THIS IS A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENTSCHEDULE A IP Claim Service
Terms Of Use THIS IS A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT BETWEEN TUCOWS, INC. (“REGISTRAR”) AND YOU, THE OWNER OF A REGISTERED OR COMMON LAW TRADEMARK OR SERVICE MARK (“OWNER”) OR THE DULY AUTHORIZED AGENT OF AN OWNER (“AGENT”) (COLLECTIVELY, “YOU”).
THESE TERMS OF USE ARE THE COMPLETE AND EXCLUSIVE STATEMENT OF THE TERMS OF USE REGARDING USE OF THE REGISTRAR’S INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CLAIM SERVICE (THE “SERVICE”).
BY SELECTING “I AGREE,” BY USING THE SERVICE OR BY SIGNIFYING ACCEPTANCE IN ANY OTHER WAY, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF USE.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO USE THE SERVICE AND YOU MUST DISCONTINUE ANY FURTHER USE.
The Service
Registrar provides the Service to holders of both registered and common law trademarks or service marks (collectively “Trademarks”). During the domain name application process, applicants for a .biz domain name (“Applicants”) will be notified of an Owner’s alleged intellectual property rights in a Trademark if the domain name contained in the domain name application is an exact match of the Trademark identified in an IP Claim (as defined below) submitted by Owner.
Registration, Password and Security
You must provide accurate, complete and current registration information and must update this information promptly if it changes.
You represent and warrant that You are at least eighteen (18) years of age or older and are either an Owner or an Agent duly authorized to represent an Owner(s) in connection with the Service and submitting an IP Claim on behalf of an Owner(s).
Agent will indemnify and hold harmless Registrar and its officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates and subcontractors for any claims brought by Owner or Third Parties relating to the use of the Service.
License to Use Data / Privacy
By submitting an IP Claim, You hereby grant Registrar, as well as any of its agents or subcontractors, a limited, royalty-free, non-exclusive worldwide license to use all of the data contained in the IP Claim solely for the purposes of implementing the Service, processing Your IP Claim, notifying Applicants of Your IP Claim, and for notifying You of changes to the Service, for archival purposes.
The IP Claim Process
In order to submit a claim with respect to a Trademark or Trademarks (“IP Claim”) through the Service, You must complete an IP Claim form for each Trademark. For each IP Claim, You must submit complete contact information, representative contact information and notification details, and the details regarding the Trademark. You may specify in the representative field that an Agent may receive legal correspondence regarding the IP Claim.
Once You have submitted an IP Claim, you will receive a confirmation email and a claim number. You must retain the claim number for each IP Claim You submit.
Registrar will accept IP Claims until July 9, 2001, or such later date as it may determine in its sole discretion (“Close of Phase I”) and no IP Claims will be accepted after that date.
From the Close of Phase I until September 25, 2001 (“Phase 2”), or such other later date as Registrar may choose, in its sole discretion, the domain name applications from ICANN-approved registrars (“Applications”) will be compared with the database of IP Claims processed through the Service (“IP Claim Database”).
For each exact match between an IP Claim in the IP Claim Database and a domain name application, the Registry Operator for .Biz (“Registry Operator”) will notify the Applicant that a third party or third parties have submitted an IP Claim for the exact Trademark.
The email
notification to the Applicant will include, among other things, the
information provided by Owner in the IP Claim, instructions on how to
proceed with the registration process, and that if selected during the
randomized name selection phase (“Name Selection Phase”), the domain
name will be placed on a temporary thirty (30) day hold when the Registry
goes “live.”
The Applicant will
have the option to proceed with the Application or cancel the Application.
If the Applicant does
not respond to the email notification, or elects to cancel the
Application, the Applicant’s domain name application will not be
processed during the Name Selection Phase.
If the Applicant
chooses to proceed with the registration process and the name is selected
during the Name Selection Phase, that domain name automatically will be
placed on a thirty (30) day “hold period” when the name is registered.
