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General Terms And Conditions
Public Feedback [v2 04/2020]

We have a zero tolerance policy for posting negative feedback on any public locations about our company and/or our employees before submitting a ticket to our "Suggestions & Complaints" Department to discuss your issue, this will result in immediate account termination without any refund.


Although it is your right to post feedback without discussing your issue with us first, it is undoubtedly unfair and unprofessional not to, which is not the type of client that we want to deal with. We have the utmost respect for all of our clients, and are more than fair with all of our clients. We will do anything and everything possible to keep all of our clients satisfied. But in the unlikely event you are not satisfied, all that we ask is to discuss your issue with our Complaints Department first. For example, if you are the type of person to run to the forums at the first chance you get to complain, please DO NOT SIGNUP with OnlineBirdy Inc in the first place.


Furthermore, all of our policies that pertain to keeping information given to us confidential including but not limited to our privacy policy, confidentiality agreement, non-disclose agreement are nullified once you discuss your experience publicly. For example, if you make a negative post in public, then you are waiving your protection of privacy.


Payment Issues [v2 04/2020]

Resolving Problems

User agrees to pay OnlineBirdy all charges relating to the use of User's account(s) according to rates and prices stated on said sales order at the time of commencement.


OnlineBirdy reserves the right to suspend access to service for User's account(s) upon an indication of credit problems including delinquent payments or rejection of any credit card charges.


Credit Card payment: If Customer chooses to pay for services by credit card, Customer grants OnlineBirdy the right to charge payments to that card on each due date. Customer further agrees not to challenge or dispute any charge representing hosting payments.


Non-Payment: All Reseller, Shared and SEO Hosting payments are due in full on the monthly anniversary date. Failure to remit payment for services on the monthly anniversary date is a violation of the TOS. Failure to remit payment for five (5) consecutive days, including the anniversary date, may result in suspension of customer services. Failure to remit payment for services within seven (7) consecutive days, including the anniversary date, may result in termination of access to the service network and all services shall be reclaimed. All customer data remaining after fourteen (14) days of non-payment will be destroyed for security and privacy reasons. Once your account has been terminated for non payment, you may be charged a reconnection fee of $6. If you are a reseller with more than 10 cPanel accounts a restoration fee of $1 per cPanel account will be charged in addition to the reconnection fee in order to cover the administrative time that takes to restore accounts from backups. The same restore fees may apply to all customers, if you want us to provide backups once an account is terminated for non payment. This restore service is subject to backup availability. There will be no re-connection or restore fees to re-enable suspended accounts due to non-payment.


All Dedicated Server and Virtual Private Server payments are due in full on the monthly anniversary date. If full payment has not been received within three (3) consecutive days, including the anniversary date, suspension of public access to customer services may be incurred. Failure to remit payment for services within five (5) consecutive days, including the anniversary date, shall result in termination of access to the service network and all services shall be reclaimed.


Payment Reminders: Our credit card processor 2Checkout.com Inc. USA, will remit payment for all recurring orders, for services on the monthly anniversary date. It is clients responsibility to make sure the sufficient funds are available on their credit card payment account. It is the customers sole responsibility to make sure that dues are paid on time and the email address on file is working and allowed to receive reminders from 2Checkout.com Inc or OnlineBirdy Inc. Once a payment reminder dispatched from 2Checkout.com Inc or OnlineBirdy Inc. it is considered as a valid payment reminder. 2Checkout.com Inc or OnlineBirdy Inc does not take any responsibility for non deliverable email addresses or e-mails sent by 2Checkout.com Inc or OnlineBirdy Inc. not reaching the client destinations, including but not limited to spam filters or network issues. For the first day after payment should have been made; you will receive a payment reminder notice that states you must update your credit card and pay your invoice from 2Checkout.com Inc. The third day and the fifth day, second and third payment reminders will be sent by 2Checkout.com Inc. From the seventh day customer services may be suspended temporarily for non-payment.


Terms of Service (TOS) [v2 09/2020]

[1] Cloud Servers Agreement

User agrees to use the service in manner consistent with any and all applicable laws. In the event that this account is not used in accordance with all Applicable Laws including, but not limited to Local, State or Federal Laws, OnlineBirdy reserves the right to cooperate with all or any law enforcement agencies.


User agrees to follow the Acceptable Use Policy of any network user connects to, including OnlineBirdy system.


Neither OnlineBirdy nor its Information Providers are responsible for any damages arising from User's use of OnlineBirdy or by User's inability to use OnlineBirdy service.


