WEB DESIGN/MANAGEMENT/IMPLEMENTATION
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All services provided In Front
Media Inc. (IFM) to the Client are subject
to the following terms and conditions.
1. Acceptance. All new Clients must sign a copy of these
terms and conditions at the time of submission
of work to IFM, indicating agreement to and
acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. Receipt of email will be considered acceptance in absence of a hard copy signed document.
2. Charges. Charges
for services to be provided by IFM are defined
in the Web Design Proposal, which has been
either hand delivered, sent by regular mail
or by email. All Web site design services
require a non-refundable deposit payment of
a minimum of ten percent of the project proposal
total(10%) or $350 (which ever is greater)
returned with a signed development agreement.
A further start payment of up to forty percent
(40%) is required to begin development of
the interface, navigational components and
coding/programming. A further payment of
forty percent (40%) is required to populate
the web pages with client supplied content
and imagery. The final ten percent (10%)
will be requested when client has reviewed
and approved moving web pages to a live server
for public viewing. Where hosting services are requested IFM will supply hosting serves as per proposal specifications and shall activate hosting services on IFM servers upon receive of deposit and or start payments. IFM reserves the right
to change the rates for ongoing maintenance
services with thirty (30) days advance notification
to the Client. Payment for services is due
by cash or cheque and should be remitted to
In Front Media Inc. P.O. Box 267 Stouffville
Ontario, L4A 7Z5.
3. Client Review. IFM
will provide the Client with an opportunity
to review the appearance and content of Web
site materials in the case of entry level
website development once they are completed,
or at agreed stages for complex multiple page
site development. Such materials/web pages
will be deemed acceptable and approved by
the Client unless the Client notifies IFM
otherwise within ten (10) days of the date
the web pages/materials are made available
to the Client for viewing.
3a. Designer Websites. All
choices of interface are considered final
upon verbal, email or written confirmation
by the client indicating the interface number.
If the client desires a change in interface
number, a new agreement shall be signed by
the client and all fees paid to IFM prior
to this change will remain with IFM. All basic
modifications to Designer Website interfaces
include replacement of "generic"
terms on the existing graphic files. Any and
all extra requests for company branding will
be determined to be an extra and IFM may request
extra fees for developing and inserting said
extras. All deposits received for development
of the Designer Websites are non refundable.
Any client not wishing to complete/finish
any agreement for development for any reason,
will not be entitled to a refund of any fees
paid to IFM relating to deposit or start payments.
Title of "ownership" of the Designer
Websites remains with IFM whether the development
is completed or not. All Designer Websites
are discounted and are required to be installed
on the IFM Internet web servers. Clients wishing
to have their designs installed on third party
Internet web servers are required to pay an
additional fee of $300. As such whether Designer
Websites are installed on IFM servers or 3rd
party Internet servers, a design credit shall
be waived as per item 11 below. With respect
to development and installation of web files
on third party Internet servers the contents
of item 12 apply.
3b. Designer Website Commissions.
Any and all commissions paid to a person or
company that refers business to IFM and receives
commission based on that person or company
paying for any service fees to IFM will be
paid only upon receipt of final payment from
the referral and payment is deemed to have
clearance an IFM financial institution. All
commissions will be paid by cheque and will
be issued no later than 30 days after receipt
of notice of payment clearance. It is the
responsibility of the person/company in receipt
of commission cheques to be completely responsible
for payment of all taxes whether Canadian
or international. IFM will not withhold any
taxes at source whatsoever.
4. Turnaround Time. IFM will install and publicly post the Client's
Web site by an agreed date specified in the
attached project proposal. If no such date
is specified, the development will be completed
within an acceptable time dictated by delivery
of Client supplied content and imagery and
approval of web pages unless a delay is specifically
requested by the Client. At IFM's discretion where development delivery date issues exceed 6 months from initial acceptance as a result of issues on the Client side which may include but not limited to: the Client's failure to adhere to timely approval schedule, Client's failure to deliver website content, failure on the Client's part to approve supplied design samples or choose an interface design from our database, taking of extended leaves for medical or sabbatical reasons will result in non-payment of any refund requests.
