Hosting
Terms and Conditions
Please note that this is no more than a summary of the
terms and conditions for use of the deep-africa web hosting
and designing services. All clients of deep-africa web
hosting and designing services, must read this summary
in conjuction with the conditions of use and abide fully
by them as provided below, or which are otherwise available
from the deep-africa website situated at deep-africa.com.
Unless otherwise defined herein, terms used in this summary
will have the meanings ascribed to them in the conditions
of use.
This is an Agreement between deepAfrica Co. Ltd and you,
including your subsidiaries, assignees and affiliates.
We offer website hosting and web design services subject
to the terms and conditions set out in these terms and
conditions.
This agreement is informed and governed by the Laws of
Kenya and international laws, which may be, applicable
to the supply of web hosting and web designing services.
Interpretation.
“We”, “us”
will, unless otherwise provided in this summary, mean
the hosting service provider and designer which for
this purpose will be deep-africa company limited and
its constituent parties as may be relevant.
“Server” or “the
server” will, unless otherwise provided,
mean the computer server equipment operated by us in
connection with the provision of the services.
“Service” or “services”
will, unless otherwise provided, mean web hosting and
designing as provided to you by us.
“You” “customer”
or “client” will, unless
otherwise provided, mean the person purchasing services
from us.
“Website” will, unless
otherwise provided, mean the location allocated by us
to you for use by you as a site on the Internet.
“Termination of service”
will, unless otherwise provided mean terminating service
provision.
“Suspension of service”
will, unless otherwise provided mean suspending service
provision.
“Hacker(s)” will, unless
otherwise provided means someone (people) that breaks
into systems to damage it, or for the purpose of getting
illegitimate access to resources.
1. Our services
Your account will be setup after full payment has been
deposited with us and the verifying documents acquired.
You represent, undertake and warrant to us that you
will use the Web Site allocated to you only for lawful
purposes, in accordance to the relevant Kenyan and International
laws .
In particular, you represent, warrant and undertake
that:
1. You shall not use the Server in any manner which
infringes the law governing this agreement or which
infringes the rights of any third party, nor will you
authorise or permit any other person to do so.
2. You will not send bulk email whether opt-in or otherwise
from our network or will you promote a site hosted on
our network using bulk email.
3. You shall keep secure, any identification, password
and other confidential information relating to your
account and shall notify us immediately of any known
or suspected unauthorised use of your account or breach
of security, including; loss, theft or unauthorised
disclosure of your password or other security information.
4. Any access to other networks connected to deepAfrica
Co. limited must comply with the rules appropriate for
those other networks.
We shall be under no liability for non-receipt or misrouting
of e-mail or any other failure as the case may be.
2. Service Availability
We shall reserve the right to suspend-without prejudice
to the agreement-our services provided to you at any
time and for any reason based on the terms and conditions
herein, generally without notice, but if such suspension
lasts or is to last for more than 7 days you will be
notified of the reason.
Our services provided to you and your account with us
cannot be transferred nor used by anyone else other
than you.
You may use no more than one log in session under any
one account at any time. If you have multiple accounts,
you are limited to one log in session per system account
at any time.
User programs may be run only during log in sessions.
If your account is found to have been transferred to
another party, or shows other activity in breach of
this sub clause, we shall have the right to cancel the
account and terminate the services provided to you and/or
this Agreement immediately.
We do not guarantee that the server will be free from
unauthorized users or hackers.
NO refunds shall be made for services not provided due
to suspension as above described.
3. Payment
Payment for the provision of the services shall be made
in advance.
All charges payable by you for the services provided
shall be in accordance with the scale of charges and
rates published from time to time by us on our website.
We reserve the right to change pricing at any time before
an agreement for the provision of services is sealed.
Payment is due each anniversary year following the date
the Services were established until closure notice is
given. If you choose to pay by credit or debit card
you authorise deepAfrica Co. limited to debit your account
renewal fees from your card.
Without prejudice to our other rights and remedies under
this Agreement, if any sum payable is not paid on or
before the due date, we shall be entitled forthwith
to suspend the provision of our services to you.
Once an account is suspended, access to files, databases
and other content shall be explicitly denied.
All files, databases and other content including the
account itself will be permanently deleted ten days,
after the suspension of the services.
Account re-activation shall be required for access to
the files, databases or any other content, before they
are deleted.
NO refunds shall be made for services suspended in the
cases above.
4. Termination of services
Provision of services shall be terminated if payment
is not made as it falls due.
Without prejudice to the other terms and conditions
provided above, we may terminate provision of services
without due notice given if payment is not made as earlier
been agreed upon.
Contravention of any of the terms and conditions above
may lead to termination of our service provision and/or
this agreement and may attract legal action as the case
may be.
Service provision shall be terminated without prior
notice, if incase of a company, the company is liquidated
or falls under a receiver or enters into a voluntary
arrangement with the creditors. .
We reserve the right to suspend our services and/or
terminate this Agreement at any time if anything occurs
that causes the provision of the services a criminal
act or if it is inconsistent with the laws that informs
it.
You may cancel our services at any time but no refunds
will be made.
On termination of this Agreement or suspension of our
services, we shall be entitled to immediately block
your Web Site and to remove all data located on it.
5. Limitation of Liability
All conditions, terms, representations and warranties
relating to our services supplied under this Agreement,
whether imposed by statute or operation of law or otherwise,
that are not expressly stated in these terms and conditions
including, without limitation, the implied warranty
of satisfactory quality and fitness for a particular
purpose are hereby excluded, subject always to the following
point.
Our total aggregate liability to you for any claim in
contract, tort, negligence or otherwise arising out
of or in connection with the provision of our services
shall be limited to the charges paid by you in respect
of our services, which are the subject of any such claim.
In any event, no claim shall be brought unless you have
notified us of the claim within one year of it arising.
In no event shall we be liable to you for any loss of
business, contracts, profits or anticipated savings
or for any other indirect, consequential, or economic
loss whatsoever
6. Communication
All communication shall be made through e-mail, fax,
or recorded delivery to the address provided by either
party while sealing the agreement or such other address
as may be communicated to either party.
You will provide us with an e-mail address, which is
not at the domains you are signing up under.
Provision of false contact information, leads to automatic
termination of your account at discovery.
You will be communicated to, through the primary e-mail
address you provide.
You shall endeavour to update us of any changes of your
e-mail or any other contacts on file to ensure uninterrupted
communication.
7. Revisions
We reserve the right to revise, amend or modify these
terms and conditions and any of our policies as may
affect the above terms and conditions.
In agreeing to these terms and conditions, you have
not relied on any representation other than those expressly
stated in these terms and conditions and you agree that
you shall have no remedy in respect of any misrepresentation
that has not been made expressly in this Agreement.
8. Comments or Questions.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns arising
from our services, the terms and conditions, policies
and notices or the way in which we are handling your
personal information please contact
us.