Privacy

The Boss Hosting will not sell, distribute, reveal, or otherwise make available any customer information. We contribute our time and help to anti-spam organizations. We are involved 100% in prosecuting spammers. Should we need to contact you directly regarding your specific account or service we will do so via email only.

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Satisfaction Guaranteed - 30 Day Guarantee Statement

If for any reason you are unhappy with the services you receive from The Boss Hosting the first 30 days of service, you may request in writing via email or through our billing center that your services be discontinued at which time you will receive a full refund. You must also state a detailed reason as to why you are canceling (as we request for any cancellation, no matter the time frame). We are the sole arbiter as to if your reason is a valid reason and if all possible steps were taken on your side and on ours to correct the situation causing the interest to cancel. If you do not give a valid reason for retraction, you will not receive a refund. We reserve the right to refuse this service to anyone we feel took advantage of this feature.

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New Accounts

All new web hosting accounts purchased on our order page are set up within 24 hours of receiving payment. Please remember, that it takes up to 72 hours for your DNS to be changed on your domain. If you choose to get a domain with us, we will automatically change the DNS for you.

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Payments

When you subscribe to our services, you are subscribing to a pre-paid service. When you sign up for our services, you are required to have an active PayPal subscription. If you choose not to hold an active PayPal subscription, then you will be billed 3 days before your bill is due. If you do not pay the bill before the due date, you will be charged a fee of $1.50 per day. If you are 5 or more days late, your account will be suspended. To get your account reactivated, you will need to pay your bill, plus a $2 reactivation fee, and the 5 day late fee. ($7.50) Accounts 15 days past due, will require a $18.00 USD fee to enable. We only accept PayPal for payment of services. All payments are to be made to The Hosting Boss's PayPal account; administrator@thehostingboss.com . Please address any questions regarding payment to administrator@thehostingboss.com

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Cancellations

If you wish to cancel your services, you must do so via the billing center. To cancel your hosting, you must submit a notice to the support center and also cancel it in your PayPal account. Any money paid after you cancel your account is your responsibility, and The Hosting Boss will not refund you.

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Overage Charges

Our service plans are designed to accommodate the majority of usage scenarios given the needs of our customers. However, your usage may vary and require additional allocations, specifically in the areas of storage and traffic. We will never charge your account automatically if your account requires more resources. If you have met your bandwidth quota, your account will be suspended. You must contact billing immediately and arrange to purchase extra bandwidth at a rate of $2 per GB. Upgrades to a higher account must be done before the next billing cycle. If a client wishes to not buy extra bandwidth they may wait until their next cycle begins, which will reset all quotas.

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Refunds/Account Termination

If, for any reason, The Hosting Boss fails to deliver said services, a prorated refund will be issued. No refunds will be issued if abuse of our stated policies forces The Hosting Boss to suspend or terminate your services prematurely. No refunds will be issued for setup fees or domain names. In the event you request account cancellation, once your service has been cancelled your account will be suspended from use. It will then be deleted within 30 days. If for any other reason your account becomes suspended and remains suspended it will be deleted after a 30-day period.

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Content

The Hosting Boss believes in freedom of speech; however, any content (written, visual, or implied) in the following areas will not be tolerated and is grounds for immediate suspension of service (in most cases customer will be allowed a zip file of their files): racism or prejudice due to color, creed, or belief; profanity or obscene language towards anyone but yourself; any violent/malicious content. We do allow legal adult content. We prefer that you self-govern your content and are responsible as to what your website provides. We do not have the resources and time needed to govern our servers constantly which have growing and evolving content. However, if The Hosting Boss is made aware of any questionable content on a The Hosting Boss-hosted site, we will address the concerns directly with you and seek an amiable resolution. If anyone contacts us about content they have found on an The Hosting Boss server that copyrights their own material or that they wish to be removed, we require legal documentation to take any further action. Also, your content must be original unless permission is granted from the author of the graphics, layout, or content and must display the proper disclaimer as requested by the author.