5. Payment. Invoices
will be provided by IFM in advance of specific
stages of development which must be paid prior
to beginning development of each specific
stage as outlined in point #2 of this agreement
as specified by proposal or estimate, written
or verbal. The Client may elect to receive
either e-mail or hard copy invoices. Invoices
are due upon receipt. Accounts that remain
unpaid thirty (30) days after the date of
the invoice will be assessed a service charge
in the amount of one and one-half percent
(1.5%) per month of the total amount due.
6. Default. Accounts
unpaid thirty (30) days after the date of
invoice will be considered in default. If
the Client in default maintains any information
or files on IFM's Web space, IFM will, at
its discretion, remove all such material from
its Web space and or disable access to the
Clients email accounts. Removal of such material
and disabling of email account does not relieve
the Client of the obligation to pay any outstanding
charges assessed to the Client's account.
Cheques returned for insufficient funds will
be assessed a return charge of $35 and the
Client's account will immediately be considered
to be in default until full payment is received.
Clients with accounts in default agree to
pay IFM reasonable expenses, including attorney
fees and costs for collection by third-party
agencies, incurred by IFM in enforcing these
Terms and Conditions. Reinstatement of the
clients web space will require payment of
all outstanding fees plus the standard setup
fees.
7. Termination. Termination
of hosting services must be requested
in a written notice by the client and will be effective
on receipt of such notice. E-mail or telephone
requests for termination of services will
not be honored until and unless confirmed
in writing. Upon receipt of request notice to terminate service IFM will refund to the client
upon 50% of
the remaining period of pre paid service.
Failure of client to utilize any or all of the hosting services does not entitle client to a refund other than 50% of the remaining period of service. The Client will be invoiced for design work, consultation, and or meeting
time or any development labour upon receipt of first notice of cancellation. Payment shall be issued by client in full within thirty (30) days.
8. Legal Restrictions. IFM's services may be used for lawful purposes
only. Submission, transmission, or maintenance
of any information or materials in violation
of any state provincial or federal statutes
and/or regulations is prohibited. This includes,
but is not limited to, material legally judged
to be threatening or obscene. IFM reserves
the right to refuse service to the Client
without providing reason or cause.
9. Copyright. IFM retains the copyright to data, files and graphic
logos provided to the Client and grants IFM
the rights to publish and use such material for promotion as IFM desires.
Custom artwork and graphics including image
collages, logos, banners, headers, titles
and page layout designed by IFM for use in
the Client's Web presentation will remain
the property of IFM. At our discretion, IFM
will grant the Client rights to use such material
in formats other than Web presentations. A
separate agreement must be entered into, in
the event that the Client wishes to obtain
all rights for custom artwork or graphic logos
designed by IFM. The Client must obtain permission
and rights to use any information or files
that are copyrighted by a third party. The
Client is further responsible for granting
IFM permission and rights for use of the same
and agrees to indemnify and hold harmless
IFM from any and all claims resulting from
the Client's negligence or inability to obtain
proper copyright permissions. Every contract
for Web site design and/or placement shall
be regarded as a guarantee by the Client to
IFM that all such permissions and authorities
have been obtained. Evidence of permissions
and authorities may be requested.
10. Standard Media Delivery. Unless otherwise specified in the project
proposal, this Agreement maintains that all
text will be provided by the Client in electronic
format (MS Word, ASCII text files delivered
on floppy disk or via e-mail or FTP) and that
all photographs and other graphics will be
provided physically in high quality print
suitable for scanning or electronically in
.gif, .jpeg or .tiff format. Additional expenses
may be incurred and will be invoiced accordingly
for corrective work, conversion of media or
outside facility charges. Although every reasonable
attempt shall be made by IFM to return to
the Client any images or printed material
provided for use in creation of the Client's
Web site, however, such return cannot be guaranteed.
11. Design Credit
and Ownership. A
link to IFM will appear in either small type
or by a small graphic image file on a location
which is viewable - which could be installed
at but not limited to the bottom portion of
all client web pages created by IFM for the
Client's Web site. When
a graphic image is used it will have "attached"
relevant HTML or java script code which will
facilitate a hyper-link to the IFM website
(http://www.ifm.ca). This graphical link
and code will be installed by IFM and shall not be be modified or removed by anyone other
than IFM staff. Removal or modification of
the graphical image or modifications to the
code by the client or by an agent or subcontractor
of the client is not allowed unless written
permission is provided by IFM. Unauthorized removal or modification of the
supplied graphical image or code which causes
the hyper-link to redirect user traffic to
any website other than the IFM website, may
cause IFM, at their discretion, to request
either further payment or discontinue hosting
services if applicable. In the case of discontinued
service with respect to "disabling"
the hosting service, IFM will in no way be liable for
any damages real or perceived by the Client and at the descretion
of IFM management, the client will forfeit
any Hosting fee refund. Where a Client requests
that this graphic and hyperlink to IFM site
not be included, IFM has the right to collect
a further fee of 10% of the
total development fees or $300 which ever
is greater. IFM retains ownership of the web
page designs which includes but is not limited
to HTML, javascript, dhtml, layout, imagery,
graphical design, images and special programming.
