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Direct Online Services,
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hosting license agreement

This Web Site Hosting Agreement ('Agreement') is by and between Direct Online Services . ('DottieDoo.Com Hosting'), an New York Company, and you, your heirs, assigns, agents and contractors ('You') and is effective as of the date of electronic execution. This Agreement sets forth the terms and conditions of Your use of DottieDoo’s Web Site Hosting ('Web Hosting') services and represents the entire agreement between You and DottieDoo. By using DottieDoo’s Web Hosting services, You acknowledge that You have read, understand and agree to be bound by all the terms and conditions of this Agreement, along with any new, different or additional terms, conditions or policies which DottieDoo may establish from time to time.

In addition to transactions entered into by You on Your behalf, You also agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement for transactions entered into on Your behalf by anyone acting as Your Agent, and transactions entered into by anyone who uses the account You've established with DottieDoo, whether or not the transactions were in Your behalf. You acknowledge that DottieDoo's acceptance of any application made by You for services provided by DottieDoo will take place at DottieDoo's offices located in Rochester New York, USA.

1. fees

As consideration for the services purchased by You and provided to You by DottieDoo, You agree to pay DottieDoo a monthly fee or yearly. Your monthly or yearly billing date will be determined based on the day of the month You establish Your Web Hosting relationship with DottieDoo.  Payment is to be made by You providing a valid PayPal.com account to establish a cash reserve for charge by DottieDoo.  Payments are non-refundable. If for any reason DottieDoo is unable to charge your Payment Method, You agree that DottieDoo may pursue all available remedies in order to obtain payment.

In the event that You exceed the scope of the Services as set forth in Your Agreement (for example, available bandwidth, CPU or disk utilization space), You shall pay DottieDoo for such additional services not within the scope of Your Agreement as specified. DottieDoo reserves the right to charge a reasonable service fee for administrative tasks outside the scope of its regular services. These include, but are not limited to, customer service issues that cannot be handled over email but require personal service, and disputes that require legal services. These charges will be billed to the Payment Method we have on file for You. You may change your Payment Method at any time by logging into your hosting account or paypal.com account.

2. terms of agreement; terms, termination, modifications

Term

The term of this Agreement shall commence on the date You purchase the Web Hosting services, and will continue in full force and effect as long as DottieDoo is providing Web Hosting services to You.

Termination

You agree that You will be responsible for notifying DottieDoo should you desire to terminate Your use of DottieDoo’s Web Hosting services. Notification of Your intent to terminate must be provided to DottieDoo no earlier than 10 days prior to Your billing date but no later than three days prior to Your billing date. In the absence of notification from You, DottieDoo will automatically continue Web Hosting services indefinitely and will charge your paypal.com account You have on file with DottieDoo, at DottieDoo's then current rates. It is Your responsibility to keep your Payment Method information current, including the expiration date of any credit cards you have on file. In the event You terminate, moving your web site off of the DottieDoo hosting servers is Your responsibility. DottieDoo will not transfer or FTP Your web site to another provider. DottieDoo reserves the right, in its sole discretion and without notice, at any time and for any reason, to suspend Your access to or use of the Server, services or any portion thereof. In the event Your Web Hosting service is terminated, DottieDoo will not transfer or manage Your Web Hosting or Your website content.

You agree that DottieDoo may modify this Agreement from time to time. DottieDoo may also discontinue services it provides under this Agreement. You agree to be bound by any changes DottieDoo may reasonably make to this Agreement when such changes become effective.

3. description of service

DottieDoo currently provides Web Hosting services to its customers for a monthly and yearly fee. DottieDoo will host Your web site on DottieDoo’s Web Hosting servers, provided, however, You abide by the terms and conditions set forth herein and in each of DottieDoo’s policies and procedures.

License of Your website content

DottieDoo grants to You, and You accept from DottieDoo, a non-exclusive, worldwide and royalty free license to copy, display, use and transmit on and via the Internet Your website content in connection with DottieDoo’s performance or enforcement of this Agreement.

Availability of Services

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, DottieDoo shall attempt to provide Web Hosting for twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week throughout the term of this Agreement. You agree that from time to time the Web Hosting service may be inaccessible or inoperable for any reason, including, without limitation: (i) equipment malfunctions; (ii) periodic maintenance procedures or repairs which DottieDoo may undertake from time to time; or (iii) causes beyond the control of DottieDoo or which are not reasonably foreseeable by DottieDoo, including, without limitation, interruption or failure of telecommunication or digital transmission links, hostile network attacks network congestion or other failures. You agree that DottieDoo has no control of availability of Web Hosting on a continuous or uninterrupted basis.