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Opt-in Email Marketing

If you choose to engage in marketing your site and/or services via email please heed the following. The only permitted form of email marketing is that in which the list is "opt-in". By definition, opt-in is where people provide you with their email address specifically requesting to be on your email list for information about your site and/or service. If we find your account transmitting email to persons that did not authorize such activity, that is grounds to suspend and terminate your site. Note: On the flip side, the joining of an opt-in email list does not guarantee the legitimacy of such a list. Please contact us before taking any steps so that you will not be a victim of spam from second and third parties of such lists.

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Reselling

Under no circumstances whatsoever may standard webhosting clients of The Hosting Boss resell their space nor use their site to redirect, promote, or otherwise direct traffic to hosting service elsewhere if using shared hosting. Clients of The Hosting Boss may resell space only if they are on a reseller account. If you have any questions to this rule, do not hesitate to create a support ticket in your members account.

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UCE, UBE, Spam

The Hosting Boss has a zero tolerance policy regarding unsolicited commercial email (UCE) and unsolicited bulk email (UBE) also known as "spam". The definition of spam: An electronic message is "spam" IF: (1) the recipient's personal identity and context are irrelevant because the message is equally applicable to many other potential recipients; AND (2) the recipient has not verifiably granted deliberate, explicit, and still-revocable permission for it to be sent; AND (3) the transmission and reception of the message appears to the recipient to give a disproportionate benefit to the sender. You will be cited with "UCE/UBE Abuse" if you send any email to persons who have not specifically asked to receive email from you. The sending origin of such email is irrelevant. Upon confirmation of abuse, any IW-Host customer engaging in this practice will have their service suspended. Not only does spam place a strain on the server that can negatively effect that server's uptime record and performance record, you subject that server to the possibility of being blacklisted. If your site will be sending mailings out to subscribers, this is a checklist of what you are required to do: * You must not try to hide, forge or misrepresent the sender of the e-mail and sending site of the e-mail. * Bulk mailings must specifically state how the persons' e-mail addresses were obtained and must indicate the frequency of the mailing. * Bulk mailings should contain simple and obvious unsubscribe mechanisms. We recommend that this be in the form of a working link to a one-click unsubscribe system; however, a valid "reply to:" address may be used instead. * All subscription based e-mail must have valid, non-electronic, contact information for the sending organization in the text of each e-mail including either a phone number or physical mailing address. * All bulk e-mail must be solicited, meaning that the sender has an existing and provable relationship with the e-mail recipient and the recipient has not requested not to receive future mailings from the sender. Documentation of the relationship between the sender and the recipient must be made available to IW-Host upon request. Prohibited Uses of The Hosting Boss Systems and Services Regarding Spam: * Sending Unsolicited Bulk Email ("UBE", "spam"). The sending of any form of Unsolicited Bulk Email through IW-Host's servers is prohibited. Likewise, the sending of UBE from another service provider advertising a web site, email address or utilizing any resource hosted on IW-Host's servers, is prohibited. IW-Host accounts or services may not be used to solicit customers from, or collect replies to, messages sent from another Internet Service Provider where those messages violate this Policy or that of the other provider. * Running Unconfirmed Mailing Lists. Subscribing email addresses to any mailing list without the express and verifiable permission of the email address owner is prohibited. All mailing lists run by IW-Host customers must be Closed-loop ("Confirmed Opt-in"). The subscription confirmation message received from each address owner must be kept on file for the duration of the existence of the mailing list. Purchasing lists of email addresses from 3rd parties for mailing to from any The Hosting Boss-hosted domain, or referencing any The Hosting Boss account, is prohibited. * Operating an account on behalf of, or in connection with, or reselling any service to, persons or firms listed in the Spamhaus Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database at www.spamhaus.org.

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Liabilities

The Hosting Boss, makes no endorsement, claims, or promises regarding the services offered by our customers and will not be held liable for any disputes or claims against said customers. In no event shall The Hosting Boss be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special and exemplary damages, or any damages whatsoever, arising from the use or performance of this web site or from any information, services or products provided through your web site. We are not responsible for any content on any server in our network and will not take any action against any questionable material or action until the website in question is brought to our attention by emailing administrator@thehostingboss.com

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Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

