Web Hosting Terms of Service

Hurricane Technology offers services to clients around the world.

Hurricane Technology has the responsibility to protect each client and serve them at the highest level possible.

The following guidelines were designed to insure these services.

Content:
All services provided by Hurricane Technology may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any United States Federal, State or City law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material we judge to be threatening or obscene, unlicensed software or files, or material protected by trade secret and other statue. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Hurricane Technology. from any claims resulting from the use of the service which damages the subscriber or any other party.

Site Feature Restrictions:
Certain site features, such as client FTP access to Websites and running Web applications, and other features, initially require a co-managed approach with Hurricane.

Examples of non-acceptable content or links

* Pirated software
* "Illegal MP3's"
* Hackers programs or archives
* Warez Sites
* Child Pornography

Hurricane Technology will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Unlimited Traffic/Hits & Server Resource Usage:
Hurricane Technology is pleased to offer our clients unlimited traffic/hits, and server usage. Unlimited Traffic/Hits refers to the number of visitors to your website, NOT the amount of bandwidth/data transfer. Your account is still limited to the allotted bandwidth/data transfer included with your selected package. To maintain the integrity of our service the following traffic/usage limitations apply.

* Sites with banners, graphics or cgi's running from their domain being used on other domains.
* Sites with immense graphic archives or galleries.
* Sites offering immense download archives, such as .zip, .tar, .ra and .GZ.
* Sites running large chat room gatherings.
* Sites using more than 20% of system resources

If you do not qualify for unlimited traffic/hits, your account may be required to be upgraded, or, Hurricane Technology may move your site to a different server, to reduce the load on the server you are currently residing. Hurricane Technology will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of usage limitations. Bandwidth/data transfer will go unmonitored until you reach your account limit, then normal over-usage data transfer costs will apply. At any time Hurricane Technology may move your site to a different server, to reduce the load on the server you are currently residing...

Chat Rooms:
Hurricane Technology does allow clients to install their own chat rooms. However, these tend to be large system hogs and may fall into the usage limitations clause. We do provide a html based cgi chat room that runs without hindering the performance of the machine for others. You are free to run your own chat script, as long as it does not hinder server performance.

Background Processes/Programs
Hurricane Technology may allow programs to run continually in the background, these are considered on a one to one basis and a extra charge may be incurred based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed.

Cron Jobs:
Hurricane Technology does allow Cron Jobs to be conducted on our servers.

IRC:
Hurricane Technology currently does not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers.

Multiple Connections:
Multiple telnet and ftp sessions are allowed, on a single hosting account.

Idle Timeouts:
Hurricane Technology may disconnect any idle connection to the network.
Average timeouts are:
FTP - 300 seconds
Telnet - 2 hours

Commercial Advertising - Email:
Spamming, or the sending of unsolicited email, from a Hurricane Technology server or using an email address that is maintained on a Hurricane Technology machine is STRICTLY prohibited. For general reference, we consider spam any email that is sent to more than 10 people at a time that did not ask for it to be sent to them.

Hurricane Technology will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. Opt-In email is acceptable, as long as Opt-Out/Removal request are fully honored. Please make an effort to limit outgoing mail on your account to no more than 5000 pieces per DAY and no more than 20 pieces per minute. Many times we have seen sites push over 1000 emails in one hit, this causes extreme server loads and prevents other people from accessing server services. Large mailings are preferred to be sent from the hours of 12AM - 8AM EST. Sites with large mailing databases, need to be placed on dedicated server or VPS platform.

Server Abuse:
Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a Hurricane Technology Inc. server or customer of Hurricane Technology. is strictly prohibited. Hurricane Technology will pursue legal action to the fullest extent for all abuse of the Hurricane Technology Network.

Suspension/De-Activation:
If any terms or conditions are failed to be followed it will result in grounds for account suspension or de-activation. Hurricane Technology reserves the right to remove any account without prior notice. If Hurricane Technology deactivates your account(s) for violating policy, your will forfeit your rights to a refund...and none will be given. No refunds for advance payments, on de-activated accounts. Normal policy is a warning first, and account de-activation the second offense. Serious offenses may cause immediate de-activation.

Privacy Policy
Hurricane Technology respects the privacy of every individual who visits our Web sites, responds to our interactive advertisements or sends us e-mail. This Privacy Statement outlines the information Hurricane Technology will collect and how we will use that information. This Statement will also instruct you on what to do if you do not want your personal information collected or shared when you visit Sprint Web sites, respond to our Web-based advertisements or send us email.

All order forms on Hurricane Technology may utilize a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) protocol to secure sessions for our visitors. Through the "secure session", information that you input into a Hurricane Technology order form will be sent and will arrive privately and unaltered at a Hurricane Technology server. This security prohibits other companies and Web users from being able to access your information.

Hurricane Technology will not collect any personally-identifiable information about you (that is, your name, address, telephone number, or email address) unless you give it to us voluntarily.

If you do not want your personally-identifiable information collected, please do not submit it to us. If you have already submitted this information and would like for us to remove it from our records, please contact us at the email address listed at the bottom of this Statement. We will use reasonable efforts to delete your information from our existing files.

When you do provide us with personally-identifiable information, we may use that information in the following ways, unless stated otherwise:

* we may store and process that information to better understand all customer needs and how we can improve our products and services for all customers

* we may use that information to contact you with new promotions and announcements if you have previously provided your permission and if the promotions and announcements are in your interest

* we may contact you if we have questions about your account

Hurricane Technology will not sell personally-identifiable information to third parties, unless stated at the time of collection. We may share information with business partners. We are committed to giving you the choice whether or not we use your information for marketing purposes or share information with business partners.