User hereby agrees that any material submitted for publication on OnlineBirdy through user's account(s) does not violate or infringe any copyright, trademark, patent, statutory, common law or proprietary rights of others, or contain anything obscene or libelous. User's may not host any hardcore adult content or porn websites on our shared, reseller servers. Software intended to facilitate any such violations or infringements may not be stored on OnlineBirdy.


The following violations of "netiquette" are grounds for immediate suspension of service pending investigation by OnlineBirdy and will result in termination of the account(s) the investigation determines to have originated or transmitted these types of traffic.


Posting a single article or substantially similar articles to an excessive number of newsgroups (i.e., 20 or more) or continued posting of articles which are off-topic (e.g., off-topic according to the newsgroup charter or the article provokes complaints from the regular readers of the newsgroup for being off-topic).


Sending unsolicited mass e-mailings (i.e., to more than 25 users) which provoke complaints from the recipients.


Engaging in either of the above from a provider other than OnlineBirdy and using an account on OnlineBirdy as a mail drop for responses, or advertising a web site hosted at OnlineBirdy.


Continued harassment of other individuals on the Internet after being asked to stop by those individuals and by OnlineBirdy.


Impersonating another user or otherwise falsifying one's user name in e-mail, Usenet postings, on IRC, or with any other Internet service. (This does not preclude the use of nicknames in IRC or the use of anonymous re-mailer services.) OnlineBirdy prohibits IRC and associated programs, including psybnc, "bots", etc., scripts commonly used for abuse, attacks, or flooding threatening, harassing, or obscene content and any proxies which do not require authentication, including open mail proxies, unprotected anonymous web surfing proxies.


Users whose accounts are terminated for any of the above infractions are also responsible for the cost of labor to cleanup and respond to complaints incurred by OnlineBirdy.


General Server Limits

User agree to not use excessive amounts of resources. Any violations may result in us taking corrective action in order maintain server stability by killing any processes, disabling and/or suspending your account. User may not allow any process to run for longer than 30 CPU seconds or run any process that consumes more than 128 MB, PHP memory limit. Databases are limited to 25 max user connections. Cron jobs must not execute more than once every 30 minutes unless if specified by the script provider and will be niced to 15 or greater. Each cPanel account may not send more than 300 emails per hour. If it is determined that a customers account is overusing the system resources, we may temporary suspend the account to prevent the server from experiencing any issues, resulting problems to other valued customers. If it is determined that the account is not suitable for the shared or reseller server environment, a notice will be sent to the customer providing them alternative solutions or such as 'Semi-Dedicated', 'Dedicated Servers' or a Premium Hosting account. OnlineBirdy will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision and OnlineBirdy reserves the right to make adjustments to these limits at our sole discretion.


CloudLinux Server Resource Limits


The CL limits for the hosts and domains are set separately, on the CloudLinux Servers. Please note that the individual resource limit allocations for the accounts(as per the plan) is given below :


All unmetered dedicated servers and virtual private servers are installed on hundred mbps shared bandwidth ports, unless service is sold as a specified port size or specified/requested as a capped port. OnlineBirdy reserves the right to monitor network usage, and if a service significantly exceeds average usage, to throttle the available speed to conserve network resources. This will generally not include short spikes in usage, but will include, but not be limited to, sustained transfers of significantly larger than average amounts of bandwidth. If at any time any client's data transfer rate affects other OnlineBirdy clientele, OnlineBirdy reserves the right to throttle the service causing such a problem.


OnlineBirdy performs backups of client databases daily and weekly and all other files every other day and weekly on all of our servers to ensure critical files are never lost. Our backups are created for accounts that are under 50GB and 250,000 Inodes.. For Reseller plans, these limits apply to each cPanel user individually. Furthermore, OnlineBirdy does not guarantee this feature to any of the clients, and therefore strongly advise the client to regularly perform a backup of their own data, hosted with us. In the unfortunate event that the client has lost their data hosted with OnlineBirdy, will use reasonable endeavors to restore the client's data; however OnlineBirdy will not be responsible for lost data, time, income or any other resource due to faulty backups or non-existent back-ups or any data loss due to faulty hardware. We highly encourage our customers to have their own separate backups if your website or data is critical to your business or livelihood as no backup method is failsafe therefore we make no warranties.