After Name Selection,
the Owner will be notified by Registry Operator if an Applicant has
successfully registered the domain name.
The Owner will then
have the option of contacting the Applicant and finding a solution or
using the guidelines set forth by a special dispute resolution process
called the Start-up Trademark Opposition Policy (“STOP”) (formerly
referred to as the Start-up Dispute Resolution Policy or “SUDRP”) (“information
available at http://www.neulevel.com/countdown/stop.html, or the Uniform
Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Procedures (“UDRP”) (information is
available at http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp-policy-24oct99.htm).
You will not be
notified if there are no Applications that exactly match an IP Claim You
submitted in the IP Claim Database.
USE OF THE SERVICE
DOES NOT GUARANTEE THAT AN OWNER WILL BE AWARDED THE .BIZ EXTENSION FOR
ITS TRADEMARK.
AN OWNER THAT
WISHES TO OBTAIN A .BIZ EXTENSION FOR ITS TRADEMARK MUST FILE A DOMAIN
NAME APPLICATION.
DOMAIN NAME
APPLICANTS WILL ONLY BE NOTIFIED OF APPLICATIONS THAT ARE EXACT MATCHES
WITH A TRADEMARK IDENTIFIED IN AN IP CLAIM FORM.
REGISTRAR WILL NOT
VERIFY WHETHER A TRADEMARK CLAIMED ON AN IP CLAIM FORM CORRESPONDS WITH AN
ACTUAL, LEGAL OR VALID TRADEMARK, NOR WILL REGISTRAR PROVIDE ANY LEGAL
OVERSIGHT OR ADJUDICATION FOR ANY DISPUTED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
IMPLICATED BY THE SERVICE.
Conduct
You may access and
use the Service for lawful purposes only and you are solely responsible
for the knowledge and adherence to any and all laws, statutes, rules and
regulations pertaining to Your use of the Service.
You agree that You
will not (i) use the Service to commit a criminal offence or to encourage
conduct that would constitute a criminal offence or give rise to a civil
liability, or otherwise violate any local state, Federal or international
law or regulation; (ii) upload or otherwise transmit any content that You
do not have a right to transmit under any law or contractual or fiduciary
duty; (iii) interfere or infringe with any trademark or proprietary rights
of any other party; (iv) interfere with the ability of other users to
access or use the Service; (v) claim a relationship with or to speak for
any individual, business, association, institution or other organization
for which You are not authorized to claim such a relationship; (vi)
interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to
the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or
regulations of networks connected to the Service; or (vii) reproduce,
duplicate, copy, use, distribute, sell, resell or otherwise exploit for
any commercial purposes any portion of the Service.
Fees
As consideration for
the Service, You agree to pay Registrar, or its agents or subcontractors,
as the case may be, an IP Claim fee for each IP Claim submitted through
the Service by credit card through its online payment system.
Such fee shall be due
immediately and is non-refundable.
Registrar, or its
agents or subcontractors, may take all remedies to collect fees owed.
Registrar, or its
agents or subcontractors may require you to submit and pay for each IP
Claim individually or it may allow you store up a certain number of IP
Claims before submitting them for processing.
Once you have stored
that number of IP Claims, you may not be able to store any additional IP
Claims and may need to submit them for processing and pay the applicable
fee before obtaining additional storage space.
No refunds are
permitted.
Agents
You agree that, if
Your agent (e.g., an attorney, employee, etc.) submits an IP Claim on Your
behalf, You are nonetheless bound as a principal by all Terms of Use
herein. Your continued use of the Services shall ratify any unauthorized
actions of Your agent. By acting on Your behalf, Your agent certifies that
he or she is authorized to use the Service on Your behalf, that he or she
is authorized to bind You to these Terms of Use and that he or she has
apprised You of these Terms of Use of this Agreement.
In addition, You are
responsible for any errors made by Your agent.
