The following Terms of Service ("TOS," "Terms" or "Agreement") apply to your use of our website and all services, features and/or content provided by Hostginger (“Hostginger,” "us,", "our" ). Hostginger is a brand name of Sharspire (OPC) Private Limited. By purchasing one or more Services from Hostginger, you declare that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by this TOS. The latest version of our TOS is always available on the Hostginger website. It is essential that you read this TOS prior to purchasing any Service(s) from Hostginger.
Customer Agreement
The TOS apply to all Services provided by Hostginger to you throughout the entire Term or Renewal Term. All customers should agree on all terms and conditions stated prior to their signing up for any of the hosting plans and services mentioned on Hostginger. You shall agree to use only licensed and legal third party softwares in connection with your use of our services. Hostginger reserves the right to suspend or cancel a customer's access to any or all services provided, at any time, or when Hostginger decides that the account has been inappropriately used or otherwise.
1. Content
Hostginger reserves the right to refuse service and/or access to its
servers to anyone. The services provided by us must be used for lawful
purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any
information, data or material in violation of any applicable law or
regulation is prohibited.
The activities listed below are meant to provide you with examples of
activities and content that are strictly prohibited.
Topsites, ponzi or pyramid schemes, prime banks programs, bank
debentures/bank debenture trading programs, cryptocurrency/bitcoin
miners, forex, e-gold, proxy, bots, spam bots, mail bombers, port
scanners, IP scanners, mail harvesting scripts, brute force scripts,
chat rooms, banner rotators, file dumps, using disk space as secondary
storage, sales of illegal pharma, drugs, explosives, anonymous or bulk
sms gateways, malware, warez, phishing materials, lottery, gambling,
illegal downloads, pirated software distributions, escrow, high yield
investment programs, adult thumbnail galleries/banner exchanges,
streaming or broadcasting of live copyrighted events.
Websites promoting illegal activities or linking to other websites
that promote illegal activities.
Website content that promotes or advocates human trafficking in any
way shape or form as determined by Hostginger's sole discretion, sites
that promote prostitution, or escort services.
Any website found to host child pornography, link to child pornography
or exploitative content will be suspended immediately without notice
or warning.
Adult materials - Includes all pornography, erotic images, or
otherwise lewd or obscene content. The designation of “adult material”
is left entirely to the discretion of Hostginger.
Embedding or uploading audio/video/high resolution images on website
or linking to other websites that promotes audio/video/high resolution
images.
Illegal Material - This includes copyrighted works, commercial audio,
video, or music files, and any material in violation of any regulation
or material that is perceived to be misleading.
Warez - This includes, but is not limited to, pirated software, ROMS,
emulators, phreaking, hacking, password cracking, IP spoofing and
encrypting of any of the above. It also includes any sites which
provide "links to" or "how to" information about such material.
Games - We strictly do not allow to host any kind of games on our
servers. Your hosting account would be immediately terminated if we
found any gaming related stuff in your hosting account.
IRC Hosts - Hosting an IRC server that is part of or connected to
another IRC network or server or have a connection to an IRC network.
Servers or Virtual hosting accounts, found to be connecting to or part
of these networks will be immediately removed from our network without
notice. The server would not be reconnected to the network until such
time that you agree to completely remove any and all traces of the irc
server, and agree to let us have access to your server to confirm that
the content has been completely removed. Any server guilty of a second
violation would result in immediate account termination.
Hostginger reserves the right to deem any other content or literature
as "prohibited" if found to be indecent, rude, hate content &
generally unacceptable.
Refer General Acceptable Use Policy for complete details on prohibited
content and activities.
In compliance with DMCA act, Hostginger has adopted procedures for
parties who believe that a hosted site on our service is infringing
their copyrights. All copyright complaints must be submitted via
clicking here.
2. Abuse Of Resources
Any attempts to compromise or actual compromise of a network device
belonging to Hostginger or any other company, individual, or other
entity is strictly prohibited. This offense also includes port
scanning, IP range scanners and vulnerability scanning. All
infractions and or suspected infractions will be vigorously
investigated and may result in immediate termination of service.
.
Denial of Service (DOS) attacks directed at Hostginger, or any
attempts to launch a Denial of Service attack from our servers are
strictly prohibited. All infractions and or suspected infractions will
be vigorously investigated and may result in immediate termination of
service.
Hosting any software, source code or any other material that is
illegal or could be used to commit an illegal act is strictly
prohibited. This includes but is not limited to software exploits;
exploit source code, hacking tutorials, hacking tools, viruses and
Trojans, bomb making and similar device tutorials. All infractions and
or suspected infractions will be vigorously investigated and may
result in immediate termination of service.
The hosting of material that infringes on any copyright, trademark and
or service mark is strictly prohibited. This also includes the storage
and transmission of pirated movies, music, software, ring tones or
anything else considered "Warez". Any authentic complaint received
will be investigated and may result in termination of service.