Ownership of the designs can be transferred
upon mutual agreement between the client and
IFM. IFM requires a nominal fee of $300 to change
ownership of the web pages for client to use at their own discretion.
12. Access Requirements. If the Client's Web site is to be installed
on a third-party server, IFM must be granted
temporary read/write access to the Client's
storage directories, and those directories
must be accessible via FTP. Depending on the
specific nature of the project, other resources
might also need to be configured on the server.
In the case of a site installation on third-party
servers, IFM will require full payment of all
outstanding project development fees, hosting server fees, domain registration fees, consulting fee or any service fee which has been invoiced to the Client prior to uploading
the final web pages to the third-party server.
Any and all maintenance changes, programming
or additional labour must be paid to IFM in
full prior to uploading to third-party servers.
13. Right To Pull. By signing this Agreement, the Client agrees
to give IFM "on demand" access to
the Client's installed Web site, and further
agrees that IFM shall have the right to remove
that site from public posting for failure
to adhere to the terms of this Agreement,
including violation of any licensing agreements
or failure to pay fees duly assessed.
14. Post-Placement Alterations. IFM cannot accept responsibility for any alterations caused
by a third party accessing the Client's
pages once installed. Such alterations include,
but are not limited to additions, modifications
or deletions.
15. Indemnity. The Client agrees to indemnify and hold harmless
IFM from any and all claims resulting from
the Client's use of IFM's services that cause
damage to the Client or a third party.
16. Disclaimer. IFM makes no warranties of any kind, whether
express or implied, for the services it provides.
IFM also disclaims any warranty of merchantability
or fitness for a particular purpose. IFM will
not be responsible for any direct, indirect
or consequential damages, which may result
from the use of its services including loss
of data resulting from delays, non-delivery
or interruption in service. The Client acknowledges
and agrees that IFM cannot be responsible for service interruptions caused by Acts of
God or other circumstances beyond IFM's control.
17. General. These Terms and Conditions supersede all previous
representations, understandings or agreements
and shall prevail notwithstanding any variance
with terms and conditions of any order submitted,
save only for any exceptions specifically
outlined in the project proposal. The Client's
signature constitutes agreement to and
acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.
IFM reserves the right to change the terms
and conditions at any time without notice.
18. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by the provincial
and federal laws of Canada and the United
States of America, which shall claim venue
and jurisdiction for any legal motion or claim
arising from this Agreement. This Agreement
is void where prohibited by law.
HOSTING TERMS AND DOMAIN REGISTRATION
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DOMAIN REGISTRATION
1. IFM will register domain names on the behalf
of the Client with a registrar of IFM's choosing
and will populate the domain registration
forms with the IFM company information for
Registrant, Technical, Administrator and Billing
sections. The title of the domain will remain
with IFM during the period in which IFM will
be acting as Web Hosting Manager. At any time
the client may request change of Registrant,
Administrator, Technical and Billing information
that exists on the Registrar's database. Notification
of such requests must be sent to IFM in the
form of email and in writing. At no time will
IFM hold domain names from client except in
the case of the client owing fees to IFM for
the following but not limited to design, management,
development, programming, consultation or
domain registration. Once outstanding fees
have been paid IFM will release domains to
the Client.
2. Domain Registration does
NOT include Web Space or Virtual Hosting.
You are not provided with the option to submit
your own DNS entries as we are NOT a Registrar
and therefore assume that you wish to obtain
your hosting services directly through IFM.
3. Domain name payments are
non-refundable. Once a domain name is registered,
the WHOIS database stores the information
and is kept there for a period of one year,
until the date of renewal. Payment will NOT
be credited back.