The use of more than 240,000 inodes on any cPanel account (single user) may result in automatic warning on cPanel > Stats > inodes. There will be no service interruption at this stage but if no action is taken to reduce the inodes, service interruption may take place once a user reach 250,000 Inodes. Accounts found to be exceeding the 250,000 inode limit will automatically show resource exceeded message and may be suspended if no action is taken to reduce the inode count. Virtual private servers have a server wide limit of 5 million and there are no per cPanel user limits. Resellers have a reseller wide limit of 1 million inodes in addition to the per user limit, however this reseller limit is not something we actively enforce and it will only become an issue if a reseller is causing problems for other resellers on the server. If a resellers inode usage is in between 5 to 10 million inodes we may request the reseller to upgrade to a dedicated server or provide adequate time to resolve the inode usage, if no action is taken by the reseller, account may be suspended. Budget resellers have a per user limit of 50,000 inodes and a 250,000 reseller wide limit of inodes. If this limit is exceeded, we may request the budget reseller to upgrade to a normal reseller plan or provide adequate time to resolve the inode usage, if no action is taken by the budget reseller, account may be suspended.


Every file (a webpage, image file, email, etc) on your account uses up 1 inode. Sites that slightly exceed our inode limits are unlikely to be suspended; however, accounts that constantly create and delete large numbers of files on a regular basis, have hundreds of thousands of files or resellers with millions of files that cause file system damage may be flagged for review and/or suspension. The primary cause of excessive inodes seems to be due to users leaving their catchall address enabled, but never checking their primary account mailbox. Over time, tens of thousands of messages (or more) build up, eventually pushing the account past our inode limit. To disable your default mailbox, login to cPanel and choose "Mail", then "Default Address", "Set Default Address", and then type in: :fail: No such user here.


You MUST NOT use our RESELLER HOSTING ACCOUNTS to offer any of the following kinds of FREE services but are not limited to; Free Web hosting services, Free e-mail services, Free blogging services, Free home pages, Free image hosting, Free trial accounts.


There are several reasons for these prohibitions on free services. The reasons include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:


First, free services generally do not require any reliable means of identifying the person who registers for them. As such, it can be practically impossible to track down persons who abuse the free services.


Our customers, including (resellers) are all paying for prompt, reliable service and we have built a solid reputation for delivering excellent service to them. We cannot risk having unidentified persons damage our reputation.


Users of free services are notorious for registering for free accounts and immediately spamming or otherwise consuming very large amounts of system resources and bandwidth before their accounts are shut down. Such abusers often register for successive or multiple accounts and cause many problems for the servers and network.


Spammers, operators of phishing and pharming scams, phishing sites, distributors of spyware, viruses, Trojan horses, worms, and other malware, operators of illegal Warez sites, operators of illegal or unauthorized file-swapping or archive sites, and hackers frequently abuse free online services. Allowing free services would expose our servers to severe abuse and could harm us or all of our customers, and all the customers of our resellers.


Free services lead to various forms of abuses that may violate criminal laws or even foster terrorist activities. Because such abuses violate applicable laws as well as our policies, we must prohibit them.


If you violate this prohibition on free services, we may suspend your account immediately, with or without notice, as we in our sole discretion deem necessary to address the situation.


File hosting and file storage of any type is strictly prohibited on any and all reseller, shared and hosting servers. You MAY NOT use your hosting with OnlineBirdy as a download or file storage repository. Our services are strictly offered for website hosting only. This does NOT mean that you can not have downloads on your site. This means you can not operate a site that specializes in downloads like Download.com or similar and you may not use your account as a storage repository for MP3, games, video, photos, images, audio or music files or as a backup storage facility.


Abuse of OnlineBirdy Staff or Support Personnel: At OnlineBirdy, we take pride in providing excellent service to all of our customers. It is our policy always to treat our customers with the highest level of respect and courtesy. In return, we expect the same respect and courtesy from you. If our staff feels that you are consistently engaging in abusive content toward them, or addressing them in a demeaning or rude manner, your account(s) may be suspended and you may be asked to take your business elsewhere. In the event that we terminate service for abusive conduct, customers will be given five (5) day's notice. We will issue a refund only for the unused portion of pre-paid service. Abusive conduct includes, but is not limited to, the following behaviors:


Repeatedly addressing members of our staff in a demeaning or rude manner. Using profanity in any oral or written communications with our staff, by any medium of communication, including but not limited to e-mail, instant messages, chat, text messaging, fax, postal mail, telephone, voice over Internet Protocol, or in-person communication. Yelling or shouting at our staff. Deliberately using all capital (uppercase) letters in any written communication to our staff; Insulting our staff because of their personal characteristics, or on the basis of their race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, or housing or economic status; or Deliberately providing false information to our staff for the purpose of harassing them or wasting their time.