The hosting of defamatory, scandalous, or private information about a
person without their consent, intentionally inflicting emotional
distress, or violating trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual
property rights.
Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to any of our servers is
strictly prohibited. We hold no responsibility for the use of our
clients' accounts. Any account that abuses the resources and actions
are not taken to desist the activity, calls for immediate deactivation
without any refund.
Any site using what we deem to be using excessive CPU cycles or any
resources that cause strain to other sites may also be offered new
terms ( i.e.,. upgrade). Although we offer 99.9% up time we can not
fully guarantee this, this is due to the updates and up-gradation we
carry out which is also a part of our maintenance.
If any client is in any way disrespectful towards any member of the
Hostginger staff we have full right to remove them from our services
without any refund.
3. Unsolicited commercial e-mail/Unsolicited bulk e-mail (SPAM)
Use of our service to transmit any unsolicited commercial or
unsolicited bulk e-mail is expressly prohibited. Violation of this
SPAM policy will result in severe penalties. Upon notification of an
alleged violation, we will initiate a full scale investigation during
which, we may restrict customer's access to the network to prevent
further violations.
If a customer is found to have violated our policy, we may, at our
sole discretion, restrict, suspend or terminate the guilty hosting
account. Further more, we reserve the right to pursue civil remedies
for any costs associated with the investigation of a substantiated
policy violation. We will notify law enforcement officials if the
violation is believed to be a criminal offense.
Anyone using our service to host websites or services that support
spammers or cause any of our IP space to be listed in any of the
various Spam Databases will have their account(s) immediately
suspended and an administrative fee of $250.00 will be charged to your
account.
The account will not be unsuspended until such time that you agree to
remove any and all traces of the offending material immediately upon
reconnection. First violations of this policy will result in a warning
and your account will be reviewed for possible immediate termination.
A second violation may result in an immediate termination of your
account and the administrative fees will be $500. Severe violations
may result in immediate and permanent removal of the account(s) from
our network without notice to the customer.
We have a zero tolerance policy (ZTP) for the use of our service
towards posting of messages or commercial advertisements which violate
the rules, regulations, or charter of any newsgroups or mailing list.
Commercial messages that are appropriate under the rules of a
newsgroup or mailing list or that are solicited by the recipients are
permitted.
We also prohibit hosting of publicly-accessible "open relay" SMTP or
anonymous remailer service for any purpose, cause, or reason
what-so-ever.
4. Bandwidth
If the customers account exceeds the bandwidth limit, we would inform
the customer. If the customer does not wish to purchase extra
bandwidth or upgrade his account and continues to exceed their limit,
the account shall be suspended until the customer takes measures to
ensure that the limit wouldn't exceed again or when the account is
upgraded, which ever is earlier. The account would be reactivated in
the following month.
The account will not be unsuspended until such time that you agree to
remove any and all traces of the offending material immediately upon
reconnection. First violations of this policy will result in a warning
and your account will be reviewed for possible immediate termination.
A second violation may result in an immediate termination of your
account and the administrative fees will be $500. Severe violations
may result in immediate and permanent removal of the account(s) from
our network without notice to the customer.
5. VPS Rules
We generally recommend a control panel to manage and operate the VPS. All customers who have a plain VPS would have to configure the DNS, user accounts, mail accounts and other such activities pertaining to the configuration of such VPS' themselves. The support team will not be responsible for this.
6. Commercial Advertising- Email (Spam)/Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE)
Spamming, sending unsolicited emails from our servers or using email
addresses that are maintained by us is STRICTLY prohibited and will
qualify your site for immediate deactivation with no refund.
Hostginger would be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a
violation of this provision.
In order to ensure that our servers give us optimum performance we
have set limits on the number of outgoing mails which can be sent per
domain per hour. The defined numbers here is the maximum limit of the
highest plan of that service, if you choose a lower plan the number of
outgoing emails limit may vary. Shared customers would be allowed to
send upto 100 outgoing mails per hour, reseller users upto 25 mails
per hour while VPS/cloud customers would be able to send 1000 outgoing
mails every hour. Customers having dedicated servers may send 3000
mails per hour.
We do not guarantee Inbox email delivery with any of our hosting
plans.
7. Backup Policy
Your use of the Services is at your sole risk. You agree to back-up
all of your User Content so that you can access and use it when
needed. Hostginger does not warrant that it backs-up any Account or
User Content, and you agree to accept as a risk the loss of any and
all of your User Content.
You as a Hostginger User agree that in no case, Hostginger can be held
responsible for the loss of data in any circumstances.
Clients who have subscribed for paid backup service with shared and
reseller hosting plans. For such clients, we take daily backup of
database with retention period of 7 days. Website backup will be taken
weekly with retention period of 1 day. Any backup copy maintained by
Hostginger will not have any emails or media file included in it.
Clients using cPanel Backup Manager tool for backups should download
the backup from the server and delete it. On every Sunday, all the
backup files are removed from the server without any notification. You
are not allowed to use the hosting space to store backups.
