2.
SELECTION OF A DOMAIN NAME.
You represent that, to the best of the your knowledge
and belief, neither this registration of a domain name
nor the manner in which it is directly or indirectly to
be used infringes upon the legal rights of a third party
and, further, that the domain name is not being
registered for nor shall it at any time whatsoever be
used for any unlawful purpose whatsoever.
3.
FEES.
As consideration for the Services you have selected, you
agree to pay the RSP the applicable service fees. All
fees payable hereunder are non-refundable. As further
consideration for the Services, you agree to: (1)
provide certain current, complete and accurate
information about you as required by the registration
process and (2) maintain and update this information as
needed to keep it current, complete and accurate. All
such information shall be referred to as account
information ("Account Information"). By submitting this
Agreement, you represent that the statements in your
Application are true, complete and accurate.
4.
TERM.
This Agreement shall
remain in full force during the length of the term of
your domain name registration(s) as selected, recorded,
and paid for upon registration of the domain name.
Should you choose to renew or otherwise lengthen the
term of your domain name registration, then the term of
this Registration Agreement shall be extended
accordingly. Should the domain name be transferred to
another Registrar, the terms and conditions of this
contract shall cease.
5.
MODIFICATIONS TO
AGREEMENT.
You agree that we may: (1) revise the terms and
conditions of this Agreement; and (2) change the
services provided under this Agreement. You agree to be
bound by any such revision or change will which shall be
effective immediately upon posting on our web site or
upon notification to you by e-mail or your country’s
postal service pursuant to the Notices section of this
Agreement. You agree to review this Agreement as posted
on our web site periodically to maintain an awareness of
any and all such revisions. If you do not agree with
any revision to the Agreement, you may terminate this
Agreement at any time by providing us with notice by
e-mail or postal service pursuant to the Notices section
of this Agreement. Notice of your termination shall be
effective after processing by us. You agree that, by
continuing the use of Services following notice of any
revision to this Agreement or change in service(s), you
shall be bound by any such revisions and changes. If
you have registered your name during the Sunrise Period,
you agree to be bound by the Sunrise Dispute Resolution
Policy (“Sunrise Dispute Policy”) found at (http://www.afilias.com/faq/sunrise-challenge.html).
You further agree to be bound by the ICANN Uniform
Dispute Resolution Policy (“Dispute Policy”) as
presently written and posted on
http://www.opensrs.org/legal/udrp.shtml and
as shall be amended from time to time. You acknowledge
that if you do not agree to any such modifications, you
may request that your domain name be deleted from the
domain name database.
6.
MODIFICATIONS TO YOUR
ACCOUNT.
In order to change any of your account information with
us, you must use your Account Identifier and Password
that you selected when you opened your account with us.
You agree to safeguard your Account Identifier and
Password from any unauthorized use. In no event shall
we be liable for the unauthorized use or misuse of your
Account Identifier or Password.
7.
DOMAIN NAME DISPUTE
POLICY.
If you reserved or
registered a domain name through us, or transferred a
domain name to us from another registrar, you agree to
be bound by the Dispute Policies that are incorporated
herein and made a part of this Agreement by reference.
The current version of the general registration Dispute
Policy may be found at http://www.opensrs.org/legal/udrp.shtml.
Please take the time to familiarize yourself with this
policy.
8.
DOMAIN NAME DISPUTES.
You agree that, if the
registration or reservation of your domain name is
challenged by a third party, you will be subject to the
provisions specified in the Sunrise Dispute Policy or
the Dispute Policy, as applicable. You agree that in
the event a domain name dispute arises with any third
party, you will indemnify and hold us harmless pursuant
to the terms and conditions contained in the Sunrise
Dispute Policy or Dispute Policy, as applicable.
9.
POLICY.
You agree that your registration of the domain name
shall be subject to suspension, cancellation, or
transfer pursuant to a Tucows, Registry Operator, ICANN
or government-adopted policy, or pursuant to any
registrar or registry procedure not inconsistent with a
Tucows, Registry Operator, ICANN or government-adopted
policy, (1) to correct mistakes by us or the Registry in
registering the name or (2) for the resolution of
disputes concerning the domain name.
10.
AGENCY.
Should you intend to license use of a domain name to a
third party you shall nonetheless be the domain name
holder of record and are therefore responsible for
providing your own full contact information and for
providing and updating accurate technical and
administrative contact information adequate to
facilitate timely resolution of any problems that arise
in connection with the domain name. You shall accept
liability for harm caused by wrongful use of the domain
name. You represent that you have provided notice of
the terms and conditions in this Agreement to a third
party licensee and that the third party agrees to the
terms hereof.
11.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
We reserve the right to distribute information to you
that is pertinent to the quality or operation of our
services and those of our service partners. These
announcements will be predominately informative in
nature and may include notices describing changes,
upgrades, new products or other information to add
security or to enhance your identity on the Internet.