4. In the event there is a
misspelling of a domain name, while being
registered online, you as the Client must
register the correct spelling of that name.
There are NO refunds issued for misspelled
domain names.
GENERAL HOSTING TERMS
1. IFM claims no control whatsoever
over the content of the information passing
through the IFM WEB SYSTEM. IFM makes no warranties
of any kind, whether expressed or implied,
for the service it is providing. IFM also
disclaims any warranty of merchantability
or fitness for a particular purpose. Where hosting services are requested IFM will set up hosting services within 10 days of receipt of deposit payment, start payment and signed proposal. In cases where project development is delayed by client not delivering content or client not approving sample designs, already developed web pages, graphics or programming hosting renewal dates will not be changed.
2. IFM will not be responsible for any damage
you suffer. This includes loss of data resulting
from delays, non-deliveries, or service interruptions
caused by its own negligence or your errors
or omissions.
3. IFM'S WEB HOSTING SYSTEM may only be used
for lawful purposes. Transmission of any material
in violation of any Federal, Provincial or
local regulation is prohibited. This includes,
but is not limited to copyrighted material,
material legally judged to be threatening
or obscene, or material protected by trade
secret.
4. We have the right to refuse to host adult
content and to remove it from our servers
at any time. Further, you are not permitted
to distribute material promoting hatred against
individuals or groups or any content that
may be deemed to be illegal according to the
laws within Canada regardless of any lawful
consent as offered by permission your country
of residence. We reserve the right to decline
requests for web space rentals and to cancel
any account at our discretion. You are also
not permitted to distribute material promoting
any form of network abuse (such as bulk spam
mailers, sniffers, or hacking tools).
5. At IFM and its officer's discretion, access
to IFM'S WEB HOSTING SYSTEM may be revoked
at any time for abusive conduct on the system
and/or the Internet and its resources as a
whole. Sending spam (unsolicited email) from
a domain or about a domain is considered abuse
of the system and could result in the termination
of your account. IFM and its officers are
deemed as authority to define abusive conduct
to the system, and definitions may periodically
change or be amended to previous ones.
6. You may not compile or install binary files
other than the ones provided on the system.
We do not make C compilers available for our
web clients, and the PERL binaries provided
will *not* have networking support (for example,
socket.ph, ftp.pl, etc.)
7. You agree to indemnify and
hold harmless IFM from any claims resulting
from your use of the service, which damages
you or another party.
8. Use of any information obtained via IFM'S
WEB HOSTING SYSTEM is at your own risk. IFM
specifically denies any responsibility for
the accuracy or quality of information obtained
through its services.
9. Telnet and Shell Access are strictly prohibited.
10. You may use ftp to access your home directory
for the purpose of installing and editing
your web pages as often as necessary.
11. These Terms and Conditions supersede all
previous representations understandings or
agreements and shall prevail notwithstanding
and variance with terms and conditions of
any order submitted.
12. If the disk usage, transfer limit or number
of email accounts of a hosted package is exceeded,
the user's account will be charged for extra
bandwidth, disk space and/or email accounts
according to our present pricing policy. Warning
messages may be emailed to users as they exceed
80% and 90% of their package’s respective
bandwidth and disk space limits. Annual accounts
that incur extra usage charges will be invoiced
separately. If payment for extra usage is
not received within two weeks of the invoice
date, the expiry date of the account will
be adjusted according to the amount outstanding.
13. Without prior notification, IFM reserves
the right to suspend or terminate accounts,
remove or modify any files which are deemed
to be a threat to the functionality or existence
of IFM'S WEB HOSTING SYSTEM.
14. IFM will provide a 15-day money back guarantee.
The 15 days start from the earliest of - the
day we receive the electronic order form,
the day Client signs up via fax or indicates acceptance. In any case,
the set-up fee, extra bandwidth and extra
storage space charges are not refundable.
15. Cancellations will NOT generate ANY refund.
16. Miva Merchant license keys are non refundable.
17. If any IFM account is
generating web traffic considered unusually
high, we may require the site to be placed
on a Heavy User server Virtual Server. We
reserve the right to make this determination
at our discretion.
18. Use of IFM'S WEB HOSTING SYSTEM constitutes
acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.