Domain Payments
Domain Registrations: No refund is applicable once the domain is
registered.
Domain infringement: You cannot register a domain name that is similar
to a trademarked domain/a domain similar to a brand and is engaged in
a business providing similar goods or services. Any person trying to
register such domain name will be held liable for infringement of
Trademark. Example: Flipkartsale.in, bajajfinancecs.com,
adtyabrlafnanc.co.in
Domain Renewal: We will send you reminders to renew your domain one
month before the expiry. For failure or delay in the renewal of a
domain, we are not responsible. Once a domain is renewed no refunds
will be given.
9. Unlimited Hosting
What "Unlimited" means Unlimited Disk Space/Bandwidth/Website Plans.
This means that we do not set a limit on the amount of bandwidth,
websites or disk space you may use in the normal operation of a
personal or small business website, provided it complies with this
Agreement. However, in the event your service usage or content
presents a risk to the stability, performance or uptime of our
servers, data storage, networking or other infrastructure, you may be
required to upgrade to a VPS, or we may take action to restrict the
resources your website is utilizing.
What "Unlimited" Does not mean Hostginger employs complex mechanisms
to protect its hosting Subscribers and systems from any kind of abuse.
Hostginger's "Unlimited" hosting offering is not for single or few
hosting subscribers to unfairly or adversely impact the experience of
other hosting Subscribers. Hostginger's service is offering shared
hosting service, which means that multiple hosting Subscriber's
websites are hosted from the same server and share server resources.
Hostginger's service is designed to meet the typical needs of small
and medium sized businesses across globe. It is NOT intended to
support the sustained demand of large enterprises, or non-typical
applications better suited to a VPS or a dedicated server. Hostginger
will make every commercially reasonable effort to provide additional
resources to Subscribers who are using their website(s) consistent
with these Terms, including moving Subscribers to newer and bigger
shared servers as necessary. However, in order to ensure a consistent
and quality experience for all Subscribers, Hostginger does place
automated safeguards to protect against any website growing too
quickly and adversely impacting the system until Hostginger can
evaluate said sites resource needs.
Unlimited Hosting Space; excessive SQL Database Hostginger does not
set any specific limits on the amount of disk space a hosting
subscriber can use for their website, nor does Hostginger charge
additional fees based on an increased amount of storage used, provided
the hosting subscriber's use of storage complies with these Terms.
Please note, however, that the Hostginger service is designed to host
websites. Hostginger does not provide unlimited hosting for online
storage, videos, images, audio, games, installers, executable files,
backups, or archiving of electronic files, documents, log files, web
spider or indexer, irc, torrent, file sharing, peer-to-peer
activities, testing environment etc., and any such prohibited use of
the Services will result in the termination of hosting subscriber's
account, with or without notice. Accounts with an excessive database
size (i.e., more than 1 GB) negatively affect the performance of the
server. Hostginger may request that the database size be reduced to
ensure proper performance or may disable the Subscriber's account,
with or without notice. Hosting subscriber's can create multiple
databases however size of each database should not be more than 1
GB.
Unlimited File Transfer Hostginger does not set any limits on the
amount of visitor traffic a website can receive or on the amount of
content a hosting subscriber can upload to his/her/its website in a
given month, nor does Hostginger charge additional fees based on
increased use of bandwidth, as long as the hosting subscriber's use of
the Services complies with these Terms. In most cases, a hosting
subscriber's website will be able to support as much traffic as the
hosting subscriber can legitimately acquire. However, Hostginger
reserves the right to limit processor time, bandwidth, processes, or
memory in cases where it is necessary to prevent negatively impacting
other hosting subscribers.
Unacceptable Resource Usage
Run cron entries with intervals of less than fifteen (15) minutes.
Run any MySQL queries longer than thirty (30) seconds.
Use twenty-five percent (25%) or more of our system resources for
longer than ninety (90) seconds at a time. Activities that could cause
this excessive use, includes but are not limited to: CGI scripts, FTP,
PHP, HTTP, etc.
The size of each mailbox should not exceed 5GB and the combined mail box
size per domain should not exceed 50GB.
"Unlimited" usage policies and definitions apply only to shared and
reseller hosting accounts. Click here to read the
unlimited hosting policy.
The size of each mailbox should not exceed 5GB and the combined mail box
size per domain should not exceed 50GB. This is applicable for
WordPress hosting, Business hosting, Linux & Windows based shared
hosting plans.
10. Permitted CPU and Disk Usage
The space on the Shared hosting server can only be utilized for web
files, and hosting a user's website. This space should not be used for
media storage or for storing other data such as storing electronic
files, saving website backup, FTP host or for demo purposes. We hold
the right to inspect every shared hosting account for extra
utilization of disk space, CPU and other resources that may be
violated of this Agreement or the AUP.
