Terms and Conditions:
This policy represents the Zaawia Terms of Service (“TOS”) in its entirety and supersedes any other written or oral policy. This policy defines the terms of service all Zaawia customers agree to when they sign-up for any of the Zaawia website hosting services. Zaawia reserves the exclusive right to change, amend or revise any portion of this TOS policy at any time, with or without written notice to our customers.
Customers using any services related to web hosting offered by Zaawia agree to be obligated by and must comply with all policies in this TOS or must otherwise opt-out of and cancel their web hosting service with Zaawia. Zaawia retains the sole discretion to make a judgment regarding any violation by any Zaawia customer and may take action against any customer deemed to violate these terms including the cancellation of any customer’s services without refund and/or, if deemed appropriate, be legally prosecuted.
General Provisions
In consideration of Zaawia maintaining one or more accounts (each “Account”), you, as the Zaawia customer, agree to the following terms of service.
Definitions
• “We” “Us” or “Provider” or “Zaawia” – Zaawia.com
• “You” “Your” “Client” “Customer” or “Member”
Each person or entity who applies for internet service or is a designate of anyone who applies for internet service.
Disclaimer of Warranty
The Internet and website hosting relies on a complex network of hardware, software, network services, and providers of information. Due to the need for an aggregate of all of these providers and service companies working properly not all services may be available to you at all times.
Zaawia however, offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee. This is valid for only the Zaawia business hosting servers and our primary co-location internet connection. Zaawia shall pursue partnerships with all tier-1 resources and channels available to maintain maximum uptime, however, Zaawia is not responsible for any downtime caused by any provider’s hardware or network malfunction which is outside of Zaawia capability to directly correct. Zaawia clients are diverse and their websites and the function of those websites are diverse and Zaawia cannot be held responsible for any service interruption due to the client’s error, including but not limited to spamming, the target of a DDOS attack, or any other internet or cyber attack.
ZAAWIA MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE) CONCERNING THE SERVICES IT PROVIDES. Neither Zaawia nor anyone else involved in the provision of Service is liable to you or any third-party for direct or indirect damages resulting from the use, non-use of services provided herein, whether or not such damages resulted from the negligence of Zaawia, even if Zaawia has been advised to the possibility of such damages.
Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT SHALL ZAAWIA BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS AND DAMAGES RELATED TO CORRUPTION OR DELETION OF WEBSITE CONTENTS, EMAIL DATA AND OR DATABASE CONTENTS) ARISING OUT OF OR CONCERNING THIS AGREEMENT OR YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE Zaawia. SERVICES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, INOPERABILITY OF Zaawia. SERVERS), REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF Zaawia HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT SHALL Zaawia. MAXIMUM LIABILITY EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO Zaawia FOR THE SERVICES DURING THE PRIOR TWELVE (12) MONTHS. TO THE EXTENT APPLICABLE LOCAL LAW DOES NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, ZAAWIA. LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold Zaawia and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, and agents harmless from and against any liabilities, losses, damages, or costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from any third-party claim, action, dispute or demand related to your use of the Services, your violation of any of the provisions of this Agreement or from your placement or transmission of any materials or content onto Zaawia servers.
Such liabilities may include but are not limited to, those arising from the following: (a) concerning your business, (i) infringement or misappropriation of any intellectual property rights; (ii) defamation, libel, slander, obscenity, pornography, or violation of the rights of privacy or publicity; or (iii) spamming, or any other offensive, harassing or illegal conduct or violation of the acceptable uses described herein or anti-spam policy; (b) any damage or destruction to Zaawia. equipment or to any other account holder, which damage is caused by or otherwise results from acts or omissions by you, your representative(s) or your designees; (c) any personal injury or property damage arising out of your activities related to the Services unless such injury or property damage is caused solely by Zaawia. gross negligence or willful misconduct; and (d) any other damage arising from your equipment or your business.