IFM, SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT
(SLA)
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NETWORK UPTIME GUARANTEE
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Service Uptime. IFM's target uptime for the
Service is 99% of the time in every calendar
month. IFM also guarantees that the email
services, web serving services, DNS services,
and the IFM network will be available and
function for a minimum of 99.9% of the time,
not including scheduled maintenance windows.
IFM's, multi-redundant network architecture
permits operation without service degradation
or CLIENT interruption in the case of maintenance
or equipment failure.
IFM will use commercially reasonable
efforts to meet or exceed service levels.
If IFM fails to meet the foregoing 99% service
levels set out below in a rolling two month
period, the CLIENT may be entitled to receive
a credit for such outage in accordance with
the schedule below. CLIENT will be entitled
to deduct said credit for such amounts otherwise
payable to IFM hereunder, calculated in accordance
with the table below for each month (computed
by reference to a 31 day month), if more than
20% of the CLIENT users are affected.
Availability |
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Monthly Service Credit |
99.40
- 99.70 |
2% |
99.00
- 99.40 |
5% |
98.00
- 99.00 |
8% |
97.00
- 98.00 |
10% |
96.00
- 97.00 |
12% |
95.00
- 96.00 |
15% |
Server Maintenance
Services. IFM will provide maintenance as
long as this agreement is in effect without
charge. Maintenance windows are scheduled
at times which least impact our CLIENTS
based on minimal overall activity on the
IFM web hosting systems which may vary from
month to month.
Notwithstanding the preceding,
IFM reserves the right, in its reasonable
discretion, to perform any emergency work
outside of any Maintenance Windows in order
to keep the IFM System functioning in accordance
with appropriate Service Levels. If advance
notice has been provided, periods of time
the Service is unavailable during Emergency
maintenance windows will not be included in
calculating the service levels actually achieved.
Software and hardware failures resulting from
a third party intrusion (i.e. denial of service
attacks) are excluded from the uptime guarantee.
Private label DNS (domain name servers) require
3 DNS entries, the third of which is IFM'S
generic DNS. IFM also does not provide any
service guarantees for Microsoft Access, ASP,
Cold Fusion or Miva. Website or email services
downtime resulting from misuse by the CLIENT'S
end users will not be recorded as downtime
when calculating credits.
Credits for affected websites
must be applied for within 30 days of the
occurrence of the problem. IFM'S Technical
Services will be responsible for problem investigation
and will provide a written response to the
CLIENT explaining the results of their investigation.
In the event there is a dispute of findings,
IFM reserves the right to make the final decision
on whether credits will be provided to the
CLIENT.
COLDFUSION - MIVA - ASP
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Please note Coldfusion (.cfm), Miva and ASP
(.asp) services are hosted on a closed source
platform. The 99.9% guarantee does not apply for these
services.
ACCESS DATABASES
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Access is not designed for, nor recommended
for use on busy websites. Therefore we
cannot guarantee performance for websites
which make use of Access databases. We recommend
using MySQL or MS-SQL for increased performance
and reliability.
EASYMAIL/MAILING LISTS
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1. EasyMail E-Mail Accounts are restricted
to a maximum size of 500 MB of space on
the EasyMail e-mail server. If this space
is exceeded, this may result in e-mail bounce-back.
2. EasyMail E-Mail Accounts currently do not have maximum e-mail transfer limits, however we do not recommend sending large attachments (over 50 MB) as many other factors including ISP network configurations may interfere with successful transmission efforts.
3. Deletions of EasyMail Accounts are queued
for execution once a day (overnight).
DOMAIN REGISTRATIONS
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1. Virtual Hosting will be active 24 hours
after the initialization process begins (Final
Confirmation is e-mailed to the client with
subject 'Final Service Confirmation'). This
includes DNS Support and Web Hosting Support.
HEAVY USER SERVER
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1. This server is available by approval by
a Senior IFM officer only.
DISPUTES BETWEEN DOMAIN NAME HOLDERS AND THIRD PARTIES
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The applicant acknowledges that any third
party may, for whatever reason, challenge
the use by the applicant of the domain name
before an Administrative Domain Name Challenge
Panel (ACP) in accordance with the WIPO ACP
rules. The applicant further acknowledges
that the decisions of an ACP may determine
rights of applicant or other parties or both
to the use of a particular domain name, and
that, with respect to its right to use a particular
domain name or names, it will be bound by
ACP decisions
IFM is a Web Hosting and Web Design/Management
Service owned and maintained by In Front Media
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