We may terminate access to the Services at our sole discretion, or
takedown or erase User Content for those accounts considered to be in
violation of these Terms and Conditions and other policies. Dedicated
and VPS usage limits will depend on the amount of resources allocated
to the plan that you have purchased.
11. Reseller Terms and Client Responsibility
Using a shared hosting account to resell web hosting to others is not
allowed. Reseller hosting plans to be considered if you want to become
our reseller.
Resellers must ensure that each of their clients, follows this
Agreement.
Resellers are completely responsible for supporting their clients
including customer service, billing and technical support. We are not
liable to provide support to Reseller Users. Any assistance needed for
the client's issue must be reported by the reseller on the user's
behalf.
Resellers are solely responsible for any content that is stored or
transferred under their reseller account and the actions of their
Users. We may hold any reseller responsible for any activity from
their client's account that violates the law or this Agreement.
The Company shall not be kept liable for the acts or omissions of our
resellers. The reseller hereby promises to indemnify the Company to
and against any and all claims brought by any Customer resulting from
the actions or omissions of the reseller.
The Company retains the right to review our Reseller plan any time
necessary. Changes shall take place as posted publicly or at any later
date as the Company can designate.
12. The Company as Reseller or Sublicensor
We may use certain third-party services, hardware, software and
equipment and use it as a reseller or sublicensor.
We are not liable for any modifications to the Services that cause any
Resold Products to become outdated, including improvements or
adjustments that otherwise influence the output of the services.
Any failure or defects of Resold services, whether sold, sub-licensed,
or given to you by us, shall not be considered to be a violation of
the Company's obligations under this Agreement.
Any rights or suggestions you may have concerning the possession,
licensing, performance, or infringement of any Resold Product shall be
limited to those rights which the manufacturer of such Resold Product
extends to you.
You are qualified to use any Resold Product that we provide only
concerning your use of the Services as permitted under this
Agreement.
No attempt shall be made to clone, change, reverse engineer, or tamper
with or use any Resold Product other than in connection with the
Services.
13. Uptime Guarantee
Any service interruptions or downtime due to scheduled maintenance by
Hostginger or our network providers will not count towards the uptime
guarantee.
Hostginger is not liable in any way for failure of third-party
services.
Hostginger will not be liable for failure or delay in performing its
obligations if such failure or delay is due to circumstances beyond
its reasonable control, including but not limited to acts of any
governmental body, war, insurrection, sabotage, embargo, fire, flood,
strike or other labour 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 the provision of the Services.
14. Account Security and Company Systems
You are responsible for any misuse of your account therefore, you must
take steps to ensure that others do not gain unauthorized access to
your account. In addition, you may not use your account to breach the
security of another account or attempt to gain unauthorized access to
another network or server.
Your password provides access to your account. It is your
responsibility to keep your password secure.
Sharing your password and account access with unauthorized users is
not recommended. You should take care and prevent others from using
your account since you will be responsible for the consequences.
Attempting to obtain another user's account password is strictly
prohibited, and will result in termination of service.
You must adopt adequate security measures to prevent or minimize
unauthorized use of your account.
You may not attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of
any host, network or account. This includes but is not limited to,
accessing data not intended for you, logging into or making use of a
server or account you are not expressly authorized to access, or
probing the security of other networks. Use or distribution of tools
designed for compromising security is prohibited. Examples of these
tools include but are not limited to, password-guessing programs,
cracking tools or network probing tools.
You may not attempt to interfere with service to any user, host or
network ("denial of service attacks"). This includes but is not
limited to, "flooding" of networks, deliberate attempts to overload a
service, and attempts to "crash" a host. Users who violate systems or
network security may incur criminal or civil liability. Hostginger
will cooperate fully with investigations of violations of systems or
network security at other sites, including cooperating with law
enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal
violations.
It is your duty to make sure all the programs/scripts installed under
your hosting account are secure and permissions of directories are set
properly, regardless of the installation method. When at all possible,
set permissions on most directories to 755 or as restrictive as
possible. Users are ultimately responsible for all actions taken under
their account. This includes the compromise of credentials such as
username and password. You are required to use a secure password. If a
weak password is used, your account may be suspended until you agree
to use a more secure password. Audits may be done to prevent weak
passwords from being used. If an audit is performed, and your password
is found to be weak, we will notify you and allow time for you to
change or update your password before suspending your account.
The Services, including all related equipment, networks and network
devices are provided only for authorized customer use. We may, but is
not obligated to, monitor our systems, including without limitation,
to ensure that use is authorized, to facilitate protection against
unauthorized access, and to verify security procedures, survivability,
and operational security. During monitoring, information may be
scanned, examined, recorded, copied and used for authorized purposes.
By using the Services, you consent to monitoring for these
purposes.
Any account found connecting to a third-party network or system
without authorization from the third party is subject to suspension.