Choice of Law
This Agreement shall be interpreted under the laws of the Pakistan without regard to any conflict of laws provisions. Any action between the parties to this agreement for the breach of this agreement or any action or claim in any way relating thereto shall be the venue in the Superior Court of the Pakistan. The parties to this agreement hereby consent to jurisdiction in that court and agree to accept service by mail and hereby waive any defense of any kind related to jurisdiction or venue.
Services Provided By Zaawia
Zaawia will provide Internet server rental (“the Service”) to its members for the express purpose of allowing customers to provide Http Internet content to the general public. The Service allows Zaawia members to maintain Internet websites, receive and maintain e-mail accounts, and access web space via FTP to upload files for their websites. Zaawia members will use the provided services in a manner consistent with any applicable laws. Zaawia provides the Services exclusively and makes no effort to edit, control, monitor or restrict the content of data other than as necessary to provide such Services. Zaawia reserves the right to refuse service to potential and/or existing customers to protect its existing paying customers. If any of the below violates are committed, Zaawia can terminate the client’s account without notification.
Zaawia.com provides timely website hosting support to our clients through email and chat. By accepting your client contract agreement with Zaawia.com you agree not to abuse whether verbally or physically or whether in person, via email, live chat or telephone, or otherwise (a) any other customer of Zaawia.com and any employee or contractor of Zaawia.com.
Zaawia will send e-mails from time to time regarding your account, special offers, and promotions. You may unsubscribe to these e-mails at any time by following the instructions at the bottom of those e-mails.
Client Content
Client agrees that web pages and files uploaded to servers will not violate any state, national or foreign laws or regulations; infringe on any intellectual property rights of Zaawia or any third party; be defamatory, slanderous, or trade libelous; be threatening or harassing; be discriminatory based on gender, race, age; promote hate, or contain viruses or other computer programming defects which result in damage to Zaawia or any third party.
Customers may not run IRC, bots, or clients. Clients may not use Zaawia servers for file storage unrelated to the client’s website, storage Space is for active website file pages only. Zaawia’s shared hosting account holders may not act as a reseller, which means that clients may not host any websites in their addon domains that are not domains owned by the client on record at Zaawia. You will need to opt-in for our reseller hosting service. Unacceptable uses also include, but not limited to: Bulk unsolicited emailing, unsolicited e-mailings, newsgroup spamming, child pornography, hardcore pornography or links to such sites, copyrighted MP3, copyrighted music, copyrighted video, illegal content, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, warez, torrents, torrent files, cracks, software serial numbers, proxy(ies) and image/file sharing websites. Zaawia will be the sole and final arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this policy. Zaawia does not normally monitor the contents of clients’ servers, however, if suspicion occurs, Zaawia reserves the right to investigate and terminate the client’s subscription to the service.
Unlimited Features
What do you mean by “unlimited disk space and bandwidth/data transfer”?
We do set limits on the disk space and bandwidth (data transfer) that we provide in plans that are marked “Unlimited”. We want you to have the resources available to you to build a great online presence.
Even though we want you to succeed, we need to ensure that we’re providing all of our customers with optimum service. As such we do require all of our customers to be fully compliant with our Excessive Resource User Policy/Terms of Service and utilize disk space and bandwidth related to the normal operation of a personal or small business website.
If a customer’s hosting account is found to have violated the client’s content, excessive resource user policy, and/or is storing files for archiving purposes, the contents will be removed and while we make the best effort to contact customers beforehand, can occur without notice.
Excessive Resource User Policy
Resources are defined as disk space, bandwidth, and/or computing resources (CPU, memory, disk i/o, # of files/inodes) utilization. Zaawia offers a shared hosting service in which environment customers may share resources with other customers, therefore Zaawia must control any excessive usage by customers so that they do not disrupt the service quality of other customers using the same resources. A hosting account is considered using “Excessive amounts of resources” when it consumes 100% of the allocated resources on the subscribed hosting plan and/or subscribed scalable resource add-on(s) known as “Computing Resources”, and/or “Resources”, and/or “Resource Usage”. Numerous issues could cause such problems, including but not limited to CGI scripts, FTP, HTTP, etc. To prevent service disruption for other customers, a hosting account which exceeds the included computing resources will be slowed down automatically for as long as the resources are being overused. Zaawia will make every reasonable effort to notify customers before the suspension, however, Zaawia may suspend any offending hosting account before notifying the customer of the account if service disruption to other customers was/is caused. The customer who is using “excessive resources” may be asked to upgrade his/her package to a more suitable hosting package, such as but not limited to a premium account, virtual private server, or dedicated server. Zaawia will be the sole and final arbitrator as to what constitutes a violation of this policy. Customers have access to their Resource Usage within their control panel.