12.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
You agree that our entire liability, and your exclusive
remedy, with respect to any Services(s) provided under
this Agreement and any breach of this Agreement is
solely limited to the amount you paid for such Service(s).
Neither we nor our contractors or third party
beneficiaries shall be liable for any direct, indirect,
incidental, special or consequential damages resulting
from the use or inability to use any of the Services or
for the cost of procurement of substitute services.
Because some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or
limitation of liability for consequential or incidental
damages, in such jurisdictions, our liability is limited
to the extent permitted by law. We disclaim any and all
loss or liability resulting from, but not limited to:
(1) loss or liability resulting from access delays or
access interruptions; (2) loss or liability resulting
from data non-delivery or data miss-delivery; (3) loss
or liability resulting from acts of God; (4) loss or
liability resulting from the unauthorized use or misuse
of your account identifier or password; (5) loss or
liability resulting from errors, omissions, or
misstatements in any and all information or services(s)
provided under this Agreement; (6) loss or liability
resulting from the interruption of your Service. You
agree that we will not be liable for any loss of
registration and use of your domain name, or for
interruption of business, or any indirect, special,
incidental, or consequential damages of any kind
(including lost profits) regardless of the form of
action whether in contract, tort (including negligence),
or otherwise, even if we have been advised of the
possibility of such damages. In no event shall our
maximum liability exceed five hundred ($500.00) dollars.
13.
INDEMNITY.
You agree to release, indemnify, and hold us, our
contractors, agents, employees, officers, directors,
affiliates and third party beneficiaries harmless from
all liabilities, claims and expenses, including
attorney's fees, of third parties relating to or arising
under this Agreement, the Services provided hereunder or
your use of the Services, including without limitation
infringement by you, or someone else using the Service
of any intellectual property or other proprietary right
of any person or entity, or from the violation of any of
our operating rules or policy relating to the Service(s)
provided. You also agree to release, indemnify and hold
us harmless pursuant to the terms and conditions
contained in the Dispute Policy. When we are threatened
with suit by a third party, we may seek written
assurances from you concerning your promise to indemnify
us; your failure to provide those assurances shall be a
breach of your Agreement and may result in deactivation
of your domain name.
14.
TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP. The person named as
registrant at the time the user name and password are
secured shall be the owner of the domain name. You agree
that prior to transferring ownership of your domain name
to another person (the Transferee") you shall require
the Transferee to agree in writing to be bound by all
the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Your domain
name will not be transferred until we receive such
written assurances or other reasonable assurance that
the Transferee has been bound by the contractual terms
of this Agreement (such reasonable assurance as
determined by us in our sole discretion) along with the
applicable transfer fee. If the Transferee fails to be
bound in a reasonable fashion (as determine by us in our
sole discretion) to the terms and conditions in this
Agreement, any such transfer will be null and void. You
acknowledge that you will not be entitled to change
registrars during the first sixty (60) days following
the registration of your domain name.
15.
BREACH.
You agree that failure to abide by any provision of this
Agreement, any operating rule or policy or the Dispute
Policy provided by us, may be considered by us to be a
material breach and that we may provide a written
notice, describing the breach, to you. If within thirty
(30) calendar days of the date of such notice, you fail
to provide evidence, which is reasonably satisfactory to
us, that you have not breached your obligations under
the Agreement, then we may delete the registration or
reservation of your domain name. Any such breach by you
shall not be deemed to be excused simply because we did
not act earlier in response to that, or any other breach
by you.
16.
NO GUARANTY.
You acknowledge that registration or reservation of your
chosen domain name does not confer immunity from
objection to either the registration, reservation, or
use of the domain name.
17.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES.
You agree that your use of our Services is solely at
your own risk. You agree that such Service(s) is
provided on an "as is", "as available" basis. We
expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind, whether
express or implied, including but not limited to the
implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a
particular purpose and non-infringement. We make no
warranty that the Services will meet your requirements,
or that the Service(s) will be uninterrupted, timely,
secure, or error free; nor do we make any warranty as to
the results that may be obtained from the use of the
Service(s) or as to the accuracy or reliability of any
information obtained through the Service or that defects
in the Service will be corrected. You understand and
agree that any material and/or data downloaded or
otherwise obtained through the use of Service is done at
your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely
responsible for any damage to your computer system or
loss of data that results from the download of such
material and/or data. We make no warranty regarding any
goods or services purchased or obtained through the
Service or any transactions entered into through the
Service. No advice or information, whether oral or
written, obtained by you from us or through the Service
shall create any warranty not expressly made herein.
18.
INFORMATION. As part of the registration process,
you are required to provide us certain information and
to update us promptly as such information changes such
that our records are current, complete and accurate. You
are obliged to provide us the following information:
(i)
Your name
and postal address (or, if different, that of the domain
name holder);
(ii)
The domain
name being registered;
(iii)
The name,
postal address, e-mail address, and voice and fax (if
available) telephone numbers of the administrative
contact for the domain name;
(iv)
The name,
postal address, e-mail address, and voice and fax (if
available) telephone numbers of the billing contact for
the domain name.
