Changes in Policies
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 Noze.com, 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 Dispute Policy.
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 legal@noze.com 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
-
Noze.com
P.O. Box 2476
Martinsburg WV 25402
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.