No “Spam”
UCE/UBE or “Spam” originating from a server located on our network or associated with a Zaawia server is not tolerated. This includes any e-mail that promotes websites hosted on a server located on the Zaawia network but is sent from an e-mail address not associated with that Zaawia account. Client shall not use their Zaawia services for chain letters, junk mail, bulk-email, or any use of distribution lists to any person who has not given specific permission to be included in such a process. Zaawia reserves the right to deactivate or terminate any account(s) upon any indication of such activity without notice.
Excessive Exploits
Zaawia allows 3rd party scripts to be uploaded/installed from our auto-installer or manually (those scripts that are/aren’t included in the auto-installer) on your web hosting account. It is the responsibility of our web hosting clients to maintain the latest exploit free version of the scripts. If a script that our web hosting clients uploads to our servers is found to have security lapses and allows a third party to “hack”, “exploit”, “deface” their site(s) it is the responsibility of our clients to either remove that script or Zaawia.com reserves the right to terminate that clients’ account and provide them with a prorated refund.
False Information
The customer agrees not to post false or inaccurate information to newsgroups in violation of the rules and regulations of the newsgroup. If any newsgroups or service provider contact Zaawia concerning unethical, false, or unlawful activities by you, Zaawia reserves the right to suspend or terminate your service with or without notice.
Licensed Software Only
Client agrees to use only properly licensed third party software in connection with Client’s use of the Services.
Backup Files
Zaawia provides the tools needed to create backups of account data. Zaawia also backs up its hosting platform and retains a copy for 24 hours for disaster recovery purposes only. It is the responsibility of the customer to keep up-to-date archives of their backed up data. Zaawia does not provide or keep records or copies of our client’s website files for customer use and is not responsible for any loss of data including but not limited to hardware failure, backup failure, hacking or accidental deletion. Zaawia does not offer backup of virtual private servers and/or Dedicated Servers.
Payment Obligations
Full payment is required in advance before hosting service is established. Zaawia sends out invoices that are due every pay period. You are given fifteen (15) days to fully pay the invoice.
You warrant and represent that the information you supply in the Order Form (or other information that Zaawia may require) is accurate and truthful. All payment-due notices will be sent by e-mail. No bills or invoices will be sent by postal mail or fax. If payment was not received by the due date, your account will be suspended. It is the client’s responsibility to ensure that payment is made to Zaawia before the renewal date and although Zaawia sends renewal notices to our customers before their renewal date, because of the ability for a customer to change their contact email addresses without notifying Zaawia, the customer is ultimately responsible for remembering their renewal date and to make sure payment is made upon the renewal. Failure to keep an account in good standing and/or service renewals paid for will result in service deactivation until the account and or service renewal is paid for in full.
Renewals
The Zaawia’ customers should know when their account comes up for renewal and, if they intend to non-renew their account, they must fill out the Zaawia cancellation form 5 business days before their account’s renewal date to ensure that the billing department can stop any renewal charges. Zaawia’s clients receive email notifications 15 days before the renewal date of their account, informing them that their renewal date is approaching. It is the customer’s responsibility to ensure that Zaawia has a valid email address for which notices can be sent to Zaawia’s clients. If Zaawia does not receive a cancellation request before the customer’s renewal, Zaawia will renew the clients’ account 24 hours before the renewal date and will apply charges as appropriate. Accounts will be automatically renewed on the renewal date and be billed under the same fee structure as the plan that the client signed up for (unless plan changes were made or upgraded between the time when the client signed up & their renewal date). In the case of insufficient funds to charge such an amount, you agree to allow Zaawia to place your account on a recurring payment plan, wherein we will collect a partial term quantity to avoid an interruption in service and to protect against accidental loss of intellectual property such as, but not limited to, website data, domain registration, etc. The 30-day money-back guarantee applies only to the start date of the clients’ service with Zaawia and does not apply to renewals of service.
