Terms Of
Service And Acceptable Usage Policy |
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General
provisions |
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The
terms of this user agreament requires that your
content: |
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Will not infringe on any
third party's copyright, patent,
trademark, trade secret or other
proprietary rights or rights of publicity
or privacy; |
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Will not violate any
laws, statute, ordinance or regulation
(including without limitation those
governing export control, consumer
protection, unfair competition,
anti-discrimination or false
advertising); |
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Will not be defamatory, trade
libelous, unlawfully threatening,
unlawfully harassing, or unlawful in any
way; |
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Will not be obscene or contain
pornography; |
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Will not be obscene or contain child
pornography or, if otherwise harmful to
minors; |
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Will not contain any viruses, trojan
horses, worms, time bombs, cancel bots or
other computer programming routines that
are intended to damage, detrimentally
interfere with, surreptitiously intercept
or expropriate any system, data, or
personal information; |
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Will not link directly to or include
descriptions of goods and services that
you do not have a right to link to or
include |
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Will not include unreasonable
distribution of mass
e-mails to parties who do not wish to
receive such e-mails or have not
affirmatively acknowledged that they wish
to receive such e-mails. |
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Mass
Mailings / Spam |
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No level of
spam distribution by e-mail is tolerated
and any such conduct will result in your
account being shut down |
You must not
use the IAmFred.com Network or
IAmFred.com and/or equipment to originate
the transmission of spam, flames, mail
bombs, or substantially similar,
unsolicited email messages. |
A message is
considered unsolicited if it is sent to a
recipient who has not requested or
invited the message or if it is posted in
violation of a newsgroup charter. For
purposes of this provision, merely making
one's email address accessible to the
public will not constitute a request or
invitation to receive messages. If you
are found to have spammed, without
warning, IAmFred.com reserves the right
to disable your Domain without notice. We
pull first, ask questions later. |
IAmFred.com
reservers the right to refuse service or
to cancel service to known spamer without
notice. |
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IAmFred.com reserves
the right to determine what violates this policy.
As such, any violation will result in
cancellation of services without refund. |
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Any work required by our staff
to repair our systems after any spam will be
billed at the hourly rate then in force. |
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Hosting clients who run opt-in
mailing list software or other collection methods
for their website must require subscriber
authentication before completing the process for
the end user. Additionally, clear instructions on
subscription and un-subscription options must be
provided in each email that is sent to the
mailing list recipients and also provided in a
clearly marked area on the clients website. |
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Privacy
policy |
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IAmFred.com may ask you for
personally identifiable information such as your
name, your company's name, your telephone number,
email address, zip or postalcode, country, etc.
in various form on our web site. IAmFred.com uses
the information it gathers for several purposes,
such as to submit required contact information
related to domain name registrations, and to
communicate with you if necessary. IAmFred.com
may email its users periodically to inform them
about the status of, or upcoming changes to the
site, or to inform them about changes to our
privacy policy. In addition, IAmFred.com may
email a user at any time regarding issues with
his/her account. |
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IAmFred.com does not send
promotional, or commercial emails to its users
without permission. We do not and will never
rent, sell, or in any way make available such
personal information to third parties (except of
course where required by law, see our policy on legal investigations below) or
in any other way misuse the information you
provide. No unsolicited email will ever be sent
to our customers. Customers may at any time
cancel their accounts (see the Unsubscribe
section below). |
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IAmFred.com will NEVER
ASK YOU for your PASSWORD. See User ID, Passwords & Access
Controls section below. Under no
circumstances are your to divulge your password
to enyone, even to a person claiming to represent
IAmFred.com |
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Public Forums |
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This site makes forums, message
boards, and/or news groups available to its
users. Please remember that any information that
is disclosed in these areas becomes public
information and you should exercise caution when
deciding to disclose your personal information or
email address. |
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User Contributed Content |
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All of the user contributed
content of this site, including files, posts,
comments, and ratings is the property of
IAmFred.com, and is protected under local and
international copyright
laws. None of the material may be reproduced
without our written permission, with the
exception of downloading or printing a single
copy for yourself for offline viewing.
IAmFred.com reserves the right to republish the
material contributed by our users. By posting a
message, you expressly grant the right to
IAmFred.com to republish or sell the message as
part of our edited compilations or otherwise.
We'll provide proper attribution to the author
for any post we republish.
Users must not contribute material that is
copyrighted, or that have licenses prohibiting
redistribution. Users violating these terms shall
be immediately and permanently banned from the
site, and their identity may be revealed to
appropriate authorities in harmoney with our
policy on legal investigations
below. |
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Unsubscribe |
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This site gives customer and
other subscribed users the option of
unsubscribing or cancelling
their account. Doing so removes their information
from our servers, removes their web sites, email
addresses etc, halts their ability to login, and
prohibits us from contacting them in the future.