Registrar will not
refund fees paid by You or Your agent on Your behalf for any reason,
including, but not limited to, in the event that Your agent fails to
comply with these Terms of Use, Your agent incorrectly provides
information in the IP Claim process or if Your agent changes or otherwise
modifies Your IP Claim incorrectly.
Copyright
You acknowledge that
the Service, any underlying technology used in connection with the
Service, and all software, material, information, communications, text,
graphics, links, electronic art, animations, audio, video, photos, and
other data (collectively, the “Content”) available within the Service
are provided by Registrar or third-party providers and are the copyrighted
works of Registrar and/or such third parties.
Except as expressly
authorized by Registrar or such third parties in these Terms of Use or as
may be posted on the Service, You may not copy, reproduce, publish,
distribute, modify, create derivative works of, rent, lease, sell,
transfer, display, transmit, compile or collect in a database, or in any
manner commercially exploit any part of the Content or the Service, in
whole or in part.
You may not store any
significant portion of any Content or the Service owned by, or licensed to
Registrar in any form, whether archival files, computer-readable files, or
any other medium. You also may not “mirror” any Content or the Service
on any other server.
Registrar encourages
you to download and print a reasonable number of copies of an IP Claim for
non-commercial, internal use only; provided that (i) any permitted copies
contain, in unmodified form, any copyright or other proprietary rights
notices and an original source attribution to the Service; and (ii) no
modifications are made except as may be expressly provided by Registrar.
Links
Some links on the
Service lead to sites posted by independent site owners.
Because Registrar has
no control over these sites, it cannot be responsible for such sites’
accessibility via the Internet and does not endorse products, services, or
information provided by such sites.
As such, Registrar
shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage
or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with, use or
reliance on any content, goods or services available on or through any
other site.
Further, the
inclusion of these links does not imply that the other sites have given
permission for inclusion of these links, or that there is any relationship
between Registrar and the linked sites.
Disclaimer of
Warranty, Limitation of Liability
YOU AGREE THAT YOUR
ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
NEITHER REGISTRAR NOR
ITS PARENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, SHAREHOLDERS, MEMBERS, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS,
EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES, AGENTS OR SUBCONTRACTORS WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE
WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE; NOR DO THEY MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO
THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE OR AS TO THE
ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR CONTENT WITHIN THE SERVICE.
THE SERVICE IS
PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS, “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT REPRESENTATIONS
OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSES AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT WILL
REGISTRAR NOR ITS PARENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, SHAREHOLDERS, MEMBERS, OFFICERS,
DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES, AGENTS OR SUBCONTRACTORS BE LIABLE TO
YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES), ARISING OUT YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE THE
SERVICE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF REVENUE OR ANTICIPATED
PROFITS, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOST BUSINESS, LOST DATA, COMPUTER FAILURE OR
MALFUNCTION, OR ANY AND ALL OTHER DAMAGES OR LOSSES THAT RESULT FROM
MISTAKES, INACCURATELY ENTERED DATA, UNAUTHORIZED USE, OMISSIONS,
INTERRUPTIONS, ERRORS, DEFECTS, DELAYS IN OPERATION, OR ANY FAILURE OF
PERFORMANCE, WHETHER OR NOT LIMITED TO ACTS OF GOD, COMMUNICATIONS
FAILURE, THEFT, DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO INSTITUTIONS
RECORDS, PROGRAMS OR SERVICES.
YOU AGREE THAT THE
FOREGOING LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY REPRESENT A REASONABLE ALLOCATION OF
RISK.
IN NO EVENT, SHALL
REGISTRAR BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY AMOUNT EXCEEDING THE AMOUNT OF FEES
PAID BY YOU FOR THE APPLICABLE IP CLAIM.
Indemnification
You agree to
indemnify and hold harmless Registrar and its parents, subsidiaries,
shareholders, members, officers, directors, employees, affiliates, agents
and subcontractors from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorney’s
fees made by any third party due to or arising out of Your use of the
Service, your breach of these Terms of Use, any Content submitted to the
Service, or any disputes involving the intellectual property rights of the
Trademarks.