Access to networks or systems outside of your direct control requires
the express written consent of the third party. We may, at our
discretion, request documentation to prove that your access to a third-party network or system is authorized. Any account that is found to be
compromised may be disabled and/or terminated. If you do not clean up
your account after being notified by us of an ongoing issue, we
reserve the right to keep your account disabled. Upon your request, we
may clean up your account for an additional fee.
We reserve the right to migrate your account from one data centre to
another in order to comply with applicable data center policies, and local
law or for technical or other reasons without notice.
15. Billing Policy
If paying via credit card, debit card, net banking, or UPI the account
will be set up immediately once the payment is confirmed. If paying by
cheque, please allow 5 days for the cheque to clear. If paying via
postal orders or cash your account will be set up on the same day.
The 30-day money-back guarantee is only applicable to first-time
signups. Second-time and subsequent sign-ups are not eligible for the
same. For instance, if you've had an account with us before, cancelled
and signed up again, you will not be eligible for a refund or if you
have opened a second account with us.
Refund is not applicable on Domain registration/transfer/renewal,
cPanel, Plesk, Control Panel, LiteSpeed, Softaculous, Cloud, VPS,
Dedicated Server, Paid Support, SSL Certificates, Sitelock,
SpamExperts, WHMCS, Windows OS, SQL, G Suite, Office 365 and any other
paid licenses.
The modifications done in the pricing pattern or policy by the software
license company will take effect immediately on Hostginger clients.
The money-back guarantee is provided on Shared hosting, Reseller
hosting, WordPress hosting and Email hosting.
No refund will be made if your Service(s) are suspended or terminated
for cause.
Transfer fees would be applicable if you wish to
transfer the free domain name to some other provider. Without transfer
fees the domain will not be released.
The payments made through
bank transfer, cheque, money order, cash deposit, or DD are
non-refundable. A refund will be added as credit to the hosting
account.
The refund request placed after 30 days will not be processed and you
will not be eligible for any refund.
The cancellation request should be sent through the client area.
After sending the cancellation request, it would take 14 days to
complete the refund process.
16. Cancellation Process
At any point of time, you wish to discontinue our services, you can
place the cancellation request through your client area. Before that,
you need to clear all the pending dues (if any). You can either choose
immediate cancellation or request cancellation to happen once your
subscription period expires. If you select immediate cancellation, you
will no longer have access to your hosting plan/service. If
cancellation after the tenure period is over is selected, you will
continue to have access to use the Services purchased until the end of
your prepaid term.
It is your responsibility to backup all your data before you place the
cancellation request. Once you place the cancellation request all your
data from our server will be deleted and it cannot be retrieved nor
restored.
17. Taxes
The price mentioned on the site is exclusive of taxes. To view price with taxes please refer to the Cost Calculator of each plan. The amount inclusive of taxes will be added to your final invoice once you add items to your cart. The taxable amount is non-refundable.
18. Late Payment or Non-Payment
Unpaid invoices may result in the suspension or termination of your
web hosting account. Your suspended account will only be restored
after clearing the outstanding invoice after which you will be able to
access your data.
If your account gets terminated, the data residing on it won't be
restored and will be treated as a new account. If you fail to renew
your subscription on time you will be charged on your invoice.
We will not activate new orders or activate new packages for customers
who have an outstanding balance on their account.
19. Invoice Disputes
For any queries related to cost on your account, do reach out to our billing team via clicking here.
20. Account Termination
Your hosting account at Hostginger can get terminated due to the following
reasons:
You decide to discontinue.
At any point in time, during your subscription, if you no longer want to
continue with our services and want to place a cancellation request
with immediate termination, your hosting account will be suspended
right away and will be terminated within 48 hours.
Cancellation upon expiration.
If you place a cancellation request to discontinue our services after
your subscription expires, your hosting account will be suspended at
the end of the subscription and will be terminated within 48 hours
(after the expiration date).
You did not renew.
In case you fail to renew your hosting account on the due date, your
hosting account will be suspended after 24 hrs and will be terminated
within 48 hours (after the expiration date).
You violate our Terms of Service.
If you violate our terms of service during your subscription period at
Hostginger will result in immediate account suspension and
termination. As soon as we've been notified about the violation of
service, we would usually take instant action. Potential fraud
We have an anti-fraud system that monitors all the orders as soon as
they are placed. During such an occurrence, we will carry out a
verification process manually. In this process, if we ask for certain
information and it is not provided the account suspension and
termination will be done immediately.
A Dispute or Charge Back.
During the violation of our Terms of Service, we would initially
suspend and give a 7 days timeframe to resolve the concern with
Hostginger before the termination occurs. If still, it remains
unsolved termination of your hosting account will take place.
Note: It is advised to maintain a back-up copy of your hosting account
to avoid losing your data because of the termination. All your files
will be deleted from the server, once your hosting account is
terminated and Hostginger shall not be liable for the same.
