Terms Of Service

Things Not To Do:

1. Phishing of any site -- especially MySpace, eBay, PayPal, Facebook, Live ID and banks.

   This is when scammer creates a fake company site that looks real. And tricks unsuspecting visitors to enter their username/password, in hopes of obtaining their personal info like credit card.

2. Using your domain to spam other sites.

   Do you like getting spam? Nope. Does the next person you're targeting? Nope. Then don't do it! This includes spam via email or including your domain name in unsolicited emails.

3. Hosting Proxy Scripts (like PHProxy / Glype).

   These are scripts that allow a visitor to enter any domain through your site, and the domain won't pickup the visitors true IP address. They are way too CPU resource intensive.

4. Hosting Torrent Scripts (like TorrentFlux, SendSpace, RapidLeech).

   This is when torrents are downloaded to Free Hosting servers and you later on download it to your PC. Torrents scrape the hard-drives and greatly shorten their lifespan.

5. Hosting Torrent Trackers (like Azureus, BitComet, BitTornado, Shareaza).

   Torrent Trackers are one of the most CPU consuming scripts alive! Build one of the sites will result in suspension.

6. Using your account mainly for file storage of images, videos or music.

   Free Hosting is a content provider. It's not a place to mainly backup/store your files. Because uploading/download large files needs the hard drive head to move a lot. Hence reducing their life span, and decreasing I/O performance for everyone.

7. Hosting Radio Blogs.

   Not allowed for same reason as above point. These imply you'll be hosting tons of music files on your account.

8. Hosting scripts that constantly write data to MySQL usually by tracking something.

   These includes examples: OpenX, Adsense trackers & site indexers/spiders. Because this activity constantly needs the hard drive head to move in order to write/read the new data. And this activity shortens hard drive life-span.

9. Hosting Chat Rooms (or) IRC bots.

   Most hosting providers do not allow these scripts due to scripts nature to kill system resources. If found, account is suspended.

10. Sales or promotion of beer, hard alcohol, tobacco or drugs.

    This also includes pharmaceutical medicines and stimulators like Viagra and Cialis.

11. Using copyright content without permission or storing illegal files on your account.

    Includes software/cracks/scripts. These infringe the copyrights of the authors or companies and disrespect their hard work, labour & time. You wouldn't like your stuff being distributed or sold online without your permission. So don't do it to others.

12. Child porn.

    Anyone uploading images or participating in the exploitation of children on this website will be turned into authorities.

13. Having incorrect/garbage name or address filed on your account.

    Eg: A name like "Aaadfdf Ffdfsf" or address like "44444444 Ptrc Rd". This tells us that you have not read our TOS and do not respect the service.

14. Not having a homepage in your root folder or having original 'Account Created' page 15+ days of your signup date.

    Also includes not having a proper website while having uploaded tons of files to your account, hence using your account mainly for file storage, which is not allowed.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q: Are adult sites allowed on Free Hosting?
A: Yes.

Q: Am I allowed to offer business opportunities or sell products or turn my site for money-making purposes (including placing ads like Adsense, YPN, etc...)?
A: Of course you can.

Q: Is my personal info safe with you? Are you going to sell my email address?
A: No way! People are so busy running their life's that the last thing you, we or anyone wants is worries to stop leaking personal info to anyone, which will likely be used for spam. Your privacy is totally respected with ZERO interest now or the future to reveal your details to anyone.

Q: Are there any limits to the number of files that I can host on my server?
A: No.

Q: Will ads every show on my free account?
A: No. We will not put any banners or text links to your free hosting account.

Q: Will my site ever get deleted?
A: If you violate any of the following you will automatically be deleted:

You

• phish
• spam
• use your account to hack others
• treat account mainly as file storage
• host proxy/torrent scripts
• selling pharmacy pills/drugs
• in any other way violate TOS.

Q: My site was suspended but I am following all the terms and agreements, what can I do?
A: We apoligize for the inconvience. Contact us to get this sorted out.