Customers can cancel their
account by the method discribed by clicking here and other Users can
unsubscribe by clicking on the unsubscribe link. |
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Contact us about privacy
policy or your customer account |
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Customers and other users may
contact us using our contact form, by sending an
email to the webmaster at webmaster@iamfred.com
or by sending mail to the following address:
IAmFred.com
Gomea Village
Belair Post Office
St Vincent West Indies
Tel +1 631 657 4166 or +1 784 456 4776 |
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User ID,
Passwords & Access Controls |
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You are provided with a user
identification number ("UserID") and a
password. It is Your obligation and Your
responsibility to safeguard the confidentiality
and monitor any usage or Services provided in
connection with the UserID and the password. Your
are responsible for any and all use of the access
credential assigned to you. In particular, any
charges associated with the UserID and the
password are Your responsibility and You shall
bear any risk of loss thereto (including charges
for Services). |
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Use of
System / Server Resources |
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Your use of all scripts,
background running programs, background Daemons,
custom software, email services etc is under the
condition that your use of these does not
adversely affect the Server performance or the
Network security / integrity. Any program, script
or email configuration the is deemed to be
adversely affecting Server performance or Network
security / integrity may be shut down without
prior notice. |
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Any customer whose use of the
service uses a high amount of Server resources
(such as, but not limited to CPU Time, Memory
Usage, and Network Resources) will be given an
option of either upgrading their service level or
reducing the resource used to an acceptable
level. |
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The use of items that may be
deemed in contravension of this section of the
agreement (except for items affecting system
security / integrity) may only be allowed with
the express prior consent of IAmFred.com
IAmFred.com will consider requests on a Per
Application Basis. If allowed, extra charges will
be assessed based on resource requirements for
system maintenance. |
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Additional
Terms |
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IAmFred.com reserves the right to refuse
service to anyone. |
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IAmFred.com is not responsible for the
Content of our clients. |
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IAmFred.com does not undertake to monitor or
prevent any inappropriate use of this system.
This includes but not limited to underage
persons, or persons acting under false pretenses. |
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IAmFred.com does not undertake to monitor or
prevent Users from registering with false
demographic information. |
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IAmFred.com is not responsible for damage or
loss, (data, financial, or otherwise) caused by
errors in the system or the Internet. The system
may be unavailable unexpectedly as a result of
errors or circumstance beyond our control. |
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Downloads: |
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Generally speaking files downloaded from the
internet carry a measure of risk. It must be
stressed that we do our absolute best to protect
you and your computers. Files uploaded to our
site are virus scanned before being made
available for download and all files are virus
scanned daily, always with the latest virus
signatures. In addition we automatically
quarantine and review content based on member
feedback. Despite all those efforts, there is no
quarantee that all files downloaded from our web
site is 100% safe. IAmFred.com is not liable in
anyway for any negative results as a result of
dowloading and or using files from our web site,
especially files submitted by third parties. |
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Billing
Policies |
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Not withstanding anything that
may appear to indicate otherwise, any
other method of payment other than Credit Card
& Paypal are at the sole discretion of
IAmFred.com and such other methods of payment are
NOT VALID until such time that they are expressly
permitted by specific comminication to
that effect from IAmFred.com. |
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You agree that the services being
purchased from IAmFred.com are pre-paid services
and fees paid for services, regardless of term
subscription length will not be refunded. |
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IAmFred.com provides service on a
pre-paid, basis only. Terms are "Due in
advance" and you become indepted for fees
and/or service on your service renewal date. If
payment is not received, your account and all
services will be suspended. All files and emails
stored on the account will be deleted after 60
days if payment is not received for amount owing
or an alternative method of payment is agreed
with our billing department. |
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Under no circumstance will we
issue refunds for domain names or SSL
certificates or any other thing that have been
purchased or renewed on your behalf by
IAmFred.com - regardless of the date of
cancellation. |
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Credit Cards |
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In cases were credit card payment
is the agreed method of paymet, then, as a
condition to your right to use the Service, You
must provide us with a valid credit card which
you have been authorized to use by the owner,
with available credit sufficient to pay the
applicable Service Fees. In the event that this
credit card is cancelled, frozen, or it is
otherwise not in a position to pay the relevant
fees, you must immediately provide us with a new
valid credit card number, that meets the
requirements of this agreement. You authorize
IAmFred.com, its Agents or other persons acting
on our behalf, from time to time, to undertake
steps to determine whether the credit card you
have provided to us is a valid credit card. In
the event that you do not provide us with a
current valid credit card with sufficient credit
upon request during the effective period of this
Agreement, you will be in violation of this
Agreement, and we may terminate this Agreement
with You. |
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In order for continuity
of service, you authorize IAmFred.com to charge
your credit card for any outstanding moneys owed
for your services on your billing renewal date. Any
questions regarding the billed amount must be
indicated through our contact
form within 30 days of receipt of statement
or acceptance of charges will be considered
final. |
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Solely in order to comply with
the payment provisions of this Agreement for the
Services, You agree to allow IAmFred.com, at our
discretion, to perform a credit check on You and
You agree to provide IAmFred.com with either: (a)
the credit or debit card particulars as described
in this Agreement and to authorize IAmFred.com to
charge applicable Charges to such credit or debit
card; (b) if applicable, other forms of payment
such as cash or check. |
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Alternate arrangements may be
made should your credit card have any problems.