The Hosting Boss is dedicated to providing top quality service at a very affordable price. The conditions which follow are necessary to ensure that we may continue to provide the best possible service to all of our customers whilst at the same time satisfying our legal and ethical responsibilities. Failure to follow any condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation without notice. The Hosting Boss will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of any of these provisions. Activity which results in the suspension or deactivation of an account will result in a forfeiture of all fees paid. Complaints made regarding abuses of an account will be investigated and if found guilty will be grounds for immediate suspension. To report suspected abuses or any violations of these policies, please contact administrator@thehostingboss.com

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Illegal Usage

The Hosting Boss servers may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or distribution of any information, data or material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property right used without proper authorization, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws. Examples of non-acceptable content or links: Pirated software, Hackers programs or archives, Warez sites, MP3, and IRC bots. The subscriber to IW-Host service agrees to indemnify and hold harmless IW-Host from any claims resulting from the use of the service that damages the subscriber or any other party. The Hosting Boss will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

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Illegal Content

The Hosting Boss does not allow background Daemons such as IRC bots; eggdrop; BitchX; XiRCON; and any other program that interferes with normal server operation. No warez are allowed. Web proxies are not tolerated. This includes NPH-Proxy, and web proxy. If your site is found to hold any proxy files, your account will be suspended and the account holder will be issued a fee of $50 USD. When using an account with shell, you are not allowed to run ANY servers or services on the IW-Host network. Servers are defined as perlbots, proxies, BitchX, psyBnc, root exploits, DDoS scripts, Shoutcast servers, etc. Running any of these will face an immediate suspension, and users will be subject to a fine no less than $25.00 USD, and no more than $250.00 USD. IW-Host reserves the right to terminate an account for these activities also.

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Server Resources

Any website that uses a high amount of server resources (such as, but not limited to, CPU time, memory usage, and network resources) will be asked to limit their usage. The Hosting Boss shall be the sole arbiter of what is considered to be a high server usage level.

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File Usage and Storage

The Hosting Boss web hosting accounts are not to be used for the purposes of distributing and/or storing an unusual amount of files. We are a web hosting company, not a remote file storage company. Any web site whose disk space usage for storing the files exceed 70% of its total usage, either in terms of total size or number of files, will be deemed to be using unusual amount of files. At that point, if we find that those files are illegal or harmful in any way, you will be notified. If you do not have any negative intentions such as causing harm to our server or to others with the files you keep, then you have nothing to worry about.

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Extra Costs

If bandwidth is exceeded, you will be required to pay an extra $2 per 1 GB. If you require extra disk space, you will be required to pay $1 per 100 MB of disk space. Your account will first be suspended before you are asked to pay these fees. If this happens, we advise you to upgrade to a larger plan before the next billing cycle. If you refuse to pay the fee, your account will remain suspended until the next month's cycle begins.

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Security

Users are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the The Hosting Boss Network. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. The Hosting Boss will investigate occurrences, which may involve cooperation with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting Users who are involved in such violations. These violations include, without limitation: 1) Accessing data not intended for such user or logging into a server or account, which such user is not authorized to access, 2) Attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization, 3) Attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of overloading, "flooding", "mail bombing" or "crashing", 4) Forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or forum posting, 5) Taking any action in order to obtain services to which such User is not entitled, 6) Attempting to couple many hosting packages together to take advantage of massive space or bandwidth allocations, Each hosting package purchased is unique to a domain name and use - you are not allowed to purchase multiple plans to obtain combined bandwidth & space. IW-Host will stop such transactions and label them as deceptive. We have an upgrade path for all services and we can often work out special deals for users if they ask us for the assistance. Violations of system or network security are prohibited, and may result in criminal and civil liability. Examples include, but are not limited to the following: Unauthorized access, use, probe, or scan of a systems security or authentication measures, data or traffic. Interference with service to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks. Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting. Server Abuse Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a The Hosting Boss server or customer of The Hosting Boss is strictly prohibited. Any sub-networks of IW-Host must adhere to the above policies. The failure to meet or follow any of the above guidelines is grounds for account deactivation. We reserve the right to remove any account without prior notice.