Late Fees
Clients have the option to pay an invoice at any time by logging into their Zaawia account and submitting a payment. An invoice that is not paid by the due date is automatically marked overdue in the system. If an invoice is overdue by more than four days (the grace period), the account is automatically suspended and a $15.00 late fee is added to the account. To reactivate an account that is suspended for failure to submit a payment within the grace period, a payment for the original invoiced amount plus $15.00 must be submitted to Zaawia.
Currency
All prices listed are in US Dollars ($) and British Sterling Pounds (£ ), for all services & server locations unless otherwise specified.
Coupon Use
Coupons are offered to customers from time to time. The use of 3rd party coupon applications that manipulate our pricing structure will not be accepted. Zaawia has the right to refuse any coupon code that it believes to be invalid. Zaawia will honor the lowest advertised price on our website located at https://www.Zaawia.com/ at the time of order.
Cancellation & Refunds
Should you become dissatisfied with our services within the first 30 days of your account activation, Zaawia will refund your hosting fee subject to the money-back guarantee terms listed in this agreement. Refunds are not available for customers after 30 days of account activation. You may however cancel your account at any time to make sure that your account is not renewed. You will need to contact customer service and verify the information before the cancellation takes place. You will be charged in full for the entire month in which you canceled your account. Accounts that have negative balances will be sent to collections and all services will be terminated, including domain registrations. Refunds are never available for domain registrations. Domain Names transferred to our service incur an additional year of registration and therefore are considered a domain registration. Domain registration fees are as detailed on our Domain Registration Pricing Sheet. Domain names of customers that leave our hosting service will be refunded the package price total less the domain registration fee if the customer leaves Zaawia hosting service within the 30-day money-back guarantee.
Also, refunds are not available for additional services such as but are not limited to domain names, dedicated IPs, SSL certificates, CDN, professional services, etc. Add-on services that are activated and are included in the hosting package will not be refundable if canceled within 30-days.
Website files are the responsibility of the Zaawia customer and should a Zaawia customer decide to cancel their service it is the customer’s responsibility to make sure that they have backed up & downloaded the website files and any emails from the Zaawia server before requesting that Zaawia cancels their account. Once the cancellation request has been submitted to Zaawia a cancellation of the website hosting service may occur any time after the request is received by Zaawia and when a cancellation request is completed the client’s hosting account with Zaawia and their website files are permanently removed from the Zaawia servers. Therefore again the client must ensure that they have downloaded their website files and any emails from the server before their cancellation request.
99.9% Service Level Agreement “SLA”
Zaawia offers its clients a 99.9% network uptime guarantee for customer satisfaction purposes and also to ensure that your business is running problem-free. Zaawia will try to maintain maximum uptime. Zaawia is not responsible for any downtime caused by the client.
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
Zaawia offers an unconditional 30-day money-back guarantee that covers cancellations on shared hosting, reseller hosting, and VPS hosting made during the first 30 days of service, due to the inability to deliver satisfactory services. As a part of our strive to achieve industry-leading customer satisfaction, the customer will be refunded all hosting charges made to their credit card minus any setup fees, domain name or add-ons (included and/or purchased) are non-refundable. The guarantee does not apply to accounts with non-use, misuse, and/or abuse of this agreement. Domain name registrations & dedicated servers are also non-refundable. Domain Names transferred to our service incur an additional year of registration and therefore are considered a domain registration. Domain registration fees are outlined in the Domain Registration Pricing Sheet. Domain names of customers that leave our hosting service will be refunded the package price total less the domain registration fee if the customer leaves Zaawia hosting service within the 30-day money-back guarantee. Any questions regarding the 30-day money-back guarantee should be forwarded to billing@zaawia.com