and that the
third party agrees to the terms hereof.
11. ANNOUNCEMENTS.
We reserve the right to distribute information
to you that is pertinent to the quality
or operation of our services and those of
our service partners. These announcements
will be predominately informative in nature
and may include notices describing changes,
upgrades, new products or other information
to add security or to enhance your identity
on the Internet.
12. LIMITATION OF
LIABILITY. You agree that our entire
liability, and your exclusive remedy, with
respect to any Services(s) provided under
this Agreement and any breach of this Agreement
is solely limited to the amount you paid
for such Service(s). We and our contractors
shall not be liable for any direct, indirect,
incidental, special or consequential damages
resulting from the use or inability to use
any of the Services or for the cost of procurement
of substitute services. Because some states
do not allow the exclusion or limitation
of liability for consequential or incidental
damages, in such states, our liability is
limited to the extent permitted by law.
We disclaim any and all loss or liability
resulting from, but not limited to: (1)
loss or liability resulting from access
delays or access interruptions; (2) loss
or liability resulting from data non-delivery
or data mis-delivery; (3) loss or liability
resulting from acts of God; (4) loss or
liability resulting from the unauthorized
use or misuse of your account identifier
or password; (5) loss or liability resulting
from errors, omissions, or misstatements
in any and all information or services(s)
provided under this Agreement; (6) loss
or liability resulting from the interruption
of your Service. You agree that we will
not be liable for any loss of registration
and use of your domain name, or for interruption
of business, or any indirect, special, incidental,
or consequential damages of any kind (including
lost profits) regardless of the form of
action whether in contract, tort (including
negligence), or otherwise, even if we have
been advised of the possibility of such
damages.
13. INDEMNITY.
You agree to release, indemnify, and hold
us, our contractors, agents, employees,
officers, directors and affiliates and VeriSign,
Inc., and its directors, officers, employees,
agents and affiliates harmless from all
liabilities, claims and expenses, including
attorney's fees, of third parties relating
to or arising under this Agreement, the
Services provided hereunder or your use
of the Services, including without limitation
infringement by you, or someone else using
the Service with your computer, of any intellectual
property or other proprietary right of any
person or entity, or from the violation
of any of our operating rules or policy
relating to the service(s) provided. You
also agree to release, indemnify and hold
us harmless pursuant to the terms and conditions
contained in the Dispute Policy. When we
are threatened with suit by a third party,
we may seek written assurances from you
concerning your promise to indemnify us;
your failure to provide those assurances
may be considered by us to be a breach of
your Agreement and may result in deactivation
of your domain name. This indemnification
obligation will survive the termination
or expiration of this Agreement.
14. TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP.
The person named as registrant on the WHOIS
shall be the registered name holder. The
person named as administrative contact at
the time the controlling user name and password
are secured shall be deemed the designate
of the registrant with the authority to
manage the domain name. You agree that prior
to transferring ownership of your domain
name to another person (the "Transferee")
you shall require the Transferee to agree,
in writing to be bound by all the terms
and conditions of this Agreement. Your domain
name will not be transferred until we receive
such written assurances or other reasonable
assurance that the Transferee has been bound
by the contractual terms of this Agreement
(such reasonable assurance as determined
by us in our sole discretion) along with
the applicable transfer fee. If the Transferee
fails to be bound in a reasonable fashion
(as determine by us in our sole discretion)
to the terms and conditions in this Agreement,
any such transfer will be null and void.
15. BREACH.
You agree that failure to abide by any provision
of this Agreement, any operating rule or
policy or the Dispute Policy provided by
us, may be considered by us to be a material
breach and that we may provide a written
notice, describing the breach, to you. If
within thirty (30) calendar days of the
date of such notice, you fail to provide
evidence, which is reasonably satisfactory
to us, that you have not breached your obligations
under the Agreement, then we may delete
the registration or reservation of your
domain name. Any such breach by you shall
not be deemed to be excused simply because
we did not act earlier in response to that,
or any other breach by you.