21. Indemnification
Customer agrees that they will protect, indemnify, save and hold
Hostginger is harmless from any and all stipulations, liabilities,
losses, expenses and claims, as well as reasonable attorney's fees
assessed against Hostginger, its agents, customers, officers,
employees and administration that may arise or result from any service
provided or performed or agreed to be performed or any product sold by
it's customers, agents, employees or assigns.
Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold Hostginger harmless
against liabilities arising out of -
Any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or
distributed in association with Hostginger's Services;
The loss of any electronic files furnished by customer (Or customer's
customer);
Copyright violation and any defective products sold to a customer from
Hostginger's Services
22. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, and without
affecting your rights as a Consumer, you agree that you will not under
any circumstances, including negligence, hold Hostginger, its
officers, directors, employees, licensors, agents, subcontractors
and/or third party service providers liable for any direct or indirect
damages of any nature and type suffered by the
Customer of third parties, including, but not limited to, damages for
loss of profits, cost savings, revenue, business, data or use, or any
other pecuniary loss that may result from: delays, malfunctions,
suspension and any other interruption in the provision of the
Service(s) due to events beyond our reasonable control (for example:
force majeure, third party conduct/acts, including Hostginger's
licensors and suppliers, faults and malfunctions of the machines,
software and other equipment, whether owned by us or our
licensors/suppliers; acts and/or omissions made by Customers and in
contrast with the obligations undertaken under these TOS); data loss
due to hardware or software failure; any information, data, content in
or accessed through the Services; any action, information or
instruction provided as part of our technical support Services; your
use of the Service(s).
You agree that the foregoing limitations apply whether based on
warranty, contract or tort or any other legal theory and apply even if
we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event,
we will be liable to you in the aggregate with respect to any and all
breaches, defaults, or claims of liability under these TOS or under
any other agreement or document for an amount greater than the fees
actually paid by you to us for the respective Service(s) during the
twelve month period preceding a claim giving rise to such liability.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation or exclusion of
liability for incidental or consequential damages. You agree that in
those jurisdictions, our liability will be limited to the extent
permitted by law and your rights as a Consumer will not be affected.
23. Dispute Resolution & Jurisdiction
In the event of any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or
related to this Agreement, you and Hostginger shall use reasonable
effort to settle such disputes or differences. To this effect, we
shall consult and negotiate each other with the aim to reach a
solution satisfactory to each Party.
You agree that the Courts of Kolkata, West Bengal (India) shall have
the sole jurisdiction over all disputes and other matters relating to
the execution, interpretation, enforcement and termination of this
Agreement or any other document entered into by the Parties related
thereto. All disputes and other matters relating to the interpretation
and enforcement of these TOS as well as any other document entered
into by the Parties shall be governed by the laws of India.
24. Certain Services; 404 Error Page
If you haven't configured a 404 page, our default page for the 404 error page will load when a visitor tries to access a URL that has no information. By not creating a 404 page, you hereby agree and authorize the Company's placement of a default 404 error page. This 404 error page of the company may contain advertisements and other information about the company and its services. As a company, we reserve the right to withhold and collect all revenue generated from these advertisements.
25. Price Change
The prices of our services may be changed from time to time depending on our vendor's pricing. We are authorized partners of multiple license providers and domain registrars. If there's any change in their pricing structure, we will be forced to increase the prices of our services to cover our costs. You are required to review billing information from time to time to avoid any surprise pricing.
26. Third-Party Beneficiaries
Except as expressly given elsewhere in this Agreement, nothing in this Agreement is intended, nor shall anything in this Agreement be construed to grant any rights on any individual other than the Parties hereunder and their respective successors and approved assignments. Notwithstanding the above, the customer recognizes and accepts that every provider of a third-party good or service described in the contract definition as a third-party beneficiary is the designated third-party beneficiary of the requirements set out in this Agreement because they apply exclusively to its goods or services and has the right to explicitly implement the terms and conditions.
Appendix A:
When you buy from the Company a third-party product or service, you
agree to this Agreement AND the terms and conditions of the
third-party product or service included in this Agreement.
for reference:
AWS:
Link
Server4You:
Link
WHMCS:
Link
Office 365:
Link
G Suite:
Link
Spam Experts:
Link
LiteSpeed:
Link
cPanel & WHM:
Link
Webuzo: Link
Plesk: Link
Softaculous:
Link
BitNinja:
Link
eset:
Link
27. Change of TOS
Hostginger may modify these TOS at any time with immediate effect.
Where the change in Terms is required by law or related to the
addition of a new service, extra functionality to the existing
Service(s) or any other change which neither reduces your rights nor
increases your responsibilities, the TOS will be changed without prior
notice to you and shall have immediate effect.
No clarification or explanation of the Terms provided by the Parties
will have the power to modify the provisions of these TOS.
By using our service you agree to Hostginger's Terms of Service,
Privacy Policy, Unlimited Hosting Policy, Policy AUP.
Unlimited Hosting Policy
"Unlimited" usage policies and definitions apply only to shared and reseller hosting accounts.