Please contact our billing department at support@iamfred.com
or 631-657-4166 if you require alternate
arrangements. Clients who have purchased annual
services will receive a reminder email 30 days
prior to the end of their "year" as
advance notice of the upcoming renewal. |
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Cancellation
of Service |
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We must receive your cancellation
request in writing either by email to support@iamfred.com
or by fax to 1-631-657-4166. IAmFred.com will not
accept cancellations by phone. A representative
from IAmFred.com's Billing Department will
process the cancellation during business hours.
Billing Department hours are Monday through
Friday, 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 PM Atlantic Time. |
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To cancel your service before
it's renewed for another cycle, written
cancellations must be received by IAmFred.com a
minimum of eight (8) days prior to the end of
your current billing cycle. Cancellations
submitted later than this time may result in
automatic renewal of your service. Unless
otherwise requested, cancellations will be
effective at the end of your current billing
cycle. |
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IAmFred.com does not monitor, and
will not automatically cancel accounts for issues
related to non-usage, domain name transfers,
lapsed domains, or any other issues not directly
related to IAmFred.com services. Cancellation of
services does not relieve the customer from
paying any outstanding balance owed, or unbilled
overages incurred on the account. IAmFred.com
reserves the right to cancel any account, without
notice. |
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Pricing |
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All prices are subject to change.
IAmFred.com reserves the right to alter and
change the Pricing Schedule at any time, upon one
months prior notice to Customers. Notice may
include, but is not limited to, emails sent to
the registered email address of the customer, or
a notice placed conspicuosly on our web site. You
agree that failure to cancell your subscription
for Services with us after notification of any
changes to the Pricing Schedule shall constitute
notice to IAmFred.com that You have agreed to the
terms of the Pricing Schedule. |
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Legal
Investigations |
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IAmFred.com will cooperate with
all Legal & Government authorities,
international organizations and other law
enforcement authorities on any matter and users
pledge to comply with all applicable laws in such
investigation. Privacy is
of fundamental importance to IAmFred.com, who
will respect and protect the privacy of Users. Private information will be
disclosed to law enforcement authorities only as
required by law. |
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IAmFred.com will not knowingly
host illegal content if such content is
determined to be illegal by a court of competent
jurisdiction. Although IAmFred.com is unable to
monitor all content, IAmFred.com will make a
reasonable effort to investigate legitimate
complaints about alleged illegal content or
network abuse, and will take appropriate action.
Prior to taking any action, upon receipt of such
complaints IAmFred.com will: (a) conduct an
internal review to determine the nature and
location of the content or abuse, and where
warranted; (b) consult with legal counsel and/or
outside authorities, and/or; (c) notify the User
or Users of the complaint, with a request for a
response within seven days. If the complaint
concerns copyright infringement, IAmFred.com will
comply with all copyright laws of applicable
jurisdictions and reserves the right to remove
such offending item or Content at any time. If
you have any questions about these terms, or if
you would like information about using any
material in this site, please contact our
Webmaster at webmaster@iamfred.com |
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Copyright
Statement |
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Copyright © 2008
IAmFred.com, all rights reserved.
All content included on our site, is owned by
Users, IAmFred.com or third parties. All Content
is protected by local and international copyright
laws.
The Fred and DBF logos and
"IAmFred.com" are trademarks of
IAmFred.com or the relevant trademark holder.
This web site, its name, logos, and all content
on it may not be reproduced or transimitted in
any form, by any means, electronic or mechanical,
without the express prior consent of IAmFred.com
or the owner or the other trademarks. If you have
any questions concerning the use of IAmFred.com
or the Fred and/or DBF Logos, please contact us. |
Sincerely |
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