Web Site Content

You shall be solely responsible for providing, updating, uploading and maintaining Your website and any and all files, pages, data, works, information and/or materials on, within, displayed, linked or transmitted to, from or through Your web site, including, without limitation, trade or service marks, images, photographs, illustrations, graphics, audio clips, video clips, email or other messages, meta tags, domain names, software and text. Your web site content shall also include any registered domain names provided by You or registered on behalf of You in connection with the Web Hosting services.

4. your obligations

You represent and warrant to DottieDoo that: (i) You have the power and authority to enter into and perform Your obligations under this Agreement; (ii) Your Content does not and shall not contain any content, materials, data, work, trade or service mark, trade name, link, advertising or services that actually or potentially violate any applicable law or regulation or infringe or misappropriate any proprietary, intellectual property, contract or tort right of any person; and (iii) You own Your website content and all proprietary or intellectual property rights therein, or have express written authorization from the owner to copy, use and display the content on and within Your web site.  You also warrant that the web site being hosted by DottieDoo will not be used in connection with any illegal activity.

If You are hosting Your web site on DottieDoo’s servers, You are responsible for ensuring that there is no excessive overloading on DottieDoo’s DNS or servers. You may not use DottieDoo’s servers and Your web site as a source, intermediary, reply to address, or destination address for mail bombs, Internet packet flooding, packet corruption, denial of service, or other abusive activities. Server hacking or other perpetration of security breaches is prohibited and DottieDoo reserves the right to remove sites that contain information about hacking or links to such information. Use of your web site as an anonymous gateway is prohibited. DottieDoo prohibits the use of software or scripts run on its servers that cause the server to load beyond a reasonable level, as determined by DottieDoo. You agree that DottieDoo reserves the right to remove Your web site temporarily or permanently from its hosting servers if DottieDoo is the recipient of activities that threaten the stability of its network.

You agree not to engage in unacceptable use of any Services, which includes, without limitation, use of the Services to: (i) disseminate or transmit unsolicited messages, chain letters or unsolicited commercial email; (ii) disseminate or transmit any material that, to a reasonable person may be abusive, obscene, pornographic, defamatory, harassing, grossly offensive, vulgar, threatening or malicious; (iii) disseminate or transmit files, graphics, software or other material, data or work that actually or potentially infringes the copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or other intellectual property right of any person; (iv) create a false identity or to otherwise attempt to mislead any person as to the identity, source or origin of any communication; (v) export, re-export or permit downloading of any message or content in violation of any export or import law, regulation or restriction of the United States and its agencies or authorities, or without all required approvals, licenses and/or exemptions; (vi) interfere, disrupt or attempt to gain unauthorized access to any computer system, server, network or account for which You do not have authorization to access or at a level exceeding Your authorization; (vii) disseminate or transmit any virus, trojan horse or other malicious, harmful or disabling data, work, code or program; or (viii) engage in any other activity deemed by DottieDoo to be in conflict with the spirit or intent of this Agreement or any DottieDoo policy.

5. DottieDoo's rights

DottieDoo explicitly reserves the right and sole discretion to: (i) Censor any web site hosted on its Web Hosting servers that, in DottieDoo’s sole discretion, is deemed inappropriate; (ii) Review every Web Hosting account for excessive space and bandwidth utilization and to terminate or apply additional fees to those accounts that exceed allowed levels; (iii) Modify its pricing through email notification; (iv) Terminate Your Web Hosting service for unsolicited, commercial e-mailing (i.e., SPAM); illegal access to other computers or networks (i.e., hacking); distribution of Internet viruses or similar destructive activities; non-payment of Web Hosting fees; and other activities whether lawful or unlawful that DottieDoo determines to be harmful to its other customers, operations, or reputation; (v) Terminate Your Web Hosting service if the contents of Your web site result in, or are the subject of, legal action or threatened legal action, against DottieDoo or any of its affiliates or partners, without consideration for whether such legal action or threatened legal action is eventually determined to be with or without merit. DottieDoo has no obligation to monitor the Site or any of Your content, but reserves the right in its sole discretion to do so.