Legal Terms:

1. You as the author of your pages take full responsibility for its contents. Additionally you swear your page contains nothing illegal, obscene, degrading or abusive to another person, including pages that promote hate group propaganda and child pornography.
2. You agree that Free Hosting has the right to remove any page it determines that has has violated above rules and can take against you whatever measures will be deemed appropriate. Including legal action and disclosing information about you to law enforcement authorities and other interested third parties.
3. Members who are in breach of these rules agree to indemnify and hold harmless Free Hosting for any loss, claim, damage and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from or in connection with the contents of any personal home pages or of any chat or messages on a bulletin board found to be infringing or illegal.
4. To the fullest extent permissible by law, Free Hosting excludes all liability with respect to accuracy, content or availability of information on its web site and members websites. The content is provided "as is" and without warranties of any kind, either express or implied.
5. Free Hosting does not warrant that the function contained in the materials available on the network will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that the websites that make them available are free of viruses or other harmful components.
6. Any merchandise products or services available to users or members from links from this web site are provided by third parties who are not necessarily affiliated or connected with Free Hosting.
7. You fully understand that if any violation as covered above results in damages to Free Hosting for the following, Free Hosting reserves legal rights to impose fines onto you for: (A) major bandwidth costs for illegal sites, (B) server downtime because of your TOS violated script/site, and (C) negative publicity (which would results from A and/or B).
8. To the fullest extent permissible by law, Free Hosting excludes all liability under any circumstances (including negligence) for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use the materials on this site including member websites. Applicable laws may not apply to all those who access the web site.
9. Free Hosting with or without reason may suspend and/or delete user accounts and cannot be held responsible for any financial or personal damages resulting from such suspension. All parties who believe that they have abided by our terms and agreements are encouraged to appeal their suspension. Each appeal is reviewed by our staff; however, a response cannot be guaranteed. Free Hosting values our customers and will do everything in our power to keep your website active.

Premium Accounts:

1. Free accounts and premium accounts both must follow all of the guidelines set forth in these terms and agreements.
2. Premium accounts suspended for violating our terms and agreements will not receive a refund. Violators are strictly prohibited from opening future accounts at Free Hosting.
3. The Free Hosting premium accounts do not have limits or caps on the amount of server resources a member can use. In good faith Free Hosting will do everything possible to provide our users with enough disk space and bandwidth to make your site work properly, as long as the account holder abides by our terms and conditions. Uncapping limits allows us to offer our customers a pricing structure that is consistent month to month. Member websites may grow in size and traffic over time and this pricing structure protects growing sites from rate increases.
4. Free Hosting reserves the right to remove or suspend any accounts at our discretion without reason or explanation. However, we will make every attempt to resolve problems with account holders prior to removing site content and/or suspending accounts.
5. Web hosting plans offered by Free Hosting are considered 'shared hosting accounts' which allow members to rent server space at a discounted rate because the space is shared by other members. Since we do offer a shared web hosting service we must protect the sites of all members on our servers; therefore, excessive uses of disk space and/or bandwidth may result in the closure of your site.
6. Refunds are offered at the discretion of Free Hosting management. We will make every attempt to offer a pro-rated refund to anyone who may have his/her account closed for using excessive server resources BUT did not violate any terms set forth in this document. Any suspensions/closures are final, members violating our terms and agreements will not receive a refund.
7. Unlimited disk space.

   Although disk space usage limit is not being enforced by quota, the following restrictions apply:

   • Accounts can not be utilized as a dedicated file storage (e.g. backup storage). Such accounts may be limited to 5% of available disk space on particular hard drive.
   • inodes usage can not be greater than 10% of all available inodes on particular hard drive.


8. Unlimited bandwidth.

   Data transfer rate is burstable to 1 Gbps. We may reduce transfer rate to flat 1 Mbps for accounts utilized exclusively as:

   • download site
   • file sharing service

Refund Policy:

1. Domain registrations are non-refundable. If customer was entitled for a free domain registration at the time of purchase, in case of cancellation domain registration fee will be held non-refundable.
2. Hosting service fees can be refunded in full if refund is requested within the first 30 days from the date of initial purchase.
3. Past recurring charges are non-refundable.
4. Accounts suspended for violating our terms and agreements will not receive a refund.

Dormant Websites

This paragpaph does not apply to premium accounts.

Website considered dormant if:

• Domain is not bound to Free Hosting server during 7 consecutive days (i.e. domain is not associated with Free Hosting nameservers and/or not pointing to Free Hosting server's IP address).
• Website does not have index page for longer than 7 days since setup date (i.e. website displays directory listing or 404 error).
• Website displays default Free Hosting 'under construction' page (hosting account has been set up) for longer that 7 days since setup date.

Dormant websites will be cancelled without notice, no backup will be made.

Agreement Of Terms:

We support your Freedom of Speech and expression; however we ask that you understand that a responsibility is associated with this right. These terms may be changed at any time without notice to you. You agree that all changes after your signup still fully apply to you and it is your responsibility to check the terms of service often.

We reserve the right to modify these terms and conditions.