16. NO GUARANTY.
You acknowledge that registration or reservation
of your chosen domain name does not confer
immunity from objection to the registration,
reservation or use of the domain name.
17. DISCLAIMER OF
WARRANTIES. You agree that your use
of our Services is solely at your own risk.
You agree that such Service(s) is provided
on an "as is," "as available"
basis. We expressly disclaim all warranties
of any kind, whether express or implied,
including but not limited to the implied
warranties of merchantability, fitness for
a particular purpose and non-infringement.
We make no warranty that the Services will
meet your requirements, or that the Service(s)
will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or
error free; nor do we make any warranty
as to the results that may be obtained from
the use of the Service(s) or as to the accuracy
or reliability of any information obtained
through the Service or that defects in the
Service will be corrected. You understand
and agree that any material and/or data
downloaded or otherwise obtained through
the use of Service is done at your own discretion
and risk and that you will be solely responsible
for any damage to your computer system or
loss of data that results from the download
of such material and/or data. We make no
warranty regarding any goods or services
purchased or obtained through the Service
or any transactions entered into through
the Service. No advice or information, whether
oral or written, obtained by you from us
or through the Service shall create any
warranty not expressly made herein.
18. INFORMATION.
As part of the registration process, you
are required to provide us certain information
and to update us promptly as such information
changes such that our records are current,
complete and accurate. You are obliged to
provide us the following information:
(i) Your name and postal address (or, if
different, that of the domain name holder);
(ii) The domain name being registered;
(iii) The name, postal address, e-mail address,
and voice and fax (if available) telephone
numbers of the administrative contact for
the domain name; and
(iv) The name, postal address, e-mail address,
and voice and fax (if available) telephone
numbers of the billing contact for the domain
name.
Any other information, which we request
from you at registration, is voluntary.
Any voluntary information we request is
collected such that we can continue to improve
the products and services offered to you
through your Reseller.
19. DISCLOSURE AND
USE OF REGISTRATION INFORMATION.
You agree and acknowledge that we will make
domain name registration information you
provide available to ICANN, to the registry
administrators, and to other third parties
as applicable. You further agree and acknowledge
that we may make publicly available, or
directly available to third party vendors,
some, or all, of the domain name registration
information you provide, for purposes of
inspection (such as through our WHOIS service)
or other purposes as required or permitted
by ICANN and applicable laws.
You hereby consent to any and all such
disclosures and use of, and guidelines,
limits and restrictions on disclosure or
use of, information provided by you in connection
with the registration of a domain name (including
any updates to such information), whether
during or after the term of your registration
of the domain name. You hereby irrevocably
waive any and all claims and causes of action
you may have arising from such disclosure
or use of your domain name registration
information by us.
You may access your domain name registration
information in our possession to review,
modify or update such information, by accessing
our domain manager service, or similar service,
made available by us through your Reseller.
We will not process data about any identified
or identifiable natural person that we obtain
from you in a way incompatible with the
purposes and other limitations which we
describe in this Agreement.
We will take reasonable precautions to
protect the information we obtain from you
from our loss, misuse, unauthorized accessor
disclosure, alteration or destruction of
that information.
20. REVOCATION.
Your wilful provision of inaccurate or unreliable
information, your wilful failure promptly
to update information provided to us, or
any failure to respond to inquiries by us
addressed to the email address of the registrant,
the administrative, billing or technical
contact appearing in the "WHOIS"
directory with respect to a domain name
concerning the accuracy of contact details
associated with the registration shall constitute
a material breach of this Agreement and
be a basis for cancellation of the domain
name registration. Any information collected
by us concerning an identified or identifiable
natural person ("Personal Data")
will be used in connection with the registration
of your domain name(s) and for the purposes
of this Agreement and as required or permitted
by the ICANN Agreement or an ICANN/Registry
Operator policy.