No Spam; Liquidated Damages

DottieDoo will immediately terminate any Web Hosting service which it believes, in its sole discretion, is transmitting or is otherwise connected with any spam or other unsolicited bulk email. In addition, if actual damages cannot be reasonably calculated then you agree to pay DottieDoo liquidated damages of $2 for each piece of spam or unsolicited bulk email transmitted from or otherwise connected with your website hosted with us, otherwise you agree to pay DottieDoo's actual damages.

6. dispute resolution policy

You agree to be bound by DottieDoo’s current agreement.  You agree that if a dispute arises as a result of one or more web sites DottieDoo is hosting for You, You will indemnify, defend and hold DottieDoo harmless for damages arising out of such dispute. You also agree that if DottieDoo is notified that a complaint has been filed with a governmental, administrative or judicial body, regarding a web site hosted by DottieDoo, that DottieDoo, in its sole discretion, may take whatever action DottieDoo deems necessary regarding further modification, assignment of and/or control of the web site to comply with the actions or requirements of the governmental, administrative or judicial body until such time as the dispute is settled

7. limitation of liability

IN NO EVENT SHALL DOTTIEDOO BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFIT OR GOODWILL, FOR ANY MATTER, WHETHER SUCH LIABILITY IS ASSERTED ON THE BASIS OF CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF DOTTIEDOO HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOU AGREE THAT DOTTIEDOO'S TOTAL LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE TOTAL FEES PAID BY YOU TO DOTTIEDOO HEREUNDER FOR THE ONE (1) YEAR PERIOD PRIOR TO ANY ACT OR OMISSION GIVING RISE TO ANY POTENTIAL LIABILITY.

8. indemnity

You agree to release, defend, indemnify and hold harmless DottieDoo and its contractors, agents, employees, offices, directors, shareholders and affiliates from and against any action, claim, demand, dispute, liability, losses, damages or costs, including reasonable attorney's fees and costs, resulting from or related to (i) a dispute over one or more web sites DottieDoo is hosting for you, (ii) Your breach of this Agreement, (iii) any negligence, willful or improper misconduct by You; (iv) any allegation that Your site or content infringes a third person's copyright, trademark or proprietary or intellectual property right, or misappropriates a third person's trade secrets; or (v) any action or conduct of DottieDoo’s undertaken pursuant to this Agreement. You shall defend and settle at Your sole expense all proceedings arising out of the foregoing. You agree that DottieDoo shall have the right to participate in the defense of any such claim through counsel of its own choosing. You agree to notify DottieDoo of any such claim promptly in writing and to allow DottieDoo to control the proceedings. You agree to cooperate fully with DottieDoo during such proceedings. You agree You will not be entitled to a refund of any fees paid to DottieDoo if, for any reason, DottieDoo takes corrective action with respect to Your improper or illegal use of its Web Hosting services. You also agree that if DottieDoo is notified that a complaint has been filed with a governmental, administrative or judicial body, regarding a web site hosted by DottieDoo, that DottieDoo, in its sole discretion, may take whatever action DottieDoo deems necessary regarding further modification, assignment of and/or control of the web site to comply with the actions or requirements of the governmental, administrative or judicial body until such time as the dispute is settled.

9. disclaimer of warranties

DottieDoo expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, concerning any subject matter of this agreement.

10. severability

You agree that the terms of this Agreement are severable. If any part of this Agreement is determined to be unenforceable or invalid, that part of the agreement will be interpreted in accordance with applicable law as closely as possible, in line with the original intention of both parties to the Agreement. The remaining terms and conditions of the Agreement will remain in full force and effect.

11. venue; waiver of trail by jury

This agreement shall be deemed entered into the state of New York the laws and judicial decisions of Monroe county, New York, shall be used to determine the validity, construction, interpretation and legal effect of this agreement. You agree that any action relating to or arising out of this agreement, shall be brought in the courts of Monroe county, New York.

You agree to waive the right to trial by jury in any proceeding that takes pace relating to or arising out of this agreement.

12. notices

You agree that all notices (except for notices concerning breach of this Agreement) from DottieDoo to You may be posted on our web site. Notices concerning breach will be sent either to the email or postal address You have on file with DottieDoo. In either case, delivery shall be deemed to have been made five (5) days after the date sent.

Notices from You to DottieDoo shall be made either by email to the address we provide on our Web site.  They shall be deemed to be delivered when received by DottieDoo.

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