Any other information,
which we request from you at registration, is voluntary.
Any voluntary information we request is collected for
the purpose of improving the products and services
offered to you through your RSP.
19.
DISCLOSURE AND USE OF REGISTRATION INFORMATION. You
agree and acknowledge that we will make domain name
registration information you provide available to ICANN,
to the registry administrators, and to other third
parties as applicable. You further agree and acknowledge
that we may make publicly available, or directly
available to third party vendors, some, or all, of the
domain name registration information you provide, for
purposes of inspection (such as through our WHOIS
service) or other purposes as required or permitted by
ICANN and applicable laws.
You
hereby consent to any and all such disclosures and use
of information provided by you in connection with the
registration of a domain name (including any updates to
such information), whether during or after the term of
your registration of the domain name. You hereby
irrevocably waive any and all claims and causes of
action you may have arising from such disclosure or use
of your domain name registration information by us.
You may
access your domain name registration information in our
possession to review, modify or update such information,
by accessing our domain manager service, or similar
service, made available by us through your RSP.
We will
not process data about any identified or identifiable
natural person that we obtain from you in a way
incompatible with the purposes and other limitations
which we describe in this Agreement.
We will
take reasonable precautions to protect the information
we obtain from you from our loss, misuse, unauthorized
accessor disclosure, alteration or destruction of that
information.
20.
REVOCATION.
Your wilful provision of inaccurate or unreliable
information, your wilful failure promptly to update
information provided to us, or your failure to respond
for over fifteen (15) calendar days to inquiries by us
concerning the accuracy of contact details associated
with the your registration shall constitute a material
breach of this Agreement and be a basis for cancellation
of the domain name registration.
21.
RIGHT OF REFUSAL.
We, in our sole discretion, reserve the right to refuse
to register or reserve your chosen domain name or
register you for other Services. In the event we do not
register or reserve your domain name or register you for
other Services, or we delete your domain name or other
Services within such thirty (30) calendar day period, we
agree to refund your applicable fee(s). You agree that
we shall not be liable to you for loss or damages that
may result from our refusal to register, reserve, or
delete your domain name or register you for other
Services.
We
reserve the right to delete or transfer your domain name
within a thirty (30) day period following registration
if we believe the registration has been made possible by
a mistake, made either by us or by a third party. We
also reserve the right to suspend a domain name during
resolution of any dispute.
22.
SEVERABILITY.
You agree that the terms of this Agreement are
severable. If any term or provision is declared invalid
or unenforceable, that term or provision will be
construed consistent with applicable law as nearly as
possible to reflect the original intentions of the
parties, and the remaining terms and provisions will
remain in full force and effect.
23.
NON-AGENCY.
Nothing contained in this Agreement or the Dispute
Policies shall be construed as creating any agency,
partnership, or other form of joint enterprise between
the parties.
24.
NON-WAIVER.
Our failure to require performance by you of any
provision hereof shall not affect the full right to
require such performance at any time thereafter; nor
shall the waiver by us of a breach of any provision
hereof be taken or held to be a waiver of the provision
itself.
25.
NOTICES.
Any notice, direction or other communication given under
this Agreement shall be in writing and given by sending
it via e-mail or via postal service. In the case of
e-mail, valid notice shall only have been deemed to have
been given when an electronic confirmation of delivery
has been obtained by the sender. In the case of e-mail,
notifications must be sent to us at
lhutz@tucows.com, or in the case of
notification to you, to the e-mail address provided by
you in your WHOIS record. Any e-mail communication
shall be deemed to have been validly and effectively
given on the date of such communication, if such date is
a business day and such delivery was made prior to 4:00
p.m. EST, otherwise it will be deemed to have been
delivered on the next business day. In the case of
regular mail notice, valid notice shall be deemed to
have been validly and effectively given 5 business days
after the date of mailing and, in the case of
notification to us or to RSP shall be sent to:
Our
Address:
TUCOWS
Inc.
96
Mowat Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 3M1
Attention: Legal Affairs
and in
the case of notification to you shall be to the address
specified in the “Administrative Contact” in your WHOIS
record.
26.
ENTIRETY.
You agree that this Agreement, the rules and policies
published by us and the Dispute Policy are the complete
and exclusive agreement between you and us regarding our
Services. This Agreement and the Dispute Policy
supersede all prior agreements and understandings,
whether established by custom, practice, policy or
precedent.
27.
GOVERNING LAW.
This Agreement
shall be governed by and interpreted and enforced in
accordance with the LAWS OF Province of ontario and the
FEDERAL LAWS OF canada applicable therein without
reference to rules governing choice of laws. Any action
relating to this Agreement must be brought in ontario
and you irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of
such courts.
28.
INFANCY.
You attest that you are of legal age to enter into this
Agreement.
29.
Acceptance of Agreement.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND
AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU HAVE
INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF THE SERVICE
AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION AGREEMENT,
GUARANTEE OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS
AGREEMENT.