Modifications to
the Service
Registrar reserves
the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue,
temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or
without notice.
You agree that
Registrar will not be liable to You or to any third party for any
modification, suspension, or discontinuation of the Services.
Termination
You may discontinue
Your participation in and access to the Service at any time.
These Terms of Use
will continue to apply to all past use of the Service by You, even if You
are no longer using the Service.
You acknowledge and
agree that Registrar may terminate or block Your use of all or part of the
Service without prior notice for any reason, including, without
limitation, if Registrar believes You have engaged in conduct prohibited
by these Terms of Use.You agree that upon termination or discontinuance
for any reason, may delete all information related to You on the Service
and may bar Your access to and use of the Service.
Governing Law
These Terms of Use
shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the
Province of Ontario, without regard to its principles of conflicts of law.
Changes to the
Terms of Use
Registrar reserves
the right to modify the Terms of Use at any time and from time to time.
Any modifications
shall be effective upon the posting of the modified Terms of Use at http://ipclaims.neulevel.com/legal/conditions.php.You
agree to review these Terms of Use periodically so that You are aware of
any modifications.
Your continued use of
the Service shall be deemed Your acceptance of the modified Terms of Use.
Severability
In the event that any
provision of these Terms of Use shall be unenforceable or invalid under
any applicable law or be so held by applicable court decision, such
unenforceability or invalidity shall not render this Agreement
unenforceable or invalid as a whole, and, in such event, such provision
shall be changed and interpreted so as to best accomplish the objectives
of such provision within the limits of applicable law or applicable court
decision.
Third Party
Beneficiary
Registry Operator (“NeuLevel”)
is an intended third party beneficiary of these Term and Conditions with
rights to enforce these Terms of Use. You will cooperate in good faith
with NeuLevel or Registrar in investigating instances of non-compliance
with these Terms of Use, if NeuLevel or Registrar believes in good faith
that you are not in compliance with these Terms of Use.
Subcontractors
In the course of
providing the IP Claim Service, Registrar may retain independent
contractors or assign or subcontract to or otherwise have any third party
perform any or all of the IP Claim Service at any time, provided that
Registrar shall continue to remain responsible for full performance of any
such duties to the same extent as if it had performed the IP Claim Service
itself.
Entire Agreement
These Terms of Use
completely and exclusively state the agreement of the parties regarding
the subject matter, and supersede all prior agreements and understandings,
whether written or oral, with respect to the subject matter of these Terms
of Use.
Modifications to
your Account
In order to change
any of your account information with Registrar, you must use the Account
Identifier and Password selected when you opened your account with
Registrar. You agree to safeguard your Account Identifier and Password
from any unauthorized use. In no event shall Registrar be liable for the
unauthorized use or misuse of your Account Identifier or Password.
Breach
You agree that
failure to abide by an provision of this Agreement, any operating rule or
policy or the Dispute Policy provided by Registrar, may be considered by
Registrar to be a material breach and that Registrar 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 Registrar, that you have not breached
your obligations under the Agreement, then Registrar may delete the
registration or reservation of your domain name.
Any such breach by
you shall not be deemed to be excused simply because Registrar did not act
earlier in response to that, or any other breach by you.
No Guarantee
You acknowledge that
reservation of your IP Claim name does not confer immunity from objection
to either the registration, reservation, or use of the domain name.
Right of Refusal
Registrar, in its
sole discretion, reserves the right to refuse to register or reserve your
IP Claim name or register you for other services.
You agree that
Registrar shall not be liable to you for loss or damages that may result
from its refusal to register, reserve or delete your IP Claim. Registrar
reserves the right to delete or transfer your IP Claim within a thirty
(30) day period following receipt of the application if it believes the IP
Claim has been made possible by a mistake, made either by Registrar or by
a third party.
