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1. AGREEMENT.
In this Registration
Agreement ("Agreement") "you" and "your" refer to each customer, "we",
us" and "our" refer to Tucows.com Inc. and "Services" refers to the
domain name registration provided by us as offered through St. Louis
Internet, Inc., the Registration Service Provider ("RSP"). This Agreement
explains our obligations to you, and explains your obligations to
us for various Services.
2. SELECTION
OF A DOMAIN NAME.
You represent
that, to the best of the your knowledge and belief, neither the registration
of the SLD name nor the manner in which it is directly or indirectly
used infringes the legal rights of a third party and that the Domain
Name is not being registered for any unlawful purpose.
3. FEES.
As consideration
for the services you have selected, you agree to pay to us, or your
respective RSP who remits payment to us on your behalf, 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").
You, by completing and submitting this Agreement represent that the
statements in your application are true.
4. TERM.
You agree that
the Registration Agreement will remain in full force during the length
of the term of your Domain Name Registration. Should you choose to
renew or otherwise lengthen the term of your Domain Name Registration,
then the term of this Registration Agreement will be extended accordingly.
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, then
the term of this Registration Agreement will be extended accordingly.
Should you transfer your domain name or should the domain name otherwise
be transferred due to another Registrar, the terms and conditions
of this contract shall cease and shall be replaced by the contractual
terms in force for the purpose of registering domain names then in
force between SLD holders and the new Registrar.
5. MODIFICATIONS
TO AGREEMENT.
You agree, during
the period of this Agreement, that we may: (1) revise the terms and
conditions of this Agreement; and (2) change the services provided
under this Agreement. Any such revision or change will be binding
and effective immediately on posting of the revised Agreement or change
to the service(s) on our web site, or on notification to you by e-mail
or regular mail as per the Notices section of this agreement. You
agree to review our web site, including the Agreement, periodically
to be aware of any 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 regular mail as per the Notices
section of this agreement. Notice of your termination will be effective
on receipt and processing by us. You agree that, by continuing to
use the Services following notice of any revision to this Agreement
or change in service(s), you shall abide by any such revisions or
changes. You further agree to abide by the ICANN Uniform Dispute Resolution
Policy ("Dispute Policy") as amended from time to time. You agree
that, by maintaining the reservation or registration of your domain
name after modifications to the Dispute Policy become effective, you
have agreed to these modifications. 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. Please safeguard your Account Identifier and
Password from any unauthorized use. In no event will 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 which 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.opensrs.org/legal/udrp.shtml. 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 in effect at the time of the dispute. 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 the courts of The Province of Ontario.
9. ICANN POLICY.
You agree that
your registration of the SLD name shall be subject to suspension,
cancellation, or transfer pursuant to any ICANN-adopted policy, or
pursuant to any registrar or registry procedure not inconsistent with
an ICANN-adopted policy, (1) to correct mistakes by Registrar or the
Registry in registering the name or (2) for the resolution of disputes
concerning the SLD name.
10. AGENCY
. Should you
intend to license use of a domain name to a third party you shall
nonetheless be the SLD 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 SLD. You shall accept liability for harm caused
by wrongful use of the SLD, unless you promptly disclose the identity
of the licensee to the party providing you reasonable evidence of
actionable harm. You also represent that you have provided notice
of the terms and conditions in this Agreement to the third party and
that the third party agrees to the terms of Disclosure and Use of
Registration Information (sections 18 and 19 of this Agreement).
11. ANNOUNCEMENTS.
We and the RSP
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. In no
event shall our maximum liability exceed five hundred ($500.00) dollars.
13. INDEMNITY.
You agree to
release, indemnify, and hold us, our contractors, agents, employees,
officers, directors and affiliates harmless from all liabilities,
claims and expenses, including without limitation Network Solutions,
Inc., and the directors, officers, employees and agents of each of
them, 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.
14. TRANSFER
OF OWNERSHIP.
The person named
as administrative contact at the time the controlling user name and
password are secured shall be the owner of 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 agree that,
by registration or reservation of your chosen domain name, such registration
or reservation does not confer immunity from objection to either 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. 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 RSP.
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 ICANN and applicable laws may require or
permit. 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 the 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 RSP. 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 access or 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 your failure to
respond for over fifteen calendar days to inquiries by us concerning
the accuracy of contact details associated with the your registration
shall constitute a material breach of this Agreement and be a basis
for cancellation of the SLD registration.
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 within thirty
(30) calendar days from receipt of your payment for such 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.
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
have been given when an electronic confirmation of delivery has been
obtained by the sender. In the case of e-mail notification to us or
to the RSP to lhutz@Tucows.com or sales@st-louis.net 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 the RSP
shall be sent to: Tucows.com Inc. Registrant Affairs Office 96 Mowat
Avenue Toronto, Ontario M6K 3M1 - OR - Domain Registration St. Louis
Internet, Inc. 1324 Clarkkson/Clayton Center PMB 324 St. Louis, MO.
63011 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. 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.