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Client Responsibility

The client is responsible for all activity originating from the account unless proven to be a victim of outside hacking or address forgery. The client is responsible for securing their username/password. The client assumes responsibility for all material on their site that may be put on by a third party (such as the usage of Free For All links pages). Use of IW-Host's service requires a certain level of knowledge in the use of Internet languages, protocols, and software. This level of knowledge varies depending on the anticipated use and desired content of the web space by the client. The following examples are offered: Web Publishing: requires knowledge of HTML, properly locating and linking documents, FTPing Web contents, Graphics, text, sound, image mapping, etc. FrontPage web publishing: knowledge of the FrontPage tools as well as Telnet and FTP understanding and capability. CGI-Scripts: requires knowledge of the UNIX environment, TAR & GUNZIP commands, Perl, CShell scripts, permissions, etc. Mail: a use of mail clients to receive and send mail, etc. The client agrees that he or she has the necessary knowledge to create and maintain their web space. Client agrees that it is not the responsibility of IW-Host to provide this knowledge or support outside matter specific to IW-Host servers.

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Backups

The Hosting Boss takes extreme steps to maintain system integrity. However, The Hosting Boss shall not be held responsible for loss of data due to any cause. To ensure the highest level of data protection, The Hosting Boss recommends that ALL information be backed up on your own computer. As with any data that you hold a high importance to, it should be in more than one location at all times. All The Hosting Boss data backups are designed against hardware failure not customer user error.

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Actions Taken

The failure by a customer to meet or follow any of the above policies/terms is grounds for account deactivation. The Hosting Boss will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of the AUP. The Hosting Boss reserves the right to remove any account without prior notice. When IW-Host becomes aware of an alleged violation of its AUP, The Hosting Boss will initiate an investigation. During the investigation, IW-Host may restrict a customer's access in order to prevent further potentially unauthorized activity. Depending on the severity of the violation, The Hosting Boss may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend, or terminate a customer's web hosting account and/or pursue other civil remedies. If such violation is a criminal offense, The Hosting Boss will notify the appropriate law enforcement authorities of such violation. The Hosting Boss does not issue credits for outages incurred through service disablement resulting from AUP violations. The Hosting Boss customers agree to indemnify and hold harmless The Hosting Boss from any claims resulting from the use of our services that damages them or any other party. The The Hosting Boss service is provided on an as is, as available basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. The Hosting Boss expressly disclaims any representation or warranty that the The Hosting Boss service will be error-free, secure or uninterrupted. No oral advice or written information given by IW-Host, its employees, licensors or the like, will create a warranty; nor may you rely on any such information or advice. The Hosting Boss and its partners and suppliers will not be liable for any cost or damage arising either directly or indirectly from any transaction or use of the service.

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Modification

The Hosting Boss reserves the right to add, delete, or modify any provision of this policy at any time without notice.

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Refusal of Service We reserve the right to refuse, cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion. An example of refusal of service is if an account continues to abuse our policies after warnings. Refusal, cancellation or suspension of services especially holds true to issues with spam. Service Level Agreement (SLA)

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Coverage This web site availability service level agreement (SLA) applies to you if you have ordered any hosting plan ("service") and you are in good financial standing with IW-Host.

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Service Level

The Hosting Boss endeavors to have network connectivity available for http access by third parties 99% of the time ("web site availability").

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Restrictions

Credits shall not be provided to you in the event that you have no web site availability resulting from (i) scheduled maintenance, (ii) your behavior or the performance or failure of your equipment, programs or applications, or (iii) circumstances beyond The Hosting Boss's reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of any governmental body, war, insurrection, sabotage, embargo, fire, flood, strike or other labor disturbance, interruption of or delay in transportation, unavailability of interruption or delay in telecommunications or third party services (including DNS propagation), failure of third party software or hardware or inability to obtain raw materials, supplies, or power used in or equipment needed for provision of your Web Site.

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Limitations

Online problems occur continuously. There might come a time when you cannot access your website or any other service. This is not necessarily due to The Hosting Boss. Perhaps your ISP is experiencing technical difficulties, or there might be a routing problem between your ISP and the data center utilized and maintained by The Hosting Boss, making communication difficult or impossible. We cannot bear the responsibility of such problems. Our monitoring agents determine the uptime of our service, and not any one client's experience.

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The Hosting Boss reserves the right to modify this agreement at any point of time, without prior notification.