Unlimited Disk Space/Bandwidth/Website Plans : This means that we do not set a limit on the amount of bandwidth, websites or disk space you may use in the normal operation of a personal or small business website, provided it complies with this Agreement. However, in the event your service usage or content presents a risk to the stability, performance or uptime of our servers, data storage, networking or other infrastructure, you may be required to upgrade to a VPS, or we may take action to restrict the resources your website is utilizing.
What "Unlimited" DOES NOT mean
Hostginger employs complex mechanisms to protect its hosting Subscribers and systems from any kind of abuse. Hostginger's "Unlimited" hosting offering is not for single or few hosting subscribers to unfairly or adversely impact the experience of other hosting Subscribers. Hostginger's service is offering shared hosting service, which means that multiple hosting Subscriber's websites are hosted from the same server and share server resources. Hostginger's service is designed to meet the typical needs of small and medium sized businesses across globe. It is NOT intended to support the sustained demand of large enterprises, or non-typical applications better suited to a VPS or a dedicated server. Hostginger will make every commercially reasonable effort to provide additional resources to Subscribers who are using their website(s) consistent with these Terms, including moving Subscribers to newer and bigger shared servers as necessary. However, in order to ensure a consistent and quality experience for all Subscribers, Hostginger does place automated safeguards to protect against any website growing too quickly and adversely impacting the system until Hostginger can evaluate said sites resource needs.
Unlimited Hosting Space; excessive SQL Database
Hostginger does not set any specific limits on the amount of disk space a hosting subscriber can use for their website, nor does Hostginger charge additional fees based on an increased amount of storage used, provided the hosting subscriber's use of storage complies with these Terms. Please note, however, that the Hostginger service is designed to host websites. Hostginger does NOT provide unlimited hosting for online storage, videos, images, audio, games, installers, executable files, backups, or archiving of electronic files, documents, log files, web spider or indexer, irc, torrent, file sharing, peer-to-peer activities, testing environment etc., and any such prohibited use of the Services will result in the termination of hosting subscriber's account, with or without notice. Accounts with an excessive database size (i.e., more than 1 GB) negatively affect the performance of the server. Hostginger may request that the database size be reduced to ensure proper performance or may disable the Subscriber's account, with or without notice. Hosting subscriber's can create multiple databases however size of each database should not be more than 1 GB.
Unlimited File Transfer
Hostginger does not set any limits on the amount of visitor traffic a website can receive or on the amount of content a hosting subscriber can upload to his/her/its website in a given month, nor does Hostginger charge additional fees based on increased use of bandwidth, as long as the hosting subscriber's use of the Services complies with these Terms. In most cases, a hosting subscriber's website will be able to support as much traffic as the hosting subscriber can legitimately acquire. However, Hostginger reserves the right to limit processor time, bandwidth, processes, or memory in cases where it is necessary to prevent negatively impacting other hosting subscribers.
Unacceptable Resource Usage
Run cron entries with intervals of less than fifteen (15)
minutes.
Run any MySQL queries longer than thirty (30) seconds.
Use twenty-five percent (25%) or more of our system resources for
longer than ninety (90) seconds at a time. Activities that could
cause this excessive use, include but are not limited to: CGI
scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc.
The size of each mail box should not exceed 5GB and combined mail
box size per domain should not exceed 50GB.
Check our TOS, Acceptable Usage Policy and Privacy Policy.
Acceptable Usage Policy
This AUP governs the use of Hostginger's hosting service.
Violation of this AUP may result in suspension or termination of
your service. In the event of a dispute between you and Hostginger
regarding the interpretation of this AUP, Hostginger's
interpretation, in its reasonable commercial judgment, shall
govern.
The following is the entire Acceptable User Policy ("AUP")
agreement between Hostginger and the personal or corporate account
holder. Hostginger provides managed web hosting and domain name
service. Hostginger has certain legal and ethical responsibilities
consisting with the use of its servers and equipment involved in
these services. Hostginger's general policy is to act as a
provider of Internet presence. Hostginger reserves the rights to
suspend or cancel a customer's access to any or all services
provided by Hostginger when we decide that the account has been
inappropriately used.
What is Appropriate Usage?
Hostginger web hosting solution has specifically been designed to
serve the web hosting needs of small and independently owned and
operated businesses and organizations throughout the world. Since
you will be hosting your website with several other clients on our
servers in a virtual community, our offerings are really not
intended to support enterprise level or large company
requirements. For that, we recommend purchasing at least a virtual
private server, cloud or dedicated server solution.
Hostginger hosting is a shared web hosting service, which
ultimately means a number of customers' websites are hosted within
the same server environment. To ensure that our hosting is
first-class, reliable, and available to all customers within that
server community, an individual customer's website usage cannot
adversely affect the performance of other customers' sites. We
monitor our servers 24/7/365 and in no way can one customer
adversely affect the performance of that server. If this happens,
we will take preventative measures to ensure that the entire
community is protected.