21. RIGHT OF REFUSAL.
We, in our sole discretion, reserve the
right to refuse to register or reserve your
chosen domain name or register you for other
Services. In the event we do not register
or reserve your domain name or register
you for other Services, or we delete your
domain name or other Services within such
thirty (30) calendar day period, we agree
to refund your applicable fee(s). You agree
that we shall not be liable to you for loss
or damages that may result from our refusal
to register, reserve, or delete your domain
name or register you for other Services.
We reserve the right to delete or transfer
your domain name within a thirty (30) day
period following registration if we believe
the registration has been made possible
by a mistake, made either by us or by a
third party.
22. SEVERABILITY.
You agree that the terms of this Agreement
are severable. If any term or provision
is declared invalid or unenforceable, that
term or provision will be construed consistent
with applicable law as nearly as possible
to reflect the original intentions of the
parties, and the remaining terms and provisions
will remain in full force and effect.
23. NON-AGENCY.
Nothing contained in this Agreement or the
Dispute Policy shall be construed as creating
any agency, partnership, or other form of
joint enterprise between the parties.
24. NON-WAIVER.
Our failure to require performance by you
of any provision hereof shall not affect
the full right to require such performance
at any time thereafter; nor shall the waiver
by us of a breach of any provision hereof
be taken or held to be a waiver of the provision
itself.
25. NOTICES.
Any notice, direction or other communication
given under this Agreement shall be in writing
and given by sending it via e-mail or via
regular mail. In the case of e-mail, valid
notice shall only have been deemed to be
given when an electronic confirmation of
delivery has been obtained by the sender.
In the case of e-mail notification to us
or to Reseller to lhutz@tucows.com or [Insert
E-mail Address for Reseller] or, in the
case of notice to you, at the e-mail address
provided by you in your WHOIS record. Any
e-mail communication shall be deemed to
have been validly and effectively given
on the date of such communication, if such
date is a business day and such delivery
was made prior to 4:00 p.m. EST, otherwise
it will be deemed to have been delivered
on the next business day. In the case of
regular mail notice, valid notice shall
be deemed to have been validly and effectively
given 5 business days after the date of
mailing and, in the case of notification
to us or to Reseller shall be sent to:
TUCOWS Inc.
Registrant Affairs Office
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M6K 3M1
Attention: Legal Affairs
and in the case of notification to you shall
be to the address specified in the "Administrative
Contact" in your WHOIS record.
26. ENTIRETY.
You agree that this Agreement, the rules
and policies published by us and the Dispute
Policy are the complete and exclusive agreement
between you and us regarding our Services.
This Agreement and the Dispute Policy supersede
all prior agreements and understandings,
whether established by custom, practice,
policy or precedent.
27. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL
BE GOVERNED BY AND INTERPRETED AND ENFORCED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF PROVINCE
OF ONTARIO AND THE FEDERAL LAWS OF CANADA
APPLICABLE THEREIN WITHOUT REFERENCE TO
RULES GOVERNING CHOICE OF LAWS. ANY ACTION
RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT MUST BE BROUGHT
IN ONTARIO AND YOU IRREVOCABLY CONSENT TO
THE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURTS.
28. INFANCY.
You attest that you are of legal age to
enter into this Agreement.
29. FORCE MAJEURE.
You acknowledge and agree that neither we
nor the Registry shall be responsible for
any failures or delays in performing our
respective obligations hereunder arising
from any cause beyond our reasonable control,
including but not limited to, acts of God,
acts of civil or military authority, fires,
wars, riots, earthquakes, storms, typhoons
and floods.
30. FOREIGN LANGUAGE:
Controlling Language. In the event that
you are reading this agreement in a language
other than the English language, you acknowledge
and agree that the English language version
hereof shall prevail in case of inconsistency
or contradiction in interpretation or translation.
31. ACCEPTANCE OF AGREEMENT. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE
THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE
TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU HAVE
INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY
OF THE SERVICE AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY
REPRESENTATION AGREEMENT, GUARANTEE OR STATEMENT
OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.
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