SCHEDULE B
Registration Agreement
AGREEMENT
In this Registration
Agreement ("Agreement") "you" and "your"
refer to the registrant of each domain name registration, "we",
“us" and "our" refer to TUCOWS Inc. and “Services”
refers to the domain name registration provided by us as offered through (“RSP”).
This Agreement explains our obligations to you, and explains your
obligations to us for various Services.
SELECTION OF A DOMAIN NAME
You represent that:
(i) the data provided in the domain name registration application is true,
correct, up to date and complete,
(ii) 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
(iii) that the domain name is not being registered for nor shall it at any
time whatsoever be used for any unlawful purpose whatsoever
(iv) the registered domain name will be used primarily for bona fide
business or commercial purposes and not (a) exclusively for personal use,
or (b) solely for the purposes of (1) selling, trading or leasing the
domain name for compensation, or (2) the unsolicited offering to sell,
trade or lease the domain name for compensation
(v) you have the authority to enter into this Registration Agreement;
and
(vi) the registered domain name is reasonably related to your business or
intended commercial purpose at the time of registration.
FEES
As consideration for
the Services you have selected, you agree to pay the RSP the applicable
service(s) 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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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 Policy that
is incorporated herein and made a part of this Agreement by reference. The
current version of the Dispute Policy may be found at http://www.opensrs.org/legal/udrp.shtml.
Please take the time to familiarize yourself with this policy.
DOMAIN NAME DISPUTES
You acknowledge
having read and understood and agree to be bound by the terms and
conditions of the following documents, as they may be amended from time to
time, which are hereby incorporated and made an integral part of this
Agreement:
(i) The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (“Dispute Policy),
available at http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm
(ii) The Start-Up Dispute Resolution Policy (“SUDRP”), available at
http://www.neulevel.com/countdown/stop.html; and
(iii) The Restrictions Dispute Resolution Criteria and Rules (“RDRP”),
available at http://www.neulevel.com/
(collectively, “Dispute Policies”).
The SUDRP sets forth the terms and conditions in connection with a dispute
between a registrant of a .biz domain name (“Registrant”) with any
third party (other than Neulevel, Inc. (“Registry Operator”) or Tucows
over the registration or use of a .biz domain name registered by you that
is subject to the Start-up Intellectual Property Notification Service (“SIPNS”).
SIPNS is a service introduced by Registry Operator to notify a trademark
or service mark holder (“Claimant”) that a second-level domain name
has been registered in which that Claimant claims intellectual property
rights. In accordance with the SUDRP and its associated Rules, those
Claimants will have the right to challenge registrations through
independent ICANN-accredited dispute resolution providers.
The Dispute Policy sets forth the terms and conditions in connection with
a dispute between a Registrant and any party other than the Registry
Operator or Registrar over the registration and use of an Internet domain
name registered by Registrant.
he RDRP sets forth the terms under which any allegation that a domain name
is not used primarily for business or commercial purposes shall be
endorsed on a case-by-case, fact specific basis by an independent ICANN-accredited
dispute provider.
POLICY
You agree that your
registration of the domain name shall be subject to suspension,
cancellation, or transfer pursuant to any Tucows, Registry Operator, ICANN
or government-adopted policy, or pursuant to any registrar or registry
procedure not inconsistent with an ICANN or government-adopted policy, (1)
to correct mistakes by us or the applicable Registry in registering the
name or (2) for the resolution of disputes concerning the domain
name.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
REVOCATION
Your willful
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.
RIGHT OF REFUSAL
We, and/or Registry
Operator, 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 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 a dispute.
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.
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.
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.
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 rsp@yournew.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:
TUCOWS Inc.
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 3M1
Attention: Legal Affairs
or
YourNew.com, Inc. PO Box 4426 Topeka, Ks 66604
and in the case of notification to you shall be to the address specified
in the “Administrative Contact” in your WHOIS record.
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.
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.
INFANCY. You attest that you are of legal age to enter into this
Agreement.
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.
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