Lastly, our web hosting service is intended to host websites, not
backup or storage facility for users' data. Using your web hosting
account primarily as an online storage space for archiving
electronic files and images is strictly prohibited. Our servers
are for web hosting usage only.
Offensive Content
You may not publish or transmit via Hostginger's service any
content that Hostginger reasonably believes:
constitutes child pornography;
constitutes pornography;
is excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence, or
contains harassing content or hate speech;
is unfair or deceptive under the consumer protection laws of any
jurisdiction, including chain letters and pyramid schemes;
is defamatory or violates a person's privacy;
creates a risk to a person's safety or health, creates a risk to
public safety or health, compromises national security, or
interferes with a investigation by law enforcement;
improperly exposes trade secrets or other confidential or
proprietary information of another person;
is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright
protections;
clearly infringes on another person's trade or service mark,
patent, or other property right;
promotes illegal drugs, violates export control laws, relates to
illegal gambling, or illegal arms trafficking;
is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under
laws applicable to you or to Hostginger;
is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may result in retaliation
against Hostginger by offended viewers;
Hostginger does not accept material such as:
Proxy, Warez, Escrow, High Yield Investment Programs(HYIP),
Multi-level marketing (MLM), Gaming servers/applications, illegal
Gambling and Lottery sites.
Hostginger can terminate service for any of the above reasons and
it's at Hostginger's sole discretion to issue a refund.
Security
You must take reasonable security precautions. You must protect the confidentiality of your password, and you should change your password periodically.
Bulk Commercial Email
Bulk commercial email, mailing lists and email reflectors are
allowed on Hostginger's servers, we do however allow a maximum of
500 emails per hour per account. For any emails sent from your
Hostginger account you must adhere to the following rules:
Your intended recipients have given their consent to receive
e-mail via some affirmative means, such as an opt-in procedure;
Your procedures for soliciting consent include reasonable means to
ensure that the person giving consent is the owner of the e-mail
address for which the consent is given;
You may not obscure the source of your e-mail in any manner.
You otherwise comply with the CAN SPAM Act and other applicable
law.
These policies apply to messages sent using your Hostginger
service, or to messages sent from any network by you or any person
on your behalf that directly or indirectly refer the recipient to
a site hosted via your Hostginger service. In addition, you may
not use a third party e-mail service that does not practice
similar procedures for all its customers.
Unsolicited E-Mail
You may not send any unsolicited e-mail, either in bulk or individually, to any person who has indicated that they do not wish to receive it. You must comply with the rules of any other network you access or participate in using your Hostginger's services.
Material Protected By Copyright
You may not publish, distribute, or otherwise copy in any manner
any music, software, art, or other work protected by copyright law
unless:
you have been expressly authorized by the owner of the copyright
for the work to copy the work in that manner.
you are otherwise permitted by established United States copyright
law to copy the work in that manner.
Hostginger will terminate the service of repeat copyright
infringers.
Other
You must have valid and current information on file with your domain name registrar for any domain hosted on the Hostginger network.
Disclaimer
Hostginger is under no duty and does not by this AUP undertake a duty, to monitor or police our customers' activities and disclaim any responsibility for any misuse of the Hostginger network. Read our complete disclaimer here.
Internet Abuse
Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks,
including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of
a system or network or to breach security or authentication
measures (including those belonging to Hostginger and its
customers) without express authorization of the owner of the
system or network;
monitoring data or traffic on any network or system without the
authorization of the owner of the system or network;
Interference with service to any user, host or network including,
without limitation, mail bombing, flooding, deliberate attempts to
overload a system and broadcast attacks;
Use of an Internet account or computer without the owner's
authorization, including, but not limited to Internet scanning
(tricking other people into releasing their passwords), password
robbery, security hole scanning, and port scanning;
Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header
information in an e-mail or a newsgroup posting; or
Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against the
Hostginger network.
Use of Hostginger's network in a way that unreasonably interferes
with Hostginger's other customer's use of the network.
Newsgroup, Chat Forums, Other Networks
You must comply with the rules and conventions for postings to any
bulletin board, chat group or other forum in which you
participate, such as IRC and USENET groups including their rules
for content and commercial postings. These groups usually prohibit
the posting of off-topic commercial messages, or mass postings to
multiple forums.
Grievance
Hostginger offers several dispute resolution ways to assist you in
handling a range of issues. If you have a genuine complaint, we
are the web hosting provider which is easily approachable and
willing to address valid complaints.
The complaints include:
IP complaint specifically for hosted content:
Trademark
Copyright
Violation
Phishing
Scam
Malware
Irrelevant content
Domains by the Proxy privacy services claim (only where it is
suitable)
Court Dispute or “UDRP”, Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution
Policy
The legal policies
If in case your concern is not listed above, you may contact
Hostginger's Grievance Officer by clicking
here.
Last updated April 01, 2023