SLA [v3 01/2020]

99.9% Uptime Guarantee - Service Level Agreement

OnlineBirdy offers a 99.9% Uptime Guarantee. That means your web server is guaranteed operational 99.9% of the time in any calendar month. OnlineBirdy guarantee 99.9% service uptime allows for 45 minutes of unscheduled (HTTP) service outage per month as defined here. For each additional 45 minutes of downtime you will receive 10% credit or refund. Regardless of the number of outages, all refunds are limited to one month's hosting service fees and do not include excess usage fees or other nonstandard recurring charges. The amount of the credits are determined by the following table, based on the amount of server uptime for the month in which credits are requested.


SERVER UPTIME FOR THE MONTH PERCENTAGE OF MONTHLY CREDIT
99.9 - 100% 0% credit
99.7 - 99.8% 10% credit = 3 days
99.5 - 99.6% 25% credit = 8 days
99.3 - 99.4% 50% credit = 15 days
99.0 - 99.2% 75% credit = 23 days
98.9% and below 100% credit = 1 month

OnlineBirdy will not be held responsible for Service Outages resulting from non-OnlineBirdy operated equipment including, but not limited to, Internet NAP failures, upstream network outages or congestion and backbone failures. Additionally, OnlineBirdy will not be held responsible for delays in the registration or transfer of a domain due to InterNIC-related issues, unscheduled outages, web site specific outrages and outages resulting from malfunctioning customer scripts or applications that are installed by the customer, or for unusual traffic spikes or "denial of service" attacks on customer web sites.


Hybrid services, colocation services or renting out rack space, cloud servers, services under bare metal environment such as dedicated servers and virtual private services does not qualify for any credit under this server uptime guarantee.


Refunds will be issued upon request by the customer and upon determination that a service outage, as defined by this guarantee, has occurred. To be eligible for a refund, the refund request must be made to the Billing Department at the end of the month for the current month (last day of the current month) or within the 1st week of the month for the previous month.


Privacy Policy [v2 04/2020]

OnlineBirdy Inc. is committed to respecting our visitors information. We collect basic data from our visitors, such as IP addresses, browsers, time of access, etc. We use this information to analyze our traffic and to produce services that will be beneficial to our customers and us. We also apply cookies to all customers that visit our website.Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies for tracking purposes only. All information received upon our tracking devices, and any online form filled out by our visitors, will be kept strictly confidential, and will never be shared with a third party.


Once a visitor becomes a client of OnlineBirdy Inc. by filling out our online order form or account activation form, they are immediately affected by our privacy policy. We also collect personal information to process our customer’s service requests. Their personal information is only used to process the request, and for no other purpose. All information that is collected from our customers is kept strictly confidential, and will never be shared with a third party. All customers have their own unique account with OnlineBirdy Inc. and it is kept completely secure at all times.


Our privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their 'Personally identifiable information' (PII) is being used online. PII, as used in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.


Personal information that we collect from our users

When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information or other details to help you with your experience.


We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, respond to a survey, fill out a form or enter information on our site.


Usage of user information

We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:


• To personalize user's experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.


• To improve our website in order to better serve you.


• To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.


• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.


• To quickly process your transactions.


• To send periodic emails regarding your order or other products and services.


Protection of User Information

Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible.


Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.


We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.


All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.


Usage of 'cookies'

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site's or service provider's systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.


We use cookies to:


• Help remember and process the items in the shopping cart.


• Understand and save user's preferences for future visits.


• Keep track of advertisements.


• Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third party services that track


You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser's Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.


If you disable cookies off, some features will be disabled It won't affect the users experience that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.


Third Party Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.


Third Party Links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.


COPPA - Children Online Privacy Protection Act

When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under 13, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children's privacy and safety online. We do not specifically market to children under 13.


Fair Information Practices

The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information. In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur: We will notify the users via email


• Within 7 working days


We will notify the users via in site notification


• Within 7 working days


We also agree to the individual redress principle, which requires that individuals have a right to pursue legally enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or a government agency to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.


CAN SPAM Act

The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.


We collect your email address in order to:


• Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.


• Process orders and to send information and updates pertaining to orders


• We may also send you additional information related to your product and/or service.


• Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred


To be accordance with CAN SPAM we agree to the following:


• NOT use false, or misleading subjects or email addresses


• Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way


• Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters


• Monitor third party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.


• Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly


• Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can


• Follow the instructions at the bottom of each email.


Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the details provided at the Contact Us section on our website.